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Distro package managers implicitly pin versions too - at distribution granularity - updated randomly by a bunch of strangers downstream with limited testing. The result is incredibly poor.

I deploy to consoles. I deploy to mobile. I deploy to the web via WASM. I deploy to windows as EXEs, MSIs, and APPXes. Your distro's linux package manager won't help me keep my dependencies up to date in any of these places. They won't even help me keep my dependencies up to date on linux, when the packages lag behind upstream - or in disconnected applications with no web access to update the linux distro with. How do I get security updates onto my OpenDingux RG350M? Through new images and newly built and pushed OPKs, not through fetched APT packages.

With versions pinned upstream at the app source code level, I can actually see what versions I've shipped had a vulnerable version, and push updates / advise my users appropriately. Stale dependencies are admittedly a concern, but they're not a concern that's even remotely fixed by having an unpinned, floating version. There's a reason software started bundling auto-updaters, and it's not because linux distros were handling everything perfectly fine already.

The article defends, among others, the Rust approach. Apps are pinned to exact versions via lockfiles. Libs are pinned to approximate verisons by semver, with CI typically catching when that breaks. This is a nice balance, and applies social pressure that encourages Rust projects to properly adhere to semver. Dependabot can flag dependencies with security issues, dependencies without security issues that are just old, auto-PR version updates to see if they pass CI or need manual action, and even auto-merge changes if you let it when the builds go green.

I've used this article as an excuse to double check my settings. I didn't have dependabot enabled for a couple of private repositories. I have a few flagged issues in an offline, user-inputless, electron clock widget I keep on my windows desktop. Harmless... but if they hadn't been? This would let me know I need to rebuild, retest, and redeploy. Via push notifcation. Despite the bundling approximating static linking. Despite the lack of linux. Despite the complete lack of an OS package manager, or even proper CI scripts. It's a much more versatile and portable approach.
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Hah, looks interesting - is it livestreamed somewhere? Could be nice to have that as background noise for tomorrow while working
This is what is wrong with Disney and why they'll struggle with the upcoming creator economy. They double down on their IP, and never stray too far from the familiar.

Yes, it's a successful equation when single films are expensive to make. Increasingly, you can satisfy audiences with less expenditure and a more tailored experience.

One thing going for big franchises is merchandising, but I'm not so sure micro merchandise won't find just as large a market. YouTooz, etc.
Foreign earned income exemption prevents IRS from taxing the first $108,700 in 2021.

The tax rate in Australia for first $18,000 is 0%, compared with 10-12% federal + X% state in the US so if you're a low income earner living abroad can save big on taxes.
If you are in the continental US, Mexico is one of the easier places to go. (At least in non-pandemic years. I didn't look into it this past year.)

In the US, the fifty states are also different enough from each other that it may be easier to consider relocating within the US to find something more to your liking or more suitable to your needs. You won't need to apply for a visa or citizenship, etc. You can just find the weather, city size, etc that you like and go with a lot less paper work and jumping through hoops.
I run a “Hacker News advocate” against the comments I post, and this was one of the things I thought of. You will note that in that case Sony actually suffered quite a bit in their response, and they only really did it out of fears of piracy. In this case the I believe backlash will be fairly large, not the least from their own platform security people for having years of their work invalidated. Also, in this case the only thing I can see that could drive them to do this would be if FairPlay keys were somehow made available in the fully unsigned OS environment: I haven’t really looked into this (don’t have my M1 Mac yet) but I would be very surprised if so.
This article was written two decades ago. It is excellent work, although as you’re considering how to put into action the insights therein, note that deposit rates being at 6% are very much of that era.

Also, slightly tangential to the content of the article but nevertheless of great interest to those thinking about risk over time is the work of Mark Spitznagel of Universa (with which Nassim Taleb is also involved) on tail-risk hedging.

Bloomberg ran a profile of him back at the beginning of the pandemic: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/taleb-adv...
Routine helps in killing anxiety when jobless: It's okay to talk1
As noted in the interview, I was a Physics major for the first three years. Also in the Honors Program, which helped get in some of the non-science classes.
Besides all the other great points commenters have raised, I'd like to address this:

> If we rolled out EVs, and then just burned all the plastic trash (using waste-to-energy plants), we would still be far ahead.

Well yes. But... we're probably not going to just "rolled out EVs" so easily. Every step will most likely seem small, because it will be, because that's the only thing we can realistically, politically do. But that doesn't make it not worth doing.

We may as well say "if we just stopped using electricity we'd be way ahead". Not a good basis for comparison, and even if it were, it's still only like 20%-30% percent of oil use (off the top of my head), so even that won't unilaterally solve all problems.
Linus links to the author's page[1], which is delightfully still online after all these years. That page links to a nice tutorial[2] explaining how the author used The Gimp to draw the original penguin logo.

