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> Chromium project became the cpython of JavaScript and web browsers, because you could package it's components and embed them in your own applications. Firefox does not have competitive equivalents or better features. Therefore it loses users.

XULRunner was Electron before it was cool. Though they werent prevalent there was a small but promising variety of applications based on XULRunner [0]

Then of course Mozilla administration axed it in their infinite wisdom.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_that_uses_...
Ouarzazate Solar Power Station
That's just wishful thinking. The costs on health could be massive if lead is essential. (and it very likely is)
Overleaf provides collaborative LaTeX [0]

[0] https://www.overleaf.com/
I live near Facebook and Google. It's doesn't seem to me much of a task to build dikes. Those trillion dollar companies can pay for it themselves

Costs of sea dikes – regressions and uncertainty estimates (2017)

https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/17/765/2017/nhess-17-7...
"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Fi...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/

Negative Results:

https://www.negative-results.org/
This is somewhat tangential but I was hoping the hive mind here might have some good ideas.

Does anyone know of a modern equivalent -- of course, as equivalent as it can be in a world where shareware isn't quite what it was -- to these infamous shareware CD-ROMs (e.g. http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/640_studio_v/index.html )? Or, to make it somewhat easier for younger (!?) audiences, of a modern-ish equivalent to Freshmeat.net?

By this, I mean something that would include:

a) New software (either newly-written programs or new versions of programs), or at least news about new software

b) In a somewhat organised fashion?

A humongous part of what I know today originated in tinkering with programs like these, from various fields, or from digging around things like the NightOwl archive ( http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/nightowl-007/index.html ), reading source code, wondering how various demos are made and so on. And, of course, later, from browsing Freshmeat.

The best I can do right now is bookmark a bunch of search pages on Github and Gitlab, visit a bunch of subreddits like /r/linux which will probably give me eye cancer sooner or later, and -- as much as I hate it -- subscribing to the AppKed RSS feed, not because I want to touch any of their downloads but because it's pretty much the only way I get to learn about new programs for macOS.

This is sub-optimal to say the least. Except for AppKed, these meet neither a) nor b), and I really don't want to rely on something like fsckin AppKed for something that I suspect can be done from legitimate sources.

I know about app stores and the like but they're not exactly useful for discovering new software even on mobile, where they're actually a thing.

tl;dr does anyone know of a modern equivalent to either Freshmeat or 640 MB of Shareware?
Google’s ‘time crystals’ may be the best scientific achievement of our lifetimes
>The private companies are taxpayers.

Yes, in the sense that you would still nominally be a taxpayer if you had ways to pay $1-$5 tax per year, while still making $300K.
10 billion a year of tax money can fund a lot of stuff. Just because it is a fraction of a 600 billion does not make it somehow better.
It's cheaper still to build barriers, especially since the sea level rise is gradual.

It's just that if you think of what we're going to spend worldwide to mitigate the harms of sea level rise, it seems incredibly stupid to be burning subsidized fossil fuels. That's without even factoring in the other problems climate change will bring. A proper carbon taxing scheme with tariffs on countries that don't play along would make so much sense.

One way or another the bill will be paid. Nature is a relentless debt collector.
Sitting at the bottom end of that scale you’re mostly seeing litter from tourists. North of Corolla is a long stretch of beach that lacks road access, it’s shockingly pristine and doesn’t see regular cleanup efforts.
Languages already had them in 1950's, e.g. JOVIAL, but is was more fun to create their own.
note for readers: this was prior to 3 quantum supremacy demos, Gil's argument had to...evolve...considerably. here's the latest update: https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2020/12/29/the-argument-again...
Not very long, as z is a pretty short character.
I'm saying it would be premature to discount the possibility.

A low-level dock supervisor could have been peddling this stuff for years, got spooked, and decided to cover his tracks, perhaps underestimating the size of the explosion, and assuming that the blame for an explosion would be spread too thin for his own liability to outweigh his personal, severe liability for his previous crimes.

