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Simula I was a huge influence on Alan, as was Sketchpad (a parallel invention of object oriented programming). But Simula was a hybrid language like the later C++, so in the issue about message passing syntax Smalltalk had a certain impact.

Simula-67 introduced inheritance, which Smalltalk-72 and -74 didn't have. Many people see it as a key OOP feature, which Smalltalk-76 added.

Kristen Nygaard, who with Ole-Johan Dahl had created Simula, was one of the creators of the very pure Beta programming language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BETA_(programming_language)

This took the message passing syntax in a very different direction:

message -> receiver
That last paragraph is wrong but I'm too tired to explain why for the millionth time.
The thing is, if the West didn't buy, and China had no export market, life would get way worse for the average Chinese person. Rural farming is horrible compared to factory work, which is why Chinese people moved from rural farms to factory cities by the hundreds of millions over the last decades.
> I suppose the target groups of people studying his introductory book is not any random junior student at a random CS department if he is expecting them to pick up Knuth's Art of Computer Programming right after Introduction to Algorithms.

I believe high-school students _can_ start that book at page1 chapter1.

Just because it is rigorous and difficult doesn't mean that the high school student is ill-equipped to read it. TAOCP is one of the clearest written math-heavy books I've ever read, which makes it ideal for beginners.

Yes, its rigorous. Yes, it will take you days, even weeks, to make progress beyond a few pages at times. But that's not a bad thing. Knuth hits the hardest subjects in the earliest sections and very precisely describes a lot of problems.

Instead of relying upon "Dog isa Animal" and other crude, counter-productive "training wheels language" unsuitable for advanced understanding... Knuth just lays out the math as it is, in all of its complexity and glory.

Rigor is good. And the sooner people practice with rigor, the better their minds will be. If anything, mathematical rigor needs to be introduced at younger ages when the mind is more pliable to learning different languages.

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TAOCP is somewhere between an algorithms book and a math book. The 1st chapter is 100% math. It can be pursued independently and the 1st chapter is an _excellent_ introduction to rigorous mathematics.
Solana has chosen to use the same underlying infra for consensus as for transactions. Validator votes are simply transactions in a block. This means there is no natural QoS to prioritize consensus traffic from regular traffic. This lead to massive issues when Solana underwent its first real-world load test.
I sense something else going on here. The mineral dolomite is hardly scarce, and the Pigeon Process (to produce magnesium from dolomite) was invented in Canada in the 1940's.
If nothing else, it's one more thing in the TV that can break down, and probably add a little bit to the energy consumption of the TV. And if the trend continues, how long until your TV doesn't work at all unless it is connected to the internet?
What's the usual ratio of engineering / relationship management per ad dollar revenue?
You have left a number of these meta comments now (a sockpuppet account even appeared to lend you support), apparently that injured that someone disagreed with your comment. To say these add no value is overstating their contribution.

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Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_q50tvbQm4 above. Thanks!

(I changed the timestamp to where they start interviewing Susan Kare.)
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I don't recall the full tumultuous journey, but highlights I recall were Nullsoft (original Winamp creators) towards the end were bought by AOL who did them dirty and then AOL forgot about Winamp as a property entirely for something like two decades through the Time Warner merger then divorce then the Yahoo! merger into "Oath" under Verizon. At some point in spinning Oath back out of Verizon and putting Oath's IP on the chopping block someone found Winamp in an old closet somewhere and sold the "brand" to whoever this new company is that so far as any can tell has zero relationship to the original Nullsoft in any capacity.
Replying to my own comment, but if I had to guess (on absolutely zero context and evidence :p), I would say he wants to focus on crypto/Square, and Twitter is more of a time sink. Twitter is in a good enough state at the moment that the team can move without him so it's a good moment to leave.
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Sceptre 65" 4K UHD LED TV, or Samsung QB65R.

I have started to see first industrial then consumer devices with embedded SIM cards towards the end of 2000. They were soldered in, now mostly socketed. To access them, the device had to be disassembled, and connect SPI header.

No average consumer will think to or able to disable or avoid using that.
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Same for bluetooth, just build a faraday cage around your TV and you're good!

/s
The max size for file an app icons on macOS was bumped to 1024x1024 some years ago actually, I think around the time the first retina MBPs appeared. So your point is even more true.
Writing AWS Lambda Functions in Ruby
Leaving aside the well-known and commented "features" of Electron, out of interest, I looked into the most prominent Markdown file in the repository, README.md. Huh? Where is the markdown? Scroll, baby, scroll… This is disturbing for a Markdown editor and does not leave a good impression, again, feels like more emphasis is put on appearance than substance. Which brings us back to my entry sentence, Electron and its reputation...
Imagine doing the walk-around inspection as part of the flight crew and seeing that sort of degradation? The flight crews were possible told it wasn't a major issue and to keep on schedule. As a pilot myself, I get very concerned whenever I see any sort of abnormal surface feature. I am lucky in that I can cancel my own flights.

