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I wrote my doctoral thesis (biology) this way (markdown + LaTeX + pandoc) and honestly, it was disappointing how much raw LaTeX I had to end up writing anyway. I had to rewrite all my tables & figures in LaTeX because it was easier than trying to figure out the odd layouts markdown + pandoc produced.

If I had to do something of similar scale and complexity from scratch today, I'd look for a better solution.
"Java and JavaScript have avoided introducing weak (acquire/release) synchronizing atomics, which seem tailored for x86."

This is not true for Java; see

http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/j9mm.html

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/16/docs/api/java.base...
A ransom payment, while a HUGE incentive, is not the only incentive for these attacks. Like any piracy, there are gains to be had from captured assets and an owner's ransom is only one avenue to monetize those assets.

So you apply a Thor's hammer solution limited to cooperative countries. Who is going to disproportionately pay that penalty? And what does "just heavily regulate" a decentralized currency even imply when applied globally? Will Russia be cooperative/respectful of this regulation? I'm not sure this would be as effective as you think, but certainly comes with some downsides to gen pop if we imagine how regulating crypto would be done effectively across friendly nations.

I must say that I also think having anonymous currency (cash, crypto, etc) is fundamentally healthy for society on the balance. So am biased against solutions that would further it's knee-capping. It seems more structurally sound/scalable/proportionate to punish the agents rather than the mechanisms, to the degree possible. In a gray-filled and nuanced way, I'm happy that ransomware attacks are still possible (encryption works, anonymous payments work), but disapprove of their application in this way and believe a penalty should be paid by the actors for what they choose to do with tools that also have legitimate purposes.
That's Java's Object.lock() mechanism.

All variables inside of an object (aka: any class) are assumed to be related to each other. synchronized(foobar_object){ baz(); } ensures that all uses of foobar_object inside the synchronization{} area are sequential (and therefore correct).

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The issue is that some people (a minority) are interested in "beating locks" and making something even more efficient.
I don't think I can answer your question because as I explained, I don't agree with the premise.

> Well, from my perspective rights come with responsibilities

It's never quite clear to me what people mean by this. We have responsibilities, certainly. And we have rights. But I don't understand in what sense they are supposed to be linked, as though they were two sides of the same coin. For example, in the UK they don't have anything equivalent to the US 1st Amendment. What responsibilities are they absolved of as a consequence of that?

> If you want to have a right, then there's an obligation there to justify any cost that might have to society.

Justification is a separate question from responsibility. But why must I justify the exercise of the right first? Why shouldn't you justify your right to restrain me first? It's an important question because we could argue forever about what the costs may or may not be and never reach an agreement. Therefore the status quo has enormous weight. In many places, it's not clear where the burden of justification lies for a given right. The point of the US Bill of Rights was to make this crystal clear for certain issues.

I think we disagree on multiple levels here. Firstly, there's the question of what causes the extreme levels of violent crime in a tiny minority of US neighborhoods. You obviously think there's some kind of causal link with the 2nd Amendment. I don't. But secondly, there's the question of what should happen when we don't agree on something like this. You naturally want the system to default to your side. In many countries, on many issues, that's exactly how it is - freedom has to be justified. This is what makes the US different: restraint has to be justified, at least on the short list of issues that were lucky enough to make the cut into the Bill of Rights.
It's a pretty generic term, though.
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As someone who's spent the last several years maintaining a couple large, vaguely complex documents (CP-CPS documents for certificate authorities), AsciiDoc has been a winner. It's simple enough to be readable in git diffs and be updated by non-tech folks like managers, but supports enough features that doing things like tables, nested lists, and certificate structure notation to be workable. And it's WAY more manageable using git to build and publish to PDFs (using Pandoc) than trying to use Word docs.
IIRC Classic ASP has the same end-of-life, 2025, as Windows 10.
What a cesspool, to be honest with you...
> The traditional answer of 476 is interesting for things that didn't happen in 476

I think you are focusing too much on what happened inside Italy. Yes, the state in the location continued on without much change. But the Empire was over, no longer were Roman legions wandering all over Western Europe, and had been receding for the previous century.
I'd have to imagine in this case it's using the GPS location to assist in acquiring and tracking the satellites (though that's entirely a guess based on the "auto-adjusting" that's claimed). Spoofing your GPS location like that may work as far as bypassing the geofence, but you may not get internet at the same time.
"These elite hackers have brought [big company] to it's knees!"

links a screenshot from hackforums
> w.r.t unsafe languages: it's not even possible to instrument and operate hardware in a "safe" way, even rust which is rather low level needs to be wrapped in unsafe in order to interact with hardware.

