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I have very fond memories of Delphi - it got me into programing and I earned my first money from a job using Delphi. Nowadays, while doing web development I still miss some features. I haven't used Delphi after version 7 (just before the .NET switch).

However, Delphi is still used by some companies! My mother works in a small company developing business software like accounting, payroll, inventory tracking etc. They still used Delphi (I think version 7) and have a small, but thriving business. No incentive to switch...
Cast AI vs. Harness: Which solution is better for Kubernetes?
I guess we have a different definition of herculean, I just have a script that builds KDE's 5.15 branch statically and run find_package(Qt5) in my cmake
Does the Stanford Covid Study’s Debunking Harm “Science” Itself?
I have a Tap2 keyboard. It's really fun. They have a prototype v3 that's just a bracelet instead of the knuckles.
Universities Say They Want More Diversity. So Why Is Academia Still So White?
For people wondering why Morocco has DST (which isn’t that useful for countries relatively close to the equator?), it seems Morocco chose to permanently become UTC+1 in 2018, with the exception of Ramadan, when it’s UTC.

So it’s not really DST in the summer months as done in Europe.

Although the Moroccan approach makes for an interesting technical challenge!
Shadow Empire
Sorry, why do you care? Why does it matter? "He/she" is simply unwieldy in writing text meant to be read by other people. Pick whatever pronoun you want to use. It. Does. Not. Matter. What I don't understand is complaining about how somebody else is not using your preferred generic pronoun.
> is it possible to design a large scale self replicating machine that runs more efficiently than evolution can give us?

Transistors miniaturization may fit under that category. We created something that every year doubled down the scale, augmented performance and reduced energy costs; and for that we needed those previous transistors. I don't think natural evolution has done any other process that fast.

I may be wrong...
And what do they observe? Is some kind of astronomical event?
> Cows are actually a way to convert otherwise worthless land into food

This is completely false. Animal farming is entirely based on crop farming for fodder.

Farming crop for animal fodder, for human consumption and for biofuel are in direct competition with each other.
> Political left and right have very very different meaning depending on where you live in the world :)

I'm curious if you have resources on that topic. It was my understanding that the left/right division used to designate the French national assembly, where royalists and other reactionaries would sit on the "right" and various stripes of progressives on the "left", that this model was imported to other newly-founded so-called "democracies", and that the words took new meaning when communism (whether authoritarian marxism or libertarian anarchism) began spreading in the mid-19th century.

> anything which defends environment and customer rights (vs corporate interests) sounds lefty enough

As a french person myself, i don't agree with this interpretation. Not so long ago, a "fair capitalism" system was a selling point of the centrist movement, and was advertised by a considerable segment of the "droite sociale". The left was defined by promoting the abolition of the capitalist system with further sub-classifications: socialists promoted reforms as a means of achieving communism (which arguably fails every time), communists promoted dictatorship of the proletariat to build communism (which arguably fails every time, and produces results very similar to industrial capitalism), anarchists and libertarian communists promoted decentralization of power and workers/citizens self-organization to build communism (which arguably succeeded every time, but was shortly crushed by authoritarian reaction [0]).

In the 80s, the Socialist party rose to power and abandoned all socialist ideals, until it adopted market economy as official policy some time in the 90s if i remember well. Likewise, the Communist party seems to have abandoned most campaigning around expropriation, instead focusing on the much diluted/vague "workers/citizens rights" concepts.

Today, apart from the NPA (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste), i don't see any mainstream (>1% votes) leftist party in the public discourse. I don't see an abundance of further-left initiatives from the bottom-up (not political parties) though, in the forms of ZADs, self-organized workers coops and unions, squats, and other collectives for social struggles against racism, patriarchy, etc.. Of course they're not the ones the media would tell you about, or as the old 68 saying goes, "the revolution will not be televized" :-)

[0] 1917 revolution in Russia started as a libertarian communist movement organized around local "soviets", before Lenin Trostky and other power-hungry tyrants moved in and killed everyone (see "Constadt" or "Makhnovtchina"). Likewise, 1936 revolution in Spain was mostly led by anarchist discourse and practice, until USSR-backed communist party (which had considerably more weapons despite having much less popular support) massacred everyone.
I kinda think the claims about not encrypting /use are fairly dubious. What’s to stop an attacker replacing a lib with a signed+known vulnerable lib? As far as I know there’s no mechanism for revocation.

