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Last I checked with Tidelift, they target primarily web OSS that's truly ubiquitous – think vue.js, Angular, Python requests and similar. Their $$$ reward is based on installation numbers across Tidelift's subscriber base, not value added or cost saved.

Definitely not a model that would help most (read: more niche) open source developers.

For example, I maintain a Python library with 10k+ Github stars and millions of monthly downloads, and was told by Tidelift it's not even on their radar. Zero reward in Tidelift's reward system.

Which is not to say they're not helpful to others, they might be. Just to manage your expectations vs their marketing.
Great article, and beyond nostalgia, it's also a good lesson about UX and dangers of SaaS.

A tangential question. The article says:

> In the same vein as the Reports, you can see at a glance what links to what. It's a lot like the call chart in a software development IDE.

I read it and I have to ask... which IDE shows nice call charts like that? I've worked with a bunch of those (every Java IDE, C++ in old and new Visual Studio), and there's dearth of any kind of visual representation of anything in general, call graphs in particular. I can sometimes make Visual Studio to begrudgingly show me the static call graph as two trees (one for "who calls me", and other for "who is called by me"), but on a moderately-sized codebase this essentially hangs the IDE.

It's obvious that codebase exploration features would be nice to have. But where are they all hidden? In Enterprise editions of IDEs?
J is not closed source and hasn't been for a while. https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource
I believe they mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Rewind_2018:_Everyone_... a youtube video which youtube featured prominently on the front page and which received a lot of downvotes at the time.

Julia Alexander of The Verge suggested that YouTube had intentionally left out the biggest moments on the platform in 2018 from the video in an attempt to calm concerned advertisers over controversies that had plagued the platform over the past 2 years, saying "it's increasingly apparent, however, that YouTube is trying to sell a culture that's different from the one millions of people come to the platform for, and that's getting harder for both creators and fans to swallow".
> The argument about Windows not having a single, central dentry cache doesn't hold water

This was more about cache coherency, and it's not an argument, it's a trait shared by every other Linux-over-X implementation (UML, coLinux). It is fundamental to solving a problem users want - seamless integration, i.e. no opaque ext4 blob. Why doubt the reasons given by Microsoft, when they match observations not just for WSL but every other system in the same class?
I don't claim to understand the mechanics involved, but I think it's the equivalent of regenerative braking for suspensions. Instead of wasting the energy when you cross a bump, it stores it and converts it into forward motion.

Pretty smart if it's so, and depending on road conditions I actually see it as having noticeable effect. Especially considering how crazy people are about upgrading their bikes.
> Companies who treat code this way aren't software companies, and they ain't gonna stick around for the long-run. They just use software for some end, and given their apparent lack of attention to detail, they will go out of business pretty soon

Most large companies in the world (e.g. banks) have appaling code and coding standards. As far as I know, none of them has yet gone bankrupt because of bad code.

I think we probably overestimate how important code is. The business world, esp. large companies, is very far from perfect (more of a big fat mess that somehow still works and produces money without its products killing people etc.) and it doesn't need perfect code, the same way it doesn
t need perfect accounting or perfect product design. In most cases, mediocrity will do, because the competition is just as mediocre.

If you want perfect (or even very good), become a hobbyist instead.
Yeah, for me it was HoTMetaL Pro (1994), then moved to Frontpage in 1996 and Dreamweaver in 1998...
Thank you for this input -- yeah it's just so weird that BTRFS is in the mainline kernel, but no one wants to stand up for it, and people are evidently using it with great success (Facebook for example).

I'm also not necessarily going to do any RAID5/6 stuff -- I'm probably just going to keep it safe (for my level of understanding) and do a RAID1/mirror setup and call it a day. The snapshots/cow/data integrity bit is definitely what I'm interested in as well. It feels to me like as long as I run ZFS under my servers I am much safer than anything else (and it's easier/possible to go back in time and undo mistakes).

Unfortunately, there's that whole thing about it being hard to boot to.. Is that still a thing?
Dark Reader actually had a light mode theme option — not sure how well it works on making dark pages light. But I’ve used the light mode with the contrast slider cranked up to make some pages easier to read! Probably worth a shot
I'd say a 2005 PowerPC iBook is obsolete. I'd also say a 2009 intel macbook is obsolete but the truth is, add an SSD into that and it's probably still fine under linux so maybe 2009 isn't obsolete for some users just yet (although i think apple no longer support that hardware). 2015 is modern, intel performance just hasn't changed that much since 2015.
May I ask what's your use case? A basic calculator covers about 95% of my needs especially on a phone.
Meanwhile I miss an extension that just lets me define CSS
overrides like Qutebrowser. For me those worked much better and
more consistently as it doesn't try any clever stuff, it just
overwrites some color values in html tags.

