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>That same basic strategy persists today, since macOS, iOS, iPadOS and tvOS are all ostensibly the same operating system with different interfaces.

That seems a stretch, MacOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS seems like the Windows ME, Windows 2000 problem but 100 times worse.

For instance my mother searches for a covid tracking/checkin app on the iPad app store because she only has an iPad and it isn't even there despite running fine on iOS, it's just the developer is expected to put in the extra work to specifically support iPads so they never bother.

Maybe there is some secret option somewhere to show iPhone apps but she certainly can't find it, or even begin to understand why my Dads iPhone can have the app but not her iPad.
> Does this even need a study? Isn’t it simply obvious?

Well at the very least, commercial software used to come in shrinkwrap boxes, and now as web applications that can be updated at any moment.

Surely the cost of fixing a bug in the first situation must be higher than in the second.

The statement sounds equally obvious for both, but must be wrong for one.
No, even countries where exploitative multinationals contribute an insignificant portion to the economy can be prosperous if and only if they have low levels of corruption. Even if they have no natural resources, they still have people who can produce value that can be exported. But only if government officials don't steal all of it first. In a lot of places you can't start a company of any kind without paying tons of bribes.
No smarts needed. https://www.bsaelectronics.com/products/copy-of-dryer-buddy-...
Quite badly actually.

I heard about the book when I watched Westworld, but apparently all the theory is based on some historical stories, of which no ones how accurate they really are.
It's just the level assets for the most part and a camera to move around. You're not plopped into that level in media res style. I liken it to ripping the game's soundtrack. It's just a slice of the game, not the whole thing.
> "precious and rarefied in a silly way"

HA! How very condescending of you.

> "luxury production"

This is your perception. Likely in part due to the contrasting videos.

I admit to pointing out the different cultural behaviors I see in my community are silly. We have traditional brick sidewalks the city does not spend money to maintain. We have fake-brick concrete walkways. I'm contrasting this to witnessing different values outside of my community and my country, namely in Spain.

If there's any ratification, its from the new developments who create fake-brick walkways with concrete. Why not just pave with concrete? Why shouldn't those Spanish public works departments just tear up failing road and sidewalk and replace them with concrete?

Concrete has been revealed to the public in recent years as having high CO2 emissions [1]. Dust from concrete production is also a contributor to poor air quality. What are the alternatives?

Well, there are many attempts to address these problems using alternative materials but they have their own problems. In the Netherlands (2018) there was the "worlds first" bicycle path made of plastics [2], but some reports say this didn't go well. In the UK, India and other developing countries there are projects to test plastics on highways [3]. Event the most pro-plastic reports suggest there are chemical hazards to their manufacture [4]. And, more concerning to me at least, there are worrisome reports of wear and erosion on these plastic roads [5].

Calling me out for rarifying misunderstands my comment, recasts me as promoting unnamed 'processes' (concrete tiles in Egypt or the stone path/roadways in Spain?), admonishes me for misreading cultural signs, and all without having the courage to suggest what are the alternative processes I might be missing.

[1]: https://psci.princeton.edu/tips/2020/11/3/cement-and-concret...

[2]: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/worlds-first-recycled-plastic-b...

[3]: https://www.worldhighways.com/wh6/feature/bangalore-dumfries...

[4]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d41b34040f0b...

[5]: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/heard-about-miracle-pl...
I think it's important to acknowledge that in social networks attempting to manage their communities through mechanisms like this, there's a tacit assumption that everyone participating is

a: human and discrete

b: in good faith while of differing opinion still

This is not true. As long as social networks have a worldwide reach and a real-world significance, it'll be valuable to accumulate bots/minions to compose an aggregate person, representing some force or entity, and then use that brigade to direct discourse.

If it becomes expensive to do this, it takes the behavior out of the hands of small groups and reserves it for the most powerful and well-resourced actors.

