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Whatever happened to NetBSD being the version that ran on everything? I discovered the other day that it took them years to even run properly on the Raspberry Pi.

Are they short of money or developers, or is the famed portability of it just not as true as it used to be?
The brutally cold winters are a dealbreaker for me, even if they do contribute to Chicago’s affordability.
I can one up this. The obscured story told through items descriptions and vague dialogue feels like a meta game on its own for those who really want to venture in. To me it felt like I was rediscovering games again, reminded me of playing old games like Lands of Lore, Black Crypt or Ultima for the first time, strange sense of wonder. Never thought I’ll get this feeling again after so many years.
I thought something was odd. None of those cats seemed real, and I clicked "dismiss" on all of them.
What is funny to me is that some people who are all about the free market fail to recognize incentives when it comes to children. Sure, there are non-monetary considerations (big ones!) but the economic costs of having children (both out of pocket and opportunity) are continuing to rise.

If you want more of something, subsidize it, either explicitly or by reducing its relative costs. Here's an off the cuff list of suggestions which would reduce the cost of children:

* Accessible free or low cost daycare/childcare

* Accessible low cost health care

* Cheaper housing near job centers

I'm sure there are more.

But how are we going to pay for all that? Consider it an investment allowing a country to continue to have a growing tax base.
And it doesn't even support basic gestures. Useless with a trackpad.
The difficulty and risk of death and loss is intrinsically intertwined with the atmosphere. There are many other games with amazing dark art, but without the actual fear of death from the game system, they have less impact.
You're recommending Slay the Spire for the lore? It doesn't even have lore.
> why such stubborn holdouts exist and why can't the government work with them (are those holdouts being paid or otherwise motivated to hurt public good? organized? do they have pathological distrust to the government, how can that be worked out? etc.)

A highway extension here in Ontario was blocked for years by homeowners who, as far as I can tell, just didn't want their community bulldozed to put in a highway. An entirely reasonable position to hold, regardless of whether the highway is to the public good. There is no reasonable incentive you could give to get some people to give up land they have been on for their whole lives. When one is talking hundreds of properties as in the case of that extension, you will absolutely find a stubborn person who will say no.
I don’t think this will change anything statistically.

I have no numbers but as a French, I know literally nobody who have not been to school/kindergarten at 3.

Starting school at 3, while not mandatory before the law, was just the norm for barely everyone.
It's also really good at writing test cases. Once you've written a couple test cases manually it can take the "it should" string and auto-complete the body of the test with very high accuracy.
An interesting tool to help preserve floating point precision is Herbie (https://herbie.uwplse.org/), which takes an expression as input and outputs an optimized version of it that will retain precision.

The example they give on their site is:

sqrt(x+1) - sqrt(x) => 1/(sqrt(x+1) + sqrt(x))
It's already bad. The issue isn't when you sleep up relative to the sun, but relative to your responsibilities. Some kids have to wake up before 6am not to keep up, which severely limits their options in the evenings and their phyiscal development.
use 80 bits? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Apple_Numerics_Enviro...
I may have missed it, but I read the read me, looked at the main site, looked at the beginning of getting started… nowhere says what BGP stands for / is.

I get it’s written in go, but I have no idea what BGP is. Big green pages, binary grepping pipes, boisterous gambling pachyderms?

Jokes aside, y’all might want to give a brief about what this is for us uninitiated.
Low bandwidth could be a feature. You'd know that your winking product can't be sending a whole lot of information about you that way. Or at least it would take a while to do so.
The average user doesn't need to 'get it,' they need to be incentivized to use it, believe me I had a startup that targeted a demographic that you'd never suspect would ever use it, that is until they had to because they were unable to hold a bank account and were subject to financial censorship and had thier accounts frozen or seized: the average age of said demographic was in the mid 60s.

Personally speaking, I think Bitcoin won't get 'mass adoption' in the developed World until they are using it without actually realizing: think a GUI and UX similar to that of online banking, and unfortunately, custodial services and wallets.

The idealist crypto-nerd in me wished everyone would be running their own mainchain and LN node and would be securing their funds on hardware wallets, and only communicated over End to End or PgP encrypted platforms with keys they swapped in person: but after over 10 years in this space I have come to realize that the average person will gravitate towards convince in orders of magnitude much more than security.

It's a harsh reality that I have long accepted when it comes to the 'average user' and it helps explain the prevalence of why the leaks, hacks and data breaches using these leaky services continues.

