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> As for racism - I do believe our culture is deeply racist...

Well, a lot of people agree with you. I also think that perspective is racist, and perpetuates the very problems it purports to solve.
To be fair there are still similarities between the siblings that make many tools you use behave in the same way. But also true that Apple is generally in favor of lock-in.
Exactly. They should also explain why Cloudflare should have the right. Once they have the power to turn off websites, that power can be abused. Do you switch a site off because it broke a law? Which law? In which country? Iran? Or China? Did it upset someone? An Imam? A politician? A bearded wokebro? Your grandmother?

5 years ago I might have agreed that Cloudflare should intervene a lot more. Now I don't.
Unfortunately, the more than 6-year old Cortex-A72 cores are really obsolete.

Especially when having many ARM cores, it is desirable to have cores that support at least the ARMv8.2-A ISA, which corrects the initial mistake of the 64-bit ARM ISA of omitting the atomic instructions.

Actually the mistake was corrected in ARMv8.1-A, but all easily available ARM cores support either ARMv8.2-A (Cortex-A55, Cortex-A75 and newer, also NVIDIA Carmel) or ARMv8.0-A (Cortex-A73 and older).

If you want to experiment with many ARM threads and how to organize the synchronization and communication between them, the results on ancient Cortex-A72 cores can be misleading.

Sadly the vast majority of ARM vendors offer only very old ARM cores. Except for the chips intended for mobile phones, the only devices with not too old ARM cores are slow devices with quadruple Cortex-A55 cores.

If you want more threads than that, the best that can be found would be an 8-core NVIDIA Xavier AGX or a 6-core NVIDIA Xavier NX.

An 8-core Xavier might actually have a speed not much different than a 16 core Cortex-A72, even if the NVIDIA cores are relatively slow when compared with more recent ARM cores, i.e. Carmel is a little slower than Cortex-A75.

Buying a Honeycomb lx2 makes sense only when your interest is in the multiple 10G Ethernet and you do not care about what kind of CPU is provided on the board, i.e. you are not interested in the board as a software development platform for future ARM devices.
Q1 is pretty cute, actually.
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Technically speaking it wasn't that discussion. That discussion was opened after we started realizing what had (and had not) happened. But your summary is otherwise correct. :)
No organization the size of MS is different - it's just how it works.
> All the redisign and rebranding can't cure a good idea that has festered into a bad idea.

I think you are speaking from a soft eng perspective. Most people don't actually care about the product features / reputation. It's a social media and that means that the only thing that matter is that other people are on it.

No service currently has the critical mass of user to outshine the FB group, and i think this will be the case for a long time.
That’s where the poor & questionable transparency comes in, they try to market it as independent but it was formed and funded by Microsoft with the Executive Director whose performing all the objectionable actions an MS employee who is also the only person that is able to approve all material changes made to the foundation whose position can only be filled by the founding member who is Microsoft, in effect they are the silent hand making all the power moves to its member projects without their consent, wishes or even a courtesy notification. Then to try downplay the bad PR you had the MS VP Director with no visible ties to the foundation willing to jump on a call to disgruntled members so they can downplay their MS foundation employees actions behind close doors.

https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/39#dis...
Google doesn't care to pass the Turing test. Their goal is to suppress any and all discourse skeptical of the official line. A few false positives are not a problem. Even better, the subjects learn that nothing and nobody will pass the censor wall. Don't even think unclean thoughts, are you a mass murderer?
As a user of traditional KWin-style desktops, I think Wayland has a lot of tiling compositors (sway being mature-ish, though far more unstable for me than others in my testing months ago), but not enough KWin/Windows 7-style compositors with XFCE-level snappiness and performance (KWin is slow everywhere and buggy as hell on Nvidia), and Windows 7/KDE style Aero Snap. I'm rooting for Wayfire to work well (at which point I may write a set of window management plugins), but it doesn't work well on Nvidia (I'm waiting for them to support GBM).
But the Github Enterprise admins, and people actually fixing the CLA bot probably are from MS?
That's incredible. I'll do my best never to kill one again.
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MVPs are passionate engineers!

They're not microsoft employees. It's just MS has explicitly recognized them.

There's an irony that the award MS gives to passionate engineers in the .Net community has been completely misunderstood by someone outside of it.

If you want to see a great example of a passionate engineer who's been awarded the MVP, go read a few Rick Strahl blog posts.

Another one was Scott Hanselman, though I believe he joined MS like 10 years ago.

They addmitedly muddy the waters by awarding the MVP to their own employees writing about their new stuff, but even they can be passionate and interesting. Scott Guthrie's time on ASP.Net is a good example.
I'm not sure if you're being serious here.

