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Yes, the ABI in the sense of calling convention is the same on just about all amd64 UNIXes, including even macOS. Wikipedia has a good reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#System...

And Linux and OpenBSD both use ELF binaries.

But that only really helps you if you're writing a self-contained library with no dependencies (which, I suppose you could be writing something like a SHA-256 implementation that takes a const char * and writes to a char *, or something). For just about any real program, you'll run into the problem that the libcs are different and the system call interfaces are different.

If you want to use libc, most immediately, the filenames and symbol versions are different (e.g., you won't find libc.so.6 on OpenBSD, let alone /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 or GLIBC_2.24). But also structure layouts will potentially be different, the values of constants will be different, etc.

If you don't want to use libc, you'll run into the problem that the system call numbers aren't the same (even if the actual system call mechanism is the same!).
I suggest BoldSign. Pricing is economical. It has all the necessary features including API support. Team document management is excellent compared other vendors.
I mean, I appreciate a good snarking as much as the next person, but I posted this because knowing how to operate software is a key part of writing it well. In a way things like 'BD' are not.

Note that my read was that this is in the context of the typical SaaS web application, not necessarily some of the other areas of software development.
>Yet that’s been the main game plan with less educated rural people here in the US: berate the white ones for not being vaccinated

Do people who do this genuinely believe they are helping to encourage people to vaccinate? My impression is that they just want to feel smug.
Why wouldn't they use scroll compressors?
There's an internal combustion engine that works on roughly the opposite as this magtor compressor: a pair of opposing pistons moving the connecting rod linearly to drive a linear electric generator. I can't remember the name of it.
If we mean by politics as “pertaining to the mediation of social/material relations”, then what the commenter said about the politicalness of science is right on point. In fact, this is very compatible with the constructivist view of science (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_...)
A factory reset phone is a travel-friendly phone. That's what I did last time I traveled... an increasingly depressingly long time ago.

Probably good practice to take a phone from 'scratch' to 'setup' regularly anyway. Like restoring backups.
to be clear it said "bowel issues" in the headline. having to urinate 6 times is not something i imagine anyone would care about. it's certainly not what i had in mind..

the other thing is that again, this has to do with the nature of the job. productivity in a warehouse is much more linearly related to time spent in the warehouse than productivity of knowledge workers is to time at the desk
Terence Tao seemed to be very productive. And I bet a lot of his traits are from nurture not nature.
i think two things drove it out:

1. the long-standing confusion between "someone who tinkers with programs" and "someone who maliciously breaks into systems"

the tinkering contingent fought diligently against letting the black hat contingent coopt the term, but then

2. the tech-bro/marketer crowd caught hold of it, and it became associated with other cringy terms like "ninja" and "rockstar". (tangentially, "wizard" also got dragged down that way).

so now if you call yourself a hacker, people are more likely to think of both black hats and tech bros than of the (still out there!) people who just want to do interesting stuff with computers.
25 people per square kilometer is a low population density. Look at how they define urban area.
Do not do this unless you have strict guidance from a lawyer immediately before this happens. One small mistake could open you up to criminal liability and a world of hurt. Better to just plan ahead, bring a burner phone and show the photos to the agent when asked.

IANAL but play one on tv
You generally also need to turn off Web and App Activity tracking if you don't want tracking in apps.

https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols?settings=app&...

I used to have that off, but I actually found I liked getting the various suggestions (google figures out your commutes and common destinations based on starting points from what I could see - pretty convenient).
People have been put in jail in the US for the equivalent of a tweet, but it doesn’t prove your point. The freedom of speech does not guarantee an individual freedom from the consequences of that speech. There is established jurisprudence to allow such prosecutions.

And no, being jailed for anything you can name does not mean we are on a path to following the USSR (or any similar trajectory). The problem with allegations of “slippery slope” is that it discounts that the US and UK have legal tools to challenge bad prosecutions and bad legislation. The courts have the ability to check the prosecution and juries have the ability to reject bad prosecutions (used infrequently, but importantly when the US government went after Dan Ellsberg)
Filmmakers urge TV industry to phase out fractional frame rates (e.g. 23.976fps)
https://archive.is/QkFWZ
The level of English in Japan is very low generally. Among engineers it is higher but mainly for reading and writing, and even then it's generally not fluency or anywhere near good enough to read or write comments on HN and (probably) not attract downvotes, more of the level to be able to get just enough from technical documentation so that you can get on with your day.

That's not true for all but the vast majority. I don't mean any of that as a slight - my Japanese is terrible, you wouldn't find me on whatever Japan's version of HN is. (That the level is so low is perhaps a valid criticism of the education system or society in general but certainly not valid against any individual).

