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“ When I was on Plan 9, everything was connected and uniform. Now everything isn't connected, just connected to the cloud, which isn't the same thing. And uniform? Far from it, except in mediocrity. This is 2012 and we're still stitching together little microcomputers with HTTPS and ssh and calling it revolutionary. I sorely miss the unified system view of the world we had at Bell Labs, and the way things are going that seems unlikely to come back any time soon.” - Rob Pike
> But if not for Russia, why does Europe need a military?

I guess Turkey is the obvious other candidate. Not so many nukes, of course, but invaded a now EU member in 1974. Plays games with the edges of Greek airspace every week or so? Officially still in NATO but who knows what that means.

> I think Merkel is insincere, and playing to a domestic audience.

Yes.
I recently watched _Smiley's People_, a British miniseries from the early 1990s with Alec Guinness. It's excellent, but what stuck me was how incredibly slow the pacing is compared to modern TV. The characters spend a lot of time just doing stuff: driving, walking, sitting on the bus, drinking tea and thinking. It has long scenes that are little masterpieces of drama and rising and falling tension. I find it much more enjoyable than the frenetic pace of a modern TV. Watching the main character wandering about in the woods looking for a clue or a 15-minute dialogue scene was more engaging than anything modern I've watched recently.
The author of that forum post is unwilling to publish video of the device.
How is the argument that EU countries won't stand up to the US refuted by the desire of some politicians in the EU to create an EU army.

As long as that army doesn't exist those EU countries still rely heavily on the US for security, and therefore the dynamic the GP is proposing might exist today.
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Which games imitate Goldeneye and Turok? I mean I guess you have a point that these games work, but the fact they've been ignored by game designers is telling something.
> What kills me is the knowledge that if I played the game properly, I could already be there

I'm curious, what did you mean by playing the game properly?
Just a note for anyone thinking about transitioning from macOS to a Linux desktop workstation, like the author here: I would advise against using "as light a desktop environment as I can stomach". Full-featured desktops like KDE and Gnome are comparatively light on resources and also simplify your personal system administration considerably. If you want to customize everything, by all means! :) That's the beauty of Free Software. But despite what you may remember from 10+ years ago, KDE today is definitely not "heavy".
That's not a scam; it's no different from buying a house on a mortgage.

It's very different. A PE firm borrows money, buys a company, transfers the debt to the company, strips the assets and then lets it go bankrupt, leaving them with all the assets and no debts. Rinse and repeat.
The Challenge of Reclaiming the Commons from Capitalism
In UK as a foreigner you have to register within 7 days every time you move.
Give Pop!_OS a try. It is great for gaming. I have a very old Intel i5 (2500k) and a Nvidia GTX 970 (I think) and I have a very solid gaming experience with Steam Play on it.

Pop!_OS is Ubuntu based but with Flatpak instead of Snap and without the Ubuntu calling home stuff. Meaning it is great for development. Last time I tried developing on Windows I remember being very frustrated. Now I don't have Windows installed on anything and I am happier for it.
I used to work in Bioinformatics. Getting Epic and Cerner to flow into our i2b2 or REDCap was a mess.
Epic was a real disappointment in terms of their willingness to implement simple features that would have truly helped researchers analyze more specific outcomes. But I guess you gotta make money some how.
Biology is awesome!

But yeah, you might never get into it if it were taught to you as dry mumbo jumbo, like

Type 4 secretion system: ii- Pilus biogenesis

That's why they invented computer visualisations. Check out the molecular apparatus on the surface of the bacterium. It uses it to inject DNA into another nearby bacterium!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihlFqOK5cZM
> That's a cynical take

I always wonder why people make this kind of comment, as if it's a valid argument and not just sentiment. The difference between your first paragraph and their comment is tonal, as both accurately describe reality.

Can I conclude from the rest of your post that you are perhaps reading into the post that their stance is dejected and disengaged, yourself preferring a more activist, "I'm part of the solution" approach?
Although this is fair, we do actually know what a state capable of this looks like.

The East German Stasi ended up with records of about 5.6M out of a population of ~16M people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_Records_Agency
> "sorry, New York is full. We cannot issue you a building permit or allow you to make a water/sewer connection." Bolinas, CA does this.

San Francisco basically does this and everyone and his brother here complains about all the problems it brings.
I'm honestly quite surprised that someone hasn't already set up to offer "Tax Havens As A Service" long ago. Click a button, pay $100, and you're incorporated in what's commonly known among the .01% as a "tax-proof structure". Why hasn't this been done yet?
Hate to break it, but for a lot of real world applications it is preferable to duplicate stuff like addresses when shipping orders, generating invoices etc, everything that resembles paper.

