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Jan 23 I have started a rarely used windows laptop to do C++ development work, because my app depends on library that depends on Microsoft library that was not signed, therefor won't run with new update.

we develop on macos and deploy on linux, macos is supported as side effect, windows was not supported... a single policy change without a workaround... made us support windows and linux, and macos left to dust.
all things considered (i.e. equal performance on an interview/test/etc.) it makes better economic sense to hire more women and URMs. A cynic would say that's because it's more acceptable to pay less. But I would argue that someone who has built a successful career despite the headwinds of racism/sexism/implicit biases is going to be tougher and more resilient in the face of unexpected challenges than someone, who for reasons outside their control, has gone through life on an 'easier difficulty level'.

And in fields where innovation matters, more diverse teams are more creative because they explore a larger space of ideas (https://www.pnas.org/content/117/17/9284).

To give another reason, a team that fits into a narrow demographic is unlikely to make products that appeal broadly or to other demographics. This creates market opportunities for more diverse teams. For instance, the Spanx founder was able to create a billion dollar company BECAUSE her inventions were dismissed by male-dominated teams in the garment industry.
Yes, people think "ad hominem" means "he insulted me so I win".

"You are wrong because you are an idiot" is ad hominem. "You are wrong, and also an idiot" is not.
Maybe not the data point you're looking for (outside US):

There are none, so none.

In fact, a lot of the implicit biases in the process remain the same as the last 50 years, like how it's regularly advised your CV should include date of birth and portrait.
This reality should be yelled by a death metal band singer 24/7 at every FOSS developer.
Google has no (competitive) horse in the messenger race, so while that theory might fit your ideological point of view, I don’t understand why Google itself would have any incentive (or grounds) to remove an open source chat app.

How is Matrix a threat to Google?
> The hardware is nice, but as a platform, I just don't get it.

To me, that’s backward. The hardware is okay, the platform is amazing.

Nothing even comes close to the full ecosystem. Phone, tablet, headphones, watch, computer.

Occasionally, quite rarely in reality, something goes wrong. However, I don’t use bleeding edge versions of macOS and so I can’t even tell you the last time I actually experienced one of these problems that everyone on HN gets in an uproar about.
How has the UK managed to master the vaccine roll-out?
It might not be anti-truth but it’s not anti-anti-truth, so to speak?
So, the old ‘Windows runs 50 year old software and therefore it drags along ancient api’ argument.
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Apple does exactly what the API is supposed to do, specifically in combination with antivirus software, and incorrectly written programs have small faults.

Now read the comments before. This borders on parody at this point.

It would be cool if all of the "this is the last straw!" and "welp, guess this is when I leave Mac" people who appear in each of these threads just, like, fuck off and leave then?
I think a lot of people feel that way.
their overall wealth...so many millionaire Congress with salary of 175k....fishy?
Everytime I see news like this I imagine a lot of economists laughing.

From an economist perspective, price fluctuations on money is not a feature it is a very serious bug. There is a whole lot of economic theory worried on preventing it. "Good" money should avoid being the target of speculation, it should be stable, boring, predictable. Money that changes their prices is like an unit of measure (meters, quilos) that stretches and shrinks unexpectedly.

There was a long time ago when I could use bitcoins to buy web templates. Today almost no one accepts it as payment. Exactly because it is unstable.
Did you read the article?

"(...) the so- called mean charge radius of the helium nucleus is 1.67824 femtometers (...)"
Zeal is similar and cross-platform. I think Zeal takes its docs from Dash though.

https://zealdocs.org/
Of which most lies in large sewage tubes
>IT support for a remote team is very time consuming. Very expensive.

In normal times a lot of the workforce of many large companies is traveling a lot anyway. For 2019 and a few years earlier, I was traveling about a third of the time and I also mostly use my own devices. So supporting employees not in the office using gear that isn't supplied and directly secured by the company isn't some new concept.
I agree but it's fun to wonder
If it makes you feel any better, I'm in the same boat. I think I made about $100 profit from the 8 or so bitcoin I owned a decade ago.

But I also know that even if I'd made double that, I'd never have had the nerve to hold for a decade. The only way I would have made any serious money would be by forgetting about them.
They didn't break userspace. Your opinions as a "long-term Linux user" are effectively useless.
Making open() returning EINTR possible on regular FS is not really cleaning up bad interfaces. Is there even a precedent on any Unix for that behavior?
That is unless toothpaste is also a pile.
The second part, regarding mirrors, https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
You’re right, I’ve edited.

