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I've written code in all sorts of scenarios: government, web application back and front ends, auth, simulations, testing software, statical analysis, long-maintained products, throwaway but complex scripts for one-use-only, and multiple popular libraries I maintain.

Difficult-to-read code always causes problems, either because it directly causes bugs due to its logic being obfuscated, or because no one can approach it to make necessary modifications when change is invevitably required.

You claim that "The reason something was stable was never how the code looked, but how battle tested the product was". I am claiming that you're wrong and your counter-argument is that I will learn to be like you one day. This shows that you're the one who has to grow up.

I am constantly looking for ways to write code that works in all scenarios, provably. I don't need to battle test code if I can do that. I only need battle tested code in the absence of that property. I will concede that in many occasions, this is all you can get, but that's due to a lack of time and skills, not an inherent property of a system or the process of writing software.

It's sad to see people who gave up on creating good software (because if you only can create reliable software after it's battle tested, that means it was buggy all along before that - so for the majority of the life of your product, your software was buggy - that is not acceptable).

If you believe I am a dreamer, an unexperienced developer, let me prove you wrong. Show me some code you believe it's impossible to make reliable without "battle-testing" it over a decade, and I will show you how.
There is rather a lot of content available already. For example, here's a link to a gemlog I enjoy:

gemini://idiomdrottning.org/texts.gmi
Peekalink, an API to magically preview any link
Temporal NoSQL (XML/JSON, though relational data is theoretically possible as well) database called SirixDB, using a flavor of XQuery/JSONiq as a query language.

Dealing with the changes that occur to data over time can be complex. SirixDB simplifies it somewhat by recording the system time of every transaction. I'm actually writing a blog post to show some of the problems with changing data, and how SirixDB can be used to assist with the problem.

SirixDB also uses functionally persistent data structures to efficiently share data between revisions, preventing storage bloat.

I've been working (on and off) on the ecosystem/tooling for SirixDB for over a year now. I do almost all of the ecosystem work, and for the most part, there is only one dev on the core. While I think that SirixDB is at least feature ready, I don't think anything will ever come of the project. I wish the project would get some users though, that would be exciting :).

https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix
> The researchers also found that cube-shaped faeces on an eight degree slope rolled far less than spherical-shaped models.

I'm imagining dinner at that researcher's house that night. "What did you do at work today, honey?" ...

When my kids are learning science I hope to connect the fun, practical parts like this to the dry theory that was presented to me in a text book. It took me until grad school to learn how fun science can really be, and weird experiments like rolling poo models down university handicap ramps (or wherever this was done) aren't all that unusual.
Reddit still wants to send AMC, GameStop stock up. Here's how and what's next
> Covid-19 has shown us what can happen when we don't do this, he added. "Nature is our home. Good economics demands we manage it better."

I fail to see the link, can someone please explain? Is it that Covid-19 has shown us what could happen if we dampen our impact, e.g. less pollution, wildlife being more visible etc.
> Australians have never prioritized the development of a free and open society

I think they are in a better state compared to the US and most of the world.

Do you have examples of countries that are better are being free and open than Australia?

The key to being free and open is not putting up with corruption, not having too much of an ideological divide, and good investigative journalism that people care about.
That can be done using subsurfaces, see https://wayland-book.com/surfaces-in-depth/subsurfaces.html.
I agree that seeking the lowest effective dose is ideal, but you cant get addicted to something you dont take constantly, so taking it for specific purposes and having constant breaks from it ensures you're not in the addiction cycle. Taking it daily is exactly how you'd end up requiring a higher dose. I dont think our hearts should be pumping 120bpm all the time either lol. An interesting experment would be measuring your BPM carefully on and off the meds. For me it was what got me to cut down and eventually get off them and use other management strategies. Im glad I had them, really helped me build a life where I dont need them at all.
It’s not just having the fuel.

Nigeria is oil rich, absolutely bogged down with the stuff in the southern parts of the country.

Somewhere in the central/northernish part of the country is a family owned farm that runs entirely off of diesel generators out of a lack of decent power generation. An immense amount of money is spent simply on fuel.

Those costs naturally affect transport of their goods, and the price they get for them.

The most pressing issue by far in their micro region however, are herdsman from another ethnic group to the north intentionally running their cattle onto newly planted fields to graze.

Not power generation. Not prosperity. Not nature.

They’re planting melons near the approach to their land last I heard as cattle can’t eat the shoots? I’m not sure, but it sounded like a common solution.
Not possible really. MacOS has terrible remote desktop software which is really laggy and generally crap even on gigabit FTTH.

