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I didn't bring up Shakespeare's English teacher; Robinson did. But there have been teachers since at least Antiquity. And speaking of Antiquity, where do you think Shakespeare learned about Caesar, Cleopatra, Alexander? (Not by watching Youtube videos.)

Here's an extract of a critic of the book "How the Classics Made Shakespeare" by Jonathan Bate:

> Bate reminds us that in Shakespeare’s day, a boy from a solidly middle-class family like his would have gotten a rigorous classical education even at a regional local school in Stratford. In Elizabethan England the core of education was learning Latin and then reading and translating into English the Roman classics, including Ovid, Horace, Virgil, and Cicero. It was thus largely the classics that initially shaped Shakespeare’s basic conception of literature, offering him models of lyric poetry, comedy, and tragedy that he followed throughout his career.

https://isi.org/modern-age/shakespeare-and-classical-antiqui...
Oh please. Any time a company does something good. "Let's not kid ourselves. It's all for the money, honey!"

Well yeah. That's what a company is. Companies are also people, and people make decisions, and those decisions are sometimes influenced by more than the mere bottom line. You can't read their minds, and it's the opposite of charitable to assume the worst.

Fully agree about the rest though. It certainly makes business sense. But it took around a decade to maneuver themselves into this position, and it's pretty hard to believe they did it all solely for the green.

I used to exchange MSN messenger messages with Zoid, one of their most productive Dota 2 programmers. (Boy that sounds like ancient history.) He didn't strike me as a person who was particularly ruthless and mercantile. Just a driven programmer trying to do good.
My mistake: the starting amount of CO2 is low by a factor of 1000, and therefore fuel costs are around $10B of the $80B industry.

That's in line with my initial expectations, and cutting fuel costs by even, say, 30% could be a big win.
PHP is still full of awkward decisions.

One that baffles me is that 8.0 changed it so all scripts default to a "C" (i.e. english, ascii-only) locale. [0]

So this is now a scripting language that requires you to call `setlocale` for every script manually.

Contrast python, which tries to fix the locale so it's at least UTF-8 aware. [1]

[0]: From https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration80.incompatible.php "The default locale on startup is now always "C". No locales are inherited from the environment by default. Previously, LC_ALL was set to "C", while LC_CTYPE was inherited from the environment. However, some functions did not respect the inherited locale without an explicit setlocale() call. An explicit setlocale() call is now always required if a locale component should be changed from the default. "

[1]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0538/
In a very practical way, I agree with the thought behind the post.

Still, I want to offer a counter, because as linux is becoming more and more popular ( I myself am an anecdote since I recently jumped to PopOS as my main driver ), I worry that it will become another Windows. Linux principles are slowly being eroded for the ease and convenience of the user. It is both awesome and awful. Convenience destroyed mobile to me.
Valve predates Steam by a number of years, and Steam wasn’t always in the dominant position it’s in now.
Claiming <year> will be the year of the Linux desktop has become a running joke among me and my friends.

So I wouldn't make such bold claims.

But other than that I am completely on board with what the author is saying. I come from the same background. Until just a couple years ago I had a Windows PC solely for gaming. Now I can't remember when I last booted Windows on it.

Another weird side effect of this gaming revolution on Linux is that I prefer X11 over Wayland.

When Wayland became the default in Fedora I was on board, thinking it was the new cool thing. But gradually I realized that it's really not ready for the big time. I still need X11 to share my desktop on MS Teams (thanks Microsoft for that btw), and I still need it for most games.
I think we should have boycotted the olympics. I'm sure Beijing would have thrown their toys out of the pram and launched economic sanctions against everyone but you know - genocide bad and that.
NWT also contains small changes to accommodate the Russellites' belief system.

I don't even speak English natively and can read KJV.
I guess it just isn't more difficult than reading in foreign language in general.

