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> Soo... it takes Python syntax and produces a C program, with no links back to Python - is that right? It uses a strict subset of Python, so that Prometeo programs are valid Python, but not necessarily the opposite. Is that fair?

yep

> Do you envisage this being a conduit for tight loop optimisation in Python? Or is it rather "you'd like a C program but can't write C good"?

There are already plenty of options for calling high-performance libraries from Python. Now 1) interpreting Python programs that use, e.g., NumPy, can be slow. 2) Compiling these programs using, e.g., Cython or Nuitka, can speed up the code across calls to high-performance libraries, but the resulting code will still rely on the Python runtime library, which can be slow/unreliable in an embedded context.

Coming to the second part of the question, writing C code directly is definitely an option, but, after doing a bit of that, I realized how tedious/error prone it is to develop/maintain/extend relatively complex code bases for embedded scientific computing (e.g. this one https://github.com/acados/acados). Or, to put it as Bjarne Stroustroup once said "fiddling with machine addresses and memory is rather unpleasant and not
very productive". The good news seemed to be that many of the code structures necessary to write that type of code are rather repetitive and can hopefully be generated automatically to some extent.

> And if the former, how do you compare to Nuitka and Cython? I read your README but couldn't quite make sense of it :)

This table (from the README) shows some computation times for Nuitka, prometeo, Python and PyPy.

CPU times in [s]:

Python 3.7 (CPython) : 11.787
Nuitka : 10.039
PyPy: 1.78
prometeo : 0.657

Other than performance, the main difference is, again, the runtime library dependency.
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> They made more than what you actually owed them by doing that

This makes absolutely zero sense and does not happen. Why would the collections agency pay more for debt than it's worth? Why wouldn't they sell all their accounts then? Free increase in profits!
The definitely get better interchange rates from Mastercard for the exclusivity.
Why? What's the alternative?

I see a lot of things that has to be solved on your own even when using Helm. I find their templates repulsive. But "avoid helm" is not an advise, really. How do you suggest to structure, version, deploy, encapsulate with important metadata your deployment descriptions? How do you package it? Is there anything else that integrate with larger tools like Rancher so well?
another options is to buy a domain with a cpanel and set up a forwarder and filter to a specific folder in your secret main email account. The extra benefit here, since you own the domain, is that you can create a send identity of your arbitraryforwardingaddress@yourdomain.tld
A lot of their “inventory” is “ship it right after manufacture directly to the customer”.
> Were you ever concerned about opening your online banking/entering your credit card in the same browser where you go to random websites?

Nope. This is from the late 90's when we started entering credit cards and people thought it would be unsafe. In reality, the credit card companies have covered these charges forever now. Otherwise, we wouldn't be using them today.

> Are you tired of remembering tens of complicated passwords?

Tens? I have hundreds and I don't know a single one, because I already use a password manger. What an odd thing to pitch.

I could keep going, but I really don't like how that pitch deck is just trying to cater to made up fears.
Such a awesome idea! Such a poor implementation. Why is the scrollbar deciding where in the scan you are? Seems to be made for people on Apple hardware, where scrolling is very smooth, but people with normal mouse or using keyboards, are out of luck to see the details. My mouse wheel scrolls seemingly like pressing on the down arrow, so I can't really see the details without having to result to "grabbing" the scrollbar with the mouse, and slowly move downwards. Problem with that is that the page is very long, so each mouse movement is bigger than the scroll I actually want to do.

I hope in the future they implement a slider that allows you to actually see the details, because they are there, but the implementation makes it really hard to see.

Such an interesting idea though, and I really like the results. That Lego itself is so interesting helps a lot as well :)
>Important clarification: they sold your account to a collections agency. They made more than what you actually owed them by doing that, which is probably why they did that.

I had this experience some years back.

The obnoxious collections agent (no robocalls for that stuff back then) tried to bully me.

I just laughed and wished them luck getting a penny out of me. Never heard from them again.

Nothing on my credit report either.

Perhaps things are different now.

Something to remember is that corporations (including collections agencies) have to pay lawyers if they want to take legal action against you.

And at $250-$400/hour, unless the "debt" is in the many thousands, it's generally not worth it to sue.

Note that I'm not suggesting that anyone stiff their creditors. Rather, it's useful to keep that bit of information in mind when dealing with unfair/unethical attempts to extort money[0] from you.

[0] Especially when a "collection agency" (read legal extortion racket) purchases your "debt" for pennies on the dollar.

Edit: Added detail about "debt" purchasing.
There can't be that many datastructures + algorithms that are asked about, since even those who did learn them forget most but the core ones. Linked-list, hash table (closed/extensible), binary tree, balanced tree (of some kind unlikely remembered), traversals, priority-queue, maybe a graph representation and algorithm on it, some sorts, and big-O/complexity <-> algorithm's loops/recursion.

