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I, too, found that an interesting phrase.

The way I see it, there are three major consumer operating systems; four if you think iOS and OSX should be considered separately. Out of those three/four, only one tries to keep devices working and up to date as long as possible...

iOS/OSX allows central updating, but drops phones older than 5 years, and desktop/laptops from 5-7 years depending on the product series; users cannot maintain the OS themselves and are forced to abandon the device.

Android allows users to update the OS themselves against the wishes of the phone's OEM, but Google cannot force OEMs to continue supporting a phone within a reasonable timeframe (ie, no phone younger than 5 years should be dropped, yet is an unfortunately frequent occurrence with Android-hostile OEMs).

Microsoft tries to keep Windows running on PCs an absurdly long time, but users choose to fight Microsoft on this even when its in their best interest (ex: people still willingly run 7, even though 10 performs better, with less crashes, more performance, and less security bugs).

Alas, the dream of a Windows Phone is dead. Other than that, its most certainly an odd phrase in that article given what iOS does, since the user can still choose to go the third party Android ROM route if their OEM has truly abandoned them.
I’m more concerned with the politics than the technology of space colonisation.

Space colonisation with current tech isn’t a joke, but it is a folly in the sense of British Victorian-era aristocrats — extremely rich people doing fancy but not very cost-effective things.

Fusion isn’t necessary for this, however, as PV scales well enough for a Mars colony (don’t get me wrong, still extremal, but it could be made to work up to about Jupiter if cost of local manufacturing was not a limiting factor).

But: politics. Let’s assume every settlement on Earth has a corresponding space habitat (O’Neill cylinder or whatever) of the same population in Earth orbit. With this situation, rapid transport between any two locations is trivial enough that high school students could accidentally blow everything up up — I made an ion drive while at school (simple ones are easy) but orbital dynamics are counter-intuitive and not something a high schooler is likely to know, so a kid running one in space with that many large stations around has a high risk of causing a Kessler cascade.

Scale the hypothetical scenario up to a K2 swarm around the sun, same applies only with the risk of mass extinction on the home planet.

In either case it can be weaponised, and about 19 years ago a bunch of theocratic fundamentalists demonstrated that a small group of humans can be smart enough to cause enormous harm while also being dumb enough to not predict the consequences.
That "hella fast" comment renders his recommendation list suspicious.
"What can you tell us about what you did in your last job?

Can't say.

"What were the biggest challenges at your last job?"

Can't say.

"Can you describe a situation in your last job that taught you about professionalism?"

Can't say.

"OK, did you like your last job?"

Can't say.

----

So you could've done absolutely nothing of value or done something amazing, but the simple fact that you worked at a multinational company is supposed to make you stand out positively.
How many climate models do you think there are? What evidence do you have that there's been any cherry picking? You have read the study, haven't you?
Interesting. Looking over that, it seems you're right.

Wonder why this isn't more widely known?
Porkbun is a wholly owned subsidiary of Top Level Design, which is a registry. https://toplevel.design/about-us
Both, I would say, particularly with the GNU’s Not UNIX userland. I don’t think it matters much, though, as you can have a great non-UNIX OS, which Linux definitely is.

Also, we might forget it now, but in the past there were a lot of UNIX that were quite different in small and large ways. The differences between Linux and Darwin might be as great as the differences between SunOS and Xenix, or indeed NeXTSTEP, back in the day. Or maybe not, that was before my time, but my point is that UNIX was not a monolith and there were incompatibilities and different ways of doing things. So I guess yeah, Linux might be what one of these might have become.

I just find it ironic that so many people are keen to compare macOS to UNIX and just assume that macOS has to be the weird outsider, even though the reverse is actually true. The same people also often assume Linux-isms are the way UNIX works, like the now-dead comment about macOS’ commands not supporting GNU options.
They didn't mention that Waymo launched their self-driving taxi service to the public in Phoenix this year.

And if you look at the most recent Tesla FSD beta versions, it's progressing fast and already quite amazing.

I also personally think that the size of the Starship prototype made that belly-flop and landing maneuver pretty significant.
You've never worked in a high-security environment, have you?

My father was in the CIA, in the late '40s thru '60s.

We didn't find out until the late '90s.

One of his brothers was almost certainly a Company Man, too, but that has never been confirmed; even though he’s been dead for decades.

Apple's OPSEC is probably tighter than the CIA's.
Well they're not currently taxpayers at the very least, in contrast to the leaseholders who presumably are mostly taxpayers.
Can we get some snoops to do super-resolution? I'm sure there's some clever way to combine multiple frames and de-convolve the blur...
> But despite these concerns, eye tests have the potential to change how neurological and mental-health conditions are diagnosed, and Silverstein is excited to see this unusual idea move forward. “I’ve been studying vision and schizophrenia for 30 years,” he says. “Nobody ever thought of looking into the eye.”