They all seem to be based off VNC, instead of something closer to Windows RDP which seems to be a lot smarter in how it sends it over (I cannot notice I'm on RDP most of the time). It also has loads more features (for example, it can change resolution dynamically as you go into full screen instead of being static), handles audio well, etc.

I could be wrong on this - would be interested to hear if anyone has had a better experience.
My point is exactly as yours; it was addressing comments as the GP one, where the FOSS community is being shown as the one constantly breaking compatibility, while commercial vendors are being shown as example worth to follow. My example intended to show exact opposite -- I'm also Mac user (Windows user and Linux user too), and while I understand the rationale for some steps (i.e. deprecating i386 was in order to not overly complicate Rosetta2), it doesn't mean it won't hurt the users anyway.
Mine is Perligo (https://perligo.io). It’s a digital writing critique group community I’m building simply because of my experience with software used in my Master’s program in creative writing. The program used discussion forums that were not designed for the types of collaboration and communication that happens in a writing group.

My goal is to launch this and have as many writers as possible use it. But if that fails, I know my old MFA cohort will use it with me, and I’m happy with that.
This isn't true at the moment, it could be in the future.

Less people die because of nature disasters and such today that they did 100 years ago.

Technology and medicine helps us, they would, without a doubt, be better off with technology than they do without it.
Wouldn't it be possible to write Wayland in such a way that it is similar and familiar to Xorg, so porting Linux GUI applications is easy? Or is the API already familiar enough that this is already possible?

Surely it's possible to write a modern display stack while preserving the rich legacy of applications, toolkits, window managers. I would certainly like proper isolation of input, and better support for HiDPI and even locking. But I would certainly miss Xscreensaver and Fluxbox, and even random applications like Asunder or Suckless Terminal.

Though I admit that I'm speaking from a position of ignorance, having only ever written in C/SDL for anything graphical on *nix.

PS: Now the possibility of porting Fluxbox to Wayland is beckoning me. Could such a mad thing be attempted?
Then luck you can (and I do) run Rust on cloudflare workers :-)

I would argue your case for cloudflare workers being "sketchy" only applies if you're confident you're better at "automate provisioning and configuration" than cloudflare.

In the end you have two choices: run your own hardware and networking, control everything; or, use a "cloud" infrastructure provider and accept you don't really have control.

Once you've given up fundamental control of the hardware networking and OS, I don't really see the advantage of managing provisioning and configuration. I definitely don't see a sensible argument that not doing so is "sketchy".
AQT and collaborators demonstrate 24 qubit entanglement
It requires respecting nature as a new class of asset. I think anyone might understand who has had the beautiful field next to their home developed into a neighborhood, or watched the woods behind their house torn down and developed.

Had that beautiful field or wooded area been given a "nature cost" to destroy, maybe the developers would have made other choices.
I think technically speaking Mac Stadium does that. Pretty pricy vs just buying and restoring from time machine.
It’s arguable that the needed Mac gains to be worth it are probably more like every 3-4 years and you are throwing most of that away in Remoting in. The M1 is an inflection point too, I would just argue to buy a new Mac mini each time they update it (once every 4 years or so).
Though worth noting that VLC + AnyDVD HD just works there. Even if you don't have a Java installation you can still play the main feature, without menus. I was pleasantly surprised by that.
That's great, but you're little apartment now needs to find room for a huge water tank (enough for a few showers and some other uses). And a big noisy pump so your shower is more than a dribble. Plus you need to keep that tank of water hot all the time. You can insulate it, but since the tank has no idea when you'll want to shower (or do washing or whatever) it will need to be hot 24h a day. So you'll need to pull a lot more energy than you did for a simple combi boiler. Plus now your apartment will be warmer, that's great in winter, but in summer you'll need to turn the air con up using even more energy. Again, you can't really pick when these will kick in, so you'll likely use them at the same time everyone else is using them adding to peak load...

Gas combi boilers are really efficient and small and quite and clean. I don't get why people are trying to replace them. I honestly think it would be better to require new buildings not have car parking spaces or have triple glazed windows.

I just don't think there is a practical way to beat gas in this context. Maybe if we build bathhouses next to substations and people went there to shower? I suspect (cynic that I am) this is more about giving real estate mogals an excuse to save money and downgrade new apartments. "Sorry, you can't have gas so the shower doesn't really work but it's the law so the price is the same and we didn't have to pay for a plumber and a gas hookup!" but that's probably ott...
I asked you to name even one thing sway did better and you tell me about the nature of the legacy code base.

No user on earth cares any more than they care about the sharpness of the blades used to grind the sausage they ate for breakfast.

I'm not sure why you imagine that nvidia is obligated to support Linux in the fashion you would prefer. I bought the hardware based on the existing drivers working well under Linux and windows not love for them or idealogy. This is why most people buy things.

