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It is like you didn't watch the video link in the comment you replied to. Linus is trying to add to his entertainment empire with more scientific data based reviews. He seems to be perfectly aware of what he has to produce to keep his business solvent, while at the same time is using that success to add on the more detailed type of content he is interested in producing.

Honestly, I don't mind what current LTT videos do. I've spend enough time around tech and doing design work that a lot of the mistakes and situations are familiar. Sure the staff is aware they have to be entertaining and play it up, but a lot of the mistakes are genuine. Plus it makes videos quicker to shoot if you aren't trying to get a perfect take.
> You might be in favor of this action because the targets happen to be your enemies, but this could easily be flipped next time around.

Well, that's the irony right there. Conservatives are all about this authoritarian garbage, have been for decades or more. Now that it's been flipped around on them, it's all hue and cry. If the cops had treated this like any other protest, they'd have violently shut it down 3 weeks ago. The federal government declared it a national emergency because the cops decided not to maintain order. Sure, this is bad. But if it's somehow news to you, you just haven't been paying attention because you didn't like what the protesters had to say. Let's change the law already. But let's make sure the cops are respectful of everybody's freedom to assemble while we're at it.
90% of medieval manuscripts of chivalric and heroic tales have been lost
MuParserX: C++ math parser with array and string support
I just thought that too. I used to use it quite a lot.

Googling for iGoogle turns up igoogleportal.com[0] as the top result.

[0] https://igoogleportal.com/
This distinctly reminds me of MS Access. Was a teen at the time, but saw (through my father) a whole bunch of small businesses that basically ran off of an Access database with a bunch of forms for invoicing and such.
> the difficulty people have with it is that it’s functional, not that it’s nix.

I write plenty of functional scala. I still find nix to be rather impenetrable, largely due to its dynamic nature and unfamiliar syntax.
“Why We Banned Lego” FTFY
>Unless you are counting AdSense as sponsors.

Yes, I am going by Google's own definition of AdSense which describes them as "sponsored links". If revenue from sponsored links does not count as sponsorship revenue then to each their own.

>You seem to be saying LTT is beholden to their sponsors?

This is such a massive jump I have no idea if it's even worth responding to it. I have no idea how posting a link to a literal pie chart directly from a source can be construed as saying that said source is beholden to sponsors.

If there's anything disingenuous, it would be the idea that not mentioning floatplane which makes up a mere 4% of revenue is a form of misrepresentation. That said I will defer to Hanlon's razor on that one [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
No, just that being a normal first world country that funds things that return real value, like an educated work force who pay back in higher taxes, is far more useful than fake spending to hide what is being done.
Yes, nixpkgs desperately needs to be split, at least into two packages:

- stdlib

- packages

The stdlib could also include builders and language frameworks, or they could be split even further.

Then treat the stdlib the same way as it is treated in any other language (make it stable, not changed frequently and make sure everything is documented with the release).

That would reduce the need of reading source code to use nix.
> At this point the browser could pop open a dialogue box that says "Hey you said you wanted to communicate with foo.com but I need to grab a pic from bar.com is that cool?"

IE 6 in the default configuration did something like that with its yellow bar, IIRC, and all it amounted to was the fastest known method (minutes, for me) to provoke warning fatigue and make people vulnerable, seeing as the same UI was used for installing ActiveX controls.

(Could be it did that all additional resources, though, not just those from a different origin? I don’t remember since I disabled the whole thing near-immediately even when I did actually use IE 6.)

This is unworkable from a usability perspective for as long as hotlinking to external resources is so commonplace. And a user permission might not be an effective way to do this, anyway, given the imbalance in bargaining power, as already seen with adblocker-blockers and such. (See also the 2006 paper, “A pact with the devil”[1].)

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-666.pdf
This news about Windows 11 Pro "requiring" a Microsoft Account is a bit of sensationalism. You can still bypass it and create a local account if you know what you're doing, as has been the case for several years with Windows 10. Here is how:

When you see the “Let’s Connect You To A Network” page, hit “Shift” and “F10” simultaneously. This will bring up the Command Prompt to which you type the command:
taskkill /F /IM oobenetworkconnectionflow.exe

When Windows 11 setup detects networking is not possible, it will let you create the local account as always.
Thanks for pointing out band 40. Apparently it's just used in China, but it is supported on the iPhone 13.

Band 30 is a no-go because the downlink is at 2350 to 2360 MHz, which is not a ham band. The ham band is split because of satellite radio. It's 2300 to 2310 and 2390 to 2450 MHz.
In a recent WAN show he was hinting at a known name that applied but didn't say much more than that. Definitely wouldn't be surprised if this was that.
You can make a centrifugal magnetic mirror the size of a truck for a few million bucks that will weapons grade as much fissile material as you want. It doesn't take new science or technology to do. If you want to keep weapons grade fissile material out of someone's hands then your best hope is preventing them from having fissile material (or at least controlling every pound of the stuff).
IIUC, the news is that Microsoft will be disabling this workaround and requiring an active network connection on setup.
I'm sorry, I keep hearing about this thing, but it's just not solving any major problem I actually have in in programming or computer environment.

