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faster horses.

win32 applications, linux gui applications.

java applets for rich UIs for websites (javascript was a joke).
These two new books on OS and performance are probably worth to explore and study:

[1] Operating Systems Foundations with Linux on the Raspberry Pi: Textbook

[2] Systems Performance (2nd Edition)
Wow, that's a 3-4 order of magnitude difference.
> because their best employees are staying but it’s really just the stock price

What is the point of hiring the "best" employees except as an optimization of the stock price?
Yep, if someone wants a house, go have one built. Oh wait, everyone wants a house in a developed area, then bitches and moans they can’t afford it.
Once lumber prices correct, I think we'll see a housing market correction in urban areas.

The combination of covid adaptation to remote work and Starlink rural broadband has the potential to be a major market force.

In DFW, we're already seeing a lot of this as more and more people move out of the city to rural farmland where their money goes a lot farther.
Heh I toy around with a lot of retro networking/telecom stuff. Mostly ISDN and X.25, but a little Frame Relay and I’ve also considered purchasing some equipment to toy with ATM. I find it more interesting than the IP monoculture we have now.
I really believed computers would make people smarter, better informed, able to make more rational decisions. They'd understand and trust science more, make better political decisions.

We even had a slogan for it: "computers are bicycles for the mind": https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/12/21/steve-jobs-bicycle-...

I was so naive...
Linux did eat the world, in the form of Android and all its variations. Every TV, most cellphones, many game consoles, and even your watch, are all probably running a Linux kernel.

(And there's also ChromeOS, eating the education sector.)
> The only policy solution would be to strongly emphasize dense high-rise development.

We don't need more high rises, we need more medium density 3-6 story buildings, that gets you more density far cheaper than high rises. Melbourne in particular has a lot of areas that are still single family houses with good public transport walking distance from the CBD, unfortunatley NIMBY's across the full political spectrum don't want this increased density.

At the federal level they want high immigration, but at the local level they don't want immigrants to have anywhere to live in their suburb. Until local and federal policies align one way or the other housing prices will continue to increase.
Ultimately the proof is in the pudding. With Tesla FSD you can drive the highways from New York to Boston without any issues. I am sure there are many more routes across the country that can also be driven like that. Definitely not L5, but it works. Yet to see that from any other automaker, LIDAR or not. As far as I am concerned, great job Tesla! Keep it up, I am sure you will work through more tougher problems.
I don't think you have much losses in the transfer, the strap is probably efficient. Although they would be extra so you are correct.
Most houses that people can afford are built more than 20 years ago though.
Bret Victor alluded to these pieces in his digs on APIs:

https://vimeo.com/71278954
> Their calls for separation are another sign that driving away the non-French may be the real goal... [...] If you're too isolated from the rest of the world, the rest of the world will move on without you.

Why do you see being independent as isolating from the world? I see it more as directly integrated rather than in a diluted way. I have noticed most countries don't undo their independence willingly, so it must not be that bad.
at what point is libertarianism just white mans techno tribalism?
You’re probably joking but TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) is a real thing. In which electromagnetic fields are used to stimulate the brain from the outside.
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As a former "honors"-program student, I found that the main value of the program was the group of like-minded peers, whom took their educations seriously, were competitive on academics, extracurriculars, and other achievements. The actual material wasn't terribly different than the regular classroom.

I had also been in regular classrooms, where the "cool kids" were the ones who weren't "keeners", goofed off in class, who had sexual experiences the earliest or who would drink and do drugs at a young age.
Of course, I guess there's no perfect isolation. A friend at Amazon set me up a video call last year with an SA at AWS (Seattle/NW) so I could inquire about working there. It sounded pretty cool but I wasn't sure. I didn't think that AWS consulting was much of a thing, since my experience client-side has been that AWS will advise but not build. Anyway, irrelevant to this thread. Not sure consulting is much better away from AWS as in my world, it's 90% dependent on the client you're with and boy have I had some awful projects.
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masterclass.com has a ton of interesting stuff.
The key word is definitely performance. But people generally don't call actors liars for doing their job.

