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> This is where someone says "well you should just always be running the latest version of everything", which is of course infeasible on a real life system with thousands of installed packages.

Is updating a library with thousands of dependents, without individually testing those dependents, any more feasible?
> I was once pranked by a friend

Related to this, news used to be somewhat accurate before 2000, with most reporters talking to 2 sources, though journalists were writers and not experts.

However, the MSM has been outright lying to the American public for years, though cnn.com started being half-truthful since about Sept. 1, 2021.

Virtually every major story on their homepage between Sept. 1, 2020 and Sept. 1, 2021 has been retracted or contradicted by their own later stories. It's identical to Orwell's "1984."

The NY Times just deleted dozens of "article placements" paid for by the CCP, but note the entire US news media was bribed by the CCP either with ads, paid stories or paid junkets to Beijing for years.
Lol.

These people usually have zero knowledge outside of a very narrow area. They may know physics-based nanotech but they know nothing about biological system. They may know the latter but nothing of the fromer.

It's a religious cult more than science or engineering fact-based knowledge.

They are going to die with everyone else. They will make grotesque mistakes trying to achieve their aims and likely live far shorter than average lives. It will be exactly like every millennial religious cult that predicts the 2nd coming of Jesus - it's exactly the SAME thing in terms of how it arises, why the group dynamics are and how it ends. It's merely the newest incarnation of religion mediated HOPIUM.
Which is kind of remarkable. Python still seems to try to support every package manager and format that ever existed, and that’s part of why packaging in Python is so awful. Nice to see a language that can move forward with such a major change in such a short time and with relatively little pain.
Not everyone registered is posting on every topic. Not everyone having an opinion is posting in the topic they read.

Making unsubstantiated claims is easier than laying down concrete arguments.

You quickly run out of pearls to throw before the swine.

“Venting” is more socially acceptable than “preaching”.

And there is a matter of customs and culture: people see that badmouthing happens more often than singing praises, and so the cycle continues. HN is evidently the place where you don’t often see positive discussions of the merits on the front page, so that’s exactly what you see, and even if you have something to say you’d rather keep your mouth shut. But you see slandering comments in every topic so if you want to leave another then by all means, feel right at home.

All of this does not even take into account whether there are any technical merits worthy of continued discussion and fervent defense, or everything on this particular topic has been said already and perceived as general knowledge among the literate.
Yes, I'd hope that. At some point I'd like to buy milk with Banano's I earned from watching JungleTV.
That kind of game is too much like work.
Maybe not “exactly” but for key management roughly something like the Ledger Nano X (has to come down 10x in price obv): Small separate device that can be used to sign transactions with. Can be used with smartphone wirelessly. This device should also work seamlessly for general 2FA and auth/identification, preferably usable with government services.

Apart from being sold directly to consumers, it could be issued by providers of banking services (lending or payments for example) to clients.

You would also have service providers offering key recovery services (could be shamired)
Right, but if every application did distribute as source and could just be recompiled, there would be fewer complaints about the difficulties distributing Linux binaries
I had a work-assigned IIsi that I swapped the crystal on (against my boss’ wishes). I seem to recall I went from a 40MHz crystal to 50MHz (CPU clock being half of that, so went from 20MHz to 25MHz to compare closely with the IIci of the day), but it’s been a few decades.
> I support right to repair, but ONLY with genuine parts with warranty.

Why? Why can't I make that decision myself? If I'm fine with a cheaper display, why should apple disallow me from doing that?

If they sold their spare parts in their own store, everyone could make the decision whether they want genuine or 3rd party replacement parts themselves. The phone could tell you when the part is not genuine, so you could get your money back from everyone who sold you a non-grnuir parts as genuine. No reason to block the functionality of the phone.
Yes, and in most cases you need a bank account or at least a debit card to buy crypto to begin with.

I'm long crypto but i think the argument of banking the unbanked is a bit contrived, much like the store of wealth narrative in the face of regular -20% "corrections".

It should be seen as a speculative investment and not really a currency. Perhaps stablecoins can serve that market eventually.
‘Seinfeld’ fans upset that Netflix’s aspect ratio cuts out jokes
macros are compilers, monads are interpreters
Don't over-interpret.

By "leave" I mean the literal "leaving", e.g. not staying in places that are unfit for human habitation.

Why do we need to have unsustainable permanent settlements in the Arctic? Why are there multi-million cities in the middle of the desert?