Dr. Jack Kevorkian studied the eyes in detail, which led him later on to declare time of death more accurately. Sounds like we need to look into his research more.

And don't ask how doctors decide if you're dead or not now.
It’s a no-brainer Mac OS has more Unix heritage than Linux, but I don’t think using certification by the company that happens to own the name is the way to show that.

I would think the BSDs have at least as much Unix heritage as macOS, but they aren’t certified (“Certified Unix” is a rare breed. https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ lists only 13 products)

(Nitpick: it isn’t Unix™, it’s UNIX®)
most of my friends i made past 30. it's just like doreen said here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25533168
it's about finding groups with common interest.

contributing to FOSS is a good place to make friends. other forms of volunteering too.

the difficulty is to do that without having 'to make friends' as the primary goal. that just makes you impatient because not every contact will turn into a friend.

to approach the office work problem, try finding people who would like to share a video connection while working. there are websites to facilitate that.

another way is mentoring. find juniors in your field, and guide them with your experience. i made a bunch of friends as a gsoc mentor and elsewhere.

any hobbies that you might have often also have online communities. join them.

post your interests right here. someone might respond.

as someone else here said, the light at the end of the tunnel is you.
put up that light and use it to find friends
What, did you expect a new lineage of humans to evolve separately there or something?

Of course "native" can be arbitrarily limited to mean 1000s or 10,000s of years, but even after slavery those people lived there for at least five or six generations. So from the perspective of the people being forcibly removed, getting their pet dogs gassed by the military, it really wouldn't fucking matter.

And the Wikipedia article says they're "native", which you explicitly claimed was not the case.
Peter Jackson explains the changes he made for Lord of the Rings’ 4K edition
What happens is essentially Windows registering the device instance in the configuration - the driver etc is already there, it just follows "new device attached -> discover applicable driver from known installed set -> attach the driver to this instance of device". Newer Windows versions simply hid the behaviour, while windows 7 is the last one to not hide it.
Yeah true. For me I couldn't stand Elixir's dynamic typing and switched to Rust. I just feel personally like I can't use dynamically typed languages anymore.
Totally unrelated, but one of my fav stories:

Back in the day I was in a 4-lane BBS and someone came on to brag about getting Windows (they managed to get a leaked beta or something, about a month before retail). After a few minutes of their bragging falling on deaf ears they said “I could be playing Doom right now [while talking to you in a separate window]!”

I thought that was the most nonsense ability to brag about because clearly you couldn’t actually focus on both and to drive home the point I said “Yeah, but would you be winning?”

Fair play: I was a bit of a jerk at the time
New Orleans City Council bans facial recognition, predictive policing and other
Agreed, in part.

We still have a culture of "us", it simply wasn't fully tapped into in 2020.

In September 2001, it felt as if "we" had been attacked. Just as in 2020, people began signing up and volunteering to take on the cause. New Yorkers, in particular, suddenly noticed their neighbors and pulled together as a community. I saw the same from within the mask-donation and mask-manufacturing movement this year. Thousands of people, in an entirely grassroots way, stepped up to find one another and address a grave and essential problem.

What stymied the response to Covid in the United States most seems to have been a lack of engaged, concerned, and coordinated epidemiological response at the federal level. That it failed is ultimately not "the government's" fault, it is ours, as citizens. That public-safety measures designed to protect us, our neighbors, and our most-vulnerable became political footballs is our fault. We need to find ways to grow our national sense of responsibility toward others -- it is a challenge that each of us can take on.

2020 has been a championship opportunity for all of us. 2021 will be, too.
KaiOS and Tizen also have a userbase wide enough to be considered major consumer OS's (even if primarily targeting markets such as India).

The Switch OS could probably also be considered major at this point with the number of devices out in the wild. Same goes for LGs WebOS. VxWorks is also fairly big, although at least Canon changed over to something custom for their cameras.

And that's just the consumer facing OSs. There's a lot of surprising ones, like Apples use of NetBSD for their Airport devices.

OS diversity is high outside common desktops, and desktops are a vanishingly small portion of consumer computers.
> if the USA was as effective as Taiwan.

Becoming a small island with strict immigration controls is a little difficult for the US.
Generally these devices use the ancient kernel that they shipped with with the current userland.

This is because the device drivers are compiled for that kernel version with no open source alternative.

So whilst it might be running a newer version of Android. It isn't like installing Ubuntu 20.04 on a 10 year old laptop.
Not true. These are mostly young age boys, after getting rejected by a girl for dating because she is not interested, reason being either genuine lack of interest in him, or in dating, or concerned about studies, or scared of their family. & Not all boys, only a single digit percentage of a one or two states. Most of these boys never went to school. & Most of the time it is never to kill, but just to scare, or make her ugly.

