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Why don't they just upgrade GCC to a more recent version. GCC still actively supports SPARC to this date and Rust support is also present and while not perfect, it definitely works.

So, while I don't really have a problem with removing SPARC support from Illumos which I wouldn't be using on SPARC systems anyway, the reasons mentioned in the document aren't convincing me at all.

FWIW, we still support sparc64 in Debian Ports:

> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/
In Canada, the next sentence would be:

“NSERC had temporarily suspended our funding so if you have any questions, I’ll be pulling double shifts at Tim Horton’s.”
I wonder if this is just a matter of having a very different frame of reference.

Before agile became widespread, when someone said "We have a problem with slow releases" they meant "we schedule each release 18 months out and yet it always ships 6 to 12 months late."

Now that agile practices are widespread in the industry, when someone says "we have a problem with slow releases" they often mean something like "sometimes the time from code change to it being in live in prod is more than a couple of days," or maybe "the CD job sometimes takes more than 20 minutes to push things to production."

The problems you are describing above are problems that can only exist because of agile adoption. (kids today, get off my lawn, etc. etc.)

Your biggest problem is that you have to wait a couple of days to get your PR reviewed? Before agile, replace that with
'you have to wait two weeks for your change to get integrated into the build then another week to get an incomplete bug report from the QA team'.

And what's more, agile introduced the industry to tools for systematically, continuously identifying problems like 'the releases are slow' and letting the development teams themselves change the way they work to eliminate issues like 'we're not getting time to fix broken windows' or 'it takes us too long to review PRs'.

My understanding of 'we're agile' is precisely 'we give teams space to change the way they work to eliminate things that cause them problems'. If someone tells me they reject agility, I would interpret that as them saying 'we don't let you change the way you do things', and 'you will be dependent on other teams who don't share your goals which will slow you down'.

I think we're in violent agreement about what good software development practice looks like. I just can't believe how badly the word 'agile' has been warped to the point where people actively think it creates the very situations it set out to resolve.
True, but "Selfish indiscriminate idiots" just doesn't have the same ring to it ;-)
Youtu.be/1Sk-S2FTD9Q
https://youtu.be/1Sk-s2FTD9Q
Maybe you could train a neural network using confirmed-fake reviews to assign an adjusted rating to products
Article acts like having a 'richer' language approximating English makes it easier or more approachable, but whenever I've tried such languages I've found them harder. A programming language with simple and more orthogonal syntax like C is much easier to learn and reason about, than a language where you learn so many different verbs/constructs like COBOL or Ada.

And I think that -- depending on the problem -- you want a more succinct language to express the problem in. Maths is a good example: maths would be far harder if we described everything in plain English without ever resorting to symbolic maths. Formulaic maths allows us to focus more on the structure and meaning rather than the encoding.
'This makes me wonder why Amazon, in all their analytical genius, isn't cracking down on this when it's so blatantly obvious.'

Cynically, turn a blind-eye to misdemeanours of third-party sellers so long as there is data to be mined. Gradually replicate best-selling merchandise through your own-brand labels and then slowly dispose of the third-party sellers whilst retaining evidence of how they were systematically breaching the program terms in order to mitigate any chance of a class-action law suit.
> Advertising is still “the vast majority” of Reddit’s revenue, but since the company began seriously focusing on the Premium business last year, it has doubled its take. “I think it has a lot of potential,” Wong says. “What’s exciting about it is, you know, you look at the east and the behaviours in Asian apps like WeChat etc: gamification, customisation, expression, being able to pay back and forth with coins and avatars, is just a part of the experience. We have always had that behaviour on Reddit, but we hadn’t put, you know, teams behind it to make it even more fun and diverse.”

I suppose we have to find out if big tech can have a yuckier business model than ads now
> because of the fact that there are experts in coronaviruses who reside there

In the beginning, they arresting doctors in Wuhan who spoke about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang
Similarly, humans can't impregnate chimpanzees. That really hurts the "humans evolved from apes" theory
> It's mildly interesting to me that there's now really no notable big-endian systems left

That's not correct. s390x is big-endian and well supported in all enterprise distributions such as SLE, RHEL as well as Debian and Ubuntu.
Thus I'm left wondering what is going on at Microsoft. Did they assign some random intern to create the Windows 10 installation media tool? It is very incompetently made.

