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> This annoyed them and they decided to make a new CPU that no one would want to use.

I thought this was sarcasm, but the tone continues throughout the article. Are people this really painfully misinformed? The ISA was brilliant. The execution, not so much. It was a far more scalable architecture, completely "clean" from x86 baggage (I'm talking about the ISA, not the thermal issues Madison and McKinley had with the floating point units). It even ran Windows and had two compilers (one from HP and one from Intel), and it decoded x86!

Then again, people were also hot on Transmeta at the time, so perhaps the author is confusing things.

> better known for the good designs you killed

Like?

Intel sat on Yamhill (64b "star-T" for x86) for a year, and when I was brought on, the project had issues in both instruction fetch and execution-unit area. It was not a good design, and was not ready because it was cobbled together at the last minute. Quite literally. AMD beat Intel to both 64-bit and 1 GHz, and we all (architects) knew it.

Looking at it one way, Itanium was a product that was ahead of its time. In 1995~97 Google didn't even exist yet, Amazon was just getting started. Server farms with their own power plants were something reserved for investment banks as redundant backup, US eCommerce was well under $1Billion/yr . I'm 100% certain that if Intel had brought the yields up on Itanium and taken an early loss to build market share, it would have been the dominant architecture in integer cloud today.

But in reality they had to beat AMD, because AMD was going after their cash cow (commodity x86) with a vengeance, and winning. Couldn't fight two wars at once, and thus, Itanium withered.

So looking at it another way, one could argue Itanium was too late because the internet scaled out fast in late 1990, and Itanium was caught with its pants down, so x86 filled in the gap.

Either way, Arm is more likely to take away server market from x86 than IA64, going forward, but that's a not a sure thing.

I could (30% chance) see VLIW making a comeback if capacity weren't such a problem, it is far more suited to e-commerce cloud instruction mixes, and with hypervisors and docker-like virtualization so much faster than VM, it could happen.
That's why I didn't claim it was. I was just providing information on where what the person was probably thinking of actually was.
Very cool and you would know. Lots of battle scars from that period in telecom.
I should say, "I wouldn't have felt free to do that in the situations I've been in".

And maybe that's just a supposition that I was making.

People pay me to play music-- it's not that I'm bad at it. But there are a lot of reasons ranging from not annoying other folks to not looking like I care more about playing scales than fixing a problem which make me think I should not do that kind of thing.
I'm sure I'm not the only one reading this and thinking you may be one of my colleagues describing me! Even self awareness doesn't always help. I know those management tools could help me greatly, but it still requires an immense amount of mental energy to even focus on using the tools. E.g., I have reminder notifications that remind me to check my reminders periodically throughout the day. That said, I do try, and thankfully, I'm one of those that does get by.
War room is an excellent term in this case, thank you. Going to use it from now on. And this:

> Usually with one ear open to notice if they need to jump back in and contribute/adjust the course of the plans being made.

is precisely what I was trying to describe here in the comments. Thanks again.
Matt Damon especially has plenty of options to make money. I can't believe this was even the most lucrative script in his inbox when he accepted it.
Maybe it is not possible for theaters to go low enough to compete with a 65inch+ 4K TV available for $700+?
So said absolutely nothing new here and ignored the question asked to you
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Thanks. I can see now how the tone might appear different, but it was a genuine question.
I can't do more than 5 minutes of laptop in bed, so I do somewhat envy your setup that apparently isn't awful for computing. But I'm also in the "don't laptop in bed" category so I may not have been motivated to solve it.
I struggle to think of a firm better matching that description than Oracle. But slightly more seriously, this kind of litigation work is both very specialised and high risk, so it makes sense to rely on the best advisors in the field, who will almost certainly be external counsel.
"Are you color blind too Vincent? Its silver. Jerome Morrow was never meant to be one step down on the podium. With all I had going for me I was still just second best." - Gattaca
The thing that I, personally, desperately care about is cross-platform on the desktop: Mac, Windows, and Linux.

MAUI was promising to become such a thing [although MS themselves are being a bit non-committal about Linux], but should I be wary of the bigger architectural picture?
Uno looks like a poor man's Flutter, they went ahead and redid controll rendering but they still use native controls for behaviour and apparently use native rendering paths for each platform. So you basically have to trust them to get it consistent between platforms across paths ? Not sure why you don't go all the way and handle everything like Flutter, at least the rendering is unified between platforms.

Having now used multiple of these cross platform frameworks (Xamarin Forms, Flutter, Ionic) frankly I'd just write the UI for each platform separately and use native design tools, using common C# library for business logic.