[1] https://isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/

[2] https://isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/notes.html
Primary school maths is the absolute groundwork for personal finance. I believe calculating compound interest is covered in basic math education. Addition and subtraction is enough for paying bills and not spending money on stupid things, if someone cannot do that there is no school in the world that will help.

For basic understanding law and psychology you have reading assignments. Reading novels is meant to show basics of human psychology, after reading assignment there is always class discussion on what you understood from the lecture. I also believe that if you have history classes you get basics of law and how that law was created. Not to mention that in reading assignments you probably also get in touch with basics of law, let alone that you are learning how to read and understand what was written.

I understand that some people need more hand holding to connect the dots.
> In any case, crypto trading since 2017 has been nothing but people buying and selling imaginary ticker symbols on unregulated exchanges.

You can trade regulated BTC futures. (Regulation by itself isn't much of a feature. But it can be a good indicator to see how well something is integrated into mainstream finance.)

> [...] other than a shared delusion of value headed by the bucket shops.

You shouldn't dismiss the original bucket shops like that.
I don’t really understand why this information is now #1 on HackerNews.

Boeing 777 engines are the world’s largest turbofans and pw4000 Engine, involved in this explosion is in production since the 80/90, and is already used on other Airframes like a330.

I know this accident looks impressive, but engine explosions like this one are things that happens years over years.

On Airbus a380, similar explosions occurred.

This kind of explosions looks very impressive, but those are things that happens quite a lot in aviation Industry.
APRS is interesting, but again - I'm not sure a 1200/9600 baud narrowband system is going to scale in a real emergency (for two way communication at least, for broadcast information its probably enough).
You can not not invest „money“.
If you let the „money“ exists in Fiat money form your money is invested in this exact fiat money.

This is all a big gamble with different risks.
But generally: if you have “money” you have a risk to lose it.

I use here ““Money”” as a synonym for buying power, or value that can be exchanged.
So it is not like Money because it dose not describe the meta value and is part of the big gamble ;)
You found the right talk, but it’s actually only waved at and not explicitly discussed so it’s not in the transcript. At about 19 minutes the engineer mentions that a csrutil will be able to do more things and on the slide disabling secure boot is one of them. (This actually got moved into bputil, but the intent was there at least.)
At some point perhaps we will make laws that say if you have a certain amount of economic power, you can not convert that into social power through buying up the media. Economic power should not be translatable to political or social power, or else the entire system is controlled by money rather than by an ideology like humanism, science, and democracy. That is to say that companies in the media including social networks should be independent organizations funded by the government like BBC.
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I remember being exceptionally excited when I got TWO penguins on boot on my dual Celeron machine.
What about DMR? It supports direct, two-way text messaging.
Well, you're asking for amateur radios which natively send text, and there are many amateur radios which natively support APRS. APRS can send text. Hitting an I-GATE, they can send and receive SMS. So from my Kenwood TH-D74A I can natively send and receive text. There are many radios out there which natively support APRS, which means they natively support text. Many other radios can natively support this text functionality. It seems like its the thing you were requesting in your earlier comment, but you're brushing it away. What is APRS lacking in terms of text transmission?
It doesn't have to be one or the other.

I've been very happily using Guix as a package manager inside my Debian, thereby having a Debian with up-to-date versions of packages and access to all the other benefits of using a next-generation package manager (specifying release candidates, docker-like portable builds, plus emacs integration).

Just have to be slightly careful not to install packages via Guix that might cause conflicts, especially with Gnome. But if you do you can always just hop into a tty and `guix package --roll-back` to get back to a working build.

Maybe one day I'll migrate to Guix as a distro in itself rather than just a package manager within a foreign distro (Debian), but for now the setup works well, and it's also a nice way to get experience with Guix before diving into the deep end.
MBA are trained to optimize a company's available resources which usually comes at the cost of creativity. Creativity is expensive and does not guarantee a profit. So it gets stamped out. The problem is that creativity is how companyies create new products,grow and can continue filling needs.

MBAs are really good at operations but a CEO that needs to move the company forward needs to be more creative and take chances.
They support it about well as they did in Intel, which is to say that they left the door open to it. At the volume that Macs ship at, and the interest they garner, this is mostly enough to get people willing to put in the effort to make it work.
Exactly - we’re going to setup a VCR for the kids - tapes are plentiful, cheap, and if they get destroyed there’s no big loss.
Steven Roberts is amazing. I highly recommend checking out his old presentations on youtube about his bike adventures, it's super interesting and fun.

https://youtu.be/9YwXGanwPpw
https://youtu.be/ltSWBXPIpmA
> For example, maybe the upstream developers make a useful library and sell it in some form to downstream developers who find it valuable enough to pay.

