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This tagging idea resurfaces every few years. I have to confess I don’t really see where the revolutionary improvement is. Filenames are already namespaced tags and symlinks allow for multiple tags. Not quite the same thing, I know, but close enough for tagging to appear to me to be a convenient enhancement rather than something game changing.

And as you imply, when you have a lot of files that you need to organise, you tend to start compiling them into directories.
> When I open a program, I want to use that program. I don't want to update it, I don't want to see all the new features, I want to USE it.

Indeed. Microsoft Office I'm looking at you! I don't think I've ever actually looked at one of those "Hey cool new stuff for you" popups more than trying to identify how to get rid of it as quickly as possible.

And even worse is "Hey here's a new feature we like so we turned it on for you, good luck figuring out where to turn it off again lol"
While I agree with the argument, Figma allows you to save to disk.
Yes. Sinking an aircraft carrier would likely kill several thousand personnel at once. If that doesn't lead to the use of tactical nukes, nothing will.
Right. Maybe it's paranoid, but it seems like a bearer token has potential avenues for forgery (CSRF or others), replay attacks, add-on jacking, etc. Also harder to coordinate with distributed apps. I think the Captain Tightpants approach would be to initialize some client-side private key/cert, use that to sign each request and verify based on that cert.

That should also make it easier to, say, verify and unwrap the request at the gateway to the server, before sending it to the rest of the application-proper.
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Because in practice if you don't push people to update, they just don't update. And then complain about bugs, security issues, bad performance, missing features, etc... all available in the updates they have been postponing for years.
rsync, Syncthing and Nextcloud all fill various levels of syncing needs you may have
For those wondering what this person means:

FHC is socialist, although center-left. Haddad is normal left, fully Marxist but not communist.

Lava Jato corruption... well it is complicated. Lula indeed did deserve to go to jail, but news written by Glenn Greenwald, that is married to a politician with ties to Lula, gave fuel for the Lula appointed supreme court to free Lula (and a ton of other criminals alongside him... they kinda buthered the constitution and also created a serious security issue). That said, the news that Glenn Greenwald reported isn't a lie, Lava Jato did had issues, personally I don't think these issues should have resulted in Lula being freed, but the issues do exist.
No, salted meat wouldn't make a list of the top ten causes of mortality back then. I doubt even the top 100, but I can't say for certain without doing more work than a comment is worth.

Apparently lots of people disagree with something that seems obvious? Source?
The real power of the US lies in Congress and the judicial system. The president is really just an administrative role, and that's over a lifetime bureaucracy that has managed presidential power for decades. Executive orders are more a thing now, but they can be overridden by the next administration. Sure the president has veto power, but even it can be overridden.

Dynasty is what you're thinking, and really, our federal system is designed so one person can't have much power at all, other than the power of the pulpit.

Nothing like a lifetime, and multi-generational monarchy.
I don't think the probabilistic failure model is suggested, merely presented. The author concludes that departing from the stated safety factor is necessarily taking on additional risk.
I don't think sodium accumulates in the body - Na+ and Cl- are both ions which are relevant to a wide variety of cellular processes, and as far as I know your body has a lot of tools for maintaining the balance of electrolytes in the body.

As far as I understand, the health risk associated with excess sodium intake is high blood pressure, i.e. more stress on your cardiovascular system.
I used to feel very strongly against HOAs, but for the past year or so I have been dealing with a neighbor who puts out bulk trash improperly (basically a big pile of random trash) and doesn't call it for pickup so it sits for weeks if not months. This is more than an eyesore. It often includes glass and other items that kids (including theirs) break in the road where I walk my dog. He had a splinter of wood from their garbage pile go straight through his foot, but luckily is fine.

A few houses down the bank owns a house that was a foreclosure three years ago that no one lives in and is falling apart. I guess they were not able to get any money at auction for it so now are just sitting on it until they can write it off as a total loss and sell the property for land value.

Apparently no one can do anything about either problem.
The concept of "accelerating" raytracing operations on a CPU makes almost no sense.

GPUs require acceleration because the memory latency on GPUs is pretty large, caches are small, and GPUs have such huge compute that waiting around for the "next = bvh-tree->left" operation takes a huge amount of time.

By making dedicated acceleration structures and hardware, that latency can be mitigated, and the huge compute capabilities of GPUs can be unleashed.

