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> It calls itself a professional window manager.

...that's in development. Professional things are not allowed to be in development?

Do you go around your town criticizing people that are in the process of constructing office buildings, because they don't have the wheelchair ramp installed yet?

Perhaps if you care so much, you can lend a helping hand...
What exactly is the benefit to the average user of not having apps track them?

Most people seem to welcome more relevant advertisments, and a significant number of people in my social circle - even in Ukraine - like to purchase products directly from Instagram advertisments.

If you can't make money from advertising, and paid apps have an enormous 15-30% commission, how exactly does anyone except Apple make money from mobile apps?
Yeah, and for that reason we should forever regard him with disdain. Even if he invented everything we use today. We should always bring it up and highlight his racist views.

My problem with this isn’t that a racist position exists. It’s that racism thrives and grows when you don’t point it out in a manner which leaves a stain on the racist. Those who are secretly racist will be emboldened by a publicly accept racist and it will give them some path to expressing or acting on their racist views which they have otherwise suppressed.

So should we read the article? Maybe. But should we share it while saying “hey look what this known racist is saying”? I don’t think so.
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/where-did-the-covid-19-coro...
I wouldn't necessarily be able to say whether it'd be smaller, but it'd probably work. It works due to the air getting entrained in the liquid as it increases in pressure. So there shouldn't be a requirement that the air dissolve into the fluid or anything like that.
right... it's not hard to invent some scheme that scales to a 2 core computer but it is not crazy to have 64 or more cores these days and even if you have 2% serial overhead from communications you are not going to scale past 50.

The problems of making a system really scale as opposed to just scale are bad enough that the best we know how to do is give people simpler primitives that work -- each layer you add to the system is another opportunity to add another limitation to it.

Modern garbage collectors are fairly scalable (e.g. don't break outright as the heap size increases) and any manual memory management would also have the risk of scaling problems, to the point where you might say that garbage collection is more "scalable" when the thing being scaled is the kind of arbitrary complexity that appears in business applications.

What people complain about with garbage collection are: (1) a fixed constant overhead they think is too high and will probably always think to high, (2) long pauses that are manageable in practice unless you are timing events with millisecond precision with a microcontroller.

Thus one of these things is mainstream and other isn't.
It's gotten to the point where a product with thousands of reviews and an average 4.5 - 5 star rating immediately raises a red flag with me.

And Amazon appears unmotivated to do anything about it. As a personal example, I had purchased a mouth guard that had over six thousand 5-star reviews. It was listed as high quality, FDA approved, etc. When I received it, it was a piece of plastic junk with inkjet quality instructions in English and Chinese. Along with it came a note promising a $10 Amazon gift card if I left a 5 star review and emailed them proof of it.

I took a photo of the note and forwarded it to Amazon expecting some action - instead I received a canned response about "we take these issues seriously". A year later, that seller is still there with dozens of products, all with thousands of 5-star reviews.
Is there any indication of the energy impact using a GL context to render plain old text? These concepts seem incompatible in the context of a laptop, and who needs GL here when the bottleneck is biological. One of my favourite working modes is shutting down everything and just hacking away in vim, partly for distraction management but primarily because of battery.
Why, its profitable isn't it good sir?
When stepping away from KDE to sway, tried diffrent terminal emulators, but especially compared konsole, termite & alacritty. Back then (October 2020) I found alacritty to have really slow startup times on high-end machines (and got confirmation that's it's not my fault on IRC). Even massive Konsole started up faster. It also treats Wayland badly. So I settled with Termite, which I really like so far. It's sad that it's discontinued, but it's a shame that alacritty should be _the_ replacement for it.
"More than a year after the initial documented cases in Wuhan, the source of SARS-CoV-2 has yet to be identified, and the search for a direct or intermediate host in nature has been so far unsuccessful."