One should not pretend that social media is a place to broadcast your unedited inner-most feelings. It's media. Even if you are honest, it doesn't mean you're good enough at expressing yourself that what you intend to come across actually does. If you don't feel you'd be confident expressing yourself millions of people on prime-time television, you shouldn't feel confident expressing yourself to millions of people on twitter.
"equitY = "equal outcome"
"inclusive model of education" = "we want to handicap top students" equivalent to participation badges
We don't want feelings hurt, and we don't want people to feel that 'they're not good enough' because they didn't work as hard as the honors students do.

"Education officials don't like that some higher-achieving students are sorted into environments where they are more likely to succeed than their less-gifted peers, and would prefer to keep everyone officially at the same level to the greatest extent possible"
So cut out all the variance, flatten the peaks, normalize the median, who cares if people are held back for the sake of 'equity'

Bland mediocrity in our world coming full force.
What do some call it? Communism? Social Marxism?
time for it to go mainstream. this adult video brought to you by coca cola. open happiness.
I had hoped by now that computing fabrics would be a thing. Just a grid of 4x4 bit look up tables each loaded from RAM, to allow rapid reconfiguration, and clocked like a chess table, so there wouldn't be any race conditions to worry about. You could scale it to billions of gates, route around hardware faults, and stuff would just work. Instead we got FPGA hell.
I assume you've read it. But for other readers of this thread, Eric Hoffer's book The True Believer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer

Is a great exploration of educated people becoming extremists. It's an easy read and the literal origin of the phrase 'True Believer' in modern English
Keyboards and mice being supplanted by touch or gesture is only true for phones and tablets, which are new devices that really aren't equivalent to the general computing devices in the 90's: desktops and laptops. If anything, I'd say that tablets are just televisions that became small, light, and interactive, and smart phones are partly that and partly handheld gaming devices with multiplayer capability. Neither are equivalent to a computer (though they have computers built-in.)

Of course, as a software developer, I've always used computers differently than the masses. The computers I need are far more powerful than anything they need.
It is a tabloid for the funding size. But unlike the usual tabloid, it has the other side which basically support one specific social grouping - liberal, status quo with aspiration to democracy by peaceful means (old man wish, think of martin lee and cardinal zin etc.), June 4 rememberance... That is not the young one newspaper and hence not really in the core of the movement. But it is the bedrock for a lot of anti-communist people in Hong Kong. That is why with any excuse it would be removed. Like the legislature now just of communist supported puppet, removing apple daily will left mostly pro-communist groups. Or at least dare nit to say anything groups of media.

And the way the police and court deal with it, there is just an arbitrary rule on Hong Kong.

It is the end of liberal (general sense or you can use free) Hong Kong.
Given the mileage of towing a vehicle with its brakes on, I can't imagine it wouldn't be more efficient to just tow the stranded vehicle to a charger.
Wow, that's a blast from the past. When i was like 12, one of the only computer books my public library had was on VRML.
Right? Tech was going to level the playing field for everything. In a way it did...in so far as it concentrated a lot of wealth and thus 'leveled the playing field' for us losers.
> An interface in a component object model can be made only of properties.

Yes, I addressed this case. It can be done, but it rips the “object” out of it — you’re no longer sensibly organizing things under an “OOP” paradigm, but something else altogether. You’re quite directly reducing the “object” to a struct.

> Secondly most languages with OOP support aren't Smalltalk/Java, rather multi-paradigm, e.g. Objective-C, Component Pascal, C++, Delphi, Python, among others when Component Programming came into CS papers for the first time.

