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I wouldn't say the Linux Desktop has gotten any more capable since Compiz, so no. (Nor have most desktops - depending on how much you value things like iMessage integration in modern Macs.) Before that, since... Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox and the decline of IE-only sites? Office file format compatibility?

It's more the examples provided in the original article: cpu firmware blobs, network firmware blobs, same as always, just even more.
When 11 US diplomats in Uganda turned up with NSO Pegasus Malware on their phones, the US government responded by listing NSO as a covered Entity and forbidding any US company from buying or selling with it without express permission of the USG- Dell can't sell them monitors or laptops without the State Department publishing written, specific permission. Several US congresspersons advocated for even harsher response (Global Magnitsky Sanctions, which would, AIUI, basically cut them off from the dollar and their employees from traveling to the US). The US reserves the right to do that later.

So the US has responded, quite forcefully, to people much lower on the food chain being hacked by Pegasus.

See: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/the-s...
> Given the evidence that Neandertals were not able to master things like sewing

Don't read too much into that. Native Americans (homo sapiens from the whole American continent) didn't master wheels for transport. Aztecs did have toys that used wheels, the concept wasn't foreign, but somehow they didn't see the need to upscale it for transport. Yes, we can argue that they didn't have draught animals, but there are plenty of human powered uses for wheels, and some regions did have horses, llamas or buffaloes.

Maybe Neanderthals just weren't interested.
> from the image of the primitive brute

I kinda prefer the short stint in the 60s and 70s where they were imagined / portrayed to be a sort of nature oriented flower children.

Fun how culture influences things.
No, 60Hz max with the startech.
Not all states use the federal AGI. A lot of states differ in how they tax various retirement contributions and income, for instance.
I've seen more smashed windshields in 5 years living in San Francisco than in 18 years living in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Last month, I went to the Fisherman's Wharf area to pick up some lunch, and my wife was waiting in the car near the restaurant. She witnessed a car break-in just across the street from her. In broad day light. We reported it to police, including car plate for the perpetrators (my wife somehow had the presence of mind to take a photo of the thieves' car), but during the call, the police officer was like "we can't keep holding the phone line, maybe call us later".
> Britain does not have a written constitution but it is followed (how?),

Pretty much the same as in the US/Australia/etc where written constitutions exist: the courts strike down unconstitutional laws or acts.
Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
When my current CTO at Merkle Science told me that employees got M1 MacBook Pros, I politely asked for a ThinkPad instead. He obliged, winning me over. I was the only employee using Ubuntu for a while. Today I use my ThinkPad P14S AMD Ryzen 7 5600 in a 4 display setup. It is beautiful and I use it with qtile. While I can work with 2 displays, I'd rather have both be external displays than have to use mismatched displays. I used to use my Macbook 2018 that way at Visa. However I loathed that machine because of how many problems I faced with it and how mental the USB C hell was. Having to use istatmenu to turn on the fans manually at full speed was unacceptable. Having to only use ports on the left or right side was unacceptable.

I don't ever want to use a macbook ever again. I am certain I will have to since many tech Bros think that it is the best experience out there, and the alternative is Windows which is even worse. I hope every company realizes giving your developers the machine or the OS of their choice is not a bad thing. Stop forcing Devs to use X just because your IT is saying so. Let the developers do their jobs in the best possible way.
Is this even feasible? I imagine high resolution satellite imagery is a lot larger than your typical blog post or youtube video. Plus the surface of the earth is huge, if you push out everything 95% of it is probably irrelevant crap that doesn't tell you anything about your customers. But I don't run a media or satellite imagery company so this is just what i imagine lol
I have read the article, and my first reaction is to disagree with the conclusions.