For easier archiving and proper retrieval of history.
reminds me of the famous Dropbox comment
And another vote for Firefox. It is way better than Chrome atm.
Hey I am in my masters of bioinformatics in the Netherlands and was wondering what kinds of salaries you are seeing for metabolic engineering and related fields. In my uni things like salaries rarely get discussed but I think it's quite important.
>Developers should be free to choose the payment processing service that best serves their needs, whether that's Stripe or Paypal or Apple's built-in offering. Apple's payment processor should be chosen because it's better, not because you have no other choice.

I'd like to note though, that users also should be free to choose the processing service that best serves their needs, not because they have no other choice. I'd much prefer paying with Apple Pay instead of Paypal. If Apple ever allows developers to provide different payment processors, I hope they make it mandatory for developers to also include Apple Pay as one of the options (just like they did with Sign in with Apple).
I wonder if somewhere there’s a species that discovered numbers not for counting first but for navigation and geometrical measurement.

Maybe plain old 1-dimensional numbers would be an oddity to them as “complex” numbers etc. are to us.
It was an invasion and annexation according to international law. That is crystal clear and there is not even any leeway for interpretation about it. On a side note, the kind of justifications / rationalization you give for the annexation - somebody installed politicians there that were not pleasing Russia enough - are not only factually incorrect, too, they are also irrelevant to the question whether the Crimea was annexed by Russia or not.

I don't know where you think the "green men" militia came from, but I know for certain that they were Russian military (and no, not on vacation). And let's not forget that a Buk system was provided directly from Russia that then downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, killing all 283 crew and passengers. Dutch authorities and international investigators have uncovered and documented every single minute of this crime, from the arrival of the BUK system to its hasty departure afterwards, and identified the Russian officers involved in it by name and picture.

These are the facts.
In case you didn't get that memo: the shit in the Ukraine didn't start with Russian involvement.

It started with very active meddling, spending copious amounts of money, into the internal politics of the country. It should also be noted that much of that money went to ultra-right-wing militant organizations, who have zero respect for democracy or freedom. Essentially, the USA bought itself a (fascist) private army to take control (or at least try to) over the natural resources in East Ukraine and Crimea. Russia responded rather predictably to that.

Some might even argue that they had every right to do so. I'd love to see Americans react, if Russia were to sponsor some kind of anti-US militia in Alaska, that would subsequently take control of state (military bases with missile launch facilities included). I'm pretty sure that US citizens would call that for what it is: an act of aggression.

No, the reason Russia doesn't invade Poland or the Baltic countries isn't because of NATO. Ironically, if those countries are at risk in any way, it's probably rather because of NATO. NATO (and its members) keeps insisting that the organization is defensive in nature only, yet its actions tell a rather different story (and it has done so for a long time, at least since the '90).
> Trump was the first but won’t be the last US president pushing for disengagement from the Old World[...]

It was Obama who started pushing for the 2% policy and got NATO countries to agree to ramp spending up to that before 2024[1].

Before that there's been decades of the US trying to push Europe to take defense spending more seriously.

Trump's had more juvenile rhetoric on the issue, but he fundamentally wasn't saying anything to NATO or enacting any policies that Obama pursuing before him.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/world/europe/europe-begin...
I gather you haven't used much of display:grid?

I'm trying not to make this too much of a dogmatic discussion, but is the cultural norm among developers going to be to just throw their hands in the air and say "styling is hard, let's go shopping for divs"?

On the one hand, I get that most people nowadays see HTML and CSS as object code, and is not that important to be abstraction that people think in. However, current web application frameworks can not solve problems that desktop GUIs frameworks have already solved in the 90s and no one is asking themselves "is this really the way to go forward?"
Please update the blog entry and your site - it took many clicks to get to specs and price - and you have two separate write-ups on specs, and price on only one page.
What I like about 90s shooters is how little fuss there is to get to the action. Doom, you launch it and can be killing things within 15 seconds. With modern shooters, it loading, loading, game selection, lobby, connecting, loading, cutscene, weapon selection, tutorial, realizing you need to grind to get better weapons, pay for better weapons, mission objectives, notified there's an update, enter your credentials, reset your password. Start game. die. wait in the lobby for the next round. maybe then you get your first kill. Mentally taxing. i miss the simplicity of old games.
I do believe that once I buy a device it's mine. I have jailbroken iPhones and an iPod Touch before, they were my devices and I did as I saw fit.

On the other hand I don't feel I have the right to dictate to anyone else what sort of products they may or may not sell, or how they work, beyond health and safety, accessibility, etc. I don't see that I have a right to tell Nintendo that they must write software to support side loading games for my Switch for example, or demand via government regulation that Sony can't charge a fee for developers to create games for the Playstation. As long as I know up front what the features and services are that come with my purchase, I have a free choice whether to accept them or not.

