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Seamless cross-system access to files and programs.

Show me a VM that allows me to access the entire host and client filesystem seamlessly without barriers.

WSL allow you to do just that and for that alone it's very useful. You can automate tasks using Windows-only software (compilers, etc.) with Linux userland tools and run both Linux and Windows software without resorting to Wine or similar translation layers that come with their own quirks and drawbacks.

Want to test whether your software package works on Linux as well? No problem, just open a terminal and compile on Linux in the same file system without having to deal with shared folders and configurations.

That's the major selling point for me.
As I said (maybe in another thread, I don't remember), I have nothing against reporting that this is happening.

I take issue with the framing as nefarious, especially the argument that it is nefarious because they advertise to their own users.

By all means, make it public. I personally don't see the huge issue. Of course they are against government regulation that would harm their business. In the same vein I don't think it is very newsworthy that they fund sources they cite. Why wouldn't they?
> The predominant, most prosperous, safest, most free societies have been the internationalist ones, in Europe, the US, Canada, Japan, S Korea, etc etc.

I can't speak about US, Canada, Japan, S Korea, etc etc., but Europe is the birthplace of the nation state. In fact the current state of Europe (such as for example the fact that my home country exists in the first place, and isn't instead a province of Germany or Austria) is a direct result of nationalism.

> Imagine science without internationalism. Imagine the IT industry - FOSS has contributors world-wide; the web was developed in Switzerland by a Brit, and shared by the world. Linux in Finland, etc.

A red herring. Dictatorships (such as USSR) censored international communication, but nation states did not.
> I just can't understand why anyone cares about WSL2

It works seamlessly with Docker Desktop, the MS terminal has built in support to switch between WSL 2 distros and you don't need to set up an X server to run what feels like a native Linux terminal emulator from Windows like you would if you manually ran a VM.

All of these are advantages over rolling your own VM. Around 6-8 years ago I used to run a self managed Linux VM on Windows with VMware Player and Unity mode. Current day WSL 2 is better in pretty much every way for general purpose web development and wanting to use the command line from Linux.
You can run OpenZFS natively on windows as well ;-)
Indeed, there are debates. And there are proposals for a national ID. But there is no evidence of significant fraudulent voting.

Each name/address pair on the register gets to vote once, because the name is struck off the register when the ballot is issued.

If I pretended to be someone else to use their ballot, it would be discovered when they attempted to cast it themselves. Since about 50% of people vote, there's about a 50:50 chance that any single fraudulent vote would be detected. Fraudulent voting on a significant scale is certain to be detected; and it hasn't been.

The motives for debating a national ID are therefore nothing to do with election security.
There are laptops with SIM card slots?
You'll have to excuse my ignorance about Pandas...

But I believe what this would enable you to do is continue writing your data processing pipelines and then have them execute in Pandas (assuming there is a Pandas implementation) while you're working locally.

When it comes time to deploy your transformations to a production environment that uses Spark, Snowflake, etc... for its data processing engine (assuming integrations exist), it should work just the same way.

Keep in mind, that these are instructions that are being deployed. The power here is that the instructions are pushed down into the data processing engine. Data is not exhumed into the dataframe runtime! Hamilton functions can be "compiled" into data-engine runtime code (pandas, SparkSQL/SparkDF, SQL, etc).

Then on top of all of this, you (and more importantly your teammates and/or replacements) will have a better visualization of what your pipeline is doing. You'll also have a better idea of what unused functionality you can prune out of your code-base. Better unit testing. etc...
They are not anonymous, they are pseudonymous, that's a very different thing. This allows them to participate in communities and engage in posturing with an added benefit of being able to dump their online persona if something goes really wrong.
There do seem to be inflection points where some good things happen in terms of performance:

Example 1: with SSDs, Windows starts up in a way that is not unbearably slow.

Example 2: My Mac does start lean applications (e.g., iTerm) very quickly.

Example 3: It also wakes up very quickly.

Example 4: 1+ Android phones are also okay in terms of performance.

However, most software (office apps and the like) is still slow to open and operate. Webapps are no different: gmail used to be really fast, but now it's average in terms of performance.

However, the progress that counts to me is that it is now possible to design really fast software, even if most corporations don't.
In networking we have TCP global synchronization. This is probably going to be similar for a couple of cycles, but for goods.

Also LEAN is the practice of globally optimizing a system, with the less known drawback of making it globally fragile. We have seen this before when supply chains are disrupted, like the flooding in 2011 disrupting HHD's. https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-lessons-of-thailands-flood
The TED tak “ The freakonomics of crack dealing” might interest you.

