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It seems strange to call this a list of intellectuals and then using meme-ness as a key scoring mechanism.
This type of thing makes me worry about the intellectual narrowness of the rationalist and adjacent communities.
I would ordinarily say I bought a copy of The Hobbit, but I guess if I said "Hey I bought The Hobbit the other day", people would assume I meant the book.

I'd normally say "I bought a copy of ISO 8601". In this case I think the author thought it was a little funny to say "I bought iso 8601".
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Lots of people.

Financial crime isn't prosecuted very aggressively, basically unless it is a slam dunk easy case, evidence is ignored.
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In my experience as a performance engineer, slow performance in things like boot isn't because of "bloat", it's just because of random bugs that may or may not correlate to having added more features. There is a tradeoff in development time between features and bug fixing of course.
Here's a modern demonstration of decoding MP3's on various 486-class machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zZpzxHSeM
The very beginning of the internet was the 60s not the 90s.

And honestly where protocols have changed its been very recent. There was a big lull between the 90s and last couple years. TLS 1.3, the most obvious example of something new, was very recent (1.0-1.2 were minor but important improvements to SSL 3, which until recently was still widely supported. TLS1.3 was the biggest change in a long time). Http/2 (and 3!) Are super new, and earlier versions of http which date to the 90s are still universally supported.
The author doesn't state whether they installed Linux on a laptop that shipped with Windows, or bought an actual "Linux laptop". There's a huge difference, like reviewing a Hackintosh and saying "Macs are shite".

I did the same. I accidentally fubar'd my lovely 2015 Macbook by pouring a beer into it. I bought a Dell XPS and dual-booted Linux, which kinda worked but wasn't great. Then I bought a Purism 14, which has been awesome (after some teething troubles with the build quality).

I'm kinda tempted by the M1 goodness. But to be honest, I'm not happy at all about going back into the walled garden of MacOS.

I guess my main point of difference with the OP is that I never bought into the Apple ecosystem in the first place - I didn't use mail.app or calendar.app much. I never liked the Apple applications, they never seemed happy letting me take control of my life, and always seemed opinionated about what I should be doing.

I'm now running i3wm on PureOS (debian-derived), tweaked to how I like it. And it's great. Couldn't be happier. Except for Zoom's Linux client, (but Spotify's Linux client is now pretty good, so there's hope!). And odd config issues with the USB ethernet.

But the point is that I can go fiddle with those issues, and learn how Linux USB ethernet works, and generally mess about with my setup however I like. Yes I might brick it. But that's better than "oh it's gone dark, I have to take it to an Apple Store to get it fixed". Which is f-all use in a pandemic lockdown (or in rural SE Asia, which is where I was when I poured the beer in the Macbook in the first place). It's MY computer, not Apple's. That's actually important, not an ideological stance that doesn't matter in practice.

Because Apple stuff doesn't "just work" any more. And if it doesn't "just work" there's f-all you can do except take it to the Store. And usually they'll just shrug and hand you a new one, and hope you backed everything up to their servers. I mean, sure, that's OK. But it's not what I want.
Perhaps you will find, as I did, that the secret here is having a purpose. I know a number of people in the same situation, they don't "have" to work but when they don't have full time employment they just kind of wander this way and that. This becomes a problem when they realize that there is no 'win' in life, you just die. So the time wasted wandering is just that, time they never had to truly live.

Given my experience and my interest in systems I have become something of a 'journeyman' engineer in the traditional sense. I like helping folks and I like figuring things out. I charge money for that because it weeds out the freeloaders but I don't charge a lot of money. My terms are that if its not working out, we'll part friends, but we will part. As a result I've managed to meet some manager types whose only tool in their manager toolbox is "I'll fire you if you don't do that." (which is a pretty weak toolbox).

It is an exceptional thing to be where you are, at the age you are. How you choose to spend the years can be very satisfying and impactful, or a source of anger and regret.
> I'll probably try MacPorts.

