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I sometimes wonder how much energy Windows Update consumes on a global scale. I have some old machines and updating can mean they are run at 100% for hours, multiply this by every Windows PC and it's a lot of energy.
I learned the term "dead-listing" from Fravia's Pages of Reverse Engineering in the 90s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia].

I felt like such a hardcore hacker removing the nag screen from some bit of shareware!

[edit: uh oh, might have fallen down the Fravia rabbit hole again. Here's a mention of dead-listing from '97! https://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/mirror/fravia.org/siuL.htm]

[edit 2 - ha ha, the original link you posted the term "dead listing" hyperlinked... to Fravia!]
In the US, it is pretty taboo to have occult practices, yet it is legal. Having an open marital relationship is pretty taboo to a lot of folks, yet - legal.

Pot isn't all that taboo, yet it is very illegal in some states and illegal at the federal level.

And fwiw: I don't have the article now, but perhaps part of the reason you don't get a bottle for tooth surgery is because a combination of ibuprofen and paracet (tylenol) is generally enough especially if you have time off work to rest.

Norway gives a pre-counted package of 20 that are in blister packs, even though it is addictive.

Even with limited marketing and 'soft non-acceptance / promotion' - I believe it's something that vast numbers of people will seek it out 'just to party' or for 'the Vegas' trip etc. and especially for 2) i.e. as an easy painkiller/mood moderator which will leave a lot of people addicted.

If you say so. I mean, you are acting like we are just going to give folks as many drugs as they want, in an uncontrolled fashion - and it doesn't have to be like that at all. You don't need investors to be 'moral' - because obviously, they probably aren't going to be considering how businesses treat folks now - you just need laws and enforcement to look out for people.

By the way: Upsides are things like being able to have a professional give you a single, proper dose for partying and give folks information - actual, truthful information that isn't a DARE-esque scare tactic ("Its just so addictive..."). A professional does screening. ID required. If we log prescriptions and sudafed, we can do this. We can give information. Folks that are addicted can get maintenance doses and get actual help.

Edit: FWIW: The crisis in the US is more than just drug availability. Being able to get help if you find yourself addicted would help lots. At the same time, things like paid time off to rest after surgeries would help as well.

Heroin doesn't make folks immediately addicted, neither do pills. And with things being illegal, we realistically have no clue how many people take them as a party drug occasionally without ever getting addicted.
you might've mistaken it for v which has been open-sourced in the meantime: https://github.com/vlang/v
Is there anything similar for Wayland? Its protocol looks considerably more complex than Xorg's, and so are most resources to learn it.
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>letting a gap grow in front of me

How do you prevent someone from just filling the gap? If it's large enough to absorb the wave, someone will fill it just out of spite.
> It seems that this is written out of a perspective of some missing knowledge.

Well, the author talks about what "we learned in school", not university, so that checks out but only because you two have different audiences in mind.
No mention of sockets? I'm surprised. That's the real tricky part of writing an X11 server...
Entirely? That's just for expansions which are essentially USB-C dongles.
The only problem with this solution is that it's write once, and the proposed layer thickness is only achieved by semiconductor fabrication processes.
I presume they will be working on reprogrammable optics next?
Most of the concepts here are the same for wayland. The only difference is, Wayland handles compositing, whereas in x11 compositing is a pluggable component.
> my own thing: 10-14 hours in the zone

I can relate, however I've noticed that when I do that I tend to burn out in a few days with a feeling that I don't want to ever touch the project I was working on again.

Depending on one's personality it might be better to slow things down on purpose.
I'm afraid I am not as confident as you in their HDD statistics. They used to make every mistake in the (statistics) book regarding their hazard ratio calculations. For example, once they came to the conclusion that a particular model of higher capacity had a higher reliability than the same model of lower capacity. My Cox hazard calculations showed that their hazard profiles were equal, but the higher capacity HDD were younger.

The raw data is worth gold, though.
Now that's something remarkable about a language. Definitely going to check out Pony now.
This is a nice idea, and I am glad he includes the "precommitments are even better with a friend" section: An app is something you can always turn off. Betraying a pact you've made with another person is another thing entirely.
> healthcare

most of healthcare software (that i have worked with) is really, really bad.

The fact that it mostly has no tests, or if it has tests they mainly test just the happy route.

They usually have lots of documentation, but it's not comprehensive and mostly just describes the happy paths, so when thing break you are out of luck. Also can't google anything since this are all closed source enterprise type software, so you are at the mercy of their support, that often also sucks.

