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What linux to unix is what FreePBX TO PBX. Basically think it as an open source google voice. Any one interested in SMS, VoIP then this the project to take a look.
What I find most amazing about it is that this has been about a decade in the making - Valve started their Linux compatibility initiative back when Microsoft threatened to hurt Steam with Windows 8 and Microsoft Store requirements.

How dedicated they are to this effort is impressive - they first failed big with the Steam Machines when support was very half baked, but now they'll try again with the Deck just as compatibility is coming along much better.

I guess Linux gamers can largely thank Microsoft for this one!

As a Mac user I'm a bit disappointed they stopped their efforts on that front, since the new processors are quite capable.
IME it's not that great a hit in most games, maybe 5fps. Admittedly I have super high end hardware so 5fps isn't as large a hit someone might take on low-mid end hardware so YMMV.
I'd listen to this thread as a podcast
Without going down the philosophical rabbit hole if religions steered the moral or the other way round, I always like to think that, just as simple tales help explaining and introducing children to more complicated concepts, but when you grow older you don't need those anymore, the same applies to religions and humanity. At some point in history of human societies, religions were/are a good way to move society forward (think of the strict food regulations imposed by some religions, they were for actual public safety due to the hygienic conditions of the society) but eventually they are not needed anymore as global knowledge advances and we now know what causes lightnings and thunders, we don't need a super-human explanation to grasp it or justify them.
Except there were no left-wing candidates here. Poland has effectively two-party system, with both parties being somewhat right-wing.
The only stuff that will work will probably depend on things in AWS in some form.

That, or people never took the “if AWS goes down then lots of people will have a problem, so we’ll be fine” line seriously; there are few such cases.
Yes it does answer your question.

1. Anything that can be solved in any one Turing-complete language can be solved in any other Turing-complete language.

2. Both of these are Turing-complete languages, so obviously anything that can be solved in one can be solved in the other.

3. Lots of domain-specific languages are also Turing-complete, so anything that can be solved in C++ or Objective-S can be solved in them and vice versa.

4. It thus follows that (a) "can be solved" vs. "cannot be solved" is not a useful criterion for distinguishing between Turing-complete languages. Or that (b) there are no relevant differences between Turing-complete languages.

5. My money is on 4a.
Anecdotally (as a counterpoint), we also went with teams, and it’s been… fine. There are bugs, but they’re mostly in the category of “irritating” rather than “massively disruptive”. It’s nice that teams is integrated with the rest of Microsoft’s 365 and outlook stuff, and service uptime has been good enough. From my POV, the differences vs Slack have been pretty minor (although I recognize that my experience isn’t universal).

That said, yeah, leaving vulns and/or the irritating bugs open for as long as they have is silly.
Yes, that reminds me of some of the assembly tricks we used to pull when space was really tight. Use this entry point and you have one set of instructions, use another and you get a completely different set. I've never managed to do this with more than a few instructions. But that gives quite a kick to get it to work and to know that there isn't a disassembler on the planet that will make sense of it :)
Don't take it so close to your heart - I didn't have the intent to insult Germany or Scandinavia ;)

The power of the Roman Empire was extraordinary - that was my only point.

https://youtu.be/GylVIyK6voU
> For vaccines available in the UK, effectiveness against symptomatic Omicron infection ranged from 0% to 20% after two doses, and from 55% to 80% following a booster dose

how does this make any sense? a booster is the same as the original vaccine, the only reason i can see this making any sense is if the vaccine effectiveness was waning over time and everyone who they tested had been 6+ months since their 2 doses

edit: it appears they measure antibody titers as a means of determining whether youll get symptoms or not. I find it strange that the goalpost is now avoiding "symptomatic infection" instead of "severe desease". Cold symptoms are symptoms but they arent anything to worry about typically?
Of course it is user hostile!!!!
I should not feel like an intel i-7 processor with six cores and 12 threads in a machine with 32 GB of Ram is sometimes not enough to run a fucking chat application without it stuttering; or ramping up the fan like a fucking 747 during take-off should I decide to use to have a video call on this application.
Sorry no offense, but it's obvious you've never worked in support before.... :-) I'm sure they already know that half the infrastructure is down. Every support request brings exactly nothing, except more chaos.
Life has existed on Earth for at least 4 billion years --- it seems to have emerged within 500 million years of the planet's initial formation.

Complex life --- multicellular life with differentiated structures --- took another 3.4 billion years to form, emerging only about 600 million years ago.