Source: I'm a partner of an East Asian folkperson, living in Japan, giving a spousal perspective whilst reading a site in my native language. I save struggling with a foreign language for study and finding the login button on Japanese websites (harder than it should be[1]), I can understand why a Japanese engineer would be doing similar.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25148942
I think the focus on Law Enforcement as the sole source of duress is no longer correct. Just as one example, we now live in an era where any entry point to a corporate network can equal millions or billions in eventual ransom payouts, right? As endpoint security mitigations improve, duress will not just be a silly nerd porn, and will probably not be limited to "high level" people, either.
With all the discussion here about object shells, it's a bit surprising that the project page doesn't make stronger emphasis that this (jc) is also a Python library that can take in the output of subprocess.Popen rather than fooling about with the mess that is jq. With that said, Python isn't especially nice for calling external programs. I can't wait for nushell/oil shell/elvish to hit maturity soon enough.
This is nonsense. Saws that chop off fingers aren't defective - the user is. It's a simple argument to make.

Saw Y doesn't have safety features and you use it at your own risk of injury.
Saw X will stop cutting the moment it detects a body part. You also use it at your own risk of injury.
Maybe nobody is screaming "give us fat nose trucks" in the press, but buyers apparently love it.

To me it seems pretty obviously meant to evoke big rigs, ala Mack trucks.
That is simply false on a basic level. That notice by the CDC says the EXACT OPPOSITE of your comment. They're recommending that labs switch to a multiplex test that can screen for both flu and covid at the same time because PCR only detects SARS CoV 2.
If you see her texting and driving what will you do?
> all GCC versions afterwards include a C++ compiler in addition to the C one

GCC 4.7 is the last version that can be built from source using only a C compiler. GCC has long included the C++ compiler inside, but didn’t require one to build until 4.8.
So tax the insurance which already invasively tracks everything.
> Forensics agent pulls and mounts hard drive
> Agent sees /home/hiddenuser
> Government seeks search warrant for content
> DA demonstrates recent knowledge/use of /home/hiddenuser
> Judge holds you in contempt until you provide encryption keys
Well put, and I agree that people have a tendency to procrastinate which can be detrimental to early treatment strategies.

> why has no other country done it?

Since early in the pandemic many front-line doctors have been successfully reducing hospitalization and death through early treatment with a multi-drug approach. Those are the doctors and researchers that authored the publications I cited in my previous comment, especially [1]. Those doctors had to treat patients early in the pandemic with a very little scientific literature and clinical trials to guide them, hence the world wide collaboration in putting together reasonable guidance based on existing medicine with established efficacy and safety profiles.

They continue to use these techniques - which are being further investigated for efficacy and safety in ongoing clinical trials - but with scarce media coverage compared to the vaccines.

So in many ways countries around the world have been doing it to some degree, but it hasn't been the primary strategy, as you point out. Why hasn't it been the primary strategy? Well that's a good question and tough to answer with any certainty. To speculate, I'd say that vaccines had a tremendous amount of funding and media attention poured into them, more so than any multi-drug therapy regime.
Most sites do track forever.

That said google at least and I think Microsoft anonymizes a bit after I think 18 months or so, and does the last bits of an IP address before anything is written to disk on the google analytics side.
Contact Tracing sounds like an Orwellian nightmare.
Most? I don’t recall even CA recording mileage for a smog and I’ve never had a car inspected elsewhere except after being totaled out.
Huh. I like that. jc.
Our transportation system is hardly the result of utility maximization. Cars are remarkably inefficient from a large variety of viewpoints. Parking spaces eat our urban real estate, traffic eats our time, emissions pollute our air and all of this leads to the second largest expenditure in the median household budget.

Sure, this article is overstating the danger of traffic accidents, but you can’t say cars are a great choice because of the utility it provides society.
My 2 cents:
1) I really like the content - systems thinking is definitely a good tool to have, as I find it to more accurately help me understand the world around me. The post goes on to tie it into various emergent layers and such.

2) Not a huge fan of the format. Honestly it's mostly just a personal preference; I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with the whole student-teacher discussion, but to me it just comes off as self-aggrandizing. I prefer straightforward explanations, not a meandering story, but that might just be my technical side
The key takeaway I had from Scott's post was this stat:

>It takes people ~50 months of strict lockdown to save one month of someone's healthy life.

Or another way to look at it, it takes 50 people locking down for a month to save each one month of life expectancy for one person. 600 people locking down to save a single person's life expectancy by one year. 6000 people for 10 years of life expectancy for a single person.

Whether that's worth the misery is up to the reader. I have my own opinion here, but it's undeniably subjective. It's a trade-off.
I've experienced this my entire professional life.