What happened to "the ecosystems" when we went from millions of humans to billions is the extinction of many species, and disappearance of biodiversity in general :

> In absolute terms, the planet has lost 58% of its biodiversity since 1970 according to a 2016 study by the World Wildlife Fund. [0]

The ecosystems are definitely not 'perfectly fine' if we keep messing with them [1]

If you want something less dry than pure numbers, you can check the docuserie "Our Planet" on Netflix

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity#Threats
[1]https://www.science.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.345.6195....
That didn't happen to me and there was a pretty comprehensive (IMHO) apology about that issue.
So you’ve never used anything connected to Facebook?
The US has around 700 billionaires. That is comparable in size to the US House of Representatives. There are a lot more politicians than billionaires. Plus there is a lot more turnover in politicians than billionaires.

It doesn't tell you anything that only 1 of them went to jail. Even assuming they are incarcerated at something close to the background rate (an unreasonable assumption) we would expect 0% of them to be in jail; at any given moment. Adjust that for the fact that they have basically no rational reason whatsoever to commit crimes and there is nothing unusual going on.
Thanks, that is good to hear. I wasn't sure I would post it because I was afraid it would actually confuse the issue. Thank you.
The official https://themes.gohugo.io/ appears to already sort using GitHub stars descending by default, isn't limited to just the first 10 themes, actually links to the repo, is a lot more informative at face value...and doesn't have a stupid Load More button that isn't actually a button.
That sounds like the caveman instincts kicking in.
I have tried killing mosquitoes with laser. It just does not work. Multiple seconds of those powerful green laser ray does no lasting damage to the critter.
The idea of hating all women this way is nonsensical for normal people (despite the fact limiting their rights used to be a common tradition, I believe most of the people didn't really hate them) and can only exist in some mentally traumatized people. Seeing someone exercising obvious nonsense rarely triggers you to start doing the same on systematic basis. Electing a president requires a majority vote. Even though majority's intelligence is mediocre by definition, it hardly is SO dumb and sick. Even a rude person with sexist jokes, even a women rights limiting proponent rarely is a real serious passionate misogynist, such will mostly see "cVnt_h_aters" ridiculous too.
Sometimes you read comments that feel like it's written by you. Hey there!

I'm almost the same, but 3950x instead of 5950x. I used Mac OS X between versions 10.0 and 10.4, and can never go back. It gives me anxiety, even now when I have a M1 machine in the cloud from work I mainly use through SSH, the system just feels like it fights hard preventing me of doing what I want.

I sure hope so open hardware continues being a thing, and we're not forced to some proprietary way of doing things. I still have fun with computers and operating systems. I love to experiment, and finding things out is the only reason I'm in the business of programming.
There is no reason to suspect that they did. As I wrote, I granted admin access to my GitHub organization. No other special access was needed after that.
Calling the police on discovery of a death is their duty, ejecting the alledged murderer is not. What you're talking about here may be akin to giving Cloudflare the power and the obligation to act as police force, judge, jury an executioner.

Besides, if a domain owner can switch to Fastly, Akami, Cloudfront or any other CDN, are we really solving this problem in the right place, or are we just giving Cloudflare extra responsibilities and powers that they shouldn't have?
Openness and Self-Sufficiency Matter in Blockchain
Saito co-founder David Lancashire was invited to speak at Blockchain Research Roundtable on September 16th, 2021. The event gathered leading thinkers and researchers in blockchain, to discuss blockchain technology with the Blockchainhub Community.

David presented to a panel arguing that It’s Openness Not Decentralization That Matters in Blockchain. The Saito co-founder argues that the properties that people believe come from decentralization actually stem from openness – the inability to exclude people from the chain. He continued that openness is not free; we need to pay for open data flows that support it and allow free competition in the network. In the original design, bitcoin, volunteers took care of this work but as these networks scale the responsibility for doing that needs to shift to for-profit firms in the private sector and as it turns out economics has a ton to say about the massive problems that computer scientists are running into doing this. This is what’s happening with the peer to peer network right now. In every scalable blockchain miners and stakers do not want to run the network. They are letting their responsibility for that be handled by other people. This is the Ethereum network where everybody is free riding on Infura.

There are three kinds of solutions in the blockchain industry. The first is the emergence of networks that return to volunteer provision and these networks can be open. Anybody can join but they cannot scale beyond the point that volunteers will provide infrastructure. The second solution is we can invite the free market to pay. But, the private sector will create barriers to data sharing to create opportunities to profit. So we will end up with these scalable networks that are permissioned networks that are dominated by monopolies in the network layer that’s what we’re seeing with Infura.