Much of the biological hardware and processes for intelligence seems to have emerged with the first mammals (~200 million years ago), particularly emotional-hormonal systems that seem broadly common. It still took most of the intervening time for clever apes to emerge (about 2 million years ago), with anatomically modern humans showing up 200,000 years ago. When language developed isn't clear, but likely by degrees somewhere between 2 million and 50,000 years ago.

(There's a great presentation on the anthropological evidence of complex thinking in this 2012 presentation by Sander van der Leeuw: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=pOyQqPi28ug 69 minutes, most of the meat is in the first 20--30 minutes, high-density information.)

And modern technological society is really about 200 years old, with "peak invention" being variously defined, but the 50 to 100 years beginning about 1875 would be a good choice.

So: over 4.6 billion years, life has existed for over 4 billion, and developed complex and technological intelligence only within the past 1 million years, and quite possibly substantially less. That's 0.02% of the total time.

Earth itself will remain generally habitable for only about another 800 million years. If humans or other intelligent species survive over that period, they'll still account for less than 15% of the history of life on Earth.

Considering intelligence to be inevitable is ... somewhat poorly supported, at least based on that timeline.

(Related, see the Drake Equation, and yes, we're working with a single sample study and numerous unknowns.)
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I still don't have faith in the absurd origami sun shield they've built. I think there is a very real chance it gets to its largange point and then runs into a problem deploying. They will spend months trying to fix it and finally give up around this time next year with all of that time and money pissed away.

At this stage I think it would have been faster, cheaper and lower risk to have either developed a launcher that could have fit it inside a fairing with a more conventional and less compact shield......Or would have been acceptable to take the performance hit to either stick this thing in Earth orbit so it could be serviced.....Or have given it a less effective but much safer and more conventional chassis so it could have gone to L2 without the massive risk of failure.

EDIT: I know that those alternatives would yield suboptimal results but you have to balance capability and cost with risk. JWST is 20 years in the making and very very expensive. This thing will only have an operational life of 10 years even if everything goes to plan. So under the best case it wont have the staying power and upgradability of Hubble unless someone figures out a cost effective way to get astronauts to L2 and back.
If you think spaghetti code is bad . . . DNA is basically spaghetti code, written in actual spaghetti.

(I'm a biologist; the more you study this, the more confusing it gets.)
It's basically a pre configured Asterisk server with very, very many gui setings and lots of paid extensions.
I wonder to what extent this actually becomes less of a problem the more people use AWS. At this point AWS being down just feels like "the internet is down", it's hard for customers to be too mad at any company being down when all their competitors are too.

Though I guess there's still probably just lost revenue that could be captured by having better uptime, even if your competitors are down.
I mentioned local network, didn't I...
They're not saying Heroku is low end. They're saying, "I'm tired of hearing that it's irresponsible to run your own servers."

At least, that's what I understood.
He asked it to demonstrate the point that uptime is trivial for one server with no traffic, and much harder at scale with auto scaling.
I think the base idea here is something like this: if you want to describe, say, a sound-wave, you can use complex numbers to represent the wave, but you can also, in principle, use strictly real numbers to describe the behavior of each individual molecule of gas using Newton's equations of motion (assuming you can ignore quantum effects for your simulation). So, in classical mechanics, while complex numbers are a useful abstraction for waves, they are not fundamental.

The same is not true for QM: the wave part / the complex numbers are fundamental.

Also note, when people say "complex numbers" they refer to the algebraic field, which is the object composed of [a pair of reals, complex addition, complex multiplication]. In particular, complex multiplication is the key here, since it is what differentiates complex numbers from 2-vectors. To drive this point further, while 1-vectors, 2-vectors, 3-vectors, 4-vectors etc behave very similarly, only the reals and the complex numbers can form a field - there are no "numbers" in the same sense formed of 3-tuples or 4-tuples or other n>2-tuples of reals*.

This is why the discussion focuses on the complex numbers (meaning, again, not just a pair of reals, but also the particular +,-,*,/ operations for them that make them a field).

* to be fair, quaternions come pretty close - you can define a 4-tuple of reals + addition + multiplication that is almost a field, except that multiplication is anti-commutative instead of being commutative (p*q = -q*p).
YMMV, for my use cases it seems to work really well. I wonder if your instance has been heavily "customized" with group policy, or something.

Given the alternative for us would be slack+zoom+gsuite, which all have impressively daunting privacy concerns as well as pretty crappy usability themselves, I (and the people I am collaborating with regularly) am really happy with Teams.
Apropos of nothing, but a few Christmasses ago the place I worked had a dedicated fibre line that some workmen doing gas line repairs sawed straight through, took out everything; I was just drone worker at the time & it was a beautiful thing
Drugs are illegal too, yet people do them all the time.

