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The reality is that popularity is hugely important for programming languages. Tooling is important, but you'll only get good tool support if you're popular; there are what, two and a half full IDEs out there, and at least for certain kinds of languages, having first-class support in those IDEs is a much bigger difference maker than anything you can do at an actual language design level. Similarly for things like having big hosted repositories with lots of libraries available, and first-class support in official SDKs.

Don't get me wrong, I wish programming language competition was less zero-sum than it is, but sticking our heads in the sand about it doesn't help.
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yeah, that's a lot of iterations :-)

I was curious to see how my M1 compares to my intel 2019 macbook pro:

M1:

/tmp/tt 8.42s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 8.435 total

2,6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7

/tmp/tt 15.69s user 0.03s system 98% cpu 15.888 total

/tmp/tt 15.69s user 0.03s system 98% cpu 15.888 total
My personal website is still based on PHP, after using XML/XSLT for a short while, I rewrote it in PHP 5 shortly after it became available.

While at work, it has been mostly Java JEE/ASP.NET since they exist.

When I play around with WebGL, it is all JavaScript modules and script tags, nothing else.

No babel, no webpack, no npm, nothing, just browser standard capabilities.

Fully agree with your point of view.
So I should be forced to sell shares early? I have no problem with paying tax due I am not in US BTW

And some countries think and I agree that people having a stake in your employer and in the economy through share ownership is a good thing.
We'll never get those things right at first. That's why - specifically the more complex code you talk about - stuff should be isolated with clearly defined interfaces, known or no side-effects etc. Only then its possible to reorganize and refactor the code when you figure out how it actually should be.

For example, the car driving example: what about the drivers license you need? All the traffic regulations you have to follow? Also gotta buy or rent a car to be able to drive one. What do you do if your car breaks down? Maintenance?
I personally am with Noam Chomsky on this one: I think it is absurd to conclude that consciousness is an illusion, it is one of two phenomena in the universe that every human being can prove to themselves exists through experimentation, in part ocular using Descartes' evil demon thought experiment. We can all directly observe that it exists.
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Would you describe the issues and differences between Chrome and Firefox when it comes to developing for nettu-meet?
This batching is called Lightning network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network
That's not really fair. A lot of static sites simply don't need JS at all but they're built with it because it's deemed "best practice". My latest website, for example, has zero Javascript in it.

So much content is published in Github READMEs (typically markdown) and while Github itself will have Javascript elements, it does demonstrate that you don't need Javascript heavy sites to publish content.

I honestly think half the time the front end best practices are based around what's more intellectually interesting for developers rather than what is genuinely a better website.
Better at giving head?
Anyone have recommendations for protecting windows server from ransomware?
But then you're serving 100% faulty.

Error rates (as alert thresholds and end user reporting) are a service thing, not a node thing.
Was it trained on IRC? This is what I got:

is your job going to be nonexistant

for 12 years?

<raju> hi all

<ubuntu-studio> someone please help me with this, I have windows 7 on a usb and when i boot from it my ubuntu 10.10 iso does not
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The point was to show that the OP has a false-confidence in their arguments that could easily be countered by more nuanced takes on mask wearing.

No one is doubting mask efficacy, just their degree of efficacy. All of the studies shown do not justify mandating the use of cloth or disposable masks outdoors, or even indoors. They all show that people should be wearing M95s or better if they want substantive protection.

What you're suggesting is akin to wearing gloves in public - which while probably somewhat safer, is not really a key driver of stopping spread.

What's worrying is that not only are your arguments heavily flawed, but we can extrapolate 99% of your political views just by looking at one of your scientific takes. For anyone wondering, no I'm not a Republican.
What a weird part of my comment to take out of context and fixate on...
I think the advantage would be that you can use it on Windows versions not supporting AppLocker... (e.g. home). Anyway, as far as I understand it, it actually uses the same underlying mechanism as AppLocker.
>Also, it might be difficult to get every merchant in the country to be able to accept bitcoin.

How's the Internet infrastructure in El Salvador?
20 years is not very long term. Kepp in mind that Bosch was founded in 1886. If Amazon keeps up like this for the next one hundred years, I will fully agree with you.
I thought LLVM's LD was pretty good, but I'll have to give this a read.
Land ownership is a totally abstract idea anyways it's just been a thing for longer.
They don't look good on candidates that use github driven resume applications.
Yes, those are valid and important considerations. In this case it didn't need to be a shippable binary, it was just run internally. We had the infrastructure to seamlessly handle a mix of Python and C++, and the team members were familiar with both languages - other than the exceptions noted above.

