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> There are tons of programs that do not go through "the" libc under Linux

I agree with you there. This is a big problem with using the classic environment subsystem model.

> Plus you still want all the fine semantics of Linux (mmap, cow or at least cow-like, etc.) and for tons of calls the libc is a trivial layer anyway, so you are not gaining much.

One potential advantage to the environment subsystem model – it might have pushed them to enhance the NT API to be closer in feature parity to the Linux API, which could then have benefited Win32.

> I doubt they would have been able to follow the upstream quickly enough, at least not without a pretty big dedicated team, and it seems difficult to justify.

Well, one relevant difference is that Linux is much more of a moving target than POSIX or OS/2 are. POSIX is a formal standard, and changes in formal standards are slow, they take years.

Back in the 1990s, OS/2 was a moving target, with IBM coming out with new versions with new features (2.x, 3.x, 4.x). But, Microsoft had decided they only wanted to support OS/2 1.x, and to ignore all new features in OS/2 2.x and higher, which made Microsoft's task much simpler. And even back when IBM was actively developing OS/2, they couldn't attain anywhere near the pace of change which is happening with Linux. Linux has far more people working on it than IBM ever had working on OS/2; and IBM, certainly back then (I don't know whether it is still true today), was notorious for slow, cumbersome and overly bureaucratic development practices, which was another limit on OS/2's velocity.
So you have to get good at evaluating experts. Strategies include: comparing multiple sources, checking on the background of the alleged experts, picking out a few interesting but verifiable statements from their argument and fact-checking those, finding an opposing argument and seeing which argument seems to make more sense or be better supported.

Having attended school through tenth grade... There were maybe a couple of assignments over the years in which we were told to choose a topic, do research on it while following some of the above (explicitly stated) strategies, and write it all up.

The rest of the time, though, it was a lot more like "this stuff is fact" and you're not really encouraged to doubt it or look closely into the evidence chain. Evidence or proof might be presented (textbooks often mention it), or might not. I wouldn't say that the whole "skeptically evaluating your chosen experts" thing was considered a core skill or habit to cultivate (probably a few teachers considered it such, but their curricula didn't really emphasize it).
Can confirm - hyroplaning is much more common in wider tires assuming the same vehicle weight. 285s are awesome on dry roads, but not so friendly in a downpour. Was definitely made fun of pretty hard by my non-car-guy friends for my slow driving that day.
Have fecal transplants from very healthy people shown any value?
I think actively moving a character around, aiming a weapon at another (human played) character, and pulling the trigger, then relishing in the victory of killing another is a greater degree of violence than any amount of blood or gore.
Ultimately I agree, but this is one hell of a slippery slope with a pit of spikes at the bottom.
"I could not understand why the major platforms (Windows, MacOS) did not."

I expect that it's because in order to have correct proportional scrollbars, it requires you to know the exact height of the entire scrolling area (or have decently good heuristics for them, which is not as much simpler a problem than you might think), which is an expensive thing to require of a scrollable area. The more content the system can handle, the more expensive that is. It's a big thing to ask of a heterogenous collection of layout code.

Even today there's some scrollbars that aren't as proprotional as they seem. emacs, for instance, seems to be using some cheating heuristics rather than being precise. Under normal coding or text editing usage you might not notice, but if you fill a buffer with a lot of very differently-sized text you may find the experience of scrolling around is less slick than you might expect. Browser scrollbars can also behave strangely while the page is loading, as I'm sure everyone has experienced even if they haven't noticed. In that case it's perhaps more obvious why a smoothly-scrolling, totally-correct scrollbar is a surprisingly hard problem in the general case.
Considering other groups, at the time, were circumnavigating the world, forging steel and blasting each other with gun powder it’s not hard to believe that an equally intelligent and able group of people that put their attention to something else could figure out how to get high from a plant.

Perhaps this is due to European destruction of the native history of the Americas - they’re seen as primitive groups with little social complexity. I think that if their histories were better preserved we’d be less surprised that they had an understanding of the native plants around them.
I respond very positively to the notion of "shitty" just being another way to express that it scratches the author's itch but probably only the author's.
I wish this wasn't the case.

In order to be able to play a decent shooter with a decent amount of online players, I have to download 250GB of assets (I'm looking at you: Warzone) and play in US time zones.

Is there an indie scene for online FPS?
I think it’s good to recognize that medicine, like any field, is approximative and imperfect. Lots of people wing it or have different opinions. Doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t see a doctor if something happens to you, but indeed most medicine is reactive, and most preventive medicine you’ll receive automatically.
Not being able to own a home. Working multiple unfulfilling jobs. Being socially isolated. Having no prospects for retirement. Having no health insurance. Etc.