I've been using MacPorts continuously for about 10 years now. It's been completely pain free. I think I ran into a single broken package in that time period.
Depends on how you want to set the goalposts.

By version, MacOSX is faring worse.

By total history despite a good chunk of old Windows malware not being net capable or able to run in current modes... perhaps.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/12/21134681/mac-pc-virus-m...

Safety by virtue of running MacOSX isn't enough anymore. Not that I'd argue it ever was totally safe/enough in the first place.

Bad habits are what subject one to attacks more than anything else... and that's basically what Apple cultivated in their users through ignorance of threat mechanisms.
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Something similar is happening in South Asia, where China has repeatedly proposed plans to dam rivers in Tibet. This has led to the possibility of war (https://asiatimes.com/2021/01/china-risks-a-himalayan-water-...) with India because rivers fed by the Himalayas supply a lot of India’s fresh water, and any alteration would dramatically affect its environment, agriculture, etc. This is a modern issue both because Tibet was historically it’s own sovereign territory and because the world didn’t face such overpopulation or resource strains.

The southwest of the US addressed this via an interstate compact that lays out shared allocation of river flows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact
I also switched to Linux, and I love it, but only on my desktop machine. I got uhk for key remapping, and that's been great. For email and calendar, I use wavebox, which side steps most of the app issues.

As the article says: The laptop experience is not anywhere near as good. I had a lot of the same issues, even on a system 76.

Eventually I decided to try giving windows wsl2 a shot for my laptop, and I gotta give Microsoft credit. It's been great. All the benefits of windows ecosystem, hardware comparability, games etc.... And the ability to do pretty much everything development wise through wsl2. The keyboard combos are similar enough in Linux and windows that I don't have trouble switching contexts. However, most of my development is still on desktop.

A few years ago, I would probably have described myself as a never Microsofter. Maybe my passion for using as much open source software as possible is dying down, or maybe Microsofts push to embrace open source is paying off. Whichever it is, I've come back around to appreciating windows recently.
This has been discussed below. The reporter was giving Peltz non-public information about the stories he was going to publish, which allowed Peltz to better time his trades. The information flow was two-way.
It helped that Microsoft put out a design manual laying out their standards: "The Windows Interface Guidelines for Software Design: An Application Design Guide"
To this day osx still doesn't ship with a true plaintext gui editor.
What is MSM media?
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I think it conceptually helps a lot to distinguish between row and column vectors, even if they are coalesce in any production code you might write.

(0a) An (nxm) matrix A represents a linear transformation f(x)=Ax from R^m -> R^n

(0b) A linear transformation f(x) = Ax is its own derivative, f'(x) = Ax

(3) The derivative of a function f : R^m -> R^n is a linear transformation with the same "type" R^m -> R^n as the original function. This means it is an (nxm) matrix.

The other two rules can be derived from these rules:

(1) The derivative of a function f : R^m -> R is a (1xm) matrix, aka a row vector.

(2) The derivative of a function f : R^n -> R is an (nx1) matrix, aka a column vector.

This perspective is helpful because, aided by the chain rule, we can easily derive all the other matrix algebra rules on the fly. Distinguishing row / column vectors helps catch conceptual type errors in places where it's inappropriate to add vectors and covectors together.
The journalist didn't need a deal. His prestige increased because he was publishing scoops.
This would effectively mean that veto power on everything would be held by any 13 states. For reference the 13 least populated states put together have 4% of the US population. So at minimum blocking all progress needs slightly more than half or just over 2% of the populations support.

What you are saying is that senators representing as little as 2% of the US population should be able to overrule the senators representing the other 98%.