Update: Samuel Johnson's dictionary helps with word definitions from 18th century. Noah Webster's dictionary is good too.
And by extension our future insurance as consumers against Microsoft and X-Box as well.
No, not really.

Languages like Nim/Rust/D/etc. should not have significantly different speeds for equivalent implementations for these kinds of benchmarks, as they ultimately can be written to compile to equivalent LLVM IR and thus the same machine code.

What you're usually seeing when you see such large differences is that there are differences in the implementation of the algorithm or of a standard library function.

There's nothing about these kinds of languages that should result in inherently significant performance differences on such synthetic microbenchmarks.
I enjoyed a number of the early TED talks, but, for the last few years, I haven't found many worth watching. I was pleasantly surprised at Dolph Lundgren's TEDx talk, though[0]. I didn't know he had that side. He's never been my favorite actor.

At some point, TED[x] became a marquée brand, with people practicing TED talks, in every video they make, getting headshot photos with flesh-colored headpiece mics, and timing all their work to be 18 minutes long.

Basically, the old maxim, that once something becomes a commodity, it loses its lustre. It's like when punk became a fashion statement, and you could buy ripped and stained jeans for $150.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNOE0dZpHcY&t=1s
Haven't tried those specific brands (and they tend to change brand every time they get sued), but I had a bunch of Lepin and whatever else.

You can tell the difference if you start mixing pieces. The official ones SNAP together, the cheapo copies just smush and don't really stick. They tend to get loose way faster too.

They're good if you want to get that 5000 piece car, build it and put it on a shelf. But if you're looking for something you can give to your kids and grandkids, get the real deal. I still have the same lego sets I got when I was a kid and now they're with my kids.
It hasn't been tough since they made Steam. In fact, the biggest productivity issue at Valve seems to be exactly due to the fact that they don't _really_ need to do anything beyond maintaining Steam as the primary intermediary for computer games.
Yes that's about the idea, except since HTMX is somewhat specified there is hope for browsers to implement that natively and therefore empower users, not remote website operators.
I don't necessarily believe in MOASS happening anymore, but I do have a strong believe that introducing an NFT marketplace and what else GME has in store will make sure the long term view for this company is optimistic. Wallstreet might have "won", but it seems that SEC is introducing new bills to prevent some of the stuff that was going on.. Hopefully they will start enforcing it as well.
1 * how_much_you_can_convince_someone_to_pay_you

if 32k is normal for your country look elsewhere maybe
Yes, despite certain efforts like YubiCo's and Microsoft's, passwords are still required. For example, on DigiD (Dutch online authentication service), you need a PIN of 5 numbers plus 2FA/MFA (SMS).
I think the killer feature of the Steam Deck is that it makes Linux gaming desirable. In contrast to their earlier approach with Steam Machines, which made it merely approachable.
That's just "artificial scarcity in the metaverse is a good thing" with extra steps.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/07/israel-state-i...
> At least for Go and Rust, they have a much steeper learning curve.

Agree about Rust, but I should differ from Go, as a disclaimer I never used Go, but read a lot of people switching from JS to Go and they have a very easy time doing so, maybe not everyone find it easy, and also it might to happen that the architecture you are used to work with in NodeJS is similar than the one that Go uses?

> If you are a startup with limited funds you are not able to target engineers workings with those languages.

I think Ruby/Rails will help you to build your project much quicker than Php/[Laravel | Symfony].

> If it's just a matter of speed, PHP already is good enough for the great majority of cases.

Again also Ruby is pretty fast these days (if you want more speed you can use JRuby or TruffleRuby).

> If your problem is being faster than the latest versions of PHP can achieve, you can certainly look for Go/Kotlin/Rust.

Go: I should say yes, if PHP/Ruby isn't enough, this should your go to.
Kotlin: I cannot speak about it, I'm not sure how popular is in this space.
Rust: I love rust but I think this should be your last resort, if Go isn't enough
anymore.

