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> You could open up system functions in the editor, modify and compile them while the machine was running.

Why would you want to do that other than hot patching a system that can't go down? Testing new changes requires more time than rebooting. If you just want to test simple changes, most debuggers can do that.

> Everything worked in a single address space, programs could talk to each other in ways operating systems of today couldn’t dream of.

And with a single address space you have win9x security.

> A modern UNIX system isn’t self-contained. I have 4 UNIX systems on my desk (Desktop, laptop, iPhone, iPad) I’m contentiously using the cloud (iCloud for photos, GitHub for text files, Dropbox for everything else) to sync files between these machines. The cloud is just a workaround for UNIX’s self-contained nature

This is just your use habbits. Nothing is stopping you from using NFS or SSHS. Someone who feels the need to use iCloud for whatever trivial convenience it provides is unlikely to benefit from a Lisp machine's ability to edit code on the live system.

> Then we add a gazillion programming languages, VMs, Containers, and a million other things, UNIX is a bloated mess of workaround for its own problems. We need a replacement, something that can be built for the modern world using technologies that are clean, secure, and extendable

The same thing will happen with any OS given enough time. Lisp is also not secure. It's prone to side channel and eval bugs.

> eliminate memory leaks and questions of type safety,

Lisp is not type safe.
What about in Wayland environments?
Unnecessary violence that is sustainable is still unnecessary violence. You don't need to eat any animals to thrive, so choosing to do so is simply choosing to induce suffering for ephemeral, meaningless pleasure.
SriLankan newspaper suspends print edition on Saturday due to a paper shortage
The stats don’t reflect your assertion. KSI of car occupants is far lower per mile and per hour on motorways than other roads
Modern agile development is far more complex than even that: you need entire loosely-coupled teams of developers to be able to seamlessly cooperate with one another, so there are multiple scales of cooperation. Tightening the semantics of interface boundaries is a necessary support for that kind of development and is what's largely meant today by programming "in the large". Highly dynamic "scripting" languages get in the way of this, and that's essentially what Lisp is too.
There might be merit to this in general. But in this specific case the person is no longer in authority so it doesn’t seem to apply.
Concrete production requires CO2 from energy but also releases CO2 from the chemical processes. (Concrete is heavily used in wind energy production systems.)
Ok well you made me think twice about a few things and I will cede some ground to you and I hope you are right.

I might have a warped view of reality from reading too much of the chans, echo chamber of similar friends etc.

The American Insurance companies paying out $1000 for a pill that costs $20 in Europe in my mind is just the Insurance companies actively enabling a situation where insurance companies are compulsory and a situation where anyone can be bankrupted if these companies refuse to pay the bill

Democratic governments with consumer-driven economies = demon-cratic with manipulated plugged in naive people in satanic-greed-driven economies

US population growth is drven by low-skill immigration = weimar situation is developing all around your house and neighborhoods and soon you will be outnumbered and the economy will collapse taking you down with it

In my mind the USA is an absolute sh*t hole now compared to how it was before the 1970s. Everyone is a wage slave working insane number of hours , both parents are forced to do it and being middle class or upper middle class is as bad as being lower class now. Like dont you have to wage slave just the same and you just get more material possessions which are meaningless ? Is your child hood not spent in a prison like building being forced to do rote memorization ? Are you not angry about that and how it was to condition you to work as a wage slave ?

Isin't a large percentage of the population on drugs , ssris, drinking soma (coffee), binging on food and now incest filled porn tubes, is this all to cope emotionally ?

A self destructive way of living , a slow suicide of the nation ? This is the culture there in my eyes.

Im the type of guy who loves a nice walk in the morning along the beach and then to get working on his hobbies and intellectual interests for the rest of the day in peace. I can fit everything I own in a big briefcase. The way most people live in the USA and what they accept seems insane to me.
> It's pretty likely African immigrants can teach us a thing or two about living more in harmony with nature.

Well this is definitely a line of tortured logic I’ve never heard before in order to square “babies bad, immigrants OK.” But again, who has a higher carbon footprint? An African in Africa or an African in the USA? IMO if your concern is carbon footprint, you need to be against both western births and replacement immigration.
Where exactly, I'd expect them to both mention the analytics and the opt out option in the readme.

Just rubs me the wrong way, you can easily use this without knowing it phones home
I have some examples of weekly stat graphing and Rollups of in ticked todos in completed action notes in this repo: https://github.com/tot0/ObsidianPPV
The week template in templates folder is the most fleshed out now, other time periods are WIP. It leverages customjs plug-in and the js folder in the vault for helpers.
The data model implemented in this vault is August Bradley’s PPV, the reviews cycles it emphasizes really help with regular re-orientation on changing priorities and not letting stuff slip.
What is the point of these technology inventiones? The desire of hoarding more bananas than the monkey can eat will make this planet unhabitable one day.
So if you ring your parents you don't feel connected with them? You don't feel connected with your friends playing online games?