The whole problem stems from the fact that the units in which the data is accessed by the ("strange") CPU and by the external storage can be different. Let's suppose that the CPU-character is 16-bit wide (i.e. that the CPU can't address or process 8-bit data units individually), while the storage-character is 8-bit wide. In that case, both the behavior of writing each CPU-character as two storage-characters, _and_ the behavior of writing only the 8 bits of each CPU-character to storage, might make sense, for different applications. This is not really about truncation, this is about choosing an interleaved or non-interleaved representation of the storage content in memory as the source layout. And yes, for the representation where each storage-character is represented by one CPU-character, it is logical that the higher 8 bits can't matter, must be ignored, and so the program can return 2 in this case.

The real bug here is the attempt to stipulate one and the same storage representation for all applications.

This should ideally be a flag to fopen(), just like we have a "b" flag to denote binary streams on some systems. I think it is too late to rule on the default, though.
Yea, I don’t get it. This isn’t describing an adversarial process at all. There’s not intended to be any time pressure either, since the task is chosen to be easy enough to finish in half the available time.

I can certainly understand having gone through annoying interviews; that’s very common. Some interviews are even purposefully designed to be difficult to pass, which can be very frustrating to the candidates. But this question is just asking for a practical demonstration of a candidate’s abilities. It’s not a trick question, it’s not a puzzle, and there’s no secret handshake.
Positing the existence of a deity doesn't get you anywhere. Why is it moral to do what that deity says to? Absolute morality does not exist.

Now, you can quite easily construct a practical morality system: I think murder is bad because I don't want to be murdered. I want stealing outlawed because I don't want things stolen from me. It's really that simple.

This is natural behavior that has proven evolutionarily advantageous for our species, but religion strangely came along after the fact and tried to take credit for it.
Where are you getting the 2.5m figure from? The article you linked doesn't give a figure as far as I can see, but it says sediments have been found 4m above _current_ tide levels and that water went 29km inland in Scotland. Both of those figures seem to be at odds with a relatively small 2.5m tsunami (for comparison, the Fukashima earthquake produced a 15m tsunami).
There are like 2 million farms in USA, and if that information is worth to them something like $10/month then that's a potential market worth quarter of a billion per year..
I think you’re making my point for me?
Maybe certain interest group within UK is working with certain interest group in Israel and "borrowed" Pegasus to use against other interest group(s).

Actually Yes Minster joked about surveillance put on certain ministers. Can watch for fun. Sitcoms nowadays rarely talk about political issues.
Recall seeing advertising on in-game billboards in the game 'Pole Position' four decades ago. Going to guess the news here is that Microsoft will be using targeted ads?
Compared with previous versions of fediverse server software, Mastodon has been wildly successful as an open source project. It's not only maintained a solid release cycle, but it's shipped native clients and has slowly but surely built out an interest in the federated social web.

Mattl, you can chime in and tell us what things were like back in the Gnu Social days or maybe someone else remembers the StatusNet/Identi.ca era further back. How many installations did you have, roughly? It wasn't a very active scene. Seems like Eugen Rochko and Mastodon gGmbH know what they're doing.

Yes it's not 'early days' but we can also argue the whole system (based on ActivityPub, including software like Pixelfed, Peertube, Misskey, etc) is a genie unable to be returned inside its bottle. It doesn't really matter if Mastodon gets mass adoption or not, as long as it follows the same path taken by email, DNS, or other internet standards it'll do okay in the end (Lindy Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect - these old and crusty standards have proven the test of time and are not going anywhere soon. Twitter could collapse tomorrow depending on what Elon decides to do with it.)
You’re right, my point was surface reduction, not that one tech is more or less vulnerable than others
Wargame Simulating the Sinking of the Moskva
It’s good for teaching younger players who still have temper problems, but there’s only so much of the game you can experience this way. And don’t expect to get to advanced or expert strategies without the game balance falling apart.

One knock on effect I’d predict is higher mana value cards would be substantially more playable. I expect a deck of walls + counterspells + removal + big finishers like the Eldrazi or even just Baneslayer Angel to be much more effective than it is now.