For practical purposes since we know which side are complete obstructionist what you are saying is that Democrats should surrender control of the country regardless of how much of the vote they win. On the An unholy alliance of Oklahoma, Utah, Alaska, Mississippi, Kansas, Nebraska, Idaho, West Virginia, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, and Wyoming. Republicans controlling 51% of the vote in states representing 7.8% of the US population could block all progress forever until they got their way. That is to say they would retain a death grip on all progress with as little as half of that 7.8% of the population behind them.

This micro minority death grip on our nation would be so strong that the governors veto power hardly matters because anything that wasn't blocked by 1/4 of the senate would never find itself blocked after.

In practice the uneven representation that is a design goal of the senate makes it both too easy for flyover states to force their agenda and too hard for policies that are broadly popular to be blocked by the flyover states.
"Please don't hate me." ?
Yes, this is where witch hunts come from. People like feeling like there are bad people out there and that they have been punished. It can be a dangerous thing, seeking out that feeling, justice should be blind and based on reason, not an emotional high.
I've been slowly transitioning to using nix for all my software installations on macOS: it's pretty nice to have one tool that can manage all my 3rd-party software; manage the configuration of a bunch of programs, via home-manager; and, with lorri and direnv, replace nvm/rbenv/etc.
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> Linux (Arch for me, but probably others)

ArchLinux has been painless. although I must say I've not tried anything too cutting edge with the GUI. Even if you don't use Arch, the Wiki is invaluable.
No one mentioned the httpd in busybox.

There are of course web servers everywhere now, sometimes in places that we really do not need/want them.
> I just used the Rustup/Dotnet/RVM/NVM install instructions rather than using Brew. I then got statically compiled versions of ffmpeg, jq, z7, which took a couple minutes.

This is the setup I prefer in a vacuum, although it depends on the stuff you need being available.

I also do think MacPorts is quite good. It follows UNIX principles, and it doesn't try to take over the systems. Everything is contained in its own world inside /opt/.
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> Is 100 MB is the minimum program size in 2021? Last time, when I was downloading the drivers for my new Brother printer, it was about 250 MB, I still have no idea what they did include in the archive.

When I see something that should be tiny being about 250MB, it's usually that they bundled Qt for the GUI. I suppose that's a cost of cross-platform tools. The 10kb executable the author made was using system GUI libraries, a dynamically linked executable on a system with Qt etc already installed would be similar.
Given certain names on there, the easiest way to become an intellectual seems to be 1) Be famous, 2) Be outspoken 3) have a cult like following.
>Nautilus is better than the Finder. It's not even close.

That's astounding. Finder must be awful.

To me, Nautilus is virtually unusable -- it's like a toy file manager. Nothing beats Dolphin (or PCManFM as a not-so-close second). For some reason, Qt apps are way better than GTK apps in general.
Windows has a good handful of security vulnerabilities, but you'd be surprised by how few people actually "target" Windows devices. Windows still has accountability to their enterprise users, which means they spend most of their time mitigating the more serious stuff rather than some infected exe you'll find floating around the internet. MacOS and it's Unix heritage make it a pretty interesting case study for hackers, and while it may not have the perceived "hackability" of a Windows box, the severity of a MacOS exploit can vary greatly. Not to mention, Apple's reluctance to work with security researchers and opaque development cycle only make it harder for the end user to ascertain what impact MacOS has on their personal security.

I use neither of these operating systems on a daily basis, but I think you'd be surprised by how secure Windows is these days. It's by no means perfect, but it does a pretty good job of staying secure, even as the #1 desktop operating system in the world. Now if only Microsoft could make a secure desktop that was any good... wishful thinking.
It's hard, but it's been done. Here's a story about Jacob literally having fisticuffs with God in a dark alley, and kicking His butt. After, Jacob freaks out realizing he met God face to face, beat Him up, and got rewarded instead of disappeared.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2032%3A...

According to the ending, Jacob's only injury is a really big thing:

"Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon."