I get the same feeling with a lot of other things in Win10 (which I'm only using because I'm forced to). IMHO it's a sign of the shift to a metrics-driven culture, where the "unquantifiable" parts of quality are being completely ignored in favour of bettering numerical ones. Microsoft isn't the only one, this seems to be happening industry-wide.
I believe in humane and sustainable treatment of animals and I do question what it would be like if everyone went vegetarian, wouldn’t that render all those animals useless so it would reduce their propagation and life? Billions of animals would have little to no use to humans-therefore they would not be farmed or bred, there would be no life for them... it doesn’t make sense, to the point it’s almost absurd to analyze.
DXpeditions: Temporary radio stations in the most remote spots around the world
Square gets a Bitcoin boost with revenue up 266%
It’s opt-in. You need to go digging around to find the setting to turn it on.
Plus, we’re able to help these ladies by recommending beachwear that is aligned with their sensibilities… it’s really a win-win for all parties.
This is quite brilliant. Essentially querying certain power phrases in Google Scholar to see trends across disciplinary fields. I haven’t thought of doing this until now. Thanks for sharing.
Tsx is disabled on rhel :/
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Red-Hat-...
He seems to be the ultimate “no-nonsense, get it done” guy. And he has enough good taste to keep Linux and its community successful for 30 years. Very impressive.
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> as if birds “draw” with sound something that’s flying backwards in time

huh?
"Scienziato pazzo italiano" fares slightly better at 16 results (that's a literal translation; I'm sure there are better ones). Amusingly, one of the results refers to "John Lithgow", which I instantly recognized from Buckaroo Banzai - one of his characters is "Dr. Emilio Lizardo"
> A fun way to make Oracle donate a machine would be to make an official POWER port.

We tried to convince Oracle to donate a SPARC machine for Debian but that unfortunately never happened for various reasons.
`raw` would allow us to pass the input as is without escaping it using JS rules, but otherwise the code would remain the same, we still have to "stitch" both arrays together with the loops.
> The US was founded by entire colonies of people coming overseas to worship the Christian God freely

That's the source of some of the colonies. There were many other reasons that people came.

Some were looking for economic benefit. Some were prisoners that their home countries were looking to get rid of.

> Christian prayer and Bible reading was a public school item until the mid 1960s

Until the 1960s, but starting in the 1940s or 1950s. Much of that public religiosity was a response to the Cold War, opposing the anti-theistic position of the USSR.
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Does Alacritty still require you to copy terminfo to remote servers in order for backspace to work? I loved Alacritty, but copying terminfo every time gets old pretty quickly.
Cool demo. Searching for phases like "there was a" and "and there is" take a really long time. I presume that since the words are common, the document IDs mapped to those individual tokens are too long as well, so intersections etc. take longer?
Companies are amoral, they will usually only do something if there is profit. Amazon has no reason to crack down on fake reviews because they don't effect their bottom line either way. They want people to buy stuff using their site, they don't really care what it is they buy as long as they keep buying. There isn't a viable alternative so competition isn't the issue. So they can get away with a lot before people choose to leave.
I'm pretty sure that "eval is a bad idea" was mentioned in the "thought terminating cliches" topic on Ask HN a few days ago :)

In bash, `eval` is a footgun like any other. You can use it, but you just need to be aware of where your toes are when it shoots.

It's usually a "bad idea" in the sense that if you think you need to use it, you probably don't, and 90% of the time, there is an easier way to accomplish what you want to do. The next 5% of the time, using `eval` might be easier but will also create maintenance debt with its overgeneralization. And the final 5% of the time might be actual legit use cases for `eval`.

I just grepped my codebase for `eval` and I almost never use it. One example of the "overgeneralized" 5% might be when I realized I could use `eval` to set "variable variables" (i.e. the name of the variable is itself a variable, taken from a function argument). It was cool, but I ended up deleting it in favor of a more concrete solution.

Personally, if I'm hesitating to use `eval`, it's usually not for any security reasons. In general, my bash scripts only exist in dev machines and CI runners, and I don't copy them into the application containers that are exposed to a live runtime environment with untrusted users. So for CI/dev scripts, I can safely assume the code will only run in CI/dev, and therefore I can trust arbitrary user input (which I can of course still validate).
You mean that almost everything is political? That was my point.

I was wondering why we must celebrate those who only speak within their domain of expertise -- which is why so few scientists/engineers make their voices heard even when the science they create is being trampled on.

This is the focus of the excellent "Manufacturing Ignorance" documentary: https://www.zed.fr/en/tv/distribution/catalogue/programme/ma...
As someone that helps clients with their Amazon stores, this is not a surprise, what is the surprise is that so few people know about. Review scamming has been an issue on Amazon for a very long time and each time that Amazon rolls out a new method of combating it the review sellers simply pivot and keep right on rolling.

The hardest part for a lot of smaller sellers is that with enough negative reviews you can have your account locked or even cancelled and there is nothing (not much) you can do about it, just like dealing with a Google or Facebook lockout. There is no recourse for most people.
My observation is 95% of people will never change a default setting even if it's directly interfering with what they're trying to do.

I'm not sure why. Either maybe they don't know that there's a way to change settings, or maybe they're too afraid they'll break something, I don't know.