> What I'm going to tell you today is that, in fact, based on 10 years of research, a unique opportunity to go inside a gang -- to see the actual books, the financial records of the gang -- that the answer turns out not to be that being in the gang was a glamorous life. But I think, more realistically, that being in a gang -- selling drugs for a gang -- is perhaps the worst job in all of America. And that's what I'd like to convince you of today.

https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_levitt_the_freakonomics_of_...
I do think efforts are underway of standardizing all of the time, but yeah, not sure of the current developments. I learned it quite a while ago.
Fun stuff. I'm actually working on a mechanical part for ASML that goes inside of the vacuum part of the system and deals with the wafers. Very stringent specs and when the final parts are here for processing, ASML engineers will be here to watch.
No, you understand it well. NFTs are completely divorced from anything that does not exist on the blockchain. All recourse for establishing ownership in the eyes of the law requires consulting external, centralized sources of authority, making the involvement of a blockchain utterly pointless.
Wait, in that context (EEE) it'd be Windows that'd get extinguished, as it's not Linux that's being extended here.
What is ‘right-clicker mentality’?
Some companies only support OSX or Windows workstations, in which case WSL helps (for the latter scenario).
State level factorization is probably somewhere in the 1024 bit RSA range with a Manhattan Project level of effort. The extra difficulty when going to 2048 bits is around a billion (1E9). So that would mean that the estimate assumes that we are going to be able to increase our computing capability by a factor of a billion in ten years. That seems very unlikely to me.

Mooore's law has the number of transistors doubling every 2 years (not for sure faster transistors, just transistors). So for 10 years we get 2^5=32. That seems well short of a billion and it is generally accepted that current technology is going to run into fundamental physical limits fairly soon.

Ignoring physical limits, if Moore's law holds it works out to 60 years for state level attacks on 2048 bit RSA.
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It’s important to note that the “thing” you “own” is the receipt, not the art.

The NFT is not the art and doesn’t contain the art, it’s (in the vast majority of cases) just a link to the art. You have no ownership or claim to the art itself.
From a legal perspective it’s probably best to avoid any Oracle IP.

(I still agree with your overall point though.)
I wonder how fast the financial system rose compared to the general economy.
This is not meant to be a joke.
Where do you live? If you have kids in Madrid it is almost mandatory to have a car.

Imho the best place to live in Spain is in a 'capital de provicia': you have all the services the law mandates but it is not crowded.
Property prices aren't so crazy - a friend of mine pays €400 a month in a nice part of Costa da Caparica for a 2 bed, another bought a great place for under €200k in Cacilhas.
For under €500k you can get something like this https://www.idealista.pt/imovel/31578168/ more than decent in such a desirable location in the centre of the capital..
The minimum wage is so low because more than 50% of the workforce didn't finish school https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/50-of-portuguese-betwee...

There are plenty of Portuguese people smarter than I commanding nice salaries, yes not as high as elsewhere in Europe but the quality of life and cost of living I believe make up for it.
I wonder what 1998 users would have said if they encountered Electron based apps at that time. :)
Have two names. Even if the primary name is silly you can always refer to an object x by using the existential qualifier. (E.g. ‘the team that works on subsystem y’.)
> All those cases can be dealt with by the foreign company who knows the local laws and customs.

I haven't seen it mentioned here but while in many cases you can as an employer outsource payroll and labor law compliance, you can never completely shed the potential liabilities that come with employing someone and this can get complicated when your workforce is based in different countries.

There are a lot of things that can go wrong. Your payroll/compliance vendor could screw the pooch. Your foreign-based employee could do something negligent or malicious that leaves you in a legal bind where your costs of protecting your interests skyrocket. And your employment of an individual in certain countries could subject you to laws and taxes you never even knew about.

Of course, a growing number of companies do employ remote workers around the world but it's really not as simple as "I can hire anyone in any country as long as they are talented". The world simply isn't that flat.
What did you buy to get a baseball card? I figured they were sold in packs, much like Pokemon cards are sold today.
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> without having to deal with shared folders and configurations.

Does that work that easily on WSL2? I thought that was mostly a WSL1 things, and thus I have not upgraded yet.
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WSL2 works seamlessly within the same OS that transparently handles managing the VM. It's better integrated where I use shell scripts in dev projects built using Win dev tools, have both Win command-line and bash open in Windows Terminal, JetBrains IDEs or VS Code. VS Code and Jet Brains also lets you seamlessly open projects in WSL and build with Linux tools, needed for our Ruby Jekyll site.
Yeah, I like basically all of the buildings in the top half - the ones he’s calling beautiful and the ones he’s calling ugly!
I'm curious what the average sentiment from the Stitch data team is on this. I see the small marginal utility of this, but this would be a massive pain to implement. Imagine going back thru thousands of lines of transforms and adding the framework. Say you make a couple small mistakes somewhere because the framework is new to you. Things seem fine at first, but weeks go by and something seems off. How do you find those mistakes?