On the other end of the spectrum super low to the ground aggro strategies also get a huge bonus by simply never having to draw a land again.

Probably Storm (play a bunch of cheap spells, typically with a discount or with effects that give you mana when you cast a spell) gets a huge boost as well as they can ensure they never fizzle out. Once the engine is going they’ll always win unless they get countered.

What lose out here are all the decks in the middle. The midrange, “fair” decks that are just trying to curve out with the best play each turn.

And all that’s not counting the rules headache with cards like Oracle of Mul-Daya, Fact or Fiction, Treasure Hunt, or Dark Confidant. Which pile does my Maze of Ith go in? Cultivate? Sol Ring? Faceless Haven?

With that said it’s also my personal opinion that variance just makes the game more enjoyable and widens the group of players you can compete against, as long as you have the emotional capacity to not take losses personally.
If they were flagged, then it's not really suspicious. You're worried that stories are being pushed off the front page or deleted by mods, right?
You may be right, but that 2004 paper is on the wrong side of, for example, the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome by Pääbo, five years later: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1188021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbreeding_between_archaic_... has some newer stuff and the trend seems to be progressively more archaic DNA being identified.
The models are different. Silk Road has millions of sellers and millions of buyers; Pegasus has a very small set of both, who would be more difficult to connect with. It probably won’t kill it, but will create a harder to leverage profit model
That's where I really love James Burke's "Connections" TV series, it somewhat dispels this idea by showing just how interconnected discoveries and inventions were even in a far earlier age. One invention makes a new way of making money possible, this new way of making money comes with entirely new challenges and the capital to solve them. Unsurprisingly people naturally align themselves to solve these problems and capture some of that capital.

The idea of the "lone inventor" is a lovely one.. but I submit that they have not been the majority of force behind much of the invention our world now enjoys. Humanity itself is an iterative process.
DuPont is now also the owner of Union Carbide whose carelessness caused one of the biggest industrial disasters in Bhopal in '84, killing over 3k people, and causing lasting injuries for many 10s of thousands. IIRC, some IITs even disallowed DuPont from participating in their campus-placements for this reason.

India's craven political dispensation accepted the pittance of damages paid by UC, but it barely covered anything. Such disgrace.
I believe USA is sending over intelligence reports from that satellite imagery, however, the raw images may easily be considered too sensitive to release to others because they reveal both the exact capabilities and potential countermeasures. I recall the (IMHO justified) uproar back when Trump tweeted a photo of a single recon satellite image of Iran, they definitely would not just send over all the raw data.
I was starting out with baby steps related to how well balanced your mana was. I would calculate the likelihood of a particular permanent being cast on turn #0-n. Never got to the point of creating a single index to score a deck overall. I had a long way to go. But I imagined taking some clever machine learning algorithms to help find suggested cards and swapping those in to create suggested decks.

And I imagined this all as a service people would pay for, lol.
Getting the chip lined up accurately enough might be a bit trickier. With soldering, you can normally rely on the solder's surface tension to pull the pads into alignment.
this is so nice but unfortunately, we can't use alpine for everything. we tried to use alpine where possible but adopting this mean we complicated our stack a bit (apko for alpine base image and buildkit or kaniko for everything else)
Detailed Map of Russian Pipelines and Oil Fields
This is a detailed map of Russian petroleum assets.
Oh? That's actually very reassuring! Do you mind sharing some examples of the different "forms" of entertaining?
Everyone in the embedded space goes to kernel.org for WiFi stuff (firmware, regulatory info etc) regardless of which OS they're using. Being put at the top of the Wiki because you're "easy to work with" would be a massive advertisement.
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Upwards of 350 billion as an industry(including education, food industry, transportation, logistics, ag inputs jobs that rely on California ag) isn’t trivial.
What's the rest of your stack? Do you need RUN commands, or is it a different package format we could add here?
Well, there's another fun thing to add to the Magic Mirror. Have to find a space near the aircraft identifier widget.
> keep them separate, lest Google effectively starts treating them as one

Does anyone know how often and how long you need to be logged into multiple accounts before Google treats them as one? Maybe it's a single occurrence? One slip-up and you're screwed?
It's far better than soldered. Good job Dell, next I wish you make it standard.
Pentagon Awards Anti-Hypersonic Missile Contracts (Jan./Feb. 2022)
I know nothing about memcached. But in general, out in programmingland:

"Adding a command to do X" does not imply (in general) "altering the source".

