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> Older builds required either a lot of hand-holding or Apple
Internal tools, so this will hopefully be a step towards making it easier for
others to drive future releases of XQuartz. If that is something you'd be
interested in, please let me know.

Sounds like they are planning on having the community take over responsibility for XQuartz. Nonetheless it’s great that they put in the work of bringing native Apple Silicon support and making a build system for it that others can use.

Anyways I personally much more rarely need XQuartz now than before, but it’s good to have it be available still if and when you need it.
I don't think it ultimately gives inherent value to the stock, because you don't extract value from the company with this mechanism, but from others.

Let's take a planet in another galaxy. I would argue the inherent economic value of this planet for a human on Earth is null. You cannot and there's no realistic time frame in which you would be able to extract value from owning it. And yet you could sell the ownership, lend it, ..., and make money. That doesn't give inherent value to the planet, it's just speculation.
My first computer was an old PC XT, ancient even by the undemanding standards of 1995, but cost under 100 USD - which counted a lot in early post-Communist Central Europe with average wage in the 250 USD territory.

I did a lot of Turbo Pascaling on that one, but it was frustrating watching the compiler go so slooowly while I already noticed a misprint or a missing ; on the screen.

The last thing I did on Turbo Pascal was a program that drew fractals in 320x200 using direct memory access (byte absolute). I tried to get it working in 640x480, but the differences between individual VGA cards were too big. That was 386 already, though.
U.S. lobby group urges India not to tighten foreign e-commerce rules
While the author calls for regulation (which I would support for oligopolistic corporations), his main, repeated complaints throughout the article are about "tendency to see far-left and far-right activists as the same". Support our exalted faith and suppress their primitive superstition!
The universities should cut their losses then, and tell students to go somewhere else. Part of the issue is placating every whim of students, focusing on the fluff and not on the teaching.
That is propaganda. The real data is in https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250612v... and is 50% (not uniformly over age groups, but 50% is a good summary of it all).

The Israeli government failed miserably in dealing with covid. They were successful in getting the vaccines (and thanks to the HMOs and no thanks to the government, deploy them quickly) and selling the hopium that this will solve everything and make up for the failure so far.

So now they are in a very bad place. If they admit the real stats publicly before the vaccine project is done, people will stop getting vaccinated (not because 50% effective is bad - but because they’ve been misled). No one wants that. I suspect that’s why the media (ynetnews - a local USA Today equivalent, included) are all parroting the official statements without review comment or criticism.

The numbers in the ynetnews are not false but they are (likely intentionally) misleading. If you used the same arguments, you’d get an IFR that’s way lower than the flu, for example. They cherry picked a completely meaningless statistic that looks good, and claimed it is the vaccine efficiency. It is not.
Making the point again that this is not an engineer but a 22-year old psych student.
No, we need more people to whine about that even though the hated Silicon Valley capitalists did that 10 years ago.

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/04/28/guid...
That is called fixed point arithmetic and it is in widespread use, but for some reason it wasn't included in recent popular languages. It was there in Turbo Pascal 25 yr ago. It is so simple that it does not need hardware support.
This comment alone should be reason enough for the company behind Element to sue Google.
So if I'm reading the comments here correctly then the basic reason people got into this situation is because there's no way to actually transfer money into their account quickly and RH had to design around this?

That's some pretty impressively^Wembarrassingly primitive transfer mechanisms right there. :D
That goes to show what we already had back in the MS-DOS days in language capabilities.
Except they executed most of their experienced generals. So technically they had better equipment but used pure brute force because of lack of trained staff.
Reality is truly a comedy. One day teachers will be a thing of the past in universities.
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem
Not sure if it makes a difference in this case, but mattermost isn't federated.
There is no javascript on Mars. Think about that!

Sounds wonderful :P
I noticed the general bending over backwards and I think the various political activities are a part of that. But you do not have to secretly organize X to benefit from it. You can just let the river flow and float on it. It is safe, non-controversial and does not require much effort.
Don't know what Apple does, but as far as I know the HDR label in TVs is a bit like the USB bucket of blatant lies. They can call themselves HDR if hey accept the signal, they don't need to be able to display it correctly. So a 6 bit panel is allowed to call itself HDR if it can process the input somehow...
Half the planet are using Facebook. Does that not warrant special rules around how they can exclude people?

I'm also going to argue that individual choice is redundant here due to network effects.
It is not meaningless, but agreed not something for mass use yet. Similarly like 30-40 years ago with personal computing, now also geeks start the paradigm shift into privacy-aware computing.
You have a point, but it's not entirely that. For one, the boomers are the ones who still own everything, and they've never given over leadership roles down to the next generations.