I've tried most dark mode extensions for Firefox and
Chrome and uninstalled every one after 15 minutes because they
all have some common edge cases I don't like.
Don't have access to one, but I've seen people using XCode and VSCode in videos/posts (VSCode via Rossetta iirc). XCode was reported to be much faster in compiling (also someone compiled Rust and reported it as 2x as fast as in their Intel Mac).

> Also very important, Virtualization. - What did you tried? - Which road blocks occur? - Is a form of Bootcamp available?

Parallels and VMWare was announced support. Not sure if they already have it out, but Parallels was demoed during WWDC running Linux-on-ARM. Docker also made an announcement that it's coming soon.
I can only speak for my projects that maybe 5-10 people use because they are rather specialized and nothing special. I simply don't want to be hired. I have a job and my projects are for fun.

I am no idealist on these issues and earning your keeps as a open source developer sounds really good. But there is a difference between hobby and job, even if you can bring it close together ideally. But for hobbies I prefer to set any obligations myself.

Of course I could set my rate to a large number, but I think it is important that people understand the motivation behind some projects and that is learning, having fun coding, sharing or something else, depends on the individual I guess. Saying 'no' can still take time...
Apparently the designer of this bike has no knowledge of physics.
That was my expectation from the title as well. I thought it would look like an over-sized mainspring from a watch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainspring).

There was a small company back in the 90's or 00's that was developing very high rpm flywheels to store energy but they weren't able to work out a licensing deal with the car manufacturers.
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I mean the $2B per month you can see on the coinmarketcap chart for Tether alongside the $18B total.

As for not having the money... [1] their own lawyers admitted in court they aren’t fully capitalized. At the time the article was written it has a measly $2.5B market cap (net of what the Fed’s seized, at least $350MM [2]). They had a bunch tied up in the separate scam that is Crypto Capital.

As for their banking relationship I believe after a few years of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego’s proceeds of money laundering (Taiwan, Poland, among others) their most recent statement was that it was at Deltec Bank in the Bahamas who is clearly on the up and up [3,4]

Let me ask you, can you with a straight face tell me this is a company legitimately holding eighteen billion dollars? And that two BILLION dollars a month in new money is rolling in like clockwork for a year and a half?

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrl...

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/cointelegraph.com/news/bitfinex...

[3] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2018...

[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-02/bank-tied...
if this is seen in bike competition, its legit. If it is forbidden, nothing can be deduced about it and if this is allowed but not used, this is useless.
I did the same, and no regrets. ZFS and FreeBSD are a great combination. Wish I'd made the move several years earlier.
It's certainly got the sound of one. Describing the technology as "weight to energy conversion" is particularly suspect.
0.006MB on brave :)
It's worth noting that spray foam insulation has significant CO2 impact (measured as GWP). Some estimate is to have a payback time of 50-60 years (although the manufactures dispute the numbers)[1].
We have opted for cellulose insulation for our new house, which has most of the insulation advantages without the environmental impact.

[1]https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/products/produc...
Qutebrowser supports custom CSS overrides. For example I have a
CSS file for dark mode that replaces colors in certain html
tags, but you could easily just change the color values for
something lighter.

Of course it's also not perfect as it'll do that on all sites
and qutebrowser isn't everyone's cup of tea.
Why do you say it's a joke? Is it because of your experience with it, did you compare features, etc., what is the reason?
Thanks for sharing -- looks like zfs still doesn't support tiering and just has the ARC and using SLOG for similar functionality...

And yeah, ZFS can't be expanded willy-nilly, found a good blog post with someone's adventures that was illuminating[0].

[0]: https://markmcb.com/2020/01/07/five-years-of-btrfs/
Right but after the block reward goes away lol, you’re going to have to pony up or 51%, and until the block reward goes down in 1500 days it’s 100% fair to say what I did about what a transaction costs.
I'm excited about Tauri: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
This article has all the makings of a perpetual motion machine. Those are normally found by using either "springs", "magnets" or a combination of both.

There is theoretically a way to use the roughness of the terrain (so the bike going up and down as it rides) to store that energy and then use that for propulsion. When finding a rough spot, the bike trades forward momentum for a vertical impulse, so it might be possible to transform a part of this back to horizontal. I don't have a basis to calculate this, but my intuition tells me accounting for loses this energy must be very small and very difficult to capture, to the point of almost worthless. Think of a wave energy generator, but on a calm day with waves almost flat.

The article doesn't claim that though ("10kg active weight [...] generate a moment ranging from 7.3Nm to 7.8Nm"), so this is either bad reporting or a perpetual motion scam. My money is on the latter specially seeing the "infinite power assistance" label on the video, would be happy to be proven wrong though!