But I can agree that work with Php is pretty easy (I worked with Php since 4.2 till 5.3, then tried it with some projects here and there with 7.x and 8.x) but I cannot stress how bad the tooling around php feels if you compare with others (ruby is bad too IMHO), JS with vscode, rust with rust-analyzer, etc. The only way I found a decent tool was with PhpStorm, but you need to pay for it (even the Laravel plugin needs a subscription), while the RubyMine is almost the same at least Rails works out of the box without an extra subscription for the plugins.
> Then you quickly reach a point where you can eat a raclette anywhere, soccer is the most famous sports, Hollywood is the main entity broadcasting entertainment. There is no point in traveling, because every place more or less lost their spirit.

Less traveling would probably be good for the world, but it's not true that places "lose their spirit" just because they've got football, Hollywood movies and raclette everywhere. They already have that everywhere, and almost everywhere is still interesting and unique. Just more accessible, leading to more travel.

Cultural exchange is useful and valuable. What's a problem is when desperate people have no buy-in into the society. That leads to alienation, which can lead to all sorts of problems. But this can also happen to people whose parents, and possibly distant ancestors, already lived there.
India goes RISC-V with VEGA processors
I have one Cobi model and while it hasn't been playtested by a kid longterm the bricks look solid and the model looks good.
Hydrogen-soaked crystal lets neural networks expand to match a problem
The government and corporations can simultaneously be complicit. If the interview doesn't touch on this, it's fair to point it out, but turning it into the subject of a rant seems a bit much.
To add on this: Valve works with upstream developers on upstream code, so their work benefits the whole FOSS ecosystem. They are funding a lot of kernel, Mesa, Wayland, Wine and KDE developers.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Valve contractor.)
X11’s desktop tooling heavily relies on dbus for many features. Eg. accessibility is implemented with dbus, which may not be supported by niche window managers. With wayland, now we have a good way to extend the protocol (while it was basically impossible with X due to its age). Of course the dbus-related fragmentation is still here, because not every feature maps cleanly to “it is a display-related feature” that should go into wayland, or “it requires general IPC” and should go into dbus.

But unfortunately due to the bazaar style of development, fragmentation will always be a central part of linux, which is both good and bad.
T470 was a beast for me with the 9-cell battery.

I really wish manufacturers still understood there are people out there who don't mind a bit of extra weight or adjusted form factor for more battery. Sure, with new charging standards I can just use an external backup battery to charge the laptop but it's annoying to have another extra separate thing to carry around when it used to just be an optional part of the system.
Putin? Doesn't Vitalik live in Canada?
I vehemently disagree. This is an exemplary cookie banner.

There are two clearly labeled buttons with good contrast, one for "accept all" and one for "accept selected" (with the latter even being a bit bigger and more visible), plus a third (less visible) "decline" button for those who don't want to check whether the default is checking only essential cookies.

Moreover, if you actually take a closer look, none of the cookies the banner asks for are actually the usual user-hostile ad/tracking cookies. The only thing you can even turn on/accept is third party embeds.

Clicking "accept all" on this dialog puts you into a more privacy-friendly position than clicking "deny all" on many websites (because they then still use 20+ trackers claiming legitimate interest), and IMO this site is one of the few that isn't trying t to trick you into agreeing, and it has two single-click opt-out buttons.
Isn't the main benefit (for the operator) of a walled garden specifically that it keeps new entrants out? Why would any of the big players let some startup NFT company offer interoperable NFTs when they could just as easily do it themselves within the same user database that already exists?

More generally, why would you use a blockchain for such an application at all? If some group of big gaming companies were interested in having in-game assets be transferable between their games, why not start a joint venture that manages the shared database instead of giving all the power away to some group of blockchain devs? That seems like it would have a lot of downsides (exposure to rugpulls, difficult onboarding for users that don't have a wallet yet, etc etc etc) for very little upside, and thus not a thing that company executives would be interested in.
It’s not a technology limitation, it’s a “get people to agree to do it in a transparent way” limitation which crypto doesn’t address.
And I believe the amount the made from Half-Lifes is peanuts compared to amount they are making with TF2, CS:GO and Dota 2...
So if I understand correctly, M1 Pro has half the efficiency cores as the M1 (4 vs 2), and despite those cores running over double clock speed on the M1 Pro, the M1 Pro still takes longer to complete multi-threaded tasks at the lowest QoS (the QoS that limits threads to only ever execute on efficiency cores).