Otherwise use Ionic/WebView if you don't care about result quality and need fast development, you'll knock out a web UI faster than anything, every front-end dev can do web, plenty of design tools, designer workflows.
Money and connections open other options for applying pressure. For instance, see the alleged behavior of Harvey Weinstein towards Rose McGowan involving spooks for hire.

(I'm not talking about Damon at all here, I don't know much of anything about him. Just pointing out that lawsuits are far from the only tools available to those with means.)
I'd go along with that. 2nd place == first loser. Bronze is still top 3, more recognition than the rest of the field.
Sorry, I understand now. My intent was to show that there is a distinct, measurable difference between normal people and influencers in terms of their appearances and behavior in real life. However, I can see how part of that could be seen as policing what people wear.

My claim remains the same though, that her brand is built around creating risqué science content and so the linked Twitter thread is manufactured outrage.
Although if you have multiple projects using the same framework and libraries on the same server, using containers allows you to use opcache preloading.
Using open source code and tools doesn't work if you don't know how to code. Paying someone else to do the work for you is no different from the current model and makes you dependent on their company leadership and business model. The best software development tool would be the one that replaces both of these.

> What developers are busy is filling in those 10% gaps that you point out, because it is still complicated and one has to understand things from multiple angles.

But to get 90% of the way there is not as trivial as you are making it out to be. The smallest useful software projects take weeks, anything with some amount of complexity is at least a few months or years. Even with Rails nobody is pumping out a PoC in under 6 hours. The goal is to make it take hours what used to take years with hundreds of thousands of dollars in dev costs.
Is it similar to reactstrap or react bootstrap?
Narrative bias is a big thing.

The massive rush of journalists (seemingly none of whom bothered to do the most basic research like, I don't know, getting into a Tesla and looking at how it's Autopilot system works) who were jumping on the "Tesla self-driving system is killing people and needs to be regulated" bandwagon was shocking. A story in the LA Times was particularly ignorant and foolish.

Any owner of a Tesla could have been contacted via this primitive device that today's journalists are afraid to use called a telephone, and interviewed about whether it can function when there are no lines painted on the road, or if it's remotely convenient to get the vehicle to drive with nobody at the wheel.

I chalk it up to a way of thinking that permeates the brains of quantitatively illiterate people (the vast majority of the US population, and the overwhelming majority of journalists):

They think in terms of stories within a framework of a bigger story/narrative. They don't let data point them to reality. They instead think in terms of the privileged white male Elon Musk exploiting his workers and customers with malicious indifference in the pursuit of profit. Anecdotes from people, provided that they are designated as some form of victimized/marginalized group, are treated with the veracity of peer reviewed research. Anyone bringing up hard data that doesn't fit this narrative is attacked for a lack of empathy.

The attacks on Tesla are a perfect lens to view the corruption of journalistic institutions as they transformed themselves into Buzzfeed style confirmation-bias machines, harvesting clicks from emotionally charged lemmings reading the latest tribalistic takes from the former bloggers they employ.
It's still an Oracle product now and Oracle has done a lot of good for Java.
...to Docker containers.

I don't care to migrate the infrastructure on which I depend to a proprietary product, especially one with a record of sudden, surprising changes.

It's perfectly possible to containerize without placing your faith in Docker.
I love how ARM's killer feature of low power consumption came completely by accident. [1] ACORN designed ARM as a desktop processor with good memory bandwidth, and only discovered its energy efficiency when a prototype continued running without a power supply from signal input voltages.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jOJl8gRPyQ
icloud-photo-downloader: https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

I've used this to great success! As far as I could tell, it grabbed every photo and video at the highest quality. Very happy.
To be fair, spoiling the ending of the movie was necessary to make her case - which also had said side benefit, giving her the most minor of retributions.

It seems like she got judged massively simply because she was/ is a very attractive woman; media who are under instruction to capitalise on attractive females[0] had no qualms about doing so in her case either.

It's all up pretty disgusting and I'm extremely disappointed with Matt Damon for getting involved with this movie _now_ - reopening all those wounds yet again - without even checking in with her.

[0] There's evidence of this in Kevin Rudd's Royal Commission on Murdoch in Australia - https://youtu.be/X68NVLPVzuI
I intend this with all the charity in the world, but it does need to be blunt because comments like yours are influencing decision makers to force everyone to come back, whether it's full time or in a so-called "hybrid" model.

You've had a year and a half to adjust. If you don't want to move, you could easily rent office space near your home. Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency for everyone who is happier and more productive at home.
I'm also interested in this. I have iCloud for Windows installed on a VM with lots of attached storage, but it doesn't seem to persistently/reliably download photos unattended.