This was a set of geographic data importers for some messy data in a variety of formats from multiple countries. The data quality was so bad that north and south were sometimes reversed, or even worse, north and west would be reversed, among many other problems.

This required a lot of ad hoc code to clean up the data. It was originally written in C++, with all the data importers linked into a monolithic binary with an eight-minute build time for a one-line change. (Or a half-hour for a full build.) So if you spotted one data error and wanted to clean it up, it was an eight-minute wait to try your code.

When I changed it to use a Python front end that cleaned up the data and fed it to a simplified C++ back end for the compute intensive part, the C++ code hardly ever had to be rebuilt, and there was no build time at all for the Python part. So you could explore the data interactively and easily figure out how to clean it up.

Technically, this was a huge win.

Socially, not so much.

OTOH, if you ever interview me and ask the "behavioral" questions: "Tell me about a time when a project went really well" and then "Tell me about a time when a project didn't go so well", I can use this episode for both questions!
I’ve seen this with old version of memtest that notices memory that has not been properly reserved by the BIOS still is changed when you attach USB devices.

Chances are this is an easy way to break into the processor system management mode that is supposed to be reserved for the firmware.
"implies that after lithium harvest, the remaining water can be treated as freshwater. Hence, the process also has a potential to integrate with seawater desalination to further enhance its economic viability."
That doesn't meant it IS desalinated yet. It "implies" and has "potential"...isn't the same.
Another exception would be gaming videos where Twitch is rather popular. Sure, many Twitch users will re-upload their streams on YouTube (no reason not to, YouTube is a popular platform still even in gaming), but most of the revenue will actually come from Twitch. That said, for most videos YouTube is realistically the only choice.
The idea behind it is that it is useful beyond the accounting.

Gold has a very little intrinsic value. Decorative and tool making value due to its physical properties are there but they are minor comparatively.

BTC has none. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a value, of course but it’s simply a value within a certain ecosystem.
I think the point is, that the society as a whole should support public tax records. Finland (and Sweden) does.
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Sure I'd guess there are multiple options for this, my point was that one (or more) would be needed for this to be practicable for small transactions.
> Isn't ASML a dutch company? How is Europe not a leader?

The same reasons why the US doesn't have much presence any more:

1) Environment protection and emission laws: just look at the Silicon Valley, half of it is a Superfund site from decades of silicon manufacturing.

2) Lack of skilled and experienced (!) engineers

3) For Europe: lack of access to the many billions of dollars that a fab build requires

4) Cost: No matter what you do, simply alone due to wages, real estate and raw material cost, US and European-made components will always be more expensive than Asia-made. The military can afford it to specify "homemade" as requirement, but everyone else will be going with whoever is the cheapest option. Yes we have a bit of a supply stretch at the moment ("thanks" to shitcoin miners and fuck-ups by automotive), but this will even out sooner or later and the prices return to their old normal level, which means a domestic production won't be cost-effective any more, which in turn means it's hard to get funding for such a project from banks.

The only way out is massive government investments and subsidies.
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I would rather go with WebComponents and lit-html, but I share the same sentiment.
Some within the industry have been making noise that Google is quietly and slowly taking control of the whole trip funnel. Interesting read:

https://www.cartrawler.com/ct/digital-disruption/googles-ste...

I'd agree that providers are ceding too much control to Google for short-term wins, maybe without even realising the power they're handing over to Google.

Google is quietly inserting themselves between the customer and the business in all sorts of industries. They're not fully utilising that power which only makes them a benevolent (for now) dictator.
+1 for UNRAID.
PoW mining is a way to export energy, and they can do it much further than to immediate neighbors.

BTC is a bit like transferrable electricity. Whether that makes it good or bad for the world is certainly... debatable.
> What is the issue around moderators of a service you signed up for, contacting you via the email you provided to use this service?

My email address is personal data and as such it's legally required to be

collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further
processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes

Using it to contact me about my comments as a moderator is not compatible with using it to reset my password, which is the only specified, explicit purpose that I (could have had) supplied it for.
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The issue with that approach is that the next addon developer who comes up with something as useful as uBlock will not be able to develop that. Legacy carveouts protect past innovations but not future ones.
I don’t know how it actually works but MacOS has driverless network scanning as well, the scanner announces itself on the network and applications like Preview can use a standard dialog to acquire images.

Of course if there is just one party who tells you what to do it’s not that hard. The manufacturer just has to swallow their pride and do it.
This is sort of being done right now, as dynamic languages have begun to adopt gradual typing... at least Python and Julia, that I know of.