Together these can become oppression or existential life difficulty.
Are you watching a digitally remastered Star Trek?

I've watched B5 on CRT and various LCD. The station monitors obviously aged poorly, but a lot of ships still looked pretty good. Minbari Sharlin, White star...etc.
Predictable wall of text. Nothing you said changes my opinion. People like you come and go all the time with claims that "it is different" or "it is nuanced". It never is.
I drive a truck and have no problem seeing small children approaching and crossing a crosswalk. I really don't see how your comment attacking trucks and SUV has any impact on their safety when it comes to seeing pedestrians, or pedestrians' visibility (if anything, they'd be more likely to see you).
Plenty of people stick up for individual aspects of the PGP architecture. Apple sticks up for non-ephemeral message keys by implementing that in iMessage. A lot of people stuck up for non-repudiation when Matthew Green asked Google to publish its DKIM keys.

Non-repudiation and key disclosure are two of the bigger problems with PGP, so in that sense people still stick up for PGP.
The midnight release in the Eastern timezone doesn't help either. I'd assume this is convenient for West coasters. And probably excludes Europeans altogether.

I'm making mass general assumptions here...
Though “BootCamp” is dead they 100% give you the option to boot unsigned software (unlike iPhone) and it will be possible to boot another OS. However obviously that OS will need drivers and they aren’t available and apple aren’t making them hence no “BootCamp” but it’s totally possible and people will almost certainly start to boot Linux to a certain degree although it seems unlikely we’ll get a proper accelerated GPU driver (I’m sure it will be possible for some basics to work and someone will do that).
Or a small swarm of like 25 high speed drones that just dive bomb the target and explode on contact. It’s like poor man’s cruise missile.
Sounds like someone watched the 1997 film “The Jackal”:

https://youtu.be/TJ4j7OArO8Q
Yeah I have specific food needs when I get sick as well. Personally I used to be sick all the time until I met my SO. Having someone that makes you mentally stable is a huge change imo.
Doesn’t seem to be able to scroll on iOS.
System can sterilize medical tools using solar heat
Yes, in my experience, using dropbox, you end up with two versions of the keypass file (one listed as a conflict). I've been using this setup for ~10 yrs, and it has only happened 2 or 3 times, but as I'm the primary user, I would expect this to happen more often with a family sharing the same file. If things are working correctly, the keepass lock file created when opening a db is synced via dropbox, so any second attempt at opening the file on another system results in a warning to open it as readonly.
> Whenever I feel tired, I lay down to rest.
>Whenever I am sleeping, I allow myself to sleep until I am "fully slept", meaning I can lay there for a while, still physically resting, and not fall asleep.

Do you mean in the day you rest, and you sleep at night? Or you mean you might sleep four hours in the day and four at night?

Not sure if the first line means rest in the sense of cat sleep, or actual sleep.
There's no OSS driver for Apple Silicon (x86 platforms has OSS driver for Linux maintained by platform company) and boot process is proprietary (x86 UEFI is open spec).
Even leaving ABS and other advancements out of it, the newer compounds provide both better performance and better treadwear - so both safety and economy/environmental concerns are improved compared to the old days.
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> So why did we throw that away and go backwards to DOS and then single-process Windows - which eventually reinvented multitasking nearly a decade later and sold it as if it was the most astounding development in the history of computing?

Because cheap commodity harware, a single Intel CPU controlling everything, won out over an expensive custom multi-chip solution.

Every Amiga model was a new model, with large amounts of engineering effort put into it, until eventually the platform just couldn't keep up with how quickly PCs were dropping in cost.

Sure in 1989 an Intel x86 based system was a joke compared to an Amiga, and it was a joke in 1990, and 1991, and 1992, but it was less of a joke every year.

When it all began PC's didn't even have anything that could charitably be called sound capabilities, but year after new cards were released, there was massive competition, at first at the high end, but then sound cards got cheaper and cheaper until one day Microsoft demanded that for a computer to be Windows Certified it had to just include one, and it was up to OEMs to figure out how.

Meanwhile Amiga didn't benefit from that technological explosion.

Same thing happened for graphics.

Same thing happened for networking.

Same thing happened for hard drives, and cd-rom drives, and types of RAM, and literally everything else.

Technology has often been one step back two steps forward, going from mini->micro people complained about the same thing, and going from PCs->Smartphones, it happened again. Remember early smartphones / PDAs? They had a maximum process limit, in the low double digits! Storage that was wiped out if the battery died! Everything ran in the same address space!

And remember the first 5 or so major versions of Android? It wasn't exactly a pleasant system to use.

But it got better.

The thing is, all in one custom hardware solutions will always, at first, beat out general purpose computing. But those custom hardware solutions are expensive, and slow, to engineer. Now if you are Apple and you can manage to find economies of scale to do everything in house, great!