I suppose another way to do it would be with a Mac and then periodically backing up the local Photo Library, but that still leaves the photos tied up in Apple's proprietary library format. Plus you need a spare Mac just laying around and always on.
on the woodworking shows I watch, saw noises get translated as laughter and applause.
> Nobody would be crazy enough to take a loan denominated in Bitcoin.

You have too much faith in financial literacy of the participants in this market. [1] It doesn't really matter as much as you may think because they (1) are using these casino tokens to borrow more tokens to buy yet more tokens and (2) they see liquidations as a natural part of such lending.

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/are-we-dumb-financial-illiter...
“They just need a refueling network” - case in point, wildly impractical to buy one today.
Ask HN: Is there a dedicated programming language for business logic?
I feel the main problem delivering value is that codebases are too big and complex. If we made a business logic language intentionally made to be sandboxed which doesn't let you refer to code in other files or include libraries that would help a lot separating business logic from infrastructure code.

The way it would be used is that programmers writes some interface in their language, and then that interface becomes a compiler that can verify and compile a business logic script file. The script would run in a sandboxed environment with resource restrictions so it can't run too long or crash the server.

Such a language wouldn't just help people write code files for apps, but could also enable just having a textbox field where you could add programs to filter or sort results to your liking etc. I guess you could view it in the same way as the popular regular expression language that is embedded in so many apps and programs, but with enough power that it would cover most business logic needs.

Since it was designed from the start to be sandboxed like this it wont be hard to make it safe, and as it gets wider appeal more people would get interested in programming. That is the theory at least, is anyone aware of attempts to do this? The requirement that it can't depend on external code is absolutely necessary though, that is the main advantage of regular expressions and why you can easily embed those in API's.
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Buoyant forces apply to things in the ground. HDPE pipes without adequate backfill or anchoring will float out of the ground, like zombies, in flood conditions where the pipe itself contains air. Your local street department has probably seen it. Also, for expedient flood protection, those tubular dams are typically filled with water.

My reaction is that "if necessary" isn't really an "if". It is necessary, or your levee may float off precisely at the time you need it to work.
Do you have some examples to share? My first thought reading this was, similar to what you say, "this sounds really bad," and my inclination here is to side with Craig Murray. At the same time, the article linked by OP doesn't point to any sort of court ruling or proceedings where the reader might be able to check against the claims being made that the trial was, indeed, Kafkaesque. This obviously raises some suspicions.
+1 for using hadolint! I have been using it for ages, and I highly recommend it. I also sometimes write some Goss tests, and even run Trivy at the final stages of the container build and delete them once done in the same layer. It takes about 10 seconds or so longer to build the container, but its baked in and helps you catch issues before pushing the container.
That FOSS projects choose Discord out of all the options shows a severe lack of judgment.
Returns on HDBs, especially with “cash over valuation” offer bigger returns than private properties. Rent it out and the ROI is better than private as well.

HDBs are similar to property in most countries. It’s bought primary as a place to live but also as a store of value. The govt will buy out your HDB for cash in order to fund your CPF. The govt also constrains the supply of HDBs which pushes up values.

But you are right about the lucky draw. Someone people win BTO lottery and make out like bandits with new developments in mature estates.
This can't happen. An option like that would conflict directly with freedom of speech and freedom of the press. As much as I hate what happens to people like her, there are far more cases like Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin that need to be put under the spotlight. Don't get me wrong, I hate what happens to people like here that get caught in the crosshairs. This director and company making the movie should be ashamed of themselves for either not dissociating themselves from her story or at the very least working with her and reaching some understanding where they have respect for her story. A lot of people know she was innocent but I would say the majority don't and only followed the story in the beginning.
A problem in the home services space is large, new work/replace jobs usually supersede smaller repair jobs. For example, "fix my deck stairs" is going to probably be much lower on a list of jobs from "build me a new deck". I assume this is because the build a deck job is much more predictable and profitable. How will your service operate for repair work that is unpredictable?

"enforce strict quality standards" - This sounds good but there are also local municipal codes that work has to adhere to, sometimes where a repair job has to bring something up to current code standards as part of the work. How will your service ensure contractors are doing this?

Regarding the quality part, say someone passes the quality test before/after photos, etc. and "fixes" someones deck but it later collapses because of faulty work (using improper screws that can't handle load) and someone is severely injured or worse. Are you legally structured where the liability remains with contractors?
That really depends on the net flow of cash and how it is used. Housing is bought specifically because it is a good investment with positive returns. This is money that flows back out.
We all have batteries all over the place all the time and the idea that they could spontaneously catch fire just by their nature of being small containers filled with energy is thrilling and scary.

