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Qt has Qt Quick and QGraphicsScene which will use a GL backend.

GTK4 has a GL backend by default.

Web browsers and Electron use Skia which has GL and Vulkan backends.

Pretty much every video game is using GL and Vulkan already, or Proton which translates D3D to Vulkan.

Video players are using VA-API directly instead of XvMC.

The only thing in your list that doesn't have a GPU accelerated backend is GTK3, which GNOME is currently migrating away from to use GTK4. To my knowledge GTK3 also tries really hard to use Cairo on the client side for as many things as possible, and generally avoids using X drawing commands. I think it should be fairly obvious by now that graphics developers will prefer to use accelerated APIs whenever possible and don't care at all for "network transparency" if it means they have to use an outdated and mostly inadequate API.
Only parts of the system are embarrassingly parallel. But you need the whole system to be available for every launch.

Poorly parallel parts of the system include regulatory clearance and accident investigations. There is only so much clear air space available each day. And if a rocket blows up (which they often do), they’ll all sit on the ground until there is understanding as to why. And then potentially sit even longer if they each require work to correct or mitigate flaws that are found.

Starships are still hand-built prototypes. And Musk has a history of underestimating the difficulty in scaling and automating physical manufacturing.

It’s way too early to be confident this can embarrassingly parallel. Parallelism is hard in general. It’s hard because often constraints aren’t obvious until you’re actually doing it.
If you're suggesting that by "you", you meant "The overwhelming majority of people who set up ipads", that doesn't sound like a very credible retroactive explanation.

Like, it's confusing for sure, but not on the part of the reader. It doesn't even make sense. Most people don't even _have_ ipads.

And even if they did, you're basically saying, "this small subset of self-selecting people who are okay with their tablet requiring a login to work, are okay with their devices requiring a login to work", which isn't very convincing to others, either.

And even if _that_ made sense, 'these other people are okay with it' is probably one of the weakest possible arguments in favor of /anything/.
I can't wait. Thank you.
Jamie Dornan Doesn't Regret Being in 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
There are nightlights that are normal switchplates on the front, with springy connectors on the back that get power from the screws on the side of the light switch.

https://www.amazon.com/Single-SnapPower-SwitchLight-Built-Am...
Yeah, I often bring my fav keyboard (Razer Ornata; don't judge :) ) and a mouse with 8 buttons (so I can do page up/page dn/back/forward).
While 2 values per storage element is optimal for the sensor, it is the worst case for "data per storage element".

The quantity optimized was "cost to store data". The three parameters are sensor characteristics, storage element characteristics, and the amount of data per storage element. Increasing the last makes the other two worse, but that doesn't tell us that minimizing the last is the optimum solution.

Yes, ECC across multiple storage elements changes things.
That's not what M-W says. They've gone the whole hog, and said that one meaning of "literally" is "not literally".
My bank offers this by giving you virtual accounts (called pots). They are, like you say, just partitions of the same account, but it is useful to have them in the bank as opposed to in a spreadsheet. Bills only come out of the bills pot, savings are fenced off from outgoings etc.

Salary gets automatically sorted into the pots when received.
> "Apple almost never talks about anything more than a month away. Their vision of the future? Looks like it's probably: a brand new phone, similar to and released precisely one year after the previous one... forever and ever. "

This is a very narrow way to look at Apple's future products and innovation. A lot of things Apple has done over the years such as introducing Macs with M1 chips, focusing on fitness (ex: ECG monitoring) and privacy based features, widespread adoption of contactless payments through services like Apple Pay are all great innovations in their own rights.
This is the cost of abusing the public's willingness to allow certain exceptions to civil liberties. In a society where the public generally trusts the authorities, this problem wouldn't occur. People would almost always be willing to have their communications available for potential judicially-guarded examination, trusting that only justified suspicion of particularly violent crimes will ever be cause for using it.

But when the authorities transgress once too many, the public in general will switch to services that properly defends their privacy.

We can consider this a game-theoretic outcome of abusing the trust of the public. The consequence will eventually be that properly henious criminals will have better tools for not getting caught.
Fun Fact: Violin bows also contain ivory in the tip.

https://www.benningviolins.com/ivory-violins-and-violin-bows...

I had a friend who was a luthier, and in this tradition the father hands over the materials to the son, so that you may have wood that's been aging for 40 years, and a stockpile of ivory to use in the bows.
Yes, perfs are better on bare metal, and it's cheaper too. In fact, even a cheap VPS will perform better than the cloud for much less money, and scale vertically to incredible highs.