Interpreting the term "leaving" as anything else than "moving away from a place" say more about the thought process of the person interpreting it that way than about the one making the suggestion ;)
Don't know, I only know that I can build a macOS command line tool on one machine, and run it on a different machine without problems, while on Linux it's very easy to run into the glibc version compatibility problem.
There is a distinction between a fully-static binary and a non-fully-static one, which is what I think the article refers to. A fully static binary will not need to call the dynamic linker at all, and tools such as "file" or "ldd" will identify such binaries differently. A fully static binary will also run even in the complete absence of any userspace support for its architecture (assuming the hardware and kernel do support it) - e.g. a static AArch64 binary will run on a 32-bit ARM distribution, if the CPU supports AArch64.
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The only way to win in financial markets is to NEVER PLAY!

I was 100% out after 2008 (I saw it coming; I saw the Dot Com crash coming - I finally realized the entire system is utterly corrupt and only "the house" wins - you are NOT the house.
I can agree that there should be no public flogging, provided it is first couple times. If it has been explained to the individual that certain behaviour is considered unprofessional and yet they insist on engaging in it then... well, there should be consequences.
Or the brand name Tylenol.

I'm glad they published the strong null hypothesis result! Too often only the higher-impact positive results get published.
At least one can statically link the application except for forcibly-dynamic libs like libGL (also, apparently using dlopen() is often faster than naive dynamic linking...)
That's the same as what they said, isn't it?
Can you show details of this
Ah thank you! I’ll take no battery life in exchange for no input lag
Yes sometimes it's sneaky, some aren't even hiding they stalked you before engaging a conversation.
OCaml came out in 96. That would be PhD level in comparison. As for Python, it's interesting how it was considered a simple, easy to use language that focused on doing things one way back then. But now nearing version 4, it's turned into a complex language with many ways to do things. Makes one wonder how long Go will be able to hold out for. JS has gone the same route as Python. I guess Scheme managed stay simple, but it was never that popular. OTOH, It's cousin CL is complex.

To paraphrase Stroustrup:

There are two kinds of languages: the simple ones (Scheme, Smalltalk, early Python and JS), and the ones everyone uses.
For me as a huge Seinfeld fan this is practically painful to watch.

Just yesterday some folks have been bragging about how Netfilx proactively matches compensation of their emps - great - maybe that's a mistake. Because given how stupid such a decision is, how bad their recommendations are, plus their home grown productions getting worse with every week passing by, I wonder if it isn't time to weed out a little. Seems like this company is a cesspool of ignorance and incompetence...
Nothing on my comment was about Python, and Rob Pike mentioned others, like Java.
This was just to support backwards compat with GOPATH for the brief time that the ecosystem was transitioning to modules. Now that GOPATH is rarely used, it’s not necessary.
Extrachromosomal DNA is associated with poor outcome across many cancers (2020)
I really like this idea. I remember working through the Nand2Tetris course [0] which essentially has the same idea of letting you build a computer from scratch. The course's chip fabrication sections had a limited number of simple solutions, so designing chips really did feel more akin to solving puzzles than writing code.

One thing I'm curious about is how level progression works. Do I get standard implementations for the circuits I've previously made? Or do I have to carry my implementations with me for the rest of the game, bugs included?

[0]: https://www.nand2tetris.org/
I think saying crypto is better than no bank [for the poor] is a bit like saying loan sharks are better than no loans.

In a literal sense that’s definitely true: having more options must be uniformly good, and sometimes you want these options for sure.

And yet no one says “yay loan sharks bring financial freedom”, more like “let’s fix poverty and lack of banking”.

On balance I think that if you cannot have a bank account then a crypto economy may well be better (but omg the transaction fees), but that shouldn’t be a blueprint for financial advancement.
https://sta.li/
Experimental, probably not that usable.

http://sabo.xyz/
More of a complete distro, but the dev himself says he still uses a couple of programs dynamically linked.
Why Android is not called Ordroid?
> To think this lasted all the way through Catalina and Big Sur is insane.

I can't help but think they didn't want to bother because "new hardware is just around the corner" for longer than they expected.
Many opponents of the social programs common in Western Europe consider their popularity and support among younger generations in the US a sign that communism and socialism are popular.
Additionally, we’re dramatically more energy efficient across the board; food, transport, goods.
>Can you suggest some historical mysteries that do not receive attention but should?

The article mentions the process being used on Egyptian papyrus and the Dead Sea Scrolls. There are countless other recovered bits of parchment that the process could be used on from around the world, possibly uncovering more primary sources about antiquity.

Or just like any other of von Fersen's letters would probably be more illuminating about French Swedish relations, though I don't know if they were censored. His fondness of Antoinette was already known.
I see your point, except the world doesn't end in the US and the country's three-letter agencies. There are countries outside of the US that might have their own goals and ways of achieving them (see the Pegasus scandal for example).
Sounds about right.

Also.

