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> Isn't that just basic programmer knowledge. Basic in as "you need to learn the difference between a language and the environment its in".

I don’t think the answer to this is boolean. For instance:

> I can run C# in Unity. The number of functions I can call is vastly different than running it outside Unity.

If one is learning both in tandem, coming from a background with a language with different scoping rules, knowing the distinction even exists and should be a consideration might not even show up in reading materials. Sure, it’s an important skill to learn, but it’s not especially transferable. I know how it works in some environments and still find it baffling in others where I even know how to read the code. (Example: Java treats methods as locally scoped functions; I still have no idea how to distinguish them without running the code in a debugger. But I don’t write Java! I have a limited understanding of what’s in scope reading it.)
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Possibly? The domain owner does appear to have a history of bad behavior in a wide range of communities, including harassment. The idea that he set up this domain to annoy RedHat is plausible. However, purposely annoying a large corporation does not mean their site doesn't also serve an actual purpose, or that it constitutes trademark infringement. I don't think I see much potential for actual confusion or financial loss, so it's hard to see a strong reason to revoke the domain.
That's the problem, no explanation other than unauthorized charges which doesn't make sense as we are a platform and we have no charges
>anti-warhead defenses

ABM unreliable, require multiple interceptors per incoming - exchange favors attackers who can always saturate. Also expensive, interceptors usually cost close or more than what they're designed intercept. And currently for anyone not US, just getting US to divert 100s of billions to homeland ABM defense is a win as it will take resources from other priorities. This is also assuming ABM works against hypersonics, including all the recent talk about flak/cloud defense. It's purely speculative.

> blow up one target once

For capital assets that takes billions and years to replace like carriers, subs, supply ships, long range bombers, awacs, critical infra nodes all you need to do is blow it up once. It doesn't take a huge pool of hypersonics to essentially dismantle major US force projection capabilities.

> you just won a nuclear response

Why? Primary motive is deterrence, but with conventional forces. And if it comes down to actually exchanging conventional hits, it will follow escalation ladder, no need to cripple, or cripple to point of existential threat that warrants moving to nuclear.
A lisp machine, by definition, runs lisp. The ABI problem only exists in environments where multiple programming languages exist.

I doubt much non-.NET software runs on that C# OS either.

If you want multiple programming languages to be able to sanely run within a single OS (and do more than just pure computation), though, you have the ABI problem, and this is what the whole discussion is about.
I got the sense that Denning might have some sort of mild anxiety disorder, but I'm not any sort of expert on the subject. It doesn't sound to me like he dislikes users, rather he dislikes certain kinds of interactions. E.g.:

> When something feels like a demand (even a small demand such as “please respond to me” or “please review this pull request”), I often retreat. It is very common for me to take days, weeks, or even months off from open source because I get overwhelmed by the people asking me to do it. I experience a lot of initial anxiety due to the demand, followed by additional anxiety about me delaying my response.
> you need to be able to design each class, have experience in what works, able to design good tests and consistently have time to do everything by yourself

As a former homeschooled kid, I can testify that I had neither class nor test until I first went to school at 14yo. My parents did "force" me to do about half an hour of reading, writing and basic math. I ended up with a master in engineering.

They also bought lots of child-level science books and brought me pretty much everywhere they went.

It does take some dedication but children are hard wired to learn.
You'd be better of proving that Jesus was conceived without sperm.
I’ve never agreed with Bill McKibben about anything, but this is really interesting.
It probably will.

But since Covid is here to stay, are they going to lock down millions of people every now and then for ever?
Ah ok, thanks for the clarification!
> Linux presenting a stable kernel ABI is actually pretty unusual.

Did you mean "portable"? Because the ABI to the Linux kernel system calls is very stable. Literally the 32-bit syscall interface has not changed (except by addition) in 30 years.

The darwin kernel is also pretty stable, except Apple moves so fast from one architecture to the next that they drop support for old ISAs pretty fast. I predict they'll drop support for x86 altogether in ~5 years.
$159k was all in the account, they didn't release anything. However, before they block I think we had additional 80k they released
Murderer solves ancient math problem and finds his mission
Use headscale on your own VPS and that should quench the concerns you have.
That's the weird thing with Google isn't it?
They have the money to do so many things. But also have a reputation for closing up so many things a few years after launch.

It is now at the point where you can't commit to a new google thing and would rather use the competitor instead because you know they will likely outlast Googles corporate attention span...
Good point but it works against your overall argument - the investors who buy 10-20% of houses are far less sophisticated than Blackrock and far more likely to start panic selling when their Airbnb income can’t pay their bills.
> How about rockauto.com?