Personally speaking, this isn't 2011, you don't need to learn how to use Linux to download the blockchain and synch up to the network using QT and create wallets in the terminal, thus the IQ factor isn't relevant anymore... all you need is a relatively modern smart phone and an internet connection (and when that is down a Blockstream satellite or access to Starlink as has been proven to be the case in Tonga and Ukraine this year) to plug into this inclusive financial system: it's very telling that 3G/4G availability is more prevalent in the developed World than running water is.
Plus I strongly suspect Google search no longer gives the most accurate answer, but the one most profitable for Google ads.
Things will continue to get worse until we do. I guess until some hypothetical dystopian society finishes burning all he coal. Or someone whose entire family has died due to heat/drought engineers a nuclear/biological disaster to end the pieces of civilization that use a lot of energy. Or you know we de-carbonize and build an electrical (for energy) and biological (for medicines and food) society.
Lack of sanitizing inputs. Barcode scanners are hilariously bad, look up "scan tags" for why.

Q: This barcode scanner has a million options, how do we configure them?

A: By showing configuration barcodes to it!
Do you think immigration has disadvantages? Could you name them?

For some people the disadvantages outweigh the advantages (like offering a solution to birth rates, provided low birth rates are a problem). Immigrants and their descendants can and have swung election results. Nothing wrong with this but for some people this is too big of a disadvantage.

This shouldn't surprise you, there are many countries with very little immigration, very strict immigration laws, and low birth rates, so for them the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, and they are not even democracies.
This would be interesting to see - considering most European countries banned lead paint long before the US, I would expect exposure rates to be lower.
People have a lot of misconceptions about water infrastructure. Approximately 6-10M lead service lines still exist in today's world. (https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/lead-ser...) Most of that is kept away from you by treating water with a chemical that causes a rust layer to form over the lead, preventing it from getting into the water at dangerous levels. Phosphates are typically used for this purpose. (https://alliancewater.com/why-the-us-still-has-lead-service-...)

Cities do screw this up, as evidenced in Flint and other areas. Not all filters are designed to remove heavy metals or lead, so you need to be picking a filter based on that. (https://www.consumerreports.org/water-filters/make-sure-your...) There's also other stuff in the water, so picking the right filter for your area is important.

Whether you're an adult or a child lead poisoning is equally dangerous (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lead-poisonin...). It is something that can be tested for though.
People who have replaced fish with something else (other than bash and zsh) after using it for a significant time, to what and why?
An enormous part of this country does not want it to be young and vibrant if that means it isn't white, Christian, and English speaking.

Like I don't want to be coy about this, the Republican Party is diametrically opposed to any kind of immigration reform that would let in more people that don't look and talk like their voters. The only policy that republicans support that might decrease their average age is anti education and anti birth control/abortion measures.

We should not continue to be surprised by this. It's what they've been saying for decades. You can't counter an irrational fear of the other with rational arguments about immigration - the racist nugget at its core just has to be nipped in the bud.
> Grandparents don't want to put in the time either

Is that really the case?

The grandparents I know are all super eager to get grandchild time and go pretty far out of their way to make that easy for the parents. In the US and Europe anyway, I don’t know that many people elsewhere but I would assume it’s the same.

Especially in the US, geography can make it difficult but I don’t see that as a
lack of motivation.

Maybe my sample is skewed but it’s definitely not all wealthy/educated/tech people.
In this context, BGP stands for Border Gateway Protocol.

I opened a PR to fix that. https://github.com/osrg/gobgp/pull/2535
If hi speed charging lowers battery life, I follow that low speed charging will lengthen it.
> Unless of course, “whatever you want” includes not publishing your changes. Copyleft does not permit people to do “whatever they want”

You can absolutely not publish your changes, where did you get the idea FOSS forces you to publish? FOSS imposes restrictions upon distribution; you're free to use the software however you want if you keep it to yourself.

> I said “variations of FOSS licenses”, which is precisely what I provided examples of.

In that case, you introduced something irrelevant. A variation of FOSS which introduces changes that break the fundamental tenets stops being FOSS. Hence, you cannot get away with using the term "a variation of FOSS", because it's a variation that happens not to be FOSS.

Your other opinions of why people like or dislike this or that license or philosophy, comparisons to RMS's early days, etc, are all red herrings. They are worth debating, but completely irrelevant for deciding what is or isn't FOSS.

A license that restrict usage by Russians, or in nuclear reactors, or that requires you to first agree abortion is wrong (or right) is fundamentally not FOSS. Whether this is a good or a bad thing is on you, but also irrelevant in this context.
I took vector calculus from professors in the institute of technology and in the school of liberal arts. You got a BS or a BA in Math depending on which was your home. The professors from the institute of technology used diagrams and related concepts to mechanics and electromagnetics. The professor from liberal arts taught a purely abstract course without such aids, and it was far more difficult to understand. It was also far less useful for an electrical engineer.

