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Copilot is great! But, it's intentionally only about ECS and a single service. Whereas Digger is operating at the entire stack level, and will support a variety of deployment targets, including other AWS services, other cloud providers eg Google Cloud Run, Kubernetes etc. ECS is just the first one supported.

With Digger we want to create a convenience layer to manage cloud infrastructure that will bridge the gap between paas that has great UX but quickly gets expensive and limiting, and major clouds that are cheaper and more flexible, but hard to figure.
Servo’s new home
yes, my statement was "i hope they aren't going to force this for everyone in the future"
Yes I meant AB5, my mistake.
Yeah, forgot about that. Everything else being equal (ostensibly), the M1 Mac Mini is $200 cheaper than the crappy Intel i5 Mac Mini, more if you upgrade the Intel CPU.

As an owner of a decked out 2019 Mac Mini, in hindsight I made a shitty purchase decision.
Ya he seems to be using an extremely expensive BaaS and asking for sponsors.

This could literally just be a single PHP files hosted for $1 a month unlimited bandwidth shared host or even free tiers that are available.

So it does seem a bit weird to ask for a sponsor for hosting costs while also using one of the most expensive options.
You can, but need to sign the OS image.
> The Zen3 processor that they are comparing it to is the 5950x - the fastest desktop processor with a TDP of 105W. The entire system power of the M1 mini under load was 28W.

This is a very misleading statement. They primarily only used the 5950X in single-core tests, and in those tests it doesn't come remotely close to 105W. In fact per Anandtech's own results[1] the 5950X CPU core in a single-core load draws around 20w.

Take the M1's 28W under a multi-threaded load, that's going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 4-5w/core for the big cores probably (single-core was ~10w total, ~6w "active" - figure clocks drop a bit on the multi loads, and then the little cores are almost certainly much less power draw particularly since they are also much, much slower). In multithreaded loads the per-core power draw on a 5950x is around 6w. That's a _much_ closer delta than the "105W TDP vs. ~28W!" would suggest.

M1's definitely got the efficiency lead, but it's also a bit slower and power scales non-linearly. It's an interesting head-to-head, but that 105W TDP number of the 5950X is fairly irrelevant in these tests. That's not really playing a role. Just like it's about as irrelevant as you can get that the 5950X is 4x the big CPU cores, since it was again primarily used in the single-threaded comparisons. Slap 16 of those firestorm cores into a Mac Pro and bam you're at 60w. Let it run at 3.2ghz all-core instead of the 3ghz it appears to now since you've got a big tower cooler and that's 100w (6w/core @ 3.2ghz per the anandtech estimates * 16). That'd be the actual multi-threaded comparison vs. the 5950X if you want to talk about 105W TDP numbers.

Critically though the M1 is definitely not a 10W chip as many people were claiming just a few days ago. You're definitely going to see differences between the Air & 13" MBP as a result.

1: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-di...
That [1] is a top-quality rant, but I fear for the author's blood-pressure
Why? ARM server CPUs are already a thing for years now.
I've been looking for an e-ink tablet that I can bend to my will, but the Kindle hacking scene seems to have peaked around 2012 and it's a desolate wasteland of dead links now. That's a shame, because the hardware is really cheap.

ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, but that would be justified if these "hacks" were officially supported or at least acknowledged enough that some future firmware update wouldn't ruin any workflow I build with them.

Is there any hint of such acknowledgment, or would I be risking $448 on a device that might turn itself into a paperweight?
IRCTC is infrequently buggy (no more than an average website). They might not have optimised for poor connections and thats where most people's buggy experience is.

It is generally fast except between 10am-12pm every day (i.e. when the tatkal systems open) and that is what frustrates most people. When called out on these issues, IRCTC has consistently refused to add capacity to deal with the demand between 10am-12pm. You are correct that this could be solved by using quotas and reservations but they haven't done that. My only guess is that it is for political/bureaucratic reasons. It's easier to blame capacity issues than tell the reality.

