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Executable-images-and-bytestreams (Research Unix, Plan 9) and everything-is-in-$LANGUAGE (Lisp machines, Emacs, Smalltalk, Oberon, Forth) environments seem largely contradictory to me, because much of the flexibility in Unix seems to come from the freedom to ignore as much structure in the data as you want to, while programming-language environments seem to derive their advantages from expressing the structure in as detailed a way as possible. (In particular, they really want to invent their own storage formats for everything.) I don’t have much of an idea about Inferno, but my superficial impression is it also mostly ends up as a single-language island.

Which is annoying, because both of these approaches produce some really attractive results, so I’d very much like to learn about any attempts to reconcile them.
> they are still on DVD?

The SD resolution of the DVD screener is part of the security. It's not dissimilar to changing the port of SSH. It's just one more thing to make the time less desirable to copy. After all, who wants to pirate/share/download/watch a crappy SD video?
At least they're being honest. Product people at a company I used to work for about 8 years ago would make calls to competitors pretending to be an interested client, and gather details about their offerings from their sales people.
I love that goat guy, he's such an inspiration. I know most people wouldn't want to live that way, and that's okay, but I can only imagine the satisfaction and fulfillment he must feel.

FWIW, we can build lifestyles that are ecologically harmonious and still have a high standard of living. One example (from the 1970's) is Village Homes in Davis CA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Homes It's nicer than most suburbs, and it grows food, collects rainwater, etc.

Here's a group that have a tried-and-true system for ecologically harmonious farming: http://growbiointensive.org/grow_main.html Their system uses about 5000 square feet per person, provides a nutritionally complete diet, and increases topsoil volume and fertility over time.

Here's a fellow with a complete manual for small-scale alcohol fuel production integrated into (Permaculture) organic farms. http://alcoholcanbeagas.com/node/277 You can grow your own carbon-neutral fuel, convert ICE cars and other engines to run on it, and stop using fossil fuel, w/o expensive and hard-to-dispose of batteries. Alcohol exhaust is non-toxic. You can make it out of almost anything with starch or sugar in it. (Old donut dough, bakery scraps, food waste, etc.) The atoms in the fuel come from air and water, so you are basically exporting stored sunlight from your farm and keeping all the nutrients and minerals and such. The leftovers from making alcohol can be fed to livestock (yeast, eh? It's protein. The leftovers are a better feed than the initial, uh, stuff!)
that’s absolutely not true of all women, some can’t even take hormonal birth control at all - it’s relatively common to have problems with it, sometimes even long-term

it’s nowhere close to a solved problem, unfortunately
My cousin designed and built a prototype of a folding trike that fit in a suitcase. He'd check it on a trip, and on arrival unfold it. Then mount its case on the back and put his normal suitcase in that. He could then tour around whereever independently with his luggage. Had a blast touring Costa Rica he said.
Dr. Waller's work is great. I'm learning optical microscopy from the ground up by building microscopes, and I aspire to be able to take advantage of some of the more advanced techniques she's developed.
That’s not really a straight comparison here.

Computers are not feeling machines, they’re calculators.

Humans are greatly varied, contradictory creatures with a seemingly bottomless internal mode.

You will get everything under the sun from out of humans. You will get discrete numerical calculations of out a computer.
So... an adblocker and client-side certificates? Please at least add the client-side certificates.
As you stated, other professions disbar, disqualify, ban, in addition there are civil, criminal penalties for (gross) negligence.

I'd not be worried about "honest mistakes" so long as a juries are involved, with respect to specific studies with direct, actionable consequences.

So there would be a difference between some nut jobs proposing a flat earth theory (unqualified), which they simply can't reproduce, to running a medical trial where potentially the medical technicians, MDs, surgeons, etc. might cite and apply a study.

Its fine to have some crazy theory so long as you are not going to present it as some actionable truth - if you publish a study and show negligence and cannot reproduce, then it is known as such. You are welcome to incomplete, possibly outright incorrect theories, so long as they are academic and not cited as mainstream "technology". Its when your bullshit becomes measurably impactful, is when you decide to impose consequences.

Not sure how to write that up in legal terms, but.
I think it sounds worse than it is. The number of oxygen machines is limited and the chances of survival even with an oxygen machine are not good for elderly people. If your projections say that you will get a certain number of younger people that will also need an oxygen machine then it makes sense to reserve those machines, they have a much higher chance of survival when using an oxygen machine.