Any commercial pilots here willing to share their experience with this sort of thing? In the US, the FAA gives the pilot command over the flight, but I imagine companies take a dim view of pilots canceling flights over certain maintenance issues.
That's what a trademark is
Excellent point, it is easy to forget the minor miracle of FOSS. Plus, without the ad revenues there would be no mega-corps vacuuming up all the new grads, so I would anticipate a significantly greater rate of innovation and FOSS contribution broadly.
> I was hosting my own content on Twitter's service, same as I do on my web host.

In both cases, you're not "hosting your own content" by anyone's definition of the term. You're paying someone to host it. Anyway, all web hosts have rules aka terms of service aka censorship.

It's my right (and Twitter's) to offer a service that has terms, and those terms can include removal of speech that I feel is bad for my business. This is a basic freedom of association -- I don't have to do business with people whose speech I don't like, and I certainly don't have to broadcast it.

Arguing that Twitter must be a neutral host is like arguing that Uber or Airbnb can't ban customers for saying racist things (both have) or that Facebook must accept 100% of ads.

If you are conveying someone's speech as a service as part of a for-profit, private business, you can choose not to convey that person's speech for any reason. There is no demand in the US (Constitutional, statutory, or otherwise) that a private entity broadcast the speech of another entity. In fact, that's a violation of the broadcaster's First Amendment rights (as repeatedly upheld by liberal and conservative justices, over and over again).
The GP specifically referred to a vehicle that would "turn your high beams off"
This is how skiing works. You worry about what is in front of you. People behind you have to worry about themselves.
Thanks for the pointer. Elastic tabstops is a cool idea.
Last I checked, iOS users use their phones way more than Android users period, including the browser. That plus (probably relatedly, though other factors are also in play) spending habits are why so many apps choose to go iOS-first, or to prioritize iOS Safari compatibility over Android for web sites or web apps.
JWM 2.4
> There's information in the other direction now. https://news.yahoo.com/vaccine-confers-better-protection-tha...

The way they conducted that study was terrible, read the qualifications and the limitations in the discussion at the bottom.

Personally the Israeli study looks a lot more sound.
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What are the browsers in question?
More people need to quit twitter. The employees should all quit if their owners won't convert to a 501-c3 and submit to a large community elected board. Otherwise this will just be the tool of our destruction. Censorship should be censored, it's not healthy and so there should be a censorship board dedicated to censoring censorship at <social media platform>. Or just stop telling people what they can see and hear, Twitter is the new Facebook, i quit Facebook 6 Years ago and now it's the fogey platform, they're even rebranding like a grandmother dying her hair. Soon twatter will be the fogey platform and facechuck will meta itself out of existence. Good riddance. IRC is dead, long live IRC!
Is that the legal threshold for prohibiting acquisitions in the UK?
Well I could throw out a number of examples, any of which you may reasonably disagree with and all of which are by necessity controversial, so I don't think there's value in steering the conversation in that direction. But asking for a specific example is rather missing the point - we are discussing the idea of censorship, not the merits of any individual controversial claim or figure. We don't know which examples of ideas being censored will be looked back at years from now as times when the truth was trampled on. And since we can't know, we can't afford to censor, no matter how convinced we are today that something is a lie or BS.

For the sake of not dismissing your question entirely though, even though I believe it's not the right question to ask, I'll offer up the covid lab leak theory and everyone who argued in favor of it. Decried as a racist conspiracy theory and actively censored from social media for over a year, but now accepted as at least plausible, even probable.
I dunno... Libraries were a revolution for me. If I remember correctly, that was around the time I briefly switched to iTunes for its library features. The ability to start typing and instantly see a list of song matches was great. The problem with the WinAMP library was that it wasn't that good. If course iTunes turned into a bloated mess too, and I ended up on foobar2000 for years.
That's part of the push for 5G - the idea that it becomes much easier to have many more devices, hence you can drop a modem anywhere.
>And amongst truck drivers it's pretty wide-spread to blink right to tell a following car you think it's safe for them to overtake you and blink left when you think it no longer is

In India, the truck drivers blink right to tell you its safe (or want you) to overtake from right and they blink left if it's safe (or they want you) to overtake from the left.

Makes highway driving very confusing since a blinking left truck on highway means the exact opposite of city driving (YOU can go left vs I am going left).

yeah, self driving car is not coming anytime soon to India.
Zendesk vs. Freshdesk: Which service desk is better?
> Note that this approach didn't work for Microsoft either (and they went a lot more 'like chrome' than Mozilla!). They're having some success with Edge but it's mainly because they push it really hard to enterprise users with their O365 integration, so people are getting to know it at work and bringing it home.

