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The article pretty clearly says ROCm OpenCL. As I understand, support is not all or nothing, so it's possible it works without being officially supported. However, I think you're correct we'll have to see what Phoronix and others report about the level of support and see what works.
What is the principle of standing ground in and of itself? Standing ground for a good reason, yes, but without a good reason, what is the virtue of just standing?
I certainly agree and it is different. However sitting and watching TV for hours at a time wasn't good either!

We can actually take technology and make it something worthwhile and enriching. It doesn't have to be this way.

When TV came out there was actually a lot of hope that it could be used to educate people for example.
I think there’s a lot of ground between the current War on Drugs, and 7-11 selling meth and heroin.

But doesn’t 7-11 already sell alcohol, and even in potentially lethal amounts?
It's not about the pandemic, it's not even about phones but about the technology/software running on them that turn them into skinner boxes.
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I know it might seem callous, but I somewhat agree that (some) of the vulnerable can wait.

I would prioritize:

* medical first responders / health workers

* non-medical first responders

* independent living immunocompromised

* students from k -> 12

After that list, I can imagine more high priority targets, for example public commuters and people in jobs requiring close proximity, but realistically, once the first four groups were addressed, my expectation is that there would be no way to manage an orderly dispersal to the rest of us.

For me, the real ethical question will be:

1) What "VIPs" will be shuffled to the front of the line ahead of everyone else

2) Will people who refused to wear masks, and those that claimed that the virus was a hoax or a little flu give up their place in line and be vaccinated last.
This article is exactly about that people from all those places are not happy being paid less though.
Yeah, hopefully the early information is accurate.
There's no way to get a bipartisan bill passed. It's the same reason most of Trump's recent actions amounted to throwing money at things. Unless Dems somehow win Senate, throwing money at it is only thing the can be done for at least 2 years. It's this or nothing because the government is so dysfunctional
> politics or any social matter IMHO should be kept out of software in general

How would that work?
Both, in my opinion. I don't think we should return to Prohibition times but I do think it should be significantly more difficult and costly to purchase alcohol.
this has been explained further again and again
Destroy All Software is absolutely fantastic and without question worth $29/month. Probably more than any other single resource, DAS provided some of the most foundational ideas that still drive how I think about software.

You can also view a handful of the screencasts for free (no sign in needed). Some of my personal favorites.

* https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...
* https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/a-com...
* https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries

Also, if podcasts are more your thing, we just had Gary as a guest on the Bike Shed podcast this week: https://www.bikeshed.fm/269.
It’s likely not what Apple needs, though. They probably need a solution they can maintain long enough to let the transition through, but not any longer. They’d drop support for x86 as soon as enough applications gain support and existing x86 products get dated. Maybe 5 years?
Washington Examiner says that student debt relief would be a Bad Thing? At this point I think it not unfair to take whatever a Republican mouthpiece is claiming and conclude the polar opposite.

There was a time when America invested in the education of its children as a way to lift up the country as a whole. But that was a long, long time ago, in political years at least. Certainly, I can see how encouraging an educated populace could be undesireable to a group that’s just spent the last five decades slowly laying the road to a one-party state.

I mean, just look at the GOP base. The party of Lincoln is dead; nothing now but Bozo Haram and Kmart Rouge as far as the eye can see. And those who’ve learned their history already know what that sort likes to make of such “intellectual bourgeoisie”: fertilizer.
My take as someone who does light gaming is that the drivers are "pretty good" but not perfect.

I run Windows 10 and had my system on a Nvidia Geforce GTX 780 for roughly a year before buying an AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT this spring. During that time running the Geforce, I had no issues in or out of gaming.

Running the 5600 XT with the latest WHQL drivers, I have had one very recent game crash (StarCraft 2) but otherwise, just some issues with booting - instead of the Windows loading icon, I'd just get a white cursor in the corner of the screen indefinitely. I would have to hard reboot using the power button. Once it kept doing it and I caved and did a reset of Windows, having to reinstall programs. I've had the boot problem once since then, and the above game crash. I think it's very reasonable to believe these are driver issues.

If you're wondering, I didn't do a clean install, but used Guru3D drive cleaner between the Geforce and Radeon. And then I did do a Windows reset, and have had problems since, so I don't think it's reasonable to blame the driver issues on the switch.
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Is strong writing not also effective by definition?
It all depends on what your goal is. Unions take money from R&D and shareholders, and put it in their own pockets. That's totally fine, but it is a tradeoff. The negative side is it creates opportunities for other companies that aren't unionized to innovate with that capital. Or sometimes it just results in returning capital to shareholders. Tesla is a good example of where paying union members instead of investing in R&D offered Musk an amazing opportunity to outcompete some of the most entrenched and subsidized companies in the US. We are actually quite fortunate that this even happened in the US, because the opportunity was there for any company in any country to seize.

