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What's wrong with trying now? (By "now" I mean, "in the next 20 years".) So long as nobody gets killed, if it fails, at least we can say we've tried. Trying now may bring forward the date at which it is actually feasible compared to putting off trying.

Even if people die–and they may–if they make a free and fully informed choice to sign up to something which may risk their lives, and they end up dying as a result – wasn't it their right to take that risk? There are a lot of people out there, who will view being one of the first humans to attempt to live on another planet something worth risking death for.
Just because men do a bad thing, doesn't mean every single man is responsible for that. Not to mention all men have mothers, and they play a huge part in how their children grow up to treat others.

To solve a problem, the root cause must be found, and the root cause of harassment is NOT other men. Sure men could help, but articles like this seem to demand it, like they're yelling at men, as a group, for the actions of individuals. This doesn't make sense, and it doesn't help either.
There were (and are) other free/libre Unix variants. Perhaps one of them would be where Linux is today.

But regardless, it doesn't make Torvalds of particular historical note. Important in a specific narrow field, sure. Of general historical importance, no.
Also because almost every other tech company (Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, etc.) make their products at the exact same Foxconn factories. Apple just gets the biggest headline.
That kind of seems like an unlikely next step for the same people who were supposedly ignoring repeated warnings that this could cause a massive explosion.
Yes, I love this suggestion. Building the literal muscle memory of how to write, I dunno, a for loop, is so critical -- it means you don't have to think for even a second about how to use that tool in the future.
I was thinking about it s while ago. Why do I care if it's sync or async. Usually 99% I need to await, therefore is better to have a way to tell the compiler to don't wait. Adjust typescript kind of fixes the bugs the author mentions
At the same time they are all becoming irrelevant, those are old people news.
Fabrice Bellard is a legend.
Governments and corporations always cooperate. It's the nature of any nation's regulatory and legal order. It's more nuanced than that.

What we want to look out for is not corporate cooperation with government, which is natural and proper. Rather we need to be on guard for corporate control of government, and I think America with it's energy, media and banking firms comes close to crossing the line. That line between corporates cooperating in a natural and necessary regulatory order on the one side, and corporates controlling the government's regulatory and legal order.

You may even be able to argue that the line was crossed a while ago. There's a reason we have everything from private prisons, to corporates that are "too big to fail", to wars for oil, to regulatory bodies so corrupted that our word can no longer be safely relied upon to certify an airliner.

My own opinion is we're holding the line in some places, and in others, clearly the dam has already broken.
> For every other point outside of Overwatch, you justified, agreed or misunderstood the OP and defended its release vs. its current state.

The points weren't critiques, is what I'm saying. Calling a game a "hot mess" doesn't actually say what's wrong with it. For WoW, as an example, it's inarguable that it's the biggest MMO of all time with a super active playerbase, even now. Saying "Well it's a hot mess" ignores all context and any legitimate argument made in reality. Just a proxy for "I don't like this game".

All of the points were just made up abstract complaints. They aren't actual gripes against the games, and moreso, the abstract complaints don't even defend the idea that "Blizzard has been going downhill." They only support my claim, which is that the person responding just doesn't like those games specifically, which has literally nothing to do with the quality of the games Blizzard released.
When you're fat every negative slight is perceived to be caused by discrimination against your weight. This is the same but for 'females in tech.' Terrible things happen to everyone all the time. That's life. No reason to blame it on your particular flavor of victimhood.
Show HN: Walking simulator fitness game. Walk to unfold a thriller story in app
... it's pretty clear that the person who said that is unaware of the full scope of NASA's programs. But that's not the person you replied to. You replied to someone specifically criticizing SLS.
Since you mention EC, it uses floating point. Good ol' FLOPS is not a wholly useless metric there. The first commercial processor sold with a floating point unit integrated was the 486 in 1989. Some rough, unsourced numbers:

1984 - Cray X-MP (expensive!) 800 MFLOPS
1989 - Intel 486 @ 33 MHz 3
1993 - Pentium @ 60 MHz 10
1997 - Pentium II @ 233 MHz 200
2000 - Pentium III @ 1000 MHz 2000
2004 - Pentium 4 @ 2800 MHz 5650
2007 - Core Quad @ 2400 MHz 38400
2009 - Core i7-950 @ 3100 MHz 92820
2013 - Apple A7 (smartphone) 115000
2020 - Apple M1 2844000

A FP calculation that takes 1 second on an Apple M1 will take 11 hours on the original Pentium, approximately. Hope that gives some perspective.
Yeah definitely. Though the timeframe is in the 10-30 year range. Safe bet that 10 years from now most vehicles on the road will still be human-driven. Openpilot with 10 more years of development will be impressive.
I think you didn't read all of gp's post.
I built something like this in Go a few years ago but it reloads your infrastructure when it changes, recompiles your code when it needs to, and syncs static files or interpreted files to wherever your app is running (desktop or cloud). Think of it like docker-compose but with file watching + sync + smart rebuilds. https://skaffold.dev/
I didn't know what the broken window fallacy was. So I looked it up. It is rather dubious if what I said fits into this fallacy.

