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There are a lot of important numerical algorithms which would have really benefited if Itanium had gone through iteration and growth. A mainstream VLIW could've had it's place, and it's trivial to find parallelism in FFTs, SVDs, matrix multiplies, and so on.

To me, there is a spectrum of parallelism on the desktop:

multi-server,
multi-process,
multi-threaded (shared mem),
<Itanium would go here>,
SIMD instructions

Yeah, Itanium might have required assembly to exercise that niche, and maybe new programming languages would've come about. There has to be some middle ground between Verilog/VHDL and C, right? Maybe a CUDA-like language could've done the trick (it certainly works for GPUs).

I think it's a shame Itanium failed, and I think it failed for the wrong reasons. At the time, I remember everyone criticizing it for not running legacy x86 applications very well. As though word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation software wasn't fast enough. Saying legacy apps in existing languages don't make it easy to find the ILP seems like a slight generalization of that.

The AMD64 ISA (which is what really killed Itanium) was a blessing and a curse. It made x86 just better enough to not be awful, but it killed desktop/server alternatives for at least 25 years. Maybe ARM will make inroads, but it isn't that much better either.
Every article like this says something like:

It can be turned into oxygen for astronauts to breathe and drink,

But they don't mention that breathing 100% oxygen means you will die in a fire like these guys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1

For space colonization you also need some inert gas like Nitrogen, Argon, Sulfur Hexafluoride, Freon, etc. The big air spaces from the O'Neill colonies are a fantasy right up there with the giant robots of Gundam unless you can find huge amounts of nitrogen.

I was modeling a very small Bernal sphere with about 50 habitable acres that spun more quickly than any space colony in the literature (might have to turn down the g's if people can't stand spinning the fast.) The idea was to be a showy destination for LEO with a big impressive airspace. It would take 15 SpaceX Starship loads of LN2 just for the atmosphere.

Since water is not the only volatile you need lunar water might be less game changing than people think.
You need to read the claims in the patent. That is what the patent actually covers. The claims include the controller presenting a UI but that is not the only claim in the patent. Besides that the abstract also supports the point of my post and not your original. You stated that the patent covers a particular presentation of a UI for doing so. It does not. It just states that a UI is presented and not the form of the UI which is exactly what I stated in my comment.
I agree it doesn't show anything about how it gets itself run/installed in Linux, but there are some details on what it does once it's running on Linux, checksums for elf binaries, etc. They do at least provide some evidence of Windows, Linux, and MacOS payloads.
> It's an attempt to save the more expensive thing (engineer time) for the cheaper thing (RAM) especially in the face of rapidly improving hardware (which may no longer be true).

It's worth noting here that Electron trades engineer time you pay for against RAM your customers pay for.

On the other hand, Electron got things to a state where Linux is often supported and where I can usually run the whole app well sandboxed in my browser. So in the end, it's not that bad for end-users like me, either.
Status message is: "Admins are not loading correctly for some stores this also includes checkouts"

Poor Admins, they're so traumatized, they can't even write good status messages.
Enforcement necessitates centralization.

In the spirit of rough consensus, it may be possible to have a group tasked with maintaining principles but without any special powers.
I remember when the ethos at Google was to compete on technical excellence. Yes, those days are long gone. Yes, technical excellence isn't enough to "win" the IM market (assuming that winning is possible or even desirable). However, it never stops hurting to see the change in tone.

For a company that is reticent about so many important problems, this seems like poor form.
The most interesting thing about this to me is how it shoes just how little are know and likely will ever know about historical life.

This entire concept was just forgotten for centuries, and even now we can just sort of guess that it happened but are unsure why. How many other parts of daily life were just never written down? All our historical sources are so absurdly biased towards a wealthy few that our conceptions of historical life are inherently flawed.
I agree that it’s a business problem. Cost, prioritization, rapid hiring, promotion incentives all play a part. Nobody usually funds a project to go through and clean up code. My last two jobs before I went fully down the management track, I deleted 100k-200k lines of code by applying static analysis, deleting obviously dead code, finding obviously broken code and figuring out whether it was being used (thankfully it mostly wasn’t, in the few cases where it was I could replace it with calls to properly working methods that already existed). I consistently deleted more code than I ever wrote, but every time I deleted code it was on a personal whim, not because it was a funded activity, even though it also improved productivity (engineers wasting time maintaining dead code). Once a codebase reaches a certain size, it’s not realistic for someone to get comfortable enough with the entire codebase and how everything interacts to be confident that major changes won’t have unintended consequences, so even if someone wants to go rogue and do a major cleanup effort, they will only get so far.