That said, I realize that if one is headed for an advanced degree in theoretical physics, communications theory, solid state physics, etc., then the more abstract course may be the better choice.
I’m not saying you are wrong, but everyone working less and being richer is an outcome, not a policy. How do you think we should achieve that? Making higher quality goods sounds like it would take more work, not less.

It’s all very well saying “we could just”, but how would you bring about this change? How do you persuade people to want different things and make different choices? That’s the interesting question.
(Founder of Neeva here) On OP's question -- don't underestimate the power of defaults. Google owns Chrome and Android. Google pays Apple to be the default on Safari. Google pays Firefox to be the default. Bing is default on Edge. And so on. All the platforms make it very hard to change the defaults. And on platforms like Safari, as a user, you can't even change the default search provider if you want to.
As someone who has declined in gaming skills as I lose free time I’ve adopted just using mods on PC versions. It removes the online aspect of the game but allows you the chance to explore the world. I’ll be in the retirement home paying someone $20 to update the mod engine for Elden Ring 3.
Yeah, ever since Expose launched in 10.3 (Panther?) I haven't seen a better window manager for a laptop.
Damn, looks like he's no longer involved with the investment fund he was starting. Hope he's alright and has landed on his feet.
Concurrent programming is much more difficult and also come in numerous paradigms/flavors which unfortunately lacks an agreed-upon taxonomy and terminology, so I'd forgive the author for making some confusing statements.

Focusing on the "event loop" is a conceptual mistake imo, since it associates heavily to the (traditional) callback-oriented concurrency in JS. With callbacks, it is expected that shared state can be changed between registering and executing the callback.

However, with async, this line is blurred enough to mess with the programmer's intuition (this is of course subjective, but I've seen enough to know that folks are confused). Async functions are (mostly) syntactic sugar for callbacks, and as such each await-point is where things can change - yet people don't expect it. When I help folks get up to speed on async, the first thing I call out is that the await points have this important semantic property. Any use of mutable state outside an async function is a ticking time bomb.

The other thing that I disagree with is the "logical mutex" synchronization in js. Async iterators would be preferable in most real world situations, but they're not even mentioned.

Async is a blessing if it's used sanely, but a curse if it's not. It doesn't magically make problems go away, but it can make your code more concise.
Unfortunately EV stations make a point to know their customer, extensively. Is it even possible to pay cash and not have your car identified by the charger in a significant number of stations?
Border Gateway Protocol how the internet shares its routing table.
I wouldn't know because I'm American and only know enough about my own country to comment on it, our culture, and our politics. I don't think comparison is relevant.
Shared clipboard has been huge for me, especially when prepping things like DMing or D&D haha
Here's one from NPR: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/893113807/china-speeds-up-dri...

and simple Google searches yield many results.

Undoubtedly some people greatly benefited from the land purchase, when such offers are made. I've also heard of stories (friend of a friend kinda, I do not directly know one) of people actually getting rich (not middle class, like rich rich) by having properties in areas that the government happens to like. (more so in suburbs of big cities like Shanghai or Shenzhen)

However the point is even one forced eviction is one too many and the people who come out better for it (good for them) does not justify the poor treatment of people who simply dare to say no to the communist party.
Thank you for having a front page that actually says what BGP is.
The Salmon of Doubt was the one from Douglas Adams for me. I loved hitchhiker's, but there's something so earnest in that book. Like a late goodbye from someone you would've loved to be friends with.

Made me go on a life-long quest to understand what I am leaving, and how I want to be remembered after I'm gone. I've never met him and read his books after he passed away, but he still makes his presence aware through his words.
BonsaiDB: Document database that grows with you, written in Rust
I think the fear is that one day the FromSoft suits will demand they start making their games easier so they can sell more. A fear that's pretty reasonable: they've already made one or two Elden Ring bosses easier with patches.
Skills have _not_ been passed on, greed made people outsource in a lot of areas, with disastrous consequences as far as knowledge preservation is concerned.
I think this is actually done at least on ATMs. I have read it's a good way to get the pin number for a card, as you might be able to see someone typing it in. Some of the skimmers I want to say even had a camera aimed at the keypad?
Border Gateway Protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol), basically the GPS of the internet (not technically the same, but it's close enough).

Cloudflare has already a good explanation on how it works, so I'll just point everyone out to this article: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/security/glossary/what-i...

Also, about that undefined BGP. I'm not sure if this will help explain why BGP wasn't explained, but this is from NTT OSRG (Open-source Research Group), so probably they thought that everyone knew what BGP is (since that you probably won't encounter this otherwise).

