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> C and C++ are pretty bad languages insofar they give you limited options for building good abstractions

Which abstractions can you not create in C++? The only clumsy abstraction I can think about is algebraic data types—and C++ is not a functional language. C++ has an extremely powerful type system for any abstraction you can imagine. But that is also part of the problem :)

Personally, I think C is a better language for lower level development, as it is so simple that upon creating well established practices they are much easier to follow. The idea that codebases become over 10 million lines of code in each of these cases maybe is a sign that there are other architectural issues of scalability. I'd be curious to compare something like OpenBSD and look at _WHY_ those codebases have less vulnerabilities? I think there's a lot more to this than language choice. Change velocity is of course one of them—maybe we need to slow down? It looks like OpenBSD had only 1 vulnerability last year:

https://stack.watch/product/openbsd/openbsd/

I would like to see a simple language like C with Rust memory safety guarantees. These modern languages literally try to shoe-horn EVERY feature from EVERY language so they can appeal to the lowest-common-denominator. But what do you get with that? A systems-level Java?
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> Maybe it’s not a law but it sure is a sensical cultural norm and is just the polite thing to do as well.

OP is clearly talking about Alberta changing the laws about self-isolation. At some point, we are going to have to transition to using the same 'cultural norm' framework in dealing with Covid that we do with the flu.
Amusing. My personal experience is that DG is awesome. Before DG in the town I'm familiar with if you wanted to buy basic office or school supplies, basic OTC medical supplies that were not a gas-station 2-pack of aspirin, essentially any cookware, or a better variety of packaged goods than the local mediocre grocery store (like detergent, snacks, juice, sauces) you had to drive over 20 miles. The produce that DG does have is fresher than the local store and they also don't try to resell expired meat. Now people can use way less gasoline for their basic needs. Now senior citizens with limited mobility can drive slowly or take a golf cart to DG. Rather than "eroding prospects" it adds to sales tax revenue and makes the town more attractive for tourists, remote workers, and other people who are relocating. Dollar stores also have a small land footprint and use few utilities.
I think that's the hubris China is currently having: as they've grown stricly because of the reliance of export-led growth, they are now dependent on the global economic order as much as the US is (for its import-led growth). And the ones that initially built the factories in China, can always pack up and move to a different country. So global corporations are now kind of "cycling through" a list of alternate underdeveloped countries to build factories in, and keep going until the options are all exhausted. Some countries are quite receptive to this (like Vietnam, which is undergoing a similar transformation like South Korea and China had in the past), but some countries are not (like India, due to its complex cultural/political legacy it's hard for foreign companies to navigate through).
> The only issue I have with Linux is the quality of the hardware. Mac hardware is incredible. I have mac's still running from decades ago and used heavily.

There doesn't seem to a contradiction there. I knew people who preferred Linux on Apple hardware. They were very happy with it.
https://archive.is/I4P7m
> There was definitely a name change

If you read the second link I posted above, you will see that there was no name change. You have not provided any evidence or links to the contrary.
Thanks for reading!

I hear you on visibility maps being intimidating. In practice, I haven't seen any cases where visibility map issues have prevented an index-only scan. But we did initially think that the visibility map was to blame for what we were seeing!

RE space of the index: it cost us about 1% of the free disk space on our workers. It was worth it for this particular feature.
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I see no point in open banking for me as a customer. The supposed benefits are timid compared to the huge privacy implications.
I pass
Does anyone else feel like their brain is broken when thinking about questions like this one? I lean way too much on the pessimistic side about any tool or technology, present or future, to the point that I don't trust my own judgement to predict these things at all.
> First off, it it were, given Earth's crust is mostly silicon and its the most habitual place ever discovered, it would have evolved here. but it didnt.

Just give it a few more decades ...
An End to Animal Cages in Europe?
Yeah, AirDrop is great when it works. However, when it doesn't work (happens sometimes to me), it cannot be easily fixed.
It was 2 days of various tests, resulting in a number of scores, physical, intelligence, psycological etc. All together an aptitude test. I don't know why this was called intelligence test, it was a mix of questions, not all of these kind. I remember many were something like "circle the fourth word of the second sentence except if..."
They're just trying to give you an interpretation of the total volume, which is (1 Florida area) times (2 inches). It would not actually raise the global sea level enough to cover Florida by 2 inches of water, which would indeed be obvious.

