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you don't want workers in IT, look at the USA, other than silicon valey (1 state), they all hire from India, and the salary from other states are comparable to what you find elsewhere in the world, including China

you want researchers, and EU has ton of them ;)
In some cases it works better than others, and often it's needed.

Consider that in the US, the decisions are also 'made from the Top' but often from large investment firms that decide where the money goes.

When an industry is small and new, it's more open.

But for commercial aircraft like for regular airlines, there is zero hope unless the government coordinates it. There's no 'hey, invest $20 Billion in my startup, maybe I will have customers some day'. No - you need a national strategy with the airlines buying in.

That said - concerns over central planning are real - not so much in impetus, but in execution.

If Europe could snap it's fingers and for $10 Billion just have competitors to Intel just magically appear - it would be a good investment. Very good.

But unlike roads, tunnels and bridges, you can't just buy innovation.

It's going to take the right leaders, the right investments, the right kinds of innovation.

Which is extremely hard.

I don't know the industry but it may may more sense to come at it from the periphery: possibly by creating design and fabs for more common chips.

Or maybe it makes sense to come at it from an academic/open angle, and get the top Universities to publish open source designs that if industry buyers want, they can get subsidies for fabs.

Finally ... the other parts of the ecosystem are not there as much: there is no more Nokia. There is nobody making computers. There is no 'OS' to guide deep integration.

I think it's reasonable to be wary of this kind of top down sentiment as it's risky and not preferable, and prone to fluffy words without action, at the same time, it's reasonable to address the issue.
Right. The energy density argument is obviously wrong, and I marvel that people can still make it with a straight face.
> I think I understand RHEL and I think I understand Fedora, but I never got the appeal of CentOS.

The appeal of CentOS was a gratis rebuild of RHEL, so if you understand why people use RHEL then CentOS is the same but without the paid enterprise support.

> Now, I understand the appeal of that to certain super risk averse enterprises who value stability over any kind of developer or user happiness (including the ability to run latests versions of userland software that happens to require somewhat recent php/python/etc versions). But aren't those exactly the kinds of enterprises that would want normal RHEL licenses anyway?

It's a jump in logic to assume that just because an enterprise wants stability, then they want to pay for support. That's simply not the case.
I was under the impression all these years that CentOS was not under RedHat supervision. Was I wrong, or did something change silently?
> super risk averse enterprises who value stability over any kind of developer or user happiness.

Some services just need to run and get security updates and no one cares about "new features" for them. They just need to keep running. At some point every company is going to end up with services which are like that (ie. in maintenance mode).

No user is going to care some feature was added to NFSv4. They will care if their shared drives are unavailable because some feature was added to the NFSv4 daemon which causes stability issues.
The free market does not care about EU sovereignty and such geopolitical issues, so the EU cannot rely on the free market to make the EU competitive in tech.
Also in any case no private entity has been banned from participating in these markets.

Also in the whole article there is no mention of funding. It is probably a tech sharing and licensing agreement more than anything.
Oh, lots of us care. It's just that the people who care the most arent using Windows much anymore. They are using linux. That choice, that freedom to install a competator OS, has empowered microsoft to do such things without fear of regulators.
All I can say is.. YIKES

Please see a therapist. whatever is going on in your headspace cannot be healthy
Fission is too expensive because everyone tried to get economies of scale at big complex custom-built one-off plants. Those who see hope for fission look to get economies of scale with a modular approach, mass-producing simple, small, reactors, shipping them from the factory to the site on trucks, and attaching them to the grid.

I am not qualified to assess whether that hope is well-founded, but there are real differences in the approach.
This push probably won't work because it's a push by politicians. They've managed to create conditions that are not suitable for the organic growth of the semi-conductor industry in Europe. Now they're slowly realizing that it's a problem, but it's a bit too late. You can't force an industry to appear and expect it to be competitive on a global scale. People are still going to be buying devices with chips manufactured in Asia.

They will probably have a similar realization about software in a decade or two.
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There's value (not price) that EU provides which North America, does not. As long as they keep that value, EU will attract talent.
That's what happens when you employ over-enthusiastic developers obsessed with their Javascript-framework-legacy. Things worked fast when HTML was the UI, and the logic was in the server.
Same scenario as getting ingested by IBM after all
“Decadal Plan calls for $3.4 billion annually in [US] federal R&D funding to address seismic shifts in chip technology and pave way for emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced wireless communications”†

So that would make proposed annual US federal funding in semiconductor R&D like .0016 Apples

You're right – when you put it like that it does appear very small.

† (Oct 15, 2020) https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/semiconductor-indus...
you could show Bobs messages greyed out, and your messages are greyed out for him.