You do have to do a lot of things manually, and even doing that, you won't get the high availability and elasticity you have the potential to get from a cloud offer. Potential being the key word though.

But honestly, most projects don't need it.

Crashing used to terrify me. One day I started to work for a client that had his service down once a month.

Guess what ? Nothing happened. No customers ever complained. No money was lost, in fact, the cash flow kept growing.

Most services are not so important they can't get switched off once in a while.

Not to mention, monoliths are more robust they are given credit for.
max pilot weight: 220lbs = no fatties
Back in 1999, I was working with for Motorola and knew some people working on Iridium. When Iridium declared bankruptcy, there was serious talk about deorbiting the entire constellation and smashing all the equipment in the test labs, as is the fashion in bankruptcy write-offs.[0]

I managed to get someone to rescue a test phone from the lab for me. He could have gotten fired for it, but he gave me Accelerated Life Test Unit 1, a first gen handset[1]. It came with a battery, the little tripod for holding the phone when tethered to a laptop for blazing 2.4 kbps satellite data, but no simcard.

It sits on a shelf at my parents' house.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/11/business/iridium-bankrupt...

[1] https://i.imgur.com/CQEhNEy.jpg
> your fingerprint stays the same even if your browser is in incognito mode.

OK, I tried the demo with Firefox Focus, and it worked. But it doesn't tell you how unique your fingerprint is. If multiple users have the same fingerprint, then its effectiveness will be limited.
We end up debating trade-offs where people don't agree.

Privacy with end-to-end encryption keeps everyone's communications safe. Criminals, politicians, people working for government contractors, and everyone else. This means criminals can get away with more things. It also means that politicians and surveillance governments have a harder time monitoring regular people or their government challengers.
The Metaverse community reconsidering name change after Facebook rebranding
Not retro, but when I worked for a consulting company, one of our clients had just acquired a small electronics company. He gave me all the information he had about the product we were supposed to update. He did a data dump without looking closely at the files because one of the flash drives had a bunch of invoices issued by the previous software consulting company so we had a pretty detailed view into what they were paying that vendor. I turned them over to our GM. No idea if he ever used the information!
The police on my city arrested this week 3 people that stole ~4tons of cable, on daylight, in crowded streets.

They did exactly that. Got a very visible vest, with a company logo, closed part of the walkway, and dig the cables without anybody suspecting anything.
You get a request. To handle it, you fork off a bunch of goroutines, some of them doing lots of heavy lifting. Some trivial part of the request handler fails. You report the error back to the requestor, aborting the request. But you still have all these goroutines wandering around doing pointless work for a now-dead request.

Contexts are how you address that.
I would be really interested to know why people seem to think D-Bus is a "Linuxism". It's a pretty small daemon with an Apache-style license and upstream support for BSD. The only thing I've heard are comments like this where people find that D-Bus is required to run some GTK or Qt application, and those toolkits are viewed as being "Linuxisms", so people put it in that bucket transitively. Is there another reason I missed here?
fcode.cn is a Chinese language forum for Fortran programmers, described at https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/promoting-fortran-in-... .
> Has a huge company ever rebranded themselves like this to a dream that they're so far away from delivering on?

Theranos, when they pivoted from a medication-delivering patch to a blood testing analytics company. Neither of which they ever actually had the tech for!
Hire disabled people to use your app, listen to what they say, integrate their feedback, iterate. That's really what it comes down to. There are AXE tools for testing obvious accessibility issues in websites; but that isn't a perfect replacement for hiring testers
Meta: a turd by any other name smells just as shitty.
Interesting architecture and I really would like to understand better the virtualized part: how does that scale?

If processing units store all data in memory, it doesn’t scale linearly. Maybe sharing is assumed?

I’d like to see some better examples of this if anyone has any!
Thanks for that - I didn't see that.
The problem is JIT is all about steady state operation, and hinders the ability to scale up.

If you have a substantial buffer, when demand picks up you notice that you are drawing from your buffer at an increased rate and you order things early so that you can scale with that increased demand. It's okay if your suppliers need some time to hire additional labor or buy a new machine, even at this increased rate of consumption you still have some time before your stocks run out. There is no need for you to pay your suppliers a premium to drop their existing orders from other customers to support your demand.