The description is misleading: why pick Florida? Yes, Florida is a state with more concern than most, but they could just as easily have said that it would cover Rhode Island by 108" of water, or France by half an inch.

But then, nobody really has a good feel for units of volume. No matter how you phrase it, it is a lot of water.
Wanna take some guesses? :)
This doesn't seem to be much of a push or much of a coherent vision, just hand-waving, a little grab-bag of popular ideas, and a wish for more federal money.
when you see someone being told "this is $76" and they only have $70, and they have to decide - while I'm waiting behind them - what to put back... the thought of telling them "it's 40% cheaper 1 mile from here" crosses my mind. This exact scenario has played out in front of me 3 times in 2021.
Since when is Texas a pejorative? By itself it would be a world top-15 economy, and its pandemic performance was not an outlier or exceptional. If anything it, along with Florida, demonstrated that extremely strict lockdowns don't correlate to better outcomes. Nothing like Alberta.
Is it just me, or the images on the post are not loading?

Initially I tried on the most recent FF, and about half the images were not loading. Refreshed the page, no images were loading after that at all.

Then I tried on the most recent Chrome, images were not loading at all either.

If someone has a workaround, please let me know. I have confirmed that adblocker and such were all disabled.

Upon trying to access the images directly, I got this 403 error:

> Your client does not have permission to get URL /u/0/d/<rest-of-the-URL> from this server. (Client IP address: <my-ip-address>)

> Rate-limit exceeded. That’s all we know.
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This is unfortunate, but I'm sure everybody saw it coming from a mile away.

Anyone aware of community forks that might be gaining traction?
Of course that's not what happened. All these vague details were matters for a trial in criminal court, which trial was described by a higher court as "unlawful", "procedurally unfair", and "tainted by apparent bias". Reporting such matters to the public is not a crime in a civilized jurisdiction.
Large content platforms don't curate content, and so incentives are misaligned. I believe "curated content without click-baity incentives" is the kind of thing a "PBS" tries to solve.

E.g.: an educational video will be followed by flat-earth conspiracy video if the YouTube algorithm choses so. This sabotages content producers with – in this case – educational intentions, as the platform will make producers compete for attention.

Also, I believe what's been missing in the discussion is how "empowering anyone to push content" is not in itself a value, and that it's in fact possible to add negative value, at a global scale, at very little cost. This discussion won't happen as it's in platforms best interest to promote engagement, and engagement comes from pure controversy.
I kind of love how this article neither glorifies nor bemoans how things used to be but instead just gives a detailed and artful description.
It is an option, but how fast will they be very efficient? It takes years to master something and some people, not all, need to have that mastery level.
What fraction of store closings do they make up?
OK. It's not network. I tend to HN on my Android mobile - there the video doesn't open.

On Desktop the video shows.
Same pattern in northern Spain that have very high vaccination rates.
I agree. All of our friends and us get "kids stuff", as well as most of my furniture 2nd hand. My kids are 12 and 14, and outside of certain shoes, they've never worn brand new clothes (same for me and my spouse when we were kids). Why buy when your friends or siblings with older or bigger kids are looking to get rid of clothes as soon as their kids outgrow them? Come to think of it, I don't remember the last time I bought new clothes myself.
Of course, there are smartcards that could do this, you're just not allowed to have them. Plenty of smartcards nowadays are just flash and an ARM core which theoretically could be programmed arbitrarily. These tend to be used for credit cards, etc. Of course they might have acceleration units for specific algorithms like NIST ECDSA but I'd be surprised if Ed25519 couldn't be accommodated.

Unfortunately they're all NDAware, so they may as well not exist. ...But of course I've written about my extensive issues with the smartcard industry before.
As far as I know an aimbot can work just with pixels that it can see.
Yeah exactly. And the sex education part is very funny.
That's just stating the claim again, not providing evidence. How many browser extensions have I written? How many emacs extensions? Fwiw I did everything in Emacs for many years.

Regardless of the differences in the core platform, the ecosystem is where the real power is. The number of full-time paid contributors to Chromium/Electron/VSCode is dramatic, and it shows. The reach of the VSCode ecosystem means there are now competitive ports of Magit and other key packages.

Maybe the Emacs system has a little more power than a browser. VSCode disallows extensions from messing with the DOM to ensure stability; Emacs doesn't, which means less stability and more flexibility. But it's not much use in practice, or I haven't seen the use.