And if you have to integrate with it, you often can't get the documentation, or tools to do it unless you are working for one of their VARs. And the VAR's are often even worse.

If you pick random 10 high school kids, get them into some code academy for a 6 months, and then have them develop an application, the ones that finish will probably be better than majority of health care software out there (for simple reason that they won't know enough to really screw up as bad.).

The only saving grace is, that its often written in Java so you can find workarounds in runtime (or inject stuff) if you really need to.
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> Then what is your complaint?

What complaint? Why do you think I'm complaining? I wanted to know what's so fundamentally wrong with X to warrant a massive developer effort to replace it.

Based on the comments here, I have my answer: Nothing's wrong with X. Also, something lighter weight is desired for embedded platforms.

Some fraction of the population, like you, wants their display system to render in terms of points, not pixels. To me, and many others, this would be hell, but hey, different strokes for different folks -- good software does what the user wants, not the developer's will.

> ...majority of users that want sane...

You troll. :P I think the majority of users want sane display systems that don't resample and change resolutions away from the native resolution of the hardware. To you, the majority of users want fuzzy text and ugly UIs. We're both wrong to assert this as some obvious fact, because neither of us speak for any user but ourselves!

If I have any complaint (which, again, I'm not sure if I do!) it's that I don't appreciate my reliable computing setup breaking just because some young developer decided the programs I use are "too old".
Good point, but I just checked and DoH has been disabled this whole time. The difference isn't that dramatic, but shaving off around 100ms on every page load really adds up in the end.
It's just some of the more advanced theory you'd get from studying modules repackaged a bit.

Basically the extra stuff that is usually skipped in first year linear algebra courses are the symmetric and asymmetric (often called exterior) products. These form algebras, of course. The exterior product, or wedge product, has a natural interpretation in terms of signed areas (or volumes) and from this you get the determinant as a volume form.

These are the natural generalizations of dot products (inner products) and wedge products (exterior products).

You can take a vector and associate it with a 1 form (asymmetric algebra or exterior algebra), and then multiply two vectors to get a 2 form using the standard wedge product, etc. In dimension 3, the space of 2 forms is dual to the space of 1 forms and so you can "multiply" two vectors to get a third vector. That is all that's going on here.

Actually a good multi-variable calculus class will cover most of this stuff as you need some motivation for Jacobian volume forms used to calculate areas and volumes under change of basis, and dot/wedge products are useful for generalizations of the Gauss divergence theorem and the generalized fundamental theorem that says the integral over a function, f, on the n-1 dimensional boundary of a shape is the differential of the integral of the shape.

Moreover any class on Riemannian geometry will give you all the linear algebra you need as well.

One thing I would caution students with is that by using somewhat non-standard jargon they may not understand how to generalize this stuff to n-dimensions, nor will the connections between, say, determinants and wedge-forms be clear, or dot products and angles be fully understood if only the n=3 cases is emphasized. Only in n=3 can you multiply two vectors to get a vector. But fun fact: in dimension 3k you can multiply two k-forms to get a third k-form (as the space of 2k forms is dual to the space of k forms in n=3k). If you think there is this new thing called "geometric algebra" other than usual tensor products, it may not be obvious how things generalize to n != 3.
> Copying a currently in production design that some other company devoted resources to come up with is immoral in my worldview even if it's not illegal, it's a shit move and I don't condone it by not buying their products.

I already think patent protections are a bit too strong, and this kind of stuff is not even up to the level where it would get patent protections in the first place. Let me ask… is it an asshole move to make a Photoshop clone? Or is that fair game? Is it okay to buy a strat-style guitar from Kramer, or should I stick with Fender? Is G&L a gray area?
Help me write the user guide of Sozi, a “zooming” presentation tool
Google is this for almost every internal tool and process. The only difference is most never reach step 5 (quitting), so imagine how toxic that culture is.
And it turns out it's been pwned for a couple years by people inserting a vulnerability into a dependency by masterful social engineering where the vuln was introduces as an obvious fix to another less exploitable bug.
Yes, AFAIK many people who have a narrator don't realize that's not what's doing the thinking.
> I've been in a sailboat and had Coast Guard machine guns pointed at me and ordered to leave the SF shipping channel

Why on earth is American law enforcement so braindead macho?

Does anybody think this is acceptable?.... To do something so stupidly dangerous as pointing a gun at somebody? Why do you tolerate this?