The comment I was replying to seems to assume this scenario is ridiculous without giving it due consideration.

Again, I'm not saying this is a likely hypothesis, just that it's a credible possibility and didn't deserve the knee-jerk ridicule it was given.
Live sports is wrapped around groups a lot too. Which also begs the question of are people actually watching the ads in a bar or party..

The move to streaming for sports is bad.

I signed up for paid Hulu to watch olympics. It's grossly expensive, with ads still, and really confusing. I learned the hard way the only way to actually watch the events I wanted to I had to advance DVR them.

Instead of just listing them as videos, like netflix youtube and the rest of the world. The only stand alone videos I have access too without DVR are short 5 minute summary clips. And the DVR recorded broadcasts you have to manually figure out and skip over commercials and manually find the events in a 2 hour broadcast. I remember the super old tv connected DVRs recognized ads to skip. PornHub and YouTube can automatically mark content changes on the timeline.
that is a long name.
What specific questions where you asking? Did it have anything to do with anyone’s race?
Our software has improved since the domestication of animals and crops.

Our hardware has not changed and we are still on H. Sapiens 1.0.
You mean Safari and how it restricts local storage for privacy reasons?
Or have I missed something else?
For anyone wondering what "Archimare" refers to: https://www.visual-paradigm.com/guide/archimate/what-is-arch...
there's still an issue of consistency. if you can get "regular" hours... say, 6am-11am, M-T-W-Th, for example, you can schedule your life around it.

30 years ago, I managed a Burger King, and even then, they had us send people home if it got really slow, or.. call up people and cancel their shift an hour before, because of bad weather, etc. Someone's already arranged childcare or transportation for their shift, then cancelling it same day is just not a way to work.

I would imagine that a lot of places are still like that today.

$15/hr sounds great, but if it's 20 hrs one week, then 7 the next, then 24, then 4... that's still a bit unstable for a lot of folks. For someone who has no dependents, or has a stable partner... it's probably doable.
Yep. MVC is a UI pattern. How the UI displays application state and updates application state based on user interaction.

Everything else is outside MVC. Apparently some people don't understand this and stuff their application logic into MVC controllers.
Ok, I haven't been to those specific spots. But I bet you'll find small plastic debris (1-3cm in size) at the high tide line on beaches. They're everywhere in all oceans.
When this battery caught fire they told area residents to stay indoors, close all windows, and turn off their HVAC to avoid breathing the fumes. We don't get told to shelter in place when a diesel vehicle drives by and we cook with natural gas in our homes -- are you sure the safety is the same?
Private equity firms are a developing scourge.
Reading Tolkien and playing D&D in grade school primed me for an almost magical realist(?) perspective. Wargames revealed a hidden world of interconnected monoliths designed and guarded by wizards who actually thought of themselves as wizards.

As a young outsider, I could gain access to this world only by breaking in or fast-talking someone. Once inside I'd have my own room and could learn magic at my own pace. I could explore. The wizard might banish me if he finds out.

This was literally half of the books I'd read growing up come to life.
Excellent article! As someone who has to work with collaborative editing I must say the complexity of the whole area is at times daunting to say the least. So many edge-cases. So many mines to step on.

Now I think I am convinced that the OT vs CRDT performance comparison is kind of moot point and the question is more about the user experience. Which version produces nicer results when two very diverged documents are merged. Maybe one of these days I'll read an article about that too.

To get off on a tangent a little bit, I'd be interested to know how one could add in tracking of changes to Diamond or other CRDT? Can you add an arbitrary payload to the operation and then just materialize the areas different from the original snapshot? I know Yjs can do this by creating snapshots and then comparing them to another snapshot but it seemed a bit awkward and not suited for real-time editing.
Stimulant use is one of those things that everyone knows, but nobody talks about. Silicon Valley, like the German army in WWII, runs on amphetamine.
Do you know why gravity isn’t used more as a storage mechanism? It seems like you could use batteries as big capacitors for pumps and have the “real” energy stored in water towers.
> There goes that "for the greater good" incentive for getting vaccinated. And people are still thinking vaccines should be mandatory?