As an aside, I don't get why deng tolerates comments like yours, but will mod an equivalent comment that even moderately right wing. If we want real discussion here, it doesn't start with a reshashed Eugene Debs speech.
I feel like complaining about a disagreement in direction of an open source project while not wanting to put effort in directing it in the way you like via the normal channels, forking or contribution, to be immature.
> > You should expect "equal pay for equal work" ...

> So naive.

> In an ideal, utopian world? Maybe it would work this way. Maybe.

> In reality, your compensation is a function of your negotiating power.

> ...if you accept that you live in a market-enabled society, your salary is at stake, too.

This logic horrifies me because it applies equally well to wage disparities based on protected classes. We have collectively decided as a society that this argument is faulty and unethical.

That doesn’t mean remote work should get equal pay. It just means that your argument doesn’t hold.
Definitely!

For me, the skills of listening before responding and processing a response in a timely manner were invaluable lessons learned taking improv classes.
Why is this being downvoted? It is entirely correct. The MAX is an entirely safe plane to fly without MCAS. It stalls more easily, but the safe flight regime is not in any way remarkable -- there are plenty of aircraft that stall even more easily than the MAX in wide use.

The problem was never that the plane's flight characteristics were unsafe, it was that they were different enough from the older 737's that it wasn't reasonable to fit them under the same type certificate. So MCAS was added not to make the plane not stall, it was added to make the plane not stall if flown like any other 737.

This is both why a failure of this magnitude could slip past the regulators (MCAS was never described as critical for flight, so it could do with less redundancy. In a failure condition, the crew could always just turn it off and fly without.), and why it's failure is so goddamn galling (a barely-tested computer program that was not needed for safe operation was given the controls to literally fly the plane into the ground for reasons that were best described as marketing).
Tell that to Dominion Voting Systems...
> Instead, if companies give coupons to pay for rent and food, nobody would complain because they wouldn't see the real value of different cities' coupons.

This is an awesome observation, but I think it needs the qualification that not all of your salary is spent on COL and that people in high COL areas have an advantage in this regard. If you're saving X% of your salary for vacation, say, it's better to be saving in a high COL area because X will be around the same, but the absolute number will be bigger - and this is money you will not be spending in your area.

When I was a PhD student in NYC I was able to travel for more than a month every summer using money I had saved from teaching in NYC. If I had been doing my PhD in a small mid-western college town, I couldn't have done that.
I wouldn't mind flying on it if I was the pilot, because I'd know how to disconnect the stupid MCAS and fly the damned plane. But as a passenger I have no idea how well the pilot has been trained or whether he/she has sense enough to disconnect the MCAS and rely on piloting skills.

Although in reality it's kind of hard to imagine any qualified pilot missing the 737Max memo, so I'm probably awfulizing.

It's still a poorly-designed plane built by a poorly-managed company with its flaws spackled over by software, and that alone makes me want to avoid it.
Well on the bright side at least the Epic case has led to tangible results.
The intransigent minority [1] strikes again.

Perhaps the tech community should grow a spine and stand up to the minority that demands these sort of changes. That is: if the tech community /really/ doesn't want them, which (to me) is unclear.

[1] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Bypass Apple's Leaky Network Extension API with Little Snitch 4.6
I dunno, I associate "trunk" very strongly with svn.

My company's internal repos usually use "devel" as our default branch, but that's partly a convention inherited from the ROS ecosystem where the different main releases have a codename and fixes get patched between branches with names like jade-devel, kinetic-devel, lunar-devel, etc.
Similarly, I have worked in places where the word "brainstorming" (as in, "a brainstorming session") was banned because of its apparent offensiveness towards those with epilepsy. The funny thing is, 93% of people with epilepsy do not find the term offensive.

https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/press/facts/brainstorming-offens...
They can but they don't always. Ascribing all unions to the flaws of the most culpable ones is something we don't do for corporations or even governments, and if we did do this we wouldn't get anywhere as a society. People used to beat each other physically over their votes in the village square, but this doesn't mean democracy is culpable for violence.
This has to have been written by GPT3?
Imagine if instead of master/slave the terms were master and "n-word". Would there be a reasonable argument to change it at that point?

If you say "yes" then you agree there is a line somewhere. If that's the case then we should discuss where the line should be and why it should be there instead of saying "stop [worrying] about being politically correct".

If you say "no" then your argument is that no words are too offensive to use or we shouldn't care if people are offended by any term at all. Which is an argument that you're free to have but if that's what's happening then make that argument and advocate for why it would be ok to use the n-word as a terminology as well.