Speeding? Basically a national past-time at this point.

Misrepresentation, common fraud, and misappropriation? Par for the course in most small businesses.

It's only a crime if someone gives enough of a shit to do something about it; otherwise, it's just life.
Some “global” systems run in us-east1 even if you’re not hosted there a service you depend on might be.

Notably: cognito, r53 and the default web UI. (You can work around the webui one I’m told, by passing a different domain instead of just console.aws.amazon.com)
At least in this test https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta... they did account for that, which does suggest that 3 doses are in fact better than 2 without the waning effect.

> The sera were collected from subjects 3 weeks after receiving the second dose or one month after receiving the third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
You’ll need to engage with a lawyer, at minimum. Someone with business brokering experience.

You need proper contracts drawn up and reviewed. Don’t let the buyer push you into anything you’re not comfortable with.

Also beware of false buyers who don’t actually intend to buy your business. It’s unfortunately very common for investors to pretend to be interested in buying a business only so they can get access to your data and information for the benefit of their own business. Don’t reveal more than necessary during this phase and don’t assume the deal is done until it really is.
> Honestly my server at home has more uptime than US-East-1

Is this not antagonistic? It's pointless to make these statements, so your parent comment pointed it out. Go downvote the first one instead.
Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
The counter argument is that Bitcoin provides more than 45 million dollars a day in utility.

edit: Does the lightning network need Bitcoin to work or is it just Venmo?
We paid for a Finnish style box here in the UK. Baby fairly rapidly outgrew it with 3 months or so, but not before he started to wake us up by hitting his arms on the side and making a thumping noise.

We were warned by some pros to make sure to monitor the temperature closely - don't leave it on the floor where it might be too cold, and allow air to circulate to avoid it getting too hot etc. We bought a cheap Ikea side-table that was approx the same size and built a basic barrier around the edge by screwing in some shelf supports to the side-table (as well as some up-stands on the table surface to allow air to circulate) so that it was basically like any other bassinet thing you can buy. Price-wise we probably mad a loss compared to just buying something prebuilt, but I think my wife quite liked me "building a bed for baby".

The box is now used as a toy box! We'll certainly get another one for the next baby.
Ask HN: Programming and Educational Games for Kids
Over the next few days I’ll be visiting family, there will be a bunch of kids (16 and under).

I’d love to entertain them with some cool new game, but most importantly I’d love to show them their tablet/computer can do a lot more than play TikTok videos!

What are some educational games (possibly involving simple programming, or logic) that you recommend?

Yesterday we played with https://sketch.metademolab.com/ (shared and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29635422) and it was a roaring success!

(I have found some recommendations from previous threads but nothing recent: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=educational+games+kids)
The original poster is using a subshell. Your example uses echo, which is both a built-in AND an external program.

They are not comparable. I've never seen a shell inline cat, probably because it would make no sense given there are POSIX builtins to do exactly what cat does.
Yes.

Another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29648325
> the whole system is incapable of providing such feature in pluggable way

No, the system is perfectly capable, it's just hard to get all compositor authors to agree on a common protocol (and to agree that it's necessary in the first place). Big DEs especially prioritize regular-user usability features (e.g. currently lots of work on IMEs) rather than fancy nerd customizations that don't always need to be a common external program that works with all compositors (is it really a problem to write a plugin for your DE specifically? No!).
Elixir, or rather Phoenix - more specifically, is not good for traditional web apps, in my opinion. You will basically reinvent everything like in the JavaScript world. The functional way of programming looks great at first but there is a reason why it isn't used everywhere, if it is so good :). Feel free to explore though. And make your own opinion.
fwiw, I think I pronounce 1-3 the same, and 5-6 the same. I'm having trouble understanding how 1-3 would sound different.
Sadly, at least for anticheat, they might as well be right with that opinion.
Unpopular opinion: I miss my butterfly keyboard. I never had any of the flaky-key issues. And I loved the crisp feel of the keys.

I don’t need key travel. I like the futuristic (and unrealistic) idea of typing on glass. In some ways, the butterfly was just a step away from that, but with the slightest bit of physical feedback.

At the least, I definitely did not loathe the butterfly like mini.
I'm not sure whether crypto is a good or bad thing overall but there are plenty of good uses for it:

* In countries with unstable currencies they are useful stores of value (Venezuela, Turkey and Zimbabwe right now). I was in Zim back in 2010 and visited someone's house. It was filled with petrol because he had been paid and had to spend the money before it lost its value so he bought what was available. Bitcoin would have been a lot safer and less likely to cause shortages of goods (and more inflation).