The question to ask here is how expensive karma farming will be, and how easily can it be coordinated by outside forces in the absence of 'good faith, discrete, human actors'.
As long as the hardware allows booting arbitrary code, this kind of DRM remains technically impossible.

There's nothing to stop you from booting into another OS and deleting the files implementing the harmful functionality. If there are checks for the presence of these files in other parts of the OS, you can remove them.

IMO it's a very dangerous attitude when people consider software immutable. You can achieve a lot by modifying software made by other people.
Actually safe languages fOR example. Pony guarantees all three safeties, memory, type and concurrency, whilst in Rust it's only a plan, just not implementated. Stack overflows, type unsafety, dead locks. POSIX compatible stdlib.

Concurrent Pascal or Singularity also fit the bill, with actual operating systems being written in it.
So what burial equipment or service providers do we buy calls on?
Do you think I should add another goal type called "Cash Reserves" which is functionally equivalent? Maybe that would be more intuitive.
It depends a lot on what field you are in. For consumer-facing, web or mobile products, engineers who are able to speak the product language, collaborate on planning and feature development are highly valuable. That requires some investment into product and design skills, and it's a lot easier to start onto that path with side projects.
It will be interesting if they are willing to rank things voted by a user's cohort, rather than straight ranking. However, I suspect Twitter's political biases will play an role.

Reddit is interesting in that it offers a "sort by controversial" option. Toxic nonsense generally gets downvoted uniformly, while contentious arguments can float to the top.
100x is probably conservative in an enterprise pure waterfall development environment, regardless of application.
Yes, just like Emily Dickinson's poetry will be defined by her isolation, and Vincent Van Gogh's art by his mental illness. Our cultural interpretation of an artist's work, particularly for those with iconically unique lives, is inextricable from how they lived.
Heck, the subtitle even says it: "It's probably still true, though, says formal methods expert"

What's more interesting anyway is the circumstances around the nonexistence of the study. It's not a case of falsified research! It's a case of someone citing apocrypha as fact, and then other people citing that citation, etc. And nobody questioned it because it's so obviously true!
“Woolf's novels and Kane's plays are dubbed as being manifestations of mental illness …”

I’ve never heard this of Woolf but I’m now reminded of repeated descriptions of death by drowning. My favorite example is in Jacob’s Room; a scene of some people at a party is interrupted suddenly with a description of men drowning in a World War I naval battle before returning to the scene. To The Lighthouse has similar fragments and stories.

These are two of my favorite novels. If I accidentally notice she did go on to drown herself, am I doing a sexism? Reading contemporary English press is so tiresome. “Remember how you noticed a thing while reading Virginia Woolf novels? You may be a misogynist!”
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say by "children never have accents", but children do have accents, both the accent of whatever locality in which they live, as well as their own accents from not learning the language precisely. My 3-yr-ld son pronounces all words end in an "-ar-" sound of some kind as "-aiee-". He wanted to play "cards" and it came out "cai-eeds". There are other, similar foibles in the language of children that I think could easily be called "children have a unique accent".

Also, it is very not true that children do not need lessons to learn language. If anything, children receive MASSIVE amounts of explicit language training that we would never think to apply to adults. Children have songs about the alphabet and numbers. We play games with them about colors and shapes. Before the age of about 5, almost all of their toys are fundamentally designed around learning components of language. All of the books that we read them are about.

Both my 3-yr old and my 5-yr-old make what I find to be a hilariously cute error in speaking. Things that belong to them, they say are "Mines". I thought about it, and their way is more consistent. You say that toy is yours, hers, his, theirs, ours. It's only in the 1st person that we drop the -s sound at the end.

When do children gain fluency? How do we even define fluency? In the language training industry, we have the International Language Roundtable Scale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILR_scale). The ILR Scale ranges from 0 for a raw beginner to 5 for "educated, native speaker", with people typically appending "+" to a level to blend in between levels a little. Based on the ILR scale, my 5-yr-old is a 2 and my 3-yr-old is a 1. I know full-grown adults, born and raised in America, who would probably only rate a 3+.

