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Or at least, they shouldn't be putting it in the $PATH.

Whether you're using Linux, macOS, or BSD, OS-packaged language runtimes exist for the OS itself to use, in OS-internal scripts and underpinning OS services. They shouldn't be considered "part of" the userland; as this invites userland applications to rely on them. These runtimes are actually something more like an "implementation detail" of the OS — the kind of thing whose binaries should live in $PREFIX/libexec rather than $PREFIX/bin.

(Mind you, if you're a system software developer, whose software gets packaged into Operating Systems, then you do have to rely on this "implementation detail." Which often means targeting very old versions of runtimes and libraries, compared to the versions that application developers get to target.)

Also, of course, there are "standard" language runtimes that should be part of the userland — e.g. /bin/sh. But these are literally standard — i.e. part of some standard like POSIX, that an OS can be tested for conformance against. Which is important, because it means that developers can write to a stable target of "POSIX compatible", assuming the existence of (and particular stable semantics of) particular standard runtimes.

But none of the "modern" language runtimes are part of any such standard. The version OSes ship should be assumed to not exist. (And major third-party applications do already do the right thing, in not making any assumptions of existence, but rather installing their own vendored versions of the runtimes that they can upgrade as needed.)
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My argument was that it is a rational business decision to sometimes constrain your developers by making them use what the users will.As the upper comment said people at Google often propose. If you do not, then they get utterly out of touch. I didn’t say you have to do it all the time.
My App was rejected because a word was repeated twice in the description by mistake.
Hrm, neither of motivation nor damage are sufficient alone. It's something like the product of the two. For an action to be justified it must both have a just motivation and a reasonably predicted just outcome proportional to the motivation. If either of those two requirements are not met, then the action is not just. Happy to go into examples if it would help clarify what I'm thinking. Feel free to ask if you want me to, but I think you might already understand my pov from what I've said above.

To be clear, I am not arguing that my point of view is or should be universal. I'm only sharing my own thoughts on the issue.
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It's a bit naive... But the best argument for me that we are living in a simulation is that we went from Pong to pretty good VR (good enough that if you have a beer or two before using you can forget its VR for some period of time) in 50 years. In another 50 years it seems fair to assume that we will be able to create VR that fully immersive and impossible to distinguish from real life.

Even with no other arguments about the benefits of WHY one would want to live in a fully simulated world... It seems probable to me that we are based on the idea that it could be possible.
> But if you’re talking about Target, you’re now in the territory of a system of economic oppression where money is siphoned out of local communities by large multinational corporations and the actual residents have no ownership over anything.

Wow, are you using loaded language.

Say the Target wasn't there. The people of the neighborhood are still going to want to buy things. Without the Target, there might be locally-owned mom-and-pop businesses. Target takes the profits out of the neighborhood. All that is true.

But Target drove those businesses out by selling stuff for less money. So your solution is that the people of the neighborhood have to spend more in order that some people of the neighborhood can have the profits. And you call Target a system of economic oppression and a money siphon. Yeah, I'm not buying it.
We've got some malls around where I live (suburban) that did actually build multi-story apartments/condo towers into the design of the mall where the residents can walk right into the mall.

It's an odd thing in the suburbs, someone has to really value the mall, because the units can be quite expensive compared to single family units in town, and there's certainly more financial risk in owning a unit attached to the mall if the mall starts to fail.
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This is great. Just a simple 100 page document on how to use a editor/IDE. No wonder I have been using it for 20 years.
I tried shifting to VScode but was frustrated deleting the :wq! keys all the time, so I had to jump back to VIM.
Product teams a learn a thing or two from VIM on how to make your product sticky.
amazing, in this day and age you would think IBM would have a free emulator for use in a VM or a Linux Container.

All they have to do is look at Motif/CDE. People were begging for Motif to be free for Linux in the 90s, now Motif is really "no more". Motif was finally released for Linux a few years ago but it is only used for nostalgia reasons.

There are more examples like this, but you have IBM and Companies begging for new young workers. But saying you need to pay to use ot abide by crazy restrictions. If IBM keeps this up, their Cash Cow will follow Motif off the cliff.
It seems worth noting that this is mostly a culture difference.

Many terminal users will be upset if you change a tool out from under them. Many desktop users don't know how to vocalize it.

In addition, it's more common afaict for cli/tui tools to be open source, so if someone does change a tool out from under you it's possible to fork the old version and keep the UI you like.
One of the past maintainers of minikube here. Minikube, while targeted towards Kubernetes developers, also provides all the features you'd want here. It also takes away most of the pain from virtual machine management w/ native hypervisors.

