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I’ve been very surprised by Macs. If you told me forty years ago that I’d be using a MacBook one day I wouldn’t have believed you - they were always the fringe systems that couldn’t integrate with anything except the alien spaceships in Independence Day and the users were always marketing darlings that could not find anything that wasn’t visible on the screen in front of them.

However fast forward to today and Macs integrate very well into the environment, the development tools are free, you can throw iterm2 on and have a very nice Unix environment, add in Docker and you have a pleasant Linux environment at your disposal as well. Microsoft stuff works well enough - Teams on Linux is a real pig that consumes all memory and CPU, and drops audio randomly - but that is completely on Microsoft.

Apple has its own issues but if your not developing MacOS kernel extensions you can steer clear of most of it. Pay your $100 for Apple Care or your a third class citizen. I’ve seen Apple replace iPhones that had obviously been clawed open with a fork with a smile if you had Apple Care but they won’t do jack if you don’t have it.
Retries without jitter are indeed a common source of thundering herd problems. Even with exponential backoff, if all the clients are retrying simultaneously, they'll hammer your servers over and over. Adding jitter (just a random amount of extra delay that's different for every client+retry), they get staggered and the requests are spread out.
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It is just a part of automation to have a static type system, instead of having to do it manually which is the worst task for humans (tedious and error prone). Everyone having to use some python code consisting out of 4 half-baked libraries can confirm - it is a nightmare, at least for me!
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Maybe the motivation is not a constant profit for your bank, but a big bonus at the end of the year. With some luck you can collect a few of those bonuses before the next implosion.
You can install the preview build without TPM fairly easily.
Next time someone sings the praises of so-called ‘Postel’s law’, show them this.
What happens in the real world when a colleague has a mental block? They Google it. If that doesn't help, they slack the team: "Hey guys, this is something stupid-simple that I can't bring to mind right now, but... <question>".

Why should their interview be a stressful stone-walling event when life as an employee is not?

Maybe an interview should have "Who wants to be a millionaire" lifelines. Two "Googgle"s, and an "ok, I give up - give me a hint".
The most obvious example is pervasive type inference. It's not really dynamic, but languages with it look a lot closer to dynamic languages, and the removal of repetitive type information is one of the benefits of dynamically typed languages. It gives them the clean, simple feel that it so attractive to many programmers.

Also, over the past 20 years what you've seen is big advances in the 'semi-static' world like the JVM, where it runs statically typed languages but they have the ability to eval code, redefine their own code on the fly, reflect themselves, they're garbage collected etc. This is kind of a middle ground. It's worth remembering that when Python and Ruby were new, there weren't really any great options if you wanted lightweight syntax with garbage collection. Nowadays there is Kotlin and you can write code that looks very similar to say Ruby, but which often has the performance of entirely statically typed languages.
Dynamic languages compare well against languages with poor 'static' type systems imho. In both paradigms, null is still the biggest source of pain.

In part, I think the move to mainstream more ML features is to finally try and address this.
> if you haven't coded in a language like OCaml, Haskell, ML etc

Same argument could be made the other way, if you haven't used Smalltalk, Clojure (and other languages that are strongly dynamic), you shouldn't discount them.
Yeah you'd think that it would be common sense but a lot of people can't get past the fast that they have to write more stuff. I would guess because it is hard to understand the benefits until you've actually used a statically typed language, and a lot of people start in dynamically typed languages (Python, JavaScript).

And as someone else said, static types aren't training wheels. You don't stop using them when you think you're sufficiently skilled.
You are full of shit. There is a chance of heart inflammation. Now you might say that COVID-19 is worse but that is forcing someone to basically play roulette on themselves for society.

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2021/07/31/coronavirus-teen-...
In what way is SQL "low level"? I would consider it a very high level DSL.

Agree about the verbosity. The syntax is quite clunky.
So, I haven't read the paper, and maybe they go into this there, but I wonder whether this approach runs into the same problem any potential graphene-based technology seems to run into, which is synthesising graphene sheets at a scale to make this actually market-viable seems nigh impossible. Maybe there's some other breakthrough I'm not aware off, but my general perception so far is that most applications for graphene always run into this problem where it works incredibly well on paper and in small-scale experiments, but we cannot scale things up because growing graphene at larger scales is a giant hurdle.

If anyone here has more up-to-date info to share, I would be very grateful, obviously.