This is a nice test and good data, but it seems intuitively correct to me that things would work this way. I guess the unintuitive bit is "if you scale the QoS all the way back to minimum, regular M1 outperforms M1 Pro".

It would be interesting to see which one has the lower power usage during these tasks as well, given that regular M1 is a desktop machine (Mini in this case) and M1 Pro is a laptop.
I mean, Valve is still privately owned as far as I know, so wherever it’s going is entirely up to the mind of it’s founders.

Edit: Tring to do good, and they made Dota 2?
No, that is usually not possible. Sometines you can reset write-once-bits by shining UV light in the right part of the processor die, or you can try to circunvent the fuse checks by fault injection during, https://media.ccc.de/search/?q=fault+injection
By the way, assuming I'm running Wayland - anyone maybe knows a way for me to check if any of the apps I have/run are using X11?
I don't care for underlying motives as long as the results are aligned with mine. The end result is that landscape is better for the customer.

I seriously do not get why people think that companies do 'good' for any other reason than money.
You’re expecting far too much objectivity and rational action from the financial media, my sweet summer child. They’ve always been obsessed by trivia and gimmicks. Much more interesting to write about than “buy a few good index funds and hold forever.”
Doesn't Nim come with a runtime, though? Rust vs. C++ is entirely due to implementation differences, but isn't this more like C++ vs. Golang?
I love the idea of a SPA without full page refresh. But from experience, the UX of that is terrible! 99% of SPAs i've tried prevented me from using history navigation from my browser, and simply failed in unobvious way when the network wasn't reachable (yeah just keep on spinning without ever loading anything or timing out).

When doing a "full page refresh" my browser has good UX for displaying errors and retrying requests, potentially resending <form> data. SPAs don't have any of that.SPAs is a cool pattern but as long as it is not supported by the HTML/CSS specs (and therefore the browser natively) it will remain terrible from a UX perspective.
F# CE is so cool
I guess that from the perspective of someone who both cycles and drives on the roads, the balance seems to self-evidently be correct (or at least close to it) because I both want to and are able to do both.

It's not _perfect_, but yeah, my city is not the M1 (main motorway/highway in the UK), you can cycle in it, if you don't want to, you don't have to. There are loads of other options, not only the car but the train, the bus, walking, etc.

I've never really been a fan of using the statistical approach because it doesn't work without first defining some sort of goal.

Changing the percentage share, or absolute level, of either cycling or driving, in either the positive or negative direction, isn't something that I have any interest in.

My original post is kind of aimed at that problem - that it seems as if these issues are painted as "pro-cycling group wants X" or "pro-driving group wants Y" when really what we need is "pro-both group wants X/2 and Y/2" or something like that. Freedom of choice is generally better than the alternative.
Raspberry pi was quite a game changer. It pushed the creation of so many similar cheap boards; which proliferated around the world and enabled IOT, it enabled so many things.

SSDs will inevitably destroy spinning rust. The war was over long ago but spinning rust is still a thing.

The next one that's happening right now is digital cameras. Consumer film is roughly around 87 megapixels. The pros use stuff that's in the gigapixels but 88 megapixels is the line to beat. Samsung S22 Ultra 5G has 108MP rear cam. This is a new generation that will make waves and it's happening now. Film still matters for your stanley kubricks but its not anymore.
I think the Q4 earnings report will show massive improvements, furthermore, them moving away from just being a brick-and-mortar store will help valuation in the long run. MOASS is unlikely to happen, but I think in the long term the valuation of GME will keep increasing considering their new plans and their new following/customers. They definitely gained in brand-name in the last year.