Or with threaded conversations, you prune Bobs messages and all replies.

It might be slightly confusing, but it's better than having to leave a group entirely, or see their abusive messages, when someone is harassing you.
I've been using PlotJuggler for a good couple of years now and it's one of the go to tools for debugging robotics systems for me. I'm sure it had saved me a good couple of days of my life!
for sure, i was not suggesting these were alternatives. just dropping some links for those interested in timeseries plotting.
>it acts as an independent third-party. In that sense they act somewhat similarly to Certification Authorities, in that I as a user will not blindly trust a self-signed certificate but will trust a certificate that was vetted by this third-party.

I have no idea why anybody trusts CA's in the first place. People seem to imagine that there's some gate in play where Mr. D. Badguy doesn't get certs signed by Verisign. He absolutely does.

This has been an issue that "Web of Trust" doesn't really do anything to solve, and the delegation of worrying about this crypto non-sense going to Admins instead of users themselves just kicks the can down the road. Random code on the net is exactly like buying a blackbox in a Bazaar somewhere, If you don't have the skills to run/vet/sandbox it safely, no amount of Web of Trust nonsense will save you from it.

All it does is piss off users, devs, and admins alike when something goes wrong with certs, and gives a centralized authority a lever to pull to screw with you. Another brick in the monopolistic wall.
If this is because of security, is just having a bunch of researchers enough to provide for security?
The fragments may or may not be fake (consensus seems to be that the poem is probably genuine), but the provenance was certainly covered up. See https://eidolon.pub/the-murky-provenance-of-the-newest-sapph.... It's all quite scandalous and is connected to the theft and sale of biblical papyri to the Museum of the Bible. See also https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/jan/09/a-scandal-in-ox... and https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/16/oxford-profe...
NumPy – Ndarray Object
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This strikes me as an infantile response to a sensible business move. We need to grow up, realize that the free lunch is over, and pay for what we value. And developers, including large companies, need to stop coddling us by offering us their best work for free.

Edit: "We" includes me; I should pay for more software too (not that I use any commercial software illegally; I only mean choosing paid products over free ones).
I totally understand. Scroll behavior is uniform in all windows on my desktop but some websites think they are so special that they should change that just for them. I personally hate smooth scrolling and have it disabled, I can't understand why people like waiting for a useless animation when the operation could be done instantly. I feel like the computer is wasting my time! So when a website re-enables it with its own buggy JS implementation, well it's disturbing. (Thanks for giving me an excuse for my own rant!)
DT fusion is bad for space travel because the reactors are too large. It has no advantage in space over fission.
This is the most far away thing possible from server side rendering, correct?
The governments spend 45% of GDP yearly. It's very likely that at some point, every company has served the public sector.

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM, list goes on, weren't envisaged by a 60 year old bureaucrat sitting in Brussels or Washington.

They were created by ambitious young men looking to shape the world in their own way.
And then I just found out I have it in my Steam library already. I don't even remember when I bought it.
Yep, I definitely do something similar. I respect Bret Victor greatly (his Magic Ink essay has had more of an effect on what I do as a career than almost any other single thing), but I've never really been completely on board with this idea -- though in fairness it's a response to an implementation of a very specific programming environment, it's not a general solution.

Re mentally visualising, I'm reading a book called Mathematician's Delight[1] at the minute, and its first chapter has one of the neatest pieces of writing on abstract reasoning that I think I've ever read, it's reified a lot of instinctual ideas I had about how I program. I've clipped quite a lot of notes from it -- this in particular is relevant I think:

"Beginners in geometry are sometimes puzzled by being told that straight lines have no thickness. We shall never, we are told, meet a straight line in real life, because every real object has a certain thickness. One of Euclid's lines, however, has no thickness. Two lines meet in a point, and a point has no size at all, only position. We shall never meet a point in real life, either, for all real objects have a certain size, as well as a certain position It is not surprising that pupils wonder how we know anything about objects which no one has ever seen or ever can see.

This difficulty is a good example of the confusion which can come from misunderstanding the methods of abstract thought. We have seen that Euclid's geometry grew out of the methods used for building, surveying and other work in ancient Egypt, This work was done with actual ropes or strings, real linen threads with actual thickness. What does Euclid mean when he says that a line has no thickness, although he is using results suggested by the use of thick ropes? He means that in laying out a football field or in building a house you are not interested in the size or the shape of the knots made where one rope is joined to another. If you allowed for the fact that ropes possess a definite thickness, if you carefully described all the knots used by a bricklayer, you would make the subject extremely complicated, and no advantage would be gained. Euclid therefore says, if an actual rope has thickness, neglect this in order to keep the subject reasonably simple.