If something like [JET.jl](https://github.com/aviatesk/JET.jl) become ubiquitous in Julia, one could add a function that pointed out all the places in the code where types are not fully inferred by the compiler.

It'll never be quite the same level of safety as a static language, however.
The point is that the process of bitcoin adoption is in fact a massive huge wealth-redistribution mechanism between adopters. Making people extraordinarily rich just because they were the first to buy a new currency and other people extraordinarily poor just because they were the last isn't probably something most people would agree with.
OK but then considering your definition, I'd disagree. Bitcoin but more importantly general purpose blockchains (e.g. ETH) give rise to digital economies where real people can participate and earn money through work. Since 2019, I've now - for multiple months - been able to make an income by coding for various DAOs. Surely, BTC/ETH was used for accounting. But the social structures that formed and enabled me to have an income I can pay my rent with are of value to me and only existed because of the blockchain's technological capabilities (e.g. smart contracts). Ergo, there's intrinsic value beyond accounting.
Ownership is abstract, there are communities where the concept is rejected but the land has intrinsic value regardless of the claims of those who use it.

Capitalist, Communist or Anarchist - the land doesn’t care, it grows the tomatoes the same way.
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Doesn't Python have Decimal?
Counterpoint: build steps allow for the creation of batteries-included systems that magically do things right, instead of requiring the engineers to do it manually and know about it. This allows for horizontal scaling of workforces (just add more people and train them just enough to be proficient), and keeps knowledge requirements of new engineers low (e.g. they don't need to know about image minification and compression because the build steps takes care of that).

I do greatly enjoy no-buildstep projects for the same reasons as you've mentioned, but when working with others I've also seen them fail because of knowledge gaps in more junior engineers. Provisioning a server and CI/CD pipeline to build your projects is a lot easier than ensuring that everyone working on a project has all of the required knowledge to keep it nice and performant at runtime.
Important to note though that Dresden was already the semiconductor "hotspot" of East Germany (along with Carl Zeiss in Jena which produced the manufacturing equipment).

AMD also had a fab until around 2008 in Dresden.
And ASMI too.

Signify is another subsidiary, the former lightning division from Philips.

Philips itself is doing very well in medical equipment. A sensible, sustainable and profitable pivot: in an age where every Chinese factory can churn out toasters or radio's with near zero margins, it makes little sense to remain worlds' leader in toasters or radio's.
Would you mind posting some examples of the kind of cards you have in Anki?
what does a done race have to do with a loitering munition ?

have you seen a harop? its huge,its built to fly slow and for a long while and carry big payload and has zero evasion capability
Would that be an autocorrect from CAD/CAM?
There is a style rule on the site that makes everything (including text) almost white. I am using Chrome 91 on Mac.

* {
background: #fbfcff;
}

Disabling that rule or using reader mode helps to read the article.
They have the capacity to be bad, but for example Apple (who are in a similar place WRT this) started with apps you can’t remove and has now made most of them removable; and last time I looked (a while ago now) many unremovable Android apps came from the phone vendor.

I’m all in favour of keeping companies under a close eye to make sure they don’t become an abusive monopoly — my naïve political philosophy is that power should be conserved, so the more e.g. economic power you have the less e.g. free market choice you should be allowed — but I don’t see in Google[0] what you see in them.

Also? If they can easily become a natural monopoly, decentralisation won’t solve anything in the long term.

[0] nor Apple, Netflix, Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, or Microsoft; but that is how I see Facebook and Amazon.
You mostly play the vanilla game of Minecraft without programming. The survival loop is to mine resources in order to craft better tools that allow you to explore, build, and defeat enemies.

You can get a lot of mileage out of it this way and never touch the programming side. It is an all time bestseller for good reason.

There is an in game material called redstone that is used for simple electrical engineering and circuitry. The devices can play music, push blocks around, open doors, fire arrows, run train cars, and other applications.

The programming starts with command blocks, which can use redstone triggers to execute keyword commands.

There are a bunch of mods that can add automation through programming. For instance, programming a mining robot to drill out a tunnel, using Lua.

Mod programming itself would often be in Java, and add new game entities or systems. This can get fairly advanced and there are some total conversion mods (eg some Pokemon clones).