It looks old and outdated but it's so easy to use
That question has been closed and locked since Obama's first term
One bit of advice for your post: Talk a bit more about your business model - where the funds are coming from etc. It is coming for your customers (other businesses) or their customers (the shoppers)?

I understand Stripe is keeping money you believe should be released to you. But hard to form an opinion over something with very little context.

"Unauthorized charges" seems to imply that Stripe believes you've not commnunicated to your customers what you will be charging, and charged them anyway. Did you?

What exactly is in the "Unauthorized charges" email?
She’s still on the website under lang-docs, at least: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/lang#lang-docs%20...
Esoteric microcontrollers don't need an ABI. ABIs are for static and dynamic linking, and in the microcontroller world, there isn't a whole lot of linking going on. It's very common to statically compile everything into one single flash image, with libraries being in source form. E.g. this is the case in the Arduino ecosystem.
Thelonious Monk said that a genius is someone who is most like himself
Asset Managers Who Own Everything
There is zero practical downside to using `const` whenever possible, and my (Fortune 100) team's backend has been using a NoSQL database for years which has saved us an absolute ton in hosting costs. Hardly a "debacle."

Our solution is the right way to do things... for ourselves. Sorry that it upsets you.
Bruh imagine living in whatever fractured reality this is where the deplatformed orange man who can’t even tweet has anything to do with what’s happening right now.
"Yet in a world where the same massive asset manager owns every company in a given sector, it’s not clear whether this imperative exists. American Airlines may benefit by undercutting Delta on price, but such competition would probably lower profit margins across the airline industry. And since American Airlines’ top shareholders also own every other airline, it is not in the interest of the company’s ownership for it to engage in competitive behavior."
The inflation in the 2000s was the needle that popped the housing bubble. It wasn't comparable to current levels, but it was high and the Fed tightened aggressively to fight it.

There were a lot of structural problems as well, but rising rates leading to foreclosures set off the chain of events.
You can resolve this by installing, building, and uninstalling in the same RUN command right? I once worked at a place that used some insane setup with images building other images to avoid this but I'm pretty sure the first option works as well.
This feels exactly like why Microsoft (and others) during the 90s started to define a well-defined subset of C, with some fancy IDL stuff, and a C-like ABI where all the C stuff needed could also be generated from the IDL, as standard somewhat-object-oriented interfaces like COM and other DCE RPC-likes.

Of course, the POSIX-likes never adopted this, whereas Microsoft nowadays has some fourth generation of this IDL stuff (WinMD) that they are also slowly porting all the old C API definitions to (see win32metadata, also used for defining stuff like the Win32 package for Rust).

Also, of course, this all has its own issues too, for one COM's definition of reference counting is a bit picky, and there were a lot of advanced 'implicit RPC' features that were also more inherent footguns, but at least it doesn't involve what is ranted about here.. mostly.
I mean it did make everyone better. The COVID pandemic could have really wiped out a lot of people and we printed money and it helped.

It’s the austerity people that have never cared about anything but their ideology. Austerity for austerity’s sake has caused unfathomable human misery in the globalization era.

Right now the labor market is good for workers. That is good. Getting there has always opposed by the ruling class interests though which is why we haven’t pursued it.

MMT at it’s heart is just an increasingly large number of voices screaming out “fucking STOP” and actually try to get to a relatively tight labor market, because on the whole doing so is better for most people.

Yeah sure inflation is an issue but as we are seeing now it’s always been something that can be addressed by putting on the brakes a little.

And for the record I have a degree in economics. I get the other side of the argument. My point of view is that the other side of the argument and elite economists have been fundamentally corrupt in their analysis for decades.
> He said Ford had already offered buyers of its best-selling F-150 pickup a choice: They could give up a fuel-saving feature called "start-stop" and get a $50 credit — or they could wait for the truck to be built with the feature.

So you're saying they'll pay me to not use this user-hostile feature? Where do I sign up?

Auto Start-Stop has been a scourge of recent-model vehicles and the first thing I try and disable in a rental. Ford has a button on the dash for this but other cars are much more difficult (or impossible) to disable.
Awesome work!!!! curious how you handle paragraphs and niche language like federal regulations.

What are your favorite ways to do sentence and paragraph embeddedings and is there a framework you like where you can tune to custom data? Do you find fine tuning your embedding model helpful?
I wonder for the reason of all these list repos in the past few years. It would awesome if there was a better way to search repos. Maybe semantically in a way that you had a problem to solve and it would suggest open source projects. I think its cool to see lists of projects but I dont find it super helpful, am I supposed to bookmark 20 repos which each list another 1000 repos? There has to be a better way for discoverability.
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Our team did from support@bringshopper.com 2 days ago. Subject is "Urgent not getting paid"

Did you find it?