I try to show people where settings are in different apps and opperating systems and encourage them to explore the options, but it seems like they never do.

I think most people are just conditioned to live with the way things are. Some people will try to search for a solution online, but that's an extreme minority in my opinion. It seems like most people will suffer silently, and some others might complain, but they still won't do anything to fix it - just complain.
The sad story is you can't get anywhere close to this even with rented dedicated servers. As a German I'm happy that we have Hetzner and I use their services extensively. However if I wanted to start deploying things in the US or Asia I'd be forced to go with something like OVH which, while still a lot cheaper than AWS, is still significantly more expensive than Hetzner.
All with different interpretations of the Christian god (or not Christian, as in the Jewish diaspora). The Spanish who settled colonies in Florida and California, the French in Louisiana, the English, Polish, and German settlers in Jamestown would all struggle to agree on a common set of definitions or rituals except there was a bible in there somewhere.

I was led in prayer at public schools, and private - doesn’t mean I or most of the other students were religious, though some were. And that is a very recent thing. Most regions didn’t have public school bible reading then.

You seem to be making a statement that the US has some strong theocratic religious foundation, when it’s more of a ‘we’ve got too many competing groups that can’t get along with each other - we’ll just kinda stay out of it where we can’. Hence the hand waves part. Which is good, we’ve never had the religious wars where a specific group had to fight against another, which is how you end up with the state religions like in Europe (anglicans vs Catholics vs Protestants for instance).

The groups you’re pointing to were often refugees from those fights and came in as waves during the various periods of repression as tides turned, or different regions fell to famine.
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>I have yet to see any of this be an actual problem in real-world projects

Just on Monday, I was bitten by a bug caused by operator overloading. I'm building a static analysis tool in C++. There's a method `getType()` that returns the qualified type of an expression. I had a call to `getType()` nested in some other calls, e.g. `expr->asAssignmentExpr()->getRHS()->getType()->getSomeQualifiedTypeProperty()`.

The creators of the `QualifiedType` type that's returned by `getType()` had overridden the class member access operator to return an UnqualifiedType. This problem took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to diagnose. The compiler error messages told me that `UnqualifiedType` doesn't have a property `getSomeQualifiedTypeProperty`, but I couldn't see why I was getting an unqualified type from a method that is supposed to return a qualified type. I searched the documentation online, searched the header files, tried reinstalling the library, nothing made sense.

Then, I learned this operator had been overloaded. So, I just needed to write `expr->asAssignmentExpr()->getRHS()->getType().getSomeQualifiedTypeProperty()`.

Ouch.
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> I usually search for reviews written by people who have had the product for a week or two and give the pros/cons along with a less than 5 star rating. That helps me avoid the fakes and the idiots.

Might only help somewhat with the fake reviews. From the "Avoiding Detection" section:

"Fraudulent businesses give reviewers specific criteria to follow to avoid detection on Amazon. These criteria are designed to present the reviews as legitimate. In this ElasticSearch server, vendors asked reviewers to wait a few days before publishing a review. They also request substantial reviews that are longer than just a few words, and may even outline certain details that should be included in the review."
And slowly the world got a rewrite in Rust… :)
[Edit:] I'd try to make sure that, in the title, it's clear this is an in-browser library.

I honestly thought this was a window manager, you know, the piece of software on a desktop OS that draws the windows. IE, I thought it was a window manager that made it easier to use web applications on a desktop computer.

It took me awhile to realize that this allows desktop-style windows inside of a web browser. Not really a "window manager."
As a Canadian, we had experience with SARS1 and I wouldn't say we acted swiftly or did fairly well.
i haven’t observed that behavior at any time.
I mean, at least the putative negative consequences they're trying to avoid are exploded jetliners and hundreds of deaths, not "advertising would be somewhat less effective and profitable" (similar to all advertising before about 2002).
Apple’s new iPhone anti-tracking feature is devastating for Facebook
I agree, but also in the corporate world there would be incentives for innovation to better compete or finding niche markets. It's not all bad
serious question to consider it from the other side: if a/the holocaust was occurring in your country and people turned a blind eye to it, would you softly ask those propping it up to discontinue or would you be more empassioned about it? This is the view that some vegans have with respect to the current treatment of animals. Whether you choose to acknowledge it that way or not, I can completely understand why some people adopt "bullying" tactics, conciously or not, especially when some people palm them off as "hippies" or the like
The best outcome from Terry's legacy is to show people that the hobby community will respect your work even if you are a "nuanced" person

The worst outcome is someone seeing a pattern of racism being ignored that is not so "nuanced". This will cause people to open up less, viewing an endorsement and not a tolerance
b/c it's a cheap hoster. they use a lot of desktop cpu's.

afaik their most popular product is the EX4x line with a i7-6700.
> Why is it more lenient than other financing plans?

