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> I have never understood why many programmers seem to have an irrational dislike against forking off POSIX utilities when they target such platforms, and piping through them

Many programmers have trust issues with code, and find it easier to write and comprehend a minimally-functional, narrow-scope implementation of their own than to get to know a general purpose utility enough to trust it. Also, lots of programmers would rather spend time on the experiencia of hacking out their own version than hacking out an interface to someone else’s code.

(And, yes, there's a whole lot of illogic and inconsistency in how this tends to manifests. But I think that there are very understandable reasons why a tendency in this direction is not only associated with predisposition to become a programmer, but also, among programmers, with tendency to develop deeper and broader skill as a programmer.)
I see the hatred of companies for the GPL as one of the main issues here. GCC was a thorn in the plans envisioned by companies to take advantage of FOSS. LLVM was a godsend and it allowed companies to spread the influence of their new software methodology: use the vast army of 'open source' coders as unpaid workers to enrich themselves. Free bug reporters, free testers, free code contributors. Companies can simply take and close the non-copyleft code, add some secret sauce and use it to augment their deplorable business practices like sucking up user information, like Google, or simply sell it and laugh all the way to the bank, like Nvidia.

I think we are currently experiencing the old EEE tactics in various ways. Embrace Linux, use it to build an ecosystem, extinguish it with non-copyleft Fuchsia. Embrace GCC, use it to build stuff, extinguish it with non-copyleft LLVM. Android is almost completely rid of GPL code at this point - the kernel is the main piece remaining. I wonder when programmers and hackers will wake up and see how their time and work are being usurped.
It's not so bad. It takes less than 30% of the screen. Running a site like Phoronix takes time and the author deserves compensation for it.
This is just conjecture. You have no evidence to support this.

And there are bats in Austin, Texas! You’re saying that the bats in Austin are clean, and disease free, while the bats in China, somehow only carry the virus?
Even peer reviewed research won't make me believe claims like that. Experimental psychology seems a field plagued by replicability crisis, and frankly I think the field is just a self perpetuating paper mill for those in it, and a futile pursuit.

Psychology in my view needs a theoritical approach. Did Freud, William James etc need to do experiments with 30 graduate students to study about the working of the mind, and behaviour of people?.
I try to write important software not toys.

Note that buy toys I mean something with less than 10000 lines of code. I find at about that point (no matter what language) my code changes from quick/easy to manually test and reason about, to too complex to keep everything in my head at once and so I need automated tests to keep track of the rest.

That I'm writing software that controls machines (so there are safety concerns around failure) that do important things (the wrong bug could starve millions to death) means I'm a bit more paranoid that I'd expect a game developer to be. However I'd expect even a game developer to need to do some automated testing for peace of mind.
> The same is not true of child sexual abuse, where the typical consumer does have a mental illness that compels them to sexualize children.

That's a pretty serious accusation towards people who consume a content, to do without some SERIOUS backing of peer reviewed studies. Do you have any?
I don't know of any place requiring different rates and metering for certain uses, but many power companies offer such things as an option. For example: In California, PG&E offers different metering plans for electric vehicles.[1] These plans make it much more expensive to charge your vehicle during peak hours (daytime) and significantly cheaper to charge during the night. Though once you are on separate meters, you're at risk of PG&E unilaterally jacking up your rates for charging your car.[2]

I didn't notice the difference in rates until just now, but California's cheapest off-peak rate of 14 cents per kWh is almost twice what I pay for electricity in Washington (8 cents per kWh). It currently costs me $6 to fully charge my car. If I had to pay California rates, charging would cost $11-38 depending on the time of day.

1. https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o...

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2019/11/19/pge-ra...
I like Mullvad and supporting Mozilla.
> What if hackers hack into it and scramble all the data. What if the artist happens to alter the data him/herself?

The same questions also apply to blockchains. But if a blockchain is compromised, then who will I sue?
I think the major point is that Bitcoin seems to benefit disproportionately from inflation. It may be the case that it's the single best hedge against inflation. But yes, there are lot's of things that protect against inflation.
Oh good I can't wait for the Android update which makes Bluetooth much much worse. Not because it's written in Rust, but because Android just keeps breaking stuff on my phones every time I get new updates.
Yes, but that may not matter if the total duration is kept very low.

Many IoT-type radios use the same 2.4Ghz band as domestic microwaves and will be destroyed in a fraction of a second as the radio's AFE (analogue front end) is hit by many many orders of magnitude more energy than they're designed to tolerate.

I would wager that many devices that don't have other significant "energy-catching" features (antennas, radios, coils for NFC, etc.) would work just fine after experiencing a short stint in a microwave.