Children do not learn fluency without massive effort on both their and everyone else around thems behalf. And then adults complain about having to do 5 hours of homework every week and whine about not gaining fluency in Mandarin. "It's just easier for children". Yes, in a round about way, it is easier, but those reasons are purely social. Given that some adults do demonstrate the capacity to achieve fluency, yet are not living anywhere near a completely, 100% immersed life like a child does, there is clearly some natural advantage that adults have that makes up for the lack of nurture.
“Tired of Todos”: Real-World GraphQL Ecommerce App via Next/PG/TS/Stripe/Hasura
Hey all, I'm one of the engineers that worked on this project.
This was a passion project for a number of us internally that spanned the course of several months.

(Note: Most content on page also available at repo https://github.com/hasura/hasura-ecommerce)

It's similar to $MAJOR_RETAILER with a management portal.
It uses Next.js + Typescript, Postgres, GraphQL (of course with open-source Hasura), self-hosted S3 via Minio and also processes payments with Stripe.

The idea was to try to build a useful reference/learning application, instead of yet another low-effort Todo App/Blog App.
We genuinely want people just to be aware it's there as a resource if they want to look at it. Even if you're not using Hasura as part of your API layer, the concepts still map well.

(E-commerce was incidental, it could have been anything. We figured e-commerce was common ground and the domain is familiar to most everyone.)

A lot of care was taken in building this to make sure all of the parts are OSS and self-hostable -- the only exception of course being Stripe.
"docker compose up" will start Postgres, Next.js, Hasura, and Minio. You can leave the fake Stripe key in the .env file and the rest of the app minus the checkout button should still work.

=)

If you have any questions, we'll be around and more than happy to answer. Feedback welcomed (positive or negative).
we are from india my friends
AFAIK there was no outrage, GitHub started it.
It's only necessary because people think deposits are sacred. The problem isn't some capitalist cabal. Every single individual is responsible.
Even if they're not supposed to, most people do, or at least they know an admin login. All it takes is one frustrated person who knows someone higher up and the login is on a sticky note in a drawer. Technical security measures are not and will never be a substitute for proper training.
Except when it's used to "disagree" with comments without actually having or making an argument. Then just reduces the quality of discourse and thought.
Of course it's not worth it, but in many orgs it's required for compliance. It may change in the future as most people realize it's not that useful, just like NIST changed the rule about password updates.

On the other hand, it might seem useless because malware creators know it's there. Basically all functional pieces of malware have to go through VirusTotal otherwise they won't be effective. But if all orgs dump antivirus software it would be a bit like giving up MMR vaccination in children.
For those wondering, click the "supplementary information" on the navigation pane for videos.
also, by being paid $0.00, they're extremely easy and cheap to persuade/get on an entity's payroll.
> The 2003 biopic Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Plath and Daniel Craig as Ted Hughes

Wow - never heard of this one! Somehow, I have a hard time imagining Pepper Potts and James Bond as Sylvia and Ted.
> It doesn't make sense, it's just someone painting the Haitians as a short-sighted and reckless people

Who did that?
Claiming Kubernetes is Multics , and that UNIX is around the corner, is worthless claim without actual data or argument to back it up.

To me, Kubernetes is the new UNIX, centered around a small number of core ideas: controller loops, Pods, level-triggered events, and a fully open, well-standardized, and declarative, and extensible RESTful API.

The various clouds and predecessor cloud orchestrators were the infinitely complicated beasts.