Newly hired data scientists would have a "wtf is this thing?" response. You'd really need to "sell" people on this and it doesn't seem worth it.
Interesting; different perspectives I suppose; not the OP, but for myself too VM always seemed an easier and cleaner solution:

1. Isn't WSL2 now actually a VM too? My biggest deal breaker with WSL2 is that it moves my main Windows into now a parent VM over the Type 1 hypervisor; making everything else in my main Windows just that little bit wonkier. Worse, this information isn't as readily easily grokkable as I feel it should be. I.e. if somebody isn't comfortable installing a clean, separate VM in Virtualbox, they may be even less aware of consequences of moving their main Windows installation into a VM now.

2.Re fiddliness: Installing Ubuntu into VIrtualbox has always seemed trivially easy; and there's any number of downloadable pre-built images from safe sources. Whereas figuring out how to access Windows filesystem from WSL2 and vice versa; let alone installing GUI tools - always seemed completely opaque to me with any number of half-built, quarter-supported guides and solutions out there. And I never seem to know or guess correctly what subset of Linux functionality will or will not work, normally or differently.
And I want to do the exact opposite - basically what VMWare is able to do with Bootcamp installations. Then I could run Linux as I usually do, but not have to maintain a VM for Windows development (MSVC etc).
If you try running VirtualBox with raw disk mode and attempt to boot Windows, activation will complain. I guess VMWare has some sort of special access that it can convince Windows Activation that things are okay.
I love paying taxes in NYC. I estimate NYC taxpayers saved me ~$100K in medical bills when I unexpectedly needed surgery and qualified for low-income Medicare coverage. I love that I’m again a heavy contributor to that system and happily so. And I love watching bike lanes built left and right, I love the city buying up empty lots to build parks, I love the Marathon, the “5 Boro” bike tour, the incredible (and heavily subsidized) ferry service, the public school free lunch programs, the vaccine outreach campaigns, the reliable snow removal, and the wonderful collection of libraries and museums and public spaces that are free and open to me. I love that the city cuts long-term lease deals with multi-tenant property owners to guarantee supply of low-income housing. A bunch of my friends grew up in that kind of housing and some of my sweetest neighbors live there now. I think MTA is one of the very BEST features of this or any world-class city — trains run all night! And it makes me super happy whenever I’m going somewhere at 5am and the train is packed with workers in steel-toed boots and jackets with local union patches commuting to the job site. I think my taxes are spent well enough — I know this because I love living here and have never given a serious thought to leaving for tax avoidance or whatever other fake drama is being projected onto this city from afar.
How does the online marketplace enforce that identifier in the provided NFT corresponds to hardware id of the card?

How do you prove that said NFT is issued by OEM?

How do you avoid NFTs being issued by the seller themselves?
I mentioned that in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29158328

To the user, this is transparent (for some cards anyway, eg Binance), so its effectively the same thing. Yes, I'm not actually sending the merchant crypto, but what does it matter? I am using my crypto balance to buy things, the fact that the merchant isn't receiving crypto is an implementation detail. Conceptually, it could be a choice left up to them.

The question was if anyone is using cryptocurrencies for legitimate purposes and I was saying that I am using cryptocurrencies to buy things, I didn't say that the people I'm buying things from are receiving the cryptocurrencies and to me it makes little difference if they are or aren't, I have a crypto balance that I use to buy things.
All of these things between physical and NFT are such huge differences in order if magnitude that they can't really be considered the same thing.

In my 40 years, I've never had someone break into my house and take something and I've never had a house burn down. Yet putting a file on the internet, it will eventually get copied, probably some time in the next 3 months. And I have a bookmarks folder full of once-very-popular sites that are now just completely gone, plus a bunch of still-popular sites that have changed their site layout completely. Hell, it's a bit of a meme that one of the only sites you can count on to never disappear is the god damned original Space Jam movie website.
"Who here is writing software which runs on Linux, yet needs to be running Windows while they do it?"

Backend developers at .NET shops who were issued Windows laptops by their companies.
Zestimate is configured strangely. They build it on stale data like 85% of the time. I noticed that when a house is listed, they adjust the Zestimate to be equal to the list price, then revise it again after the sale is posted. It's a revisionist history, and so the question would be what would you validate it against? It's riddled with bias.
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I’m not entirely sure, but could you do something with node red?

https://nodered.org/
As with many words to be honest. The only thing to do is to study the concepts and create a shared understanding with friends/family.
I use it to run Emacs with Magit quite nicely :)

$> wsl --install -d Ubuntu-20.04
$> wsl
$> sudo apt upgrade
$> sudo apt update
$> sudo apt install emacs
$> git clone https://github.com/.../.emacs.d.git
$> emacs --daemon

Shortcut on desktop (with VcXsrv running):

C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe bash -c "export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 && export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 && export XCURSOR_SIZE=16 && setsid emacsclient -c"
> Poor people or non-white do not know how to make an ID is that what you are suggesting?