It would be interesting to see if that is still true. And a theory of what Jacob did to make God call "Give!"
Thank you, I have had zero exposure to what goes on in those areas.
Tell that to Icaza: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26668789
To be fair, I’d never use a gnome distro. Basic things are plugins now, because 1% market share says “be super weird and experimental”

I switched my x220 to kubuntu after windows 19.09 support ended and it’s been fine. Random things like printing don’t work, but nothing I need daily.
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Well let's see if I sprain my cerebellum with this one.

Why is it there a lack of good research into critiques of anthropogenic climate change and its subsequent ill effects?

I would expect some kind of rigorous evaluation on at least the net positive or negative effects of climate change in top climate journals. However, I do not hear about this type of discussion. A lot of the publish science seems to serve only to confirm the consensus. Is this actually a good application of the scientific method or just humans circling the metaphorical may-pole?

What is worrying is that established researchers who have pushed back against this narrative have been brought low by their peers despite any good standing they may have had prior.

Of course the usual suspects will have their own agenda and money to subsidize it, but why is this the highest quality critique of climate change that exists? I would expect, if we are in fact doing 'science', that the highest qualities critique would come from top researchers who would still be respected in their field even after publishing such critique.

The stark lack of dissent may be simply a media narrative around science reporting. However, I have this ignorable itch at the base of my skull that what is being passed off as 'climate science' may in fact be the 'climate-science bureaucracy'; thus I remain skeptical.

Hopefully this is not a too disgraceful display of my mental flexibility.
Early mp3 decoders depended on floating point. Using modern fixed point code will let you run on less capable hardware.
Windows 95 might not be the prettiest, but seems beautifully consistent in both UX and UI.
You can find their names on their patents or on their Linkedins.
> I don't look for an "Asian market."

You may not, but people do: "An Asian supermarket is a category of grocery stores in Western countries that stocks items imported from the multiple countries in East, South and Southeast Asia." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_supermarket

Here in Raleigh, NC we have Grand Asia Market: "Since our humble start in 1997, we've been doing our best to provide the community with the highest quality Asian groceries." -- https://www.grandasiamarket.com/

H Mart is technically Korean, but its wiki page says: "H Mart is the largest Asian American grocery store chain, with 61 locations nationwide."
Have a purpose. Life is not a perpetuating holiday.

Being mobile sheds relationships. Being human demands connections which don't survive long line mobile life very well. You can wind up isolated.

Trial run it, with a path back.

"in sickness and in health" can come unstuck fast.

Envy is a killer. If you have FOMO and friends still on the gravy train, FIRE is hard.

Actually, FIRE is hard probably covers a lot of it.
Doesn't matter. Mirrors or photovoltaics. They both produce similar amounts of power per area over the whole facility, and nowhere near what a nuclear plant outputs. The power density is literally 8x higher for nuclear versus photovoltaics, according to this [1] (sorry for stupid paywall).

When you scale that up, you need insane amount of land that is literally nothing but solar panels. Where are we going to put all that new tech?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/2010/05/11/renewables-energy-oil-econ...
Listen to music on vinyl, play video games at the arcade, read books from the library, write code.

Same stuff I did in 1979. Same stuff I do now, but I guess more of it if I wasn't spending time on the internet.
I used to have the all transparent plastic Harmon Cardon speakers (iSub?) but I had to get rid of it because the power lights were so bright. And since it was transparent you couldn't cover them up.
>Bad habits are what subject one to attacks more than anything else... and that's basically what Apple cultivated in their users through ignorance of threat mechanisms.

This. 100 times this. The end user is the weakest link in your security chain, and the way Apple implements abstraction in MacOS makes it really difficult for the end user to understand what exactly they're doing, and what effect it has on their overall security.
Windows XP can be considered a mature operating system and is barely usable online today. It could be that a new technology renders some major components and standards obsolete. It’s simply not comparable to mechanical engineering.