It’s weird you would ask this, when I’ve explained it here in this thread like three times already. It’s almost as if you’re not listening...

It’s a financing plan with a pause option, a cancel option, and a resume option, all with no penalties. No other financing plans offer those kind of consumer-friendly options. You can try this vest for half price, and then not pay the other half, and still keep the vest without the airbag functionality.

You were manipulated, but it’s not really your fault, so don’t take it personally. Vice wrote the article and framed it as something it’s not. The only problem is it went one-sided and stayed that way, you haven’t been open to checking whether the conclusions you jumped to are actually true, which is what a bunch of people here did, assumed this was bad because Vice framed it that way, and doubled-down without bothering to research what it was.
Sometimes even the threat of negative reviews is used as a method of extortion against competitive sellers.
I find this kind of interaction interesting having used both termite and alacritty. Honestly I would have never expected maintainers of what I perceived as a fairly popular terminal to just go, welp use the other guys. This is kind of neat.

I had already been using alacritty for a while because it had wayland support, even though it has some weird bugs on my current i3 setup where creating a new terminal just creates an unresponsive window that has to be killed through htop. Other than that it's been great, and there is something satisfying about cat /udev/random and the text that flies by with GPU acceleration.
I liked termite because of the keyboard based selection mode and the minimal functionality. Wasn't aware that Alacrity supports that now. Alacrity is my choice for Windows, but unfortunately I cannot use it on WSL2, because it needs GLX features, which are not available. I hope I can soon use the new WSL2 graphics support
> For example, a product gets a lot of 5 star reviews stating that the buyer bought it for their child/relative/friend and they are just sure that they will love it... 5 stars! Or "I just got this delivered yesterday and I haven't used it yet but it looks really great!"... 5 stars.

Exclamation points are the giveaway in most fake reviews.

The same goes for Glassdoor. The more exclamation points in a 5-star review of a company, the more likely it was written by an HR person or the CEO.
> Africa and random Eastern European countries have also been doing okay

Eastern European countries are topping the death-per-capita charts (and the ones that don't are still topping excess-death charts).

African countries are doing "okay" because their ratio of people above age 65 is 2-3% rather than the 20% in Europe, and case numbers are low because they don't have the money to mass test.
StatusSnyc lets you sync your slack status in all of your workspaces.
StatusSnyc is a Slack app that lets you sync your slack status in all of your workspaces no matter in which workspace you change it.

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/statussnyc

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Alacrity works well on MacOS also. It gives you enough control that you can send meta (command) properly to readline, emacs, and whatever else is running in the terminal while letting some command chords be handled outside the terminal (e.g., command-tab, copy/paste, rectangle).
While the primary issue is likely developer time and hardware availability to test on, there are other OSs like OpenBSD which supports much newer SPARC64 hardware: https://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html
Just one nitpick - it does not need to be 'man made' to make a 'lab escape'.
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I don’t want to read into this too far but I hope the author doesn’t blame himself for all this.

I thought the article was an indictment of our culture’s relationship with death more than anything being wrong with Grace itself.

So many families simply don’t have a plan for what happens after they die. They leave it until the death actually happens, a time when nobody really wants to be talking money.

Of course, Grace never actually turned a profit. While the author felt like he was being dirty, simultaneously the payments he was taking weren’t even covering the cost of doing business. I’d say the only clearly shady behavior was the hospital data integration, something that I’m sure is a fixture of funeral services companies.

For sure, the business of death isn’t for everyone. I could make an analogy to how I’d never be a power line technician or wind turbine maintenance person. Nothing you can say and no safety mechanism will ever convince me to willingly climb a ladder higher than 3 feet tall.

Perhaps the lesson here is to think about why you’re starting a business before you do it. Who are you doing it for? Is it your idea or someone else’s idea? Is it a product or service you’re already passionate about?

If it is, you’re probably going to have a much easier time with it.
> calmly and friendly for years

i mean, i don't know, maybe it's all just clickbait but i don't think that's his reputation

here's a short story about personal growth via arstechnica urls:

linus-torvalds-defends-his-right-to-shame-linux-kernel-developers(2013):
<https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/linus...>

linus-torvalds-on-why-he-isnt-nice-i-dont-care-about-you(2015):
<https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/linus...>

linus-torvalds-apologizes-for-years-of-being-a-jerk-takes-time-off-to-learn-empathy(2018):
<https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/linus-torvalds-apolo...>
That's pretty onerous, and permit fees often cost more than the work. I came from Kentucky and found it mind-blowing that there is so much red tape involved in basic land management in California. No wonder it doesn't get done.
I kind of was in the same pursuit some time ago, but apparently it is better to leave ANC alone:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26125605#26126488