The most basic knowledge is knowing when to make something into a Set/Hash vs searching an array/list (or sort the array to binary search).

As for all the leetcode tricks, I've never practiced them or worked at a company that required passing such an interview.
Okay I went back and read it. It reminds me of an old time method where you spent five or six hours thinking before getting in front of the computer to start writing code and them limiting the amount of time you will have to write, test, and finalize your code. It forces you to consider your assumptions, abstractions and ways you might simplify the overall design.
It's not necessarily more or less secure. You load libraries by simply linking ES Modules from your local files or the internet; there's no central repo, you link the exact URL. So it's as secure or insecure as your source.

Some people say it's insecure because, well, if you get your modules from a compromised site it is.

However recent events have shown there's also plenty of danger with centralized repos as well.

The advantage to Deno's approach is it encourages using CDNs, which allow that code to load quicker especially if you're using edge functions or something like CloudFlare workers. It also requires you to be super explicit about where the code's coming from. The negative is that many people will download code from dodgy websites then complain later.
Based on my old Lego from the mid eighties, I have a different experience. The old bricks now fit together rather loosely, compared to my children's brand new Lego. Most of the colors are also not what they used to be, besides having been stored in an UV-free environment most of the time.

No telling what the new bricks will be like in 35 years of course.
> Their mom is more strict with phone time on them but they watch unlimited TV. I limit TV and let them have unlimited phone time.

Lol me too.
> I think this is a really good point, and I think those physical jobs would have given the same burnout if they were equally meaningless/disorganised.

Dramatization of this in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uuberh8Xks
This has a name - Elsagate [0]. There's a subreddit [1] devoted to tracking it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/
I noticed that OPAL features are becoming less used in encryption software, because the keys to some drives can be dumped through their JTAG ports.
That's interesting, mine definitely only has plain text (no text/html, checked via view source etc). Maybe it's a preference I ticked somewhere back in the mists of time.
The article points out several ways that ivmmeta's meta-analysis may be flawed:

> Meyerowitz-Katz accuses ivmmeta of cherry-picking what statistic to use for their forest plot. That is, if a study measures ten outcomes, they sometimes take the most pro-ivermectin outcome.

> (how come I’m finding a bunch of things on the edge of significance, but the original ivmmeta site found a lot of extremely significant things? Because they combined ratios, such that “one death in placebo, zero in ivermectin” looked like a nigh-infinite benefit for ivermectin, whereas I’m combining raw numbers.

Given that there is a lot of complexity and debate on how to integrate studies with disparate primary outcomesbane measures, the fault may indeed lie with the ivmmeta analysis methodology.
Maybe in some vague way - but in a technical sense, not allowing the user to implement or install their own protocol handler very much goes against the historical spirit of Windows. But then again, so does ads in the shell. But Windows has always allowed vast, fine grained programmatic read/write access to anything the running user has authorization for, and for admins that's almost everything. Certainly everything in userspace, such as URL protocols.
True, but it should be seen as an additional layer to the Swiss cheese model of pandemic defense.
The vaccine is the main component, by far, but its number of holes are increasing.
4,5,15

15 year old does his own thing, not a lot can be done there, but he's not stupid with it.
Mainly just playing xbox with his friends, watching other people play games on youtube.

Younger ones have a Fire tablet each, 1 hour a day limit (unless they ask for more) - mostly seems to be learning games/lego cartoons. Browser disabled, can only use stuff in their age range. They aren't allowed to watch youTube unless one of us is in the room with them (Too often it just changes to some random advert/show that is very different to what they were watching ...)

I have a separate Pi-Hole for the kids vlan which blocks gambling/porn/mining stuff as well as adverts.

Every now and then we all sit and play xbox/PS4 together - Disney games/(Train|Farm) simulators etc

Edit: The youngest also like to sit with me if I'm playing a game on my PC, and I let them use the mouse/keyboard to try and get them used to the control of it.

(I'm thinking of setting them up a Pi that is 'theirs' to get the mouse/keyboard control going)
As Taleb says take many low-cost shots on goal. (paraphrased)
Nope, that was what caused me to click. If someone told me they stuck 4 $1000 disks in a PI I wouldn’t have bothered :/
I can pull out my phone, sit in my car, or grab my hiking GPS device to see 100% clear evidence that GPS works.

For things that aren't so obvious, the explanations need to be made more clearly.
Starlink is 40 miles below iss
Wow, to each their own! For me this would be a nightmare and just lead to confusion as I would eventually find the distinction between the previous password and the latest one to be murky.
Word of caution - my parents strictly controlled screen time until I was a young adult - at which point they just stopped. At the same time I moved to a room they couldn't supervise.

I lacked the self discipline tools to control my own bed times and screen time, and failed to manage either, impacting my grades.