In particular, I certainly don't think I have the right to tell other members of the public that they should not have the option to buy those products on those terms if they wish. What right do I have to interfere in the product design of popular products, used by millions of people that are perfectly happy with them? Especially if that will force the company involved to change it's business practices and charging structure in ways those customers would not be happy with.
It feels like how older tech nerds get, the more nostalgic and conservative they become. Remember when your parents said "everything is moving so quickly, and it's not getting better"? You're now reaching a point in live where you wish for simpler times.

Apple is not perfect. I also agree their quality is getting worse. I understand why people say that everything used to be better. But their customers can now do things with their hard- and software that we couldn't imagine 10 years ago. That progress has a cost. Apple can't be everything to everyone. They're fine with the churn rate as it is.
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Nanjing launches chip university in bid to fill China’s semiconductor talent gap
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I see Agoda as a competitor to booking.com, I can see they always have a price advantage against booking.com. All these services are not pleasant to use. People normally spend quite a bit time in searching for places to stay. I wish there is more personalized service. I find it is painful to go through reviews and list of properties.
I think there are two issues here:

1) breck seems to not understand what the whole thing is actually about. It's about one party with a contractual obligation to pay another party some money every time the first party sells a book. Even if copyright law disappeared tomorrow, that contractual obligation would still exist. Sure, it might be harder for Disney to sell those books if copyright didn't exist and people could copy them for free, but that wouldn't remove their royalty obligation, as that's a contractual obligation that does not rely on copyright to function.

2) breck's attitude toward IP law is just... tiresome and annoying, I guess? Most people here likely either don't agree with it, or are sympathetic to it, but believe breck's ideal world is just generally unworkable from a practical perspective. Personally I find that kind of anti-IP thinking to be naive, and people who push it in the way breck is doing just come off as kinda trollish.

breck is of course absolutely right that copyright law -- like all our laws -- is enforced at the point of a gun. But... so what? That's how laws work.

> From this, breck reasons that if ADF has a contract with Disney that, to make any sense at all, requires that copyright be enforced...

Just to call this out specifically: no, that's completely incorrect. Even if there was no copyright law, Disney's contract with Foster would still be in full effect.

But ok, let's admit that contract would have been absurd from day one, because in a no-copyright world, both Disney (well, at that time, George Lucas) and Foster would know that they'd never be able to sell any more than a few copies that would then be freely copied and distributed. So they'd make like $12 and that would be it. So some other arrangement would have been made up front. Perhaps LucasFilm would have made up a contract with Foster that says they would be Foster's patron, and would pay him some monthly or yearly stipend, for some specified number of years, as a reward for writing the book. Or whatever. And then let's say Disney later buys LucasFilm while the contract is still paying out. Disney is still contractually obligated to continue paying, but they decide they don't feel like it, and don't pay.

And this bit is what the original article is about. It has nothing to do with copyright; it's about a giant corporation refusing to honor its contractual obligations when those obligations are to regular people who don't have the resources to fight them. Coming here and dropping a low effort "I have no sympathy" comment is a waste of our time and shows a lack of empathy, justified with an argument (against IP law) that is unrelated to Foster's woes or Disney's obligations.
I read it as cat owners not going out as much normal people.
There are valid reasons for limiting which topics people can discuss in a space, in my opinion. If I disallow people from discussing politics on my cooking forum that's not censorship. It's keeping the discussion focused on the actual topic.

HN seems to take a middle ground position of allowing politics when they are relevant to the topic, but not otherwise. That is also what I promote on all platforms I moderate.
Are you interested in salary ranges in the US and/or NL?
Zoom will lift its 40-minute time limit for free meetings on Thanksgiving Day
Shouldn't they be called... gantastical creatures?
I think you're underestimating Quake's sound design and Lovecraftian influences by Sandy Petersen.

For me the games that best illustrate this are ancient Ultima games. Ultima I-IV have tile based symbolic graphics. Ultima V also is tile-based, but makes an effort to represent every torch, chair, brazier; as much detail as they can fit. Fallen Enchantress screenshots worked for me, but the game itself was a failure.
> Im well aware of the differences between IntelliJ and LSP

Apologies I didn't mean to imply you didn't, I only meant to point out that LSP isn't the only factor in choosing an editor. For some people,(e.g. me) lack of some of that tooling is important.

>since LSP provides good enough completion, navigation, and static analysis

My experience using lsp with clangd as the server on a large project was that it flat out didn't work. Try opening UE4 for example.

> The rest of your list are non-issues for me,

That's great for you, but others do use those tools regularly. It's also a feature that those tools work out of the box, consistently, meaning that a coworker can (occasionally) drive by commit/run/compile on my computer.

> I have a hard time believing that language implementers won't prioritize their implementation over IntelliJ.

