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“you'll see some of the smartest engineers of our generation working real hard”

I've been reading those cheap empty words way too much lately. Unless they are the likes of John von Neumann I'll just assume they're people of average intelligence working on things that look incredibly intimidating to outsiders.

Also, an excerpt from Marcus Aurelius - Meditations:
“How corrupt and two-faced is one who claims, 'I intend to be fair and honest in my dealings with you.' What are you up to, my friend? There is really no need for this preamble. The matter will soon become plain. It should be written on your face,* it should ring out immediately in your voice, and shine out at once in your eyes, as the loved one at once knows everything about his lovers from the manner of their glance. In short, a good and honest person should resemble one who smells like a goat in this respect, that anyone who comes near him is immediately aware of it whether he wishes it or not. But the mere pretence of simplicity is like an open blade. There is nothing more odious than the friendship of the wolf for the lamb; avoid this above all. A good, straightforward, and kindly person reveals these qualities in his eyes, and they will not escape you.”
Looks like it got a lot of traffic. The author seems to have removed all the links on the homepage and Google and archive.is do not seem to have it in their indices either.
It's a modular synthesizer emulator with a ton of free modules available - it's very useful for all sorts of sound design and experimentation when you don't know anything at all about what you want. Sometimes I will spend an hour just to learn something totally new about a module, or re-arrange module orders and get a different sound, etc, or experiment with a new idea with no particular song or goal in mind.

You have limitless 'room' in your case - I would recommend thinking of modules in blocks as if each group was a small synth with a goal - these modules are your drone, those modules are your lead, those modules handle percussion, etc. It also greatly simplifies thinking about routing between these groups. If you want to sync two groups of modules you need to figure out what's acting as the clock for both groups and make sure its the same or synced, etc.

There are modules that let you leave notes and put labels on things as well, so you can remember what you were trying to do and what was plugged where.

I love it. I would guess I spend 3x as long in VCV rack just trying new things out as I do with a particular goal in mind, and its all productive time.
My interpretation of "Microsoft <3 Open Source" is that MS has realized that their power in the tech industry is not dependent on their source code being a secret, and that in fact making your stuff open source makes you more popular and influential.

In my opinion, MS didn't really cede much power to the community when open-sourcing .NET, for example. It would still be incredibly painful for a company to unhook itself from Microsoft's version of .NET, and .NET is still influential for all the same reasons is was before, because of MS's position in the software industry. I think the move was just MS moving the framework into the current paradigm of software development. All(?) popular frameworks are open source these days: React, Electron, ... It just doesn't fit with the times to have .NET be closed source.

It think is interesting to think though about Google directly providing the source code base for its competitors, Edge and the other Chromium clones. Maybe the lasting message of US v. Microsoft was that if you open-source your software, you're less likely to be perceived as controlling. Or maybe your software simply becomes more influential if it's open source! Chrome being open source allows Google to be enormously influential as far as web standards go. It would probably be a lot less so if Chrome was closed source.
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It doesn't really matter if its better or worse. As a term OO means what people understand it to mean. Human languages (unlike programming ones) are descriptive, not prescriptive.
Low gas prices in the US.

Small cars became very popular in the late 70’s and early 80’s in the US due to gas shortages. They gradually died out as gas prices came back down.

Go look at car sizes in the 1950’s and 1960’s in the US. Compare that to car sizes in Europe as it recovered from WW2. Think Cadillac boat like cars vs the Mini.

Also, cars are essential transportation in parts of the US and raising gas prices would/have result(ed) in a lot of protesting. In fact, high gas prices would be seen as regressive.
This is a tired take, Vitaliks position is not any greater than anyone else and there is nothing stopping anyone who has contributions from having the same level of participation. It is much easier to participate than any other open source project i have been involved in.

Vitalik just happens to be very good at his job, consistently insightful, and a wonderful clear communicator. He contributes a lot because he has a lot to contribute.
Tim once referred to Win32 as a free and open standard. I don't think he _understands_ what it means to be a truly free and open standard.

Which is a little troubling, considering all the other concerns with the EGS.
What's the systemd equivalent to docker-compose? The real value-add of Docker imo is not the security, it's the easy packaging, distribution, and running of otherwise complicated apps.
A lot of this is only true if you only have the most basic setup or you are playing the most played games. Outside of the top 100 or so games or unity games (unity games seem to just work as unity is cross platform anyway) it is extremely variable and there are all sorts of odd issues.

While many games work there are hundreds of annoyances, crashes and quirks that don't exist on Windows at all.