Not doing a proper medical examination on the other hand is irresponsible imo.
Yes, you're correct. It identifies Denmark as an outlier:

>>In fact, in Western Europe, there is a striking correlation between population weighted density – which may influence both the speed of virus transmission and the amplitude of infection waves – and covid mortality per country (see map below). This correlation does not apply, however, to Denmark, which has a low covid mortality but an average population weighted density (3434).
I've tried to intentionally use my fresh perspective in constructive ways when in that position, but improving the process is unfortunately rarely a corporate goal so it's mostly rowing upstream so far.

The way a company reacts to thoughtful observations about their process says a lot about how they view their employees.
Yet another hardcore programmy type discovers that usability is infinity more important that how many clock-cycles you save.

Programming languages aren't for computers, they're for people.
Pretend you never saw it, and take it as a compliment. If you ack that you know thh hh is, you may be tempted to peek into customer information that you have no right to mine for competitive intel. Worse, they might be somehow leading you on about which features they use, etc, as part of a deception campaign.
HN != a single, heavily downvoted comment on HN
You should reread the entire blog post.
That’s a relationship, however shallow.
Reposting this from the 2014 HN discussion of "Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7878679

http://lispm.de/symbolics-lisp-machine-ergonomics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7879364

eudox on June 11, 2014

Related: A huge collections of images showing Symbolics UI and the software written for it: http://lispm.de/symbolics-ui-examples/symbolics-ui-examples....

agumonkey on June 11, 2014

Nice, but I wouldn't confuse static images with the underlying semantic graph of live objects that's not visible in pictures.

DonHopkins on June 14, 2014

Precisely! When Lisp Machine programmer look at a screen dump, they see a lot more going on behind the scenes than meets the eye.

I'll attempt to explain the deep implications of what the article said about "Everything on the screen is an object, mouse-sensitive and reusable":

There's a legendary story about Gyro hacking away on a Lisp Machine, when he accidentally trashed the function cell of an important primitive like AREF (or something like that -- I can't remember the details -- do you, Scott? Or does Devon just make this stuff up? ;), and that totally crashed the operating system.

It dumped him into a "cold load stream" where he could poke around at the memory image, so he clamored around the display list, a graph of live objects (currently in suspended animation) behind the windows on the screen, and found an instance where the original value of the function pointer had been printed out in hex (which of course was a numeric object that let you click up a menu to change its presentation, etc).

He grabbed the value of the function pointer out of that numeric object, poked it back into the function cell where it belonged, pressed the "Please proceed, Governor" button, and was immediately back up and running where he left off before the crash, like nothing had ever happened!

Here's another example of someone pulling themselves back up by their bootstraps without actually cold rebooting, thanks to the real time help of the networked Lisp Machine user community:

ftp://ftp.ai.sri.com/pub/mailing-lists/slug/900531/msg00339.html

Also eudox posted this link:

Related: A huge collections of images showing Symbolics UI and the software written for it:

http://lispm.de/symbolics-ui-examples/symbolics-ui-examples....
Large EU companies are more similar to large US companies. Small US companies are more similar to small EU companies than large US companies.

Size brings more savvy lawyers.
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first step to enforce identity across different messaging platforms, goodbye anonymity
Copy-and-paste is disabled? Let me just take a screenshot.
Not saying you're wrong, but do you have a source for the 60/1000x number? Curious to read more.
> Bankers are preparing for an eventual initial public offering market thaw by focusing on companies with profits and stability
The 3000 employee company I was at had more transparency than the 30 person company I was at.

Almost anything can scale, with the right leadership and incentives. That part is exceedingly hard to get right. Generally I find from experience that the culture mirrors the leadership more than anything. A leader who cannot delegate, trust, or make decisions as a group builds silos, intentionally or unintentionally. Leaders who are humble, defer to others, trust but verify, and are open and transparent themselves are more than capable of building similar orgs.

Be ever vigilant in eliminating cognitive dissonance, for it is the culture killer.
It isn't nice? Back to the 8 and 16 bit home computers, when we had plenty of choice and real fights on the school playground about which were better.
I think they are too invested im hard problems, but not invested enough in tedious problems.

I don't want a new language, or a new preprocesser, or a new way of thinking about programs... I just want a one click way to take a folder of HTML that looks like a static site, and package it up into cross platform apps with all the proper API access.

I don't care about cryptocurrency and global decentralized databases, I just want to be able to run a site by buying a NAS appliances, putting files on it, and sharing the QR code on it without any signups and cloud accounts.

The hard problems are mostly solved. There's probably some long dead random github repo that does anything you want. They're just not packaged for all platforms and maintained professionally.