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In contrast, CPUs are already really good (relatively) at pointer-dereferencing loops. CPUs have less compute and more memory-optimizations (relative to a GPU anyway).
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P.S. Few converters written in Python may be useful for those who has *.ws files:

WordStar2Markdown: https://github.com/kbarni/wsconvert

WordStar2txt: https://github.com/pstankiewicz/wordstar2txt
Don't forget Tandy and Texas Instruments!
There's plenty of cases like this. One that comes to mind is AIM-4 Falcon: afaik they delivered 30 thousands of those missiles, despite the fact that it essentially didn't work.
Except it does not work for those users because automatically managing vast unordered, uncategorized data sets is not a problem we know how to solve. If we knew how to solve that problem, we could just implement it in the existing hierarchical manually-organized paradigm by just having one hierarchical level and dumping all your data into it. Given that the new model fits in the old model, the only reason for demolishing the old model is for efficiency reasons and there is very little in the way of efficiency that can be gained by converting the relatively shallow organizational trees that are commonly used for a single-level store.

Why do I believe we do not know how to solve the problem? As the article inadvertently points out, the unorganized data they want is not accessible and Mac Spotlight, a tool that operates on unorganized data, does an "OK Job, but not a miraculous one". If Apple knew how to super search the vast trove of unorganized data and file formats for content-specific data and always get it right would there be any reason they would not do so? It would clearly be strictly superior to their existing offering. For that matter, they bring up browsing history in Safari which is an even easier problem and also claim it hardly works. For evidence outside of Apple, think of all the in-app search systems that can barely even search plaintext for things you know exist. I frequently have problems with Gmail not finding emails despite giving exact string matches. These problems are all subsets of the proposed problem, which must be solved to solve the harder problem, and which would offer immediate material benefits for their solution yet do not or barely exist.

The problem is not a mismatch between solution and user workflow. The problem is that we do not know how to solve the problem for all meaningful workflows. The best we have achieved is creating and supporting a workflow that allows the problem to be solved in many useful cases. Luckily, if the problem can actually be solved in the future, it can easily be bolted onto the existing solution to test viability before going all-in.
> ... with the dive bombers avoiding running into fighters, ...

The conventional narrative of the battle is that the torpedo bombers (coming in low as part of their standard attack pattern), drew off the IJN figher cover, using up their fuel and ammo. When the dive bombers attacked the IJN fleet, the figher cover wasn't in a position to stop them effectively.

The price paid for this "distraction" (which wasn't planned as such) was steep, the losses among the torpedo bomber squadrons was severe.
I feel like that's what was so unconvincing to me in this article. The only argument they gave against over-engineering was cost. At that point you have to decide how much risk is worth how much in savings. Is a 1% increase in the likelihood of the bridge failing in extreme conditions and killing 10 people worth a savings of $100k? What's a human life worth? What's a low increase in risk to a human's life worth? How much of an increase in the tax rate is reasonable to reduce the likelihood of someone dying due to a structure failing?

On my end, it's pretty easy. Am I personally willing to pay an extra $100 in taxes a year to measurably reduce the likelihood of another resident dying due to structure failure? If there's a quantifiable advantage to the increased cost, then absolutely. Will the increases in my taxes reduce a 4% chance of failure to 3% over 25 years? Heck yeah. Even better, how about we find some other facet of the budget that does not benefit the populace? What business is being subsidized by my taxes that does not benefit anyone who needs the help? There's lots of that here.

Trying to decide whether to cut the weight on an airplane? How much money will it save? What does that do to the price of a ticket? Is a savings of $10 per ticket worth a 1% increase in the likelihood of the plane crashing into a cornfield in the next 10 years? It sure doesn't seem worth it to me.

Honestly, those cost savings don't usually go into decreasing the price of tickets anyway. In my pessimistic view of reality, what actually ends up happening is that I pay that $10 per ticket either way and the reduced cost leading to that reduction in safety for the passengers ends up going into some executive's pocket. So even the argument that reduced costs are a good thing for the average person isn't really an argument at all. The person who might die from the decision is never going to see the benefit anyway and at that point, this starts looking like a pretty terrible deal for the average person.
I read that once but had forgotten it until you reminded me, so thanks!

I was thinking that aqueducts for drinking and irrigation water usually wouldn't be navigable because their waterway is too small (too shallow or too narrow), or, for drinking water, is sometimes covered or enclosed.

Edit: For example, EBMUD has a major aqueduct coming from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardee_Dam

(https://www.ebmud.com/files/cache/f49ff54bdbea934d88a2bfee40... -- none of it navigable or even close!)

while SF Water has a major aqueduct coming from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Shaughnessy_Dam_(Californi...

Both of these use enclosed pipelines and spend a significant portion of their journeys underground!

I think L.A. has something similar. Edit 2: Yep, the enormous and also totally non-navigable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Aqueduct
That's funny, I always think of the house in My Neighbour Totoro as probably the most idyllic place I could imagine. I'd swap my place in relatively central London for it in a heartbeat.
> a successful wargame is about as strong evidence as you can get

Having direct experience with wargames, I have to disagree with this. Wargames are weak evidence that too often lead people to draw unwarranted conclusions from an n of 1. The adjudication of moves by blue and red teams by the white cell is more arbitrary than not, and white cell adjudicators will often rule in ways that continue to present dilemmas for the players for the purpose of extending the experiential utility of the game. Those adjudication decisions are not strictly (nor could they be) representative of reality.