Edge is also - aside from being a privacy disaster - a legitimately good product that does a lot of good UI innovation on top of stock Chrome.

Things like normie-friendly but powerful vertical tab implementations, turning menus into floating panels that can be turned into sidebars with a click, Collections etc. They're actually adding lots of customer-facing features that are really well designed.
Ahh yet another person who sees the user facing systems as "the product", or worse "the hard part". Sigh.
I bought this commercial LED TV from Samsung that I thought was dumb, https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1573435-REG/samsung_l... but it seems it has the same OS as other TV's. However it starts up real fast and is not connected to the internet at all. A menu across the bottom appears for a few seconds at startup but then goes away.
I was so happy when Blender added real-world camera matching, such a nice feature. You can control:

* Focal length / FOV in terms of e.g. 35mm lens focal lengths

* Focal distance

* F-stop (amount of blurring, matching real cameras)

* Number of actual shutter blades, rotation of them, etc. for matching bokeh effects of real cameras

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/cameras.htm...
I do personally. I use Fira with ligatures enabled in any editor I can, and I find that the ligatures help me to be able to quickly scan and understand code better than I could otherwise.
Since I started using font ligatures everywhere (terminals, text editors) they just feel right to me. I don't care (usually) about seeing the exact bytes in text - after all, since we adopted Unicode we also got multi bye characters and multiple characters that are rendered as one. We even have total madness such as Han unification.

Given how messy the whole thing is, it definitely won't all burn down in flames because of a bit of eye candy. Looking at real arrows is IMHO easier than ASCII art. The reason why current programming languages use -> or >= is because it's hard to input those symbols on standard keyboards, but historically their real counterparts were used when readily available (just look at ALGOL).
Even if this is true, which I doubt, those marginal farms will soon be bankrupt, and their lands will be taken over by someone with the means to plan long term.

Short sighted practices only remain in the short run.
It does something totally different. However that totally different still depends on people being desperate to see intelligence inside it. It’s like how people see a face in a cut stem or on Mars.
I'm not sure if I see how fatalities per 100k vehicles is a better metric than per 100k inhabitants: the composition of vehicles is very different from country to country. Given the example above, in Indonesia I would expect a very considerable portion to be scooters which while more dangerous for the driver themselves are safer for others. Meanwhile in the United States, cars are the big majority, being safer for the driver but more dangerous to others.
Tried it out, hoping this would finally make it so I could use WebStorm/Rider/CLion/DataGrip in WSL2, but the current experience is light years behind VSCode, I'm afraid. Might be OK for truly remote development, but that's not a current use case for me.

I'll probably have to wait for WSLg before I can ditch VSCode completely.
This is so horrible.
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actual quotes that you could easily find:

« No one reached out to me and said, 'As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?' And if that's the exchange, I'm all in, »

« I just think there are lots of grandparents out there in this country like me ... that what we all care about and what we all love more than anything are those children," he added. "And I want to, you know, live smart and see through this, but I don't want to see the whole country to be sacrificed, and that's what I see. »
Learning Sixteenth-Century Business Jargon
I agree with this.

It’s kinda important to understand who all this is meant for. If you’re a lean startup just use the best/cheapest/quickest tool regardless of vendor lock in. It’s when you get to a certain scale that vendor agnosticism becomes a real concern, but by then you probably have enough resources to hire folks that will rebuild your stack.
Some also:

1. Scan the HDMI content and send information back to the mothership to help vendors know what you're watching.

2. Scan the local network for shares and look at media on them, again to send back to the mothership.
There's still plenty of that "true hacker" mentality (for lack of better term) in lesser-known and mostly non-English sites out there. Chinese is common, as is Russian, not surprisingly. I dare not disclose them because I know they'll get too much and unwanted attention, but look hard enough and you will find.
> Capacity/density improvements are slower, but already many EVs have nearly the same range as a lot of ICE car equivalents.

Correct. But what they don't have is competitive re-fueling time. You end up with full-range refractory periods for EVs around an order of magnitude larger than ICEs or hybrids. That represents a time and logistical overhead cost that ICE/hybrid drivers don't have to pay.

> Toyota has been caught off-guard big time by how fast the EV market has moved, and now they're left holding a very wet, cold blanket that is hybrid technology.

Toyota is two decades past the point where they were able to make full EVs[0] and had over a decade on which they were able to investigate and refine them.

As tempting as this is to turn this into narrative of the bold visionaries who knew to look to an EV future vs entrenched special interests who only have their tepid hybrids to hold onto, the facts tell a different story in terms of fundamental capability.

If Toyota is making a bet on hybrids, they have a reason that goes beyond their limits as a company.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV
Fallacious argument.