That’s fine, but doesn’t really support a case that it’s an “OOP” architecture/mindset/organization. In fact, that rather undermines your case..? A language that isn’t interesting in being purely OOP (is anyone?) is happy to introduce an arbitrary construct is not an argument that the construct must therefore be “OOP”

> To argue that Component Programming is not OOP is just religious hate that shows lack of knowledge regarding CS literature.

It’d be more about diluting the term into nothingness — closures are a poor man’s objects, and objects are a poor man’s closures. It’s technically true, but it wouldn’t be useful to go ahead and describe all functional programming as “OOP”, because the main interest in defining the terms is to indicate architectural and logical flow/patterns one would expect under such a paradigm/organization.

Interfaces and classes with no defined methods looks and feels much closer to Haskell and C than it does C#, python and smalltalk.

OOP is not a technical definition. It’s an organizational strategy, and the term itself is just a marker on a continuum. Everything is OOP, and nothing is, just as all things are Turing machines. But that’s not the point.
https://www.space.com/hubble-space-telescope-recovers-from-g...
Everyone knew the internet was going to change things massively. It’s just that nobody with any sort of power in the industry knew how exactly things were going to change.
A lot of people overshot by trying to work on video streaming, video chat, document editors (Google Docs like) decades before the technology got there. Microsoft had a demo of Excel running in the browser by 1999.
No, it quite explicitly states this is "fast" (e.g. home) charging and NOT even v1 supercharger speeds.

"putting back electricity into the batter at a rate of 65 kW - not quite Supercharger speeds, not even V1 or V2 Superchargers that could muster up to 150 kW, but still pretty decent."
> 4k - 1 model older than M1. I don't mind buying a Homepod to enable it (I'm not happy about it, but less happy about being forced to do it with iOS devices not designed explicitly for hearing you anywhere in the room), but to my knowledge commands from the Homepods won't make it to Apple TV. Am I wrong?

My brain didn't register the "hands-free" part of your comment. I think you're partially right but not completely.

I have a pair of HomePods hooked up to my Apple TV 4k and I can do basic hands-free commands like "Hey Siri, pause", "Hey Siri, continue", or "Hey Siri, go back 20 seconds".

But more advanced commands like "Hey Siri, open YouTube" don't work - you still need the remote to navigate around afaik. I agree with you though, it would be cool to have much more advanced support with HomePods and Apple TV. I want to be able to navigate the interface with no remote at all.
I love EL. Its stable and just works. It is the best distro I have found for what i need.
Sacrifices right? While one group goofs off, does the minimum to get by, who for one reason or another are satisfied with mediocre grades...
another group is sacrificing these things to develop their skills, it's not just in academia.
I know people who worked hard on their Math, others worked hard at the Track/Sports, others worked at music instruments, and other activities and became top in our school.
Sure, they had higher nerd status than the rest because they spent more time studying than socializing - but trust me, they didn't miss much.
It doesn't seem like TCP/IP is ever going to die. The closest standard to killing it was OSI.
Probably a lot of people hoped for the demise of Javascript.
If you apologize to a person you hurt it needs to be done privately, without any way for them to produce evidence that you apologized.
Your front end still takes the weight under any deceleration event. That's why FWD cars still squat in the rear on acceleration.
>>"we want to handicap top students"

Why do you think this is true?
We've considered things like that over the years, but I think these and similar ideas suffer from a common flaw: people who disagree about X would disagree about reasons for upvoting/downvoting X or the level of "epistemic strictness" re X. So you'd just get the same arguments repeated at a meta level, which would not be a win.

I'm sorry to sound so dismissive; it's at least partly because I'm writing hastily. I don't mean to reflexively put down new ideas and I know it's all too easy to come across that way. At the same time, we're not going to add more metaness to HN because it actually goes against the core value of curiosity. Metaness has a peculiar attraction but it's not intellectual curiosity; I've sometimes called it the crack of internet forums.
In terms of Apple, I consider it a bad thing, full stop. Although that doesn't mean there are some benefits to it, but overall, awful. Real walled gardens are a totally cool option. I vastly prefer natural forests and meadows, but I'm cool with people having what they want. Because they have a choice. I can't have Apple software anywhere but their walled garden, which sucks.