I believe it is know and is classified as Top Secret which is why there is a total blackout in Western news agency's investigations into this issue. It will not be revealed until 2024 after the election and it is my speculative belief that Trump hinted what they already knew in 2020.
Why have multiple tabs when you can have several windows open and move between them?

I can see this being useful for an application in which the user needs to interact with multiple things and they don't each need a full tab/window (would in some cases be pointless in its own window). A chat application, or a monitoring system, perhaps. Or just when porting over an old desktop system to run in-browser with minimal UI changes.

It is like nested virtualisation. Why would I want to run a VM in a VM in a VM when the inner VM would be more efficient run directly on the metal? The answer is two-fold:

1. Generally, I wouldn't...

2. ... but for some niche use cases the facility can be very useful
Absolutely not. I program C well - very well, I'd even brag - and I've used C++ long ago as well. I've programmed in many other languages besides. I am not adverse to picking up new languages.

But when I look at a modern C++ project, I get instantly overwhelmed. There is so much going on. So many weird features interacting with each other. So much you have to be aware of and familiar with. It is massively painful to work with. I would not be comfortable with working any kind of C++ codebase without years of experience with this absolute beast of a language.
Worth noting that the bad behaviour in question they're finally giving up on is from a FOSS project.
I think trying to scale out compute + mutable state across multiple CPUs on a single box has somewhat fallen by the wayside outside of specialized applications like databases and distributed query engines, as a local maximum avoided in favour of scalability via more boxes.

There's several forces behind this. Applications are more likely to be web-based or services - i.e. inherently distributed - and less likely to be desktop or traditional client/server, where almost all compute happened on a single server. As distributed services, maximizing statelessness and avoiding mutable shared memory is key to solving a lot of problems: scaling out (no shared memory), redundancy (keep a second copy of the application logic running somewhere, no sync required), recovery and idempotence (if something fails, try again until it succeeds - repeated attempts are safe).

Reliable persistent queues are part of that. They let you bring services up and down and switch over without down time, or restart after a failure and resume where they left off.

The problems of shared mutable state are best kept in specialized applications: databases, queuing systems, distributed caches, consistent key-value stores. Keeping state consistent in a distributed system is a genuinely hard problem, and STM isn't much help, except perhaps as an implementation detail in some of those specialized applications.
Many CPU's have load/store instructions that perform the network byte order swap with no/minimal overhead.

Serialization formats like JSON/YAML/protobuf/etc. would be much more costly by comparison.
However, that competition might come in the form of a more effective sales force, rather than a more effective product
Rufus has only ever given me a problem once....It failed to format tails on a cruzer micro.

Anytime that USB drive was stuck in a computer on boot it would be able to half boot tails.

I ended up having to use dd to wipe it and all was good.
...and MIPS has the weird branch delay slots as well as pretty horrible code density.

If you look at ARM, particularly the 64-bit version, you'll notice it attempts to squeeze multiple operations into a single 32-bit "instruction". It's still called RISC, but not really "reduced" anymore.
They're not eating into Walmart or Amazon sales, they're killing off the mom and pop grocery and convenience stores. The places people were already going to instead of making the trip to Walmart or waiting for Amazon to deliver.
I'd say this is more a matter of browsers and WASM specs gradually improving and not something a language/compiler should try to do separately. This is ongoing work and basically there are quite a few things roadmapped/coming that are relevant. As that stuff lands, the entire ecosystem will get more usable.

JS interop is short term a bit annoying, depending on what you are doing. But at this point plenty of non trivial things are being done with WASM that are finding their way into e.g. Figma, or bits and pieces of popular frameworks like react or web frameworks in Rust or other languages that manipulate the DOM, do things with WebGL, etc. So, yes, there is room for improvement but it's not completely horribly unusable right now.
“Surprisingly” vs. “to our surprise” is not a passive vs. active voice distinction.
What if I told you there is a modern programming language designed specifically for DevOps?

https://ngs-lang.org/

Born out of frustration with bash and Python.

and ... nope, never considered JS for that type of scripting.
For what it's worth, if you want to run ElasticSearch on AWS I would always go with local-NVMe instances from the i3 family, this is also what AWS and Elasticsearch themselves recommend.