It's the same reason the Samsung phone battery fires became such a story.
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> We have an election coming up soon and our politicians are desperate to impress the median voter.

I am not familiar with Australian politics but isn’t an authoritarian move like deploying the military unlikely to land well on the median voter, especially considering they are probably COVID-weary by now? Could you explain the voter sentiment that might see this as a positive?
And the employees, management, and shareholders at HP won’t even get compensated for the lost time, opportunity costs, stress, hassle, etc., incurred during those 5 years.

No wonder big companies settle out of court so often.
Exactly. I paid for TailwindUI too but have been disappointed by the execution in code. I love the visual design, but give me some abstractions and not 20 classes per element.

TUI design + DaisyUI's abstractions is the dream.
> that isn't documented, first, because it's changing/improving constantly, and second, there's just too many custom features like that for any consumer to ever keep track of, so what would even be the point?

Same point as any documentation, to make information about features and changes available to the people who DO want it.
Notes in the margin of the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis
These notes are the author's attempt to present the state of affairs in the direction dedicated to solving one of the problems of the millennium-the proof of the Riemann hypothesis. The content of the hypothesis is described. The main directions of the search for its proof are described. Physical proof of the Riemann hypothesis is presented. Considerations are expressed about the failure of previous attempts to prove it and the belief that success is associated with going beyond the Turing barrier.
Due to the 3 place podium, regardless of the type of competition second place looks like narrowly missing a total win, while third place looks like narrowly missing a total loss. People tend to look at the alternative to decide their relative feelings.

It's why even tragic situations can be an opportunity to be happy because the alternative is even worse, while some happy situations can be disappointing because they could have been so much better. Or the stock market where a modest win that could have been huge might feel worse than a loss that could have been huge.
Growing up I learned the phrase "it is a privilege, not a right" which applied to many things: drivers license and citizenship are two that come to mind immediately. It was explained to me that a right is something innate, that you simply HAVE - it can be temporarily unavailable to you through force or coercion or circumstance, but it is still yours. Privilege, on the other hand, is something you must earn and constantly prove yourself worthy of having through responsible action and behavior.

I do wish these definitions were still used.
Are they still victims if the accused is cleared of wrongdoing?

Don't they become false accusers at that stage?

Why do accusers get to keep anonymous when defendants can not?
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>Matt [Damon] wouldn't put up with that.

welllllll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPWJOJYVKc
The author claims they created a great Forms UWP app which is deeply suspect. Also, Uno don’t really address anything but the performance issues of Xamarin on Android in the list of things Forms is bad at, so beware.

Argument about UI is also suspect. Forms gives a lot of customization control, and with the new material visual you can get a good cross-platform material design. Personally, I think Material is ugly, but it isn’t exactly uncommon these days.

At this point I also hate Xamarin.Forms, but I like Uno even less, mainly because it is built off the absolute abomination that is UWP. (Heads up: it renders paths/SVGs even worse than WPF). If you are a .NET developer, you do not want to explore the mess of buggy controls, COM threading issues and old Silverlight help pages that is UWP. Yes, when you sign up for UWP, you are signing up for an immature wrapper over COM.
As far as I know, it is superior to Java. or Java finally got async/await? - the feature that is available for ~10 years in many other languages including C#...
The fire happened during testing.

Incredibly misleading journalism.
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With the amount of physical assets and business Amazon has in the EU it will be easy to enforce the collection. The other option is to confiscate the warehouses and data centers and sell those to pay the fine.

Also I’m not sure how Luxembourg laws work but here in Finland the government would just declare that company bankrupt and take all of their stuff to pay the fine. (Company not paying their bills in time is grounds for bankruptcy).

This is also the easiest way to get a company to pay what they owe you. Just send a notice of wanting to declare the company bankrupt to the courts for not paying usually leads to the bill getting paid in a day or two. This has actually happened to some really large companies (mainly insurance companies that did not want to pay after losing in court when disputing their insurance decisions)

Twitter in Russia is very different as they do not have any physical assets there.
I guess I didn't know that was a law? It's not in the U.S. Foreigners can buy anything they want.

But I don't think the distinction is meaningful, higher new build prices would drag up existing home prices.
> Imagine if Brock Turner trademarked his name

That's a separate and interesting discussion itself, IMO. On the one hand, how do you have sympathy for someone who does what he did? On the other hand, do we not believe in rehabilitation, redemption, or anything like that? It is getting easier to believe that the mania over Brock Turner has led to a disproportionate response. And to go against the mob is to risk becoming a pariah yourself. When the mob is the size of the Internet, this seems pretty scary.
There's something distinctly American about spending $150 on a Zafu.
Pocket change.