There's a combination of a certain subset of millennials who are like this, and the leadership that doesn't care and wants everything to go their way (as it always has).

A large part is also that the mainstream internet is still so new, and people are so poorly educated that they don't understand that they're the bad guys.
After two years of doing Rails I still regularly have to look up methods like 'select' on an array / active record collection, the various group, group_by, find, find_by, max, max_by, tally, partition and loads of different Ruby or ActiveSupport methods, the routing DSL, migration-related methods...
Yeah, it used to be that the government paid that and students went for free or got a grant. Starting back in 2002 they cut the amount the government paid and increased what students paid. So the unis didn't get any more money, the government just saved cash.

Total BS imho, but don't get me started...
Just use ISO dating. 20210122, add letters at the end if there was multiple release that day.

This is psychologically better because your opensource project won't be stuck on v0.14 for 12 years like some are.
So are you going to remove email clients from the play store if someone sends offensive emails?
Similar experience, I think it boils down to little details handling pointers that are out of reach in C, like reference parameters.

Sure you can emulate them with double pointer indirection, which is anyway what the compiler does, but it adds more cognitive overhead.
"We" definitely does not include "me", I cannot throw precisely even if my life depended on it.

But I am glad that someone in my tribe can.
I don't know of a single US research university that doesn't have a math department.
It's discontinued, the links are stale.
No doubt these administrators put very low value on pure math but they also know the uproar might/will reduce some of the budget cuts they're dealing with.
I'm not sure what it means to "get the basics right". I've just been wondering how it can be so hard to text-zoom in Putty. I don't know about Window Terminal, but at least in gnome-terminal you just press ^+.
In Putty, it seems that I have to 1. Click the Putty window corner 2. Select 'Change settings' 3. Pick the 'Appearance' section in the meanu 4. Click the 'Change' button under the font section 5. Pick or type the font size 6. Press 'OK' 7. press 'Apply'
I can really recommend his videos!
The only thing I've missed (being remote away from London in the UK) is the meet ups. I used to get a lot of value in attending good ones: from the talks, the people I met and the opportunities that came my way off the back of them. When I first left London I didn't realise how much I'd miss them, and still miss them 5 years on.

For the last few years finding other remote gigs hasn't been a priority for me, but good ones weren't the norm. Now there is more opportunity than ever, and I can happily say leaving London has meant a totally different (improved by almost every metric!) quality of life for me and my family.

I'm still looking to find good remote meet ups that give me what I found before, but if that is all I'm missing out on, then I'm pretty happy with tie move. I just hope great remote opportunities continue and remote working practices continue to improve.

On connections with colleagues, you need to work a little harder to make these stick, but if you put the effort in it can happen. There are work friends I still see socially remotely.
Catan breaks when I have all the wood and you need wood to win but I refuse to trade with anyone. It's a very aged and crummy design. Many people just don't know better.
Is Dave Ramsey’s empire ‘best place to work in America’? Say no and you’re out
VoIP has always been treated a bit differently to regular apps on both platforms. I vaguely remember about 10 years ago both iOS and Android had special permissions specifically for VoIP apps to run in the background.
It would be less of an issue if there was an actual free market, instead all unis just max out the student loan and still complain there's not enough money. I'd happily go to a shack if there's good teaching.

The US are even more innovative in ripping off students.
Well it's not like homo sapiens suddenly appeared out of thin air and started doing their thing. It's not unreasonable to think the original comment talks about whoever was our predecessor down the line before that.
There is usually headroom above SDR white for HDR highlights, which is what people usually want.

The common scRGB colorspace, often used on windows for games, defines #FFF = 1,1,1 as 200 nits.

But it uses floats instead of integers so you can go much higher. You can also go below black = #000.
Please stop spreading lies. The paper is only about "The effectiveness of the first dose of BNT162 ..."

50% efficacy after the first dose is exactly the number that BioNTech reported in its Phase3 trial. So nothing unusual here. That is why the 2nd booster shot is needed to get to 95%.
You'd have to write an amazingly expensive shader to tax the GPU to the point where it would step up from idle. This is very close to what the GPU already does for ordinary desktop compositing and nobody's complaining about that.
Been in tech since the 90s..

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It seems like the "modern" way to write Pascal would be with FreePascal ( https://www.freepascal.org/ ) and the Lazarus IDE ( https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ ) both of which seem like stable, open and capable projects.

That said, i'm afraid that modern Pascal isn't awfully popular, which hurts its practicality a bit (e.g. learning about it, finding tutorials and others' experience with it, getting help). However, it's approach to native GUI development is pretty good, the language itself seems pretty okay and the compilation times are generally pretty good, as is performance ( https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... ).

