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Is this Java hate? Please chime in if I'm missing something, otherwise..

There's nothing inherently wrong with writing a programming language on top of the JVM or JVM-based build tools. It's a time tested platform in very widespread use, and in many instances the JVM is an excellent target to get things going.

The derision emanating from the low effort comment you submitted is misguided and / or misplaced. This is coming from someone who admittedly kind of enjoyed bashing on the ridiculousness of Java in the early days ('90s & '00s), but along with the JVM, it's grown into an incredible ecosystem and generally valuable resource to Get Stuff Done.
Instead of buying a 1-2 year old phone with 1 remaining year of support, the legislation would allow users to choose to buy a 6 year old phone with 1 remaining year of support. Since new phone releases apply downward price pressure on older phone models each year, the 6 year old model would most likely be much cheaper under the new legislation than the 1-2 year old model is currently. Budget-conscious users would appreciate having the 6 year old model available as a more affordable and equally viable choice.

Many used phone sellers/marketplaces offer extended warranties on second-hand phones, which risk-averse buyers should purchase.
https://www.pcgamer.com/chia-mining-can-wreck-a-512gb-ssd-in...

> Chia farming is a write-intensive activity. Speed matters, so the most common strategy is to use an SSD for creating plots, because SSDs are much faster than HDDs, and then transfer them to an HDD once completed.

> Chia is a different animal, though. According to MyDrivers, mining Chia can trash a 512GB in 40 days, while a 1TB SSD lasts twice as long, and a 2TB SSD can give up the ghost in just 160 days, or barely over five months.
Apparently some of the non-mission critical experimental components that were sent to Mars run your standard Linux systems with some Python software, as well. I believe I heard in an interview with a NASA engineer that they were using Python for ML and scripting.
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Implement Zstd Content-Encoding
Something I've been wondering for awhile: while innovation for per-file-level encryption is useful, is there a clean way to run encrypted docker volumes for achieving containerized encryption-at-rest? In particularly, a portable docker-only way (ex: docker-compose containers / users on the network get access and that's it), with no host linux FS / k8s extensions?
This industry wide push to make it easier to update phones will also piss of HN :)
Depends which one.

Some universities are addicted to foreign student money and could not survive long without it (not even the tuition premium: just having 40% of students from abroad).

Some others are pretty much living off endowments. They could shut down international admissions and give full rides to everyone and still make profits.
I don't understand, is there some reason you cannot idle in a Matrix room? Again I don't know, but for the sake of discussion it would be good to mention that.
I consider humour high value content even if puns are the lowest form of comedy
If this law comes into effect, consumers will pay the increased cost of delivery of 7 years of software updates when they purchase new phones.

Smartphone makers don't sell new phones with a higher price tag and the guarantee of 7 years of software updates, likely because consumers would prefer a lower price and no guarantee.

Thus, the law would effectively force people to buy something that they don't want.
Not too proud about it, but I’ve done this at Home Depot or other places while in the store and can’t find an employee and am in a hurry.

Maybe the employee who is sent to the shelves to answer the caller’s question while a customer is standing around with a strikingly similar question was goofing off, or they were busy doing something else, IDK, but sometimes you need to just get things done.
You can't buy immunity from the legal and law enforcement system, full stop. That's simply an unreasonable expectation.

What you can buy is various degrees and quality of sensible defaults and behaviours that serve your general interest in privacy and security. Privacy from casual snooping or commercial tracking, security from unsophisticated attacks or even sophisticated attacks if you're wiling to also sacrifice some convenience.

These are all worth having, and your choices of product and service provider can have a significant impact on them. I know little to nothing about ProtonMail but maybe they're a better bet than many other similar services, even if they're not perfect.
Watch “Dehradun to Srahan” on YouTube
I wonder what sorts of social media we'd see if it wasn't dependent on selling ads. The need to drive engagement and sell things to people tends to limit the types of social media. It's nice to see an experiment like this but I don't know if it will go anywhere.

I was thinking the other day of an idea where you take turns with people in your circle to become a 'star' for a period of time(day, days, week, hour, whatever) every so often. During that time you get the limelight, and become the focus of the group. Imagine that, during that tie period, you're encouraged to share more of the boring details of life. Like 5 minutes of every hour or two maybe.

Something like this appeals to me because I feel like I don't really connect with my friends on social media the way I would in real life. If I hung out with a friend, I'd experience more of the banalities and have a more complete picture of what their day to day life was actually like. Obviously that's not something you want to get blasted with every day in your feed, and it's not something you want the responsibility to produce every day, but let's say it happens once a year for each person.