>reserved a certain proportion of the tickets for rural users

This already happens. There are quotas of different kinds.

P.S. You know what? You are actually right. There's no technical reason for this to be the way it is. They are using that explanation as a cover for a political or legal problem or by occam's razor, they probably have a fixed budget (and not allowed to use on-demand services like AWS) and the govt won't approve the budget necessary to solve the capacity issues between 10am-12pm.
I just fired it up to see and it's still kind of there. For example when loading a project, there's a popup progress bar and the UI kind of janks around while it's loading. If you click anything in the UI while that's happening like a menu, the event is lost.

OK - it's loading so that's not unexpected. However my previous experience was that the same thing would happen to the UI at all sorts of surprising moments when other processes were ongoing, such as linting or using the debugger. Kind of hard to reproduce without a large project at hand though.

Then I had to stop testing and SIGKILL it because the whole application got into an infinite loop of NPEs in the UI event loop of all places!

I too experienced using intelliJ for many years and this seems largely in line with what I remember.
It's a coastal thing, plus it's not a stretch to think that big tech is in the pockets of Democrats when Facebook told the Obama campaign "we're on your side", and google had executives crying on stage after Trump won.
unrelated but has anyone discovered why Jack Dorsey looks like a seventeenth century Mennonite instead of a CEO of one of the largest social sites in the world?
An example issue: the interactive `--patch` mode, by far the most powerful paradigm for interacting with diffs, is available for `git stash [push]` but not for `git stash pop`. The CLI is full of inconsistencies of this kind.
This is fantastic! I love everything about this - the clear goals, the relaxed pace, the single focus videos and practical topics.

Will you be adding other languages and content creators as well?
There are no announced or released Zen 3 mobile CPUs at this time. You are correct in that the Zen 2 mobile CPUs currently top out at 8 cores, and up to about 54W TDP - the top CPU is the "45W" Ryzen 9 4900H which can be configured up to about 54W by the OEM. We might see Zen 3 mobile early in 2021.
There was the Biosphere II project from the 90s, but it ultimately failed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
Whoevers is shorter...
"Only". It would probably be easier for them to maintain the Linux drivers themselves than to thoroughly document every feature of the SoC.

It's not just about individual drivers though, it's about the surrounding kernel infrastructure and the whole desktop experience. For example, getting instant suspend/resume working on Linux is not (I'm fairly sure) just a matter of writing a driver for a particular bit of hardware.
I've had a globe since I was a young boy. I have an illuminated one in my study now. How better to explain "Great Circle" air travel?
Suppose we built a simple machine to press the button on the predictor. It would have a way for pressing the button, and a way for reading out the LED light. It would have one simple rule:

"If the light has not been on in the last second, press the button"

What would happen?
I never used doordash and yet they own 50% market share. How? That's incredible... In big cities I always hear of people Uber-ing food, and never once I heard people doing a door dash? Is dashing a verb?
In the article it highlights how airbnb-ing is part of our vocab. For example you say "I am just gonna airbnb it", so that really tells me that airbnb have done their marketing well...
Unlike doordash, "uber it" and "get it on uber eats" is commonly heard...so I wonder...playing in hard mode is great but only when you win. Who's truly winning?
> The underlying technology of git is great

I disagree. It is quite slow and makes the wrong assumption that everything should be text.
I listened to the podcast in question and the following one where he elaborated further. It was very clearly not intended to be taken literally. It was no different to the sorts of things you hear in pubs when people are talking about football referees.
I do miss the plastic ones myself. My sweat dissolves macbooks and they give me a rash.
He also didn’t say it on Twitter.
This happens to every giant eventually (and to countries or civilizations). They get climb to the top, and then they hold such dominant positions that they aren't forced to try. They get lazy or sloppy (and in Intel's case, I'm not suggesting the engineers were the sloppy ones... more likely strategic decisions from management and quarterly earnings per share-focused execs). Eventually they are dethroned, and some never return to power.