Perhaps the only actual dealbreaker i can think of, is the fact that it doesn't have that many stable or even first party web development frameworks/libraries ( the closest i've found to that being https://wiki.freepascal.org/fpWeb_Tutorial and https://wiki.freepascal.org/fcl-web ), however they don't seem to be as popular as the "de facto" frameworks of the other languages. For example, Java has Spring (and Spring Boot), Node has Express, Python has Django (or even Flask), Ruby has Rails, .NET Core has ASP.NET Core, which are all widely supported and well documented, with plenty of tutorials.

Of course, that has only been my limited experience, since i mostly work with the other alternatives at my workplace and only dabble in Pascal occasionally in my free time. Would anyone care to comment on their experience with modern Pascal as well?
I just did two years of breathing and still have asthma
If you read historic books you will notice this sentiment has been present almost constantly since antiquity.

The fact is you get current state with all its gory details but the past with bad parts filtered out.
I assume it’s statically checked, so you’ll get a compilation error?
> Try iperf3 and you'll be shocked that you're lucky if you can crack 5 Gbps in practice

Easy line rate if you crank the MTU all the way to 9000 :D

> modern CPU gains or loses more computer power from a 1° C temperature difference in the room's air

If you're using the boost algorithm rather than a static overclock, and when that boost is thermally limited rather than current limited. With a good cooler it's not too hard to always have thermal headroom.
You still have to keep in mind that something like 90% of the technological advances of the XX century were born in US labs. So it’s not that broken.
In theory you are right. Using national DCs to switch from push to oull would just work smoothly. I can only talk about Germany so, but I was in conctact with authorities last year regarding mask distribution. and what I saw back then was shocking. They had one logistics partner for import and central warehousing. i know that company, and they should have been able to organise ditribution as well, evne if for that part there would have been better companies. And everything up to the central warehouse worked justfine. Everything after that was a mess, they had million sof masks sittin in the warehouse while doctors, hospitals and everyone else had to make due with what they got themselves until their normal suppliers managed to supply them again. At which point nobody wanted (due to price) or needed the government sourced masks anymore.

The answer I got from the bavarian Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Economics was, I paraphrase, "distribution is easy, we can handle that". 3 months later the same people said they underestimated distribution.

Ideally, I would say that vaccination centers should never run out of doses. So there should be more doses in these centers than appointments. Appointments is a mess, even for elderly and risk patients. One could also piggy back on the existing vaccine supply chains, using doctors practices. I am not aware of any plans to do so.

In case appointment management would work, one could allign these appointments with push deliveries from AZ and others. Manufacturers would have a forecast, push deliveries based on forecast would end up in the national hubs and supply of local centers would work using something like Knban loops. Easy, robust and scalable. Not that we will see any of this, or other solutions that would actually work, antime soon in Germany. So I expect it go down something like this:

1. manufacturer informs that a batch is available.

2. Bacth is delivered to central hub, in quite some cases tha hub cannot take the delivery resulting in a mess to get the doses at a later point

3. Once the doses are in the hub, authorities will (try) to reach out to eligible people that they can get vaccinations

4. two weeks after the batch is delivered, the first appointments will be available

5. Vaccination centers will not be able to vaccinate everyone with an appointment beause the supply with doses isn't working

6. Three weeks after the batch was delivered, it will partially be used

7. Repeat with the next batch

Joker: Political blame game and glory hunting, we have quite a lot of elections, including the federal one, this year. To be inserted at any point of the above chain, likely multiple times.
Which is ironic considering that Medieval Literature, and Chaucer in particular, is one of the other things the University of Leicester were talking about getting rid of.
I suspect this has to do with the level of integration of the piece of tooling. I used to write Rails apps many years ago (before SPA was a thing). I realised at some point that I had memorised all the methods of both Ruby and Rails by that point. Yes, there were certainly edge case tasks where one was using a new library (auth comes to mind) where heavy googling was necessary, but there was virtually none for the day to day stuff.

React on the other hand never got there for me. I suspect that it’s the many libraries awkwardly glued together (ugh react-redux), with often complex APIs that makes it difficult.
Thanks. That should limit the disruption, at least.
"Secure Scaleable Scuttlebutt" is a tagline/slogan that appears at the bottom of Scuttlebutt's website. I guess these folks eat at "i'm lovin' it"

The project is universally called "Scuttlebutt" though its full name is "Secure Scuttlebutt" — originally to distinguish it from the early prototype also called "Scuttlebutt", which is now a historical artefact — similar to "World Wide Web" versus "Web".
But someone, ultimately, must be able to. You can't exchange your 1% of shares against 1% of the company assets, unless you have enough share to control the company.