That was an important lesson for sure, but I do think if we'd done something more phased earlier on, it would have been better. You can tell a 13 year old "You can go on the computer as much as you like on Thursday, but if you don't get your homework done and spend 3 hours doing non-screen things, you will not be allowed to next week". Not so much with an 18 year old.
this is only useful for some paid services (and does nothing to deal with your data they still have), but virtual credit cards are a life saver. I feel powerful every time I can't cancel something from a service's website but I can just go kill the virtual credit card I signed up with.
Wow! Very nice, real-time preview is rad.

Link to save you a click https://tina.io/
Your GP may try to lay out the state of research before you, but that does not change the fact that he/she will do one of those things:

1. Treat you according to guidelines/expert opinion, should you choose to.

2. Give you the opportunity to participate in a relevant study.

But _never ever_ will your GP formulate an experimental treatment plan based on his own research. Not GP's job, and big risk of liability. Your GP has at best a cursory view of the research happening in a certain field. COVID is different due to several good and bad reasons: hugely politicized, confusing messages from experts, and most of all novelty. 'Lack of medical consensus' usually means 'several treatments backed by experts are available', not 'do what you like'. COVID is too new for the dust around expert debates to have settled. That's what makes it different.
Fedora supports Chrome.

Slack on Chrome supports notifications, thus slack supports Fedora.
Strongly agree. I created an awesome integration between Netlify and our no-code platform WeBase [1] to solve this exact problem.

I believe Netlify could grow even more if they embraced some form of "no-code" website editing in their offering or directly partnered with us.

But what do I know? I am just sitting here watching Webflow gobble up this market! :-)

Congrats to the Netlify guys on this raise! Maybe we should apply for their new investment program.

[1] https://www.webase.com
I'm gonna need one concrete example of this because I cannot for the life of me think of a single instance where bundled subscriptions, "buying Showtime through your cable provider" shouldn't be required to allow cancellation through the place you bought it.

Sure, it sucks day one that 3rd party sellers don't have cancellation flows but it's not an intractable problem.
Ah yes, that free market where any rapscallion can create a multi-hundred-reporter corps filled with publisher and Nobel prize winning staff spread across the globe to report on current events and politics.

You can't fork the NYT.
Motte-and-bailey?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
> To comply with the law, businesses must ensure sign-ups are clear, consensual, and easy to cancel. Specifically, businesses should provide cancellation mechanisms that are at least as easy to use as the method the customer used to buy the product or service in the first place.

That's a tall order with one-click.
You're certainly right for personal advice, but does the New York Times not have a lot of money? They've certainly got the influence bit covered. Once you can buy enough of your own bureaucrats to tie up their bureaucrats, regulators' power isn't so clear.
Impossible food sues to cancel earlier trademark owners
Though you still need a documentation trail showing the attempted cancelation, lest you find your credit history affected and a some scummy collection agency trying to collect years later.
That is an amazing statistic…
I guess I should be more careful when using handwavy terms. "Long-lived" does not have a defined meaning, so in my second answer I spelled out what you can do with a bunch of "logical" qubits and with a bunch of "physical" qubits, providing clear definitions of these words. I am not sure why you are so angry about the use of a handwavy term though, given the whole point of this thread was to introduce the topic to lay people. Either way, the second comment is clear and it avoids the ill defined terms, so hopefully you would be happy with it if you read it in its full length. There is no such thing as "full stop period" qubits, hence the confusion.
Secure boot could be a good feature, but it can be severely abused. Some people really put effort in it to make it more secure. But the usual problems of certificate logistics leads to the case the Microsoft basically owns secure boot.

Only a matter of time before Netflix demands remote attestation.
A single text file? github or similar
If you like arenas with names that make you roll your eyes, you’ll love the Climate Pledge Arena in downtown Seattle.

Home of the Seattle Krakens (lovingly, the fans of which are Krakheads)
Really sad to see so many people dismiss this just based on the YouTube thumbnail at the bottom. Jeff consistently makes very high quality content, I really enjoyed his series on Kubernetes, I would urge you to look past any preconceptions there.

The fact is, if YouTube makes up a sizeable portion of your income, and that can increase by a factor of 10% just by making a dumb face, you’d be silly not to do so. It’s unfortunate that this is the way things work, but I can personally look past that to ensure that creators who provide value to me are able to put food on the table.
Unfortunately, I think that writing a transpiler for general Python programs might be rather difficult without resorting to approaches used, e.g., in Cython/Nuitka. Among other things, computing the worst-case heap usage could be quite cumbersome/computationally heavy for a general program without "constraints". I'd be happy to hear what others think about the topic though.
Based on all the dumbfounded and cynical replies, I don't think people understand why this is happening.

Anybody saying this is a response to recent anti-trust headlines doesn't understand how a company the size of Apple works. When an announcement like this is made, it means this program has been in the works for YEARS.