Like you just said: security doesn't have to be boolean. Using more secure languages doesn't mean we have to completely banish every occurrence of unsafe in Rust. It just means we should avoid languages that force even business logic to be written using pointer arithmetic.
The true skill of choosing ransoms is to make sure that it's high enough to compensate you for the risk you take, but low enough to the other options are unappealing to the victim.

Large businesses can trivially set aside a few million dollars per year for ransoms. Small businesses don't have the ability to change the system.
https://archive.is/Qx5Lz
Think I'ma just stick with Godot Engine + Blender 3D. The 4.0 release of Godot should be somethin' really worthy, as even the 3.x releases are already amazingly usable and their plans for 4.x and beyond are quite impressive stuff.

Edit: Oh, and Godot already supports all the major platforms right outta the box. Bonus! Totally in favor of another open source 3D engine tho. Can't be a bad thing to have more options available in that space.
Also https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0572231/ (Star Trek: Enterprise, "Rogue Planet")
Isn't one of the main problems with ransomware centralised and locked down IT administration?

It seems like centralized, locked-down IT combined with security that's mere security theater while allowing third-parties to willi-nilli update their stuff.
Assuming the gas giants remain roughly the same as they are now, what would happen to them as they left the solar system and the heat of the sun? Would the gases condense down turning them from gas giants into rocky planets?
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>race to hit rock bottom?

How so? Unity revenue is north of $500B a year, and I'd expect Unreal Engine to pull similar numbers for Epic annually.

If anything, as the gaming market expanded, these companies have made serious footholds in the revenue stream.
You should be able to pay a fee, say $1000, to get an expedited appointment. The embassy could use the increased revenue to hire more people and reduce the backlog.
Or imagine breathing out through a straw
A very understandable explanation of it, and its uses.
I'm not saying they are the same or always the case. I'm just saying that is someone is already going to live with a partner, then it isn't a big deal to share a house with another couple.

i.e There is pressure for people living in that area or moving into that area to find a SO or something similar.
https://archive.is/RWKQh
>For a proprietary code, it doesn't work because a commercial company is looking for profit.

So you would prefer you had by mistake infringed on MS/Google or Oracle code then some dude's GPL shitty left pad ? For me it seems that the license is not important but who exactly you upset.

Anyway the point is the license did not infected Google code, Google had to pay damages and it could have been GPL or other proprietary license.
I live in an artificial town that was constructed 10 or so years ago near a light rail station to the larger city to the north (and other similar "towns") so it's totally doable, it's just not for everyone.
Yeah, but why show me content I can't even buy? And showing it prominently? That's just terrible design and makes Amazon the last streaming service I browse. If at all.

The only time I actually end up watching stuff on Amazon is those 1-2 times per year they have something bingeworthy that I've learned about somewhere else. And then it's always "aw crud, Amazon - wonder if I even have access to it at all".
They are not too complex for "languages intended for dilettante developers": they can (and should) use sequential consistency or locks everywhere.
And yet central planning worked just fine for several countries for many decades and no one starved. And people are starving right now all over the world, in many capitalist countries.

Climate change can be fixed without falling prey to white supremacist ideas like overpopulation.
Yes, I know. :)

I'd just say that solving the system of equations is the best way to divide by a matrix — that's why I put air quotes around "divide" above. In Julia, right-dividing matrices (with `A/B`) actually does the smart adjoint-commuting thing to left-divide it and do the solve (with `(B'\A')'`).
YC has always tended to encourage finding a cofounder, but they've been funding solo teams since at least Dropbox in S07.

Given that multi-founder teams still represent 90% of the startups they fund, I could understand calling this a moderate shift. But "flipped on its head" feels like an exaggeration.
This is Ray Dalio we are talking about.

He walked into it on his own, he did his own analysis. His hypothesis was that China's path of economic reform would continue. It was not a bad bet until Xi took power.
Not really. That is, C's libraries grew less than C++'s libraries, over the past 25 years or so.
Sure, but a rogue planet would be far, far less disruptive than a star coming near enough to us to affect the Solar System. Such stellar flybys, according to a paper I linked in a previous comment, occur every ~23M years, and are, indeed, expected to act as a destabilizing force on the Solar System over long periods of time.
Well said.

Anecdotally, the level of resentment I've seen from masters CS grads towards more talented coders with no degree was pretty epic at my last company. I've also seen this get pretty ugly in the ML/deep learning community between the credentialed academics and the practitioners.
I think it’s true for many systems, not just AI that’s true.

AI is worth calling out in this regard because, if the field is successful enough, it can create dangerous systems that don’t behave how we want.

Building a safe general AI is much harder than building a general AI, which is why it’s worth considering AI as it’s own problem domain.
You need to be creative because the standards are broken. If there were strong, holistic standards, you wouldn't need to be creative.
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Google redirects “meaning of x” to “Webster's meaning of x” in Chrome and Edge
27°C doesn't "feel like a hot tub", so currently it must be higher.