Saito replaces mining and staking with a form of work where we can route work which adds cryptographic signatures to the network layer and it basically pays people for the work that they do efficiently collecting money for the network. So it’s a non-extractive form of work otherwise the network has the same properties as POW and POS.
>>>Yet they're happy to play into irrational fears for their own empowerment and enrichment.

Oh you are quite correct about that. Just like last year's vaccine skeptics are today's vaccine authoritarians:

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/07/18/im-not-taking-it-joe...
I used i3wm for many years. It's great. However, at some point I felt fatigued and decided that I didn't
need the additional complexity and manual labor. Sure, I may save a few seconds every day, but I also lose a bunch maintaining my config file and providing basic funcionality that is not out of the box. Nowadays all major desktop environments have great tiling features and extensive keyboard shortcuts -- especially KDE Plasma, which is what I use now.

I recommend a TWM if you have the time and the energy for that, if you want to tinker a lot your environment. It can be pretty cool, but also a drag. There's always some little thing to fix, and basic things are simply not part of the package. So be prepared to write scripts and use third party tools with varying degrees of documentation for many things you take for granted on a desktop environment.

Regarding your other concerns, you can literally change all keybindings on i3wm, so you can make them follow the logic you're already used to. And i3wm is great for working fullscreen as well.
Smartphones, internet, web – these things had perceived value without complicated language.

Bitcoin, crypto, NFTs, it's always the same: "You don't get it, because you don't understand the fundamentals. <Insert obscure lingo here>".

It's just wrong. There is no real value for most people. That's why crypto bros hide behind complicated terminology. That's why the value proposition of Bitcoin changed a couple times. That's why the terminology shifts all the time as well. "DeFI" wasn't mainstream until like a year ago or two. The next bullshit terminology is "web3".
I'm not sure this observation is to the point. Most enterprises do not allow this kind of behavior either, unless you happen to sit at the right place in the hierarchy. If you had violated the terms of service of Google Maps, they would probably have banned you immediately too.

But yes, it may seem a little confusing that even though you can do X, it may not be appropriate.

I think that's also why people are upset in this case. They actually did try to protect themselves from power grabs, only to find themselves cheated.

By the way, there's a Danish mailing list for OSM. I don't know if you explained the issue there, but if you did, I think it's likely someone would have made the correction for you relatively quickly.
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It's a marketplace like Amazon on the blockchain. So depending on what the OP is selling they could just list there. It currently requires a desktop app but a website is planned.
Well, I suppose we could compensate people for being on call for this sort of stuff separately from "heads down" work.
Okay, I see your point about hostile states, and I appreciate the respectful debate.

I'm not so sure about AI safety research myself, because it's very hard to evaluate how effective it is (I guess if an AI ever wipes us out, we'll have a data point), and because I don't know very much about AI safety research.

But let's suppose that super-intelligence is really powerful and dangerous (suppose there's a 10% chance it could kill all humans, despite our intentions). Now what? Is there anything more productive we could be doing to prevent that than just waiting?

Let's further suppose that the US and Chinese militaries want to make aggressive AIs that will subdue, or worse, exterminate their rivals.

As outlined in the AI Control Problem wikipedia article, there's a lot of concern that we'll make a super-intelligence that harms us completely by accident. For example, if you build one with the goal of protecting citizens, it might reason that to protect people, it must continue to exist. Therefore it undermines and outwits anyone who wants to shut it down. Worse, it might reason it could better protect people if it had more political power and more physical resources. Or even worse, if we really mess up how we programmed its goal, it might reason we're best protected if we're all put in a permanent coma and stored in a concrete bunker.

So even if the US and Chinese militaries were fully evil and wanted to exterminate all other countries, they might still want to use results from AI safety research, just to ensure they don't accidentally destroy themselves. And to some extent, for humanity's sake, making an AI with safety that exterminates every country except the one that created it is still slightly better than an unsafe AI that exterminates everyone.

I don't think the US or China or Russia would want to exterminate other countries. But whatever they choose to do with their AI, the AI safety research is there to ensure they don't lose control of their own AI. If anything, those safety features should be even more desirable if you're building an aggressive military AI.

Finally, how do you fight a hostile super-intelligence? I think I know what these AI researchers might say: you need to have an even smarter friendly super-intelligence. What's more, a friendly AI could look for and destroy other AIs while they're still in development. So maybe the key to avoiding hostile super-intelligences is just to be the first to make a super-intelligence and ensure it's safe and friendly. And if we ever get in an arms race to build the first super-intelligence, we better hope AI safety is well researched and understood by then. Because if not, someone may create an unsafe AI just to have it before their rivals.
This assumes it's in Amazon's interest for there not to be.