I did actually test this once on a very old 3G modem/radio interface and I found that every part of the interface seemed to function just fine, except that it could no longer receive any radio signals (and may have been unable to transmit but I couldn't confirm this with a spectrum analyser). The modem otherwise operated just fine and would talk to the SIM, operate all its LEDs and even seemed to pass an internal self-test feature that it had, with the obvious exception that it could no longer find any radio towers.

I obviously can't guarantee that your stuff won't blow up, so don't come blaming me when your device ends up being trashed by microwave energy going through unintended parts.
Haha -- yes, indeed. Bluetooth the spec and implementation are an absolute dumpster fire.

"Bluetooth is a layer cake of sadness" is the turn of phrase we used for a while on the Glass connectivity team. One of our project founders, Thad Starner actually apologized to me for the mess it became; apparently it was supposed to be simpler, but when Nokia took ownership back in the 90s, it started to go downhill.

Our lead on the connectivity team at the time had a crazy idea to rewrite the spec using only ACL and L2CAP, but never really went anywhere with it because of the the Glass org implosion.
Gold has been valuable for centuries. There is no BitGold network that, if it went under, would cause your gold to simply evaporate. Once mined and processed, gold is incredibly stable, 2000 year old gold coins can be dug up and sold as antiques.

All currencies have value, not because "humans" value them, but because some organization of humans said "this piece of paper is legal tender". They lose their value when that political organization falters. What political organization is behind bitcoin etc.

Beaver pelts stopped being useful as a "currency" when there was no ready market for furs, it was never a currency, it was a fungible asset.
Glad it was useful. I hadn't realised how early-stage the website was... I think you can read my puzzlement in the comment :) The roadmap looks good and I look forward to seeing a updated version sometime!

(Btw, I remotely work myself, so if the website is useful would find it a great resource.)
Brazilian that is not currently living in Brazil here. There are so many factors, you really need to understand Brazilian culture to completely get the idea. Brazil is definitely not for beginners.

0 - People who try to respect the rules of society and do the right thing while everybody else is disrespecting rules are seen as losers (trouxas). This creates a vicious cycle where you don't do the right thing because nobody else does the right thing. This is a huge problem with the Brazilian society, and affects the Covid problem more than people want to admit.

1 - Many many Brazilians are super individualist and egocentric yet they think they are warm and social. They have zero sense of community and society. They often criticize other countries for being too individualist, but they just don't understand that their "warm" behavior is superficial at best, hypocrite I'd say. Of course not every Brazilian is like this, I would like to believe I am not.

2 - The president Jair Bolsonaro is a complete idiot 10x worse than Trump who is still somewhat negating Covid. He still recommends a bunch of medications that have zero effects on Covid, he doesn't wear a mask, etc. Seriously, if you think Trump mishandled the pandemic you should see Bolsonaro...

3 - There is a strong cult for Bolsonaro kinda like there is a strong cult for Trump in the US. If our lord and savior Bolsonaro says I shouldn't wear a mask, then I won't (/s). And if I get sick, I will take those medications that won't help me at all before looking for help. Bolsonaro has a lot of power over certain religions (a significant portion of the population) and a ton of religious leaders keep spreading his words. Bolsonaro also does the "the media is lying" thing which makes people not believe that the situation is actually bad.

4 - A lot of people who get sick decide to insist on the Bolsonaro Covid Kit. So they spent like 1 week fucking their kidneys and then when they realize it's only making them worse they decide to get real help at a hospital, and that's too late. When they get there they are already compromised. Some people even need kidney transplants due to the Covid Kit they take...

5 - A lot of Brazilians think they are doing social distancing while they are not. They open exceptions like "I just see my mom and my sister". Well, your sister just sees you and her mother in law, who sees just her other child, who sees just their friend, who just goes to the church once per week, etc. When you realize, there's a chain going on over the entire population. The graph may not be as connected as it was before, but you can still very quickly walk through it to reach anybody.

6 - People put the blame on everything for Bolsonaro and forget to look at themselves and see what they could be doing wrong.

7 - The economic situation of the country was already bad. The lockdown thing makes the poor extremely more vulnerable. A lot of people simply can't afford to do lockdown otherwise they will die of hunger.
> This is a reaction rooted in emotion, not reason.

Yes, humans are driven by emotion, not reason. Even when there is superficial rationality, it's mostly post hoc rationalization, not actual rationality.
I got the sarcasm - the "/s" would have given it, as if it was needed :)
Real estate has clearly been shown to not be resistant to inflation over the past year.
I guess I could have been clearer if I wrote "A wealth transfer from developed countries directly into accounts of people in developing countries, that their governments somehow can't take away".