OP just linked to a few rants about the complexity of the CNCF ecosystem (not Kubernetes), and extended cranky rant / thought exercise by the MetalLB guy. The latter is the closest to an actual argument against Kubernetes, but there’s a LOT of things to disagree with in that post .
And Zones on Solaris :) phk was the original author of Jails; he wrote an excellent paper called “Defying the omnipotent root”, which I can highly recommend.
> you could allow people to like or dislike without limit, but after a certain amount (them exhausting their own karma) its effect changes, but regardless they can continue to do it

Reddit already applied this at the aggregate scale: any individual comment can only cost you up to 100 karma and negative karma scores on user profiles are capped at -100.

That all said, how would these karma economy proposals interact with the fact that some subreddits are orders of magnitude less popular than others? Would it cost less to vote on items in small subreddits?

Would upvoting already highly-upvoted submissions be free (but do nothing on the back end) or would it be expensive as an encouragement that the community has already spoken and to spend your votes elsewhere? Would doing against community opinion be cheap (since more people agreeing the Earth is round doesn’t add much to the discussion) or would it be a pricey 10x vote?
Any plans for also supporting AMD SME?
Mine start cold, it's two shots of espresso in a tall glass of cold milk and no sugar. Basically an iced latte without the ice (too much work!). I do love a nice warm coffee on a wintery day but most of the time I'm drinking cold coffee as it's pretty hot where I am in Australia.

I find hot coffee goes bitter by the time it cools down, but cold coffee stays about the same in flavor for a lot longer.
>What's the difference? State run organizations like Hydro Quebec, are IMO not apt to create short term profits, by sacrificing long term cost saving measures. There is no CEO of Hydro Quebec getting a massive boost to income via stock profits, or awards due to profit targets met.

Not really. While it's true that a state run organizations might not cut costs to meet profits, that's just replaced with cutting to meet budget requirements. eg. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
You don't use Windows Update Manager or timed firewall rules to make sure Update doesn't ever interfere with your work?
The obvious downside is that you're missing out on more diverse perspectives. People who spend time outside of work on things unrelated to their field, whether that's as a caregiver or unrelated hobbies, will look at the world differently than someone who dedicates most of their time to their craft.
https://archive.is/5CvQR
Is this a question? Go for option 2 if that is where your interests lie. Option 1 will likely involve skills growth in "softer skills" and likely more towards management track.
And LPARs on System z :)
Startup Claims Breakthrough in Long-Duration Batteries
I don't disagree when looking at it in isolation. But my comment was specifically to Switzerland which has according to the department of statistics around 30 cases of robbery per year which basically never lead to physical harm. It is just not something you worry about in your day to day live.

Drug addicts usually want to be left alone and won't bother you. Exception being people chuck full of cocaine and alcohol in and arounds nightclubs frustrated about not getting layed.

The problem is being tackled the other way around by trying to keep poverty, inequality and thus acts of desperation low.
"To deflect blame from PGE?"

I think that's the major part. It will look good for them from an ESG perspective. Also, I think some states, like CA, are talking about making the company pay for any fire starting from their equipment. So they are probably hedging that risk. If they wait, it could take them too long to complete the burial and then still be subjected to penalties under new laws in the future.

Edit: why downvote? These steps may reduce a small percentage of wildfires (10% from electric utilities and PG&E isn't the only one). I think the main reasons they are doing it are what I stated about. I doubt the company truly cares about this unless it reduced the financial risk and helped them in the ESG space.
China rejects WHO plan for study of Covid-19 origin
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>> The US was attacked.

>Not by Iraq.

Saddam gave material assistance to suicide bombers and network. It would suggest had they not gotten rid of him some of the perpetrators would have tried again. The resulting catastrophe was the result of neighbors meddling in their affairs and an internal domestic power struggle.

>These were the misplaced remnants of the chemical weapons program that Iraq dismantled in the 1990s.

if it was dismantled it wouldn't exist.

>It's simply not credible to claim that there was any sort of sizeable stockpile that the US did not find.

it probably wasnt in Iraq anymore.
Yes, we need to study this. "Obviously" is not good enough. People want to find the best use for their time, to get maximum profits. An optimization can be done for some extent by relying on "obvious", but if really you want to maximize productivity, you need to measure things. You need to go from qualitative reasoning to quantitative one.

