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Why the no-fork and not a branch?

Just maintain a dev branch on SQLite, the same as on, say, NGINX, and only merge into mainline after > 3 years of use by the lots of users that are safe using dev.

Will get it battle tested better and fatser, and in the hands of far more users. Why have a not-a-fork fork?
If the difference is not material, then why are there two different forms? Genuine question as this is not my area of expertise
The issue is not people freezing. Wear a sweater and suck it up. Buy an electric heater. There are ways to hack your way through it.

The much larger problem is industrial manufacturing, in clusters like Ludwigshafen, where you have companies like BASF and Benckiser that rely on Russian gas for their refinery operations.

Fertilizers, chemicals, lubricants, etc.

You turn off Russian gas, you turn off the German industrial complex. Literally over night.

And that’s the reason why the German is so cagey about stopping the import of Russian gas. They can’t, because they don’t have an alternative.
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Regarding J.G. Ballard, my understanding is that the early Cyberpunk authors were all absolutely heavily inspired by his works. Somebody (I forget who) said something to the effect of "We were all competing to see who would out-Ballard who".
I personally find this style of writing pretentious, obnoxious and egotistical.
I think it was handsontable I burned myself on: got client to sponsor/pay for support for a nice open source tool and shortly after they went closed source.

Same with caddy, except that time it was my money.

Some times I wonder if I should avoid giving money to open source projects because it seems to trigger the idea that one can make a whole lot of more money by selling out.
Haha take your upvote.

Depressing that Russians and tankies believe it though.
Having had an iPhone 6s, X, and 12, I disagree. I'm a heavy user but of relatively basic functionality – I'm not gaming on my phone.

Switching apps, latency for apps to restore state once you switch to them, latency for the camera to save a photo, latency on pretty much all interactions is noticeably better.

I'm not talking about dropped frames, Apple have always been good at ensuring a fluid user experience, but there are lots of points where apps can take a few seconds to do something on older hardware, or do it nearly instantly on newer hardware.

Does a few seconds make a difference? To my life, no. To my enjoyment of using the device, yeah. Whether it's worth frequent upgrades or not is a value judgement we can only make for ourselves, but there are many perceptible differences devices more than a few years apart.
why is this downvoted? I like the short description. I spent a few hours two weeks ago to walk through ziglang's tutorial(to see how fit it is to replace c/c++ for system programming), my summary so far is: interesting stuff, but not good enough for me to switch yet. Will be on my watch list for next few years.

Did similar thing with rust(ziglang to c vs rust to c++), decided to stay with modern c++ but will keep an eye on rust as well.
I don't think Bezos' ownership of the Washington Post has gone badly so far.
I recently migrated a large project from yarn to pnpm and the speed difference is insane. Everything related to dependencies runs must faster during local development AND CI.
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The only tricky thing is that we had some issues with some dependencies that could not work properly. But using the “—-shamefully-hoist” flag did the trick. Everything works.
That market needs to be guided away from fossil fuels. How would such a market cover solar and wind when they dont make enough? Batteries? Huge hydro storage? That sounds more expensive than nuclear.
SGI some places did a great job at giving good deals to computer labs. When I was at university in Oslo, there were rows and rows of Indy's on one side of the biggest undergrad computer lab, and then a bunch of Suns with multiple monochrome Tandberg terminals hooked up on the other.

No big surprise that the Indy side always filled up first, and that "everyone" soon had XEarth and similar running as backgrounds on the Indys... Of course "everyone" loved SGI and were thoroughly unimpressed with Sun after a semester in those labs.
For the record, this isn't intended as a "see what Brexit did" post, and posting "the situation in millennial" is childish and patronizing.
I’ve had one made it’s pretty cheap. Worth doing once
> I wouldn't want somebody like him on my board

It's his board.
>Why does knowing who else is using something have any impact on your ability to love it? Sounds like it's just a motivation problem perhaps?

Not making a value judgement. I agree that it doesn't need any more reason to exist than for its own sake. But I'm just genuinely curious what advantages Pharo has that make it useful in a professional setting.
"Living life on your terms" isn't binary. It's fine to try to live life more on your terms. There are limits to how much you can do so, though.

"Doing what you love" may not pay the bills. You can find something that pays the bills that you love more than what you're doing now. For example, if your thing is ballet, you may not be able to make a living at it. But you may be able to fit more of it in your life than you do now.