* alt-tabbing out of a game will often crash a lot of games, so you can't really use discord or similar team chat software properly without risking crashing out of the game.
* If you have a multi-monitor system the game will frequently start on the wrong screen. Thanks to how mondern video drivers identify the monitors even switch the cables round might not work!
* A lot of games will work fine at 1080p. At 4K you will see performance problems, also streaming to other people can be terrible.
* Single player games that require high refresh rates and stable framerates like Doom Eternal will have variable performance for no reason what-so-ever and are rock solid on Windows (I had two game crashes in the past year and I play a lot of Doom Eternal).
* Loads of older games that use the build engine or the KeX engine like Blood does not work properly with Proton.
* Lots of indie games do not work at all.
* Game streaming on discord will tank framerate on a lot of games in Linux, but it works flawlessly in Windows.
* Some graphics setttings just don't take at all, it doesn't seem to error.

Everytime one of these articles get posted there are comments such as this where people say that it is flawless and it simply isn't true. Having a dual screen setup isn't a strange setup these days at all and using Discord is the choice of most PC gamers these days. I stream games to friends (some are disabled and can't play the games, others might want just to watch me play the game as I am good at these games).

I am quite proficient with Linux (I've been using it since 2002) and I cannot recommend it. Maybe it is good enough for you but you and many the people on this thread are giving a false impression of the solution. I have about 450 games in my steam library (I've had a steam account since Half life 2 was released) and about 50 in my GoG account and I've tried a fair few, everything from modern triple A titles to older games, so I have a good sample size for anyone claiming that is merely ancedotal.
Good point, I agree with you on that.
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I'm prepared to catch a lot of shit for this, but I get the feeling this is where we're at with the M1. Yes, the M1 Macbook Air is faster than Intel Macs, but that's not a high bar of entry. People were reasonably frustrated with how Apple gimped Intel's CPUs to run in ultra-thin machines, so why take that anger out on Intel? Intel is far from being the best company on the block (or even the CPU space), but it's pretty concerning to watch how fast people jump to conclusions based on the messaging they get from YouTube and Twitter. I've argued about this with several Apple users, and it always boils down to the same closing argument: "but I want to use a Mac!" There's nothing wrong with that, but it's certainly a certainly a better place to start than "This x is so fast!"
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Are there many other programming languages that remove features?
Is Project Catalyst a Cardano's version of The DAO? I'm newbie in crypto.
> The customer loves this model, the owner hates it.

Only if the owner was trying to sell Coffee in the first place, which allegedly isn't Starbucks' main business: https://archive.is/9TZej
I staffed several amateur anime conventions 10-20 years ago, as a volunteer. No one was paid, except when we needed licensed professionals, passion projects obviously. In the early days, we even showed fansubs (illegally of course). During that time, things became more professional, organizers started caring about copyright laws, I witnessed the rise of large, commercial events, and an explosion of small, amateur events followed by their gradual downfall.

I am among the ones responsible for that downfall. Simply, I moved on with my life, I stopped staffing, then I stopped attending, and so did the friends I made there, except for a few of them who somehow turned it into a job. The "new generation" is certainly passionate, but they have less to offer, simply because most of it is mainstream now. They don't have the budget for doing big things like the big commercial players, and they can't ignore copyright because owners actually care. As a result, their events are more like private clubs, for those that still exist.

On the bright side, we now have anime licensed and even produced in the west, we get to see major personalities, coming straight from Japan, and many things that were unthinkable when we started out.
Object-oriented programming is out of fashion now

What world does this person live in?
Yes, that would be the CGA palette. It's also the default in EGA and VGA (the first 16 colors).
10hp from a 50c two-stroke is easy. Road racers were getting 17+ with 70's technology. Those engines also had about a 100 rpm powerband, though. So you'd see 50cc bikes with as many as 14 gears.
SGD doesn't work on large Transformers, no. You need something like AdamW.
They are still to expensive for me. Also, I get all my cars used.

Outside of that I'm still concerned about the carge time. If I drive out of town to visit my folks and I'm low on gas I can just fill up mid trip no problem. How does that work if it takes an hour (a generous guess based on my phone) to charge?

That said I think the tech is cool and am looking forward to the price coming down.
There are no ethical reasons. Everyone who says this is just virtue signalling, by outsourcing the "car" to others (delivery drivers, grocery stores, police, hospitals, ...).

Rejecting the car for ethical reasons should be accompanied by rejecting most of the modern society & infrastructure as well.
This used to be true back in the 80s and such, but with modern safety standards, you have to take extreme ends of big and small to get anywhere close to a statistically significant difference. How you drive, what kind of airbags your car has, what the general traffic culture is in your country etc are all considerably more important factors than your car size. To put it another way, you're way more likely to walk away from a crash in a modern small car than in an older large car. For all intents and purposes, size being safety is an urban myth today.
As a game developer: I whole-heartedly recommend against gaming on a Mac. Just don't, you will be disappointed.
From central Europe to UK.