It’s even more possible today, when a small number of large companies make up for a huge amount of functionality, that we’ll suddenly lose it. GameSpy Arcade was one example of how a single market shift can end entire communities. I fear IoT will be even worse.
I've been using your Datasette tools a bunch, they're really great for quick data analysis. Recently I've been play with doing an `sqlite foo.db dump` and then loading the dump into sql.js as the "DB" for statically-hosted websites.

It's probably impractical because the sqlite.wasm file is a couple megs, but it's a fun proof of concept.
Or, a better DRM key... at least you could transfer it without permission.
What about the response?
These types of criminals usually have enough money to pay someone to do their taxes.
Looks fine to me... maybe because I block javascript
The number of times I have opened a folder on macOS scrolled up and down wondering where the hell my file is before realizing it's hidden off to the SIDE is too damn high.
Apps could draw directly to DC, but it flickered a lot, and everyone quickly ended up with CreateCompatible{Bitmap,DC} and blitting into BeginPaint’s DC after drawing. After all, at win95 you had 4 to 8 megabytes or RAM - you definitely had the space. Not sure when it happened, but I can remember fighting with flicker circa 97. Also, rectangular controls were what you had in standard winapi, which was based on HWNDs, which were rectangular-only. I don’t think that unroundness was really forced by hardware constraints (transparency - yes), it was just a default simplest flavor of time. (And not that I like round/flat/text-only controls. What we called “flat” back then is pretty 3d-bordered in modern terms, and what we called “round”, today is border-radius:3px)
> but only on my desktop machine... The laptop experience is not anywhere near as good.

That was a neat trick. You get me to read your whole post because I wanted to know why you didn't use Linux on your servers.
Note Matt Levine is a former lawyer, which is a lot like being a lawyer.
It still looks and works great, better than most UIs today.

I use it regularly for testing, and it's a great platform for writing and updating my blog (from within a VM)
> Is it at all possible it could be both, as perhaps the phrases "green" and "new deal" clearly suggest?

My thoughts exactly, and given the horrid post covid economy (specifically for younger millennials and Gen Z) and the need for a mass upgrade to the US' infrastructure this makes the most sense as it could solve both problems instead of giving trillions to bail out mega corps.

Honestly, I cannot fathom the notion where people see th massive amount of homelessness in the US, but specifically in the Bay Area, and think this model was sustainable or even desirable. At least this could put many people who have been displaced from the work force into a skills training program and a trade that could alleviate some of the needless amount of Human misery that has been normalized.
Huh, I didn’t experience this problem. The problem appears to be unique to Chrome. It doesn't show up in Firefox or Safari.
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The greatest difference is how inefficient we have become. 10kb.
Journalists don't have a duty to not publish secret information.
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File extensions are a kludge anyway. (And Windows 10 still hides them by default, because hey, backwards compatibility, and you wouldn't want to confuse Grandma who's seen the file be called "grandkids" since Windows 95..).

Why should the filetype be dependent on the name? People even think renaming a .BMP to .JPG means now it's a compressed file!

Old school Macs stored the filetype outside of a file, so you can rename the file "grandkids.mp4" and double-clicking it would still open it in the image viewer.
What kind of janky jalopies are you folks running? It takes my machine all of ten seconds to boot, wait for me to enter my pin, and load the desktop fully.
Given the context of the article, I didn’t expect him to be even talking about Linux Servers in his comment.
The other thing that's really cool in evil-mode is the ability to use emacs-lisp in `:s`. I used this once to get a grid of random numbers: 10i0 <ESC>yy9p ggVG:s/0/\,(random 10)/g
That seems odd, Do you know if there are technical reasons that prevented 10GE from having 2.5 and 5Gbps modes?
BSP is a pretty outdated algorithm in the game engine space.

I very often use spatial hashing instead of quad-trees or octrees.

I rarely write interpreters but from memory a simple stack can go a long way.

Scenes are stored as flat arrays of components (ECS style)

Navigation (path finding) is very dependent on the internal level architecture, many tricks can be used to avoid trees or complex computations.