It gets worse when you want multiple things. If I want my dream job and a relationship with this other person, depending on how demanding my dream job is, I may not be able to have both (or have all of both).

And then you can just be in the wrong place or time. People in Ukraine don't get to live life on their terms right now.

So we often don't get to live life on our terms. And yet, we often can choose to life life more on our terms than we currently are, especially in terms of jobs. And a job that you enjoy doing is much less of a drag than a job that you hate.
"Possible" and "what you'll in fact see across a population in two different environments, all else being equal" are different things.

Living some places means you'd have to struggle to stay under 5k steps per day. Living others means you have to go out of your way to break 5k steps.
If you're going to be pendantic about terminology: monkey patching is patching at runtime in a dynamic language like Ruby or Python.
That's part of it, but I think it's more envy driven. He took his winnings at Paypal and bet it all to transform 2 industries. While most of us would have retired, blew it on a mansion and binge watch Game of Thrones in our private theater. Where would we be with electric cars and space right now if he had spent the past 20 years sailing on a yacht collecting supermodels? He could have done that instead.

He shows what's possible and it exposes our inadequacies and sloth. If you're insecure, he is constantly touching a nerve with success after success, his massive fanbase and ever presence in the news.
This forum post has some info on benchmarking SQLite with two different backends:

https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/9aa5e1dcffde1336

See the "preliminary results" link.
What is motivating you to look for a replacement? We are evaluating grids and AgGrid is the front runner currently though really rather heavyweight for our use cases.
Nowhere on that page does it say anything about being a passive investor?
I bought a Chinese phone once, it worked fine for a few months, then I had a long call on Teams and it suddenly turned off - it was very hot. I never managed to turn it back on.
This page is great!

If any Pharo folks are reading this, here's a small website feature request: Let me click on the images of this page to get full-resolution, un-cropped versions.
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Your last point is a big one for me. Although I did not personally code the tools I use for 'PKM', they don't depend on any service provider remaining in existence in order to function. Not even my ISP.

> ... even if they are not the best tools for the job

But they are though. ;-)
> This was almost certainly done by a lawyer working on his behalf.

This is like saying that you can’t be responsible for tax dodging because your accountant filed on your behalf.

> This strikes me as a technicality of paperwork that is being seized upon by the media as a way to portray Musk in the worst possible light.

Almost all of securities law is “technicalities”, it still has the force of law.
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Gotcha. Yeah yarn has always been way faster to me than npm. And indeed in these benchmarks pnpm is much faster than npm and only slightly faster than yarn.
Based on conversations I've had with people about uploading conciousness, my experience has not been that people think of it as a monument to their ego. For those with interest in this tech, the understanding seems to be that they will continue to percieve and think through this new, uploaded form. This also seems to be how it's usually portrayed in media (e.g. Black Mirror's "San Junipero" episode) though of course, it may turn out to be impossible.

I guess I haven't spoken to enough rich, eccentric types :) But seriously, if there are people who think of it like building a monument to one's self, I'd be interested in whether/why that is satisfactory for them.
Are you using GDScript? How are you liking it?

To me, the biggest hurdle with game development is always assets. I'm a terrible artist/musician.
Syncthing is really underrated. Clever, cute little bit of software.

Darktable is a bad user experience on the Mac but it's definitely capable of good results, as is Rawtherapee.

But I generally don't use open source stuff for photography; I have sunk expense in Mac software and I'll use that until it breaks.
Sorry, I don't follow. Colloquial diction is unacceptable in business, legal, and engineering contexts because it causes confusion. Using laymen terms such as "internet" in a headline yields more misinformation and confusion about what the system actually is. I agree colloquial word choice is not wrong for a blog, however applications are not the network, and they will need to do better if they want my click.
And it's not until further studying that you learn about the Anderson-Higgs effect in superconductors--how a gravity wave burst is generated every time a type 2 superconductor becomes superconducting.

Light-ether is real. It's [very oversimplifying] the EM pressure from maintaining every EMF-free zone (the insides of particles superconductors), plus pressure of all the cosmic background radiation.
Thanks for posting, that makes sense.
Heh, right, I did say generally.