4x i3en.2xlarge (64GB / 5TB NVMe) at $449 / month (1yr reserved) is $1796, or $2636 without reservation, but much better performance due to the NVMe drives.
Oh the low information CCP apologist!
I've personally realized that reddit is user manipulation platform. The content you read there is strictly controlled and must comply with the Official Reddit Party Narrative, and users are tracked and have their data shared with other tech companies which use that data to train their human behavior manipulation machines.

I left Reddit and I will never go back.
So your proposed alternative is we keep raising these animals, but euthanize them when they get to some age / fall sick?
Yes, and I have been unimpressed at best and disappointed at worse.
There are plenty of people who would donate a virtual machine or remote work environment for this sort of thing, if anyone was (seriously) interested in porting. Realistically, I doubt anyone wants to put that kind of effort in. Getting FreeBSD and more recently OpenBSD working on PowerNV platforms has taken a very large effort by the community, and those OSes already had some support for POWER/PowerPC. Illumos only has the x86 and (very bitrotted) SPARC support AFAIK, I believe there have been some attempts at bringing up ARM but don't see anything substantial.

More on topic, as someone sentimental for SPARC hardware and to an extent solaris, this is sad to see, but it feels like just a formality. I don't think illumos has worked properly on SPARC hardware since ... Ever? There were a few illumos distributions with SPARC builds but I always had trouble getting them to run on even a T2, seems there was little work done post rebranding from OpenSolaris for SPARC. Linux and OpenBSD have been much, much better on SPARC than Illumos, tinged with bitter irony...
Scammer Is Twisting Science in a Scheme to Save the World
There are a lot of people breaking the law in America. Many of them get caught and go to prison. Few know this.
I think this is a counterproductive view. Gas turbines are bad for greenhouse gas emissions, but the fact is that gas turbines have displaced coal generators in many places in the US reducing net emissions.

Are gas turbines a part of a zero emissions electricity grid? No of course not. But are they an improvment on what's happening today? In some cases yes.

Ultimately you're right, eating locally grown plant based diets would be better for an individual, but you're also wrong because the beyond burger is a hell of a lot better than the food it's replacing in most cases.
You probably work with ultra high level stuff, which is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to programming. More than half of what is written around comes from drivers, embedded, engines, robots, controllers and kernel. And for those, you have nowhere to run but to use C down to its bottom. You might use some C++ to enforce some abstraction, iterate in a more fashionable way, but in the end, it's just C
Pfizer and BioNTech apply for full U.S. approval for their Covid vaccine
On AWS you can't get 128GB RAM on anything for less than $300/month (or nearly $500 on-demand). And to get multiple TB of SSD you need significantly larger instances, north of $1000/month.

Similar with DO, the closest equivalent is a 3.52GB SSD, 128GB RAM, 16 vCPU droplet for $1240/month.

If you need raw power instead of integration into an extensive service ecosystem, dedicated servers are hard to beat (short of colocating your own hardware, which comes with more headache). And Hetzner is among the best in terms of value/money.
Is this public information? Where can I read more about SM-19?
Recently, a website I had only visited once somehow cross-referenced the cookies available through my browser to work out my email address & directly emailed me to invite me to sign up for their services.

This has to be a GDPR violation, I certainly didn’t give consent for them to email me, but people are still doing this kind of thing apparently.
Answer: the law sucks.

Proposed fix: put the right not to be charged with a victimless crime in a constitutional amendment. (this should be a much loved amendment for those true freedom lover in the US, that are all cringing at the incarceration rate)
I think of the "Lisp A vs. Lisp B" discussions like describing the nuances of you favorite color. My favorite color is yellow, but that covers a lot of ground. I prefer a nice bright lemon yellow, but don't care for mustard yellow or brown as much. But any Lisp is better than Fortran just as I prefer any yellow over purple, for example.