If you're looking for customizability (boot image, docker version, container runtime), minikube is probably your best bet. It even comes with some rudimentary file-sharing and port-forwarding primitives, but it isn't as batteries-included as Docker desktop. On the other hand, you have full ssh access to the VM to do whatever you want (+startup scripts, etc.)

Awhile back, I wrote up a comparison of all the Docker Desktop Alternatives. [1]

[1] https://matt-rickard.com/docker-desktop-alternatives/
I've been doing this ever since I almost got clipped by a car when getting out of my vehicle. It's honestly just a lot safer and everyone should be doing it.
I agree with you, but that's the battle everyone is fighting. They have to do it with one hand tied behind their cost-effective back.
That's fair, I guess it has a potential to affect non-geek users at some level if they're using geek-supplied scripts.

I guess I just feel like the net good would be to de-bundle these non-compliant tools and get them to install upstream versions from Homebrew or MacPorts or something.

It's annoying, and I'm not one of those people that tends to be the "OMG JUST RTFM IT'S NOT THAT HARD!!", since if people are struggling with it then it is "that hard", but I feel like there isn't a solution that can satisfy all parties with this.

It seems that we either break the workflow, which makes a few of the aforementioned parties for a bit, keep bundling the old versions of these tools and leave potential security problems in there, or somehow forcing Apple to change their OS to be GPL3 compliant. For better or worse (probably worse), that last one isn't going to happen, so it feels like the lesser of the two evils is to stop bundling software that won't be getting future support.
I don't know if number of kernel lines executed is a good baseline for establishing the exposure of a given sandboxing approach.
No. I've never worked at a company that has uased them. But we probably should.
Similarly here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/william-gillis-you-a...

It is very much a topic within far-left circles, the issue is rather that there are very few far-left circles in anglo-saxon academia due to a lack of interest in the subject matter by the people funding the universities there. That said, both of the articles are interesting reads, but assume lots of premises as true without exploring them further. A unified theory doesn't exist as far as I know.
I'm curious about Stephen Diehl's assertion that functional may not be the way to go. I'm waiting for him to elaborate. He works in finance, programs mostly in Haskell, and is a fierce web3 critic:

After spending nearly a decade on functional programming I have learned a ton of interesting things and met a lot of interesting people. But I can't say I'm terribly bullish on the paradigm anymore. There's some inescapable brute facts about its efficacy that are hard to ignore.

https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1486307933864538118
Then lobby to have the laws changed so that bicycles don't have to obey the same rules. At the moment, rules like speed limits and stop signs apply to all conveyances on the road, even horse-drawn carriages. The fact that bicycles are better for safety/cities/traffic/environment is not part of the law. Maybe it should be, maybe they should be given special privileges, but that just isn't the way the law is written today.
Your experience is just like @Aulig, I saved his comment from several weeks ago in my notes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29459590
I'm not surprised. I've noticed the Air Force has partnered with a few notable esports orgs in the last few years. As a former USAF vet, I totally get it. We are hard-pressed for competent IT folks and our IT presence is only growing. Generally, it's far easier to train a new recruit in the fundamentals of IT if they spent their teenage years building PCs and playing video games compared to someone who did not.
We (FAANG) have a list of open source projects that we are not allowed to contribute to without prior permission. Anything else is fair game from what I can tell.
Part 1 was awesome! It has Kelsey Hightower and like literally everyone. I couldn't believe it
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Correction: the crime of being rich while many starved.

I'm currently reading 'The Dawn of Everything,' and it is FASCINATING. The case made at the beginning of the book is that notions of equality and individual freedom basically came into being in Europe because of contact with indigenous Americans. Suddenly there was a flood of observations and conversations with societies that made sure no one went hungry.

And then when people started starving with the knowledge that another world was possible, things got violent. Incidentally, many-to-most violent uprisings have started with food shortages. Typically people have to be extremely uncomfortable before they start breaking out the guillotines, and hunger is extremely uncomfortable... And one of the still-active remnants of the French revolution is a government regulation ensuring that baguettes are cheap and readily available.
Yup, although not on the PET, which didn't have Flash. On a modern computer you might be interested in minimizing power consumption, and probably on-chip SRAM is a cheaper place to persist the between-keystrokes state than Flash, which is usually ruinously power-hungry NOR. You can keep CMOS SRAM alive on microwatts from a coin-cell battery for many years, as you probably know.

Or were you thinking about persisting consistent state for failure recovery after a power failure?

What's your top-k list?