If I leave my refrigerator open all day, it is guaranteed it will produce nothing of value. In this case, it is more dubious. They are producing a good that people want to buy. You might think Bitcoin is worthless, but that is besides the point, other people think it is worth it. Since the benefit vs the energy usage is completely subjective it isn't as clear cut as you like to make out.

My point was that people spending time doing things that seem pointless at the time can sometimes benefit everyone in the future in unexpected way. You, nor I can know what the future holds.
The most viable linux alternative is probably BSD. If Linux did not exist, there would probably be a lot more BSD distributions and software.

Torvalds deserves a lot of credit, but he is not necessarily a linchpin of FOSS computing.
>So just always be on the side that is in the majority and has all of the power

Until you find yourselves on the other side, by definition..
Any ideas on how one can simplify the borrow checker?
the GUI code for the earliest macs was absolutely a great feat of engineering

by getting my hands dirty with the system, I'm impressed by the way things were designed for the wimpiest processors (and also getting a lot of insight into the flaws of the OS that were exposed as machines became more powerful)
The attitude is the user.

In Stephenson's analogy, the OS is the Milwaukee drill in question.
This, exactly. They hired the aerospace equivalent of IBM and Oracle executives to manage the company, and Bezos doesn't have the technical expertise to distinguish why this is bad. BO has a lot of former SpaceXers as junior/midlevel engineers who have moved on from "hustling" in their twenties under Musk, and now want to start families, and have lives, in Seattle.
They also don't include The New York Times, iHeartRadio, or Twitter. But sure, if you ignore everyone else, 6 companies control everything.
I’ll give them that one, as people have been demanding the re-releases, especially classic and Diablo
Sorry for posting it before you were ready! I just thought it was really cool, and I thought getting you some more eyeshare might be useful in helping you find more folks wanting to work on it.
As is it's just doing the first 100 iterations of fizzbuzz as either a number or text depending on the fizzbuzz step but not printing or saving anything. If you wrap it in a console.log() it'll create a 100 element array of objects which are the answer for fizzbuzz[index+1] and log them.

All that said I've never been a fan of dynamically typed languages myself. Fast to make things in but difficult to reason about later.
It would be unprecedented for one of the most profitable companies in the games industry to struggle to hire top talent.

The industry has always relied on a hiring pool that is willing to put up with untold amounts of bullshit for the privilege of working on games instead of CRUD apps.

I don't think this thread or any other social media is a good indicator of a company's ability to hire talent. Look at Google and Facebook. They get shit on constantly by online commentators, but they're doing pretty well and seem to have no problem hiring at market rates.
I used to have both a 15" all-in-one model, and a separate pizza-box style model with a 17" monitor. IIRC, both were 88k CPUs.
I tried this exact thing last year, and it does not work for a particular reason: the JavaScript event loop guarantees that a function will run to the end before any callbacks will run, but an await is an implicit callback (a Promise under the hood). This means that you break the guarantee that variables or other memory locations will have the same value between statements.

This is exactly the same problem that languages such as C++ have when dealing with multithreading, and why constructs such as semaphores, mutexes, etc. exist. JS does not have these, and using the technique in the article will completely break the language.

Compare these two fiddles I prepared and see for yourself:

This one uses await to block for a second, which in the meantime changes the value of the variable between statements: https://jsfiddle.net/gq1btLdu/

This one uses a for loop to do synchronous work for about a second, then prints the initial value twice. You will notice that the setInterval never had the chance to run, since callbacks are scheduled to run only once the current function ends: https://jsfiddle.net/gq1btLdu/1/
People hear the word "conspiracy" and are already on the opposite side before hearing any arguments. It's like they're terrified of having the wrong thoughts. Don't worry, we haven't reached the mind reading flavor of conspiratorial dystopia yet.
Anecdotal evidence: I've seen so many posts of WoW players swearing to log off for 1 day in protest of recent events. One whole day. Meanwhile posts of players cancelling their subscriptions are few and far between.
In Defense of the Jupyter Notebook
Yeah, that was my first thought, too. It certainly makes me wonder about the rest of the article. I did a quick search to see if there was any Jim Morrison-related news from 2018, but other than some other people with the same name dying, there wasn’t anything. Even that movie with Val Kilmer was like 20-30 years ago. Very bizarre.
There were *BSD flavors before there was Linux; what made Linux more successful was more than just that it was "a free Unix". There will be lots of debate for years about what exactly those things were, which will ensure Linus Torvalds enduring fame and gratitude.

