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Actually, being able to build projects much easier from GitHub is the sole reason why I'm currently using Arch as my main OS.

Building a project is just a shell script with a couple of defined functions. Quite literally.

I really admire NixOS's philosophy of pushing the boundaries as a distro where everything, including configurations and modifications, can be done in a reproducible manner. They're basically trying to automate the review process down the line, which is absurdly complex as a challenge.

And given stability and desktop integrations improve over time, I really think that Nix has the potential to be the base for easily forkable distributions. Building a live/bootable distro will be so much easier, as everything is just a set of configuration files anyways.
My understanding is that one of the serious practical downsides to free public transit in American cities is that lots of homeless people use it. This sounds silly (like, isn't that the goal?), but some fraction of those people are smelly and/or scary, and what tends to happen is that anyone who has a choice stops using those parts of the system. And then however one might feel about that outcome, what tends to happen next is that the transit system loses political support and funding.

There's probably a common sense solution somewhere that includes both free ridership and also fairly strong enforcement around loitering and hygeine, but I don't know if any city has managed to really nail it.

Incidentally, I think a lot of similar problems come up in cities that have free public bathrooms. A small number of abusers tend to make those bathrooms extremely unpleasant for everyone else.
That might be a problem with your tooling, but most likely not. I know how to do that in Linux (XCompose) and I've heard there are similar tools in both Windows and MacOS as well. So more likely just a problem of not being aware/proficient with using these tools properly. Typing λ² is 6 keystrokes for me, no touching mouse required. And while maybe not very illustrative in this post, I'd argue it's way more readable than lambda_squared when being a part of long and complex formula.
These collaborative databases curated by people working in the field are usually gems.
I work as a lawyer. When I do brain work such as research, contracts or court meetings, I believe 3-4 hours a day is the max I do continuously. If I have more phone calls, client meetings etc., it's easier to do the 8 hours.
We did this at my new company. One 30 minute scheduled standup. That’s the only meeting we have all week. Of course people are free to jump on a video call to work through stuff, but scheduled meetings are generally discouraged, and to date we only have the one.

Since everyone is contract, we’re seeing an average of about 26 hours per week. It’s by far the most productive team I’ve ever been on or have built. We ship new features weekly. It’s truly an incredible pace, but doesn’t feel hectic like you might think.

I think the contract only + no meetings + no HR (no culture bullshit, no “get to know people” social events, no bullshit) company setup is going to be the future. If you give people the opportunity to work on things they like working on, and don’t make work about anything other than work, you get amazing results.
I felt pretty wrecked when I, mostly because of lack of affordable housing, moved to a team in a location near my home town, and found out every single employee aged <35 had ended up on sick leave. Didn't have any choise but I wish I could have just gotten out of there as fast as I ended up in it.
> SLSA 4 is currently the highest level, requiring two-person review of all changes and a hermetic, reproducible build process.

I'm really glad that reproducible builds are being highlighted here. Potentially they pave the way for an SLSA 5 which requires that two separate entities independently carry out the build process and store the hash of the output in an append-only log somewhere, with their signatures.

Then maybe SLSA 6 could require that every commit on the repo also be signed, and finally SLSA 7 would require that all transitive dependencies themselves be SLSA 6, including the build environments, which would be bootstrapped from a minimal binary seed.

At that point, the question of "Is this software trustworthy?" becomes almost identical to "Is the set of people who wrote and reviewed this software trustworthy?". That may not seem like a big improvement from where we are today, but hopefully it is cheaper to add honest reviewers than to compromise developers.
Outside of religious concerns for LDS, I'd be interested to hear why people are interested in their family trees.

I know one or two anecdotes about my grandparents' parents but have no real interest in learning more about them. Perhaps I am too young to understand the appeal, or perhaps it's a cultural thing?
First two with the highest similarity score to me were banned. Hope that's not predictive!
Yes, Seattle discontinued its mobile homeless shelter program, and instead moved it to occupy city parks and sidewalk greenery.
It can also just be an HR challenge in some organizations. It shouldn’t be, but sometimes organizations can get pretty rigid on how they define jobs and roles.
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He is reinventing Chris Granger's Eve language all over again. I have seen many, many attempts at "functional-reactive programming languages with an Excel-style DB bolted on top" and not a single one has succeeded so far. The biggest reason for failure is that trying to do both tend to result in a half baked platform. The DB /spreadsheet lacks features and the programming language doesn't offer enough functionality/libraries to make apps. OP needs to make a killer application/compelling use case.
This is it exactly - in areas without a "homeless problem" however you want to define that - you have a completely workable solution (example: airport shuttle trains, etc).