It’s the abuse of crying “ad hominem” that’s the problem.
I undestand words but I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. Can you recommend some books on the topic?
Apple is right here and people complaining about the new behavior are wrong. If a system call can return EINTR, you must retry or deal with the error some other way. A retry is trivial too. It's irresponsible to depend on an API happening not to EINTR when it's documented to do so.
> It seems like the "modern" way to write Pascal would be with FreePascal

The latest language from Niklaus Wirth is Oberon which was last updated in 2016. It is both smaller and more capable than Pascal.

https://www.miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html
It is both. And especially the Spiegel has an issue with her. Also has a history of pushing agendas.

Personally, I blame part of the availability issues, caused by the Pfizer plant "shutdown" in Belgium, on that hatchet job. The Spiegel was among the first to use the unsatisfactory vaccine availability against von der Leyen. Fair enough, but as solution they called for increased ordering. Pressure built, frustration kicked in and then every news outlet demanded the same thing. Local politicians supported that narrative, they avoided discussions about their own fuck ups. Then the EU ordered more, demand exceeded capacity, and Pfizer reworks its plant. That resulted in even worse short term availability issues. So great job, I guess.
Remember the Nestle baby formula scandal? Fraud is not a Chinese-exclusive thing.
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Why can’t I build an ICBM in my backyard and launch it without permission?
"Regardless, doesn't anybody at Apple use postgres?"

This problem occurs if you use anti-virus that delays file activities, and is 100% API consistent. Anyone saying "well it didn't do it before!" is being idiotic, similar to saying you don't need to check the return of malloc because it's usually going to succeed.

pgsql runs perfectly fine.
I’m a full stack dev and I occasionally need to use a bunch of graphical and design apps. Occasionally enough that Linux isn’t practical, anyway.

On the data programming side of things I don’t see much issue with it either, though. The issue on this article would’ve definitely bit me as I run like a dozen Postgres instances but I haven’t updated to BigSur - I’m never in a rush to do so.

The only thing I miss from my Linux days is the package manager, maybe? Brew is third-party and doesn’t feel as tight as some of the Linux counterparts.
I put that into the unknowable column. If history were different and AWS hadn't used them, perhaps the critical mass wouldn't have happened. Or perhaps it would have.
This is where I really need to pay respects to Windows. It’s a heaping pile but their commitment to backwards compatibility is remarkable. I recently installed a complex application that last updated in 2007, and while performance was absolutely terrible, it worked.
Why should the lives of people living in the area be risked for some future of humanity philosophy?

I'm sure the average person on earth doesn't care about the future of humanity after an extinction event.
I'd agree. We had Java and used and enterprise package proxy to reduce the risks. Wouldn't do that for npm.

Also these machines were on a seperate network with no share access for example - not on the corporate network with all the other machines.
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This is purely because of exploitation - people work those jobs to guarantee themselves shelter, food and warmth.

If we (as a society) guaranteed everybody enough resources to live, those types of jobs would need to be paid a more appropriate rate, including hazard pay.
I manage literally 100k+ Linux nodes for my day job. I don't want to manage any more than I need to, so my workstation is a Mac.
>Except in RH case, their customers have already transferred money from their bank account to RH.

No, they have to front the money and they can't use customer's funds.

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/heres-why-robinhood-restrict...

And we just can't afford-- well, we're not a clearing firm, but our clearing firm simply cannot afford the cost to settle those trades. We cannot use customer funds to front that cost due to regulation. So the brokerages or the clearing firms have to go into their own pockets to do it.

>(unless it was margin accounts that were the problem, in which case RH should stop issuing margin. or the “instant deposit” feature. They could just disable that until they could afford it again.)

It's not as simple because due to settlement rules, a lot of normal transactions actually require margin. eg. selling stock A and buying stock B with the proceeds the same day. Due to T+2 settlement the money isn't actually yours until two days later.
Fallacious parts of an argument cannot contribute to its soundness. Fallacies either contribute untrue premises or invalid deductions, such as affirming the consequent. This is a matter of fact.
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The CDU is also the worst for trying to enforce their German politics through EU law.

I am pro-EU, but I think the authoritarian countries (Poland, Hungary) need to be kicked out or at least punished. The EU states are too diverse right now in terms of values and economy. Hard to effectively lead such a bunch.

I wish countries would send their best to the EU. We could get shit done. (tho, overall I am very happy with EU legislation)

The vaccine situation, being played by Pfizer, shows exactly that the EU needs to act more confident and show strength.
I really enjoyed her "Product" album. The chipmunk paced frenetic energy of it was something I have not heard since. I am saddened the world lost her.
>Today almost no one accepts it as payment. Exactly because it is unstable.

Or because transactions became too expensive.
After watching this[0], please feel free to make a donation to any FOSS organization of your choosing such as the Open Source Initiative[1]. You can learn more at the DARPA Open Government website[2].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UF56umERjs&list=PL6wMum5UsY...