It still seems to reduce the number of hospitalizations, thus probably preventing a health care collapse which was the original point of lockdowns.
oh nice, it wasn't when I was first implementing ITP related stuff, that's good to know.
The forced unreal diversity makes things unbelievable. The black and white couple with only gay Asian children under 10 with a Latino teenager makes everything into a farce. All of those things happen but not all at once all of the time. It's labelled as progressive but it's regressive and mocks each minority group along the way.
There are a couple more up to date theories on its current utility
Proximate Cause
Cool fast math! Seems like the cost to give out actual gold is super tiny compared to the amount the olympic committee charges for the games. They should give out solid gold or at least 18k to make it last longer with fewer scratches.
Lead is needed for the brain. The person is fully there (in fact more than before) they only stop uncontrollably reacting to everything, and stand straight, instead of being all wobbly.
>At least I don't need Apple's approval to build my website...

Yes. But some day you may need Apple's approval for Apple's user to visit your website due to security / privacy / or other ideology them deem unfit for their user's consumption.
Forensic Architecture's investigation released about 8 months ago used blast modeling to estimate that "as little as half of the 2,700 tons" exploded. The FBI's estimate cuts that estimate by about half.

https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-...

Discussed on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25149177

There was speculation at the time (including some by myself) as to what could account for the reduced yield relative to the total initial shipment quantity.
Download a CSV of your Amazon purchases
With as conservative as aviation is, and as long as airplanes last, I doubt anything about it will be quick. I’m amazed it has taken this long to get a single approved 100LL replacement, considering high octane unleaded fuels have existed for decades.
Sortof small, portable in compilation sense, one could use GPG or OpenSSL or one of the variants. [1] OpenSSL and GPG should be around for some time. You can also keep the source code [2] around of any version in the event that they break backwards compatibility with the method you used to encrypt your files such as deprecating a protocol or individual cipher.

ls -alh bin/openssl lib/libssl.so.1.1 lib/libcrypto.so.1.1
-r-xr-xr-t 1 root root 616K Jul 26 17:39 bin/openssl
-r-xr-xr-t 1 root root 2.4M Jul 26 17:38 lib/libcrypto.so.1.1
-r-xr-xr-t 1 root root 552K Jul 26 17:38 lib/libssl.so.1.1

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16056135/how-to-use-open...

[2] - https://ftp.openssl.org/snapshot/ or rsync://ftp.openssl.org::openssl-ftp/snapshot/
It tells me the upper deciles of wealth have been enjoying life on account of the bottom deciles drawing shitty hand.

Less entertainment, vacations, eating out for many who previously enjoyed it will be the result.
I'll have to dig up some obscure old software, and see whether this site has a place for any of it. Just curiosities and personal nostalgia at this point.

I released a bunch of MS-DOS shareware as a kid, but only to local free BBSes (no money for paid online services nor long-distance phone calls). I also made a couple shrinkwrap software packages that I started to sell in computer stores around age 15-16, before I got a real software engineering job (and sold my PC, bought a used Sun workstation, and switched to open source).

One day, I was talking with someone from Finland, and he thought he remembered seeing a D&D character generator of mine there. But otherwise, I've never seen or heard of it.
In the UK, lockdowns doubled mental health referrals amongst young people [1] and there was a sharp increase in alcohol related deaths [2].

I hope they don't return, given we now have a vaccine. I also doubt their efficacy, with cases declining in some cases before lockdowns began.

They are not a cost-free public health tool, and it is unknown whether they have caused more harm than good.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/15/young-mental...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jul/15/surge-in-alc...
It had been optimized (and deprecated) since then. See https://github.com/left-pad/left-pad/blob/master/index.js
ML or not, at the most fundamental level, classical computers simply do not possess the type of logic that's truly reflective of our reality. Its binary nature forces it to always resolve any single statement to either a true or false answer only.