The thermal conductivity of water makes that even a temperature a few degrees cooler than the body temperature feels refreshing, which is not the case right now according to the witnesses.
And they let the Picasso painting drop on the floor lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfmFsNec24
It sure does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemnos#Modern_period

> On 8 October 1912, during the First Balkan War, Lemnos became part of Greece. The Greek navy under Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis took it over without any casualties from the occupying Turkish Ottoman garrison, who were returned to Anatolia. Peter Charanis, born on the island in 1908 and later a professor of Byzantine history at Rutgers University recounts when the island was occupied and Greek soldiers were sent to the villages and stationed themselves in the public squares. Some of the children ran to see what Greek soldiers looked like. "What are you looking at?" one of them asked. "At Hellenes," the children replied. "Are you not Hellenes yourselves?" a soldier retorted. "No, we are Romans." the children replied.
Gives IP geolocation a whole new meaning.

33-9207N-118-3278W.clients.starlink.com
I'd have to argue against the notion that towns/ European style cities are "economically obsolete". Yes, they are virtually impossible to build from scratch at the moment (zoning, building codes, developers, etc), but the economic value of walkable cities has never been higher. If you cross reference walkscore against our metropolitan areas in the US walkable cities (that are in warm climates) are our most valuable real estate... not to mention that they are the location for most of our companies participating in the "information economy" (military-industrial complex aside).

Basically most Americans want to live in a walkable city with charm and community, but the way we built America post 1950 makes it very difficult.
Binance ‘temporarily suspends’ payments from EU’s SEPA network
I don't think a ZIP is that much different from a random Git repo...
Couldn't someone DDoS the major mining pools?
> This "Memory Model" discussion is only for people who want to build faster systems: for people searching for a "better spinlock", or for writing lock-free algorithms / lock-free data structures.

Actually, most practitioner code has bugs from their implicit assumptions that shared variable writes are visible or ordered the way they think they are.
> It should be pretty obvious that as long as ransomware is this profitable, we are absolutely fucked when it comes to computer security.

Maybe we should turn the tables on the ransomware orgs. I'm sure they're getting big enough that they can't keep tabs on everyone in the org. So why not start offering million dollar prizes for people inside the org to sell out their co-conspirators? I have to imagine that if you're unscrupulous enough to be in the operation, you'd have no problems doing some entrepreneurial activity on the side.
Twitter censors and then gets censored.

The circle of life.
I really like the sound of this. That’s how Google’s internal technical docs worked. Write markdown in src repo, get nice, searchable doc site in return.

Anyone know if a tool like that already exists to turn README.md files into a website?
Intel is already made in USA.
The other example is towns on lakes/oceans by some tourist attraction. You need a variety of people to work all the hotels/rentals/building etc. Like college towns - you also have a good percent of people who can pay a lot in taxes + consume a lot of services to benefit the whole towns.

I think as income has become more concentrated in certain industries it hurts. Even if your agricultural town had very little poor people - if is has virtually no one making about 70k then it is going to be tricky to build and maintain.
> Unity revenue is north of $500B a year

Is that 2x Apple's revenue?

They're making sales of over a billion dollars every day?
That's if you can even find help. There are many times it is lacking completely.
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It would be correct, up to the size of the integer. As far as the abi is concerned a C enum is just an integer. As far as the abi is concerned a struct containing a single integer field, is also just an integer.

If there are any values that don't fit in a u32, I would need to use a different int type. C enums automatically use bigger int types if they don't fit in the smaller ones.

If I was on an architecture where int was smaller than 32 bits it would also be incorrect (except by coincidence that 32 bits was the smallest type that could hold all the values). I could "solve" that by using libc::c_int instead, but that only sort of solves the issue because if libc::c_int is 8 bits, and the enum has a value 257, it's just not correct anymore.

I suppose it's possible that some abi treats a struct containing an int differently from an int, I doubt it though. If that's the case, #[repr(transparent)] instead of #[repr(C)] would be slightly more correct.
My husband had a stroke after his Covid vaccine. We gave our kid his shot anyway
I noticed this today for the first time.

"meaning of [anything]" becomes "Webster's meaning of [anything]" in Chrome and Edge.

In Firefox, "meaning of [anything]" stays as "meaning of [anything]".
Certification of people is cheaper than certification of systems built by random people. For fun: Try to get a commercial building built that doesn't have an architect and structural engineer (both of which are certified professionals) somewhere in its background.
Is it better to have an undersupply of doctors leading to overworked doctors and generally worse medical outcomes or to have an oversupply, with some of the excess going on to do, e.g. research or administration? Exactly matching supply and demand is practically impossible, so which side is it safer to err on?
> Pithily paraphrased, "Those who would give up essential [self-sufficiency], to purchase a little temporary [efficiency], deserve neither".