I'll take the wild, chaotic natural environment over a walled garden any day of the week. So much more interesting, even though there is danger.
> Anyone who already owns anything would want to keep things as they are. Feels like a very central political problem.

Indeed, jt is perhaps the most central political problem: how does a class that doesn't have power wrestle it from those who already have power?

As for the name, how about "human history"? :)
Was that when they were still promising 10 or 20Ghz CPUs by 2010?
Yeah im well aware of that. But teenage obesity is not nearly as much of a problem as e.g. adult diabetes (~33%), breast cancer and colorectal cancer. Teens don't watch their peers struggle in and out of the car in the hospital parking lot for surgery. We need followups to adolescent health education in adulthood.
Germanium and Gallium Arsenide. Seymour Cray bet a lot on it for the Cray 3.
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Sure, it may raise the skill levels of one group and at the cost of another group who is held back because of the pace.
That’s not what communism is
OK, I got what you're saying now, thanks! I got my wires crossed; I thought Newton's method was something else, but I was actually already implementing that.

I think it's a clever idea to use the native square root to seed the guess. That hadn't occurred to me. In my solution, I do integer square roots, and the fixed just dispatches to that, so I could drastically improve my guess if I used the native square root there. Nice idea!

I use pi just for normalization of the light power: https://github.com/aquach/from-nand-to-raytracer/blob/main/r...

And I don't use trig. I mention it just for fun. In the original Rust raytracer tutorial, they use trig to set up the field of view, but I hardcoded it to 90 degrees to remove the trig.
This is a fun little project, and I am happy it got posted. I have to laugh a little, though, considering that many of my clients have started asking for unsmart, just-a-display units!
Opening up a Linux tab in the open source Windows Terminal from Microsoft would have seemed like dark magic to someone in the '90s. Or maybe I am a witch...
They should be able to issue their own currency and pay volunteer workers in it !
Parent comment is referring to any crude joke or non-inspired replies regarding the peeing in bottles situation (which isn’t isolated to Amazon alone)
I disagree for a few reasons. First, why is the memory limit so low? Like I said, 16gb RAM, yet using just 30% of that total is too much? Secondly, I simply don't believe it is entirely ethical to consume all of the content with none of the ads. I deal with the egregious ad situation by visiting those sites infrequently -- visiting once every few months as opposed to every day, or skipping those links when they appear in a search result. But most sites, I believe it is a fair tradeoff to view an ad or two in order to read their site. Third, I would likely reach the memory limit without any greatly offending tabs... Google Maps is a big memory hog, many government sites are as well, and more.
I never imagined the Great Machine that wiped out the Krell would be a social network…
GP almost certainly meant losses in the transfer from mechanical energy to chemical energy by way of the cars motors being used as generators, then charging the batteries.
Exactly. The consequences are too abstract to rate as important.
Kids at the bottom need more help than kids at the top. That's Marxism? I thought it was common sense.
Mercurial scaled better actually. It's 1 of the reasons Sun, Mozilla, and Facebook used it instead of Git.

Typically Git was a bit faster for most operations on Linux. Mercurial was a bit faster for other operations. Especially on Windows. And both were much faster than the rest.

Bitbucket and GitHub started around the same time. GitHub just executed better.
I'm curious who that one UBC prof is claiming to be victims of the "racist" honors programs. Vancouver is like 80% white or Asian (including South Asian) [1]. The disadvantaged groups in California: Latinos and Blacks, make up <3% of Vancouver in 2016. Aborigines similarly make up 3%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Metro_Vancouve...
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Or the law was reasonable and people actually hurt society by not following it, so we have to enforce it better.