[1] https://opensource.org/

[2] https://open.defense.gov/Initiatives/DARPA-Open-Catalog/
Of course that doesn't work. Why would anyone expect it to? Install your baseline distro version in a chroot and set GCC's --sysroot, alternatively use a container, alternatively use a Flatpak SDK, problem solved.

The main problem with this is knowing which libraries have stable ABIs and which don't, which is only documented in a convenient way for enterprise distros (RHEL/SLES).
That's not the point, but even if it was, you could also say something like going from Kiryas Joel to New York City is as big of a "shock" as going from Idaho to Australia, even though these two places are in the same state and 30km away. Yeah the U.S is big and varied, but that doesn't mean that the political and societal structures are approximately the same as the EU.
I see the misunderstanding that D&I is about priority hiring based on certain characteristics over and above merit crop up a distressing amount. Every initiative that I have taken part in has explicitly abjured such action; it's illegal in our country and in any case arguably a bad idea anywhere. What it is instead is a forum for trying to identify, discuss and address where existing pratices are unwittingly biased.

For example, do the statistics of progression and departure in our organisation show any areas in which we're failing certain subgroups? Does our publicity reach everyone we want it to and carry the message that we intend? Do our processes inadvertently cause physical or mental difficulty to anyone?
> How is Matrix a threat to Google?

Conjecture on my part: it's a threat to the ad spend Google gets from Facebook.
Facebook & Twitter found that they must trap people there. The flood to Parler that caused Parler to the top of Apple/Android App Stores made them block free speach.

Matrix app. Discussions on what to do about Telegram / Signal. Blocking Parlor.

Citizens can only challenge the establishment around a rigged economy if citizens have a place for free speech. FB/Twitter enable censorship.
When white people become a minority that language will change to continue to single them out for exclusion.
>extra unwritten rule

it's literally written. the average wsb user might not have known that discount brokerages were going to fail them, but it's hardly "changing the rules".
Selling a deep in the money put behaves like owning the stock (probably with margin, but it depends on how many puts you are selling compared to your reserves of cash and short term "safe" bonds) except that you are capping your gains.

The further towards out of the money you go the more it behaves like picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. But an interesting quirk of selling puts compared to calls is that the downside is limited. The stock can't go below 0.
I also miss my early years, writing programs on a BBC Micros or for Windows 3.0 in Turbo Pascal for Windows. Now everything seems sanitized and no longer challenging.

I think it's the learning experience and result we crave.
It actually seems curious seeing some sort of link between meme power and money. Reminds me of whuffie.

Still not sure who is spending money on the joke, but think it’s cool to see internet world/real world crossovers.
Some of the bad ones are the most up voted one..

Things that technically work, but are not the best way, easiest or more secure way of doing what the person needed.

Often times when I find a solution to Stack Overflow the one I find most helpful is the 3rd or 4th most upvoted solution not the most popular one
Why would current be relevant here? Shouldn’t operating voltage be the only thing that matters?
The way I think of this topic is that diversity should be a metric, not a goal. If the overwhelming majority of the people I'm interviewing, hiring, and working with look like me, then I have to ask, are these really the most qualified people? I mean, there's one of two possibilities -- either in fact there's something about people who are very similar to me that makes them the most qualified OR there's a lot of talent being overlooked and missed and my company is missing out here. Which one is more likely?

That re-framing is the easy part, of course. Actually making changes is hard. On one side we all know that if you make something a metric you run the danger of making it a goal, but on the other side the biases that lead to a lack of diversity are so deep and ingrained they can be very difficult to counter.

But hopefully this re-framing is at least helpful in explaining why a lack of diversity is an issue that matters.
USA has administered 28m vaccines compared to the EU's 12m, despite having a smaller population.

I don't have any info on this 'shady non-democratic practice', but the reasons I have seen for other countries getting vaccines earlier is that they committed funds to build up capacity earlier while the EU haggled on price and liability law.

I am grateful for vaccine manufacturers for working around the clock to develop, demontrate validity of and manufacture, at cost, millions of doses. Scapegoating them seems misguided to me.

If you have some evidence for this shadiness, can you share it?
If consumers prefer a pattern, who is harmed by its use?
how bad is the refresh flicker? better or worse than stock kindles?
The problem this purports to solve is rooted in how humans behave. The proposed solution is doubling down on those problematic behaviors. Indeed it doubles down on one of the most direct theories for environmental destruction and species extinction, inviolateable private property interests and rights.
Coincidentally Hindu mythology also has 7 wise sages.
> The EU also upfront money, to the point that AZ established a timeline and a number of vaccines to be delivered

There's a big difference between paying for a vaccine to be developed, and paying for a developed vaccine to be manufactured.

The EU only did the latter (and at the bare minimum price...) Other countries did the former.

> The reality is that maybe EU should have locked production to EU

They did, just read the contract. It's not about locking production, it's about paying for development.