Our account id is acct_1K7t9JC4s1I9dR5f
Agreed, but "bad faith" is only one of the 3 requirements that need to be proved in a domain case like this.
Respondent is using the FEDORA mark in the domain name to identify Complainant for the purpose of operating a website that contains some criticism of Complainant. Such use is generally described as "fair use" of a trademark.

This is a good precedent, regardless of what you think of the respondent.
I have heard of extreme scale cases where you are looking at terabytes of docker image transfers to deploy to all machines and it happens every single time a new build goes out which is multiple times a day.
All nuclear plants survived for many earthquakes, but F1 failed for a tsunami.
Indeed! I recently hacked up a considerable amount of assembly and used a lot of tricks that would not be possible unless I used copious gotos in C and also non-standard tail-call optimization. Some tricks (like writing inline/out-of-line codepaths) quite literally are not possible in C.
> I was under the impression that masks don't protect you that much, they protect other people from you?

That claim has been made but is questionable. The masks were designed to reduce exposure to the wearer, not so much from the wearer.

It's a matter of physics: When you inhale the suction generated automatically pulls the mask tighter on your face such that the air you breathe in essentially all has to pass through the mask but when you exhale, not so much.

In designing a mask there is a choice between a finer mesh or a looser one. If you pick a very loose mesh - say, cotton gauze - then air is easy to push through when you exhale but so are virus particles. On the other hand if you pick a very tight mesh - say, N95 or better - then air is much harder to push through but exhaling forces the mask slightly away from the face such that moist potentially virus-laden breath puffs out the sides and top. This is why your glasses fog up when wearing an N95 - moist air is escaping out the top of the mask completely unfiltered. (You can find youtube videos demonstrating this process with cigarette smoke). Double- or triple-masking doesn't help either - that makes it even harder for air to pass directly through the masks so even more air pushes out the side and top instead.

If your N95 is VERY well fitted and the strap VERY tight - tight enough to make your ears hurt - you'll get less escape, but wearing a mask that way is sufficiently uncomfortable that almost nobody does it.

In short, an N95 does plausibly filter nearly all the air you breathe IN, but if you want to filter the air you're breathing OUT, you really should be wearing a cleanroom suit.
Several red flags and this is nothing against you.

* New domain
* no phone contact
* lack of information
* No seo data, inbound links or domain score

merchant companies will hate this kind of stuff and quite honestly 159k in charges in 3 ish months probably set off red flags too

if i understand your marketing materials it sounds like you run a browser plug-in

all very sus to be honest
They did raise rates.
> Did you mean "portable"? Because the ABI to the Linux kernel system calls is very stable.

I think the GP meant that the Linux syscall ABI is indeed very stable and always has been, as you say, but that the syscall ABI of other OSs is not. So Linux is "unusual" in that sense, not in the sense that its syscall ABI is stable now but wasn't in the past.
I would think a lot of people might be rushing to get a mortgage before rates go up.

Whatever the reasons, home prices are ridiculously inflated right now. They’ll need to go down for first time home buyers to have a chance, so at some point there will be pressure for home prices to drop. For what it’s worth I’m in a rural part of the country and it’s not just a city problem.
I repeat (on this topic, different thread)... While it is (daylight saving) truly one of the most antiquated, and somewhat cuter of humankind's activities, why not just shift everybody (those countries that do this hour change thing) by 30 mins, split the difference, and leave it there?
The intention of the video is to show that there is no advanced technology or unexplainable phenomena captured in the video. If this is already evident to you, then the video isn't for you. But there are a lot of people who watch this video and think the object itself is rotating or deforming strangely, when in reality, all evidence suggests it's just some kind of terrestrial aircraft. Whether they know who/what is driving the aircraft is up to the Navy.
Yes, there's a difference between "I don't like this person and what they are doing" compared to "they shouldn't be allowed to do it"
If you consider that the Fed should collude with fiscal policy makers, then you're right. The Fed is supposed to act independently, but Powell has thrown that out the window.

Fed tightening would force fiscal side to actually restrain spending which would help alleviate inflation. That's the whole point of tightening to begin with (tightening both public and private credit).