What’s to stop this occurring to the kernel and/or boot loader? Maybe the TPM but idk
Delphi was nice for building desktop Windows apps.

How many people still do this? Most new work I do is either mobile or web/server.
When two sets of arbitrary non-sense rules collide!
The Wrecking of New York City: Accident or Design?
It can if a competitor complains.

I don't know of any devices at all that get rejected on Canadian ISPs. Blocking Xiaomis would cause a lot of issues.
I think the electronic maps were limited more by technology than vision.

Google Maps (any many map systems even today) used pre-rendered tiled images, which means you could only zoom at the levels which were rendered and rotating the grid was hard (especially on old hardware)
Related? https://twitter.com/rubenhofs/status/1440594839481946129 https://twitter.com/TheDEWLine/status/1440806852560707587
The California Exodus: How to Exit the State with Your Fortune Intact
Not the author, and I'm also not sure I fully understand your question, but am assuming 'cast or airplay' refers to the method used by mobile devices to redirect AV streams to different devices.

Both those solutions still require a spotify client somewhere to interact with the spotify api. The spotify client is still ultimately responsible for determining what to play, where to play from, and what stream URL then needs to be 'cast' to the device.

The box therefore running it's own client independently means you can still control it remotely, but it no longer hijacks control of all audio output on your mobile (or other) device.

spotifyd also implements the Spotify Connect protocol, which enables you to control it through the Spotify app (mobile, desktop, or web), while still retaining independent audio output for other apps on your devices.
I was differentiating between humans and bots. Claiming we’re some higher form of being than an animal is equally dehumanising to the animals.
Fish is not vegetarian and, as you say, eggs and dairy are not vegan.
Hear me out, I’m an Android guy at heart and I genuinely believe the lightning connector is vastly superior.

I never have lightning connectors fail to seat, nor fall out of a socket while I’m using a device, nor have I ever broken a lightning connector on a device.

These are all seemingly fundamental problems with USB-C. I have had THREE USB-C sockets fail on two phones through normal use, on Pixel and OnePlus devices. I have never had a USB socket of any other type fail on any device, and I’ve had umpteen cellphones since the late 90s. I genuinely baby my electronics.

Almost every USB-C socket after a couple months of use loses its gripping power, whereas the lightning connector on my 2017 iPad I’m writing this on right now is still fantastically grippy. The USB-C on my current phone, a year old Pixel 3A XL is so loose that while mounted to my cars dash, the cable pops out when taking hard turns. The socket is clear of debris, and will do so with a brand new cable. It just has zero holding power left after only a year.

I think the vast majority of people who prefer USB-C are those who haven’t spent a significant amount of time with both. iPhone users who blindly assume the other side is greener, and Android users mocking Apples weird connector.
Porsche launches new open source initiative
Who is china?
Reddit’s Hosting Service and the Dangers of Outlinking
Fellow anti-DSTers, this is a big win. Samoa might not have a large population but it is the future. In fact, it is already tomorrow there.

https://time.is/Samoa
How Service Startups Unlock Higher Growth Without Funding
European Commission: All phones USB-C proposal
I felt like autocorrect on regular mobile keyboards on both Android and iOS was actually slowing me down. I kept having to correct the corrections, so I turned autocorrect off a couple years ago. It ended up being way better, now I can type faster (~80 wpm) and can write exactly what I want.
The problem is SafetyNet uses remote attestation. And if the bank app is implemented properly that won't work because the server will check they attestation and fail your login. They very well may not bother with this though since they offer a web version anyways... which kind of makes the whole idea of putting root checking in the app pointless.