Doing a well-run wargame is very difficult, and doing a sufficient number of them simultaneously in order to test a hypothesis (with an n greater than even 1-2) is almost never done.

Wargames are more experiential and exploratory, they do not generate anything close to evidence.
In my experience, even prestigious journals such as Nature Communications or Genome Biology are not willing to spend resources on professional editing. Most of the effort is passed onto reviewers.

Only Nature, Science, Cell and a few high-end sister journals really put an effort proofreading, editing and adapting figures to the general look and feel of the journal.
Yes. By the end of the war, the USA had more carriers than then entire IJN surface fleet. Never mind all the cruisers, destroyers and such. And the fuel to run them.

The Japanese had absolutely no chance to win the war.
> It is also demonstration how much performance we have left behind as we have adopted laptops as the mainstream computing platform/

I don't know. Desktops simply tend to have a much longer lifespan and so far every new laptop I owned in the past 10 years outperformed my then desktop PC for that precise reason (at the very least in certain aspects like performance per watt).

What I'm rather afraid of is other manufacturers adopting Apple's insane vendor lock-in and total hardware lock-down. Any failure in an M1 system results in complete data loss and a logic board replacement - RAM on SoC, SSD soldered to the board, etc. No more choice and zero upgradability - the oldest components in my current desktop are 12+ years old, but the rest was gradually upgraded (SSD, GPU, CPU, additional RAM, HDD replacements, etc.)

Such things won't be possible in brave new world of SoCs...
Wow! Did the design /UX team not allow that to be an option?

I always thought it should have been the default option. Much like browser save all the tabs when closed, it should have been on by default.
Alcohol has gourmet attributes and is a good social lubricant. The question is more around whether those two attributes warrant ingesting what is essentially poison.

I don't think I've ever heard a cigarette smoker comment on the taste of their cigarette (cigars are the exception here) and the high, especially for regular smokers, is near non-existent. So for cigarettes the initial appeal is much less obvious.

I'd assume most people start smoking due to social pressure/trying to fit in.
Just as a counterbalance to the nay-sayers without information:
I'm also extremely curious about this. Before covid I traveled to Japan about 3-4 times per year, and the hotel fees definitely add up. The tickets are usually manageable if ordered early enough in advance imo.

It's not like the "spring cleaning" mentioned by others is a deal breaker either, it's probably possible to find someone to do some of that for pay if you speak enough Japanese.

Obviously having something close enough to trains / relevant cities might be a long shot, but the payoff would be huge if anything like this existed.

Fingers crossed that someone with insight responds
Clearly enough of a problem that they just simply give up on having a store
That's already been tried before, and it resulted in the US government deliberately poisoning people, widespread organised crime, and a lot of methanol poisoning.

Turns out it's really hard to ban something you can make in a 20 gallon drum from yeast and sugar.
> Also, Intel for the love of God sort out your product names, use a proper system rather than /dev/random Lake

Suffixes are the main thing on Intel's systems.

U -- Ultrabook class 15W.

M -- Previously the standard laptop class 25W.

H / HQ / etc. etc. -- High-performance laptop: 45W. Q for quad-core but that doesn't seem to be a big deal anymore.

T -- Power-optimized Desktop

No suffix -- Standard Desktop

K -- Unlocked Desktop.

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The i5 / i7 is a marketing name, and more about MSRP than anything else. You can mostly ignore it. i7 and i9 are more expensive, while i3 and i5 are cheaper.

The last 3 digits are highly-specific codes within a family. The other digits are the generation number: 8 for 8th generation, 11 for 11th generation. For example, 2700K means 2nd generation Unlocked Desktop processor.

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I personally start with the suffix: if you know someone's looking for a battery life longer than 4-hours, I go with the U-class, then I pick out an MSRP for them (usually i7, but i5 or i3 if they care more about budget).

If the battery life under 2-hours is fine, I push for H-class for the higher performance (though these are usually on 17in laptops).

I stay up to date and make sure that I buy a current-generation, or at worst a "last generation" product if I know that who I'm talking to cares about price. That means that I will recommend a 11th generation i7 to most people, but if people care about price, maybe a 10th generation i7 or a 11th generation i5.
Their games are so inspiring. The formula they employ is so much simpler than the typical "tycoon" or "sim" game (in a good way) and practically begs to be applied to all kinds of different scenarios like farming, restaurant management, film production, animal breeding, all manner of manufacturing... If I ever get back into game development I will probably wind up trying to apply their formula to something novel.
When self hosting is as easy (for your grandma who likes cats) as downloading a container from the Windows Store and double clicking it to open, install and start the server. Then we've truly made leaps and strides in fixing centralization.