Intel will never go away, but they definitely will become laggards for the foreseeable future. In their industry it takes years or even a decade to see the fruits of your effort.
Yes this is the same thing that happens with me, all unencrypted websites are redirected to adware. On phone i use 1.1.1.1 app from cloudfare but on other devices this is still issue.
This looks cool, but why would I use this over Heroku?
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That quote is often taken badly out of context.

Benjamin Franklin, to the legislature of Pennsylvania, on the topic of basically letting the Penn family buy their way out of paying taxes indefinitely by providing enough hired mercenaries to protect the colony's frontier during the French and Indian war.

The freedom he was talking about was a legislature's freedom to govern.

The temporary security he was talking about was hired guns.

And none of it applies to the question of the tragedy of the commons that is "HTTP protocol is default embarrassingly insecure."

Indeed, if I were to torture the quote enough to make it fit, it looks more like "Those who would give up essential Liberty (Mozilla, in this case, to design the user agent the way they think best benefits their users and the World Wide Web as a whole) to purchase a little temporary Safety (... of their user count by delaying inconveniencing users in the corner cases where HTTPS can't be used), deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." But it barely fits.
Democrats aren't going to mention election interference right now, but otherwise I think your gist is spot on.
Elon Musk's wealth rockets by $15B on Tesla's S&P 500 entrance
Exactly right.

So much of the "I have nothing to hide" retort misses the fact that it isn't about big secrets, but rather a collection of little secrets (if you want to call them that - they are just facts that are sensitive).

Less about are you planning to violently overthrow the United States Government. More about what genre of porn do you like to entertain yourself with.

These little things can be used against you. We all have them.
Certain governments already require their root beer the only one trusted by software in their country.
Are you putting them on the dark side to reduce light pollution from Earth? It's going to complicate communication since you'll need a relay to bounce signals off of when talking with it.
I can't remember which thread it was, but there was a lengthy discussion about what qualifies as a tech company and whether something like AirBnB was a "tech" company. It was a distinction I had also struggled with, but this article provided clarity for me. What these companies deliver for their customers may not necessarily be traditional tech (lodging, delivery, etc) but the way they accomplish this is definitely a technical achievement.
They officially give you SSH access to the device, various GPL-ed source code running on it and have done so for the previous generation too. I'd trust them with it, and even if they were to go against it it's the kind of device where missing out on future firmware releases doesn't seem that bad.
and also that one:

>Why not Electron?

> The first reason is performance. JS is a great language for building UI, but it is much slower than JVM. Wasm can be fast but implies C++ or Rust.

> The second is the DOM. It is a horrible collection of hacks that make simple things hard and hard things impossible. I have thought many times “if only was I drawing this control/layout directly, I would’ve finished hours ago.”

> That means there’s a very low ceiling, performance-wise and quality-wise, of what a web app can do. I believe we can, and should, do better.

> Electron taught us two good things, though:

> People crave for native apps. Nobody wants to work from the browser. People don’t care if apps don’t look native to the platform as long as they look good.

Regarding Electron, I think we "should" start to talking about more like "Browser Apps for Desktop" instead of just "Desktop Apps" which is broad term.
The fact that you don't often see announcements for big tech head-of-security appointments on the front page of hackernews says a lot about why they hired him.
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> At this point I'm mostly interested in the Air's performance with its missing fan.

I think the clear store here is that the Air will definitely be slower than the rest over time. This isn't a 10W SoC, clearly, so it definitely can't run at its best while being passively cooled.

How it behaves when throttled will be interesting for sure though.
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The CEO (/CTO?) has work on GitHub and kind of non-commitally acknowledges it.

The fact that you can literally SSH into it, out of the box, was a strong signal for me. I don't regret purchasing my RM1.
I'd say rather 'Version Control is hard'. It should not be that technical.