Video doesn't provide any additional connection to me. I find I just look at myself more because you can't hide your own video in MS Teams. And then when someone shares their screen and includes a video of yourself, you see yourself mirrored which is definitely a distraction.

Video calls are unnatural anyway. In a meeting or social setting you generally don't sit facing everyone, face to face, watching all their movements.
The real question is how far do you take selective breeding.

Do you want chickens that can't stand on their own legs? Olden days: no, currently: yes.

Do you want cows so fat that they can't naturally give birth to calves? Olden days: no, currently: yes.

How do you breed animals? Oldens days: put the male together with the female. Currenly, jerk of the male and inject the semen in the female.

It's all industrialized. And what selective breeding has to do with how animals are treated? Everything. Unless you claim chickens too fat for their legs, cows too fat to give birth, etc, has no impact on their well being.
> ... with significant contributions to the long-term cultural stability of humankind

I don't think that's true. Leitmotif of history of humankind is the exploitation of available resources to the boundaries of reason and beyond.
Absolutely. Remote companies need to invest in team get-togethers.
I'd be interested to see the logic applied to other jobs. What's your job using this kind of reductionist logic? Are there any jobs that aren't "protect the company" in some way?
No-code and low-code tools are dramatically expanding who can build software, and in the process disrupting the typical software development life cycle.

Marc Andreesen, the prolific entrepreneur and investor, famously said that “software is eating the world”. He was right, and now that process is starting to accelerate. New tools and platforms that allow non-technical people to build fully functional websites, applications, and automations without software engineers are drastically changing the cost, speed, and approach to software development.

Imagine a world where anyone who can use software is able to build it. That is the world of low-code and no-code. Anyone who can drag & drop things on a screen and follow basic logic statements could build the next Uber, AirBnB, or Craigslist.

And this isn’t just about early stage startups and entrepreneurs…

Keep reading: https://www.themakerslist.com/post/no-code-is-eating-the-wor...
I minimize these costs using microwave cooking. I cook my food with a MicroPro Grill. It takes very little time to make foods like chicken, eggs, roasts, cakes, casseroles, etc, and the surface is nonstick so you can clean up easily.
I'm in engineeering at a major engineering company historically using simulink and matlab. Python took over here in large part because matlab licensing caused so much friction, and we wanted to scale the simulink and matlab models up to run on a cluster of machines. We wanted to give scripts to people without matlab licenses quickly. etc. It was not the cost per-se, but the red tape.

We also ditched simulink because it is very difficult to version control and collaborate with a graphical interface.

Matlab is pushed heavily in the schools so all the engineers knew it and were comfortable with it. Matplotlib and numpy mimicing matlab very closely allowed the transition to be easy. We're not looking back. Only a handful of people still use matlab for their individual work because the python camp hit critical mass and the transition is not hard.

Matlab working to control serial ports, ethernet, visa/gpib instruments, all without the friction of getting extra licenses was icing on the cake. Matlab has a buy the cadillac model: the wheels, doors, hood, gas cap, mirrors are all optional add-ons. Each point causes friction, as only a few people had the whole tool, and therefore nobody could reliably share code.
The simplest answer is that Russia did view NATO in Ukraine as an existential threat.

It explains why thy were willing to risk such harsh consequences.

>I don't understand why they couldn't use the same tactics their opposition was using and keep it out of the hot war it's turned into.

They were using other means in Ukraine to avoid full scale war for decades, but loosing badly at them (eg politics, manipulation, trade offers, ect)
Same here. If I want forced updates I can use Windows.
Seems like it yep. At least every competitor is on the same playing ground video quality wise?

Also, OP article pointed out how most people screening these things "haven't touched their AV setups since 1999." Blu-Ray might be a nonstarter if you want to win the popularity contest. Lowest common denominator and all that.
Why do you still use the non X office formats? They're far easier for other office suites to read as their not just a memory dump of internal office structures.
The $14B is slow and probably won't make it to individual Ukrainians. So, like in the original charge, you're stuck in the position of having to trivialize $100M in aid because ... well, other modes are helping too, and this isn't a "prime example".

>In short we can and should give more to Ukraine.

And this is a way to give direct aid, something you ostensibly want, and yet you're stuck saying crypto doesn't count, somehow.

It seems a less epicyclic approach is to just accept that this is a valid use case rather than finding a way to out-argue it.
I'm embarrassed that people put so much stock in a gloss of Steinbeck. The original text that is paraphrased to produce this ``quotation'' says something completely different than what people ascribe to it.