* They offer a much cheaper and simpler way to move money between countries both for ordinary people and small businesses.

* By making online retail anonymous they've allowed the circumvention of all sorts of prohibitions. Sometimes that might be a bad thing, but I think it's a part of the reason we've seen weed legalised in so many US states.

And remember: we don't ban things because you or I don't see the point. If someone else thinks they see a point, and they're not hurting anyone, they have every right to pursue what interests them
It's hard to blame the companies, if a company needs investors the investors are usually going to prefer/demand increasing profits and growth instead of ethical behavior in exchange for the investment. It would be nice to be able signal with an investment that you are not looking for max. profits, but for max. ethical behavior with marginal profits.

When I researched ethical funds it looked like the best (and almost only) organization giving these signals is Triodos[0] but it is not available in all countries.

How could we solve this issue?

[0] https://www.triodos-im.com/funds/individual
Most people don't need to handle the traffic of US-East-1. They just need a single, simple, mostly reliable server. But they're often told, "Don't do that. It's too hard, and irresponsible, and what if you get a spike in traffic, and what if you need to add 5 new servers, and security is really hard."

In reality, most people don't need to scale. An occasional spike in traffic is a nuisance, but not the end of the world, and security is not terribly hard, if you keep your servers patched (which is trivial to automate).

I really don't understand why there's so much FUD around running your own stuff.
90% of my games could run fine on Arch+KDE but there are just some very weird bits that got frustrating, especially with multiplayer games or games where the player community utilize a lot of external utilities (network log parsers for MMOs are one example). This was as of last month.

Also I’m the sort of gamer that has a lot of friends I play games with. We often will play and talk about even a single player game at the same time, kinda like a book club. This is actually kinda common, talking to other gamers. You kinda play what your friends play. It can be FOMO, but more often it’s just really cool to have that shared experience.

So if something drops on EGS and I want to play along with my friends, then I need Windows installed. At the end of the day, if I have to keep a windows install around for even one game, I’m just going to use windows. The end.
I am able to deploy now but i still cannot access the dashboard
We're talking about a lawyer, not an average person :)
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See how it works
https://youtu.be/eV3E7XZJ9Bk
"My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally."

--John Dominic Crossan
Even pre-civilisation humans were having substantial impacts on local landscapes and ecosystems, particularly in terms of out-competing other top predators.

"Civilisation" defined as "having established cities". Arguably much of North America and Australia would be pre-civilisation by this definition. There are some exceptions among Native Americans in North America, but most cultures seem to have been tribal and reasonably nomadic or based in small villages lacking the complex social and economic structures, as well as trade and diplomatic relations associated with cities. Pueblo culture would be the obvious exception, possibly also mound culture (Illinois / Mississippi Valley). This is not an area of expertise for me.

And my point remains that even without signifificant cities or intensive capital, these cultures had profound iimpacts on their landscapes and were clearly an apex species.
Well, if crypto is meant to be used as a method of investment, then sorry, nothing which does not generate rent can be a viable method of investment (can sometimes be a method of preserving wealth e.g. gold but even that barely). In this sense, i agree with you.

But crypto is also very useful for undermining governments - making them unnecessary. Which is a beneficial thing for all humankind. Whenever government realises it is not necessary and can be circumvented with no way to fight back - it becomes more flexible (example: legalisation of weed).

Crypto makes the world more free. Freedom is a universal value.
This summary from august points to a couple studies that support the general 2x hospitalization rate in unvaccinated delta patients.

Honestly I wasn’t aware that there was this much uncertainty at the time, I remember hearing that delta was affecting young people in India more strongly way back in early 2021

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/08/421171/how-dangerous-delta...
You would think that but there always a few contrarian AWS evangelists in the comments going on about the "difficulty" in operating a status page as though it were trying to conjure a N=NP proof.

Like how come down detector can do a superb job of detecting when AWS goes down and AWS can't? Because AWS doesn't want account managers of SLAs asking for credits for the uptime they're paying for but not getting.

https://downdetector.co.uk/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
I hope somebody at Microsoft read this. It goes far beyond security vulnerabilities. The Teams Linux client is barely usable. Chromebooks don't even have a client.

Could Microsoft expose an API and allow third party clients to be developed?
This seems like an interesting pendulum swing where the few companies not reliant on AWS could capture significant enough revenue by maintaining uptime during a potential busy season outage.
FreeBSD Jails for Fun and Profit (2020)
Isn't the point of the design of an availability zone having multiple data centers so that if a single data center in the availability zone fails, services aren't affected?
Crypto helps people in semi-totalitarian regimes to not depend on inflation and be independent on the governments with transactions.