If that can be overcome, this tech here sounds AWESOME though. Props to these fine individuals working on this project.
It's more of an acknowledgement to how impossible it is to avoid people to run what they want where they want, unless your software is not meant to run on off-the-shelf hardware in the first place (see iOS)
When market mechanisms lead to a sub-optimal outcome "within" the economy, that's called a "market imperfection" or "market failure". The fact that these things exist show that "the free market", while perhaps the best system ([Citation needed]) is certainly not perfect.

On the meta-level, should the fact that "the free market" wins out even though it is perhaps not the best system -- at least according to many (most?) people's morals "du jour", however long that is -- be called a "meta-market imperfection" or a "market meta-failure"?
Not just Americans.
I don't know what that is. The world does not rotate (always) around US medical standards.

Asperger/autism - it's still a spectrum that's affected with neurological function.

So we are talking about neurologically distinct persons who may have been called in some instances as "being on the asperger spectrum".

What is the current accepted terminology for this neurological profile?

(I have close family diagnozed by neurologists 'on this spectrum' - and it is very much a specific neurological profile whatever we may call it).
>Many vendors only have the MS CA implemented to check OS integrity

Secure boot was introduced for Windows 8, ages ago. Microsoft and PC vendors promised that on all Intel PCs the user can install their own certificates. I have not heard that this would have changed. So the problem affects only ARM PCs, which aren't particularly common.

As a Linux user I use secure boot. On some machines with big distros that have shims signed by Microsoft. On others with Arch or Yocto with my own keys.
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Structural bricks absolutely suck if you are in a high earthquake risk zone. Earthquakes or slumping really screw up brick buildings (and brick façades).
But those questions on a PISA test Are below high school level maths. It's basic math.
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Please stop and think about what you are saying. The Soviets were never Marxist.
Shit Tier: Cars that prevent drunks from driving.

Great Tier: Cars that can be safely driven by drunks.

God Tier: Replace booze with a drug that it's safe to drive on.
> The outrage that they release a new major version

I have the feeling that it's a bit inherent to OS releases in general. I'm very interested in macOS release news, but if I come here for the discussion, it's overwhelmingly negative. I'd like to see positive discussion about how new features can benefit me, but it's just not there.
I don't know. You are trading strange things here: Even if you like doing brickwork, is it worth the toll on your body? I've met a lot of construction workers: I've met fewer that are nearing retirement age that are still working - and generally, when they do work, they use the machines while folks who haven't hurt their back, shoulders, and other bits do the physical work. Not everyone needs mastery of something physical and not everyone needs to get "pride" or other positive feelings from work so long as their work isn't horrible and the hours aren't overly long.

And I bet there are plenty of folks that would rather babysit this machine than babysit the machine at the fast food place.
> It's very possible that a leap minute every century or two would cause less disruption.

Sonuds like "make it a problem that will not happen in my life time".
But... they aren't nested. HTML doesn't allow interleaved tags.

Here's a snippet of relevant page source:

<tr><td><h3><font color="red"><font face="arial">Improper Thread <br><width="25%" align="left"></font><font color="#0033FF"><font face="arial"> Try re-threading the machine; make sure the thread goes through all guides.</font></td></tr>
<tr><td><h3><font color="red"><font face="arial">Burrs <br><width="25%" align="left"></font><font color="0033FF"><font face="arial">There may be burrs in the needle's eye, on the thread guides, needle plate or the hook. Replace the needle and try buffing the thread guides and needle plate. Buffing may alter the timing, so it's a good idea to replace a damaged hook.</font></td></tr>

The <h3> tags are not matched by explicit </h3> tags. But they are closed; it isn't possible for the <h3> tag to extend beyond the boundaries of the <td></td> tag that contains it.

(Granted, there is no <table> containing these <tr> and <td> elements...)

> font-size: 1.17em;

Where is this applied? I'm looking in the page source and there are only six instances of `font-size`, none of which match this. There's one `<style>`, which doesn't have a font-size and doesn't style h3 tags. The string "1.17" does not appear in the source. The page inspector shows no styling applied to h3 elements.
Fly is great and I love reading their blog posts.

Just hoping they come back around on CockroachDB-- I feel like it's a match made in heaven for what they're providing.
It's not paranoid conspiracy theory, it's good ol' "fire and motion" - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/. Google is absolutely doing this with the web. Everyone else is too busy either trying to catch up with Chrome or react to unending stream of Google's proposed changes to web standards - which keeps them pinned down, and gives Google the freedom of movement, allowing them to direct the evolution of the web as a platform.
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Hmm, I found American culture a bit indirect, not saying what they mean.
Which actually makes the problem more disruptive as when it needs to be solved the solution has to be rediscovered rather than retained as it is with problems that are more frequent.
> But there are plenty of people out there who are otherwise highly educated or intelligent who simply don't have sufficient domain knowledge when it comes to computers, to make more informed choices instead of being herded like sheep by the tech-giants.