The article is saying pin stuff for as long as possible, like the guy replying here who says the version of the logging tool he integrated one time 10 years ago is all he will ever want.

Paid-for or FOSS, after his initial interaction 10 years ago, he is not going to *pay*, encourage, support, find bugs in or send patches to the upstreams. And that's the vast majority of users, me too when I look at the projects I uses and never contribute to.

> Relying on libraries maintained by developers with those incentives might not be appropriate for downstream projects that require stability and longevity.

That's a particularly sniffy approach to FOSS. You would have walked away from the now-dying Xorg back in the day? Gcc?

If people don't contribute to the things they are dependent on, there is no reason to expect them to still be around when they do want more from them.

From the FOSS project perspective these users do not directly manifest themselves in any useful way at all.
I think there's more to it. First is that they made their data collection much more sophisticated, and second is that people seem to be paying more attention to data collection in general.
We could totally make digital codes that degrade gently.

It's just usually not worth it for a number of reasons. Chief among them is that the code would probably need to be domain specific.
I'm not sure I follow you.

The way I read the author is that they argue that it's our birthright to do whatever we want, as long as it doesn't interfere with the same right of others to do whatever they want.

So with that logic, it would need to be that one's use of drugs impacted another's persons rights for it to be regulated, similar to how cigarettes smoking isn't allowed everywhere, because it impacts others around, so too is not wearing a mask when around others during a global pandemic. But it doesn't justify why lots of drugs are banned, when they only affect the user and not others.
Back in the day, if you bought a commercial film on VHS, in most cases it was recorded at SLP (super long play, 6 hours to a standard tape) and then they would just put 1/3 of the normal amount of tape inside, to save money.

If you wanted to same movie recorded at SP (Standard play, 2 hours per tape) you usually had to pay extra, often double, and you couldn't find them in stores, you had to order them.

My dad was a bit of an audiophile, so for movies where quality mattered, he'd special order the SP versions. One that I remember was UHF (the Weird Al vehicle) and another was Indiana Jones. Which we ordered again on SP SVHS once we got an SVHS player.

So of you're planning to collect VHS, make sure you look at the recording speed. You might find a great deal if you find an SP tape.
Depends on what systems the SRE is managing or even on the downstream clients relying on their work. Around Y2K a bug took the out the emergency call application for the fire department in Berlin at midnight New Year’s Eve. People died because dispatch was not available. It’s an IT system where people die if you mess up. AFAIR in one of the earlier prolonged AWS outages, some sort of medical provider failed and people were at risk. It’s not all just display ads on websites.
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Correct - some places may be able to do a recall; and most of these “low” political offices are lost upon conviction of a major crime, too (think: taking bribes).
I was about to say, what about dvd and blu-ray? I don't plug in to the network...

But then I remembered pausing a blu-ray the other day, and it had this popup showing a thumbnail and the chapter name, something like "Point of No Return". Gah. It pulled me out of the movie.
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Yes, but also... it's Texas, and a HVAC cooling a house by x °C is significantly more efficient (factor ~1:3 usually) than heating the same house by x °C. (Since moving heat is more efficient than generating it...)

So ... I don't think Texan climate can account for such a large difference in electricity consumption if the houses were equally well isolated? Presumably the cooling in the summer is the bigger problem & wasteful?

(Yes, I don't really know... that's why I only pointed out that gas isn't involved without making further claims ;D)
Yes I understand that, but if that is what is meant I find the wording to be somewhat strange. They mention not being able to find a "feasible mapping from software to hardware", and later on "some of the constraints may not be properly formulated into the optimization, and so the compiler may not find a feasible software mapping for the target hardware".

So the problem is that there is no software mapping, which I understand to be the mapping of compiler instructions to the underlying hardware. It looks like I'm missing something. Is this the same as saying that the hardware design is not feasible?
1. Gmail (checking it all day)
2. LinkedIn (it's my social media at the moment)
3. Reddit
4. HackerNews (to learn tech everyday)
5. Quora
This is an argument that feels right. However, you are just shifting first in, for biggest wallet.

In large, I confess I am ok with that shift. But it really doesn't help more people. Or more at risk people.
Maybe it is tape libraries where they are physically offline.

I don't know, maybe there are hard disk changers too, that electrically and physically remove hard disks from the system?
I'd say let people decide for themselves how to apply their talents.
Bit of a late reply, but resending it is a form of redundancy, and so is adding error correction bits. It is cheaper to do these things (they require less bandwidth) when you start with a limited character set.
The system you propose already exists: fuse pins hold the nacelle to the wing, and ensure the engine separates cleanly from the aircraft if vibrations exceed dangerous levels.
Yeah. Should work out. Has for us.