About a generation ago, till 2000s, married women used to get killed by in laws by getting poured kerosene oil. Story pushed was always that she was using kerosene oil stove, & oil tank exploded. Too common that songs were written in protest questioning how kerosene stove knows its the daughter in law? Why its always daughter in law? In songs girls used to request her father to not give her a stove as gift. Popularity of LPG gas, electric & such pushed kerosene away, & those cases almost now are unheard of.
I'm saying that on the current path the US is on, it's not "if" to me, but "when". Or to be more precise, "at what rate". And I see that rate as monotonically getting worse.

And either way, then doesn't "nobody in the field worries about hyperinflation for developed economies" seem utterly misguided? It seems quite worrying given what I just described.
As a kid who made the Testors F-19 the later reality of the F-117 was so much wilder than fiction.
Wow, you’re last statement is incredibly bigoted and lazy. There is quite a difference between a mostly homogeneous, tiny island nation and the diverse multi-state unions of the west like USA and EU. In China they were welding peoples doors shut to keep them isolated. If that’s what a ‘we’ culture is then like then I am happy with what we have going on over here.
Sort of a side note v2: Would like to see a similar article/resource for Mac too.
iPadOS and watchOS deserve a mention.
China helps evacuate sick Australian from Antarctica in five-day mission
I went for firstname.dev :)
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People tense muscles unconsciously. Forcing eyes open is noticeable.

What drives folks to force eyes open is fear that aren’t seeing all that they should.
JavaScript: You Can Implement a Stack in 3 Mins
You might want to checkout the new Windows Terminal app too for it.

You can basically keep your unix/zsh env for windows, I even make aliases for things like open = explorer.exe, ls = dir, etc...
> Stupid cunts

This is uncalled for. In my experience _any_ skepticism about lockdowns get met with name calling, labelling, jokes about 5g. All this is doing is pushing the skeptics further away. I am yet to see a healthy discussion between a pro-lockdowner and and anti-lockdowner. More often than not its the pro-lockdowner that stoops to a low level of name calling etc
Yes I have. Guarding national security is one thing. Keeping a new consumer gadget secret is another. Apple isn't so important.
On a tangent, Python has a static type system. It's been a part of the language for years now. It works much better than TypeScript– I would say it's as flexible as Haskell's type system while being extremely easy to use and catching many bugs.

def sum(a: int, b: int) -> int: ...

Unlike Ruby and JavaScript, Python is strongly typed. You can't add a string to a number, for example. Because it's strongly typed, it's much easier to add a type system. When I first started using the type system, it felt like it was always a part of the language, they just added a syntax and a checker. It doesn't restrain me from what I would otherwise normally do in the language like TypeScript or Flow does. It's a perfect fit.
So, buy bitcoin!
I think that something like UBI is the only humane way to run a society, especially with the increasing automation.

Personally I think that if people study the problem they will realize that there are reasons that UBI is universal and that non-universal UBI probably won't work.

I also believe that if you look at the cost of living in the US and the potential federal revenue increase from radical corporate tax reform, it will still not add up.

So I think that we need extreme cost reductions. But beyond that, I don't think the monetary systems we have now actually can support UBI indefinitely. The math just doesn't add up due to the high cost of living. Eventually the poor countries can't tolerate letting the rich countries increase their debt infinitely anymore. This is going to be a big risk for global war in the next few years.

So I believe we need a totally new type of high tech money. One that integrates more information and has more fine-grained controls. I believe the only way we are going to have global security is if this new money is built on a fair international standard.
> We were happily processing 96Mpps earlier today...
Then suddenly we got a call from our uplink provider... They were actually amused to see 180Gbit/s of ICMPv6 traffic...
They were not so pleased however with the saturated backbone links in 3 European countries...
Crashing in the water, particularly the water temperature of the Great Lakes, is nearly a death sentence. You can definitely survive impact and get out but you’re not likely to survive the water unless rescue is minutes away. The exception is the end of a particularly warm summer in maybe Lake Erie or southern Lake Michigan.

Now compared to over land, you can easily land a small piston engine plane just about anywhere. Highways, large parking lots, open fields, all become acceptable landing spots. In a Cessna 172 which is commonly used for flight training, impact speed can be as slow as 45 knots. Even a crash into a dense forest is survivable with some luck.

I guess I’m just not familiar enough with LA airspace to fully appreciate the lack of space for training flights. I’ve been in and out of LAX and it is busy no doubt. I just haven’t done GA operations in that area so I wasn’t all that familiar with all of the additional airports and traffic.

Personally, my pucker factor would be exceptionally high practicing stalls, or multi-engine training with engine shutdowns and Vmc demos over open water. Regardless of the temperature.
Conflicted about this. Why is it that people with such great talent continue to throw huge amounts of time and effort at messing with other people's IP?