I think that in these discussions it's easy to get sidetracked because people are actually arguing different points without realizing it. You're talking about the same scenario but you're arguing from different premises which means there's no hope of coming to a shared understanding because you're not actually talking about what you disagree on.
right? maybe Op would care to give examples of software issues that have no social or political ramifications?
Apple obviously has sales numbers for 10g on the existing consumer products that offered it. I imagine it hasn't been a big seller.
Sounds like maybe you need to review your choice of employer.
The error message in the commit that introduced that change uses the word “insane”. I hope they changed it to “mentally challenged”.

https://github.com/git/git/commit/cad88fdf8d1ebafb5d4d1b92eb...
I don't really mind this change. But selective outrage like this is really strange. Some people on Twitter decide a word is offensive and the next day I am just expected to just stop using them. It's hard enough to learn English without these new laws all the time. I don't think this happens to any other language.
I'm confused, who actually made the vaccine? I read that BionTech created it and Pfizer is handling logistics, approval, and distribution in the US. But I keep seeing it as "Pfizer's vaccine"?
> bad parenting

Or is it? Maybe it's actually good parenting and they only perceive the outcome to be bad because of misguided ideas of what "good children" should be. Case in point: if it wasn't for my addiction to video games growing up and constantly finding ways around my parent's restrictions, I would never have become a software developer. That much is certain. Not only that, but I would have a horrid disdain for my parents much like my step-sister (now in her 30s) does for her mother (whom was always praised for being a "good parent") that restricted everything when she was growing up; so much so that she moved more than 7,000 miles away when she finally reached college age.

Somehow everyone thinks they're an expert on parenting and that there's only one way to parent a child and it's a one-size-fits-all situation. Frankly that's asinine. People come in all flavors and sizes so to speak. What you consider to be "good parenting" might be viewed as bad parenting by another person. In that sense, there's a subjective component to parenting. I've seen a lot of parenting elitists here on HN and I doubt many of you even have children let alone understand the complexities that comes with parenting them at various stages.
ie. Superfish: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/lenovo-superfish-adware-removal...
That is not the point. The point is millions of man months of time an money are being spent doing something that has zero meaning. Changing master/slave on networking, ok. Changing master copy to main copy doesn't remotely help black lives or black pride or anything whatsoever. If all the time and effort doing this was actually spent on useful things to help black lives it would be 10000x more effective. Instead all that time and effort is being flushed down the toilet.
Do we know how widespread those mutations are
I second this - I'm 3 semesters into the online MS in CS program at GATech and it's been a huge level up for me. I highly recommend the investment IF you have the time - it is a large time commitment.
I agree with your comment and that a typical teenager will probably devote most of their time in non academic or in gaming.

While I did game a bit during childhood and early adolescence, a large portion of it was spent socialising, I really did not socialise with peers during those years and that is a direct consequence of the overbearing and 'strictness' of the grandparents, so I socialised in the only way they couldn't control, through video games and the internet. Thank god World of Warcraft was a thing, it was my only social interaction that was deliberate.^1

My late adolescence, i.e. 15-18 was spent reading on light gaming, reading and watching documentaries. I also received a lot of expose on the hacker(not cracker) culture and that has shaped me a lot as a person, or perhaps it was inevitable since I was and still am the same curious child that I was back then.

PS. gaming has also helped me in many regards that are not perceptible to an outside observer, such as self discipline and setting goals and theory crafting. All of which have stayed with me and have probably made me a better scientist.

^1 I understand the difference between 'real' social interaction and 'virtual' interaction but I will take it over nothing.
This is easy to tease out. Portability can be describing compilation or evaluation/interpretation.

Take your python example, you don't just need the interpreter. You also need any supporting infrastructure that the libraries used will need. As a trite example, anything that reads from a camera will need a camera available to work. Indeed, some will need specific cameras, if they don't have a portability later. :)

As such, portable goes across many layers and cannot be described at just the language level. Not even at a runtime level.
The US had their own version of this in the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Atomic_Demolition_Muni...
Kind of off topic, as it’s instead a tool, but buying a Jetbrains license was a big win for me. If you put in the time to learn it, it really does give you superpowers. You won’t 10x your productivity, think more like 1.5x, but IMO that is huge for something you spend so much time with as a software engineer.
The number of remote companies championing COL adjustments offering relocation is close to zero though.
I have done home schooling and regular public schooling. If you can afford to have a parent be at home full time with your kids, you are amongst the wealthiest in the world. You are fortunate.
Should we also be happy that aristocracy has been abolished in most European countries, so the Napoleonic regime was excellent and we should have kept that? “It’s better than it was” is no argument for keeping still. Apple’s regime is more open than the previous one was, but it’s still nowhere near a really-open market.