Intellij/VS are going to keep improving in that time. As much as I'd love for all of my tooling to be open, I don't see that as realistic in the near future based on the current state of the tooling. I'd love to be wrong though!
If one thing is clear, it is that in the events surrounding the crimean annexation, everyone was the asshole.
> I don’t understand why small changes that can be done in kindness are seen as so inconvenient as to be worth this level of rejection.

I think one key disconnect is that some people form complete sentences in their head before they speak, and have an opportunity to effectively “edit them”, as if you would read and edit an email before sending. Others, like myself, communicate a thought directly from mouth to brain. I try my best to change patterns and think about my words in professional settings, but, every additional thing I must avoid saying is effectively another branching point in the filter function for my speech. Each individual thing may not be a big inconvenience, but cumulatively, it becomes quite an inconvenience. In the last few years, I feel a constant pressure and anxiety about the words that I say. I have no bad intention and really truly don’t want to make anyone feel bad, but no one cares about my intention... once I say the wrong thing it’s done and I’m judged by others for it. This is the first time I ever heard of “fell on deaf ears” being offensive, and I can definitely understand why, and I’d never want to make you feel bad by saying it, but it’s yet another common phrase to add to my list of filters. I’m now thinking of all of the people who I may have offended by saying it.

I feel like context is everything. If I said that in context of a deaf person not hearing something I said, that would be offensive and hurtful and rude. If I said it in the context of an objection I raised being ignored, it should be understood that I’m not literally referring to deaf people. If I said something was “the straw that broke the camel’s back”, everyone knows I’m not literally putting straws on a camel.
> How do you make the mundane magical? Imagine if your contacts magically stayed up-to-date with no effort on your part.

is this a joke? how can that possibly be the intro sentence for anything? even an actual product, much less a pre-product manifesto, or whatever this is.

honestly, magically syncing contacts sounds sounds pretty sweet. it is a problem i have. i don't know that it is mundane, nor that it's solution must be magical; but maybe that is what it necessitates. but what a half-assed way to try exude apple-ness, or whatever you would call that. it reads like a child's description of the super awesome pillow fort they're gonna build this weekend.

> When your contacts are organized and truly work, they create a flywheel where scheduling, planning, organizing, and being thoughtful about your relationships becomes infinitely easier.

wow, what an evocative analogy. a flywheel! "infinitely easier"? wow! (you get my point.)

seriously, i hate to be so harsh, but it's at least 50% because i'm jealous of the idea of writing a manifesto as a company / product announcement, and i strongly feel like the effect would have been way stronger with just a little heavier editor's pen.
This argument naturally leads to the conclusion that you should basically never use UTC. So you use a singularity free coordinate for machine storage of times, TAI, but most users will want those displayed in their local times and nobody is using UTC. UTC is just an intermediate time, computed using leap seconds from TAI that you use on your way to a local time. But you could just remove that step.

Seems sensible to me actually. I don't really see why I would personally want to ever use UTC over TAI or local time. Sadly, a lot of time libraries don't seem to expose TAI as easily as they expose UTC, which I guess is why I continue to use UTC.
Quaternions are left handed, which is annoying but not a big deal by itself, but most importantly collapse the scalar with the pseudoscalar. For regular applications of unit quaternions in 3D euclidean space such as rotations, screw displacements and dual quaternions, that is not much of an issue since the scalar part is initially zero anyways (e.g. translation and rotations), it wholly contains the quadrature information after the operation (e.g rotation), or the scalar part is always separate from the vector quaternion (e.g. moments).

However if you want to see the quaternions as a vector subspace in problems of higher dimensions or in non-euclidean manifolds, for example path interpolation, finding integral solutions or representations, they fall short and it makes sense to use a Clifford algebra that is compatible with differential operations (e.g Lie) and gives consistent calculations across all dimensions.
What would be a good laptop alternative to the MBP 2019?

I really prefer UNIX over windows for development but enjoy windows for the 'office' software. OSX really hits the sweet spot in between for me.

What would you recommend windows with WSL2 or VM? Archlinux dual-boot?
What I don't get is why the US doesn't just ask the questions they would like to have answered. In most cases our politicians would pretty much just tell them what they need to know.

In the case of the F35 it especially make no sense, AT ALL. The selection process for a new fighter jet was so heavily skewed in favor of the F35 that other manufacturers didn't even want to bid. At no point did anyone seriously believe that any other plane was even an option.

It's my belief that letting the NSA do their spying is a move done to ensure that our own politicians cannot be held responsible for informing the US about internal affairs. As you say, they show a complete apathy towards the situation.

The current generation of politicians has an unhealthy positive view of surveillance in general, while attempting to keep the press and public out from anything they deem to be "confidential government decisions".
Did you find any decent alternative laptop?

I find my daily routines have been deeply overfitted to macbook/macOS on a firmware level. The sunk cost can be quite staggering for users like me.