Sudden death for worn-out workers. We'll invent a rationale for that eventually. 20 years of retirement is just an unnecessary drain on the economy.

Like in Logan's Run except more plausible.

Also cellphones implanted at birth. With stress induction.

Also, radical amputation for information workers. All that extra flesh is just an unnecessary drain on the economy.
You have good points here, and this reminds me of MasterCard getting giddy with pornographic transactions, even in areas where it is fully legal. However, I think that cryptocurrency will only solve 3) in your list.

For 1), they often seize everything, to the point that they seize computers and phones. Even if they are smart to have a backup, I'm pretty sure that they will try to hoover up anything and everything, even regular currency.

For 2), I think that this is a societal problem, really. In France (as an example), you are entitled to a bank account regardless of your status, that even means if you have been convicted of money laundering. On the flipside, and I am assuming to use cryptocurrencies like Monero which makes transaction tracking harder, if you are really wanted you could end up in situation that I described on 1).
There is also a lot of evidence that the vaccines are safe and effective.
You don't have to use PICO-8's text editor. You can just open up the p8 file in any text editor and hack away. VS Code has an extension for .p8 files as well which does syntax highlighting correctly.
I’m not disputing that things may have changed since the post was written. But the comment I responded to claimed that the linked post didn’t recommend copy-into-subdirectory, which it clearly does.
So true.

I hope you're talking to someone professional about it. ;-) /jk
The cryptocurrency space has been almost entirely overtaken by people whose sole interest is to get rich from coins increasing in value. These people don’t actually care about the technical aspects or real-world use outside of how it creates buzz that makes the price go up.

The field is basically fuel for the worst elements of the wider financial world - pure speculation, hype, volatility and discourse appealing to greed and FOMO, with the actual fundamentals negligible outside of a few niche uses.

Meanwhile HN is filled mostly with engineers and tech-minded people (“geeks” if you will - I include myself in that group), and it is no surprise that there would be distaste for a formerly technologically promising field that has turned into a playground for trend-following marketers.
Exactly, this sounds like a story I could have in my life, and I'm also a complete introvert.
I could socialize but basically my battery drains a lot quicker than my peers.
Same here. After, like every little French boy, having been fed with Tintin and Asterix in my baby bottle, much of the more modern work made me feel like the author was not straight to the point enough, wasting my attention with his uncertain and meandering process of drawing. It took a lot of time to appreciate anything else and stop feeling like it's all amateurish sketching.
I think there's a certain trap that many software engineer & technical types fall into with crypto. Crypto & blockchain are often portrayed as technically superior solutions to many problems, especially by non-technical people. Many of these problems, upon technical scrutiny, are actually not better with crypto: for most crypto use-cases, one could build a more efficient, simpler & "technically superior" solution using centralized services like, I don't know - a Postgres database and a REST API. In this way, a lot of technical people see crypto as a solution in search of a problem.

But the interesting thing about crypto is - in my opinion - not technical: it's social, and economical. Due to the decentralization, it changes the kinds of systems & solutions that are socially and economically viable. When I say "economical", I don't mean that the solutions are necessarily cheaper in the dollar sense, but in the sense that it changes which parties can participate in and profit from those systems. DeFi, for example, lets individuals participate in, and benefit from, transactions that used to only be provided by traditional banks.

So while there are many technical types that do see this side of crypto, there are many for whom their deeper technical understanding is a bit of a liability on the topic.
I think there are only experiments. From what I know Oasis Linux is furthest along https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis

Another resources is https://sta.li/
I thought there was a Archlinux-based attempt, but can't find references to that.
This means you would lose money to inflation every year.

Simply invest in a total market fund and you get the average returns of the market. Even investing in 1999 or 2007 in a total market fund would put you ahead of a savings account by now.
That might be an energy efficient way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Just scrape it up off the ground and stick in some high pressure place like under an ice sheet?
I am experiencing renewed optimism from materials technology lately. Graphene production is on the rise and the applications are huge. Mycelium is touted as the next plastic. Newer engineered woods like CLT hold a lot of promise as they get deployed into increasingly large projects. There are all kinds of smaller innovations with waterproofing, adhesives and insulation that are gradually being deployed and learned about by builders.

For my part, I took the step into ordering some kit for cardboard crafting just now. Modern wood glues(I am getting Elmer's Max) are unbelievably strong, and a pure shellac finish brushed on will add some rigidity and waterproofing which could be further enhanced through hydrophobic coatings. Corrugated cardboard itself is a limited material, but it's so easy to get and to work with - my first project will simply be to build a small workbench, and then I'll go from there. I have several ideas already planned.
There is no separate "cable" between the display and the motherboard. The "cable" is integral to the display. It's an extension of the flexible PCB on which other electronics is mounted as well.