I think this is the cause: https://charity.wtf/2020/09/06/if-management-isnt-a-promotio...

tl;dr: Management should be a supporting role, but because it's closer to the business (and usually staffed by "Idealists" as described here: https://leanpub.com/developerhegemony), it's given a more powerful position, and does whatever it can to execute as needed by the business. Of course everyone (managers included) also want to keep the power they have and gain more power/money over time.

Developers' time isn't respected because managers have more power and building software is hard, so rather than building partnerships and supporting everyone as needed, then just squeeze harder, treat people lower on the org chart as lower worth as humans, and generally don't shield or abstract things away as much as they should (often not at all). From the article:

> The goal of most software projects is to deliver to deadlines and budget of the plan. The real goal of a software project is to create the right software, but instead decisions focus on the meeting the plan not creating software.

The plan is focused on instead of the software because the plan is the artifact of the more important people, the managers. They're higher up on the ladder because they're more loyal to the company. Even when this isn't the case they're still higher up because it's safer to have them in power rather than devs who can change stuff.
They are all points on a continuum. There is no more wisdom in stopping at 98 or 11 than in stopping at K&R.
Agree that there's no guarantee of success. However, the political environment and compliance with lockdowns is very different between the two countries. For example, New Zealand is seeing nothing like the widespread protests in Melbourne and across Victoria.
Compared to all the surrounding countries, Sweden had more deaths and did not do better when it comes to mental health and economy.

It did better than western Europe, but that's not because of the policy, it is because Sweden is Sweden and not Italy or Spain or France.

First is population density, much lower, and the countries are less connected.

And there is the population. The Swedish government and their people have a more trusting relationship than in many other countries, so, more recommendations than obligations. Scandinavian countries also have the highest level of content in the world (they are the "happiest" countries), which is likely to have a positive effect on mental health in the face of hardships. They are also not people who are know for hanging our in large groups and hugging strangers.

Scandinavia has advantages over the rest of Europe when it comes to dealing with the pandemic, and it shows. But out of all these countries, the one that did worst is Sweden, the country of no lockdowns.
> Enough seat height to see around you.
Almost like they are trying to help with visibility for pedestrians.

No, vehicles should not be taxed based on size. There should be an even and fair road usage tax. Traditionally, that has been in the form of fuel taxes. Furthermore, vehicle sizing has been driven by safety features inside and out, crumple zones, improvements for side-impact, and airbags tucked in every interior crevice. Those vehicles that work in a city are not the vehicles that work for the 95% of the US landmass that is considered rural.
> macOS Finder RAM usage can explode catastrophically and take down the whole system if you have image previews enabled and click on a very large (gigabyte) TIFF.

I've experienced (and confirmed with a quick search) that Finder won't display a preview for any file that doesn't have the resources to show.
This hasn't been true in my experience. There's gaijin friendly housing that has higher rent, but usually no key fee, no deposit, and a month-to-month or yearly lease. It was very, very easy to get a gaijin apartment.

You're only able to really rent other places if you have a long-term visa, because the standard lease term-length in Japan is 2 years. If your visa is less than 2 years, you don't qualify.

If you do, then everything is the same as Japanese citizens. Most apartments have a deposit, a key fee (a bribe to the landlord), and a lease renewal fee (a bribe to the agent). Lease period will be 2 years. A lot of companies will pay these bribes for their employees, which I'm sure is one of the reasons they exist (and also one of the reasons gaijin apartments don't charge them).
Structured data people should prepare for a rude awakening from deep learning based tools. You can’t even regex into the working of a convolutional or recurrent neural network. The map will never be the territory.
US cities have trees, too. One downside, though, is the roots can grow and break up the sidewalk. There are some sidewalks in Seattle that are completely inaccessible to wheelchairs or even folks with walkers.
I find this whole article so bizarre because it never contends with the definition of "engineer" that's always made the most intuitive sense to me, which is as the person label behind the practice half of the theory/practice dichotomy, with "scientist" representing the theory half.

This is obviously broad compared to the other definitions, but I've always liked how flexible it was. E.g. I have no real issues thinking of doctors and lawyers as engineers in this way. Doctors engineer solutions to bodily dysfunctions, and lawyers engineer solutions to their clients' problems with the law.
The timeline feature is too valuable to me IMO. I can see my entire history spanning back a decade, including where I traveled on vacation in other countries. I don't see the value in deleting that information, no one cares beyond maybe some advertisers and I don't really care if they know my location.
If you have web and app activity off this is probably not true and the AP is lying.

If you turn off location services on device, also probably not true and the AP is lying.

If you run location services set to ON at device level and you have App Activity tracking set to ON then location will be tracked.