Right now at least, there's no hardware attestation on many devices so you can just install Magisk and hide the fact you're rooted pretty easily from SafetyNet and still pass.
And rock solid. I worked within a telco platform that combined it with CORBA and PThreads and damn it was contrived but work it did.
USB-C is about 8.4*3.6 mm²

whereas USB micro-A is 6.85*1.8mm².

The difference might not be very noticeable, but USB-C is has around 3 times the area of USB micro-A.
Am I the only one who thinks this is completely insane, just based on principle? How have we reached a point where we think it is OK for the government to tell me that I can't buy a phone without a specific charger. This isn't a safety issue, and there isn't any massive infrastructure requirement, let people make their own decisions.

If I want to make a crazy phone that is 2mm thin and needs some special charger, I shouldn't be banned by the government from doing so. And if I have some charging port that I think is better than USB-C, I shouldn't have to lobby the government to get it implemented.

Right now new phones either have lightning, or USB-C. Seems pretty reasonable to me. USB-C is not faultless - imagine if we had been stuck with micro-USB instead.

How about the government leaves us alone and lets us make our own decisions. I think that would be nice. Just make people pay for their externalities.

Hopefully in practice, all this means is that Apple will include a lightning to USB-C converter in the box.
Interesting that there is still a development team working on that product. Also interesting that apparently you can produce android applications with it. Sadly due to the pricing, I doubt many will take this into use for new projects.

The language popup insisting on every page that they've unhelpfully detected my ip address is in Germany is really annoying. It asks on every page load and does not remember anything. I guess there are some dust old developer offices somewhere in Germany still handing over cash to them to maintain decades old enterprise applications.
With the new usb-c pd standard 48V is possible.

A step-up converter would probably make more sense though, since the power requirement is not >100W.
Bulgaria is a black hole on this map although the regional Cadastre and Cardography agency does have the necessary data.

A prime example of a public institution leeching money for providing access to data that has been gathered entirely with public funds.

For reference they sell access to raster visualisations of their data for EUR 40[1] per month. You don't even get the vector data so you can analyse it or incorporate it in a product.

[1] https://www.cadastre.bg/podzakonovi-normatveni-aktove/tarifa...
> unless you go to a herculean effort to bundle your own Qt build

Zoom ships their own copy of Qt in the Linux packages as an example, lives in /opt/zoom next to their code.
> now I just listen to my local college radio.

Hear, hear for college radio! The local college radio station is one of my favorite places to listen. They've got great variety. Depending on when you tune in, you might hear 'indie', folk, metal, electronic, or something completely different.
Lessons learned from building a WebSocket server
They always do. These things have mechanical physical standards as well as the electronic/software side.

Micro-USB requires more force because of its 2 teeth underneath, that's made to latch onto the socket. That was a mistake. In comparison, Mini-USB don't have this problem and slides straight similarly to USB-C in that sense.

A lot of thought process goes into this mechanical interaction of male/female plug/sockets.

I design/3d printed a lot of mechanical stuff for hobby for some years now. You can't make stuff work without calculating these tolerances. I am sure professionals who work on standards know/do better than me.
IoT device management
My team mostly codes internal apps and I 100% agree.

Most SaaS, cloud providers, new data bases, etc... Target web scale, machine learning powered applications deployed to the edge (plus other buzzwords).

Most offerings that target SMBs are low code soluctions or some other sort of hyper locked-in, inflexible bullshit.

I think there's a set of stuff every business wants nowadays (internal network, internal static pages, internal APIs, internal object store, internal DAG / job runner) and there's money to be made by offering a quick, robust, secure and cost-efficient way of developing and integrating those.