I’m not sure why you’re trying to go through the catalogue of failures in the mobile world. Nokia afaik didn’t even pay developers, certainly not when they were spinning around trying to reboot their fossil OS - no app, paid or otherwise, could save that pile of crap. Blackberry I never followed, but I understand they also crumbled largely from within, I don’t think they ever paid developers either.

> why is it relevant here

It’s relevant in the sense that the lack of success of one particular effort does not mean the strategy is absolutely bad, as you were arguing.
I love my Bose QC 35! The problem lately is I can't find any current music that is appealing to me. Alas, I must be getting old.
I have two kits - one which I hack on with Rust, and has wires hanging out, and the other which has the pinewatch python project on it, and I have sealed it shut.

When I get my personal little watch application built and ready, I'll get another, install it, and seal it in.

No worries.
Personally, I love this change. "main" takes less time to type than "master".
There's no substance to this article, whatsoever.
Startup names under 199 USD for your billion dollar ideas

https://startupnames.medium.com/startup-names-under-199-usd-...
He is partially correct, my childhood and early adolescence was spent on video games, my later adolescence was spent on CompSci and reading. I explain more in the sibling comment.
Solidly? Not really. Still believe the Epic and Apple fight is all about Tim Sweeney being a greedy business man. Zero proof this 15% reduction has anything to do with pressure from that legal battle. Apple has made rev share changes in the past unprovoked (like 15% for sustained subs). How long do you think this change was in the works for? If this change was a response that’s great. But I would bet in that case Apple did it to take wind out of Epic’s sails around standing up for little devs. Apple just showed they cared about them in a single change. Will Epic back away now? Fat chance.
>Existing developers who made up to $1 million in 2020 for all of their apps, as well as developers new to the App Store, can qualify for the program and the reduced commission.

>If a participating developer surpasses the $1 million threshold, the standard commission rate will apply for the remainder of the year.

I think it's exactly like you wish it was.
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Snormal is really cool even at this stage!
Dolphin emulator is the 8th wonder of the world
This will have broken tens of thousands of beginner programming tutorials. Very unfortunate.
Quite likely it's just something people like to hear, so it is being told to them. I vaguely recall that correlation between red wine consumption and longevity disappears if controlled for wealth. Can't find any links tho.
Maybe if you are dopamine deficient
It's time for tick-tock to die and Moore's Law to stop being the guiding light of Intel management.

Instead, they should set up two groups: one to generate new architectures for desktop and server, and another to take the best features of those architectures and make them thermally efficient for use in laptops. The development of these two products should be unconstrained by time, because as we have seen, impossible deadlines delay the possible.

In the past 10 years, most of the chips that amaze me have simply done what was already possible, just with enough thermal efficiency that they can be placed in mobile devices.

Intel dying would be horrible for the world. They have so much institutional knowledge...
If you can, wait. We don't know what sustained loads are going to look like, or even medium term reliability.
Perhaps I have not skimmed lobste.rs enough to make an accurate assessment ('cuz I don't know anyone to send me an invite, either), but lobster.rs just feels like a mirror of HN the times I looked.
I am happy to see this.

You say bullied into compliance but all I see is a community consciously putting efforts to become more inclusive.

It may not be that big of a deal for you but it is a big deal for those who don’t share the same worldview as you. Are your principals so low that you wouldn’t accommodate change of language and behavior to be more welcoming of others?

What do you think about people who curse like a sailors in their personal life but wouldn’t utter an F in office/professional settings - do they have no principals?
It's complicated, right? Effective writing and reading comprehension are necessary to produce and parse code of any sort. Math is necessary to construct and analyze the algorithms that are implemented or described in the code.

You can be a good coder (writing) but not a great engineer (math). Likewise the converse is also true.
I have an almost 17 year old who doesn't want a smartphone.

He plays Minecraft/KSP about 90 minutes each night.

But he'd always, always accept an offer to do something else with me or someone else in the family.

So I make sure, as his father, to make that offer sometimes. And I also feel fine if I'm feeling like a book or a movie or something else.

Not all kids become [insert teenager cliches] upon the onset of teenage-dom, for all the different reasons this can be true... but when I was his age, I definitely defaulted to getting on the computer instead of doing other things.

I do think it's interesting how little discussion there is in culling digital behaviors moreso during pandemic times. I personally don't have a lot of interest in any of the new iPhones because my iPhone mostly lives on my desk at home. It hardly ever gets out.
Since Apple is playing tax code, this should have been a gradual increase, because reaching a million in sales suddenly will cost you 150,000.

Ah, who are we kidding? The vast majority of developers will never sell that much.
The book itself has turned into a consulting money grab, or DDD as a concept?