It's the product as I did bring the 'minimum set' with me when we came for first few days. Those forks, kives and spoons are still like new.

I'll check WMF, thanks!
Yes. Stay away from Docker or anything so complex. systemd-nspawn does the same things and can be sandboxed very effectively by the unit files.
As a sysadmin that that worked on securing linux apps before docker was a thing, imo doing it with docker is a lot less complex than before.

No tech is perfect, but docker has dramatically reduced the surface area of tunables that my application devs have to care about in order to get our product shipped. Even if it's not brought it down to zero, it's a step in the right direction in terms of UX complexity exposed to the developer.
Looks like I was quoting variable rate figures, and not 5 year fixed interest rates, which were substantially higher than their variable counterparts (7.15% in 2008, 5.79% in 2009).

Source: https://www.superbrokers.ca/tools/mortgage-rate-history
The oldest known books are about 2,500-years-old.

Ancient Greeks and Romans didn't definite sexuality in discrete groups, they instead indicated masculine/dominant/penetrator and feminine/subordinate/penetrated. Nero married a castrated slave.

Maybe Amazon will ban ISIS books, the Bible, and Gilgamesh? Better ban all books, just to be safe.
> A lot of games just work perfectly.
Even games rated “platinum” can have a variety of serious issues.

Native Linux support is worth about 1% of a game’s playerbase. Varies by game of course. But 1% is a very fair and reasonable starting point.
Yeah, not sure if this is what you mean, but I'm not necessarily locking myself into human <-> human. Hunting and being hunted can include other animals as well.
Frequency is one component. Synchronization dynamics are the biggest piece imo.
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Thank you so much for your advice. I am starting my blog. Will read the books
It's been the year of the Linux desktop since I started using it as my primary personal device. That'd be around 2000/2001.
Not all these issues are specific to Linux though; I can't even alt-tab out of Skyrim on Windows 10 without it crashing.
Besides the rare "OMG! This is AMAZING!", people who are upset by something are much more likely to make noise than people who are content with it. It's just how we are wired.

Odds are, no changes you make will completely silence the loud few, and even if it does, it'll trigger others. You can track engagement though. If the majority of people silently but demonstrably show that they enjoy how things are, you have a solid foundation to build on. The numbers will speak for themselves.
You ideally need ~500GB of text, or so. EleutherAI's The Pile was designed to be just big enough to fit a 1t GPT efficiently, and you can get the various scaling curves out of the OA-related scaling papers. (You want the amount of data that fits into a single epoch, because if you reuse data, you get less bang for the FLOPs buck, and FLOPS constraints are right now much more binding than data or model size.)
Good read, thanks. I knew about Simula, but never analysed it deep enough to know how much of an effect it had on early Smalltalk.

Still, the definition Kay gave as late as in 1998 resonates with me the most:

OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things.

And this is almost exactly what Erlang implements: just add "asynchronous" before "messaging" and it fits perfectly.
Technical types should rarely, if ever, try to write fiction, this is a prime example. You could forgive the old masters in SF because the ideas were great and they have lots of practice after all so the prose was mediocre but tolerable.
Yes.

https://www.theregister.com/2016/09/23/capcom_street_fighter...

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheWack0lian/status/7793978407622...

I barely trust the proprietary video game code. There's no way I'll trust anti-cheating modules explicitly designed to own my machine.
This is excellent advice. Together with systemd-nspawn it's all one needs to run a container in a strong sandbox.
Tim S is openly anti-anything that he can’t insert himself as a rent seeking middleman in.
If the system requires driver attention for the best safety outcomes, it seems a bit over the top to describe regulation requiring functional driver attention monitoring 'heavy handed'.

Putting it another way, is there evidence that some ADAS are better than others? Because that's another way to choose regulations.
But they unfortunately do corrode. Tiny visible stains. Most of the people wouldn't mind them probably but I do. It's just bad quality.
I could be wrong, but it looks like that is comparing an aggregate/mean ('total productivity's) with a median ('typical wage'), which would paint a very innaccurate picture of what's happening.

Like, imagine everything stays the same, but a new class of extremely productive high paying jobs is invented, and grows to 10% of the workforce. This would have only a marginal effect on median wage but a huge effect on aggregate productivity. Nothing would change in any other industry (bread factories still have the same output and still pay the same) but it would make this stat look like like 'the rich are stealing our wage growth'.
I had such high hopes for RethinkDB as a free and open source alternative to Firebase. FB was a great tool, but was never the same after getting purchased by Google (I quit following its progress shortly thereafter).