X11s future departure seems like a thin justification seeing as it's future seems pretty secure for the next decade. Maybe by 2030 there will be a compelling case for switching plus hopefully the kinks will have been worked out courtesy of folks like yourself.
Covid-19 rarely spreads through surfaces. So why are we still deep cleaning?
The theory is that ecosystem destruction pushes animals into closer contact with humans, allowing zoonotic spread to happen.

However, as the origins of covid-19 are unknown it’s too soon to say this applies to the current pandemic.

Common alternatives for viral origin are hunting, animal husbandry and animal markets, but contra to early theories the wet market in Wuhan is not thought to be the origin. Chinese authorities tested and found no virus amongst animals there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_into_the_orig...
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Clean power is often more expensive at least initially, contraction would not only kill people through poverty but also make the environment worse as jobs transition to agriculture and power is generated through things like Coal and Oil
Interesting. Didn’t know you could still finger the weather... will adjust my docs accordingly
All major distros seem to have agreed on Flatpak/Freedesktop Portal dbus APIs. For eg, for screenshot :

https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/portal-api-reference.html...

There are still apps using legacy gnome/kde specific APIs, but, from what I understand, in the future Flatpak APIs are becoming the defacto standard
https://github.com/nicbou/timeline

It regroups my personal data, and displays it on a timeline. Sort of like if Google Photos also included reddit posts, personal journal entries, text messages and other slices of life. It's a sort of "on this day", but for a single person.

I do it both as a way to back up files and photos, and as a way to keep an enhanced journal. It's also a way to divorce myself from companies that hold my personal data hostage.

It's already live, but I'm still extending it with new data sources (especially GDPR data dumps) and simplifying its structure for further development.
Hetzner was one of the major sources of attack I experienced at my last job. Hackers thought they were a good value, too. (Was 5-ish years ago, not sure if that’s the same case now.)
> The problem is, the is basically no one left who doesn't fit your definition of elite.

No, banks, hedge funds, billionaires, financial institutions are all still there.

> What most people don't get is that they rely on financial markets 100 times a day. That's why when markets wobble there is a shit storm. That's why they get bailed out.

I strongly disagree with what you're trying to say.

I can't accept in any way a view of the world that leaves us with no one taking responsiblity. If someone is earning billions on the markets, someone also need to be responsible when the market crashes due to speculation.

Otherwise it's just a broken system where there's no incentive to act responsibly.

> You can say Fuck them all, but then we'll have to go back to living like people in the second world.

I'm not convinced about this in the slightest. Finance has grown way out of its league and has become a god of its own. We can say fuck them all, reorganize our economy and still live in a prosperous country.
It's a clash of two NIH worlds: Go and OpenBSD. :-)
That’s not misleading. It’s simply stating values as a rough comparison.
It was framed as an either-or choice in the headline. Between nature and prosperity - I’d absolutely pick prosperity; my hopes are that we’ll come full circle and use prosperity to repair nature (green tech and all that), so that perhaps ecologically destructive actions taken during the last few centuries will be more of a loan from nature to us than a permanent grant.
My stack-oriented, concatinative programming language. Currently working on a name change as well as the Alpha 2 (modules/namespaces).

Take a look: https://www.play-lang.dev/
No, at the moment, the law explicitly only mentions "Google" and "Facebook". That should tell you a lot about the people that lobbied/wrote it.
The good thing is, that the composition of the end score is also published. This way you have a standardized comparision of the different features/properties and you can give an other weight to the categories for yourself.
Those who would give up nature, to purchase a little prosperity, deserve neither and will end up losing both.
WallStreetBets says Reddit group hit by “large amount” of bot activity
Is there a "rootless" implementation of Wayland compositor for X?

If Wayland is just the protocol, this should be very possible; and perhaps it would have eased some of this transition.
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Hosting for most companies should be a commodity.

I've seen entire businesses supporting double digit employees run off single $20/mo DO droplets, with just the builtin backup/snapshot capability used for redundancy. One of these had 50,000 concurrent realtime API users on such a droplet.

Ultimately what is most important is knowing your needs and how quickly you can recover from disaster, not how much you spend on infrastructure.

Simulating the "Ok we came in to the office this morning and Digital Ocean no longer existed" scenario is more valuable to most small businesses than just throwing money at over-engineered AWS solutions.
How's the situation in Xinjiang going?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/lens-te...
> IMO the only way to mitigate the onslaught of climate change is to do a controlled contraction of the world economy

This straight up does not work, it's too late for that. It might be tempting as a philosophical thought but contraction just cannot work. It might have been a viable option in the 70s or 80s but we're past that point and it's too late to change the past emissions.