Note that a fair number of users like these features. Google starts suggesting common destinations based on starting destination in Maps, Weather apps will remember the most recent location weather was checked from and much more.
RoR on Windows is not just possible, it's fabulous using WSL2 and VS Code (2019)
> Professionals have long leaned pretty liberal

I'm sorry, but I think today's partisan politics are clouding your memory. There's been multiple points in history where poltically left leaning professionals were systematically kicked out of their jobs and blacklisted from their careers.

> berate the white ones for not being vaccinated, and then ignore the lack of vaccination among the non-white ones.

People around me are being given like $100 and a pat on the back when they get vaccinated around here. Antivaxxers are idiots, but people getting vaccinated are having the gold carpet rolled out to them.

Also it doesn't look good to repeat a racist fox news soundbite that's already been debunked about how the blacks are invading our cities and spreading covid [1].

[1] https://abc7chicago.com/dan-patrick-texas-lt-governor-blames...
BIOS is often able to set mask bits in the CPU or chipset's pci bridges that prevent the devices from being reported to the OS. Before loading additional code like user DXEs or bootloader, BIOS commands a one-way sealing operation that prevents modifications until reset.
Edit: it’s amusing and telling that a post critiquing specific points of an article that decries the “cancel culture” gets downvoted, I.e canceled.

I’ll admit , I only made it halfway through the article but I just couldn’t take it seriously. An article about politicization of science published in 2021 and it used the right wing talking point term of “cancel culture” and does not never mention the politicization of health policy as if that does not even exist? No mention of politicization of climate change? Nope, to this author the problem politicization is changing names of things, even when in many cases the new names are more clear.

The elephant in the room politicizations of science that literally has killed thousands and literally has set human civilization up for an existential crisis are not even mentioned up to the halfway point. Instead he’s griping that dead people’s names may be replaced with more relatable terminology.

The thing they seem to be griping about is removing people names from concepts and gasp giving them intuitive names!! The horror! The three fundamental laws of physics makes a hell of a lot more intuitive sense than “Newton’s laws” and aids in remembering. I get no one likes change and if they learned it that way then so should the next generation, but honestly naming concepts and formulas after the people who invented them rather is an impediment to learning, and helps keep knowledge isolated. Do you name you programs, functions, and variables after yourself at work ?

Edit: people downvoting me, do you care to elaborate on why? Why do you think I’m out of line in not taking an article on politicization of science seriously due to it leaving out the most consequential and prescient examples, ones that one side of the political spectrum has had a history of sweeping under the rug, while also using that side of the spectrums vernacular. The article is itself very political.
They are not presented as equivalent, but as a choice.

The author's failing was in presenting neither of them until long after they were due, and presenting thoroughly inferior alternatives in the meantime.
It absolutely wouldn't. Amazon's next step would be to tell her whatever note she brought isn't good enough and to get on fmla.
Hi, yes, on mobile view list only
Pretty sure Guantanamo Bay and “enhances interrogation” has shown us that after your antagonist has used the $5 wrench to beat a working password out of you, they then keep on beating you every day for another few weeks just in case there’s more you should have told them.

If “those guys” are your adversary, you were fucked before you started.
So if we assume people are cutting appropriate material, your statement simplifies to "If it's happening that frequently you should disable it." And this is your argument in support of mandating it??
Rather than invalidate a ton of legacy content and gear, I would much prefer explicit support for integer frame rates, and see exactly that in a lot of gear I use now.

Industry tends to love mandates that force new purchases.

And hardware people tend to love it when their hardware just works too.

Clear conflict of interest here.

Making sure we have robust integer frame rate support means new material can be produced. Great! So let's do that.

Making sure we explicitly remove support for fractional frame rates means old material will either not be usable, or degraded.

We really do not need the latter. Simply doing the former will work this all out over time. There really is no rush.
The academics is rife with intentionally misleading results and findings that aren't actually innovative or informative. Worse yet, providing source code and a way to repeat the results is rare, and what good is a research paper with results that aren't repeatable? ML has a bright future, but it's very hard for me to take the academic research seriously. That's why it seems like few care about anything beyond making new models and bolstering their resume by fudging the results.
He may have meant sousveillance.
So what caused things to improve between then and the advent of the Web?
“Come on…” said every person uncomfortable with the brutal history of race relations and living in denial about its long term effects.
Safety features for the people in the vehicle, at the expense of those outside of it*
I'm worried about vibration. Maybe they should have two masses operating in opposite directions at once to balance out the vibrations. Maybe they will license my idea..
LG uses linear compressors in their fridges, very similar to this design and they have been out for years. They generally fail after only a few years, terrible reliability in comparison to a piston compressor.