/rant
That link sent me to a 30-minute nostalgia tour around its successor, Visual Fox Pro - a tool I needed to use at my first job.
I shudder these days whenever a read about thrift, grpc and other binary protocols.
"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read it, you're misinformed"

-- Denzel Washington
I’d consider antivaxxers as terrorists at this point, too. They will kill people, many more people than 9/11.
silicon (the interesting part) inside plastic that you see is quite small and thin. You would need hundreds/thousands of them to approach the size/weight ratio to single steak.

And silicone that needs that high level of cleanliness is not cheap.
Most chips are fabricated on larger/older processes that do not require that high level of cleanliness
If it works as well as their website looks I'm all in!
On a quick skim, I could see three issues with this proposal:

1. While each home directory is individually encrypted, since /home itself is not encrypted (unlike with current uses of full disk encryption), the user login names can be found unencrypted on the disk.

2. Since each home directory is individually encrypted, backup systems like borgbackup running as root can no longer easily backup everything.

3. As far as I could understand, this proposal does not have a mechanism to share disk space between the system and the user directories. This goes in the opposite direction of for example https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BtrfsByDefault in Fedora 33, which allowed the whole disk to be used for files in /home, instead of always reserving IIRC 50 gigabytes exclusively for files outside /home.
> Apparently they support iOS,Android,Linux, Windows, MacOS including Apple M1

Last I checked two weeks ago there was no Linux support. I still don't see any mention of Linux support.
wut? most chromebooks are arm
If you are worried about ad hominems then you should also be worried about Ioannidis, who has taken to Twitter to criticize grad students with orthodox conclusions about COVID for their physical appearance and lack of publications relative to full professors.
Keeping it on a seperate blockdevice allows dm-verity to authentice the device. This value would be signed and secured, so injecting a signed+known library wouldn't work. It would refuse to mount.

It should be noted that keeping it unencrypted is only for the traditional linux package manager usecase.
In the UK at least I don't really see the argument for DST. All it seems to do is fuck up my already precarious sleep cycle in exchange for what seems to be some farmers productivity (but they only make up 0.1% of the population roughly)
I'm not sure, not having any experience of proprietary OS development.

I could guess. The technology was not an insignificant thing (RCU as mentioned). Possibly more important was that Linux didn't have such a pressing need to scale up, whereas for Solaris they were a hardware company that made these big systems so they had to get it working at all costs. Linux's main market was 1 CPU systems for a long time, and there was strong push back against complexity or slowdowns caused by scalability improvements so the bar for them was very high.
I'm so exasperated with this extreme anti-government slant on this website. Just so disappointing.
1. Static linking is legally troublesome if you're distributing binaries because under the terms of the LGPL you have to allow for re-linking of your application. See ringworld's sibling comment on the Zoom app.

2. Even if you static link, you still need to build Qt for every single distro you want to ship your app on. On Linux the Qt GUI library alone has over 40 shared library dependencies. There are also ABI issues. Things like AppImage can help but are pretty nasty.

3. It's a lot easier on Windows and macOS, where there are fewer system dependencies and Qt Company themselves provide bundling tools (windeployqt, macdeployqt) to bundle libraries with your application.
Technically the YF-12 was armed.
There's a novel in which a celeb named Polly is cloned and harvested for burgers.
As a non-Japanese speaker I can’t make much sense of this, but this looks super cool! At the same time I can’t stop wondering if this is how English-dominant programming is perceived by “non-roman-alphabet” speakers. Imagine if the Japanese dominated the invention of programming languages, and we all had to learn Japanese to be productive at our jobs.. we’re lucky that ruby was written in English
He escaped the dark web's biggest bust, and now he's back
At this point I can't really believe you are arguing in good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not to mention, taste-competitive.

I'm neither pro nor against non-animal meat, but all the times I tried it kinda tasted like shit, particularly beyond meat burgers.

It makes sense only if you already are vegetarian/vegan and are ideologically inclined to push that kind of stuff.