The reason the Fed is supposed to be independent is to avoid a Venezuela type situation where deficit spending is monetized through money creation. Well the Fed has been effectively doing that through QE for two years.
Always good to see an open source dev standing up for themselves, if only a little, against all the entitled freeloaders and techbros who are all too happy to exploit them and to encourage them to continue exploiting themselves

If you build a product that uses open source libraries and you make money off that product, you should pay the people who created the open source libraries, even if they don't expect it or ask for it. Period. It's not a legal question, it's a basic middle-school-civics question of not being a piece of shit. If you can't afford to do that for all the open source libraries you use while still making a profit, you simply don't actually have a viable business model, much like how if you can't afford to tip your server you can't actually afford to go out to eat
...You've just discovered why interfaces like COM and Cocoa are a good idea, yes. Welcome to 1999. Join me in cursing the proliferation of POSIX and FFIs. JOIN ME.
And thus the old quote about sticks and stones being used to fight world war 4.

I'm not sure about Russia's or China's anti ballistic technology. I know their hypersonic tech is superior to our own currently.

But what if a country could deploy nuclear weapons against another nation and defend themselves against incoming missiles, due to a temporary technological advantage? It changes the game. I'm not sure if that's where we're at currently, but I know that the hypersonic and nuclear tech is why we are so hesitant to enter the Ukrainian war outright.
Details are obviously scarce but computers are pretty much the number 1 reason weapons testing isn't particularly necessary any more.

That's true, but it really applies only if you have access to historical nuclear test data. The computer simulations are reportedly parameterized using empirical factors that aren't openly published and aren't available to additional nuclear aspirants unless they run tests of their own. The alternative, if you don't have test data and don't want to test, is to build very simple, conservative bomb designs like the US did with the Little Boy gun-type uranium bomb. It wasn't tested before it was dropped on Hiroshima. That's also the kind of design South Africa used for its secret nuclear weapons program:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_ma...
I will pitch in here just after reading the title. I have been doing this for years, when corona started I stopped wearing shoes and cutting my hair and the treatment I've gotten is definitely different. I appeal to a very different crowd and get dismissed and shunned by a significant majority. The day before yesterday I got arrested on a train for absolutely nothing (they even refused to tell me what I was being arrested for) and no one stood up for me. Someone told me once that by European law I am allowed to keep my identification documents in a safe place when I am not in my home country, so only citizens of country are obligated to produce identification upon request. Therefore I refused to identify myself to the police and will always do so since there are people who cannot get out of trouble by waving a magic card. I could however not avoid the magic card after they handcuffed me threw me in a car and hit me a couple of times. At the police station the levelheaded old guy basically told me that I could go to jail or identify myself so I showed him my university IDs and Icelandic drivers licenses and suddenly I am free to go with apologies. If I was from Brazil I'd be in jail now, however I am not from Brazil so I can now sue these dudes and make sure they are scared to do stuff like this to people. When we opt out of the bad treatment with our IDs then we are giving up on human rights.
>Not to say he isn't right in this case, but I'm equality unenthusiastic about "skeptics" like that as I am about conspiracy theorists.

My working theory for what creates the lowest common denominator of internet comments, is that you have to believe whatever is necessary to believe to keep the conversation going.

If a skeptic debunks something by appeals to mundane facts relating to camera angles and physics principles, that closes the conversation. And for internet comment sections that is a problem. But, if them being right means they are arrogant, then we can talk about how arrogant they are, the nothing gets turned back into a something and the conversation can keep going.
It not being possible to improve the situation doesn't mean that the current situation is good. Is the article's rant gonna achieve much? Most likely, nope. I'm fairly sure the author recognizes that.
We have seismographs and other measurement & signature intelligence collection means all over the world, and there's an elite unit in the US Air Force dedicated to detecting and localizing nuclear detonations no matter where they occur (as well as event attribution, nuclear forensics, intelligence gathering, etc.).

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/04/21...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Technical_Applicatio...
so would Dracula but I'd still rather have the light after work
no but even though this is written in a rant-ish style it isn't isn't really one given that the post is full of specific examples discussing all the things that are wrong with C as an interface.

This is probably the most technical post I've seen on HN in a while and accusing someone who goes fairly deep into the implementation details of compilers, and OS libs of 'not understanding computation' is somewhat bizarre.
That approach is useful and has been discussed in works like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requisite_organization
If you look at the sports world, you will see that its equivalent of tutoring is hugely beneficial and is alive and well. The Williams sisters and their father are one obvious example but if you dig deeper, you will see many more examples. Rafael Nadal was tutored by his uncle. Tiger Woods was tutored by his father. Also, look at coaches. They are often the sons and daughters of coaches.

Tutoring allows exploring and independence of thought which is really how you improve your thinking whereas standardized education mostly does not. Tutoring is bidirectional and standardized education is most unidirectional.