But Amiga didn't have that scale. They had custom in house everything, which, and they were competing against not just Microsoft, but literally every other consumer PC hardware manufacturer on the planet who were in a fight to the death to drop prices on DOS/Windows PCs peripheral by peripheral.
>He breezes swiftly through the matter of the writer having accidentally killed his wife, Joan Vollmer, as part of what they called their “William Tell routine”, in which Vollmer would place a shot glass on top of her head for Burroughs to shoot – only this time he missed and shot her in the forehead.

In a 1954 letter to Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs wrote "The idea of shooting a glass off her head had never entered my mind consciously, until - out of the blue, as far as I can recall - (I was very drunk, of course), I said: "It's about time for our William Tell act. Put a glass on your head, Joan."

So there is reason to think that there was no "routine". Burroughs came up with the idea there and then. It's also worth noting that Burroughs changed his story a number of times over the years.

People might be interested in reading James Grauerholz' "The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs: What Really Happened?" (https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/6810449/the-death-of-...). Grauerholz was was friends with Burroughs and his text ends up trying to exonerate Burroughs - however, it is fairly evenhanded and also mentions a good deal of information that paints Burroughs in a negative light.

Personally, I lean towards the theory that Burroughs did shoot Vollmer accidentally. However, I think that evidence pertaining to the incident is much more ambiguous than how it is usually presented in articles that deal mainly with Burroughs himself as their theme.
We made a static site generator that goes over ANY dynamic and renders a bunch of URLs to static HTML in the “same folder” for purposes of referencing relative paths for resources.

We had two main issues... one is that links to dynamic pages would need to either be rewritten to static ones, or the dev ops would have to our 301 redirects for the list of dynamic URLs which we rendered, to the corresponding static html pages.

The other issue is that various aspects of the page would be related to authenticated sessions, and should NOT appear in the static site generated resources.

Any ideas about these issues?
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It's not Canada or Japan or UK that is special, it's the US. If you imagine US tech salary levels are normal, you would come to the conclusion that the entire rest of the world underpays their developers. But at that point, wouldn't it be more accurate to say other countries' salaries ought to be what defines 'normal' and US salaries are the exceptional case, not the other way around?
There's an angle here of [conflict theory vs mistake theory](https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/). Your post seems to take a conflict-theory only perspective - that disinformation is caused only by conflicting interests, and never by incorrect analysis. Is that your opinion or is it enough to say there are some conflict theorists, therefore fact checking can't solve all the problems?
But you lose the community aspect. It's interesting to talk about the puzzles during the competition, even if you're not competing.
Child-safety laws may reduce the birth rate
True, but people shouldn't be driving on them at that point anyways.
I'm not sure, but I would ask @docsquiddy on Twitter. He's a champion of FPS games and an indie developer. He has not yet released an FPS but I know he had one in development at one point.
I didn't have a modem for the Amiga for most of the time I owned it (starting in about 1985). I did eventually get one but had trouble getting access to the phone. The BBS sites I did connect to were often full, and many required you to upload something in order to download something. Starting in about 1991 I got access to the Internet at school, and spent most of the time in the lab there, leaving my Amiga behind when I left for college.
Have you found people apply this logic consistently, or do you find people cherry pick?
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What? That's not remotely what they said.

You say 2008 wasn't bad because being lynched for being having to drink from the colored fountain is worse. So I tell you that's not so bad because the holocaust was even worse. And maybe the holocaust wasn't even such a big deal because <insert some other tragedy>. See where that leads us?
There are plausible criticisms, but the idea that it is simply not possible to power the world with solar, nuclear other renewables and battery is absurd.

Most of his arguments seem to be against wind, where his arguments are strongest.

First, unsubsidized solar is the absolute cheapest form of energy for most of the world right now. While there are regions of the world this won't work well, solar is the energy source to beat right now.

Next, the physics is against him most energy is basically fusion (in the sun) -> solar collectors -> biomass -> petroleum. Each phase incurs losses, so using solar now is much better than letting the sun grow things and waiting thousands of years for us to use it in oil (which is the natural implication of what he is stating). Directly getting energy from fusion is better, but we aren't there yet (hopefully soon).
During my travels through Eastern Europe in the late 70's, I was able to go to Ukraine through Poland by train (quite the adventure). As it would happen, I fondly remember eating a large bowl of wild Mushrooms in a village (Ternopil Oblast)and asking the host if it was safe. Everyone laughed nervously and kept eating.

Good times....good times.....
I would also suggest letting the user stew for 10 seconds or so before declaring "No More Moves".
Generally no, because a RAW file records only the total amount of exposure per "pixel".