Also, they have a Rust version: https://github.com/osrg/rustybgp
Oh, that's interesting! That does make more sense. Most of the sun like stars that will ever exist are formed in the early universe, so it makes more sense that's why we exist when we do.
I made the same mistake as yourself. Read from the beginning. To make it worse in 16th century english. This is a good resource, https://www.biblegateway.com/.
I remember something I read from the 1970s which suggested that the Earth’s carrying capacity was about 2.1 billion. That number of humans could be sustained indefinitely. Going higher than that would result in environmental degradation that would reduce the carrying capacity. We are now at that point and the population will go higher in spite of the the low birth rates. Every day we diminish the environment and de-terraform the Earth.

I am fine with the population declining naturally over time. I wish the Western countries could do more to absorb additional immigrants. This would have a positive effect for their own aging demographics but also worldwide as money flows to home countries.

I will probably die about the time population reaches the peak. I have always felt that that peak will be a difficult time because of poverty and demographics. Nothing we are doing now is preparing well for that time.
Charlie and the great glass elevator. Changed my life in a way where I actually started reading not just for education but for fun. The book which kindled my love for reading. That books don't need to be academic or a hill to be climbed.
Is there a talk that goes along with the slides?
Not at all personal. But these ideas are in a public square that influences young technologists who are impressionable and may take these ideas into their cliques and circles and sub-communities, which will then influence bad ideas further.

It's coming to an end by people advocating for the truth more aggressively in light of what's all over the news and readily accessible. You said something very immature to a serious topic and thus received a frank response. There was no personal attack though. I don't know you, so how can I attack you personally or as a person? I didn't attack you at all. Re-read the message. I told you to be more mature and to stop being immature. Because reductionist one-liners that disregard good-intentioned expositions for the sake of advocating for the truth...show immaturity. And that is much more of a personal attack, by the way, than anything I said. The entire context of the conversation was Macron and how his being a terrible leader means he should have no say in anything, let alone when a state can tear away a child from his or her parents. Ukraine was provided as an example of that, because it relates to France's defense spending as a share of GDP (which historically has not been adequate) and because of France's idiotic policies on nuclear reactors some recent years ago now coming to bite them in the ass because of, you guessed it, Macron and other "leaders" such as him. These things show awful leadership skills on their parent, and consequently are evidence for why they should not be trusted as leaders in general. Not just because his stance on education is wrong, boneheaded, and even evil. And these are urgent and important subjects on account of inaccessible energy and inadequate defense spending resulting in many lives being lost and society regressing if these things are not corrected swiftly.

Nothing personal intended friendo, it's the internet - but notice that I'm the one who in the last handful of messages has made arguments, whereas that other comment you made was not an argument. You did not contest or object to the logic.
The Raspberry Pis are hostile towards non-Linux systems.
I too used leaded solder. But only because it was easier to use than the lead free versions
> What I find frustrating is that asking for this feature produces intense backlash in many communities.

I can understand it though. I mean, leaving aside whether or not adding an easy mode actually affects the game for those who don't want to play in it. Its kinda like, the developers created a game that, as it stands, appeals to person A. Person B wants changes made or added to the game so that the game appeals more to them. Of course person A is going to be upset that others want the game changed to suit those other people, when it works perfectly fine for person A as is.

For me, I know that adding an easy mode would affect my experience, but the reason for that is a me problem: because I know I don't have the tenacity to persevere if I have a choice to just play in easy instead (yet I also know that being forced to persevere has led to some of the greatest satisfaction I've gotten from playing games). That's my problem, though, but for me its like yeah well the game as is suits me, so.. please don't change it. Of course I totally understand that this is just me and that others could enjoy the game much more if this were added to the game, and I should just work on my self control in that area.

But I totally get it, especially if this is the only thing that prevents someone from enjoying a game that in every other way would be enjoyable to them.
> Rothbard regards the state as a predatory entity.
> It does not produce anything but rather steals resources from those engaged in production.

wow!!

downloaded, thank!
I wonder what the cost of the fines would be if you built anyway. If they didn't make you tear it down and the fine was less than the difference in costs, it might be optimal to skip.
> So the night sky, if the universe is infinite, wouldn't be dark - it would be as bright as the sun

You are inferring infiniteness also translates somehow to cosmic density and luminosity. By definition of an infinite universe the vast majority will necessarily fall outside the observable universe and never be visible to us.

As to luminosity, even now when we look up and see dark patches in the sky, they are in fact are full of stars and galaxies. The most famous picture ever taken by the Hubble, the “Hubble Deep Field”, was taken by pointing towards a dark patch revealing 10s of thousand of galaxies. These 10s of thousands of stars and galaxies still appear as dark patches in our skies because they are not sufficiently luminous to appear in out sky as light without the aid of telescopes to collect their dim light.