Fun fact: In 1775 the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris stopped accepting proposals concerning perpetual motion.
I still have problems with the false sense of security (ie, the type system lying to the developer).

https://twitter.com/toolslive666/status/1309533781137780741/...
Today I've observed that I can relax my testicles by assuming marjari asana and lean my waist forward until I can relax my testicles. I can also relax my genital by performing squat and rest my buttock which is important for brahmacharya. I can relax my back of the neck which might be responsible for something that control my body that resembles another person by lie down on the belly and relax the head on a thing tilted down. I adjust the thing until the back of the neck relaxed as there is brainstem behind the back of the neck.
I was looking for a modern "Frontpage-like" editor last year. I wanted something that runs locally, doesn't require a subscription and produces files I can convert to HTML templates for server side rendering.

I bought Pinegrow with their one-time payment after a trial and I'm quite happy with it. Compared to the web-based builders, working with it feels much more responsive.

I use the editor for a few days in a row, but not each month. And thinking about subscriptions for the things that are not central to my workflow just isn't worth it for me even if I could save a few bucks by carefully cancelling/renewing.
I've had a few BTRFS attempts a few years ago, and I ended up twice with a suddenly unbootable system. I stress that this was a few years ago though.

ZFS needs serious tweaking if you have performance-critical workloads. I experienced this on databases, when comparing against ext4 - at the very least, one needs to move the ZIL on a separate disk. Also, up to a short time ago, ZFS had performance problems with encrypted volumes, due to (let's call) formal issues with the kernel - as a matter of fact, it was slow on a laptop of mine.

All in all, I don't use BTRFS because of trust issues. The BTRFS is in a sort of "never stable" camp, which is not a good indicator of engineering practices. The nail in the coffin was for me that in the official FAQ, at least up to some time ago, there was the tragicomic cop-out statement that the concept of stability in software is just a matter of labeling, because all the software has bugs.
It's still very subjective. The thing is that people that are dying of COVID-19 would very likely have died in the new few years, so if you compare deaths over the the last few years to a previous time period their would be very little difference.
You don't, you'll just end up riding on a spring-y bike and put energy into the system by pushing on the pedals a bit further than usual relative to the ground.
No. There’s no 30% gain to be had. Losses in a properly maintained bicycle are already far lower than this.
...*used to be "obsessive about rotating mass".

GCN: https://youtu.be/0QDnUkUaQfk

See also YouTubers Hambini, Peak Torque and Durianrider (on a tech day) for more cycling debunkness.

Also, amongst others, it'll be a real pain if YT's ad policy drives these guys away.
Well, not for the cycling industry, and associated lapdog journo's.
Maybe the binary runs, but for any non-trivial I/O (GUI, 3D, specialized input devices) you're still dependent on specific interfaces which are probably not the same anymore.

Case in point: try running any of the Loki Linux game ports from 20 years ago on a modern distribution...
That's why a personally hands-on, is so important. Most of the review sites / videos just mentioned that. But how does is work for a real developer, not a reviewer or journalist. :)

> Parallels and VMWare was announced support.

This still leaves a big question mark. What is supported and how far can you go with it. Things you can only say if you tried it once.
If this worked, once you start the wheels rotating, you could take your feet off the pedals and just let the superwheel force accelerate the bike until air resistance balances the superwheel force. They don't seem to have a video of that.
Yes that's totally true, but it is very time consuming and cumbersome in my view.

I've detailed this also here.
https://louwrentius.com/the-hidden-cost-of-using-zfs-for-you...

You may also realise from the top of my article that expanding VDEVS is a topic since 2017 but still no show.
The Emacs instance running as the WM is just Emacs in fullscreen. You can use it as your editor. But you can also launch X11 programs and manage them as you do with text buffers. Kill a program, kill a buffer. Same thing.

But you can, of course, launch a graphical Emacs within EXWM. There you get a second Emacs thread.

One can also put X11 buffers in char-mode to pass through keybinds directly to that window. That way you don't have to do weird sequences to pass through emacs keybinds to another Emacs.
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I mostly agree but it can be nice to see your code doing something actionable and visual rather than the alternative more traditional approach to learning programming, printing to the terminal.
It's tricky. Although this is being justified with references to phishing (which may well be the case) it's also an issue for spambots that need to sign in to a Google account in order to e.g. post spam links to YouTube comments.

If you think about it, you'll quickly end up in a briar patch of confusion over what exactly the definition of a "browser" is. Google have attempted to provide a definition here which is better than most, but it's basically a subtractive definition. A browser is a thing that supports "modern web standards" whilst not supporting automation features. OK. What about extensions?