Where you have an issue the fare requirement is often used an excuse to enforce a minimum level of "cleanliness" if you will.
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I completely agree with this. I went through the process of learning/attempting to learn haxe earlier in the year. (I was on a nostalgia 'I want to build flash games again' journey)

There is lots of information. But not a lot of direction. I thought about writing some stuff on 'here is how to get started building a game'. But I started running out of steam when I hit some bugs with heaps and the newest version of haxe.
Somewhat related:

You'd think an end user computer HW+OS by now would decouple the UI at a hardware level and figure out how to minimize the performance losses from at least a two-tier design. But, this would require new ground up everything, including new end-user software dev paradigms, and by-design potentially second-tier performance in order to maximize security. This seems insurmountable, of course, but I bet such innovations will emerge this decade.

My money is on whoever can offer fundamental, fully integrated fixes to the whole stack from cloud to edge. Jumpy cursor CPU's, and monolithic internet/endpoints will be an anachronism.

Kudos to Apple for being performance leaders, though. I just find the current assortment of consumer hardware offers weak assurances by default (not everyone has a megacorp or resources to harden and protect their infra). This small mouse cursor bug reminds me of the rabbit hole that needs fixing, imo.
A different mirror design would also help, but those are forbidden in the US (fun trick – if the European version of the car has similar mirror mounting, order the glass from there)
This sounds like a strange idea, but when I traveled in Europe, there were always first and second class carriages on the trains. You could do the same thing with transit. Every other bus is free. People could then choose between hanging out with the people for a few blocks, or paying for a ride.
So over-provisioning has to be done before any writes to the drive? What if I want to over-provision a used drive? Discard all blocks first?
The US won't defend Taiwan because it has absolutely no benefit to them. All the talk of defending is purely for show. When it hits the fan, the US will stay out of the way. More likely during a Democrat administration as well.

The US is done with interfering in Asian conflicts over communism. China knows it too and they're gonna make a move while the whole of the US's industry is there still. The US solely supplies Taiwan to keep them technologically up to date so that they can mount a reasonable defense. But with almost all 1st world nations universally not acknowledging Taiwan's sovereignty, you'll be hard pressed to see any bureaucrat NOT turning a blind eye but sending out a measly sanction and move some manufacturing home.
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How can you be sure it's not a lie? What I meant by "lie" is this: let's say you ask someone how much they sleep. Currently society tells us that working as much as possible is a virtue. So they tell you they sleep 4 hours every night. You have no way of verifying this information. For all you know they could be sleeping 8 or 9 hours. But it is very easy and tempting for them to lie for a small boost in social standing.
Could you explain? Quoting https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/ :

> "Gates has denied the quotation and the evidence is not compelling"

and

> "the comments by Nancy Andrews and Jerry Pournelle showed that a common mindset of the period was compatible with informal hyperbolic remarks of this type. The 1989 speech by Gates presented a more sophisticated analysis of the growth of computing power and memory."

so I interpret the current retelling of the joke as putting words into Gates' mouth to try and knock him down a notch, and the original 1985 editorial by James E. Fawcette more along the lines of truthiness ("the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic"). Note how the editorial starts "Legend has it".
How is driver support and what distro?
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That's actually quite possibly true, if they were indeed broken up. But a hypothetical breakup might also forbid certain (or any) kinds of collaboration between any of them, which might include calling each other's APIs.
Well surely that is the only reason why they are pushing for it. And yet most of the discussions seems to be missing the point. ( Discussing Work hours without Japanese in the context )

I am not entirely sure if this will help though. Birth Rate in Japan, ( or in any nation ) is a complex issues. Both cultural and economics. Why would anyone want a baby when they can barely afford themselves decent standard of living? ( Standard being different from person to person )
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Related links:

https://reproducible-builds.org/ https://bootstrappable.org/
> All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.

I wonder how this is accomplished for event driven architectures built on shared event buses.
I would just toss that
It does seem like Japan starts their day a bit later than the US. Perhaps more similar to some businesses in New York where you might roll into the office between 10 and 11, but then stay until 8 or 9 pm. Still a very long day. It is so ingrained in their work culture that closing the office one additional day a week may be the only way to give some time back to employees.
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I think this is based on local laws, yeah. Where I am at you're required to take a 30 minute break for 6 hours of work. The stipulation is that 30 minutes must be a continuous 30 minutes.