This article has less to do with databases or open source software than it does with the fundamentally misaligned incentives of egalitarianism and capitalism.

I wish there was a social open source license that said "you can use this indefinitely as long as you pay us something". The price would be up to the user but the generally accepted polite minimum would be at least a penny ($0.01).

Then businesses could publicly display their level of support (both initially and yearly) for the software they use, to attract customers. They could also be audited by the IRS, so a lack of patronage could correlate to a lack of equality and maybe even reveal corruption and other malfeasance. At the very least it would reveal a lack of internal controls.

This could work kind of like UBI for open source. And I'm definitely not the only one who has ever thought about this. But there is just so much free capital floating around right now that it's a great time to be thinking about how to reform the paradigms that we all depend on.
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You can have forced induction with two-strokes if you use direct injection. It ends up being pretty efficient because you can blow all the exhaust out of the cylinders and have clean air for the next cycle. You also don't need to add oil to the fuel because you don't use the crankcase to pressurize the air/fuel charge. This type of engine is really common in construction equipment and (older) big trucks, semis, buses, etc. Some were even supercharged and turbocharged.
>NB: you don't even have to replace the TPM/Processor/... with an identical, tampered component. You just need something that behaves the same as far as I can see. It could be some huge-ass FPGA board programmed to emulate shit and I wouldn't be able to tell as long as they got the emulation right.

Getting the emulation right is nontrivial because you also need to extract the hardware key that's on the processor, otherwise remote attestation won't work.

Also, there are plenty of use cases for confidential computing that don't involve hiding from the NSA. For instance, if you simply don't want amazon (or their workers/contractors) to see your data.
Cool, so after ten more years of planning and twenty to thirty years of phased development, this will all have made exactly zero difference to Toronto or anyone who lives there.
No one votes in municipal elections. It's what, a 25% participation rate? Cities like Toronto are run by a collection of special interest groups evenly divided into the developer-backed and BANANA-activist cliques, resulting in decades of deadlock.
You are right and I should have known better. Didn’t read the former article.

In German we make the same distinction, sometimes referring to the real chestnut as Esskastanie (Food/edible-chestnut).
But this is what's been happening. It's happening in the bay area too.
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Basically all your points are valid for Windows, as well.

PC Gaming has long been a brittle experience due to moving OS and hardware targets.
I can. I do it literally all the time.
There’s already a movement to protect unattractive women (men generally do not suffer the same sort of gendered harassment, because women are generally not looking at their colleagues at work and being angry that they’re not fuckable) from harassment in workplaces. Has been for, what, the past 50 years. Laws around it too. My HR training covered them. Somehow guys don’t get the message.

Misogyny sucks, transmisogyny is a special breed of that, sadly.
I'm really enjoying this narrative that gaming on Linux is now viable because Windows games running through a Win32/DirectX compatibility layer works reasonably well.

I appreciate Valve making Wine actually work for a broader set of games, but if we're being real, statistically nobody writes native games for Linux unless it is their labor of love, and the market share doesn't justify the energy.
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Rust's safety rules also forbid access to uninitialized memory, even if it's just a basic array of bytes. This is an extra protection against accidentally disclosing data from a previous "recycled" allocation.
I'm not sure it is possible to speak about the "original version" when it comes to folk tales which exist in a variety of versions. It may also be due to modern prejudice we consider the most brutal versions the most authentic. For example the Charles Perrault collections are much older than the Grimm collections, but does not have the same amount of maiming. Perraut modified the stories to contemporary sensibilities - but so did the Grimm brothers.
Fair comments and mostly true. I would however add that the point is the direction of where things are going. It was impossible to play more than 10 percent of steam games just a few years ago. Now the range has massively improved and support is progressively better. In another 2 years you can expect less odd cases and better monitor support.
It's certainly not flawless, but I haven't seen some of these issues you're mentioning. I'm running a dual-monitor setup off my 1050ti, with my primary display being a 1440p 144hz display. I only have windowing issues on games that already had windowing issues natively (the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games are a particularly large sore thumb), and I have never seen a game spawn on the wrong display. I haven't played Doom Eternal, but Doom (2016) ran at a locked 60hz for me. I could push it higher, but at 1440p I'm already stretching the capabilities of this card. Game streaming, while partially broken (eg. you can't stream an individual display), never had that considerable of a performance impact for me. I streamed Valheim over Discord the other day, and only lost ~3 or 4 FPS overall.

Besides that, I understand where you're coming from. The experience isn't flawless, but neither is gaming on Windows. It's ultimately up to you to pick and choose your battles, but the majority of the games I play work relatively well, even compared to Windows.