Now I try to make sure my team has time allocated to paying down technical debt, but most of the time that is enough to keep the situation from getting worse, more than really improving the situation.
Even if your genes were the same, would you be the same person if you had grown up never seeing an alphabet, never driving a car, two of your siblings dying in childhood, and never hearing of a government (like most of the world in Merer's time) or at least of a democracy (like Merer's workers)?
> Hell, ICQ might still be around if AOL had put more development resources into it.

What are you saying? ICQ is still around.
> Why would they plan a violent insurrection/coup without guns?

To minimize the chances they got shot at by police (only 1 person was). They wanted to overturn the election, not die.

But just in case they needed it, this group had an armed backup force waiting at a hotel in VA:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/quick-reac...
You are describing anti-competitive behavior: Harming their own customers and others to protect marketshare.

A messaging platform is for communication, not just for the individual customer.
Yes, at our place in Southern California my ATT service is much better then my T-Mobile service.
It's what the company prioritizes. If they can get away with spending less money on development and think the end-users will put up with whatever they made then that is why Electron succeeds.
Ah I hadn't know. That being said, perhaps one thing they learned from this is which materials they may not want to use again in the future. I dunno, I just struggle to imagine that they didn't learn a lot from this and that most of us have really any idea whether the learnings are worth $10B, $1B, $100B, etc.
That problem is just with an Apple user to an ex-Apple user. In other words it's a problem that Apple exclusively created and they benefit from not fixing it. It just means a current Apple user goes to text you and Apple thinks you are still using imessage so instead of sending an SMS message it sends it via their imessage service. Apple likely makes this process a pain to make it harder for people to switch OS'es and makes you more locked in. Not only are you going to lose your imessage groups, but you'll also have difficulty for awhile with getting messages properly.
I agree re HSL, HCL, and HSV, however the LAB gradients do tend to look nicer than RGB ones, without passing through random other hues in the middle.
Read Henry Ford's autobiography. You'd think he'd agree with you. He'd want to overwork his employees to produce more cars. But, actually, he was much more of a perfectionist around all the things that go into producing things efficiently. And over-working employees certainly wasn't efficient, partly because turn over is high and also work place injuries go up. (For example, he introduce a 40 hour working week https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/01/24/henry-ford/.)

There is certainly a culture of over-working employees in some businesses. But is it really a _universal_ rule of capitalism that overworking people is profitable? Look at Germany. Highly productive economy, very strong labour laws and no (/limited) culture of overworking.

Have you not missed the 'meta' the article is talking about: that it's an Americanism to think that more hours == more product.

"Image 'slow productivity' in a startup" - what? How long did it take the inventor of bluetooth to invent bluetooth? How long did it take scientists to develop the internet? How long did it take the people to develop computers and electronics? People talk about "fast" productivity in start-ups because there's money involved and investors are greedy and no-one wants anything slowly. But, you know what, plenty of good products take 10 years to make or more. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/07/21/good-software-take...

Successful businesses aren't merely defined by being profit maximising. It's fine to create a good business slowly that has a positive net impact on society. That's in some ways better than a business that abuses everyone to make a small circle rich.

If you judge the success of a business merely by it's profitability, you're a fool. There's more to life than profit.

"I can't help but think he's missing the meta we're all playing within: profit is the motive (not human flourishing)." No, we are not all playing within that 'meta'. We reject that. Playing purely for profit is often sick and deranged. Get a life. Experience something more meaningful than just profit. Reject those procrustean views.

Yes, we all need to make enough to get by, and that means making some profit. But no, we don't have to define or constrain ourselves to being trapped in a pure-profit game. That's for the foolish.
Isn't deleting your account the ultimate form of online censorship?
I'm repackaging forecasted load and generation data for the Texas grid to allow people to charge electric cars at a time that renewable (well wind generation) megawatts dominate the on the grid. It seems so weird that my car is so weather dependent... but, the planets align for this here in Texas. http://evdead.com
Did Google use that patent offensively? Google takes on a lot of patents, but they don't attack people with the patents, that was the statement.
You can maintain decent fitness on less time, or even slowly improve, but most unfit people cannot physically achieve the level of intensity required to see significant improvement with minimal time commitment. I say three hours firstly because the actual workout gets packed in with a lot of things that you will be doing to take care of your body, and that’s what it usually comes out to, but mostly because I’m tired of people asking me for shortcuts. Sorry, no, you’re not going to make it without sacrifices. It needs to be a priority.

If you want efficiency, here’s that list in order: Stop smoking, stop drinking, stop caffeine, stop snacking, stop social eating, prepare your own food, standing desk, commute by bike.