With WebPKI there are many roots that can MITM you.

With DNSSEC there is only one.

Once we have CT for DNSSEC it will be easier to watch that root and the CA for each label in the domainname on the way to the QName than it is to watch tens of CAs in WebPKI.
Karpenter – Just in time nodes for Kubernetes clusters
I have just set up a monthly donation to Mozilla.

If Wikipedia can live on donations, why not Mozilla?

https://donate.mozilla.org
What you're talking about is the concurrency "issue". It was a bad designed app.To code Smart Contract on Cardano you have to learn the "Cardano way" of building Smart Contracts. It's like multi-core systems : you have to learn how to take advantages of the several cores.
Which systems are the "hard" parts? Given zero functionality change, how much larger can and should Twitter grow? Is the complication a function of ad revenue, volume of content, user traffic?
btw, Firefox crash reports no longer have an email address field, though they still have a comment field:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1688883
Also, there is a vehicle company Tata, making many vehicles including trucks. Then same word is also used when we waive goodbye with hands, like Tata. Parents usually usee to say to their own kids when leaving friend's house, Ok Do Tata (means waive your arms in goodbye and say tata). Trucks also write OK TATA BYE on back of them.
> It matters if your a MSFT shareholder and are wondering if you should “diversify” too.

The answer to that question is yes, regardless of what Nadella does/did. I guess if you have a feeling MSFT is going to outperform the tech market or market as a whole, not diversifying can work, or if you lack the ability to hedge much and want a chance to get rich (and a chance to lose it also).
They at least talk about decentralization. This definitely qualifies as more than any other comparably large social media.
Has password format requirements. How I set my passwords on my network is up to me.

Doesn't let you know of this password format requirement in an older Chrome browser. It simply sits there dumbly and doesn't let you register.

Analytics (opt-out rather than opt-in) sent back to server with a pinky promise not to send any other data.

Why do I need Twitter javascript and Twitter cookies included in my e-reader? No, just no. Why do I have to be on-guard against what tracking and additional cruft is included in my own server?!?

Paging through the library 30 books at a time rather than scrolling. The 1990's web called asking for its UI back but I didn't pick up because we text these days.

Messes with the directory contents and formats. That is a hard pass from me.

I'll stick with the sucky broken system I have right now than a shiny new broken system that still sucks but also messes with my directory structure.

Great effort, but your execution lands as wide of the mark as every other solution out there.
IIRC simply training on copyrighted material is completely fine or at least you can claim fair use. As long as the market of the copyrighted material is not 'AI data training set' then it should be OK. Essentially scraping images from the internet is OK but using a pirated copyrighted commercial AI data training set is not. (Fair use doesn't necessarily exclude use for a commercial/sold product.)

But if the AI model just spits out copyrighted material verbatim then that is still owned by the actual copyright holder.
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>And I understand English is still widely taught there, as a legacy of British colonialism, and so many (most?) Indian people - especially in urban areas - do speak English to some extent.

"English is still widely taught here" is an understatement. Upper- and middle-upper-class children usually go to "English medium" schools, where all classes are taught in English (except for the local language class, eg the Hindi class is taught in Hindi), and you're expected to speak only English when talking to other kids and teachers as long as you're on school grounds.

And yes, the only common language you can expect to find when talking to someone who could be from any other part of India is English. If you were talking to shopkeepers, laborers, etc, you'd likely need to use the local language, though they'll have a bare understanding of English words for things like the items they sell.

Even when speaking to people who do understand the local language, most people will speak in a blend of English and the local language, eg Hinglish (English + Hindi) where many nouns will be from English and connecting words will be from Hindi. People who speak in pure Hindi tend to be of the "old-fashioned" stereotype - Sanskrit / Hindi teachers or religious teachers / saints or nationalist extremists.
Thanks! I'm excited to hear that, and glad you think it's amazing! It sounds like Parade could be a great fit for your side projects :)
Congrats on the release! I'm a big fan of small window managers; I used and patched dwm for a couple of years and found that it's a lot of fun taking control over your workflow even if it makes it painful to use anything else later.

The only thing I noticed about JWM that I didn't love was that the .jwmrc file is XML.
...which was discussed on the #fediblock tag as soon as it went up, with a lot of admins who set up their own Mastodons because they were sick of that guy constantly showing up on Twitter immediately defederating from that particular instance.

Being able to block entire instances is a really, really nice power.
The 10% appreciation of the shares as a result of him leaving is reason enough. He's still a big shareholder.
Why cryptocurrency miners pose the next big threat to the Texas electric grid
I would use Winamp, but at some point in the last decade I switched to Foobar2000 because its simple and has great FLAC support. At the time getting Winamp to do FLAC involved some weird add on.
Same here. I receive stock twice a year. I always sell it that same day.