If you don't have that extra buffer, then when demand increases there is no avoiding shortages - not only do you need to scale up to increase production and meet this new demand, but now you also have an ever growing backlog of orders that you also need to fulfill. These companies scramble to rush in material and equipment asap, which drives up prices and drains the stocks of other companies, and pushes the problem further up the supply chain. Firms that aren't actually seeing an increase in demand nevertheless must buy more to guarantee their buffers will not run out, further increasing shortfalls in production. What could have been a localized hiccup cascades into a global economic problem.

However it's important to note that the pandemic was not simply a shifting in demand patterns. Early on production in many cases stopped or was extremely reduced as employees quarantined and businesses cancelled orders expecting various drops in consumer demand. Again here, JIT is a problem as it led firms to cancel orders much earlier than they should have, and it makes restarting lines much slower. For example auto makers cancelled their chip orders right away at the start of the pandemic expecting people to save money and not buy cars, but it turned out demand for cars increased, and a lack of chips grinds auto manufacturing to a halt. If the auto manufacturers had just accepted that their inventory of chips might sit on a shelf a little longer, the counter intuitive uptick in demand would have been a blessing instead of a curse.
Not really.

Before there was a "cloud" in the early 2000s, we were paying anywhere from $100 (cheap, low spec machines) to $199 (new hardware, more ram, faster disks) per month for rented bare metal from places like Servermatrix, Softlayer, etc.

The going rate also typically included anywhere from 1TB to 2TB of egress, as well.

Another way of looking at it for the low end: How many things do you run on a single bare metal host versus an equivalent amount of discrete "services"?
A couple threads from way back:

An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7769303 - May 2014 (17 comments)

An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6656197 - Nov 2013 (21 comments)
> It is now normal for editors at legacy publications to capitulate to outrage not only from their readers, but from their own staff. That’s what’s so shocking about this censorious development in American journalism. It’s not that online activists would try to use their power to enforce their views. It’s that older journalists — people who should, who do, know better — now surrender to the pressure.

So, to answer the question, what broke the NYT is their unwillingness to conduct themselves according to historic journalistic principles -- principles which support freedom of speech and which resist being openly partisan in non-editorial content.
DoL Grant of $3M Awarded for Displaced Worker Training in Tampa Region
In certain cultures rearing by grandparents already happens. I’d be interested in any longitudinal studies, though it’s hard to disentangle confounders.

That said, I don’t know that economic factors are important as social ones. If they were you’d expect to see something different in couples where the husband earns much more than the wife, but in my observation those women wait about as long as their friends in marriages where the salaries are more similar. The social context seems far more determinative.
Summary: first, this is a study conducted on mice. They used an array of thousands of microscopic spikes (250µm long, sharp protrusions - do not confuse this with the spike protein btw) that was directly coated with modified SARS-Cov2 spike protein. The protein was modified to stabilize its conformation, i.e. its shape, which is as important as the sequence of its amino acides. The array was applied using a spring-loaded mechanism with made it hit the skin with a velocity of a few dozen meters per second. I'm not sure why the speed would matter - it might just be a proxy for the force that the array hits the skin with and therefore how well it penetrates the upper layers?
I believe he mentioned that in the first newsletter!
> Being offended by other/different opinions is what hitler, mao and stalin had in common.

Wow. I wish I could favorite this comment.

Are you aware that the emotions you're feeling are neatly categorized as "offended by different opinions"? Do you see yourself as equivalent to mao/stalin/hitler? Asking out of morbid curiosity.
Dictionaries are trailing a moving target and are not always perfectly accurate.
> In formulating your statement that examining criminal behavior is a problem [...]

Who exactly said this? It's rather the other way around: flagrantly examining and being able to examine non-criminal behaviour at a whim is a problem. The excuse of potentially being able to spot criminal behaviour is not enough.
I think you are underestimating the the challenge, but I like your optimism.

If states like California can hire 20,000 contact tracers, it seems plausible to hire 20,000 people to transcribe medical records into a database for analysis and remove personal identification.
To my knowledge, Tesla has the only proprietary network. Everyone else jumped on board a (different) standard connector (CCS).

Though this is reportedly going to change, with Tesla switching to CCS and opening up their charging stations to it.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...
It's good to study things rather than make the assumption but it's weird sometimes how they come at these animal behavior studies and at least make it sound like "huh! how strange, why on earth would animals do that?" when the same behavior happens in humans in roughly the same situations.
> Fraud-resistance: The iris is difficult to physically modify and the biometric capture can be made hard to spoof.

I'm very doubtful about this. This process is either completely centralized (which means privacy is at risk), or not going to work properly.