This whole saga seems to at least introduce some new rules and regulations. Although enforcing them will be the real game-changer.
It seems to be missing semantic HTML:
main nav header footer article section details summary aside.

Any recommendations for a simple stylesheet that does semantic too ?

Or for a Tufte-style that puts asides and footnotes in the right column ?
Domestic abuser busted in the act of putting an AirTag on a car
It's not illegal to push a stock up just like it's not illegal to short a stock. Certain rules apply when you become significant share holder.

Buying significant calls will move the market as the market maker buys shares the ensure they can cover. Shorting drops price because it "creates" shares. Even six figure trades can move the market,
What's funny, asml is from over there, and without them, no apple anymore.
I dig most of this article, and I do applaud the work Valve is doing for the Linux gaming ecosystem, but I draw a line at supporting kernel level anti-cheat drivers. That trend in gaming bothers me to no end, and I refuse to knowingly install a game that features one.

The presence of 15 year old script kiddies using aimbots does NOT IN ANY WAY justify having kernel level control over my machine, Linux or otherwise. Valve, and every other company that contributes to gaming in general, kindly stay the fuck out of our kernels.

EDIT: I feel a few folks in the comments are getting mixed up between the concepts of DRM and kernel-level anti-cheat drivers. DRM is what keeps folks from pirating software, as well as diminishing the freedom of where and how you can install the software. It sucks, but I understand why it exists, and that isn't what I'm talking about here

Kernel-level drivers, on the other hand, are drivers that run outside your sphere of influence (so-called user-space) and exist outside the checks and balances of your operating system that keep programs from doing whatever the hell they please.

Add on the fact that these programs are black boxes by design, and all of the sudden a company essentially has free reign to do whatever they want with your machine under your nose. This is dangerous and unacceptable.
With the latest Tor Browser (11.0.4 based on Mozilla Firefox 91.5.0esr) on Arch Linux, I get the following:

* 9dfe9b69a9f18ef1c0d313aa4c013b52 in regular windowed mode

* 0fa96aa3ae2698bc2d1187f39b79db36 in fullscreen mode (F11).

Does anyone else get any of these fingerprints? If so, that is evidence that Tor Browser is well-designed. If not, that is evidence of some details overlooked.
> ... by cars.

Right on! Imagine the utopia if the only cars on the road were delivery vehicles.
In that vein, an Ancient Greek version of Harry Potter does actually exist! I think I've seen a Latin and Scots version too.

Here are the translator's notes on making it, which provide an interesting perspective on how translation works: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/harry_potter.htm
I will admit that the 'everything is your fault' resonated with me. The best boss operated exactly this way ( and I hope I will be able to emulate him one day ). I am obviously not talking about self-flagellating. In a corporate environment, it can easily backfire.

Still, the moment you are the boss, it really is your show.
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Do you want to be more specific?
This sounds like it might be railway-dependent but yes, I see your point.
My first job out of school (in the '80's) was working for a company that managed the infrastructure for state lotteries. We ran the Texas lottery and, yes, we did occasionally have point of sale terminals drop off the network when a rancher forgot to close a gate.
Likely through heavy city traffic, which is the worst kind of driving.
I've been reading and criticizing media-hyped studies for a long time, and I've noticed there is an "interestingness bias" in these studies' conclusions.

Media-hound scientists will always walk straight past the less interesting explanations of their data and seize on the most attention-grabbing conclusion as the one "the data clearly suggests."

Then the comment section will go "what about the less interesting explanations"? Which of course were downplayed in the paper, and omitted entirely from the media promotion of the paper.
> Still, they looked unusable.

This shouldn't be the case. If you use wx 3.0, it's too old to support the features that appeared in macOS after its release (dark mode etc), but 3.1.5 should look just as the native UIs do.