In the case of speeding it is well known that higher speeds leads to more traffic deaths so we can easily calculate the death toll of people going 85 instead of 55 and implement appropriate measures to reduce that.
After a recent update, i know that my bluetooth started intermittenly disconnecting and reconnecting. Continuous connectivity problems. Not a coincidence.
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thats not guaranteed for every new hire, its upto you to negotiate that upfront.
"Education officials don't like that some higher-achieving students are sorted into environments where they are more likely to succeed than their less-gifted peers, and would prefer to keep everyone officially at the same level to the greatest extent possible."
Hong Kong was nice while it lasted.
Because they take away the forum for them to demonstrate their ability. Would you be against ranking students? Then when you apply to college or jobs how would I demonstrate my abilities?
Adult diabetes is mostly a follow up to teenage obesity though. Being obese is not fun, even if you're just a teen.

> We need followups to adolescent health education in adulthood.

Sure, but having a basis in high school wouldn't hurt.
Counter point: maybe the regular classrooms develop that culture because all the gifted students were removed and it creates an echo chamber and a self fulfilling prophecy.
Having looked around a bit lately, it seems to me that if you don't buy in a major metro area, and you buy a house that was built in the 1950s, you pay something that, inflation-adjusted, would look reasonable to someone in the 1950s.

But lots of people don't want to live in houses that small. Well, if you want more, you pay more.

And maybe the comparison isn't fair. In the 1950s, those houses weren't 70 years old, but they are now...
> What I find most disappointing is that even processors manufactured TODAY contain these flaws and have performance hits put into the firmware.

The first (private) disclosure of the Spectre vulnerabilities was sometime in mid-late 2017. Partial hardware mitigations launched in 2019 for some Spectre variants, where the mitigations could be easily patched in to already taped-out designs.

Beyond those easy wins, even if foundries weren’t slammed by COVID delays, I don’t think it’s realistic to expect that we’d be any further along? Most of these sidechannels require deep rethinks of the execution pipeline and speculation engines, and fundamentally redesigning those systems, taping out those designs, and finally manufacturing those chips was always going to be a process that was measured in the better part of a decade.
Likes and shares give us a reference for that.

The problem with twitter is that it's 240 characters of 'whatever' and that's not enough to arrive at any truth.

It's usually an emotional loaded de-contextualized statement and that's that.
If you're a programmer and in a first-world country I'm not sure I'd count you as one of the losers. I'm thinking of people in the gig-economy and workers at Amazon warehouses etc...
I feel having a built-in graphics card that's poor also results in terrible performance, even if its just desktop use, things just become slow and laggy.
Skynet won't send terminators. It'll use invisible surveillance, and use automated control systems to gradually increase accident rates and pollute the air, water, and food supplies just enough so that death rates exceed birth rates. Skynet can afford to be patient.
> The only argument I see for owning a house is…

Landlords and property management firms are also often miserable to deal with.

Landlords and property managers need to get job-level accountability the way cab drivers did when Uber and Lyft showed up.

It does no help to complain about a past landlord because you often need them as a reference.

This is an asymmetric power dynamic and landlords take advantage of this.

There are some rules but mostly it seems like only the most egregiously bad landlording gets paid any attention.

Even when a landlord unlawfully evicts people it can tie up renters in courts for years.

Landlords and property managers need to get job-level accountability the way cab drivers did when Uber and Lyft showed up.
This has nothing to do with Windows and everything to do with Discord and Slack deciding not to use dynamic linking.
I don't think it's fair or productive to call someone a wumao, especially xwolfi.

They're clearly not a paid shill.
Rob Pike has a page on this where he laments that Unix-likes and Windows have become the only dominant OSs so OS innovation these days has mostly died. While there certainly is a resurgence of new ideas in OSs like GenodeOS, Fuschia, and others, OS development has slowed down a lot. It makes sense. Every time an OS is rewritten, applications need to make huge fundamental changes to how they work, for little gain for application developers and users. Until there can be a set of incentives to push OS development forward, there won't be much progress.