Which, to be explicit, I think he's earned. As have the hundreds of others who have worked to make "free Unix" into "ubiquitous Unix," who for various reasons will never get the recognition they deserve.
Sorry; this isn’t a social network (thankfully)
Laudable yes, but that’s as far as BO has gone. SpaceX does the same while putting stage 2 in orbit.

It’s “what have you done lately?”
Here's the problem. Not one of these tips is "work hard and try be a the best at what you do."
Instead, she leads with tips on how to be a proactive bridge-burner. Death threats, discrimination, etc. are obviously insane, but a lot of this frustration is self-induced.

> Call out bad behavior you see or hear about, even when it’s uncomfortable.

> Help to report offenders.

> Give credit to and call out great work you see from the women you work with.

> Offer to share your compensation packages to help your women-in-tech peers know their worth.

> Advocate in your own teams for debiasing the interview/promotion process.

> Advocate for events you're attending or organizing to include a more diverse set of voices and refer underrepresented experts you know for opportunities.

> Don't rely on marginalized groups to educate you.

> Listen to and believe women.
Just another point of view here: all of the politics are irrelevant. I don't know anyone, nor does anyone I know know anyone who plays anything Blizzard produces right now.

Does Blizzard make any games that people want to play right now? I don't know. According to activeplayer.io[1] Overwatch's average monthly player count has never been higher, but of that demographic, I can't find anyone I know who plays it, so my visibility into this is narrow and limited. Clearly they're probably doing better than ever, and the loudest or most outspoken players just feel differently.

At the end of the day, I don't think anything else matters besides whether or not they're producing products people want to play.

[1]: https://activeplayer.io/overwatch/
Yes. Especially with the release of WoW cataclysm
> What kind of language ideas do you folks have?

1. That would be telling.

2. Apparently there's going to be a theme? So that might make whatever wacky language I've been mulling a bad fit. I'm rather curious about how that will play out
How it would've worked in the 1930's: Mandatory vaccines by social forces. No vaccine, get shunned and shut-out of stores, social gatherings, and commerce. No comfort animals or religious dodges. Do what's right, not because of a Rand Paul grandstanding tantrum or tribal conspiracy theories about freedumbs, but because of common sense and scientific evidence.
Adidas and the Commercialization of the Olympics
>Next time you go to ask yourself why women in tech are so angry, ask yourself why you’re not angry with them.

I'm not angry with you, I'm saddened. You've told them they've gotten to you deeply, and provided a blueprint on how to go further.

Want to be angry? Keep feeding the trolls. Is that the plan? Why?

Edit: I don't understand this response and silence. You all want this?
Well for one thing it's about drugs...
There's a right and wrong way to build an audience for your product
It's entirely possible I just couldn't get the right mix and config together with 3.x

It just went from fiddly and non-working to braindead easy once I downgraded to 2.x

:shrug:
>I'm the author of the fastest open source HTTP server

Okay, I'll bite: What are you talking about? Fastest under what conditions, using what measurements? What is the project, and where is the analysis? EDIT: you probably mean redbean (https://redbean.dev/) - the source of which is, oddly, embedded within cosmopolitan. However the question about analysis stands.
For other small JS engines similar to QuickJS see Hermes: https://github.com/facebook/hermes
> Joe Rogan is now Netflix

Okay, but as you say, Netflix isn't in their six either
Nah, the last good blizzard product was The Frozen Throne.
I was frustrated & puzzled hugely as well, until I realized there's multiple fulfillment centres in my metropolis, and not all will have all the items. So while I ordered 5 items that I feel are logically related (e.g. "Guitar Music stuff" or "Computer stuff"), in reality they might come from multiple centres on multiple trucks.

Amazon will usually mention an option "send using smallest number of packages" I think when they are from same centre but with potentially different shipping times.

(and that's for "Sold and Shipped by Amazon" stuff; I haven't a foggiest how things which are Sold by XYZ but Fulfilled by Amazon; vs Sold & Shipped by ABC are done. I noticed in such situations they'll come with wildly different couriers as well; there's one minor company that absolutely positively does not actually deliver or accurately deliver packages to my house, but I haven't figured out the pattern/trigger and my complaints have gone to deaf ears)
One way to help Firefox would be to spend some time on Firefox bug reports or patches.
The "ultimately with physical force" bit is an important one that I think does as much to strengthen the notion of crypto as to weaken it:

Namely, consider a huge exchange like Binance, which could technically run off with everyone's money.

I bet it won't though, precisely because it's SO BIG, and so many people have invested, such that if Joe Binance decided to run off with everything -- he might not be in trouble with law enforcement per se, but a LOT of others might come knocking at his door.