From the Pentagon's perspective, they're probably meeting that with either AWS or Azure. They probably look at self-sufficiency as a national, not organizational thing. So long as the thing is built and located in the US and owned and operated by Americans, it means they're not giving up any self-sufficiency.
Sabre and ATC core code are 50+ years old. Lockheed bought a particular unix source license 15 years ago for ATC sytems because the vendor would no longer support it.

Everyone who wrote it is retired or dead.
I wonder if there’s any point in using this for military applications.
How many programmers do you know put locks around polling varibles for seemingly no reason (as they are not cognizant of the memory model)?
That‘s hilarious
“obscure, proprietary toolchain stacks” are half of the problem.

Understanding, updating, and maintaining algorithmically-generated source code is the other half of the problem.

If a human is writing the code, hopefully variables have sensible names, there is logical organization of the code, and there are some comments to explain.

(Of course, some humans write code that is worse than algorithmically-generated code. // shudder)
Currently the blame should be on companies and people from the top, as the developers don't really have much choice (without unionizing or whatever). OTOH, it doesn't have to be this way.

As an example, electricians are licensed here (I think) and it is against the law to pressure them work faster.

Architects and building engineers are licensed (need proper education + practice), and they are required to uphold certain standards. They give a stamp of approval and at fault (insurance compulsory) and can lose their license if there are problems with their designs, regardless of any pressure from investors.
... LCP is specifically mentioned in the 2nd paragraph of the article, in addition to the conclusion quote:

> The end result was that increasing the size of our thumbnail images raised our performance score by reducing our LCP score
Couldn’t they introduce the same security feature mentioned for symlinks?

As in, make it so by default you can’t create a hard link to a file you don’t already have write access to?
Seaside, Florida is an example of building at "human scale" in the states
>It advocates to have an uneducated underclass that would not have the tools to improve or protest their situation.

How is this different from the current incarnation of global capitalism?
True. Ideally we would have road tolls and congestion pricing to prevent this. With sufficient tolls, something else would have to give whether that's wages or housing.
A big portion of its users were unhappy with the addition of telemetry and welcomed the fork, someone made a thread because the guy who did the fork added "sneedacity" as an option to the poll(due to sneed being a joke, not due to negative reasons). The drama started when the maintainer shut the poll down when "sneedacity" was winning (despite the fact that he added it, not trolls or someone else) and started to ban everyone who asked questions regarding this. This is hardly a "4chan raid" since "sneedacity" was added to the poll by the maintainer himself who also made the poll publicly available. People participating in a public poll is not a "raid".

He then claimed that he was called 70 times and was sent 3000 mails as harassment but never showed any proof and deleted some of his tweets regarding it. Interestingly the 4chan threads he posted on his twitter as proof of the alleged harassment didn't contain any personal information or people requesting his personal information. He was even caught lying about the phone calls in the comments here which lead to him deleting his posts, https://postimg.cc/BPXX26W1 https://web.archive.org/web/20210706000825/https://twitter.c... . I don't know about you but refusing to provide proof, changing the story when asked and deleting posts when it gets noticed looks suspiciously like pretending to be a victim.

He's putting some vile stuff on his github bio currently(changes often) so I don't know what's going on. It's a shame the needless drama this guy caused with his inability to manage a project is getting more attention than the current situation with audacity.
> pretend to understand the technology not at all

Are you missing a word or two?
Your own numbers lack a great deal of context and your comment seems far more biased than this article. The article avoids making any conclusions about the effects on the lake while you seem quite happy to jump to conclusions with insufficient data and bad math.

Edit: My own stance would be that we should wait to until we have the data on how much warming is happening at the various layers of the lake and then use that data assess the regulations governing the power plant. In the meantime, we might look at bringing the regulations for disconnected power plants in-line with grid power plants.
Hmmm...maybe there are articles that slant that way, but I haven't run across them. Can you cite an example?
"I don’t think you need this for everything in a stack..."

The problem there is that everything on the stack is a potential hole. The chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
If we never talk about external problems such as systems that make it impossible to meaningfully increase one's compensation, then no amount of change in self could actually fix anything. Let's say you're a disabled person who can't even get married because then you lose your income and therefore become financially dependent on your partner, which creates a super uncomfortable relationship between the two of you. What can you change yourself, or should you instead talk about the fact the government's laws and merit-gating has royally fucked you over and advocate for systemic changes? Maybe through writing a blog post or opinion article in a newspaper...
> It's hard to imagine humans going extinct

http://burro.case.edu/Academics/USNA229/impactfromthedeep.pd...

Page 6 helped grow my imagination. The ice ages are not the worst it ever was.