The position is not that Euclid's straight lines represent a perfect ideal which ropes and strings strive in vain to copy. It is the other way round. Euclid's straight lines simplified account of the complicated way in which actual ropes present a rough, behave."

[1] https://archive.org/details/mathematicians-delight-w.-w.-saw...
Well for one, I and everyone I know happen to live here.

I guess if someone can suffer the US' shitty conditions, I guess there's nothing stopping them from going there... except for the US's stringent immigration policies. Can't just hop over the pond to go work there, and I'm fairly sure it's easier for a US citizen to work here than the other way around.

Of course, that too is deincentivized thanks to US tax laws (still having to pay income taxes even though you don't live or work in the US).
Hi, I wasn't asking upvotes in the post, but I've deleted anyway for goodwill. Thanks for pointing it out!
I don't think this fairly captures the use case.

I have a bunch of drafts up as unsaved tabs in a VS Code window. Having a UI that encourages me to put my drafts in a dedicated spot and is oriented towards creating threads seems really nice.
My company's legal team is fine with GPL + classpath exception, but skittish about LGPL. It had never really occurred to me that that might be the reason why. Perhaps the problem is that the LGPL's C-centric language means that trying to use it as a general-purpose library for any platform, including ones that don't work like C, puts it in murkier legal waters.
Indeed. Is there anything impactful that is somehow European (not from a single European country, but as a collaboration between) with the exception of airbus and CERN? It’s not that there aren’t skills and talents in space, cars, pharma, construction, energy, etc.

Edit: clarification.
All is nice but a lot of the slowness in our bank's site comes from fetching the client's data, I'm sure this can be improved but the requirement for layers of abstraction and security to fetch a customer data is a tougher problem.
A simple overbed table solves the problem nicely.
The number of stocks bought is always equal to the number of stocks bought - stocks crash because the price the marginal buyer is willing to pay goes down. Sometimes this is because there are too many sellers and the buyers can take their pick, but it need not be; it can also be because of a change in what buyers perceive the value of the stock to be.
> Order total is $100. - A $10 coupon code reduces the order to $90. - The order is completed and shipped. Later on the customer wants to return and get a refund on one of the items. How much do you refund?

Especially fun if the minimum order value for the coupon code was $99 and the product returned costs $5.
https://billpg.com/qr.html

(A little too long for twitter. Also, I could find a font that displayed these characters correctly.)
doesn't seem to work too bad in practice - https://a.c-dn.net/c/content/dam/publicsites/igcom/uk/images...
Free healthcare, somehow reasonable housing prices outside of huge city centers, proximity to elderly parents, generally higher quality of life, to name few reasons.
any Ubuntu LTS version!
"We spend company resources on work that gets released as open-source software" is always preferable to a company never contributing back to OSS.
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“my impression of CentOS is "a Linux with lots of horribly outdated software”

It is and it’s the secret reason Docker and Containers became so popular.

I’ve been a systems administrator for sometime now. At some point developers wanted to run Python 3 on CentOS 6 and here we are.

It allowed the systems administrators to let the developers go wild in their own sandbox and keep the systems “pristine”.
The 'remove-competitor-while-still-cheap-to-do-so' rationale then, probably.
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg for me. I need to check out Atomic Habits
Is Ruby 3 Three Times Faster?
> then you either raise prices or hold prices constant but reduce quality (eg Amazon selling counterfeit books)

I can't think of one example of a company killing a competitor via free products and then raising prices.

And let's not pretend Amazon's counterfeit book problem was part of the business plan.
Atlassian is one of those places that I just can't believe has gotten so widely used. Every single thing I've used that is an Atlassian product drives me nuts. I really don't understand how anyone at any point looked at Jira or Confluence or anything Atlassian puts out and said "yep, this is the best version of this thing I've seen, sign me up". I've been using JIRA for years now, and it never gets any easier or better. I can never find what I want, I can never remember how to do things. I have to assume it's just me since everyone uses these things though.
I find this interesting because return variance (risk) and mean are supposed to correlate positively in the ‘efficient frontier’ theory that value investing is based on.
Yes, I don't think any wireless headphones on the market get around switching to HSP during phone calls and switching back to A2DP when music/audio resumes.
I've never heard of Sweden being big in (electronics/IT) hardware manufacturing, what kind of industries are there?
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1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

You are at 3.
Small quibble: All rights precede the constitution, as the government is not the source of rights (they are natural or God-given, take your pick).

The constitution and subsequent amendments merely outline which rights the government may violate as a matter of necessity to run, and certain rights which it may not violate at all.