The very notion of versioning terrified quite a few non-technical but otherwise very proficient office users in my experience trying to sell them the benefits of VCS. Even GitHub or Jira would be considered "for programmers".

On so many occasions I would fail to convince such users to embrace version control in their workflow, even with some Tortoise-like GUIs.

Immediacy of copying their work folder or document and appending a date or "-final" tag to the name is all their busy minds are ready to adopt. And it does make sense, no blame.

This just tells that current concept of Version Control is indeed serving the very specific needs of maintainers, not much the mundane needs of normal users. Thus the complexity of the CLI in the name of flexibility.

My expectation is that Version Control should be mostly transparent to user. It's just some internal housekeeping. On a basic level it's just a Save/Save As operation with very much versatile project-level Undo and Open. MS Office's Track Changes is a familiar workflow for many users, perhaps a similar approach could be adopted for Change Management in broader and less proprietary context.

In Git's parlance, Mr. Version Control is still a plumber that offers users some porcelane sinks, yet user's projects need to live in a whole house with already functioning works and appliances.

I want to believe that Version Control will one day become a basic amenity, not an "exotic" feature that needs constant attention.
Takeaway needs the restaurants otherwise their service is useless.
Cooks and knives are a bad example, because sharpening knives is easy. I am not a cook and sharpen mine too. It takes like 15 minutes to learn how to do it, and a similar time to actually do it.

Most piano players don't have a clue about how to tune their pianos, though.
I made this product because I'm on a mission to eliminate the single use plastic water bottle by connecting water to the internet.

Today marks the 1,000th day anniversary of my pledge to never drink a single use plastic water bottle again.

In celebration, Tap is gifting 1,000 activation stickers for those who wish to join the mission to eliminate the single-use plastic water bottle. Claim your Drinkware OS sticker (https://bit.ly/DrinkTap1000 Code “DrinkTap” auto applies at checkout).

The detailed announcement is available on Tap's blog
https://drinktap.substack.com/p/introducing-drinkware-os
If you restrict yourself to the part of the world that can actually afford to fly, aviation looks quite a bit worse. Taking a trip from Europe to California is a good way to basically double my carbon footprint for the year.

Aviation is also fairly unique in that we don't know how to make it climate neutral. Even burning synfuel made from renewables won't be enough, because adding emissions higher in the atmosphere has a stronger warming effect. And we just don't know how to make all-electric long distance planes yet.
Back in the day, we had direct collegial transfer of philosophy etc - in ancient Greece.
We progressed, writing and scrolls, printing cheaply done. By the 1020's the current college system emerged. Over the next 100 years it evolved to maximize their influence and revenues.
Over the last 20 years a huge amount of granularity emerged.
It first showed in mechanical and electronic schools, in person and by mail - giving very granular niched skillsets in mechanics, electronics etc. The internet created a fully granular playing field. You could get skill sets on all manner of things. All manner of network, video, etc etc skills tought by online courseware, like the MIT open course plan - which, with the internet, youtubery. etccan expand to fill all of civilized skills.
This includes law, medicine, engineering - everything, except hands on lab experiments. These can be partially done via youtubery - google "rotating machines 101" on youtube.
Spread that to include the Michelson Morley

https://www.google.com/search?q=Michelson+Morley&rlz=1C1CHBF...

I did this in year one engineering physics in 1958 at UofT.
It was called a lab, and took 3 hours and we wrote a report and had problem sets.

Now, all the colleges have is the final document = Diploma. They deservedly guard this gate very well, as they can not lose this control method.

So online degree courses will emerge, with diplomas as soon as they amalgamate them into the full panoply of associated courses over the next few years and provide satisfactory proof of the certified competence of the student.

There is the rub. How can the old ivory towers of classical Academe come to grips with this?

Niche specialties, like Microsoft server stuff, Oracle server stuff, have emerged to provide very granular, and documented skill sets. These people then go and get jobs in those niches.