Armando Fox's crash-only software paper is also very inspiring.
> - "Here's why everything is too complex and everyone should run their application on a single abacus connected to the internet by carrier pigeon"

LOL yeah true. But with all the marketing pressure to buy all these expensive cloud services it's good to have some pushback to even things out.
And this is why the instant pot is such a good value. It's very insulated and incredibly efficient
Violence, or the threat of violence, against a civilian population with the intended aim of effecting political change is the actual definition of terrorism, special or not.
You're begging the question by asserting the universe = QM. QM is just a description. He's asking the if there is an alternative to QM that also fits the data, that could make the universe the way it is; if there isn't an obvious answer that could update our understanding of QM.
To be fair, he was quoting me exactly -- my original description used that word.
Hacking only rustles jimmies when it's happening to them.

The first thing a malicious nontechnical investor wants to know about your competition: "Well, can't you just hack them?!"

Russ on Silicon Valley came from somewhere, ha..
I don't think anybody is defending the legitimacy of rioting, are they? The MLK quote is an examination of the rioters' motivation and state of mind.
It's not the thought, it's the action.

"I feel a miscarriage of justice has happened" does not mean torching buildings.

You may not feel that you have options. Burning your neighbors house down is still wrong.
NFT's perfectly solve the problem Proof of Ownership, but they cannot solve the problems of Proof of Uniqueness or Proof of Scarcity by themselves. Digital goods are practically defined by their trivial marginal cost of reproduction. What sense does it make to prove you own something that is reproduced and cached automatically in your browser by simply viewing it?

NFTs will find better success with items whose scarcity or uniqueness is constrained by the law or physics. An NFT proving partial ownership of a company like Apple will work because there are legal penalties to copying Apple and it's property. An NFT proving membership in a nightclub will be safe because copying the NFT's smart contract doesn't accordingly copy the physical building the nightclub is in.
MDM?
this one is just a meme shitpost
https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/soloelephan...
I often type "pythong" instead of "python" in the terminal. I decided to see whether anyone had created a PyPi package "pythong" and then ran across in Google search (admittedly tasteless) http://pythong.org . It's just too funny to not submit though I'm sure it will be dead in three seconds.
US cities are usually considered by their city limits, which are almost always pretty small, and have lots of smaller suburbs surrounding them.

The other countries definition seems more analogous to the US Census Bureau metro areas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area
Sure. It's almost as if we live in some kind of dystopian alternative universe where the trillion dollar defense budget is actually just a giant trough for businesses big enough to bribe (sorry, "lobby") government stooges into giving them a cut. I guess in that world, we'd have a lot of PR about having the #1 military, and yet we'd consistently fail at every long term military goal, up to and including basic protection of our allies and meeting promised mutual defense statements. Sure we could invade the odd tropical island and depose a warlord, maybe trade some class A drugs, but actually defending an ally? Oof. It'd be a world where we are, in fact, powerless. The kind of world where we'd say "Russia would be stupid to actually cut off gas to Europe as Europe would have to find another source and then Russia would have no leverage nor market." while at the same time cutting off chip IP to China, who, er, presumably won't develop their own chip IP, and won't become the #1 chip super power, because that's not what the President wants to happen and if it does he'll throw a tantrum and make a pee pee? In that world, the USA is over. The only option the US has for relevance in that world is to go to war with Russia, and bomb that pipeline to Europe while they're at it, just to get Germany off the teat. But it can't. Because "world's #1 military" is just PR.

Good job we don't live in that world.
As far as human computer interfaces go, keyboard and mouse probably win comfortably in both bandwidth and latency against speech to text in almost all tasks. Former also requires a less physical effort and is creates less noise for others. My guess is that this shrinks the demand for good quality voice HCI significantly and those who really need it end up being overlooked.
Yes, to me that seems the only sensible way to interpret free will.

I think that the whole determinism vs randomness debate boils down to the fact that when we make a choice, for example whether to order soup or a sandwich, we have to hold the belief that either choice is possible. We can simulate ourselves in our mind taking either decision, evaluate pros and cons, and use the results to act. In that sense, because it is compatible with many counterfactuals, our internal self-model is decidedly non-deterministic. And if you think about it, it has to be non-deterministic in order to be a useful decisional tool: considering what would happen if you did X or Y is the foundation of deliberation.

The trick, though, is that ultimately this is just epistemological non-determinism: you don't know what is going to happen, and you can't know, because you are in the process of figuring it out. When I am looking at the menu, I think it is possible that I will order a soup or a sandwich, just like I think it is possible that they are out of soup, even though there is a definite answer to whether they do or not. I just don't know it. Our misstep is to (intuitively) extrapolate that if we can't know what we will choose, then no one else can.
I've watched it now. What a disaster!
I have massive issues with speech recognition software. It doesn't work for me in either english or spanish. Statements like "google and siri are so advanced now" feel like people are collectively pranking me.

That said, I too have wondered why we don't have speech control for computers or at least appliances.