The 7453, 7443, 7413, and 7313p have less than 8 chiplets (the 7xx3 chips are Milan/Zen3). I don't believe any of them have less then full memory bandwidth, unlike the previous generation. The spec sheet mentioned PCIe x 128 for all of them as well.
> So, the push to add types to JS, Python, Ruby and other dynamic languages is largely from developers accustomed to Java, C-Sharp, and other enterprisy languages ...

Nope, this is not true. I am personally pushing to add types to our Python codebase, and I have no love for "Java, C-Sharp and other enterprisy languages".

It's just that as the codebase grows, and especially as number of contributors grows, people start to make more mistakes. A rarely used code path, like an error handler, might fail in production because of wrong type or missing argument. We can require unit tests with 100% coverage, but this is very hard -- and typing linter finds you many more bugs per effort spent.

That does not mean that we should always specify every type in program explicitly, like Java does. Unspecified types are great for interactive exploration, or a quick hack. But as you move to production, don't understimate typecheckers -- they can help a lot.
He's not popular on hacker news. He's definitely popular
The conversation is about Twitter, why are you bringing up the government.
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Love that this continues to be shared. One of the most exciting projects in the Node ecosystem.
Buying Twitter is hardly solving the problem.

The content creator can just move to Facebook/Instagram or /tiktok or wherever.
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This is a very interesting use case I hadn't considered. I think seeding and getting a working database of these types of attributes would be an incredibly large task, but I definitely see the value in being as specific as possible here. This may be a good opportunity for some user education on how to document their belongings, what types of attributes to note, etc. I'll keep thinking on this, thanks for your feedback.
The Shockwave Rider should definitely be considered something like "proto Cyberpunk" IMO. And regardless of that, I'd absolutely recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it yet.

I just picked up a copy of Stand on Zanzibar, looking forward to getting into that soon.
I just started reading Bleeding Edge, which very much reads like a cyberpunk book in terms of dropping dozens of unelaborated references and allusions, or maybe like Douglas Coupland. Though I’d say it feels more like one of Bruce Sterling’s lighter works- Zeitgeist in particular- than something more like classic cyberpunk. (I’ve always associated the genre with brand-dropping, though that happens a ton in John Brunner’s work, which predates Gibson.) Independently, Pynchon also does that often, even in his novels not about high technology.
I have been working on something similar for the generic 'collector of XYZ' type group.

This looks quite nice and I do like the 'simplicity' of the interface.

One of the issues I've come across is the different uses people may have for this. A home inventory could be a 'simple' list of objects to one person, but to another they might want to have a number of bits of metadata for the item. For instance, a TV might have a number of HDMI ports, has a resolution etc. It might be worth looking at ways to add custom fields to items, either from a template or manually for each item.

I'd also suggest looking at how you can expose a log of who looked at what, when. Including on the database side of things. As someone else pointed out this is a gold mine of information for anyone nefarious, or an advertiser.

One thing I worked on for my project (which I'm not sure i'll ever get round to finishing) was a way to have a label that matched up with an entry on the site. QR Codes are 'ugly' but can work quite well for this. A short domain + a non base10 number for ID and you're off to the races.

A potential way to monetise this might be to work with insurers, I dont know much about the insurance market, but I'd assume they'd love to be able to put actual values and the like on someones household goods. Perhaps theres an avenue that insurers offset, or indeed pay outright, for users that meet certain criteria. Theres some prescience set for this in the UK with LeakBot, a number of insurers will offer customers this for free, as they are able to get information about a leak from that system. I'm not sure if it's shared with the insurer or not, but its something to explore as a possible revenue stream.
"On one hand you have the rockets, and cars, and all that. On the other hand you have his flippant, obnoxious attitude. Yeah, it's about even."

So absurd that anyone takes that argument seriously.
I have been hearing the exact same complaints about Samsung literally since it entered the smartphone market.

- Bloat? Yup, touchwiz.

- Ads? They had an unremovable galaxy store app early on.

- Bad performance? Definitely compared to the iPhones they got compared to.

At this point I see the main pulls of Samsung being the fact they offer better software support than Chinese brands with up to 5 years security updates / 4 years OS updates, and they have an entire ecosystem of tablets and keyfinders and audio products and so on. The problem I have with Samsung nowadays is that Apple offers all of those things but better so if you can do without the Google/Microsoft integration you should just go Apple. They have also lost several of their historical advantages:

- SD card? Gone.

- Headphone jack? Gone.