Otherwise, it really doesn't taste like meat.
It was a legitimate question; thanks for replying accordingly.

IMO: Claiming an argument amounts to whataboutism is about dividing the argument and remains focused on the contents of a particular fork of the argument, not on the author's personal qualities.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem is attacking the person rather than the argument. That's what I couldn't find any substantial amount of (unless you had a private jet and were complaining about CPU-based emissions).
Why doesn’t Apple want people to upgrade to iOS 15?
That’s why those both continued to be successful, right?
The article states that it's unmanned and emphasises intelligence capabilities.

I thought SR-71 had some strike capabilities, but I could be mistaken.
I have an Awair Element, https://uk.getawair.com/products/element, and it suits my needs just fine.
A useful addition to the kernel could be a flag that disallows a thread from launching child processes.

Then when doing any of this risky stuff like handling gif/png/ASN.1/etc data from outside sources you can handle it in a worker thread that simply isn't allowed to launch external processes and thus sidestep a lot of these exploits.

Please get on that Apple kernel devs...
Do you remember when every phone had a different charger?. I do it was crazy, stupid and expensive. They had to regulate it. Now is starting again.
Wow, a language calling itself AFL++ really puts its cards (and influences) on the table.
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The Third Revolution in Warfare
This is a great article, that touches on issues like reproducible builds and software supply chain security. It also highlights the problem that some software can lack what we might call "reproducible source":

> In their ESEC/FSE 2021 paper on LastPyMile, Duc-Ly Vu et al. empirically show that “the last mile from source to package” on PyPI is indeed the weakest link in the software supply chain, and that actual differences between packaged source code and upstream source code are observed in the wild.

There was a clever attempt to solve this problem in the JavaScript/npm ecosystem a few years ago, but sadly it never became officially supported:

https://hackernoon.com/what-if-we-could-verify-npm-packages-...
Digging up rare earth and metals to use them a coupe of years and then throw them in a landfill is insane. I'm happy the EU has stepped in for this kind of regulation.
As for the supermarket, vote with your wallet and buy the less plastic you can.
Because as per Android team, you should only be writing C or C++ code for implementing Java native methods, Vulkan, real time audio, integrating native libraries from other platforms, or anything else game development related.

But yes, not even caring about a better JNI tooling story is a big pain, specially given Android Java, they surely could have come up with a better FFI story.
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Are other people experiencing too many corruption problems on encrypted disks?

I have a veracrypt drive, and I regularly have to run a scan and fix on it because it's very sensitive to power cut, brutal restart, etc.

Also, it's slow. I put my firefox conf folder in it, but it slows the browser down.

Once I went full encrypted disk, but one day corruption happened, and it stopped booting. So I went back.
Given satellite technology and ICBMs, can someone explain why my tax dollars are going to this science fair project for adults?
I’ve never understood why people think this is a good idea. If you share your salary with someone, it will go one of two ways - either they will be angry that you make more or you will be resentful that they make more than you. I don’t see what good can come of sharing salaries.
Apart from providing first party service like Prime Video, and second party services like Netflix, Disney, etc...

(and apart from data governance/sovereignty reasons)

might there be any specific industries that they targeting specific to NZ?

Weta comes to mind, but I can only imagine they're a drop in the bucket.
the content asides it's amazing to me that anyone ever pays a single second's attention to such a discredited and morally bankrupt organisation as the UN
> I follow smartphone world quite closely and have never heard/read about USB-C issues.

This isn't an effective point as the "smartphone world" is plagued by ephemeral devices which are either susceptible to programmed obsolescence or are caught in an upgrade treadmill due to a myriad of reasons (non-replaceable batteries failing, screen problems, camera issues, hardware failing due to wear, blocked software updates, fads, etc..)
Bugs are currently used to create feed for animals. It's small scale but worth bearing in mind if a gradual phase out is desired.
I've consumed probably less than a pound of semiconductors in my entire life. I consume almost a pound of protein a day.