There are other fun games that are more like programming, like those from Zachtronics. So why Minecraft? It's fun and familiar, and provides a massive canvas for creativity that fires the imagination.
Forget Lightning— Did you know you can transfer Bitcoin from one user to another on Coinbase with zero transaction fees instantly? Any exchange can do the same. Centralized layer two scales just fine for many use cases and is working today.
That is much faster than I imagined. About +25ppm per decade. We'll easily reach 500ppm in 30 years.
Sounds like you grasp the key concepts of decentralization :)
I think for smaller day to day transactions people are using Lightning or an app like Strike that is really using lightning underneath. For years now the problems of TX per second, fee, and speed have been worked on. https://strike.me/ is a Paypal like app that's built totally on Lightning and they just got setup in El Salvador recently. I think Jack Mallers and Strike are probably one of the main reasons were seeing this BTC law happen there now.
Product liability to the masses likely weighs much heavier as a concern to the developers of Chrome than does any harm done to “advanced users”. Beginner users often do what advanced users tell them too, anyhow.
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I see commits in github, but there are no releases. 9.0-beta was tagged just before the acquisition and there is still no 9.0 release, which is a bad sign.
Surely if you look via godmode on earth, you can even ascribe intrinsic value to it in the case of complet societal collapse where there's only tribes fighting for tomatoes. But is that a useful view?
This is highly interesting to me (very bad vision thanks to keratoconus, can't stand contacts, and trying to wear my glasses less often for reasons). I can't wait to see this extension available for Safari (and on iOS 15 too!)
I struggle a bit with perception of how much I've slept. It can often feel like I've been awake the entire night, aware, thinking, I swear I must dream of lying in bed awake.
Works fine for me, both in Firefox and Chromium.
Friendly reminder that Bitcoin was originally envisioned to replace central banks and debt-based money. Communities with these interests tend to be very antisemitic.
“Right on time”

It was originally scheduled to open in 2007
> But I doubt they have the balls to compete against their customers, which is a shame.

Regulators will block this.
"you can sink a ship"

What if it was a large artificial island?

"Because the whole point of seasteading is to not follow those nations' rules."

There are many small tax havens out there with no self defence forces that don't get invaded. Why would a seastead necessarily not be able to enter into the same category as these?

Just with a little bit of imagination - the seastead island could be build next to a small/medium sized poorer country with some existing naval presence and come to some agreement with them to be a special economic zone of sorts, but with its own autonomous government. The agreement could be set up so as to be economically enticing to that country, while satisfying the seastead's need for self defence, and therefore be a win-win situation that goes ahead. The seastead could pay some tax money to this country for that purpose (right-libertarians usually believe in publicly funded defense).

This is not a perfect situation for the seastead. They're at the whims of that single country and whomever rises to power next. But it working out seems entirely plausible to me if the agreement is legitimately win-win. Especially in the context of having five distinct islands set up and allowing them to compete for citizens - even if one collapses, the ones that had better agreements with their neighbors will survive and grow.

It's not guaranteed to work, there are a number of failure modes I can think of (along with possible ways to remedy those) - such as the US pressuring the small country that's helping the seastead, but it's not as doomed to fail as others are making out, in my view.
Just a supplier of certain machines for the process doesn't make you a successful foundry. I.e. ASML heavily relies on Laser technology by Trumpf Werkzeugmaschinen (a German company) - which besides Laser technology is mostly in the sheet metal machine business. Focus on what you can do best, they say.
I'll admit I don't particularly want to think about dogs giving head (I can't stop laughing)
If I'm writing frontend code alone, I do it by hand. In a team, these heavy tools become important to keep some sort of cohesion. Even then, I'm not entirely sure.

Nonetheless I had a good cycle the other day when I had to pull 400 MB of Javascript to build a single static page.
Yep, good point. That’s how it comes cross.
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As ProPublica notes, taxation of wealth is rare, but far from unheard of. The historical basis for property taxes (in the 18th century) was that they were the primary source of wealth, so it's somewhat ahistorical for anyone to argue that taxation of "wealth" is novel or radical.

Adam Smith argued for a "land value" tax in "The Wealth of Nations", after all.

I think the ProPublica piece properly points out that such taxes are _unpopular_—justifiably or not; I have noted elsewhere that one of the primary concerns, of capital flight, is probably inapplicable to the US, which already has a global tax on residents and a burdensome reporting requirement in place.
This plus a CMS. Writing is a separate activity for me. I also like that it handles tags, metadata and pagination for me. Templating and thumbnail generation is also nice.
> > Now that explicit racism is no longer the norm

> It remains the norm in many places IME, including on the Internet and in many private conversations with white people.

If you insist on grouping and stereotyping people by their race then you are the one that is perpetuating racism.
Processor design was a required class during my undergraduate, and from what I’ve heard several other universities have very similar classes.