I just feel like the Facebook/Instagram model promotes a focus on curated highlights of a persons life, which is fine, but doesn't really feel like friendship. I want something that replaces the experience of spending a day with someone. With all the distance between us these days, either from economic migration, the pandemic, or whatever, I really feel like I'm losing touch with my friends. Seeing their highlights on my feed or even communicating with them via text/im/voice just doesn't cut it. How can we provide that sense of connection remotely?
Very interesting idea. C can still come back and comment the next day/after a fixed time frame. I think it provides a much needed balance between lack of interaction and over interaction. I guess it can prevent bickering and unnecessary arguments.

Though if anyone wanted to set up an information farm, by creating a bunch of accounts, where they post and like each other, acting like different individuals, it could still create engagement with other innocent people who could eventually become biased, hateful and misinformed.
One thing I miss and would imagine probably front and center of an encryption tool, is the algorithm(s) it's using to encrypt. There are multiple mentions of keys, but not the encryption mechanism itself. I've been roaming around the doc for that but couldn't find anything. Is there any pointer to that?
solar and wind energies are beneficial to fossil fuels because fossil fuels will be burned when there's no wind or sun.

nuclear in the only viable green energy, and the EU is on its way to recognize nuclear as green energy.

renewables at a large scale is not worth it because there is just not enough copper on earth for it, and same goes for batteries.
This should be obvious, but anyone can sell any used hardware and claim it's new.
I remember reverse engineering a malicious Internet Explorer VB script to download and execute sub7.
My cell phone is a perfect example of what you are saying we should have had. I can connect up a keyboard and mouse and monitor. The lcd monitor also uses vastly less power.
In this case law enforcement know who they were after, in that situation they would also have been able to intercept physical mail.
The latency idea actually makes a lot of sense
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Here's the intro video: https://vimeo.com/587261149
When the definition of "suspected" is "a foreign government claimed", no one is safe.

(I know that's not a fair representation of the facts of this case, but neither is calling the suspect a "terrorist").
Or just use email for stuff that isn't sensitive. "Let's meet at my house" to your brother on where to celebrate your kid's high school graduation, versus to local activists on where to form up before going over to an antiwar protest.
“What hardback books have to do with ham, cheese and underwear”
Just look at the numbers.
I like the take home tests myself. Whiteboarding and brain teasers are not outside my experience (I did mathletics stuff as a child) but doing them out loud in front of a hostile audience is not a strength of mine. The best work I have done has been largely composed of private problem solving, syncing up with peers only once I was sure I knew the topology of the problem and perhaps had run a few experiments.

It doesn't really take long to get to the point where talking about a problem with others can be helpful, less than a day most times, but starting off a new problem with verbal spitballing with peers has not been all that useful in my work. For me to really learn something I need to hold it in my hands/code editor and get to know the ins and outs, build up intuition so that I can speak about it accurately. Jumping into unknown problems in an interview by standing up at a whiteboard talking just seems like putting the cart before the horse to me. Maybe the interviewer wants to see my "thought process," whatever that means, but what does it really matter if I can get to a good solution without vocalizing every step along the way?

I often go down the wrong paths when problem solving, if only to traverse them for my own edification. If I can make 10 mistakes or false starts in a row and still arrive at a decent solution as quickly as anyone else, what does it matter in the end? I also tend to write code out of order. I might jump around between concepts and write disparate sections of a solution without linking them back right away, following my intuition without trying to enforce order on everything I do. No one has ever complained about my speed or code cleanliness/clarity, quite the opposite in fact. Yet when I am put under the microscope, these behaviors inevitably stand out to the interviewer as cause for concern.

Despite a strong track record of building numerous successful systems and apps, many solving "serious" problems that go beyond what can be assessed in an interview, on tiny teams where I shouldered large amounts responsibility, if I can't present my thoughts in a coherent, structured way, in the moment I am thinking them, I am bound to catch flak from the interviewer. So I often feel I must alter my behavior, go slower and try to only display ordered thinking, but this does not play to my strengths. Frustration and stage fright further degrade my performance. So the take home test is much appreciated for people like me. I am happy to be left to my own devices when starting a problem, and happy to talk with peers once I have gotten myself oriented, but the initial process I use does not lend itself well to interrogation.
That's a fair statement - I think it then comes down to: Can you by law in Switzerland order someone to serve malicious JavaScript, or only to e.g. deliver information you already have?
If phones normally receive say 2 years of updates, any phone built since 2016 - thus eol in 2023, should support it (chrome/firefox were supporting tls 1.3 in 2017) - i.e in the next 18 months.

A vulnerability in TLS1.2 would need to be fixed (by implementing TLS1.3) in 7 years under "security patching".
I don't think this clarification is sufficient for the weasel words in their advertising/marketing.
they could still charge the bombers now, and everyday, the government more or less choses not to do it. While they still pursue the terrorists of the Red Brigades whose crime are even older.
I would love to see a password manager based on age. Idealy using ssh-keys beeing combinable with git
> Most candidates (>99%) have no work you could actually look at.