The video is kind of vague about it, but when they are talking about "replacing the cable" they mean replacing the whole thing. The display obviously includes lots of logic that, among other things, stores display's serial number. Same with the sensors mounted on the display.
Why then does apple not offer to take these phones (without compensation) and refurb them to be resold, by Apple. This way there is no incentives for thieves as Apple will not give them a dime however these phones are not part of the huge trash pile that is being generated.
You would have to do that anyway. With static linking, you also have to rebuild those dependents and make sure their users update them as well.
It would certainly make the embedded industry more secure if it was always running the latest version of everything. Or at least the ISPs, because imagine the bandwidth they're be able to charge for as everything from your washing machine to your watch to your lightbulbs to your car downloads new images hourly.
When using renewables, losses don't matter. The matter a lot now, where the losses are covered with fossil fuels, but that's now where we're heading. Hydrogen fuel tanks are far cheaper and more sustainable than lithium batteries. I believe the power density is also superior, although I don't have time to check right now. Additionally, hydrogen fuel isn't only useful in vehicles and a more efficient production method would still be great to have.
I guess the joke is on them, having one of the lowest homicide rates by firearm in the world, even knife homicides which London is famous for are lower than many major US cities.
Supersonic doesn’t make too much sense for short flights, but I routinely fly 10+ hour routes and it’d be wonderful if I could shave 5 hours from the total flight time. If they can do LA or SF to Tokyo or Taipei, it’ll make a miserable trip into a bearable one.
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Depends on how people generally act on a given society I guess. Some are definitely warmer than others.
Unless the owner disabled Activation Lock you can’t reset it/reactivate it without the owner’s iCloud password.
Would obs be helpful here? I would think you could tell zoom about an obs virtual camera and use obs with pipewire for the capture.
Its the poor record of predictive ability that damns economics and economists.
> Historically, things that were only meant for the super rich eventually got commoditised for everyone

That would make the situation much, much worse.

> Under current capitalist regimes, this is how humans push the envelope of possibilities, like it or not

"Not" would be the choice there. This is exactly the reason why we are in this crisis.
What makes you think that? The population growth in Sahel area ranges from 130% to 230% in the next two decades [0].

This is an area that historically only supported a fraction of its current inhabitants. Continued exponential growth will bring the already overstressed ecological and economical environment to its total collapse. These are not rich people. These are the poorest of the poor and they will destroy the last bits of forest, arable land and ground water reserves in the region just to survive.

Ecological collapse doesn't start and end with CO2 emissions and taking joy rides into space after all.

Continued uncontrolled exponential population growth in regions that simply don't support that many people is a problem.

[0] https://ideas4development.org/en/population-growth-sahel-cha...
Economists definitely claim to know how things work. I vividly remember reading neo-liberal gospel (the economic theory, not political leaning) in the NYT opinion section written by Paul Krugman 10 years ago. Allowing completely free trade will be great he said. Prices will be lowered and the economy will run more efficiently. Maybe that’s true, but it also hollowed out the U.S. manufacturing base and consequently the middle class. You don’t see articles like that anymore.
It's also tricky if you need to call gethostbyname() and expect system local behavior.
Ticket should cost anything between 2 to 4 times a normal one. If it works, it’ll capture a lot of business and first class tickets from normal airliners
No. That fuel could be used for other things, to offset more emissions, rather than wasting it on the ultra rich.
Well, it's what traditional distributions do every day.

In NixOS, we try to work the test suites into the build process and rebuilds happen when any dependencies change, so I'd like to think we get (almost) the best of both worlds.
That is even worse.
Both of them will have a blast by the end of October.
On that time, EGLD will worth around 310 USD

https://natrmd.com
Coincidentally, the original source has a longer version of the interview where he goes on to talk about railroads and airplanes immediately after the segment about the sailing vessels:

"Now the railroad is slow. Just now, this afternoon, going right up over here, I saw I guess a dozen aeroplanes..."

https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MVTN/id/5313/r... (at 5:33)
And what would you call the US dollar's monetary expansion of over 40% [1] since the start of the pandemic, if not stealing?

The Cantillon Effect has never been stronger, but those that continue to measure their financial worth in a unit of account that is shrinking in its purchasing power every day are missing the point. The system _is_ stealing your savings!

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
Yep. Economists and meteorologists. What they try to predict is sort of like trying to predict where the disc will land in Plinko [1]. Neither of them have a clue until it actually happens... "Our models showed the disc going the other way (especially the European Model), but we were wrong again. Tune in tomorrow while we talk fast and act confident again."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Price_Is_Right_pri...