It's one thing to do a bit of fan-art, but on so many occasions, tons of effort go into fan projects only to to be killed off by the inevitable cease+desist letter.

As an art project, this one's very cool. But if there's a real desire to turn the fantasy console into real hardware+software, then plastering 'Nintendo' all over it probably wasn't the best idea?
> Video making switched from animation to people

Not sure this is entirely due to the flash web player being phased out. Kids just watched their friends play from the couch, or watched more generic broadcast television. Now they still watch and play together but remotely.

Edit: 'due' not 'sure', 'play' not 'pay'
I think there is a difference in the concepts the author describes that comes from the fact that in the car manufacturing process, the goal is to produce a large number of cars. So someone can continue to linearly add value by producing more of the same thing. Your value is based on the sum of your total output.

To contrast with software: you reach a point where continuing to crank out more of the same doesn't actually create value. Your value is based on how much of the overall body of work you addressed. How big of a piece did you take out from the whole pie.

Personally, I'm still thinking over the additive/subtractive concept. It does seem like you could reframe a problem either way. Include a daily quota and the car example becomes subtractive.
Sleep train sooner rather than later.
> And for some reason the arrogant, disobedient, oddly-shaped person is the only one noticing it.

My experience too. 'Those people' have a refreshing honesty and no-bullshit attitude.
Hah, when I was a kid my favorite PC game was F29 Retaliator, which included both the familiar epynomous X29 inverted V jet fighter and a fictional "F-22" that looked like the "black jet" described in here, but with a pair of vertical tails instead of the inward-tilted twin.

I also had that micromaster transformer - although a green autobot recolor called "Groundshaker". He came with a big ol' LAV to drive.
Showcasing is precisely what's happening in this article. Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft and he's part of the community of people who evangelize Windows, .NET, Xbox and all the cool Microsoft tech...
Curious what your domain is?
People in space?
People in deep oceans?
Why? Why we need to go pollute all places and think we own any of those?
We should manage to live without wars and food crisis first on this earth, before we go anywhere else.

I'm totally against people greediness. We have here on the earth so many problems what we have to soft out first.

Example: we are hysterics of this "pandemic", while tens of thousands die only in USA for drug overdose, cold, hunriness and so.. Not even mention how many children's are missing.. Those should be our priority. Naah, covid, wars and political shitty take the priority. Please people, stay out of space. We as humans.. We ain't ready for it.
> Budget constraints

> Mac Minis
hints for brand names etc?
It continues to astonish me the degree to which a literal concentration camp operating totalitarian state can get away with barely a mention after unleashing a pandemic which has killed 1.5M people. Historians will look back on this with horror.

However the virus broke out, China knew full well after SARS 1 that wet markets and e.g. traditional Chinese medicine were huge pandemic risks and did nothing. After SARS 2 broke out there was a very well evidenced cover up and misinformation campaign which apparently without which could have saved 95% of cases.

But instead of the media keeping that in collective consciousness we get pieces like this.

As they rightly say the next pandemic could be considerably worse. The absolute lack of any political or economic pressure on the country most likely to cause it directly informed by a media who appear to no longer care about that fact will be a big factor.

If you think I am being unreasonable, just do the thought experiment and imagine the US or UK had done what china did. You would not hear the end of it and sanctions and actions against them would be instant and severe.

But don't worry, at least zoom seems to work ok.
They assume that a space faring civilization is identical to us down to capitalism, technology, fossil fuel dependency, education, politics, tradition, everything, but this assumption is self defeating: we have all these properties and space travel is infeasible to us, consequently any other civilization that has all the same properties is unable to travel between stars either.
Passing pointers to shared memory is highly unsafe in Go. While the Rust borrow checker will prevent all data races, there's nothing like that wrt. Go.
No, I went for https://firstname.dev

I also got https://lastname.dev too.

And lest you think you could just use your https://fullname.dev ... nope, already got it as well.
Does anyone have a tool that can do "grep like" searches on a folder of text docs from windows explorer?

Right click shelling out and using the FIND command is what I've resorted to so far. =(
I just always assumed it was like the rest of SSL:

It’s well-documented NSA saboteurs infiltrated the standards board. They forced through a bunch of bad proposals with the intention of making it overly complicated. The idea was to encourage misconfiguration and implementation bugs.
Thousands of tech workers apply to be a Finn for 90 days in migration scheme
I think there is a good space around "version control for everyone else". I have been using overleaf for writing papers, which just does auto sync, and commits to a git repository in the background. It isn't perfect, but it is the best thing I know of for letting experts and beginners work together smoothly.
>He hasn't said anything remarkable here.

To each his own. Comparing his ideas to software development would not be my first instinct, but I don't think level of abstraction is what he was going for. A closer analogy would be where there are many different implementations of an interface that run concurrently and then have their many outputs fused back into one single output. But that reads more awkwardly than the way Lem said it :)