Most inexperienced candidates...

One of my favorite pastimes, is following up on GitHub, with people from this joint, or others, that pique my interest.

There's a lot of really awesome stuff out there! You guys rock!

Of course, many of these folks, are...chronologically challenged, let's say. If you've already decided that you will only be hiring folks right out of school, then I can see the problem.

And...to answer the inevitable "You're likely an insufferable bastard" canard, that the conversation ends up at, after we've worked through the other things, I have a LinkedIn profile, packed with testimonials, from managers, former employees, and project partners.

Turns out, I'm actually a really decent human being, and play well with others.

I also worked for decades, for a Japanese company. You won't last long at a Japanese company, if you don't "team" well.
> They are based in the US and only provide their services to radical leftist activists.

They're pretty chill on who to provider their services to. Yes, they host radical leftist activists, but they also host pretty mainstream leftist activists. And they obviously don't care who does what, they don't check your accounts.

I'm far from being a radical leftist (or any leftist!) and I have an account.
That's circular reasoning:

"This feature is dangerous because you cannot trust Apple to only use it for what they say they will use it, hence you cannot trust Apple since they doing something which can be abused"

Using your analogy that would be:

"A knife is dangerous because you cannot trust a criminal wielding a knife to not stab you, hence your friend by definition is a criminal since it wields a knife (she claims she's cutting bread but by definition she's no longer your friend because she broke your trust by wielding a knife which, slippery slope, could be used to stab you if she ever becomes a criminal, but we all know she will because ... the knife...)

all I'm saying is that this whole communication debacle has nothing to do with proving or disproving Apple's trustworthiness: they may be nefarious or not, independently of this feature. This feature doesn't make anything possible that wasn't possible before, and breaks the trust with the users only insofar users misunderstand what it is all about, and apparently that's what's happening.
The problem with jpackage/jlink is that most teams are stuck on an antiquated runtime and those tools didn’t ship until Java 14 (correct me if I’m wrong about the version). My own company is still making new projects on Java 8.
I understand they will also be performing some science experiments. Also for this maiden flight, I bet they get plenty of attention from earth too.
The leading fabs are in Taiwan and South Korea.
I turned off imessage.

I seem to be under attack lately.

3-4 times a day random links sent from gmail addresses or unknown phone numbers to imsg with sketchy looking links in them.
Not trolling, English has perhaps always been a bit more dynamic, having its roots in what arguably started out as a creole language [0]. Linguists disagree with each other on that point, but English does have its roots in a bunch of different languages. This contributes to a general lack of consistency across the language, and in the absence of more concrete rules it may end up being a little more flexible when it comes to certain things, more accepting of coining new words rather than turning to existing words.

See also "The Great Vowel Shift" as another example contributing to the roots of English in more dynamic change [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_creole_hypoth...

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Front-end is, though: https://github.com/revoltchat/desktop
It's like the F in RTFM. Fantastic.
I remember sitting at a restaurant some time pre-covid, and noticed this young couple a few tables over obviously on some sort of date. But their phones were constantly lighting up and buzzing, and every time it happened, they'd interrupt whatever they were talking about and go into zombie mode playing with their phones. Then after some scrolling and texting, go back to their conversation. Hard to tell if they even made it through to the end of a single conversation. I guess I'm an old fart but I couldn't imagine a night out like this, but it seemed like no big deal to them so ...?
It's really tied to specific versions. The fully managed version is always latest.

We got hit by this and had to shut down and upgrade. Atlassian are taking a while to send new license keys.
It's a good indication of manipulative and bad faith arguments.
Oh definitely, a kid under 1 is a different story. I would even say don't move jobs under 1 if you are an active parent. It is just brutal.
If anything they are astronauts. They did the full training, full exercises, everything they need to be able to handle spaceflight.
> who’s running that site now

You would expect the "gov.af" domain to change hands?

similarly, https://twitter.com/POTUS does when the administration changes.
Universal statement? The above commenter specified California. I provided an example confirming that statement for California.

Not to mention, the comment is practically a truism aside from the locations mentioned:

"Wind only displaces gas and coal when governments aren't shutting down nuclear to persue [sic] it..."

If a nuclear plant were shut down and replaced entirely with wind, then that necessarily means that coal and gas are not displaced.
You know, I was tempted to write that to begin like as I'm a fan of irc over slack for non-work chat, but for the same reason I prefer slack for work - it's sufficiently different.

As much as we can all agree that IRC-likes, and even IRC's predecessors are wonderful and responsible for much of the progress we have today, I think we can also fairly say not every chat application from now unto forever is an IRC-like.