Here in Blightly, I guarantee such behaviour would lead to prosecution of those involved. (And I wouldn't be surprised if the yacht crew first moon the ignorant coastguard whilst quoting COLREGS).

https://www.imo.org/en/About/Conventions/Pages/COLREG.aspx
Yes, its funny people think its about tackling climate change and encouraging people to use petrol/diesel alternatives. When in reality there is none present and people still have to commute everyday to work in petrol/diesel vehicles.
> Zero cases in the wild

Follow along this post and you'll end up with one case in the wild all by yourself on your own machine: https://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-securi...

Xace was designed to address the mess that is Xsecurity and using the SELinux sandbox for GUI apps, except Xace barely works for mitigating exploits well on the desktop; it's so finicky that Dan Walsh himself concluded that XACE does not work and instead opted to use nested X servers (!!): http://people.fedoraproject.org/~dwalsh/SELinux/Presentation...
> Hard for me to believe that some little Arizona company would be able to trademark Meta "in relation to any technological use". That word has been in widespread use for quite a while.

And with that same logic some little company in California shouldn't be able to trademark it in relation to any technological use either. Let's see what happens if another company wants to call itself Meta now.
> I'm not saying Z is the cause of the crisis

What crisis are you referring to?
Wow the interactive 3D illustrations are awesome. Works perfectly on touchscreen, feels very natural.
Yeah there's something about stuff that looks like 80s/90s mid-upper-end hifi equipment that is really attractive.
The US had the Commodore64 and the UK had the BBC micro, which are both more or less similar in capabilities (or so it seems; I only ever used the MSX myself) and released at about the same time (or actually, a bit earlier it seems). I bet this is an important part why it was never popular there.
> Microsoft Edge, the best browser for Microsoft 365

Definitly the answer to "Chrome, the best browser for Google Apps", which was the answer to "IE, the best browser for ActiveX Apps".

Lovely, the more the things change, the more they stay the same.
What are, if any, use cases where one would need a compositor? Other than transparent window decorations, wobbling windows and overlay dock? These are kinda cool but not worth any additional complexity or hardware resources IMHO.

I have never seen any screen tearing in my life by the way. Despite I have always been generally using decade-old PCs with lowest-end (mostly built-in) GPUs and Raspberry Pi is the only way I watch TV. The only annoyance I have with Raspberry Pi is YouTube the website (not the actual video, it plays Ok) being rather slow.
Direct housing subsidies don't prevent additional supply. Rent control prevents additional supply.

Also, politicians have to be accountable for the subsidies which means that restrictive zoning will burn a pocket into the local budget. They don't give a damn about losses due to rent control. I.e. they privatize political gains and socialize the economic losses.
I've had two SSD's fail on, both were "here today, gone tomorrow" type failures without warning.

Granted, been a while, but I do nightly full-disk backups due to the first such experience (so was well prepared for the second).
Some applications (chrome or firefox) have some CLI options for improved HIDPI

For most other applications, finding a resolution which you can run HIDPI at 2x (fractional scaling didn't look good)
None that I've used. But some are better than others for mitigating such scenarios. Go is pretty poor in that regard. I don't think it helped that the early releases were single threaded by default -- the argument being to help with developer onboarding. But really pain points like these need to be flushed out while the language was still being defined rather than hidden away.
Happy Backblaze customer here (for a Windows Laptop I admin, for the rest I happily use rsync.net).

I couldn't care less about any company doing ICOs or anything else crypto related when it comes to backup services.

I want a backup company doing one thing: backups, safe, reliable, paid by me.
At least that extra free space will ensure you have optimal speed (SSD's slow down writes when they close to capacity) and prolong the lifetime of the drive (less write cycles per cell), so it's not for nothing.
>Why do you want more graphics?

I don't. You seem to do. More as in better, not as in more triangles on screen or more graphic operations per second.

>The fidelity of the rendering is up to CDE, and the result is poor.

Hence my response: is this poor rendering "not enough graphics" for you (as in "not fancy enough")?

Because many could not care less for the "fidelity of the rendering" compared to the actual functionality.

I could be black and white dithered for all it matters (in fact, many would do with just some terminals).
The implication being that unmodified spike protein and protein producing vaccines could be less effective than some modified ones and also cause a temporary dip in immunity due to locking out some naive B cells, is that correct?
Zimbabwe sent men with guns to take the land of evil white farmers exploiting hundreds of thousands of black farm workers. (this is sarcasm). They lost their agriculture sector, became dependent on food imports without having any export sector (like oil) which ultimately lead to starvation and then finally hyperinflation as the government was no longer able to pay for the imported food.
> barely any current distros still ship X in their default installations.