Even the Paris agreements are referencing carbon removal technologies because everybody realized that's the only viable solution at that point.
Brazil 2: Myanmar
Too perfect. I’d bet it’s psyops propaganda.
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I've been using https://www.runnaroo.com/ on some of my devices for a while and I very seldom need to do the DDG equivalent of !g.

The name alone seems like something that Australians might like.
Generally when people say that about Covid, what they mean is that zoonotic diseases (diseases that spread between animals and humans) could be prevented by:

a) separating dense human populations from wildlife

b) having in place systems for the detection of outbreaks
It is not new for any species. Others just have no means to reason about it.
> for most of human history

I think the problems of the poor today are quite different than those of people of the past. For most of human history, people were not trapped within borders and systems of private property and so could provide for their basic needs. They don't just not have resources, they are prevented from having them. Nor were people of the past going to be the effected the most (according to everything I read) by pollution and climate change. Things have changed a lot, I'd say.
https://www.abs-lang.org/

Brings me joy every single day, even if I'm the only user in the world :)
A question for you - are you one of the relatively few people on Earth who actually gets a part of that prosperity? Like, access to electricity on demand, enough food to eat, clean water to drink, health care, the whole deal?

Cause there are a lot of people who don't get to have prosperity and still are seeing the effects of your choices. In fact, many of them are even more impacted by the harmful effects of the choices you're making than you are! Why don't they get a say too?
You are wrong. The earth is getting bombarded with free (as in money) energy from the sun at all times. It is a matter of logistics and political will to use that energy to its fullest extend. There can be prosperity and nature preservation at the same time thanks to technology.

My sister is building an off grid house right now with a huge solar array and a tesla power wall. If all goes well she won't have to pay for electricity, heating or gas for the car ever again.
Xwayland is the kludge I was talking about (and this article).

No reason your "classic" X11 compositor cannot scale and make any windows blurry, either. No changes required to the client code at all, but some are required to X11 itself, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrK4c7iFJLs
Although humanity sucks for centuries, we could make the argument, that the 20th century was the century where there was more done for the environment than in the last millennia. Many species that were considered displaced or even extinct have returned to their natural habitat and reclaimed their native land. Science and education showed us the right way forward, making cities way cleaner than ever before. I do not know how about you but I am glad that streets are not littered with human and animal waste and air is not filled with methane and pollutants from coal combustion. Sure, there were plenty of mistakes made (uhm..uhm...atom bomb testing), but we live in the best era in the last 100000s years. Only thing that I see as very unfortunate nowadays is that the environment become a politicised issue (in a sense that facts are neglected by both sides of the debate and are replaced by empty rhetoric and disinformation that is used for political gains and moral high-ground. The fact that there is even a separation into different environmental camps is the most ridiculous event in human history since that time a pirate became a pope!)

edit: repeated words
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And it will matter just as little if you can't afford to pay. The problem is, you seem to think you'd be able to - but that is statistically improbable. The cost of heart bypass surgery in the US (literally the highest in the world) as of 2019 was USD$123,000 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/189966/cost-of-a-heart-b....

That's not including the costs of follow up treatment, the increased cost of your insurance after an event which changes your risk category, or the byzantine system by which your job will be gently encouraged to let go of a "significant risk factor" because it will reduce the cost of them providing health insurance.

And in reality - people in socialized healthcare systems aren't denied life saving treatment. The availability of treatment is a priority list for "elective" surgery - that is, surgery not immediately necessary to save one's life. And this also does not affect the availability of private care - in Australia you always have the option to pay for private treatment, but controversy over waiting times exists precisely because the vast majority cannot afford to pay. And our costs are cheaper then US to start with if you do.

Hence the original question of how rich the OP's father was: because the reality is, if he wanted surgery right away he most likely could have got it. That he didn't is telling - because he actually couldn't afford it. Couldn't afford to fly to the US and have it done either. The US would have "denied" them treatment just as assuredly. And they did eventually get it where they were.
All technological revolutions require more energy and consumption. Remember that the infinite source of societal wealth is technological progress. If you limit technological progress then economics becomes zero sum. This cannot happen, it is a precursor to endless world wars and our inevitable doom by our own hands.

Prosperity vs nature is not a question. There is no path backwards, there is only forward. The only hope is that in our path forward we will come up with solutions that can fix the issues that we have caused due to our past progress.
Is there a way to plausibly and without corruption just tax these externalities at least more than the cost of repairing the damage - and spend the tax money actually doing that?
maybe a stupid question but it wasnt clear to me how this is able to work when the system clock doesnt run fast enough to keep up with 60hz. i was wishing that there was more elaboration about what a PLL is and how it allows a person to get free clock cycles.