Non-reproducable environments are just not such a big issue that it's worth "radical rethinking" of everything to solve.
It depends what you are trying to do much like ffmpeg they a command line tool called gst-launch-1.0 that can be used to do a lot (but I find the pipeline string syntax much nicer than ffmpeg's command line options), but you can also use gstreamer as a library embedded in an application (we've been very satisfied at my work using the rust bindings). One thing that is particularly nice is that the same pipeline syntax can be used embedded in an application or from the command line. If you want they some example pipelines here https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/tools/gst-la...
I'd guess you haven't been in a role to teach kids. They need to be taught. If not a doctrine you believe in, then it will be something horrific that they come up with themselves. The Lord of the Flies was a documentary.

> Why should the children accept the student-teacher hierarchy? Are they old enough to question it?

This is an anti-intellectual anti-parenting garbage take. These are 8 year olds.
> These people, with nothing to lose, absolutely nothing to lose, have easy access to weapons and ammunition.

Isn't it illegal to buy a gun if you have a felony?

Putting aside the whole "they're criminals, they don't follow the law". Unless that was your point
Anyone use Guix[0]? How does it compare to Nix?

0: https://guix.gnu.org/
Those "exploited workers" probably made decent money relative to the cost of living in their location, and they got to do it from the comfort of a computer instead of hard labor in the sun, which is what someone in their same socioeconomic bracket would more likely be doing.
maybe that’s it; maybe it kind of sits in the middle where it tries to please everyone and ends up pleasing no one. not a great functional language, but functional enough to confuse you if you’ve never done functional and are expecting JSON.
Does fooling around with Tokamaks and stellarators count as scientific research?

Certainly, containing fusing plasma magnetically requires developing a much better understanding than we now have of plasma fluid dynamics under conditions of high pressure and complicated, variable magnetic field geometry, but studying plasma fluid dynamics for itself does not need multi-billion dollar equipment. Nobody wants to give plasma physicists a dime just to learn about plasma, even though it would be fantastically cheaper than what is being done instead.
Somehow I always prefer cffi over numba and cython. When I write a performance-critical piece of code in C/C++, interfacing it with cffi I know it'll be very fast, while with numba/cython I always feel there is so much uncertainty and it won't be close to pure C anyway.
> “Well, I can let other people use the landing strip, if they have airplanes,” said Oliver. “Then it’s fair for me to use more cool pieces, because it’s for public use.”

Im going to call BS on an 8 year old using the term “public use” that’s such an abstract complicated thought. At best it was parroting.
I recently briefly tried Nix and yeah the language seems a bit tough with not too many resources floating around. I really don't want to learn a whole language just for my package manager. But then I discovered Guix which is inspired by Nix but uses Scheme instead of a custom thing. Seems more sensible and easier to understand as I know a little bit of lisp already.
The case I'm referring to didn't involve Amazon.
Also in-line with comparing mask-mandates to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

Makes me wonder if this kind of hyperbole is just the natural outcome after decades of politics labeling all kinds of situations the "Next Nazi Germany" [0] or "Worse than Hitler" [1], often to justify foreign intervention.

Maybe Godwin's law actually predates the Internet.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-33603620080515

[1] https://apnews.com/article/c456d72625fba6c742d17f1699b18a16
Was the mini-assembler moved on the //e? On our school's ][+ it was:

call -151
I have been running NixOS and uxing Nix for almost everything since I switched to it, and my experience has been great so far. It is one versatile solution to a lot of applications:

1. I run NixOs on on laptop and workstation, for work and for personal use. Any change to the configuration can be immediately transfered to other machines. And give me a new machine, I can quickly bring it up with the configuration that I am always using.
2. I run NixOS on my home server and machine learning cluster. Deploy experiment and service on them is as simple as updating the git-managed configurations. Meanwhile, if I want to use more power to run an experiment, NixOps can quickly bring up a set of machines on AWS with the configuration identical to my local experiment. You do not need to worry about setting up CUDA/pytorch and other dependencies every.
3. In my start-up, it definitely took more time to train the developers to learn Nix, but once they get familiar, everyone becomes a good DevOps engineer, which solves development environemnt (that invloves C++/Python), CI/CD and release really well.
They are both authoritarian.
The teachers are thinking they are “teaching” them about power, but what is clear to me is the only power is the power of the teachers to completely take away the Lego even though the kids didn’t want it. That complete lack of agency only teaches the kids “what’s the point? I have no control anyway.”