I'm not aware of any law anywhere that says you can't just make your last 30 minutes of the day "lunch" but every company I've ever worked at has frowned upon or discouraged this. Usually by "forced clockouts" ostensibly for legal protection. My salary career has been more lenient but when I was an hourly employee if we ran over the 6 hours we'd get yelled at by HR and/or force clocked out (and told to go to lunch). Labor laws in the states are quite precarious for employers so it's semi-understandable why they do this.
I have heard that this is somewhat offset by rolling up a lot of social/etc time in to work. So they will have dinner at work with the other employees. Still horrible but it helps to understand how they even manage to live while working that long.
Urban sprawl catering to the car lifestyle is the mistake. Most major cities that cater exclusively for cars are hellscapes covered in concrete and parking lots. I truly despise car traffic. Cities should be higher density, feature plenty of parkland so you can ride and walk through it, plus end of trip facilities for those bikes, obviously you need some roads for necessary services, but then have an abundance of public transport.
> meat dog

I love that in the future this will be a distinction which will have to be made
There was a recent study at Microsoft Japan if I recall correctly. There have been rigorous studies throughout the works for some time before that.
Ah-ha, hack enginerding FTW. Overenginerding costs $$$.

I wonder about metastable sequential logic (D flip-flop sampling 3 NOT gates in a loop) XORed thermal noise sampling from a resistor XORed with the D flip-flop's clock signal. Violating setup-and-hold times of digital logic would also probably help generate some fun randomness.
Fossil HR Collider is 4x the cost at least and is a commodity fashion accessory, this is a hacker toy. One should adjust their expectations accordingly ... I agree they should maybe compare to a defcon badge.
It doesn't have to, but the most likely outcome in a startup is it goes bankrupt, what you did disappears into the dark hole of failed ideas, and no one sees it.

It's a suckers game: the default behavior needs to be "when the founders get greedy and kick me out...what will I do then? How will I feel about that time?"
It was his favorite keyboard. He would've cried, TBH.

Consider it was a place where one guy hoarded 15 years of WSJ in his office.

When staff are excellent professionals in the field, they get to do all sort of weird things.
Hi bootstrapper101, My friend showed me this thread and just serendipitously I saw this post by you. Is there anywhere I can dm you to dig deeper? I happened to be evaluating this firm and am concerned.
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> Type 2: "Remote work is infinitely inferior to office work due to the lack of socialization/collaboration/food/etc"

Or, ya know, just not wanting to either pay for an extra room at home or work 8+ hours a day in my bedroom.
Sorry couldn't resist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1yYJBzf1VQ
Hmmm I was just an intern but during my code reviews I was told to use a lot of stuff from Google Guava or something like that?
Wait, really? You're not supposed to ice or take NSAIDs after an injury?

Not doubting, just wondering when this changed and if other people have been following this advice.
But I did hate and not really know how to use the internal tooling.
You're definitely not the videos on an sdcard, and even the text-only (nopic) ZIM file is 43G, see the line "Wikipedia (English) en 2021-01 all nopic" on this page https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages So you'll need at least a 64G card.

If you want 23+ languages + videos simultaneously you'll need to setup an external drive with larger capacity.
> when they can barely afford themselves decent standard of living

Rent and food even in Tokyo is much cheaper than even medium sized cities in the states.

People might not be able to afford a luxurious lifestyle in Japan, and economists standard of living models may tell you otherwise, but the standard of living for a typical person in Japan is high
Controversial but Apple. I like that they keep things really simple and are really clear and focused about what they're trying to accomplish. I've been trying to go minimalist and often you need a rich and powerful role model to justify that cutting features will make more money.

MacBooks are probably not the best example. But the screens are clear and the processor is beautiful. Airpod and the old iPods were my favorite example. I also loved that Android rewrote their design when they saw the iPhone.
Part of the problem is in being one of the only services that offers itself for free. If the homeless don't have ready access to showers and basic hygiene products, but do have ready access to public transit, then you get a lot of unhygenic people on public transit.

If homeless people do not have ready access to shelter, but do have ready access to public transit, then you get them spending time on public transit for the shelter it provides, which means they use it a lot more then they would if they were using it for transit. Public transit isn't even particularly good shelter, but since most places don't allow loitering (with selective enforcement against the undesirables), you again get them congregating on the few places that do.
Nailed it.

I would love to use public transit in SF, but instead I'll just keep using Uber for my own sanity and health.
> So the workflow isn't zero-friction. And StaticCompiler hasn't been updated in over a year.

There's much more recent work here: https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/46 and apparently some more is still ongoing privately.

That said, yeah. I would not recommend Julia currently for people who truly believe they need AOT compilation, and that they need to trigger AOT compilation very often and with low friction. That definitely needs more work, but it's happening.

That said, a lot of people overestimate how much they actually need AOT compilation.

Julia has some fantastic tooling in other areas though. Especially the package management and interactive analysis tools.
It was designed on purpose to be puritan-compatible pornography indeed.