A very simple example. If we ask our classical computer this question "are people currently supportive of COVID-19 vaccines?", then it would probably give us a straight answer of either a "yes" or "no" based on statistical inference of the percentage of total people who have received vaccinations at this point.

At its most fundamental level, classical computers just cannot comprehend a reality that could resolve that answer to both "Yes" and "No" in a single statement, which btw is possible in a quantum computing environment under its superposition state.

In our reality, some people who may not be fully supportive of the vaccines, but under special circumstances they may be forced to receive it because of workplace requirements, pressures from their loved ones, etc...
By number of characters maybe, but there are longer characters.
High School Teacher in Scotland
Yes. 100% doubt.
The occasional tie could also push it the other way— an additional gold at the expense of a silver or likewise with two silvers instead of a silver + bronze.

A handy dandy list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ties_for_medals_at_the...
Diabetes and the Miracle of Insulin
I just create tasks that needs to be done in emacs org mode, choose one of the tasks and start working on it.
There are rumors going around the electronics world that PCB houses are being paid by Altium to inform them if they get a CAD file generated by a cracked copy of their software.

So it's not always a hack or leak, it's just money talking.
Living with Chronic Pain Can Disrupt Your Emotions at a Chemical Level
Japan could have just said no to the Olympics, not paid the fine and told the IOC exactly where to put the contract.

Hosting the games ends up costing the host countries more money anyway so if IOC skips over them in the future...so what?

E: this assumes the fine isn't already in escrow
One of my dream labor reforms would be something like classifying any shifts that aren't scheduled at least two weeks in advance as overtime. It won't guarantee a steady number of hours but it will definitely help smooth things out and allow better planning.
I believe it was a joke that, as emergency covid policies are extended a couple months as each new variant arises, and since there will be no end of variants for an endemic virus, that means the policies are actually permanent.

Or maybe I misunderstood.
Art of Building Small Containers
Shocking news from the world of science.
You’re going to be one of those people who in their final moments with COVID gasp out “I should have gotten the damn vaccine”.

It’s funny how this pandemic started as a health problem but ultimately became an IQ problem.
If you use Hanlon's Razor in criminal investigations, most criminals are going to walk.

Most thieves don't hold equity or title to the structures they're stealing from. It's dubious to imply the people working in that warehouse have a greater interest in keeping the dock standing than in staying out of prison.
Now realize a lot of people just..kept watching. Scary stuff.
I don't exactly understand your criticism on best practices.

You seem to imply that UML or other project management software are considered best practices. I have never heard that. Or rather the opposite. Not using UML is currently considered as best practice.

But maybe it depends who you ask.
This is how things operate in other parts of the world. When I was in Naples I often waited for a mother with a stroller so I could cross beside them.
I also knew a Kock who pronounced it "Cuck", just to add to the list of pronunciations.
Which makes me wonder even more why DSC is completely non-functional for any other monitor under Big Sur and Monterey.
My bad for not linking to the source of information:

https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/
Anyone have a link bypassing the paywall? Or better yet, an explanation of where to find such links?

Also can we edit the title to specify there's a paywall? I don't remember if we have a policy for that around here.
> "Glue Code Is the Success Condition"

That's about as true a success condition as drowning in the filth generated by ones own "productivity" :P

Both might be an acceptable annoyance in the short-term but likely lead to more serious damage if continued for the long term.
There is only one way to get things done [1]. It is just DO and stop thinking about it or how to do it.

Todo apps will not help you get things done, they will only help you accumulate much more tasks that you can do.

I mean how can some people think that software will make them do more ? The app will not do the task for you.