You don't need to parse all language. Just a standard set of primitives like you'd find on a remote should be way easier to recognize and can even be selected for their ease of parsing. Simple things like on, off, next, back, louder, etc.
What drew you to switch up your workflow?

I am on a m1 macbook air and I've been using Docker + Docker Desktop without much issue, and my use-case is a little simpler than yours (only running single containers at a time).

I'm genuinely curious to learn more about what these tools (Colima, podman) help enable. If I'm missing out on a performance boost, I'd definitely check them out.
You're probably getting down voted by government contractors that wouldn't like this idea one bit.
Yeah I think that there's a bias for programmers to think about artistry, poetry, and idealism in the form of code since that's what we're dealing with all day. But in reality it matters a lot less than we would like to think.
As bad as this is, it could have been so much worse for him. The government does not usually correct itself like this, preferring instead to continue with prosecution, notch up another corrupt win, and call it a day. And in fact, for this reason, the (current) government needs to get major kudos! And Dr. Chen should get more hugs, and more support - as many as he needs to help him forget this nightmare and get back to doing what he loves.
Is there a high quality voice control for anything? I only ever tried Google Assistant and it mostly always can't comprehend queries beyond "timer 10 minutes", like putting a water boiler on schedule.
> In another 50 years it seems fair to assume that we will be able to create VR that fully immersive and impossible to distinguish from real life.

Technology growth is always non-linear. it's also fair to assume we could stagnate for 50 years also.
Cars aren't magic but they're very inefficient. Supporting the model where everyone owns a car and drives themselves around means that each person uses hundreds of square feet of road, buildings are usually required to maintain hundreds of square feet of car storage space per resident, business are often required to pay for storage as well (even if it's something like a bar which we really shouldn't have people driving to), and the high safety risks mean that beyond the basic road itself you end up with a lot of expensive dedicated infrastructure which is protecting people from cars or reducing congestion.

All of that adds up to a lot of built-in carrying cost that people don't see directly but requires upfront payment and ongoing maintenance. Owning a car isn't just the $10-12k average annual expense but also things like paying a double-digit percentage more for housing to get off-street parking, having all of the prices at local businesses be higher to subsidize the bundled parking, etc.
Thanks for posting the archive link. More than down, I get a message saying that the account has been suspended. Perhaps they hit some sort of usage limit with all the extra traffic?
Never considered that treadmill goes down as well as up!

What a privilege to live in a stable part of the world!
Digital still can't compete with film on any measure other than convenience.

A 150MP Bayer Matrix sensor would resolve about 7000 lines of vertical optical resolution.

I have some 35mm 50 ISO adox film here that can resolve about 600 lines per mm. That is about 21,000 lines of resolution. And there is better film which can do almost double that.
> Number of "technically inclined" people is actually in the millions. If you add up all the consumers of all third-party app stores in the Android ecosystem it would be easily >200 million.

You’re probably right, but how many of these >200 millions are users that installed said third party store after going through the speed bumps that google put there. And how many of these are people that their phone came with said third party store? For instance fire tv, fire tablet, Chinese phones etc?

Even though I’m being heavily downvoted I still think that 0.001% would actually install third party stores as apple is the sole provider of iOS (no one else could bundle their store with iOS devices).

If you have statics that shows that most of these >200 millions (didn’t check) are users that went though the phone settings, activated developer settings, downloaded apk from amazon and installed on their phones I would be happy to be proved wrong.

Edit.

> Would love to have something like f-droid for iOS.

> So yes, I do hope the US govt forces Apple to un-clench a bit.

We’re not in disagreement here.
Ring Composition is new to me--seems interesting, even if not consciously known

> From millennia-old Chinese writings to the epic poetry of Homer to the Bible, ring composition is a structure commonly found in ancient texts all over the globe—transcending time, culture, and geography. Social anthropologist Mary Douglas explains the technique in her book Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition. And for starters, she writes that the form “comes in many sizes, from a few lines to a whole book.”
Wonder what reversing the string will do to the family, their members will likely be split up.
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Either way Google should be contacting the relevant police in the country the owner of the account lives. A developer account is not free so someone had to pay, if the credit card was stolen then also report that to Visa etc.

If Google doesn't have enough information then maybe they should require a government ID to get a developer account. I mean Facebook requires ID for some users.
Ok, wow, actually that sounds like life in the world I live in.

Returns will erase retail margin (profit) pretty quickly. Big companies like IKEA can deal with that, I suppose, but it does take work.

I managed to get to Russia, in 1990. I didn't shop at Ikea.
> Edit infact in school I was taught Catholic civil right protestors drew inspiration from the black civil rights movement

Indeed, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/dr-king-s-impact-fight-c...
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