My experience has been: the more you think about the Sybil problem, the harder it becomes.
Not really random given most people interact with helium in the form of a balloon, however I would say that no one on Earth could comprehend 1.4 trillion balloons.
So there was no crime before Signal? The "I have nothing to hide so I don't care" argument is so shortsighted. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Remember this from the Nazi resistance?

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.

Now is the time to speak out. By the time you want to protest and push back, it could be too late.
Search warrant for Signal user data, Santa Clara County
I like the idea of increased density for environmental and economic benefits it produces.

But I hate the idea of "social and psychological experimentation" by some do-gooder billionaire.

I like the idea of experimenting with uncommon modes of provisioning housing resources.

But I hate the idea of skirting a competent review process by rubber-stamping a donor's designs.
this looks so cool. is there pre-loaded a demo page loaded with tables so people can try out queries right away?
Venture Capitalists Think Crypto Will Reshape Commerce
Amazing that such a tedious article has so many upvotes
I think immersive virtual worlds are an absolutely fascinateing topic - even though I don't see how our current ecosystem of centralized services and locked-down devices on the one hand and artificial scarcity by blockchain anarchists on the other hand can lead to anything desirable here.

But with the current discussion, I'm surprised we haven't heard more from other players in the field except facebook. What about the makers of VRChat or Second Life? Metaverse-style virtual realities are their bread and butter - and now for the first time, we have a discussion about this subject that includes the larger public. Shouldn't they be all over this?

And yet, the only ones talking about the "Metaverse" seems to be Facebook - pardon, Meta. So I wonder, if this whole Metaverse discussion an actual discussion at all or is it just Facebook kicking up dust?
A preference? The term was mostly meant to convey that it can be done without problems, contradicting the assertion that async IO "permits" the interleaving of fast and slow activities.

Synchronous models have been used for that far longer and more often than asynchronous ones. CGI scripts, Perl, Java servlets all did synchronous IO while also interleaving slow and fast activities for decades before Node made async IO fashionable.

An in my second paragraph, I specifically mentioned the specific conditions where async has advantages.
> if our new building will have DC wiring for LED lights, rather than a cheap, inefficient transformer in every bulb,

This blows my mind too. I expect it's coming, though: the cables would be cheaper, and if there's one driver of change in construction, it's cost.

Another question is, would it be a straight improvement? I think transformers are typically very efficient, and I could imagine the losses from running a lower voltage through a long line might be greater.
Iteration Is Everything
You are being downvoted but I agree with your point. Just because past attempts at something were “lame” does not mean the next attempt will be lame. You could just as well say that smartphones were lame before the iPhone. After all, Nokia had Symbian smartphones for some time. HTC had Windows Mobile smartphones with a touchscreen before the iPhone. But when the iPhone happened, everything fell into place and it changed the world. I am a massive skeptic of the meta verse concept, and definitely wary of any big technology company having a lot of influence/control over it (particularly Facebook). But I also don’t think a backwards-looking retrospective on something that hasn’t been done before in the same way is useful or a convincing dismissal.
Hegel Today
If you order one now, the factory in china will ship it to you as soon as they can get it through the port in Long Beach.
Yeah, I have a Sony X800H, and I foolishly installed an update early in 2021 that added irremovable ads to the home screen.

I haven't figured out how to roll the firmware back, but I have blocked basically all of the domains it accesses with pihole, and after a cache clear, it only displays default messages imploring the user to check out youtube and other google products. It's inoffensive enough that I haven't continued exerting effort to quash them.
I learned this technique the first time I actually worked with a real DBA many years ago and have used it ever since: one thing I like about it is that is mitigates the ‘fear factor’ of production changes, as (topically) ‘fear is the mind killer’ and makes mistakes more likely. Then there’s mitigating ‘complacency’ - “I do this all the time” - which can also lead to mistakes.

And yes, before that I had run an UPDATE without a WHERE in production..
Tesla Dojo Tech: A Guide to Configurable Floating Point Formats and Arithmetic [pdf]
It's probably a good idea to remind (or inform) people that at least in scientific research, null hypothesis statistical testing and "statistical significance" in particular have come under fire [1,2]. From the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2019 [2]:

"We conclude, based on our review of the articles in this special issue and the broader literature, that it is time to stop using the term “statistically significant” entirely. Nor should variants such as “significantly different,” “p < 0.05,” and “nonsignificant” survive, whether expressed in words, by asterisks in a table, or in some other way.

Regardless of whether it was ever useful, a declaration of “statistical significance” has today become meaningless."

[1] The ASA Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2016.1...

[2] Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05” - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2019.1...