Contrary to what the title states, some people get things done. But productivity is the same thing as loosing weight. It is very easy to understand what to do, (eat less/work (real work) more hours). But there a tons of business trying to sell you something to achieve it. If you want to get things done, just do it. I don't know what else I can tell you

[1] https://blog.luap.info/the-only-way-to-be-productive.html
For small teams that may work, but at some point, you need to protect yourself from tragedy of the commons. This is especially true during growth periods in the team or periods with significant churn. Culture can very easily shift and having something other than humans involved in ensuring good habits are held is worthwhile.
Except even small increase in range means way larger part of the city would be covered by the blast.

Additionally, many buildings were on the verge of collapse. I can imagine they did not need much more blast power to actually topple.
Nice! What sort of rig do you use to test battery
cycling?
Yeah, I wondered about the methodology there, but they provide an additional data point.
It does have a status bar. Or we are talking about different things?
Part of diplomacy is offering aid to those in need. Are you a potentially valuable ally?
Pretty much everything is optional if you stick to http/1.0. If you implement http/1.1 then you're required to do a lot of non-essential stuff like chunk encoding, pipelining, and provisionals which themselves are reasonably trivial too but they make the server code less elegant. If you want a protocol that's actually hard, implement SIP.
Related thought: I'm a person that is really drawn to humanitarian and mission driven causes, but not interested in participating in any kind of activism. When looking for mission-driven software engineering jobs, I find it incredibly frustrating that almost all of the ones I see posted are activism related. Why is it so hard for software engineers to work for humanitarian causes without working for activists?
English isn't a real language because it's had additions from other languages and the grammar has changed over time? Is French a real language? They've also lost most of their case declensions and have plenty of loan words. Same with Spanish. There's actually a decent number of Arabic loan words in that language. The Spanish spoken in Mexico has quite a few borrowings from Nuhuatl and other languages that were in the area before the Spanish settled there. Russian has lots of English loan words that honestly sound a little silly when surrounded by Russian words. Quite a few from French too and some of their pronunciation changed to mimic French as well if I'm not mistaken. They do have lots of cases though. Does that cancel out the loan words?

English is just a real of a language as any other. It's got an interesting and complex history, but so does every other language in this world.
Efficacy of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine slips to 84% after six months
I would argue years, genuinely. I still hear conversations about how great it was etc etc.
I don't think anyone thinks we shouldn't be doing (a lot) more to fix our infra.

But if we do, is it even possible to fix enough to stop dedicate states as big as CCP or Russia?

I think we need more consequences to deter this type of behavior, it's a new type of attack.

And yes I'm sure the US is guilty too but we don't have the same type of state owned/sponsored corporations that we hand over hacked materials to copy nor do we support crypto-hacking and hostage taking.
Show HN: Game of Life projected on a torus, where it belongs:)
I have 2 LG 27GN950-B's. They're great - very thin bezel, high color accuracy (not reference level, but better than most), and after a firmware update, I can drive my screens at 160Hz on overclock (via menu on the display, no custom weirdness required) or 144Hz in HDR/10 bit.
What element of Dune do you think would suffer by not having an ‘R’ rating? It’s not as if the book is reliant on anything exceptionally violent or obscene. Probably the darkest element is the reference to The Baron’s rape of young people. Frankly that’s better off as something to be implied and not depicted.

I think you can get away with enough in a PG-13 to suit the tone of this story. Watching the recent trailer you can catch a glimpse of what appear to be prisoners of war strapped upside down on troughs that will collect the blood from their slit throats. That’s pretty dark. And seemingly it’s an addition by the filmakers. It’s not an element from the book.
Surface plates are actually one of the easiest tools to bootstrap, using the three-surfaces method and lapping with fine grit. The only three surfaces that can all slide laterally against one another are three perfectly flat surfaces.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_plate#History

Here's a video (four parts) of a guy doing it. He uses modern tools in the video, but really that's just about saving time (and showing off). You can simply subsitute (a whole lot) more time spent lapping for the lathe part in his video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHmsQEAx16o