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Disputed
Large corporations across many industries have a history of identifying the harm from their products, hiding the studies, and then lobbying in the opposite direction of the findings. In short, intentional criminal behavior, shielded by regulators--who they control indirectly.
For a long time I was like this too -- until I arrived at my current job. My dev coworkers are good friends, and I care immensely about their well-being.
If you want to bring in Berlin then look at the airport for cockups
As a janitor I am vehemently ambivalent.

Seriously though, biochemists seem to have more authority on this subject than a farmer. Some farmers study and are knowledgeable about genes and chemistry and whatnot. But without further information, just being a farmer doesn’t give you much more insight on the safety of GMO.
How do you find a good therapist? It seems like a market for lemons.
Yeah, probably because they're all gruesome, slowed down or not.
Why not just use the engines that come with the starship? In any case, both shipping the asteroid bit by bit inside a rocket or converting the entire asteroid into a rocket will need basically the same amount of fuel. You would need to bring over the lithium ore processing equipment as well, so you only need to transport refined lithium metal back to earth. You might even be able to use the non-lithium parts of the asteroid as reaction mass in that case.
I apologize if you already know this which is likely with 50+ chess books on your bookshelf. Chess is 90% memorization, be it tactical patterns or endgame technique or opening lines. Analyzing positions over the board requires subconscious memory of tactical and positional patterns as well as good working memory (aka RAM) to work through the decision tree.

I don't know whether each of us is fundamentally limited on our abilities. I used to have a lofty goal of 2000 ELO someday but now just enjoy the learning journey without a specific goal. I am better at chess in my 40s than I have ever been before and enjoying it more than ever.
Isn’t Python 2.7 EOL as of January 2020 or something? It’s maintained in the sense that there are still people shipping patches, but the core Python developers no longer maintain it.
> Lisp is not type safe.

It is type safe. While Lisp is not statically typed, its typing discipline is strong: operations performed on incompatible types signal recoverable errors.
Not GP, but I think it's the last point that isn't necessarily.. necessary.

It's one tool for sure, but not one I think you absolutely have to use - unless you have some indication people are increasingly picking the competitor over you, or especially and more simply leaving you in favour of the competitor.
User name checks out...
That's not a response to the parent. Using the gel would still be "taking responsibility of their own biology"
> While it's certainly gotten better, it still blows my mind that Electron can make an app as simple as a password manager use a quarter of a gig.

Does anyone recall what the pre-Electron version used on macOS?
The used font is really cruel ... I hope it's interchangeable
I'm not preventing anyone, I don't mind if people jab themselves.
Ask HN: Why do we tax profits and not losses?
It seems backwards to me to tax profits and not losses. We want to incentivize profits, not losses, so why are we taxing them to incentivize the opposite? Aren't we encouraging shady accounting practices by incentivizing companies to disguise profits as losses?

Would it mean that companies take fewer risks if the bill for a failed project would be higher? Does that stifle innovation?

To preemptively qualify: I don't think taxes on profits should go away completely, but perhaps the tax burden could be shifted, so that some % comes from profits, and some % comes from losses, such that the net revenue to the government is the same, while still employing this new incentivization structure.
The Key to Enterprise Sales Is Understanding Enterprises
I suspect that there are probably literally an infinity of thoughts and concepts that it is acceptable to talk about at work.
I've been working on a Chrome extension for a few years now.

I just embarked on it full time when i got a message from google saying it would be removed as it was in violation of one of their policies. It wasn't, so i appealed — then they said it was in violation of a different policy. Again it wasn't so I appealed. Eventually I got to keep it on the chrome store — without making any changes.

Although I got to keep the extension on the store, because of this interaction I've decided to abandon the project. My plan was to build it to be cross platform. But it's just not worth the effort when Google or Apple can just pull the rug from under you.

So, I'm sticking with web based projects now.

I really feel for this developer.
Is it reasonable to say "X is no longer with us, we'll figure out their responsibilities with hiring a replacement, dividing areas of ownership, etc" shortly after they depart (for any reason)? Or should the team have to put two and two together after realizing they aren't coming back? I feel like the latter is too common.
Thanks! We’re also really proud of our partnership with smaller publishers like Kaiten Books, Star Fruit Books, and Glacier Bay Books. It’s been great sharing their titles with more fans.

The simulpub model is definitely expensive to run at scale, especially if the localization staff is paid fairly, which is something we believe in very strongly. We’re currently experimenting with some other models as well, including serializing completed series one chapter at a time. There’s a balancing act between quality and speed obviously, and one nice thing about releasing digitally on a streaming service is that we can more easily experiment to find the right balance compared to a print publisher.
Even Mild Covid-19 May Change the Brain
The question shouldn't be if but when.
You know, I agree with you, I think there's not necessarily a problem with CRISPR or GMOs or mutagenic selective breeding, or whatever.