Let's take Facebook, where I think Mark Zuckerberg has ~60% of the shares, and only 40% are on the market, thus even if you buy them all you cannot gain control of the company. You can't extract value from the company from this avenue.

Again, what gives inherent value to a stock is that you, or someone else, will be able at some point to get value from the company itself, not from someone else. In a rational market, a price rise should mean the market will eventually be able to extract more value from the company then thought.
Also someone who misses the office, although my ratio is more like 4 in, 1 out.

I think society is seeing an explosion currently in people who have never had the opportunity to work remotely, and who are now doing so for the first time. I feel like many of these people are maybe not thinking about how they will feel if their job is still remote 5 years from now.

Work is where a huge amount of social interaction occurs for adults, and we have now almost nullified that. To some people, that's like a gift from the heavens. But I can't help but feel that after a number of years of this, people will start to miss things they never thought they would. Running into people in the halls, group lunches with coworkers, sticking around after a meeting to catch up with such-and-such. These sort of spontaneous, unplanned interactions are what add variety to a life that can otherwise slide into monotony. Besides this, rates of self-reported loneliness among American adults have been skyrocketing the past decade or so, due to effects of the internet and social media. I don't see how removing the main remaining source of our in-person socialization is going to improve our collective psychologies.

I think like open office plans, we are going to see a lot of companies adopt this for cost reasons, and in five years we are going to see pushback as studies come out showing how collectively damaging forced remote work can be. It's fine if you are someone who chooses the lifestyle, but I think forcing it on people is going to end poorly.

But maybe that's just my preference speaking.
I used to work as an Lecturer in the other University in Leicester and I have lots of friends and colleagues working in various departments at Leicester University. It looks like the financial situation at the University is quite bad, and this isn’t the first time the executive has threatened to close this department. I feel for the people working there at the moment. Sad times.
Element is just one of many Matrix user agents and matrix.org offers just one of many Matrix servers.

Each server has the freedom to enforce its own policy. Given that the matrix.org server is a kind of a public face for the protocol, it makes sense that its policies are more mainstream.

There is nothing in the protocol itself (nor in the official Element clients) enforcing any kind of content policy.
Which is why C++ has a global scope operator.
"not that bad" -> more people dying
The argument against that is the claim that there wasn't enough volume in the last few days to cover all the previous shorts.
Blah blah Russia something...

https://news.yahoo.com/hungary-buys-russias-sputnik-v-084049...

The first vaccine from China is around 60%, considered sort of enough.

I wouldn't use either, but that's just me.

As for the so called vaccine disaster, what the hell did people expect??? Leave the EU and take matter in own hands. The incompetence displayed by the EU since the 90's is almost impossible to match - it takes an effort to do worse than that.
The US effort is also not a singular effort. Each state is basically running their own system.
But the attitude is very ycombinator.
At least early WD Black models don't really seem to have 4K LBA support. The format option is listed, but it refuses to actually run the command to reformat the drive to the new "sector" size.
I am a EU citizen, my standards are much higher.

EU didn't had to sell their citizens healthcare data to move up the stack (like Israel did). The EU negotiations with these Big Pharma corps made it wait for these 3 countries (Israel, UK and USA). Vaccinations started 1 or 2 months later in EU (depending on country).

A fair comparison would be the data of today in EU with the data from 1 or 2 months ago in those countries (per capita).

But the big questions are:

Why did we have to negotiate vaccines for a global pandemic? Why are countries moving up the stack with Big Pharma? Why is the vaccination rate higher in USA than in Mozambique?
> Even if these removals are temporary, they can still hurt growth.

I don't think so. A lot of people were not aware of Matrix even, it's geek tech.

Now, just watch how this Streisand effect unfolds over the weekend.
The reality is that the decision to use alternate stores will not be from user choice - it will be from large internet companies telling them the only way to get Facebook is via the Facebook store, to get Fortnight is from the Epic Games Store, to get Netflix is via the Netflix store, etc.

And the purpose of these stores will be to skirt Apple requirements on apps in their store - not just payment, but things like network traffic surveillance.

These stores will also not be pitched by companies based on informed user decisions. They will be pitched in order to get users to sign up in whatever way they can drive taps through consent screens.

So unfortunately to remain a user choice, there needs to be a strong disincentive for parties to force a customer into a third party store, but not so strong that it looks like antitrust.

Google Play for instance has tons of "Play Services" which are not available to apps from alt-stores.

The Mac has certain security settings which can only be disabled through a process requiring a reboot and command-line action as a way to limit vendors from driving customers through disabling essential security features without proper education.

Mac applications are also notarized, so whether they are downloaded through the official app store or a third party channel they can be scanned for static issues and revoked after the fact as malware in the case of dynamic issues.