That may be true, but I also get the feeling that they choose to spend their energy worrying about other things, as long as the computer does the job they want it to do.

Hell, I have a friend who's actually a techie, tried Linux, actually even has it installed on his daily driver (dual boot on a single drive in a laptop), he just never uses it. He's a Java dev, so all his stack would probably work on Linux with little or no fiddling.

But he just does not care. Windows doesn't bother him enough to make the change, so he didn't change.

I think this is the most important part: Windows mostly works for most people. Paradoxically, I think that the fact that the OS is less and less important is actually a bad thing for Linux adoption. Because people just don't care about the OS as long as the browser works. And on Windows, it works well enough. So why would they change?

There are of course philosophical reasons, but people don't appear to care. There are billions of Facebook users. This shows people don't care about these issues. I don't know if it's because they intrinsically don't care, or because we've done a bad job of educating them. Maybe a bit of both.

But it sure feels like an uphill battle, even among "techies".
It seems to be missing the most obvious feature: keyboard navigation. My guess is that accessibility is not well implemented either. Probably why other dropdown implementations are bigger code-size wise.
People are unreasonably scared of abductions. The most common use case would most likely be to find a kid that got lost.

Of course, this unreasonable fear of abductions means that a commercial GPS tracker for kids would sell much better if it supported the "abducted kid" use case well, on top of more likely use cases.
There are multiple alternatives. Problem is SQL is "good enough" and ubiquitous and deeply entrenched. It will be extremely difficult for any alternative language to unseat SQL.
Demolishing a brick wall and cleaning the bricks by hand is expensive though, compared to running a bulldozer through it
If this specific problem excites you and you're a hardware engineer, get in touch with us. We're working hard on solving this specific problem with the goal of getting construction speeds and cost down significantly: https://about.terraform.industries/engineering
It's very diffierent in the Apple ecosystem in my opinion. People are usually nonchalant, even excited about upgrading. I think that's how Microsoft want people in the Windows ecosystem to feel, but it's just not refined enough for that to happen.
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Once you have multiple pages, and moderately sized CSS/JS files, linking to them reduces the download time for each subsequent page, as the linked files are cached across pages.
And in languages like F# ( I assume the same for other ML like languages) the type system get out of your way.

Java can put you off with all the boiler plate. That's not a requirement of static typing.
how do you know that your choice of sources isnt the one thats biased? You dont. You are engaging in ideology not science. The very fact that you dont see this and just assume you have the right perspective illustrates my point. You are an ideologue.
No, it should be take the money or we go to court, not you never get to tell anyone what happened. They are literally buying silence(innocence).

It's 100% bullshit and the fact that it being abused is now the status quo shows it needs to be done away with.
How are they dissimilar to the western ones? Who participates in them? Can't the parties candidating in the election nominate their representatives into the committees?
I've started opening Bloomberg articles in archive.is since they started not serving the article content. (And, presumably, loading it later through javascript?)
Why do you think it is only about the industrialists? I think it is mainly about consumers massively benefitting from the deflation in consumer electronics made in China.

Edit: At this point I believe that cutting the cords to China would at least incur a 50% drop in purchasing power of the average consumer in the medium term.
Most of the law students that go to HYS law schools are already wealthy, so the benefits are going to the wrong people. Furthermore, these graduates are mostly hired at elite law firms making huge salaries and are unlikely to take advantage of these programs. Easy to offer a generous program to people that don’t need it.
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I’m completely unfamiliar with the other programmes, but that’s still pretty funny.
"People don't want to buy a drill, they want to buy a hole".

If I was building construction robots, I don't think I'd be aiming to replace skilled human crafstmen directly, but rather render them unecessary. Most likely that would mean robots in factories churning out standardised components that somehow let you build strong, aesthetic walls without bricks.

I've seen brick effects that get applied to flat walls, which seems like one solution to this if you want the look but not the expense.
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Ok, will rewatch, thanks.
I miss AS3 compile-time type checking. That was a variation of ECMA4. The closest we have now in the browser is Typescript. And even though it's admittedly pretty elegant with union types and utility types and mixins, some of what it produces is exactly the "noisy defensive code" you're talking about, for the simple reason that it's an elegant language that has to compile down to a worthless untyped jargon like javascript. It's a miracle that the web runs at all on JS.
Comment sections on youtube are usually at best useless, and at worst very toxic.