Self hosting is hard because ops is hard [1]. People aren't yet in the mentality that you should provide an official modular deployment every time you provide a server binary. Everything-as-a-container wouldn't be the worst way to take the desktop [2]. Isn't that kind of how Apps work on OS X?

[1]: The ironic part is that most people don't keep anything long enough for a hard drive or any other component to fail anymore. So the argument about the cloud abstracting away the physical hardware maintenance for every day consumers like yourself or I is ... dubious.

[2]: Yes.. I just spent the weekend learning nix-build. Goodness, it's super easy to container all the things! :) I'm feeling like a zealot when I start using nix to do what I could have done with a zip file. But there's something magic to having a zip file of assets with its own shell.
Machi Koro is one of my favorites. Easy to learn and play. It's a bit like Monopoly but has some turns mid-game where you can't depend on early game properties and instead make rolls that can compound from them.

For a deception-type game, Secret Hitler has a beautiful official boardgame but you can print out the assets for free if you wanted to try it out. Coup is also a good and easy deception game and extremely fast.

Illimat was backed by The Decemberists and has a fun, ouji-like theme to it. It uses a modified deck of cards and has 4 quadrants that players "plant" and "harvest" cards from. Your main objective is to collect goal points from clearing these fields, and obtaining tokens/tarot cards.

Azul is a very pretty boardgame and has a Spanish/Middle Eastern inspired theme. Players need to pick tiles for their murals strategically and gain points from certain chains.

Sushi Go is my go-to (puns) for new comers and is a deck building game. Get the party edition for max replayability and contains the base, but if you want to try it go for the base. Careful playing it with beverages because spilling can occur and there are A LOT of cards.

Try to buy boardgames from local shops rather than Amazon or big box stores. Workers there can also help you choose a game if you have ideas!

The boardgame field is immensely diverse today and there's something for everyone IMO. We're living in a golden age of options, much like video games in the past 20 years.
One of my friends gave up smoking for exactly a year on a whim, celebrated his success with a cigar, I think largely to rub it in the faces of people who struggled to quit - after a few months smoking again he packed it in permanently. So it doesn't have a strong hold on everybody. A few of my friends reduced their smoking to just a cigar once in a while, others moved to vaping, it is disheartening that then going from vaping to nothing seems to be not really a thing, but at least the vaping doesn't smell atrocious and seems less immediately likely to kill them.
Ever used Linux? ;)
I really wish this article had FEM simulations, or some form of quantitative analysis as to what is going on. I am sure that the detailed Newtonian mechanics of bowling is really quite complex, but as a visual monkey I would like a more informative diagram (or ten)…
I guess I think of HOAs as being organizations that are not necessary and that govern single-family homes. Townhomes that have adjoining roofs and condos that have shared roofs/elevators/hallways/etc. require some sort of governance to handle maintenance of common areas.

It's true that the most egregious complaints about power-hungry board members can be similar among HOAs and condo/coop boards, but in my mind HOAs are different in that they are not strictly necessary.

I would agree that in the areas you mention, $1M doesn't cover a single-family home, or even undeveloped land for a home. But I would guess that many first-time buyers in this area actually buy homes that cost a good deal more than $1M, with cash from IPOs or acquisitions. We got new neighbors after the FB IPO and the Nest acquisition, for example.
If autonomous drones really become that much of a threat then counter-measures will quickly be developed. We already have radar or even just auditory systems that can target drones, and something like a laser might be enough to take them out.
> Imagine getting bent out of shape about the color of your shutters

If you think that that is trivial, imagine how much more trivial and petty it is to get bent out of shape about the color of someone elses shutters.

He's not complaining about not being allowed pink shutters, he's complaining that his neighbours are far too petty because they're getting bent out of shape about the color of someone elses shutters.
When the Video Toaster came out, many production companies had committed to the Mac platform, and pressured NewTek into releasing a Video Toaster for Mac product.

Such a product did come out, in the form of a box that plugged into the Mac's SCSI port with a "special keyboard" for "special commands". The box was, of course, a Toaster-equipped Amiga 2000 with its badge covered by a Video Toaster badge, and the "special keyboard" was the Amiga's keyboard.
So put them in the same directory and be done with it? I’m not really sure what you’re hoping for
Slightly tangential thing I learned: Have you ever wondered why VCR clocks always showed 12:00 and were never set[0]?

It's because people simply didn't bother set the time on the VCR. I learned this from Mikko Hyppönen when he was telling us that people never change the default password on their IOT devices allowing hackers to access the devices and probably use the devices for cryptocurrency mining or launching a DDoS attack.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3a06hk/were_vcr_...