The next 20 years will see the collapse of classical Academe and a new Academe will emerge based on it's bones.
Just go with K&R of the latest edition. It gets you into the mood. Concerning modern techniques I don't really understand what that would be.
Something strange seems to have happened to America in the past ten or so years. People seem to have become hyper-literal and unable to detect any sarcasm, hyperbole, etc. I wonder whether this is due to spending more and more time communicating via the written word.
We've been cagey about this over the months since the Servo team at Mozilla was disbanded, since there were various moving pieces that needed to fall into place. We're excited about the possibility for Servo to continue growing and evolving in its new home, though!
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford.

Several years ago I saw a Facebook ad for an online coaching program for aspiring music producers.

It was exactly what I needed at the time, but I had no idea that someone had put something like this together, and I would never have independently thought of googling this. Instead, I relied on music production tutorials on the one hand, and generic productivity advice on the other hand, and assumed that was the best help available out there.

That is just my anecdote, but I'm sure everyone here has their "how could I possibly live without this before" product or service.

Advertising can be useful, and the more targeted, the less obnoxious.
Depends how cold you can keep it. Even if it doesn't boil it could sublimate away if not kept extremely cold.
> Don't forget to add that Apple is now doing this on their version of a "budget" laptop that has no active cooling

The Anandtech tests were on an actively-cooled Mac Mini and the power draw numbers they were observing were far outside of what can be passively cooled in a laptop. You'd need to wait for Air-specific results before drawing too many conclusions on how it performs.
AI dev platform startup DataRobot raises $270M at a $2.7B valuation
Eminent Internet speculation about Apple is correct surprisingly often.

EDIT: I'm getting downvoted, maybe because I was too cryptic. To clarify, it seems like the rumors that gain traction with mainstream sites and Apple-focused YouTube channels and forums tend to have strong correlation with something that will happen later.
Most of those old POS systems were actually either 3270 or (more likely) 5250 applications; i.e., block mode terminals instead of character mode terminals. While the difference between block mode and character mode terminals is a fundamental technical difference, that difference impacts the UI in two major ways:
1) Most interaction is local, and therefore quick. All of the editing, jumping between fields, and even basic validation happened on the terminal itself. It was only when you submitted your changes or loaded a new screen that the server would even get involved (much like a web form without Javascript); therefore, even in an installation with a lot of active terminals, these green screen applications would be incredibly responsive.
2) Every screen and application had exactly the same user interface. Even function keys were mostly standardized (ever wonder where F1=Help came from?), so what you learned in one place in the UI would trivially generalize to everywhere else in the UI.
The company provides a dev toolchain[0] and seems pretty committed to keeping the device open, even the CTO[1] hacks on it publicly, like this crossword app[2] with handwriting recognition.

[0] https://remarkable.engineering/

[1] https://github.com/sandsmark

[2] https://github.com/sandsmark/recrossable
I guess this is trying to occupy the space Hopper is in ie user friendly and easy to use.

While Ghidra, radare2 and IDA Pro are difficult to use, UI wise this and Hopper have simpler GUIs to help you focus on the actual re task
I'm not sure if I'm reading this project correctly but aren't all of the icons already hosted on github for free? This whole website can be hosted for free on github pages with one javascript script for search, right?
They don't need to anything new. What they already have is enough. Their own software engineers could handle it fine. It's good enough for people who want this.

There are people who have clean room implemented entire nvidia drivers. Without doc. We can manage fine with whatever incomplete doc Apple allready has.
FWIW, the battery life is surprisingly short. I guess it's the Wacom digitiser broadcasting RF all the time.
Couldn't the Pro just turn on its fans after 8-9 minutes (to avoid throttling), thus giving the best of both worlds?
If the Senators spent their time asking meaningful questions that don't know the answer to rather than grandstanding, they might be able to find something they can mutually agree on.
I predict it will disappear from the market within 2 years with no replacement leaving people to limp along on an iMac. Not like it hasn't happened before.