Optical was not forgiving enough. I setup to rip and burn kid editions. They damaged them frequently.
I think the other way around: we don't have the knowledge or technology to even make a reasonably feasible teleportation theory.

Once we colonize the solar system, the next frontier to explore will be interstellar travel. I think research on faster than light travel will be what brings teleportation to us rather than the other way around.
Not only that:

> what it is about Europeans on American websites telling us...

There's this strong sentiment among Americans that I see on social media so often these days that the Internet is somehow an American thing and we need to watch our mouths or get off their lawn.
Same here. I used to get terrible rashes on the back of my neck that needed increasingly stronger steroid creams to deal with. Then I found out about SLS from a BBC clip about it. It’s an incredibly drying chemical and it’s only purpose is to increase foaminess in shampoos. Because shampoo would go down the back of my neck when I rinsed it off, the SLS was causing my skin to dry and crack leading to rashes.

I’ve stopped using any cleaning products with SLS and the issue has never returned.

The part that annoys me is that SLS doesn’t really aid in cleaning. They just add it to soaps and shampoos because foam plays to the notion of cleaning. It’s a marketing thing.
When you click on random (or not so random) packages like Libreoffice, it brings you to [0] where help was requested in 2007 and as recent as oct 2020 offers for help are ignored. Not sure how this 'process' works?

[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=419523
On modern macOS/Chrome it'll be impossible. But on other platforms you can still run 32bit chrome (other browsers)
Sorry, but without right to vote/run for office, it's not citizenship.
It was in ~2008 at the school I was at
If maximizing streaming behavior, minimizing indirection, and minimizing passes over data is what you're looking for, you could do worse than to read papers from the 50's and 60's. Expensive memory meant tiny memories, which pretty much forced streaming, and high latencies pretty much forced minimizing passes. (I've read about a two-pass PDP assembler which required physically feeding the program tape through the reader twice! Tape for data also meant that indirection was minimized because everyone took great pains to bring relevant data together, which come to think of it was probably already habitual from the card era.)
> Unfortunately California's homeless population is absolutely exploding in size

There's an interview on Youtube with a former police officer from either Portland or Seattle who was asked what percentage of homeless people that he talked to were on drugs, and he answered, "100%."

It's important to understand that, since it increases the difficulty of responding to this issue - almost none of those people are ready to transition back to a job for a normal life.

I don't have strong feelings on legalization either way, but note that mentally ill people self-medicating are in a different category than recreational users. Bipolar alcoholics are lucky to make it to 55 yo, so something to consider.
The consumerist cycle is indeed a vicious trap in some ways when we place it in the context of self-actualisation. I’d like to add that another component or alternative to Terror thinking is our scarcity thinking. We still all live like we need to hoard nuts like Scrat from Ice Age.

A reasonable solution is the Sublime from Schopenhauer, or an alternative enlightened moment in once life were one does indeed she ourselves part of a Cosmic whole. Or otherwise said from that movie “What we do in life, echoes in eternity.”
> It's a little concerning that there isn't more consolidation on industry standards for this yet, though.

There is, you can run serverless Docker on GCP, AWS and Scaleway at the very least.
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Did you make use of Anki or anything similar to maintain the knowledge?
You mean you will have to become a citizen of two countries outside India both of which support DC - coz India doesn't.
Our two children are 4 and 6, and they both hold four citizenships.

My wife is US American, I am German, my dad is Croatian and we've been living in Switzerland for almost 15 years.

When the kids were born, they both had US and German citizenship jus sanguinis. German passports arrived almost instantaneously. The US passports required us to visit the US embassy multiple times and fill out plenty of paper work.

Them gaining Croatian citizenship was more involved. First I needed to apply for it for myself through my dad. I also bought a second home in Croatia were we've spent most of our holidays. I also maintain a Croatian bank account that I use to cover local bills. It took several years and a good lawyer to get passed the beaucracy. Ultimately I received the Croatian passport and so did our children about half a year later.

After staying for over 10 years in Switzerland, my wife, my kids and I applied for Swiss citizenship. It cost us a couple of thousand US dollars, a clean record (no outstanding bills, no other credit issues, proof that you can take financial care of the family), proof of "proper integration" (like do I frequently visit the local pub... really!), a German language proficiency test for my wife, and a test for both of us showing that we understand the cultural, religious and political aspects of Swiss society. The process took exactly one year when we received our passports.

Was it all worth it? I think so. It is a liberating feeling to know that you can move between countries. We also wanted our kids to be able to choose for themselves where to live once they are grown up.
The "C" in "OCI" is Orwellian - sorry, but if you cannot vote/run for office you are not a citizen.