And I don't mean people specifically in developing countries, the gist of my comment is that there are people who live above average quality of life, and people below, and much of the tension in the world is that you can't just bring people up the quality of life ladder in a short enough timeframe without also bringing others down the ladder. An intractable problem, if you will.
That isn't the case, but believe what you want.
Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the first time
I think he may be accidentally correct about the baseball card though, with the baseball player being the asset the NFT is pointing to and the card being the NFT. As such, the NFT is a collectible, nothing more. If it turns out that people want to trade these collectibles then ... that's fine!
And you get 100% enjoyment without any meaningful ownership...
That looks like a grammatical correction.
Linux is, or at least was, about Freedom; and Freedom is about choice.

You may not mind the decisions others make on your behalf, or care about the options that are no longer possible, but that doesn't mean that Linux hasn't lost some of its identity.
> tokens of ownership

They are not even "tokens of ownership"; they're just tokens that one owns, nothing more, but the semantic distinction here is significant, because a token cannot own anything outside of itself.
What are some alternatives to Unsplash that provide very high quality photos, for when Getty inevitably ruins this site too?
The hullabaloo over Bitcoin’s environmental cost is a classic example of people focusing on things that are easily visible and being totally oblivious to ones that are unseen or not obvious. What is the energy cost of the current currency system and the political structure that keeps it in use? I’m going to guess that it is significantly higher than Bitcoin.

That’s not even mentioning Proof of Stake, which will essentially solve all of these problems.
My brother was given this mask.

The graphene wasn't contaminated there or anything, it was actually put there on purpose. Shame on the manufacturer, the importer and the government.

This issue was brought to the attention of the government agyer a citizen was concerned over the presence of graphene and contacted the authorities.
Off topic but I’ve noticed recently that I’m frequently forced to incorrectly answer re-captchas the way a computer would in order to move forward.

Some examples: “click all the tractors” showed I did not complete the task because of a photo of construction equipment; “click all the crosswalks” because I didn’t select the photo of a thick white fence; “click all the traffic lights” because I didn’t select a photo of a parking meter. I just clicked the incorrect photo so I could move on but I can’t help but wonder if there’s any mechanism to catch those incorrect (manual, human) annotations on the training data Google is collecting.
Without arguing for or against such a ban - it is literally in the purview of governments. Control and regulation of financial mechanisms is a key part of state sovereignty. So, such a ban would is much more "the government's job" than banning a product like beanie babies.

It's also not the equivalent of banning the Internet; perhaps - similar to banning gambling through the Internet. In the sense that it may be impossible to properly enforce, but can certainly happen and in some world states:

https://www.nodeposit365.com/features/countries-that-have-ba...

Again, none of this is to say cyptocurrencies should or shouldn't be banned; or even that governments should or shouldn't ban things at all, or exist at all etc.
> Bitcoin seems to benefit disproportionately from inflation

Does it? On what basis would one know that? Why should it benefit from inflation more than gold, say?
NFTs are interesting because they are an entity in of themselves, they could be the root of value. Apologies, I don't have all the money words to make this sound smart.
Afaik, privacy focused version is not possible without changing legislation. All apps would do check-ins anonymous if not for legislation.
I mean 10k requests/second seems quite achievable for a single server. And I'd totally believe that 12 seconds of compute (per year!) wouldn't use much energy. In reality those requests would be intermixed with millions more for other sites and the servers would be running continuously, but the resources attributable to an individual site should be the same.
A tool to spy on your DNS queries: dnspeep
>tighter regulations on these goods

Why can't we do this for imports?

>physically inspect facilities

Why not just inspect the finished product like we could do with imports?

I'm not against domestic manufacturing and in fact I think many governments should be creating more incentives for domestic manufacturing for economic reasons. Insisting on domestic manufacturing in this context has hints of Sinophobia.
The unifiying protocol of a token(BAT) is a political feature. It aligns incentives out of the box. Stakeholders become shareholders, stakeholders become financially aligned. The problem with this can be speculation distorting the market, making it to expensive to transact, reducing or eliminating its value.
I’m not finding much Rust BlueTooth Stack code in the link. There are only about 4K lines of Rust in here.

Am I missing something? Or is the headline exaggerated?
Artists reimagine the baseball card with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
Art is indisputably subjective.
NFTs are NOT just urls. You can store all sorts of data within the token. Like maybe a license which grants commercial distribution rights.
"Scam" would indicate intent which I'd seriously think you'd be hard pressed to find behind the bitcoin white paper, it would be a really bad, slow scam if it included the number of steps where bitcoin would be where it is right now.

I can put a virus on someone's computer and make them mail physical dollars or make dead-drops or whatever to remove it, ransomware is not a problem of cryptocurrency.
In Smalltalk, nil was a constant that contained the only instance of the class UndefinedObject.

What some people did, was to put methods on UndefinedObject to implement a "NullObject" pattern for their domain objects. Since everything is default initialized to nil, everything would just work.