Theoretically all companies under capitalism would want to become true monopolies because having competition means leaving money on the table, but in practice a duopoly or a de facto monopoly is preferable to skirt regulations and interventions. There is a good reason Google still props up Mozilla despite competing with them in the browser space.

It would also be interesting so see how many of the larger non-Amazons run on AWS.
You've been lured by the "extend" phase.
What comorbidities did he have?
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But there is! You can easily buy degradable filaments, made of corn, wood powder and other materials.
Can anyone provide insight into who buys that sort of device? It seems kind of pricey for what you get.
With all due respect, this simply doesn't make any sense. The projects are all released with OSI approved licenses. To use your analogy, all the stuff is already on the front lawn with "For Free" signs.

Also, this is about the .NET Foundation not Microsoft.
Corporate talk: say correct things and do what you want
Thank you! It's amazing to see so much work going into tools like this :) I am a huge fan of AST and AST based tools. I think there is so much to explore in this space.
Humanity has repeatedly proven that it is capable of extreme, systematic cruelty without high-tech gadgets (take the Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide, for example). Why do you think that autonomous drones would make this worse?

"Now imagine an angry mob chasing down a thought criminal desperately trying to hide in the woods in order to avoid execution."

This isn't any less frightning, in my opinion.
A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. The frog lets the scorpion climb on its back and begins to swim. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I couldn't help it. It's in my nature."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
Standard videos on YouTube are 30fps, so it should be 200× slower.
In this way you basically destroy her professional career, make her 100% dependable on you financially and severely impair her life choices. Who would like to live a life like that today?
Sure it was more elegant, it took its inspiration from SmallTalk after all ;)

Of course that lead to a bit of a mixed result. For one, most of the new features were syntactically isolated to the Obj-C square brackets. On the other hand, within those brackets things were considerably un-C-like. object.method(arg) seems more "native" than [object method:arg].

I actually liked this grafted-on appearance. It was a clear signal that said: Yeah, we're still C, let's not make any illusions about this.
By comparison C++ had more delusions of grandeur, almost from the start.

This is also why I'm not that fond of almost any changes to Objective-C that were made later, especially by Apple. That includes the various searches for better memory management, but also the property dot syntax.

I'm still a bit sad that the Objective-Javascript thing never took off. Way better than most of the added language features since then.
A friend had COVID, positive by PCR result, loss of taste and all of that, at the beginning of the year. Mild case anyhow, she went to her doctor for a check-up 2-3 months later to make sure everything is fine and was asked afterwards if she is planning to go to get the vaccine, when she said no, at least not anytime soon, rollout was still in the early phases in our country, she got an absolutely insane scolding about how she doesn't care about others and is anti vaccines, and all this from a medical professional. Officially it wasn't even recommended to get it if you are in the first 6 months after recovery. She was quite shocked and dropped the doctor after that.
I've never gone for vi(m), even after roughly 25 years of using Linux now.

I'm not trying to force you into anything, certainly not anything closed. I used NEdit until its lack of utf-8 and ancient GUI library started causing trouble. Then I used Slava Pestov's JEdit, which was wonderfully extensible and portable. Now I use vscode, which is just so outrageously well made that even electron and Microsoft can't scare me away from it. All are open source. (Don't know what you mean by EEE threat, googling it doesn't help.)

But modal editing is just a bad idea. We've known since the 70s. One of the most solid things to come out of behavioural psychology was the idea that switching contexts - so that the same thing does something different - has a cost, and isn't a great idea when designing a user interface. Imagine you had a car with stick shift. But you also had a little button on the dashboard, which, if you pressed it, toggled so that the stick shift controlled your car radio instead of your gearbox.

Obviously, that would be a terrible idea. Still, people might get used to it. They might even get so used to it that they would defend it and complain when the feature wasn't there.

All I see that's really different about modal editing is that the stakes are lower when you make mistakes. But it's, bizarrely to me, become a matter of prestige and pride for some to use an antiquated UI design. I'd understand it if you grew up with it, but odds are you didn't. Even the guy who tried to push it on me back in the 90s didn't either. It's like everyone's zipping around in electric cars, and some people still swear by those gear/radio sticks.
Yes, I've been saying this for years. Everyone seems to overlook the massive speed advantage they could have over us. Even if they're not trying to kill us, aside from for interacting with humans, there is no reason that they would be constrained to operating at human compatible speeds. It's possible that we could see them as operating on a completely different time scale than us, similar to how we see fungus.
That's an amazingly sinister term to describe what was the norm prior to the rise of Google Analytics and its equivalents.
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It is interesting how nobody in Europe can trace their bloodline / genealogy before the fall of Rome. I think there's a bunch of royal bloodlines that can be traced back to like year 1000 and that's it.

Fall of Rome was quite a catastrophe in that sense.
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