Having them jump through hoops to appease the agenda of the teachers to eventually regain it back doesn’t change the fact the children know they have no agency ie power. The entire thing reeks of hypocrisy.
If you think this is the sledgehammer, you should read up on what they did to G20 protesters. It wasn't weeks of friendly fraternization.
Still, it leaves the teachers open to criticisms like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30393372

Maybe that matters more in a message board discussion like this one than it does to the actual people involved. Then again, getting buy-in from adults is necessary if a new approach to teaching is going to be replicated on a large scale.
I’m not sure whether to take this as a joke or not. Not using a Microsoft account requires using a terminal to kill a process? Is there seriously no other way?

If so, I suspect that Microsoft have succeeded in their goal to get everyone to use their accounts, because I don’t see the vast majority of users going down this route.
Could look at pihole or nextdns (cloud version of pihole)
That work is hard and the tooling is bad and it only takes one mistake, like forgetting to suppress the mtime of your files.

Docker was good enough, simple enough, and got the job done. It won for good reason, but the next generation should learn from it's mistakes.
They're rare collectibles, Jobs is an idolized cult figure who allegedly rarely signed anything. Presumably being written by him may substantially increase their value.
I was going to say the same thing. My parents loved their iGoogle home page and were sad when it went away.
The RDP issue is only a problem because the UI doesn't make it clear that you need to have password sign-in enabled to RDP, when setting up a PIN during initial setup disables password sign-in.
It's a higher level issue, declarative vs. programmatic environment control. It isn't that sysadmins don't understand programming, functional programming, etc.--everyone is devops these days. It's that in the world of system administration we've gone through many waves and trends with significant backlash against complete programmatic definition of environments.

In the old days you'd exec a pile of shell scripts to go out and put your servers into the state you wanted. It was brittle, painful to understand, etc. Then things evolved into declarative definition of environments with tools like ansible. Now you just define the state of the world you want and ansible or other tools do the work to get the world into that state. This has evolved even further into declarative definition of entire distributed systems with kubernetes--you write out a pile of YAML that defines the state you want and kubetl and k8s controllers take care of making it happen.

So there are definitely people that understand the value of functional programming, but don't want it to define their environments. I don't want to have to grok someone's 'clever' solutions to figure out that ultimately they just want package x, y, z and software foo installed. I just want to list what I want and let the tooling make it happen.
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This reads almost like the plot of a South Park episode.

To recap: Under capitalism, kids(!) get to make cool stuff out of Legos even though the norms are not always fair. Socialist teachers decry this unfairness. After a crisis, they successfully dismantle the unfairness, but only via brute force confiscation, which they execute only after decrying such authoritarianism.

The lesson I learned: Evidently, the socialist intelligentsia has no ability or willingness to produce fairness alongside other goods, either because the problem is inherently extremely difficult (perhaps impossible), or because intelligentsia socialists are generally untalented people, or because each of these socialists has invested so much of her personal resources and effort toward crushing capitalism that she has excluded any thought or concept of how to promote more fairness and cooperation along with producing other goods.

I imagine at least a few of the poor kulak^H^H^H^H^Hkid citizens of Legotown learned the same thing.
The teachers DID interpose themselves. They removed the legos after the Legotown was damaged even though the kids didn’t want that. Only after months of jumping through hoops and patting themselves on the shoulder did the kids get the Lego back.

There are easier ways of teach kids how to share without not only depriving them of toys but making them feel utterly powerless over a random event and having the teachers unilaterally decide to take away the Lego. It wasn’t taken away from some particularly egregious event, it was an accident and the kids wanted to fix things but the teachers response was to show the kids had no agency or power in the decision at all. Way to show the kids what true power is!
Unless the situation has changed the LocalCDN extension is a bit more active and contains more (recent) resources.
By "rest of us" do you mean developers? I find Nix especially useful on that front by being able to provide a common dev environment and also when used for CI it can speed up builds through its caching.

They do have unfortunate name of the project and it is harder to find articles about just Nix, while NixOS is more unique.
Heh, I know HN doesnt like witty one liners, but...

"Thank you, human, you will be spared during the robot apocalypse"

Would be an equally funny and terrifying message.
Actual democracy may be fine, but democracy as practiced here on Earth is usually a theatrical version of the real thing.

As an example: M4A has strong bipartisan support among the public, but politicians discuss it using rhetoric and propaganda, demonstrating that it is fake.
I feel like practically all manufacturers have switched to cheaper metal alloys. For example, Fiskars scissors, garden shears, and such used to be a thing you buy once and use practically forever, now they're pretty much the same as anything that has any kind of brand on the packaging.
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its "lego"
I wish cython had a better debugging story. If it were more ergonomic, it could have been an amazing language in its own right.
Ivmmeta:

1. Communicates clearly.

2. Has a simple pitch (look at all this evidence! here are links and all the details we can find!).

If you are evidence based you have to admit ivmmeta.com is interesting (it compares extremely well to the usual tripe for ordinary people which typically just reports "studies show..." with no links or sources - or like this article, one study in a sea of conflicting and complicated studies). If only the governments of the world had the resource of Big Ivermectin and could summarise data effectively and present it as one would to an adult. Might even work better than mandates and threats, what do I know.