My guess, this is all part of Apple's slow shift towards a recurring revenue services model, and a better integration of customer & business incentives.

It used to be, the worst thing that could happen to Apple was the customer stops upgrading their phone.

But now, when the revenue growth is coming from services instead of hardware, it doesn't pay to piss off customers by making them buy a new phone a year early because the battery died.

The worst thing that can happen now under this new business model is the customer leaves the ecosystem or buys less services because they aren't happy with the hardware.

Hence why you're seeing Apple do things they never would have before. Capitulating on the MacBook Pro and rolling back on the Touch Bar, opening up to more repairability, etc. etc.
None of those examples have anything to do with "embrace, extend, extinguish"?

They all do. IE is eee of HTML and the web. MS Java and VisualJ or whatever it was called was eee of Sun Java. ActiveX was eee of the web browser.

That wasn't Microsoft's choice, that's just de-facto reality

That's what BG said in his deposition, but MS was the only company who embedded IE into the OS to make ActiveDesktop and put VBScript and ActiveX into IE.

Java was never a Windows replacement.

AWT and Swing and browser applets were Windows replacements.

Instant messaging died out due to Facebook/Snapchat/Twitter/Slack/etc.

You're talking about things that happened ten years later. There was a time when one app would connect to every network.

Google dominates email, not MS/hotmail.

MS Exchange dominates email.
Depends on the inspector and the contractor. More than once I’ve had contractors successfully win arguments with building inspectors in the wrong.
There can be no other way than bad faith? Not something you may not have thought of or perhaps never encountered before?
some of them will continue billing your account, even if they can't charge your card, and eventually turn it over to collections
Probably depends on the place you're from and the time. I was a kid in the 90s and early 00s. This sort of tracks, but skips over that nerds were that way because they were often subject to some form of consistent shade in school. That's why my friends and I ended up on IRC.
FYI. The stylesheet for this relatively simple article is 152 Kb of which 88.5% is unused according Chrome's code coverage tool.
They are advertising heavily during sporting events (I've seen their ads on football and baseball games here in the U.S.). Their flagship ad stars Matt Damon, and so presumably cost a fortune. It also attempts to make an absurd equivalency between speculating on crypto on your phone and being an astronaut or a captain in the Age of Discovery or something.

Between crypto and the sports book apps, it seems you hardly see a good old-fashioned beer commercial anymore.
This ratio is only applied if there are more than 1000 SYNs, forgot to mention that in the README (https://git.encryp.ch/g00g1/no-portscan/src/branch/master/cm...)
This sounds like the ol' "IE is an inextricable OS component" routine.
Given his prior record, he'll wind up giving credit where credit is due, and then having to eat his words a few days later when it turns out the program is far too restrictive to be useful to repair shops.
I'm curious of other answers as well, but one place that kind of does what I think you ask for is [0]. Also you can get nice info from kubectl [1]

[0] https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-ap...

[1] kubectl explain deploy --recursive
> NNTP failed, and ultimately ended up centralizing Internet discussion on sites like this, because it was doggedly optimized for text and inevitably abused for binary sharing.

That's not really why it failed though, since those binaries are in separate newsgroups that most servers simply don't carry.

The issue is more about spam and lack of moderation, which makes it somewhat unfriendly to newcomers, since one has to do the spam/troll filtering locally.
This over time lead to most newsgroups slowly dying out.
There’s not even a “please gamble responsibly” disclaimer in there
Why not try again?
There's a good article about K that can give you a feel on how long names may not always be more readable: http://nsl.com/papers/denial.html
He's a video explaining how well that kind of clickbaity thumbs works.
A proper online identity framework is long due though. Maybe this is not the proper one but sending copies of my passport, electricity bills and lately selfie recordings as well to "prove my identity" doesn't seem right either.
Rapid assessment of SARS-CoV-2 evolved variants using virus-like particles
This is the strongest validation signal I've seen for Deno in some time. I had the impression it was withering on the vine, but hopefully this puts some wind in its sails.
Thanks for the explanation. I can certainly see how it would benefit certain brands that need to break into the common lingo. But once you’re already there, surely there’s no point? Who hasn’t heard of Chase, PetCo (if they have an animal), AT&T, Minute Maid, Coors, Miller, and most of the rest?
No matter what management says, they never want to hear the truth.
The population who would run a red light <<< population who would speed.
Are the new ICs burning out as frequently? (And how frequently is frequently?)

In any case it's certainly possible the new pinouts enable better routing that could reduce failures.

Besides, how many people are able and willing to do component level repairs on a charging chip that it would be worth Apple's time to reroute part of their boards just to screw 'em?
A better fitted title would be: "I built a $5,000 Raspberry Pi server so you don't have to do it".
I'd use edge over chrome. Still sticking with FF for now though.