Full computational photography requires exposure per pixel over time (so something like a "stacked RAW" needs to be invented) combined with synced data from accelerometer/gyroscope/etc. for deconvolution.
It's a trap.

Not for the reader, or Google/Facebook. For Nillium.

No news company that I am aware of has learned how to have both credible editorial oversight and profit in the digital age. It seems that every news source, even the legacy new organizations, have an inherent strong bias, either explicitly in the narrative they espouse, or implicitly in the stories they don't report.

It's maddening.

Nillium touts their editorial board. Who are they? What is their experience? What is their approach to ensuring the news they release is based in facts, with follow up and naming of sources, explores both sides of a discussion and respects the privacy of those in the story? Importantly, do they eschew partisan framing and narratives and truly seek to be unbiased?
We Buy What We Know
> In my experience, there are not many ARM SoCs that have mainline support

You have a point, but the pmOS project among others is working on upstreaming mainline support for these devices. This involves a lot of effort, to be sure but meaningful progress is being made.
Lots of things change once you try mdma with friends.
Main thing for me has been quitting caffeine after lunchtime. For most of my life I just drank caffeine as if it were synomynous with hydration - coffee in the morning, diet sodas in the afternoon, teas in the evenings. And for years, I wondered why I couldn't sleep...

Withdrawal was surprising. On the first day, I fell asleep at 6pm until the next morning. The next day, 8pm until morning. Felt ill for a week. Ached all over. The waistband on my pyjamas was uncomfortable... felt like I had the flu, until my one allowed morning coffee, which made it all go away.

Never went full cold turkey, but compared to routine intake, it was close enough. I still have my coffee in the morning, but in the evening, I'm asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. For the first time since I was a kid.
Comparing Apple A13 and Snapdragon 865 (both TSMC 7nm) would be good to know how Apple's chip design team does things well.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15603/the-samsung-galaxy-s20-...
I wrote my static site generator, too. It is a lot of fun, and much more powerful for my specific use case than any other around (and probably would fail miserably for any other use case). It took 2-3 days and I regret nothing.

There are some novel things though, like, I use markdown files, but separate sections with ``` so I can use different inputs like ```MD for markdown, or ```JSON for pure JSON data, or ```PHP for PHP code. The VS Code highlights the portion of the code correctly, so I can work on many formats/languages on the same page. The .md file looks like this:

```INI META
includes = docs/index.html.md menu menuTop
title = Theme
base = docs/docs.html
slug = theme
```

```JSON menu
[
{ "label": "Demo", "url": "/demo/features" },
{ "label": "Try it!", "url": "/try.html?d=/data/try.json" },
{ "label": "Docs", "url": "/docs" }
]
```

```MD BODY
# Customize the story

Below are the parameters to customize the style of the story.
```

Then I use a PHP script to serve the content live when in development (no compilation, very fast) and a deploy script to generate the HTML files and upload to AWS S3. Works perfectly.
I just began a shared slack channel with my co-workers, and put the call out for any other interested hobbyists from other departments. We'll collaborate and discuss there, and ignore the public boards.

I found in previous years I gave up a few puzzles in, so I need some community to keep the interest up. But I have zero interest in the competitive aspect.
True. I should've called it a list of psychoactives.
I second that — If hacker news can’t discuss this in detail, nobody can. It’s been said by that KeshavarazNia That with the encryption key, which is not unique to each state, one operator could hack the systems of all six swing states from a single remote location. Wouldn’t it be interesting to track the timestamp on steep changes in the PRo-Biden curve across The next five days as mail in ballots continue to be “counted.” Whoever did this, probably rotated sequentially from state to state, Updating results as needed. I have witnessed this cycling behavior by message board trolls who use multiple identities.
And it's not difficult to deal with it manually. Grab the first line as the delimiter and split the document on the next occurrence.

Personally, I find it a bit silly to optimize for outputting things in many different formats when you'll have to deal with tweaking the output for each format to get it right. And it's not a one and done deal. You'll still find things going wrong on occasion. :)
They don’t run unsigned binaries, but they run self-signed binaries (to the same extent that Intel Macs run unsigned binaries) and the linker automatically does the signing. It’s an architectural simplification, not a substantive tightening of the screws.
Professional cinema cameras have totally different interfaces and requirements optimized for what video needs.

Photographers and videographers have totally different priorities. Even if the sensor and lens is the same, everything else about it is different.

Zero conspiracy needed. Just meeting what the market wants.
>Then how do you know one is not the other?

I upgraded to a 4k monitor from 1080p in 2005 and suddenly half of my headaches went away. When the season changed and the sun started coming into my room, those headaches came back. Blackout curtains stopped them.

It was a pretty big ah ha! moment, because before that medicine didn't work on my "migraines" because I was suffering from multiple kinds of chronic pain at once.