As an analogy: let's say you designed a new mobile phone, and you sent those designs off to a chinese company to manufacture. The deal is that after filling your order, the chinese company can continue manufacturing the product and sell it to other potential buyers in china. Is it surprising that your order should be filled before those of the other potential buyers?

The other buyers had the opportunity to come up with their own designs. They could even have split the cost of developing those designs with you. They didn't do either of those things. Now that manufacturing has hit a short-fall, they don't have a leg to stand on.
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Nope, it was Unity alright. The first LTS one—I think—so lacks a bunch of animations of the later releases. And even if that laptop is from 2009, it's CPU (Core2 Duo P9700) still scores roughly 30% of the today's top CPU single thread scores (those crazy AMD Ryzen 9s and such).
Can self-destruct systems fail too ?
> Should a thread be frozen for an undetermined amount of time while an antivirus does the check?

It certainly does on other OSes and on previous versions of this one?

Do you really want to rewrite all existing software because it would be nice in 0.01% of cases that a thread is not "blocked" by an antivirus on file open, and can actually do something else, and that not on a specialized API but on good old syscalls? From a system design point of view that makes no sense.
99% of these timers are completely bogus - if you open the same store on a new private browsing window you’ll see the timer reset. Or you’ll come back the next day and it’s expiring in <12 hours again.
My 2cts: It would be ok to soft-block huge servers: making them opt-in only, on user-by-user basis. Ie you could follow from/to twitter on some other AP server, but no notification on (unrequested) mention, shared #tag searching, etc. Imho you never should to talk to "the world" (especially with microblogging, it's door open to drama, troll and everything abuse). Not sure if this exists in AP servers, heard the moderation is missing some stuff. Anyway I never used any microblogging.
Welp, looks like it's happening now, so Postgres should fix it.
According to his son, Willam F Buckley use to say: “Never fence with an amateur, he’ll kill you.”
I think what the poster means is more than just unpacking the dataset. So the project should update itself every 12 hours, and has the capability of searching the information (using local database).
Damn, sad to hear. SOPHIE was a definite visionary pushing the boundaries of electronic music. A shocking loss.
I think I use Stack Overflow once a month at the most, generally when I go there with a problem what happens is one of the following:

I have a problem I can't fix, I start writing down the problem, I realize as I am writing it down that it cannot be what I thought was the issue. I try other avenues for a few more hours and solve the problem.

I have a problem that I can't fix. I realize that I cannot reliably cut the problem down in minimal code to get a response on Stack Overflow because it is not a minimal problem. I try some other route to fix the problem.

I have a problem that as I am writing on StackOverflow I realize I have not tried a particular solution, I try it and solve my problem, I do not finish writing my problem.

I have a problem that seems like it is pretty esoteric, I ask a question, it never gets answered, I either manage to solve my problem, finding some github issue or similar suggesting the solution is a bunch of dependency updates or just not solvable. I either solve my issue or find some hacky workaround or do decide the requested functionality should be replaced by something else. No one ever answers my question, 6 months later someone says they have the same problem and did I solve it.

I have a problem that I actually finish writing and asking, someone responds and has misunderstood my question but their answer while wrong for what I'm answering gives me a clue on how to solve my problem.

I have something I want to do but I do not have workable code because I know absolutely no way about proceeding with the idea, so I do not ask StackOverflow because they just aren't helpful for anything that isn't simple.

I have a problem that is something like one of the previous situations, but I realize as I am writing it that it will get deleted or modded or something because it just won't work for StackOverflow guidelines, luckily most of the time when this happens I realize it should really be asked on one of the other Stack exchange communities. If I have progressed far enough to actually go ask a question on some other Stack Exchange community it tends to be answered reasonably quickly.

I have a problem in some area I do not know much about, perhaps because I am just started using the framework or something, my problem is simple but it does not work as I thought, I ask, it is a simple misunderstanding of how I thought it would work, someone responds with a solution really quickly and I fix my problem.

on edit: fixed bad grammatical error

on further edit: if StackOverflow went away pretty much nothing would change for me.
No kidding! I will never complain about helping fix a printer or computer again.
> And don't get me started on the completly stupid difference between ctrl+c and cmd+c. One (the standard for everything except macos) is used in terminal and the other in every other app.

This is completely backwards.

In Linux, Copy/Paste is Ctrl+Shift+C/V in various terminal programs, but Ctrl+C/V in other GUI programs

In MacOS/OSX/macOS since 1984, Copy/Paste has always been Cmd+C/V. ...because Copy/Paste are OS/GUI shell actions, and Control characters are not the same thing.

Microsoft broke this separation in Windows 1.0, and Linux has stupidly aped Microsoft ever since.

See also: Microsoft/Linux dialog boxes where the "Continue forward" option is located on the LHS (which in most locales notably including the original context, means "move backward").
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