Many homeless people here don't have ID because to make one you need an address, and to get an address to receive papers you need an ID (circling dependency).

In France, it requires citizenship to have an ID card. Legal immigrants are given a "titre de séjour", while undocumented people (by definition) don't have any of these. As a white person whose grandparents were immigrants, i've never been asked for ID in my entire life (except for official administration stuff or one of the times i was detained by police for political activities) ; this contrasts with my non-white friends who are frequently stopped by police for an "ID check".

The ID check is used by french police as a means of controlling and humiliating popular non-white suburbs. It's not uncommon in these places for cops to know the actual names of the people they're controlling, and the control itself is just another form of harassment.

There has been many anti-racist campaigns in France over the years denouncing "contrôle au faciès" (looks-based checks). If you speak some french, you can see some of the videos from those collectives who will tell you more about this practice.

Now, specifically about elections, asking for ID (not proof of residency) willingly excludes foreigners. All the while forging plausible ID cards is very accessible to bad actors (retail price of a few hundred euros a piece). So no, i don't exactly see the point.

> I am non white and find this very racist.

Sorry to offend you. It was my impression that getting an ID in the USA can also be very complex (leading to many people being undocumented) but i may be wrong about that.
Yeah I was thinking its over hyped but how do they keep sucking people in to these things
Could you give an example of the team names for scientific purposes?

Maybe just have two titles for them? The functional description and a colloquial team name?
Exactly. Hacking digital assets is a lot more accessible. It's almost guaranteed to happen, whereas most people live their entire lives without getting robbed.
Behaviour of the conservative side of the country has been grim the last 10+ years, unless you’re white. Overall, the country is right-centre as compared to the western world. Politics is constant yet government is in gridlock. Health care is costly and intermittent being tied to employment. Social cohesion and support isn’t particularly good. But there’s money to be had if you don’t mind the cost.
> Probably could be implemented with some wrappers around VBoxManage years ago, but nobody understood the problem.

I'd say vagrant did something in that area.
If only this was our timeline.
Oh, they ran into problems with physics long ago. And so far solved them.
Agree 100%. At my company we have some OKRs that involve reducing code size by a certain percentage. We do some rough measurement before of what we can reduce. So far we've been doing good.

Most of our bloat is due to duplication (literal copy and paste) of UI components and patterns. And also to hasty architectural decisions, especially around error handling.

Other than that, there is a general attitude of removing unpopular features that cause more trouble than they're worth, or at least moving them to totally separate services.
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Linux affords the GNU userland: unencumbered and well-tested FOSS tooling. I use WSL the way I use Cygwin.

But if I had to choose between the too, I would favour the longevity of Cygwin.
People who spread it will not register anything against their beliefs, its pure friend enemy politics.
Unix can run other languages.

But for answering your question deeper, we have to find an understanding what boundary we're talking about. The kernel syscall interface? Things like Linux's vdso? POSIX library (libc)?

The more we go on in that sequence the more C we get into the interfaces and many of those APIs are essential for writing well-behaving non-trivial programs.

The closer we stay to the kernel's syscall interface the less C you get, but still the syscall interface and C are related. Strings are often NULL-terminated. Arguemtns are passed (via registers) from left to right, not like in Pascal convention right to left. (First arg always in EBX, second in EXC etc.)

A different language will need some interoperability with C conventions for being a good citizen on Unix.

A Pascal operating system for instance would use Pascal strings (historically what tis now called ShortString) where length is encoded in the first byte.
All of our solution architects on Windows Systems that require Unix Utilities run WSL - none of them even considered running virtualbox/vmware. I can think of a couple reasons. The first is that there is zero learning curve to installing Ubuntu - they have a hundred things they need to learn, and futzing with virtual machines/installing linux is one less thing they have to deal with. The second is seamless integration between their windows applications and linux file system.
> When have they fought to maintain their identity?

In case of Czech and Slovak Republic, at the very least in the second half of the 19th century, during WW I, and during WW II.

> Japan, Germany, and Italy lost WW II, but their identities didn't (substantially) change.

Another red herring; it wasn't the intention of victors to change the identities of Japan, Germany, and Italy, but it was DEFINITELY an intention of Germany to remove the identities of their Slavic neighbors. Had Germany won WW II, the losers wouldn't have been anywhere as lucky.
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It sorts of make sense. The big mystery was how we created so little inflation with previous QE. In fact we probably did, but because it was injected in the financial system, it created an inflation of financial assets.

But the minute the government distributes this newly printed money directly to the general public (through covid subsidies), inflation in ordinary goods follows.

I know the Fed pretends it doesn’t finance directly the budget deficit but in practice it does, and the amount of QE pretty much tracks the deficits during covid.
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