I would disable them as well, not because of 'being afraid of anything' but because it's a net loss to have them enabled, and nothing of value is lost if they are disabled.
> Would it be fair to say that any product with consumables that are proprietary to the vendor, is a subscription?

Seems reasonable at least as a first approximation / coarse rule of thumb.

Economists specialised in the area may refine it further, but for the layman it serves like the Newtonian approximation to physics, i.e. quite good enough for everyday usage -- I don't move at relativistic speeds all that often.
It may not spotlight the fact that lower prices facilitate accessibility, but I'm not oblivious to it. I definitely don't want to exchange cheap cotton knit t-shirts with hand-woven garments that cost me a month's labor or something. However, only considering the consumer-side satisfaction is characteristic of our culture's obsession with consumerism and economy at the cost of everything else. We all have to work, even with ever increasing tech we work probably more than anytime in history. I don't believe we're going to hit some inflection point where suddenly humans will be freed from labor. There is satisfaction to be found in craft and honing skill. If we delegate all that to machines that spit out crummy imitations, and humans are relegated to the mind-numbing task of babysitting a glitchy piece of tech, clearing a paper jam and hitting reset all day, I think that is a net loss for life satisfaction. Who cares if you can own a shitty McMansion when what you experience during majority of your wakeful life is mind-numbing frustration?
It’s just too much money for business owners to leave on the table, despite being a dark pattern.

Even if a product doesn’t necessitate a subscription, the revenue compounds, so subscriptions can be 10-100x the revenue of a one-time charge.
I am denying your climate catastrophism claims for which there is no scientifically demonstrated base. You are engaging in speculation not science.
The jet bridge is more expensive (they take up more space, where you could park two planes).

The lowest cost European airlines avoid this expense.

However, I've hardly ever seen them at a major airport, with the exception of the huge airports almost exclusively used by budget airlines (Stansted etc).
Although things might be different with Windows 10 and 11, people have had plenty of bad experiences with the previous versions.

For example, if we change the version number, we get a slightly different picture: "...Windows 7 will continue to run on your computer perfectly fine. Microsoft are not changing anything about Windows 7, or the way people use Windows 7, or removing any Windows 7 'ownership' that people have right now."

Remember Windows 7 having constant nag screens in it to upgrade? Remember Microsoft pushing their godawful Metro design, alongside a lack of a proper Start menu, before that was patched out? Remember people discovering that their OSes had forcefully upgraded after leaving their computers unattended for a while?

Given all of that, a bit of distrust is to be expected.
Billionaires don't generally pay progressive income taxes. They're part of the 'money off capital gains' crowd.
I used to dread setting up printers on any operating system. I've done it countless of times with Linux, Windows and macOS, and it's been quite common to have some kind of fight with the printer until I get my paper out.

Only recently, by buying a Brother laser printer at home, and setting all my machines to use NixOS, I haven't been needing to think about printer problems anymore. All I need is this piece of config, and the printer will Just Work with the new computer:

https://github.com/pimeys/nixos/blob/main/modules/home-servi...
>big-picture politics should be a small part of our lives

I'd be happy to leave politics alone, if only politics would deign to leave me alone as well. Only it doesn't, it's a cancer that eats it's way through society until nothing outside of it is left. We either kill this cancer, or we die of it.
When you are about to get mugged or murdered, it doesn't matter what caused it. You just don't want to be murdered. I can feel pity with people whose life circumstances turned them into criminals, but I have no immediate way to help them and I still don't want them to murder me.

Black people are also a part of society, they are not just passive participants, by the way.

I have read a bit about the situation in the UK, and it seems a major problem is gang culture. The "stop and search" strategy is actually a measure against gang activity, not simply a racist pastime. Whether it is the best approach can be discussed, but people should come up with better strategies to prevent gang crimes and people growing up to be drafted into gangs, not simply cry "racism".

Maybe "white people" somehow caused gang culture to appear (maybe!), but now that it exists, it is not so simple to get rid off, and imo also too simplistic to say "white people are to blame, so they should fix it". There are a zillion problems in the world. Even white people were not put on earth with silver spoons in their mouths. If you see a problem you care about, work on improving it. Blaming white people does nothing (except harm).

I think there are more black people in the US than people live in Switzerland, for example. If everything else is so racist, they could work together and build their own black subcountry with better services. Like they could offer health care to their black peers. No need to wait for white people to provide it.