I would (and I think fairly) catagorise a set of slack-likes and IRC-likes differently, with matrix occupying a grey area inbetween.
By default they don’t have logging on. Does not mean they can’t turn it on if asked.

You can’t have privacy; you need to be actively participating in our society or you’re dead. As soon as you try to build it you’ll realize it’s a full time job and you won’t be able to afford to eat on what it pays.

Only 5% of people in the US still hunt. We are coupled to the modern systems we have (unless MIT is right and it falls apart soon).

You want privacy, go off grid. Those of us living on grid will be sure to leave you be and keep everything we build for ourselves.

None of us explicitly cheered on the end of privacy but we did cheer on the engineering effort that made it happen. Despite numerous voices warning us.

Ciao.
They did not say that. Just claiming that various movements have their broad social narratives and prescribed solutions based on misinformation.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/09/police-violence-again...

Recent studies have found that while both liberals and conservatives overestimate the chance of dying from police killings and covid, conservatives were significantly closer to the statistical truth. So while there is obvious right-leaning misinformation (obvious because it is always critiqued and mocked openly), we should be aware that misinformation from the left is not critiqued as noticeably, so it can gradually shape general perceptions in misleading ways.

Keep in mind that the label “misinformation” does not usually mean complete fabrication. It includes cases of careful editing of context, labeling, and story association to spread a misleading narrative.
> StarCraft did this by destroying the siege tank under a landed building

If this in StarCraft I? In StarCraft II even a burrowed zergling can prevent the landing of a Command Center. (That makes no sense from a realistic point of view.)
I honestly think the newer ECMAScript features with static blocks, private fields are a little strange.
I get that some people really want JavaScript to be object-oriented - but I wonder if we wouldn't be better off embracing and building on its functional side.
The doors in Alyx feel so good.

Poking a gun through, or quickly tossing a grenade and then closing the door again felt so natural.
Appreciate the analysis!

I think PM's approach is more lipstick on a pig. It may be a good looking pig compared to the other pigs (gmail), but it is still a pig. Blue ribbon pigs are still a pig.

Am expecting some real change if PM wants my $.
Heh. We got a monero miner. If we weren't in the middle of an upgrade we never would have noticed. I googled confluence security and saw the CVE.
I don't know anything about these directives, but

> they force the seller to provide the update, not the manufacturer.

This (like warranties) is normally because there's no actual relationship between the consumer and the manufacturer. You do enter a contract with the seller, so they can be held liable when the law is broken.

For smartphones this can be different, since they tend to come with EULAs, but not necessarily.
> if it wasn't dependent on selling ads. The need to drive engagement

Driving engagement isn't a consequence of ads. Netflix tries to aggressively drive engagement too and it doesn't have ads.

The reason is simple: the less people use a service, the more likely they are to unsubscribe. The more likely they are to spend their time on a competing service that's doing a better job at driving engagement.

Driving engagement is necessary for a business period, no matter how they're funded.
"genocide.bas" sounds familiar what is it?
I scaled Subreply with the same amount of money I would pay for Netflix/Spotify.
People have considered it. There are two reasons that you can summarize this as “it doesn’t matter”:

1- wind and solar (and hydro) are so much better than coal when it comes global warming and other negative environmental impact, the main reason to bring up “concerns” is entrenched economic interests, and not real fears of increased warming. The fact is that renewable sources are net cooling - and not by a little - compared to the warming we’re already causing with coal burning and CO2 emissions.

2- The scale of the earth’s atmosphere and surface area are “very large” compared to our solar and wind farms. So large that it might seem funny at first to think turbines or solar cells would have any effect. One way to think about turbines is that they’re somewhat comparable to trees, and we’ve lost many times more trees in the last 50 years than we’ve added turbines. Another way is to compare the height of a turbine (say, 100 meters) to the height of the wind (maybe 400 km, depending how you measure), so the turbines touch maybe 1/4000 of the vertical air, and across the world cover very little of the total land area, meaning the total volume of air impacted by turbines is ‘tiny’.

According to my internet searches just now, the earth’s land surface (1.5e14 m^2) gets, on average, 2.4e16 watts of solar power. [1] The total solar power production today is just less than 800GW, or 8e11 watts. [2] So solar might be capturing one thirty-thousandth of the surface energy, or 0.003%. (And that actually seems surprisingly large to me, it’s possible I’m missing more orders of magnitude somewhere. I don’t think solar farms are covering anywhere near as much as 0.003% of the surface of the earth.)

Atmospheric energy is about half of the surface energy, and wind is currently capturing roughly the same as solar [3], so maybe we could estimate it about 0.006% of the wind energy.

[1] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/EnergyBalance

[2] https://iea-pvps.org/snapshot-reports/snapshot-2021/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country