This is not a secret in Europe, where we fight tooth and nails to let wikipedia show pictures of vagina because it's high art.

There is nothing embarrassing about it, it's done with a wry smile.
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> Basically all employees (yes, including engineers) need to clock in and out, the concept of a "salaried worker" doesn't really exist

裁量労働制 certainly meets the spirit of "salaried worker" if not the letter ("need" to clock in for at least 1 minute to be counted as working for the day).
That's an incidental effect of not providing proper housing. Blaming homeless people for not having somewhere to go is like victim shaming. Giving homeless people homes is cheaper than not.
How does this work in practice? The distro is owned, so where are you getting the hash from? I mean, specifically, what does the attacker have control of and how does a repeatable build help me stop them.
This has changed me - I WFH, but every 2 days I take a 2 hour walk, I walk about 7.5KM to the beach and back and while I’m tired at the end of the walk, it’s hugely invigorating and I often end up coding until well after midnight on my own projects with all the extra energy I have.

Have lost quite a lot of weight too … and it’s only been a couple of months. Go for it! Can’t recommend it enough.
B1 was really useful for me but Benfotiamine form not that much. I needed better bioavailable version allithiamine (100 mg per day). Also PQQ was similarly useful.
I wonder if it's possible to have a multi-tier system where you have a free compartment but also a separate paid compartment with much higher standards (and prices).

The higher prices of the paid compartment would go towards subsidizing the free compartment.
That was the routine at Safeco in Seattle well into the 90s. My wife temped there over summers during grad school. Although she says they played Muzak instead of bells. So, in fact, it was much worse.
Ah, but now you’re moving the goalposts it seems?

Since most of what we’re talking about is unnecessary complexity for no real gain, what concrete metric do you think would be useful exactly? I just pointed out that you can get the same management advantages without it (say for a dev environment or rollbacks or whatever). And you get a simpler, cleaner story without extra layers if you don’t want to use lvm (such as in production), which you can’t get from O_DIRECT.

I also have this thread from Linus calling O_DIRECT brain damaged and to never use it. [https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/10/233]
He'd say with a smile that it's instead a representation of a good Catholic with the body God gave her. He knew, he did it on purpose, his clients wanted it that way, and the church approved and asked for more, probably because they knew and wanted it that way too ;)
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There are multiple large Rails services (I'd guess GitHub included) that internally have a majority of contributors in favor of an API first approach, but it's not mandated absolutely.

Shopify has a component boundary interface in Ruby that can be reflected into with GraphQL, and a lot of features are built for GraphQL first anyway. First party client side apps demand it. A lot of internal services use GraphQL to talk server-server as well.

However, there's still a good chunk of monolithic logic left that hasn't been refactored yet. Refactoring efforts are mostly JIT when demanded.
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My relatively small city has free public transit, it's very nice. There isn't a big homeless population though. A quick Google search shows that quite a few bigger cities are also doing it for free.
I don't really understand what you're saying.

If you're saying "reproducible builds are reproducible", then that is obviously true, but the question is what is the benefit?

Some people claim that the benefit is that there will be less incentive to threaten developers with violence, and I'm saying that's nonsense. If you cut through the nonsense, there are some modest claims that are true, but doing reproducible builds properly is very complicated and the benefit is negligible.
_Finding_ a proof is undecidable.

_Verifying_ that a proof is correct is easy (it's usually linear-ish in the length of the proof).

If the programmer supplies (most of) the proof, a compiler can easily certify that the proof is correct with respect to its model of the program.

Still, constraint solvers (often SMT solvers) can succeed a lot of the time (just not _all_ of the time) in automating pieces of proofs, so all the tedium doesn't need to be left with the programmer.

In particular, generally programmers write code that they believe is correct, so if they're right then there's usually a straightforward proof that it is correct since their beliefs will only get so complicated.
>One of the criteria for planethood is an assumption that the body clears its own orbit.

Is that so?

"The generic definition of a centaur is a small body that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune and crosses the orbits of one or more of the giant planets"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_(small_Solar_System_bo...

There are tens of thousands, so perhaps the definition of a planet is even more abstruse than people let on.

And apparently at least dozens have been identified as probably of interstellar origin, while it is thought that a centaur can become a moon, (e.g. Phoebe) so I wonder if we can really rule out that moons "come hurtling out of the cosmos":

"Being able to tell apart interstellar asteroids from native asteroids born in the Solar System has long eluded astronomers, but the team’s results identified 19 asteroids of interstellar origin. These are currently orbiting as part of the group of asteroids known as Centaurs, which roam the space in between the giant planets of the Solar System."

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/interst...