I don't need a phone without any binary blobs at all... I just want a mesh network feature and a fair trade stamp.

Because... it sucks to maintain something novel even if it's all just pieced together from npm. It sucks to be the one responding to issues. It sucks to actually run a project and keep track of devops stuff.

All the tech has been invented dozens of times over, but never polished, and always ruined with some unnecessary immutable log feature or performance destroying random access low latency routing thing like IPFS has.
Strikingly more accurate than the original regex quote.

They believe it was Wilde who said, “If you want to tell people the truth, you’d better make them laugh or they’ll kill you.”
As a faceless member of the IT department, we generally only lock something down because someone has found a way to do something really dumb with it.

For copy/paste, I can already tell you: We blocked installing Grammarly because there's no reasonable guarantee of what happens to the sensitive data we are legally obligated not to share, so people copy/paste sensitive data into Grammarly's website. Now we have to block Grammary's website, but I could see someone giving up and taking away pasting into websites as a next step...
Most meat alternatives sit on the shelves around here even when we have people stocking up for severe weather and there's nothing else left.
> the service gives IT administrators ... full insight into all deployments to help identify the source of incidents as quickly as possible.

Yeah, and this part gives me the picture that they'd be able to monitor absolutely everything you do with the browser.
One thing I cannot understand in the traditional workplace is why certain leaves & sudden departures are never disclosed to a close team whether by the person or their manager. I've had many teammates come and go in the blink of an eye and I'm curious to this day of "what happened to X?". Were they PIPed? Are they fighting something? Did they win the lottery and decide to retire?

It's as if the relationships between the team are much different than with direct management and the disclosure happens privately between middle management and by the time they're gone, the team is left clueless.

I think we need to bring more empathy into the workplace. Especially the remote workplace. I operate on the premise that everyone is battling problems that you don't know about, but even knowing a generalized detail can help in the long term. It takes courage to be vulnerable which not many are willing to do in the workplace, but helps teams become closer and more caring in the long run. It's hard to give bad news, but it's even harder on everyone to say nothing at all.
Right, but it's only barely lower than France, about half-way between Germany and France. And then there's the question whether France is a great comparison; if you compare Sweden to its closer neighbors Finland and Norway - it's much, much worse off; and even compared to the more densely populated Denmark it's almost twice as bad. At best, the numbers look mediocre for Sweden - and that's if you somehow make the case it's more comparable to France+Germany than, say, Norway or Denmark. But if you consider other Nordic countries as baselines, the results look terrible.

Put it this way: imagine somebody gave you the data for deaths for many of the nearby countries, and lots of information about them all; vaccination rates, age distributions etc. The only number missing is Sweden's death rate. Would you have guessed it correctly? or guessed higher? or lower? I definitely would have guesses lower, somewhere between 2 to three times too low. Frankly, even with knowledge that their lockdowns were lax I would not have expected this high a death rate; after all it's not like it was business as usual or anything - people were socially distancing.

I'd say comparing countries like this is fraught, but also that Sweden has an unexpectedly high death toll. Whether it's high in absolute numbers, and what exactly the cause is... who knows. The cause may well be largely unrelated to their policies; clearly the differences between countries in general are not at all easily explained by policy differences, after all. But I don't agree with your statement that it outright doesn't have a high death toll.
that Theranos CEO was one hellova "female Christian Bale". just watching "The Dropout" now and this story is so insane.
One of a number of reasons Ubuntu does not even meet the minimum requirements to tender for a cut of the millions the University I work for invests in Linux systems (research workstations (often packed with NVIDIA GPUs), clients to control specialist equipment, HPC, regular desktops/laptops/servers, network/lustre/backup storage etc).
Just bite the bullet and accept that any free replacement you do find is also going to have its downsides. Decent stuff costs money to develop and maintain, if you're not paying then you're doing a deal with a devil somewhere along the line.
I think flutter might also fill the gap left by QT.
I think the only real way is to self-host, and rebuild a kind of "craftsman movement" of code and system-administration.
Google is the same as: Here is some free co-working space that you can set up your office in; lots of tools and free coffee. But no contracts either way.

Maybe a good place to set up and get started, but always think that it could be boarded up tomorrow.
Or Ötzi.
"Standards" in this case just means "things that I/we developed that we think should be adopted by lots of other people because it's awesome-sauce"
While you are technically correct and I agree completely, I think your emphasis on abstraction might lead to higher (or at least more variable) cycle times rather than lower.