Broadly, I think this factor is what a lot of people miss, namely that it is at least possible that we're at the point where crypto is enforceable with "violence" or "threat of harm," even if said harm isn't from government per se.
Is this intended to be used with the C header as an embedded lib + runtime to add JS scripting support to applications?
From the link:

> Line folding is forbidden.
Where'd you get the PowerComputing? Clones like that are going to be the most rare.
> It's not clear to me that raising the minimum wage, and therefore the price of a restaurant meal

This study[1] specifically looks at the effect of raising the minimum wage on restaurant prices.

What they found is that increases of 10% to the minimum wage are correlated with only a 0.36% increase of prices, and minimum wage increases may cause some prices to decrease, too:

> Many business leaders fear that any increase in the minimum wage will be passed on to consumers through price increases thereby slowing spending and economic growth, but that may not be the case. New research shows that the pass-through effect on prices is fleeting and much smaller than previously thought.

> By looking at changes in restaurant food pricing during the period of 1978–2015, MacDonald and Nilsson find that prices rose by just 0.36 percent for every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, which is only about half the size reported in previous studies. They also observe that small minimum wage increases do not lead to higher prices and may actually reduce prices. Furthermore, it is also possible that small minimum wage increases could lead to increased employment in low-wage labor market.

[1] https://www.upjohn.org/research-highlights/does-increasing-m...
Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub [pdf]
But mobile is an outlier use case for a whole lot of things you might make software for. What's the mobile market for CAD software? High-end photo editing or audio work? Programming?
Well, if you really want to know, I have done the research and can recommend several other papers in addition to the one linked. The short answer is that it's not "just physics", and choices made by the chemists and technicians at Kodak, Fuji, Ilford, Agfa, etc to decide how films depicted skin tones were made with racial bias. Digital imaging built on the color rendering tools and tests that originated in the film industry, and thus inherited their flaws.
wow! love this groundbreaking take. "it's not men's fault, it's their mom's fault".
> Blizzard is perhaps the best in the industry at this. They've done shitty things before, as documented in this article, but it hasn't really mattered. The users are hooked and business is booming.

Not as of now they are losing talents. Blizzard is notoriously in the industry for exploitively underpaying their employees.
if you want to go period-appropriate, you can run Macintosh Programmer's Workshop or CodeWarrior natively

I use retro68 on linux, which is a modern GCC toolchain, so it's just like developing any other C/C++ (well, without some nice debugging tools, and with the added complexity of the mac OS resource stuff)

https://github.com/autc04/Retro68/
The best you can do with a single number would be something like 6·10^2 tons, you also use 6 hectotons or 0.6 gigagram though people might find those a bit weird.

Or you could just denote its accuracy, which the original source likely does, but which news article inevitably fail to include (and subsequently fail to adjust the number of significant digits).
One thing that so many of these productivity apps (and "productivity hacking" in general) seem to miss is that simply doing more "productive" things doesn't make you more effective, and can in fact have the opposite effect.

Certain tasks that you undertake will have an impact that is 3 or 4 orders of magnitude more than lower-importance tasks, and when the scaling gets that extreme it's a completely valid approximation to bin a "productive" task such as "type polite email response to customer who clearly isn't interested in buying your product" in the "non-productive" category alongside "go for a walk" and "play video games".

I've spent the last year optimising one of my businesses by simply avoiding tasks that I neither enjoy nor bring in a significant amount of value and the results have been stellar. We've grown enough to the point where we've hired our first employee, and the amount of hours my wife and I are putting in since a year ago has halved.
Wow--

I have never heard anyone say, "Bosh made my life easier"

And it reminds me I'm on my second pump for a E12 error.

(After tossing too many Bosh appliances, I finally got lucky repairing one. The guys on the internet helped.)
Under this logic, the US should also be evacuating cities like Los Angeles & New York on a regular basis and nuking them till there is nothing left.

After all, it would spur the development of decontamination as well as speedy construction wouldn't it?
Horrible as this sounds, I think you really want to be on the side that has all the power. Which in many modern democracies, doesn't even require you to be a part of the majority.

It hasn't been a good long-term strategy historically speaking. But you can definitely get your way for quite a while.
Cryptocurrencies and NFTs are the monetization of Fear of Missing Out.
They should add Google Search Pre-2015. That's was really good.
Yes he is. It is hard to pin down why Linux is so much more successful than BSD and others. But it is not entirely an accident. And it is entirely possible that if Linux wasn't around, Windows could have been the default server OS today. We may never know how alternative universes may have played out. But we do know how things worked out in the current universe and we have Torvalds to thank for it.
Is there a landing page with any information? I refuse to sign-in into oblivion.
It also had Tez which was rebranded
>active curation

As I contemplate the subject, I think I draw the line between a set of human-understandable rules, enforced by some combination of human and machine partners, versus a set of goals that drive a ruthless optimization process that is opaque.

So no, it's not that all "curation" is bad.