The counterarguments tend to be vague. When this post says "various research studies" - links. Specifics. Names. This is something ivmmeta has that the post doesn't. And that is why ivmmeta is more persuasive communication.

And as far as I can tell, based on the geographic distributions, ivmmeta probably is reporting on a real effect. That helps the argument that they are just good communicators rather than malicious.

PS - fun anecdote, a close family member of mine was diagnosed with threadworms around the time they got their 3rd vaccine shot. Ironically, assuming Ivermectin works on threadworms, they might have had better chances with COVID if they'd taken Ivermectin at the same time as their shot.

PPS - If there is an ivmmeta equivalent for vaccines people should throw it around more. It is difficult to figure out how effective they actually are given the waning of shots and complexity of cross-country policy comparisons.
The kids who managed to build cool stuff would have to try to get the other kids on board, while the kids who feel left out would campaign for destruction... sounds like a recipe for conflict, but could go either way.
I'm not using DDG but I have checked how many sites use Google facilities which track. A lot more than 0.3.
From what I've seen in Oxford and Munich, scooter drivers are quite considerate in these cities.

Oxford:

- requires a driver's license

- capped at 12mph

- highly granular 0/5/8/12mph zones (boundaries are a bit spotty, but will likely get better with time)

- only allowed to park at predefined parking spots

- decent bike/e-scooter infrastructure

- loud

- private scooters are illegal and common

Munich:

- driver's license not required

- capped at 20km/h

- allowed to park anywhere

- great bike/e-scooter infrastructure

- quiet

- private scooters are legal and rare

The speed limit in Antwerpen is 25km/h. From my experience of driving in Prague, which also has a 25km/h speed limit, (omitted above because I haven't seen many people driving there), the difference in vehicle control when driving at 20km/h vs 25km/h is enormous. At 20km/h, the braking distance is ~2m, the turning radius is small, and hopping off the scooter to avoid a collision feels safe. Driving among car traffic is smoother at 25km/h, but it doesn't feel safe to hop off at that speed and the turning radius feels twice the 20km/h value.
I suppose that the anti-parasitic effect could explain why doctors in South America and Africa are so adamant about it "working".

But the main idea behind ivermectin being used for covid is actually that it's a protease inhibitor. It essentially could directly prevent the virus from replicating.

They found a bunch of repurposable drugs which have that mechanism earlier on in the pandemic, and ivermectin was found to be extremely promising. Researchers just didn't know under what conditions and dosage it would be effective, since during the tests they blasted all of the drugs at maximum potency.

Since then, well... I have no idea. It seems like ivermectin would have to be given in very large doses to actually work, or modified to fix that issue. But instead everyone seems to just be trying to test/use the normal anti-parasitic doses, and I haven't seen anyone trying to modify it to bring out the protease inhibitor effect.

I think the cases in which it works are probably mostly in people with parasites, but there could be some other circumstance that makes it work sporadically - who knows.
What are the problems you actually have?

If you want to deploy and configure something, nix does that exceptionally well.

If you want to install up to date software on Debian, RHEL, or other distribution but not negatively impact the system, nix does that exceptionally well.

If you want to build containers, nix does that decently.

Nix solves a lot of problems beyond reproducible environments. And it solves them permanently for nearly all use cases.
Why is Iran running hundreds of centrifuges if they could cheaply use one of these things to make it into plutonium and separate that out by trivial chemical processes?
> Nix (the language, not to be confused with NixOS, the operating system)

I do wish the documentation made this division clearer. Currently they’re a bit muddled together.
I found this article pretty hard to read, mainly because of the overly sweet (and indigestible) tone, dripping good-sentiments and smarty attitude displayed by the author.

Legos were among our favorite toys for me and my (6!) siblings. Sure we had a lot of arguments back then about who would get such and such rare pieces. But conflicts between young siblings rarely last long: we would always bargain, negotiate or cheat our way out of status quo and just continue building and playing. That's just what children do.

The author may have felt very smart removing legos altogether from those children and have them discuss about privileges and feelings instead. Sadly, inequalities and conflicts are extremely valuable things for kids to experience (to a reasonable extent of course) if only just for the fact that this is what they'll find outside.

By depriving those kids of situations where they could argue and work out settlements by themselves, and instead expecting them to behave like small adults able to come up with rationals about their supposed privilege or parrot the dominant mantra, you're undermining their ability to tackle real life, to learn how to become fair (and not naive) by themselves.

Sure kids need supervision. But give them too much of it and you'll be doing them a big disservice later.