As you say, privacy is not mentioned; it does exist as a right but has no explicit protection except for the conditions in the 4th and 5th.

Of course, the federal government's role has grown so much, and the interstate clause abuse has basically expanded it's power to encompass anything and everything, it is not unreasonable to think that the first 10 amendments are the only rights we have anymore :/
Moving namespaces from enterprise to open source is a big step forward, kudos!
In the past many discussions ended with just choosing kubernetes because isolating containers was not possible within nomad.
Being out of touch from the Linux distro world, this is rather sudden.

I still run CentOS on many of my dedicated servers (now known as bare-metal) from a decade ago. While almost everything else was all custom-built anyways, I guess the lack of core updates is going to be a problem. Though, CentOS 6 was going to reach EOL soon anyways.
I don't see Sweden leading in tech so much as being 'tech progressive'.

Sweden is ahead in some things related to tech, particularly their own version of startups. Spotify remember, is related to the fact that Sweden is a pop-music powerhouse - there is definitely industry synergy there.

They are generally well organized for a small country, they make Jet Fighters (quite a feat) which is also related to the fact they are a few degrees more 'sovereign' in that they are not part of NATO and have historical antagonisms with a much bigger power, Russia. They had one of the world's largest air forces back when individual fighters were only the price of a few cars.

Those synergies resonate with one another but I don't think it's in silicon.
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That's doable with a RSS feed service. Some providers which support reading twitter, youtube and other popular feeds without any setup.

https://www.inoreader.com/

https://feedbin.com/

https://feedly.com

If there are sources that they don't support, you can host your own rsshub instance or use the default.

https://rsshub.app/

Happy to help you get this set up.
> What makes you think that CentOS was killed?

Their own announcement yesterday.

> It will be available and actively maintained.

CentOS8 will not be after 31 December 2021, that's what they announced yesterday. CentOS7 will be, until 30 June 2024, according to their current status page, but who's going to trust them after what they pulled yesterday? Overnight, they changed CentOS8's End-of-life from 31 May 2029 to 31 Dec 2021. Surely you understand that that made a few people a bit upset.

The only thing actively maintained in the future will be CentOS Stream, which is not CentOS classic as people understoond and used it. CentOS classic were RHEL-release clones without Redhat branding and support. CentOS Stream is RHEL-next Beta.
I haven't used GCP for a long time. I regularly use AWS though. I also find AWS UI to be very slow. It always surprises me why.
A detail-oriented engineer would want to amend the chart to note that you should be willing to spend 1.25 years on making a daily task shorter by 6 hours, or 8.5 months making a weekly task shorter by 1 day.

Regardless, it should go right next to https://xkcd.com/1319/, though that may be less helpful as a reference and instead induce an existential crisis...
Copt-left licenses are about preserving the users’ freedom. If we want to maximize developers’ freedom then the freest license is proprietary code where you own all the rights and then you can do anything you want and nobody can do anything about it.
Just because CentOS Stream has "CentOS" in its name does not mean it's the same thing - CentOS, as is known currently, will effectively stop existing once CentOS7 is no longer supported (not to mention CentOS8 will not even be supported for previously announced period).
Wait until you hear about this commie organization called DARPA.
Why wouldn't normal users want CentOS for the same reason enterprises want RHEL?

If I were more serious about the stability of my personal server and website, I'd probably have picked CentOS up until this fiasco. Since I tinker with it from time to time, I ended up just going with Ubuntu Server, but it isn't hard to see the appeal of CentOS.

Not to mention, enterprises love to save money. Plus, I imagine it's pretty attractive for many engineers to avoid the headaches of license management when dealing with containers and VMs. If you're not going to use the enterprise support that comes with REHL, why would you even bother with it?
The one big issue with Debian is installing a package results in the service starting immediately. On CentOS and other distros this is not the case and the user has to start the service after the installation. I prefer the latter behavior as not everything I install is going to be a 24/7 service. I'd prefer not to mask some service because stopping and disabling leads to the service randomly starting after a package upgrade.
Contrary to some of the other replies here, I agree with you that there is no point in running CentOS on its own merits. Those looking for old software could just use Debian or Ubuntu LTS. But there is an important use case you're leaving out: Developing and testing software for running on RHEL. You probably don't need to purchase RHEL licenses with enterprise support just for running on your development machines.

The point of CentOS is (or was) not to just be a free, stable, rpm-based linux distribution. The point was to be bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL.
Local news sites are the worst for it. It's understandable, but it sometimes makes reading HN a pain
The same people that want to weaken encryption, demand upload filters and try to make search engines pay for links to news sites, spending 145 billion euros on "digital projects". Couldn't they come up with cheaper way to produce hot air?