I prefer Scheme to most other Lisps because of guaranteed TCO, the way continuations are handled, regularity of function names, and define-syntax macros.

Within the Scheme family, I usually prefer Chez for its performance, its FFI and because I happen to prefer an R6RS compliant system at the moment.

Just nuances.
i think its not fair comparison.
mv command implementation in 'C' might have more lines of code. Maybe we should complain that there are no OOTB library functions in python to move the file.
Africa and random Eastern European countries have also been doing okay.

Over time, I have seen these numbers level out. Of course, there's still some disparities in how countries manage the epidemic, but it seems more a case of when a country will be hit, not if. The countries that managed their first wave well (Poland, Czechia, Ukraine, Turkey) have been hit harder in the second wave than other countries.

It seems that Covid spread and fatality nicely correlates with how integrated and mobile a country's society is. Which shouldn't be that surprising, I guess. The only countries bucking this trend are in East-Asia (not just South Korea, but Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, etc), probably due to their experiences with earlier outbreaks.
So it doesn't infer types for libraries not marked as `#lang typed/racket`? You need to write your own types like you would using a Javascript library from Typescript?

Edit: Found the relevant part of the docs[1], I like the automatic contract enforcement, although I guess it would be kinda hard to guess the perf impact...

[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/typed-untyped-interact...
Make it playable using the userscript: https://gist.github.com/banthar/438067
> Amazon has no reason to crack down on fake reviews because they don't effect their bottom line either way.

For various things (certain electronics/peripherals, certain tools) I deliberately avoid Amazon because I want something I can trust and don't have energy to decide which of the fifteen similar-looking things on Amazon is well-made and which is a fake or just crap.
I hope Fakespot gets to integrate this leak in their dataset!
Well, I can relate to that. Most of 2020 we were focused on fighting the aftermath of the crisis.

Now that things slowly are getting back to normal, at least in some Western countries, our focus shifts to the origins.

I was also very skeptical in the beginning about the escape theory tbh. But after reading a couple of pieces I’m opening up to the possibility.
1) dumb drug laws which create gangs

2) urban gang violence culture

3) effective criminal justice system
Cognitive Behavior Therapies
> Square reported $3.5 billion in bitcoin revenue, up 11 times year over year. But bitcoin gross profit was only $75 million, or approximately 2% of revenue.

What is going on with these numbers? How is Square booking $3.5 billion of Bitcoin-related revenue but only $75m of Bitcoin related profit?

What are they counting as Bitcoin revenue?
I've been fired by a company before because they didn't like that I put up a 15 minute AFK status during business hours. So I'd love to use this tool to make sure that all of my status messsges always say "I'm working very hard, and not taking any breaks at all".
Sure, the ZFS features are the same, but the integration is still not all there on Linux, and is on FreeBSD.

FreeBSD has features like 'bootonce', to switch ZFS boot environments on the next boot only. Better integration with the boot loader, more boot environment tooling, and other things that can only come when the filesystem is part of the OS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victimless_crime

passing law that criminalizes victimless behavior should be a crime!
So like only fans, which I also refuse to pay for?
I think it's pretty fair to say The Guardian doesn't do any investigative journalism.

If you look at almost any front page article in the last x years, you will be hard pressed to find anything that isn't purely interviews and sound bytes regurgitated from other sources.
> In any criminal trial, said suspect would get a guilty verdict from the jury in minutes.

No, since in a criminal trial the standard is proof beyond a reasonable doubt. That hasn't been met here.

This article certainly makes a prima facie case which would be enough to trigger discovery in a civil case. A reasonable person could also think that it has provided proof on the balance of probabilities, which would be enough for civil but not criminal liability.
It will make some more fission products, not much compared what it did in its life.