The big downside of this, were beginners putting methods on UndefinedObject that they should not have. There's a thin line of conceptual understanding between a bit-bucket that hides errors from you, and a useful NullObject. Some people would call this a "dirty hack" for that reason.
I have a 3M filter number 2091 with a fab date in 2017. It's clearly stamped with NIOSH.

Got a source on your claim?

Edit 2: I missed the joke :)
Minimal initd is very short:

https://github.com/mesalock-linux/minit/blob/master/src/main...

http://git.suckless.org/sinit/file/sinit.c.html

However, systemd is huge: 1.3 million lines of code.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/06/linux_2020_kernel_sys...
> Like 0 or "", nil is untyped. Go has both typed and untyped constants... Unlike 0 or "", nil does not have a default type.

So it feels like you're trying to draw some distinction here that is like, "look, nil isn't really that special - there's groups A and B, and the core confusion is people think nil is in group A while the truth is in it's group B." And it's true, Go has both typed and untyped constants.

But as far as I know, nil is the only untyped constant without default type. So "group B" is still just nil, and nil remains a sui generis source of confusion in Go.
I've used the P20 Pro and P30 Pro and their cameras are awesome, almost magical in low light situations. I would have upgraded to the P40 Pro as well if not for the whole Google ecosystem shenanigan.
Taxing the miners is only possible with a single world government. One country can’t do it. I suggested earlier that taxing the money coming into Bitcoin via the exchanges, similar to a “stamp duty” (not “gst” as that can be claimed back) collection of tax but for carbon would be the way to go. For example 30% tax on purchasing real crypto from an exchange.
Yes, this ^^^

While posting new builds in a not easily discoverable location is technically compatible with the statement of:

> For license holders, we've actually been shipping new dev builds every one to two weeks.

In practice the result is that (by stated design) the majority of sublime text license holders will not be aware of new builds for several years at a time until they are announced in the easily discoverable public location again.

I think it's good for them to pursue whatever development and community engagement model feels most sustainable, but it is disingenuous to claim that both users have access to the current dev builds while also trying to hide those builds from most users.

(edit: grammar)
My First Build in Public Status Update
My brother wore that mask, he didn't feel this way from it, actually he didn't feel any difference from normal masks.

Maybe they did, or maybe it's a coincidence and something else made them feel this way.
Of course not. They also didn't stop making discrete timers, but I still appreciate having one built into a microwave oven.
Maybe a Twitter account that focuses on what's new and what's coming down the pipe? Most people don't really follow forums. The current Twitter account last tweeted about Sublime Text in March 2019, I think -- exactly 2 years ago.

I guess the blog could also work, especially if it auto-publishes to social media, but of late that too, like the Twitter feed, has been mostly about Sublime Merge -- whereas I care a lot more about Sublime Text.

I think Sublime is really good and has lots of value even in a world with VS Code, but it's important to ensure people inclined to giving it a go sense that the project is ticking along well.
I think the real solution here is banning coal, natural gas, etc., not the downstream users of it. If I want to mine BTC with 100% nuclear/wind/solar energy, then the problem is solved right?
Stocks and bonds are still coupled to fiat currencies and will be directly impacted by their perceived deficiencies when compared to crypto.

Hard assets like real estate, land, gold don't fit that bill, but each of their own tradeoffs. Right now cryptocurrencies are making gains against those hard assets so they are more attractive. An investor may wish to diversify among some or all of these options.
No you don’t own anything. With physical items, even if the legality is suspect, you can still possess the actual original object.

But there is no original with digital files. Everything is copied endlessly and with perfect fidelity. In fact everyone has made a copy just by viewing it.
Its odd that I can drop a hundred grand at the Venetian, but not in a mates start-up.
Monero, Ravencoin, and Tether use a proof-of-work function that requires CPUs and defeats GPUs and ASICs, so there is an argument to be made that perhaps there is a slightly greener proof-of-work function. I don't quite understand how their function RandomX works, it requires a VM, lots of memory, and randomly generated work functions that need to be translated by the VM. Been hunting for a good page to explain this, but the point is: it aims to make mining more decentralized because the average user can still participate.

I don't like proof of stake because again, the rich get richer in this scenario, which works against the decentralized core value of cryptocurrency.
Yes and no.

Yes, in the sense, that if you want, you can eventually make it the way you want.

No in the sense, that others won't do it for you; they will make linux distribution the way they consider it best, not how you consider it the best.

So if you want to pick and choose the components the way you want and not the way the distributions consider the best, be ready to put in the manhours.
What if hackers hack into the artist's computer and steal their key and create new NFTs?
>pretty much the only time you'll see a prompt is if you're using a VPN, Tor, or specifically block it.

Or using a non Google browser or using an account that Google doesn't like (because they can't associate it with a real identity or whatever.)