Anyway, Javascript and Elisp are both basically low-end lisps, largely written in C/C++, and running on x86 machines. Neither resembles the theoretical Symbolics machines of yore.

Maybe with billions in funding Emacs could start competing with the Chromium/Electron/VSCode teams. But that's not gonna happen. I can't afford to write my whole environment alone, so I go where the people are.
Would you mind explaining to me why would work? I mean how you can know this would work without studying the issue?
Buried ‘Lakes’ on Mars May Just Be Frozen Clay
Honestly, if you hitched your horse to the side of where they have the shopping carts, or even a lamp post, not only would most not mind, most would think it was cool, and if they really hated it, wouldn't know who was responsible for/had had the right to remove the horse.

I haven't ridden a horse since I was 3 or so, but I rode a steam train through town last Sunday, which would be period accurate with your horse, and people smiled. They waved and took photos and thought it was really cool. Which it was.

It isn't practical, as you say, but it is pretty awesome. And because of that people will accommodate you.
Yeah. They are like unlicensed gun sellers who have a surprised pikachu face when that gun turns up in a murder investigation.
This is a fantastic suggestion. Providing the end consumer perspective is definitely something we can do- we'll work on adding that to our website.

Language learning is a super cool use case! We're working on other languages atm
> HN was quoting official sources single digit inflation numbers.

The article also quotes single digit inflation numbers. It claims 5.4%, and compares that to nominal wages rising around 3%.
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I have looked for license based solutions but beside the points i gave i above i found those efforts and the sorounding discussions entirely unimpressive. [1]

I could imagine community standards being a tool or bugs/tickets only being processed under conditions to such a a end but u have no idea how to go about something like this. Also i hope you have some different ideas.

[1] https://github.com/jamiebuilds/anti-fascist-mit-license
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Who said Texas was a pejorative?
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> had conversations with taxi drivers, talked to random people at bars,

Returning to these kinds of adhoc social interactions has be instrumental in helping breaking my isolation and depression.
Friendly chit chat with a barista, say hello to anyone who isn't obviously avoidant, asking to pet their dog etc.

Not wearing headphones has also been an important thing because it means I'm instantly available for interaction if someone should say something, or if I want to.
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Could you elaborate on how dissolved limestone does not emit CO2? Limestone is CaCO3. The calcium gets dissolved, ready to be used by your process. The Oxygen, I don't care much whether it stays in the water or goes into the atmosphere. Where does the carbon go, if not into CO2?
Perhaps, though there is that thing about local business keeping the money local to contend with.

At the same time, I'm not convinced we can just assume that to be the case. When a new grocery store in the neighboring town came and put the IGA out of business, my friends were also comparing notes and noticing that the new store paid better than the old one. And offered some things locally where we previously had to drive all the way into the city to get them.

I'm just not convinced these kind of situations can all be neatly fit into a single, straightforward narrative.
Ben Hunt’s comment on his own thread : [..] Nope. Theranos wound down all of their operations in 2018, destroying the original database and deleting the password to the file given to the Feds.

Apparently the Feds never checked the drive Theranos gave them for encryption or to confirm the data was there at all.[..]
> How many of those 1500 QuickLisp libraries work together without extra work?

I'm pretty sure that due to the curated nature of code in QuickLisp, there's really no problem with that. If something doesn't load properly, it's a bug that you should report.
Well I guess my question would be are those sports really better for it?

Anyone who has watched the fourth quarter of an American football game will know how paramount clock management is to that sport. Even more infuriating (for me) is basketball where the losing team is constantly stopping the clock with fouls to prevent the winning team from running down the final seconds... the last "minute" of the game can feel like an eternity.

At least soccer's timekeeping has the benefit of being simple. It works the same way whether a match is being played in the park or in a huge stadium. Personally I prefer it to having a clock that stops and starts like other sports have.
Hmm, with my 5600 XT I've never had a problem with Xorg or Wayland. I can't remember the last time my computer crashed. Just another data point, not trying to claim this wasn't happening for you.
What makes this time different?

I've literally heard this is coming to datacenter for 20 YEARS and it hasn't yet.

Liquids like mineral oil, etc to be the cooling agent yet it never gains measured adoption.

And with so much of servers now being centrally managed by just a few major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, etc) - unless you can break into those few accounts - how will this time be any different than the past?

From 2003: https://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/E/2003/0217/index.html
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