The intent is to ensure that only people can sign in when they understand which site they're on. If anyone can define any program as a browser you can't enforce that and would have to allow unlimited automation of web sites. That is too hard to do, purely server side content analysis algorithms don't get you far enough, hence CAPTCHAs and now this JavaScript based enforcement.
It's easy enough to add your own. I use the cloud-based runners for Linux, then provide my own for Windows, Mac and FreeBSD, all VMs.
I take it also quacks when it rides. It's the only way this would work.
Well, I don't even know what "permissionless, programmable money" means.

I can't imagine what kind of value that provides to our society.
The Internet Archive is now preserving Flash games and animations
This is not due to NTFS. (And NTFS is not crap either.)

Try it on another file system if you don't believe me.
Why so aggressive? I asked a simple question out of interest.

Again, I think there's a difference between bug and a coding error. A bug is a mismatch between a software's function and the user's expectation.

And a typed-inferred error during compile time is just a hint that some code is incorrect. It may lead to a bug, but at the point of compilation, it's not a bug.
Of course the comparison is taken with exactly the peak of the dot com bubble.

The insight should thus to be very careful about stock market bubbles, and that long term investment can also offset some of that risk.
Spotify’s early investors have just raised Europe’s largest agritech fund
The idea seems to be you have a loaded spring at the top of the wheel as it’s rotating forward. The spring is loaded through some mechanism in the axle, which seems to be some sort of fixed axle that loads the spring through weight. As it rotates, the mechanism which forces the spring closed through downward gravitational force ceases to apply, allowing the fixed axle to unload that spring into the unfixed axle, which propels the wheel.

It’s no more than a rotational gas spring. The same principle that lets you open and close the hood or trunk of your car with ease. At least that’s how I’m understanding it...
Blender 2.8 Beginner Tutorial Series
The benchmarks don't take advantage of Metal either!

Obviously we will have to wait for more sophisticated benchmarks that can take advantage of otherwise unsupported features - but based on raw performance, they ARE comparable. That is not even up for debate.

As should be clear - these aren't consoles. But apple certainly have the knowledge to create one.

Markup on apple products is typically 50%. That gives a LOT of wiggle room for them to meet the pricing of your famed loss leaders (that are ALREADY a generation behind at release!).
Inconsistencies between types and rest of code _is_ bugs. I'm willing to bet my house that "TypeError: object doesn't support property or method" is the #1 bug in JavaScript's sphere.
Thanks for this -- I really haven't read all the BFS wiki and documentation just yet (since zfs was my first foray into this), will keep these points in mind. Don't think I've seen an "md" mentioned before...
It looks like the ad for those meter-cheating gizmos from 25 years ago. "No one thought of using springs to save energy, but we did! Buy now and get our pro spring with extra winds for the price of a regular one!"
You can just use FILE_SHARE_WRITE if you don't want to lock out other programs...
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The press release made before the release of the results to the FDA or in a paper is done to be in compliance with insider trading regulations, AFAICS.

I'm surprised that the writer at the Financial (emphasis mine) Times did not know that.

The writer also does not seem to know about the recent immunity studies that show that it lasts for at least 8 months[1][2]. See also Derek Lowe's explanation on duration of immunity[3].

The press needs to do better!

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.06.371617v1....

[2] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.15.383323v1

[3] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/11/18/va...
I've finished it using Blender 2.9 last weekend.

You can find solutions for the few spots where Blender 2.9 differs in the comments under the videos (it's mostly "setting x is now under menu y, not z").
> the majority of it is in the control of criminals and shady actors,

Crime, corruption and fight for power exists independently of what people use for currency. "Criminals and shady actors" also control significant amounts of paper money yet you are not here trying to argue against people to use paper money, right?

> I don’t want them to be the wealthiest people on earth while the rest of us fight for scraps.

Are you living in North America or the Euro zone? Then you are already top dog, dude.

> Deflation only serves to entrench existing wealth

Do the existing inflationary policies are helping out in reducing inequality? Who were the greatest beneficiaries of these recent stimulus packages, QE, etc?

> There’s literally nothing to like about crypto.

I'm pretty sure there are, you just don't want to acknowledge it. But most importantly, the question that I pose to every perennial-crypto-critic: Do you think that the status quo is the best that we can do? If yes, have you stopped to look at all the existing issues with the global financial system and can you honestly make a case that they are all insurmountable problems? If no, do you accept that we need to have people experimenting with alternatives?
To clarify, I only meant that the telescope has not been maintained (do nothing) lately as per the article. My fault for not writing more clearly.

As you say, it would be a lot of work to maintain if they wanted to keep Arecibo running.
I'm always very sceptical of any news articles about Bitcoin because they are probably fed by companies who need to drum up demand for it.

Unfortunately, ycombinator has a stake in coinbase, if I'm not mistaken.