I can't believe it will make enough heat to damage the structure or disperse radioactivity directly.

If the neutron flux means that people can't go near the structure to maintain it then in the very long term you have more risk that the roof leaks, water leaks out, other paths of leakage don't get closed.

Really they should scrape up the corium (like they did at TMI) and put it through reprocessing like any other nuclear waste. The risk of a criticality accident doesn't make that any easier.
I don’t know what this is, but I want to. I think parent’s comment is a fantastic idea.
I would like to add another factor in your favor for this hypothesis. Naturally occurring viruses/bacteria tend to evolve to spread most effectively in conditions similar to how animals live: outside. COVID-19, conversely, seems to fair poorly outside and spreads most rapidly in indoor conditions not unlike one would expect in a human run laboratory environment.
This isn't a case of having a wheelchair ramp that hasn't been installed yet. This is more like there's no wheelchair ramp, and while there's room for one out front, they've already done the landscaping there.
I just opened the calculator on my Windows 10 system (latest stable version) and did not see any splash screen.

(You can also perform calculations straight from the Windows search bar. macOS also let’s you perform calculations directly from spotlight search without opening an app.)
How about setting up minio on these hertzner setups? You get benefit of s3 on cheap hardware without aws costs
Everything is a GL context under wayland isn't it?
But this is exactly what Google did to me - rejected using my perfectly good password in favor of "two factor" authentication consisting of my recovery email and some saved browser session (which no longer exists as I periodically wipe browser sessions). Plus the countless number of websites (usually online banking) that abuse your phone/email to send you a code for every login, having been spoiled by the mobile-surveillance environment. So I really can't trust that eBay wouldn't start doing something similar.

And yeah I do get the idea that if my password is actually compromised and hostilely changed, I'm going to be looking at the company for some sort of reset. But the right way of doing this is a higher friction process that could require phone engagement, in person notarization, etc. It's certainly not to make this reset process part of the every day login experience based on this mistaken idea that passwords are always insecure.
But you don't get to have that! You get the "insane" syntax oh bash, encapsulated in a ridiculously verbose and frankly quite unintuitive JavaScript contraption that seems to provide little, if any, benefit.

Also, Shell scripting is mostly about correctly and safely interacting with other CLI-based tools - which this new thing wrapping a shell (and badly at that, see other comments in this thread) won't help you get right, either.
The PayPal reimbursement thing has been going on since Amazon changed their review rules a couple of years ago.

If you ask me, the new Verified Purchase shill reviews since the rules changes are worse for shoppers than the shill reviews with disclaimers (which were always easy to spot and ignore).

It's a good example of "be careful what you wish for".
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> as there’s no reasonable motivation to do so.
China is the only major economy to have done well during the pandemic. Not saying that it was intentional but it seems somewhat naive to say there is no reasonable motivation to do so.
How about Foot? https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
I didn't know alacrity was supported on Windows. Can it be used in place of putty as well?
Composite Video: Why it was good then, and why you might even use it today
This was way more interesting than I thought it would be. (Assuming this is accurate) The answers offered are not what I expected.

Well, roughly speaking, the prison population for a given crime is:

Occurrence Per Year x Report Rate x Solve Rate x Conviction Rate x Prison Sentence Length.

In all of those, American ranks either high or very high.
For example, on Solaris and FreeBSD, it is possible to force-unmount a filesystem. on Linux it is not.
I used to use termite, but switched to kitty for ... reasons I can't remember now.

Does alacritty support ligatures yet? I've been using kitty because it does, but then I have issues with tmux in kitty ... I know, I want my cake and eat it
News sources should not be using direct quotes for their article titles. That's just a way to skirt the illusion of unbiased reporting.
The line of thought about the state of the Emperor is quite tragic and interesting.

Seriously hoping for more Rogal Dorn lore in the upcoming books set around the siege of terra.

The transcript--

>>https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/bdcfb...
How do you define tangible?