- Best screens in the business? Everybody is using their panels now.
I know there are many fans of these technologies here, but it’s been more than a decade and I still find myself asking the basic question of “what problem are we actually trying to solve?”

I could share my opinions, but in each case the answer doesn’t make sense. Instead, it’s groups with their own agendas using bitcoin / blockchain as a battering ram to achieve their ends.
Both Egan and Vinge have been very disappointing to me. I read them because they wrote a lot about the singularity, but found them to be extremely boring, dry and unimaginative. Stephenson's Snow Crash was also very underwhelming.

I'm more of a fan of Dick, Herbert, and Lem.
This is contrary to numerous interviews where Gibson praises aesthetic and for example, says that Blade Runner spot-on nailed what he was going for with Neuromancer. Gibson all throughout Neuromancer equally himself focuses, almost hyper-focuses on surface textures and visual aesthetic to juxtapose antique forms and purpose with high tech modern materials. It would seemingly be at odds for him to not like aesthetic and neon and city "Sprawl" after going to lengths to directly praise Ridley-Scott's "spot-on" interpretations.
> GIMP is great but until they can implement Adjustment layers it will never be a good alternative to Photoshop.

GIMP is not great until it has adjustment layers.

In the meantime, nobody on a budget should be using Photoshop when Affinity Photo is so inexpensive (and significantly better than Photoshop in a couple of important ways).
Included in the article are sub-sections "Role of breathing in low back pain" and "Role of breathing in core strength", with suggested exercises.

A couple resources I found helpful as I've been adjusting/correcting the way I breathe (in short, nose >> mouth, quick & deep breaths to warm up, 5-6 seconds in and 5-6 seconds out vs anxiety, humming while doing just about anything both feels good and might have nitric oxide benefits for oxygen uptake):

Breath, by James Nestor (2020) https://www.worldcat.org/title/breath-the-new-science-of-a-l...

Breath Taking, by Michael Stephen (2021) https://www.worldcat.org/title/breath-taking-the-power-fragi...
> sending all of your browser DNS lookups to a company that protects spammers and scammers.

Are you talking about Cloudflare?
So what did you two end up doing?

I'm 52, and work is in a neat little compartment. It's not great, but it's not soul sucking, and has good PTO and a pension and financially everything's grand and on-track...but work and my career is no longer where I draw value. I could easily see finishing my career here, and I could also see having another job before retirement.

(And, I could see retiring ASAFP if I could get the financial and life expense curves to cross. :) )
It’s worth pointing out that the SEC is extremely image conscious. They count on their reputation as the hammer of god himself to keep traders in line. Elon repeatedly snubbing them is going to tempt them to pull out all the stops.
The kid asked for $50k, Elon said no, which is why the bot is still up. In any case, paying someone to shut up is no violating their free speech.
I currently have both a laptop and a desktop from my company. Other than a handful of occasional keystrokes, I sit while using the laptop also.

A standing desk might be a better option, but that would work with either desktop or laptop.

Getting walking breaks in throughout the day would probably be good (and I do, whether if using a desktop or laptop computer).
I wouldn't say he's "one of the good ones" or anything like that. His currency is attention and trustworthiness, and that's what brings him good deals (he owns a VC firm), and his strategy is being brutally honest, even if sometimes a little bit cynical. Everyone seems to be aware of this trade, and I think he might have mentioned it at least once.

He doesn't have any programs or paid courses, his book is free.
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> First off, there’s Lumen—a fully dynamic global illumination solution that enables you to create believable scenes where indirect lighting adapts on the fly to changes to direct lighting or geometry—for example, changing the sun’s angle with the time of day, turning on a flashlight, or opening an exterior door. With Lumen, you no longer have to author lightmap UVs, wait for lightmaps to bake, or place reflection captures; you can simply create and edit lights inside the Unreal Editor and see the same final lighting your players will see when the game or experience is run on the target platform.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this basically a software-based implementation of NVIDIA's hardware-based RTX?
I suspect the difference is more between manufacturers than between USB-C/Thunderbolt. I bought the old CalDigit USB-C dock years ago for my 2016 rMacBook (no Thunderbolt support), and it’s still working fine today with my M1 MBA.
>I wouldn't want somebody like him on my board

You wouldn't want the CEO of two of the most innovative, most successful companies of all time on your board? Why?