But there are real issues: novel introductions make it harder to define how we talk about food safety in general, since almost all of it is based on both a very poor science (nutrition science is a dumpster fire) and long-term use by humans (GRAS) where previous generations were test subjects. The industry around this basically ignores these issues and pretends they don't exist and they label anyone raising issues as "anti-science."

Put another way: industries _usually_ don't end up untrusted because people are crazy, they _usually_ earned it, and GMO big ag has earned it in spades.

It's not just the original go to market being terminator seeds and submarining in patents, or to enable soaking fields with RoundUp, it's also that when people talk about GMOs, they're often talking about transgenic GMOs, things like Flavr Savr and the generally borderline-gaslighting issue around the industry and FDA pretending that labeling food with actual information would be bad (which has come up over and over, not just with GMOs).

There's also the disingenuous approach to pretending that modern genetic engineering is "just" accelerated breeding, which frankly isn't true and mostly relies on the fact that modern breeding uses mutagens to accelerate a process which makes coming up with a useful definition of GRAS quite difficult.

Basically the industry's argument was "GMO is no worse/different than what we've been doing for thirty years that you didn't know about, so it's fine" which, shocking, has kind of fallen flat because it is an outright lie.

Gaslighting is an overused term, but the industry's"it's just selective breeding!" argument is really pretty phony, and that's ignoring transgenic GMOs.

Before I get labeled "anti-science", I'm actually pro GMO, pro-GMO food and so on. But only in a functional regulatory environment, which we do not have at the moment.
Also team considerations. When you add an important moving part (all your devs will complain bitterly when it breaks and their work will be significantly impacted) you need at least 2 people who know how to keep it running at a minimum, and more would be better.
Did you known that in its early days Rust did take a more Pony-like approach but as ownership/borrowing took shape it was obvious that it was more scalable to move that abstraction into libraries.

What safe mean is not that easy to define.
From the Pony FAQ:
Pony prevents data races. It can’t stop you from writing race conditions into your program.

Also keep in mind that Rust is not garbage collected, the guarantees Rust provide regarding safety are a huge step forward but of course a lot need to be done.

Those guarantees are not promises, they are formally proven : https://www.ralfj.de/research/thesis.html (https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/610682)
Yeah, I’ve worked at a couple places where someone died, and it was definitely acknowledged by management and I feel like it would be incredibly weird not to.

At one place, a guy who had left the company a few months prior died in a car crash. The guy had a wife and newborn baby. The CEO shared the news and the company made a contribution to a GoFundMe for the wife and baby. I think the company offered grief counseling.

At another, larger company, someone died shortly after I joined, so I never knew them. We were all notified, once again I think a grief counselor came, and the guy’s desk was left as a memorial until we moved offices a few months later.
> Usually when you read a “Big Tech company mistreated me and won’t respond” article like this, you’ll identify one or more things the author did wrong and realize the story isn’t as one-sided as the headline would suggest.

I'm not convinced that's "usually" the case, but even when it is, it's still almost always the equivalent of being sentenced to death for jaywalking.

> But this case is as clear as can be: Andrey followed the rules and lost everything, while Google broke their own and failed to offer any kind of meaningful support.

Agreed.
There's still great examples out there but I wonder if they're "exceptions that prove the rule". I think Chance The Rapper is still independent?
No restrictions on account sharing, and adding profiles a la Netflix is something we can consider down the line. We’re happy to have more people using Azuki and talking about it with their friends :)
The Goodenough battery is truly the best case of nominative determinism in history.

No one is going to want to drive on sodium batteries, which are merely good, rather than good enough. We're talking about the weight of a Tesla with the range of a Leaf, as a best case scenario.

As for lithium, there are absolutely enormous amounts of it in highly available form, in the parts of the world where brine evaporated relatively recently. The Great Basin has a lot of those.

When you say lithium extraction is difficult to do profitably, this is just a way of saying the supply/demand curve yields cheap lithium in 2022.

We're in no danger of supply issues at the right price, no one who wants to buy some lithium is coming up short, and no such future is at all likely in this century.
Source (in Russian) [1] and future plans for a virtual museum [2]. A huge loss but glad the curator is safe. Слава ретро-компьютерам!

[1] https://m.facebook.com/it8bit.club/
[2] https://it8bit.club/blog/muzeya-kompqyuterov-v-mariupole-bol...
For Ruby on Rails, you should check Jumpstart Pro, they have nice inbuilt integration with stripe and other payment gateways.
When I was growing up, everything was glass: glass bottles for tablets, etc. Then plastic took over. Every village/town in the third world is littered with so much plastic without proper disposal--ending up in local creeks, subsequently in oceans in the rainy season.