We need not just measure comparative costs of bugs in productions with bugs in development, we ways to measure amount of not found yet bugs, we need to predict speed of bug-hunting in advance, we need a lot of tools to really quantify a development process.

To make a decision we need a way to predict future events, it allow to compare consequences of different decisions and to choose one wisely.

> Time is money, you age fast on production.

Bugs is also money. So we need a way to compare them quantitatively.
> Of course if you’re just running a website and you’ve got a nice network effect going on, or you’ve got your customers locked into contracts

It’s perfectly fine as a rule of thumb and regardless of how the software comes to be in your possession it is relevant unless there is absolutely no delivery pipeline or other people involved in said delivery. Even for personal projects the recency effect comes into play and it will be harder for you to address something 6 months down the line as you struggle to recall why you did it that effin way.
What on earth has happened to HN comments over the last couple of months? Every post I've opened today has had this same kind of "half-joking-but-not-really SJWs are bad" comment on something completely unrelated.
Thanks for the link! MSR uses leather pump cup seals in their liquid fuel stoves, and it's nice to get some background on why this is the best choice from an engineering perspective.

I'd intuited some of the points in the article, but it's good to know that somebody has approached the subject rigorously, and taken the time to explain why leather is superior in this application.
So what does toxicity mean then?
Twitter trials upvote and downvote buttons
Really.

It's "extremely odd" that an article about actual scientific findings in Doggerland doesn't talk about the rest of the world and then devolve into a stream of consciousness about Atlantis, Noah and oral Aboriginal history?

This is the science of archaeology and the people who do it don't nearly care as much about Atlantis as you.
This is why so many developers can’t be left to their own devices to decide when a product is launch ready. There will always be bugs. Always. You can ship with known bugs. It’s about being pragmatic and fixing it at the right time. Not all bugs have the same impact.
It has repeatedly been made clear that the engineers
are ultimately responsible for the work they deliver,
and are held accountable for any defects.

guy tapping the side of his head meme: You can't ship any DEFECTS if you don't ship any CHANGES
My guess is that fire prevention is only part of the problem. Wouldn't burying the lines mean that their infrastructure is also not destroyed by wild fires? Things just burn above, and everything keeps on working?
The commit message does not mention any MFC timeline [1] so this feature is not planned to be merged back into existing stable branches. In other words, the first release with this feature is going to be FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE.

[1]: Also, you may look for the commit hash (a40cf4175c90142442d0c6515f6c83956336699) at https://mfc.kernelnomicon.org/ to see the back-porting status.
I think the rate limit user was simply not sending the API key correctly or having some very poor code, you get 100 request for 100 seconds for each user, you just need to use the token of the user not yours. As for the horror stories that's with everything you could argue that Stripe is a horrible idea because Visa could block them, but I do see your idea here, I'm planning to add some "spreadsheet features" directly in the app to avoid being completely dependent on them
SWAT teams in the United States are primarily used for serving high-risk warrants. Their purpose is not riot control.
Your numbers are way out, poles usually last between 25 and 70 years generally depending on what they are made from. Hardware (pins, insulators, crossarms) last at least 15 years usually, often much longer. There is certainly nothing that needs replacing every 3-5 years.
We did this in Denmark many, many years ago. It is also significantly cheaper to maintain as you no longer need to manage vegetation around the powerlines, perform pole / cross-arm inspection etc. In some countries the main hesitation to underground cabling for transmission lines has been up front cost as well as unions (=less maintenance, less work).
I'm pretty sure the mobs in question consider themselves "fair" and "tolerant". It's just framing oneself as the good side that stands against the evil "intolerants" hereby justifying the means in one's eyes.

MLK's approach of "love" (the carrot) also wouldn't have worked without Malcolm X and the Black Panthers' threat of violence (the stick).