It sounds like you're suggesting that one spends, say, 80 % of one's creativity coming up with general, abstract problems to tool for, and then 20 % of the creativity on finding ways to apply general tools. That absolutely works, I think, if you're fine with high variability in the time you spend between each release.

What I tried to suggest is that instead you spend 40 % of your creativity on finding abstract problems to tool for, and the other 60 % of your creativity in finding ways to apply your distinctly less general tools to new situations, despite their lack of generality.

What concerns me about the high-abstraction route is that people, in my experience, have a tendency to over-abstract. To try to predict every future use case ahead of time, instead of accepting their ignorance and building for ease of change.

That is why I want to emphasise modding non-general tools rather than future-proofing tools at the design stage. Because you can't know at the design stage in which direction future innovation will go.
It used Limbo and was called Inferno.
I'm generally a big fan of the IA, but lately they've gotten lost on one big issue and this could hurt them. They tried to give away digital books still under copyright when the pandemic began. They seemed to think that this was somehow helping people who couldn't get to a physical library, but this was kind of a ruse. First, many bookstores were still open online and they were desparate for orders to stay in business. Second, many libraries were also operating, albeit under COVID rules.

When they started this plan, I wrote my friends at the IA and begged them not to go down this route. They answered with lots of rhetoric about how they were some how helping and seemed oblivious to the claims of the authors and the libraries.

So I'm not surprised that they're being sued. They went down this path willfully.
C'est la vie. Focus on building your product.
Be glad you were able to identify them. I would’ve used a personal email with fake info.
Every competitor that has signed up for any service I've been involved with has tried to hack us. Whether it's something relatively benign like some querystring manipulation, or something interesting like an elasticsearch zero-day, they all try.

This is a good time to think about security. Can they find competitive information in your urls (you use sequential customer ids?)? Are there areas not locked down?

Remember their IP addresses and cookies, and do a scan of your logs in a month.

Still, it's not worth the trouble of kicking them out. Fake emails are a dime-a-dozen.
No, I’m fairly sure the correct technical term is “metal spike thing”.

/s
Thank you! I still use Keybase as my main messenger and would be sad if it went away.
so this looks like two engineers weeks, and 3 man years for cooperate/media. evaluation checks out.
this is why people should be developing more desktop apps imo, but not surprised at this, have seen it and will see more of it in the future.
google is final authority on this and they just don't like the author (for whatever reason)
Thanks for the recommendation.

I've been learning/using CL, on the side, for about a year, in fits and starts, and I'm also picking up a lot of it's history and evolution along the way.

I find the history of the thing is as fascinating as the language/tools.

There's so much written on this but it's hard to aggregate and put together. Links lead to other links that lead to other links and oftentimes a lot of them are dead.

So I'm glad that there are books like this that can preserve some pieces of the story.
What general purposes do phones serve, other than making and receiving _audio_ calls?
> This Nordic cross-comparison is lazy and agenda-driven.

Nothing says "agenda-driven" like claiming that an incredibly complex comparison should be entirely based on "population-weighted density" and posting a blog titled "Judgment day: Sweden vindicated" that also regularly posts misinformation[1]. If you are going to critique an approach, you should at least not make your bias so blatant.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Policy_Research
I don't quite understand. You have a public product that anyone can sign up for, and it turns out some people signed up for it. You don't get to pick and choose your customers.
This isn't in competition with Google. It isn't really a "browser". It's an enterprise security app that helps web applications be more secure on end-user devices. The fact that it's implemented on top of Chromium is an "implementation detail".

Security tools is a HUGE market that you can sell to the enterprise. Firefox or Google could do the exact same thing. But they aren't. There's also Talon (another Israeli company that raised a bundle) which does the same thing.
For this Apple one it was a pressed DVD, would it be possible for those to be uniquely identifiable?

AMPAS has almost 10,000 members, presumably at that scale it makes sense to have pressed DVDs made.

For screeners just sent out to certain branches though, maybe burned DVDs make sense?
Modern international law is based on the acknowledgement of popular sovereignty, which has an unavoidable "collective" dimension. What's wrong with making the argument that, like most everything else, sovereignty comes with rights but also responsibilities when the country that one's "sovereign" on starts engaging in bad behavior towards others? Average Germans have had to apologize and be responsible "collectively", at least to some extent, for the Nazi regime's atrocities. Was that inhumane, too?
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Don't forget odd permissions problems. From memory, ipfs is distributed as a snap. Try saving a file to another location outside of the snap jail. Almost impossible.