Bold statement. Citation needed? Debian does, and that's hardly a small percentage of market share. I guess if you include Android as a Linux distribution then you might be correct.
Not if you have to compile it yourself(on a slow computer).
I am against the tax on the supermarket, so I am going to build my own on the street side.
Though there's no problem understanding what a self driving car should be - like an Uber but with no human driver in. The metaverse on the other hand - no one really knows.
Are we using Wikipedia as a reliable source of hard metric data these days?
i think it happens when there is no hands off approach. the way i heard it before was that some people learn from pressure and others learn from the hands off approach. i know i do a way better job when people tell me what to do without the assumption that i am completely new to something, other people have the opposite learning style, they want the baby steps. but one major issue is when a manager mistakes ones learning style and that just creates frustration for everyone
Damn. They don't teach these stuff here atleast not in a computer science curriculum. What degree did you learn? Iss this generally taught in all German engineering courses?
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I have opinions of my limited experience of trying to look into ansible once.

Why don't you tell me which "arguments" (correction, they're my opinions) are based on false "assumptions" (correction, they're my impressions) rather than just giving me this blanket statement to work from?
I wonder, how should content risk (for lack of a better term) be factored in?

As a storage service you don't know what you're storing, generally. Maybe you're storing proof of extrajudicial assassinations, or hilarious Winnie the Pooh memes, just to name two things that can get a person locked up forever.

At this point it's all equal, neither Backblaze nor Filecoin has any idea about it.

But if The Government discovers you're storing this stuff, suddenly you have a big problem. They will "stop at nothing" to make you give them all the metadata and delete the goods.

If you're Backblaze and you're on NASDAQ and you have a relationship with regulators, etc. etc., you can throw up your hands and do whatever they tell you. You'll be fine.

If you're a decentralized crypto-storage conglomerate, you probably can't actually do anything. At which point, The Government's best hand may be to declare everything you do illegal and everybody doing it a terrorist. And then all your miners/storers/whatever flee (or are captured) and the system shuts down, at least anywhere The Government can reach.

Thus it seems like Filecoin has a built-in risk to its longevity that is completely separate from its financials, whereas Backblaze really just has to make more than it spends.
Nintendo used to be GOOD at N64 Emulation..what happened?
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They do have a 'natural' ceiling, but with bold enough policy there is no ceiling in practice. Prices could still rise significantly with the use of negative interest rate mortgages (which exist in Europe), or simply direct financial subsidy to buyers (e.g. the UK's "help to buy" scheme), while maintaining reasonable monthly payments.
I always though that Apple should’ve acquired the company and offer Time Machine in the cloud. The seamlessness of the TM is at another level, but the missing cloud backup made it always somewhat limited option.

Apple has a history of buying “feature” companies (the famous feedback Jobs gave to Houston on Dropbox).

Apple eventually built this itself for iOS and it doesn’t seem like MacOS has much priority these days.
Visual Studio Code, and yes Calva is nice.
The ones who are doing that are talking from experience. E.g. they had to evict a poor tenant and now they are overreacting for an understandable reason.
Try Antix. They have just released a new version. It's a so called 'live-distro' able to run from usb-stick/keychain, or in RAM if have enough. BUT you can also remaster it, and write that customized image back to your stick.

[+] https://antixlinux.com/download/

I've been too lazy to install/remaster the already downloaded image so far, because mine runs since 76 days 24/7 in RAM :-)

If you're crazy you can even integrate

[x] https://trinitydesktop.org/ and remaster that into your image, but apart from the very customizable look&feel it doesn't make that much sense. OTOH it's not that fat either, very compact, rather.

It also has convenient scripts(via menu) for populating /etc/HOSTS with adblocking lists, similar to pi-hole. That alone makes many sites much less heavy. Otherwise use alternative clients? Like nitter for twitter, and using youtube-dl(g) with mpv for videos like other posters have written? Also installing uBlock-Origin for the parts which aren't covered by hosts-based adblocking. How much RAM do you have?
Yes, I fully agree. The basics and primitives are very simple and easy, but actually using those to make useful packages is far harder than it might seem at first glance.

Goroutines and channels are not bad at all, but I feel there's some part missing to use them effectively without too much headaches. I've often found sync.WaitGroup and mutexes far more useful than channels.

Actually, I wrote an entire article about this, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26220693