That is, there are plenty of cases where one does not need to hack the source to effectively "add a command" to the running system.
That's a good point. I think the author might be forgetting using ndis wrapper to run Windows drivers (so that's non-free software on the same machine as your OS) for unsupported network cards. We've come farther and have new, different problems now. The situation then looked bleak much like the situation now.
yup. coding in a group setting is harder than coding on your own. Also productivity is whatever you want to make of it. Some people may feel really productive by tweaking a system to squeeze that extra 2% perf, some people may feel productive by writing code, some people may feel productive by enabling others. there is no silver bullet and putting things in perspective always helps :)
Why not? “Let us have a cup of tea.” Seems valid to me.
Middle Fingers to the NYT and NYer
Back in the day I had some dealings with Joyent, and I pitched them on Nix for SmartOS. I couldn't get them to take me seriously, because they were old-school Unix heads, but damn that would have been a great system.

Define a zone with a Nix derivation, the Nix Daemon installs all its dependencies into a shared Nix store, which then gets mounted read-only into all the zones. It would have eliminated all the copying things around they were doing with pkgsrc, speculatively installing a bunch of stuff in case you need it, Manta etc. Alas!
If this self provisioning profile can't use all APIs on the native OS and doesn't allow alternate OSes, it still allows plenty of room for Apple to keep doing anti-competitive, user-lockin, censorship and anti-consumer things.

Apple has deleted dev accounts for pointing out pitfalls in App Store moderation, and removed an app to let you check if an iPhone was jailbroken.

iMessage and iOS are equally capable of locking in users, one with network effects, and the other with the only apps that work with other Apple products. Unlocked bootloaders would allow more fair consumer choice.
2% for every year you stay there
As a long time Debian user I'm reluctant to criticize developer ergonomics as I'm not an _active_ contributor. That being said, _as a user_, I've not had any issue locating and using non-free firmware when required, and I would be disappointed to see the project change course by including non-free components in an offical manner. Removing the slight inconvenience (literally clicking a link _on the installation page_ and downloading the firmware included image) further dilutes the project's free software position and will encourage users to install software that does not respect their freedoms. If users never brush up against the inconvenience they'll be much less likely to seek out hardware alternatives or even educate themselves on the topic at all, this is damaging to the community as a whole.

I know I'm in the minority, and expect my opinion to be weighted accordingly, but principle is a key factor I use when choosing anything - including software. My loyalty to Debian would be significantly impacted by such a change.

Is Debian missing projected growth KPI's or shedding users? Is this a key hurdle to onboarding new contributors? I'm aware there may be other considerations that those actively participating in the community or leadership may be aware of that I am not, and I might be ignorant to the full value of the proposition. Debian is amazing and I have the upmost respect for everyone involved over the decades, but a move in a direction that weakens its position on non-free components would most likely drive me to using Guix exclusively.
You couldn't pay me to go to into SF proper or Oakland.
Would the African bush pygmy people be considered as a separate human branch? What makes the Hobbit people different from the current pygmy people?

I think my question boils down to - if these separate branches of humans existed today, wouldn't we just consider them as Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
As long as we agree that, at the end of the day -- it's basically a crapshoot, as to what you can really tell about the other person based on whether they answer these kinds of questions on time and in as much detail as you like.

That is -- I'm not saying these questions don't tell you anything about the candidate. But at the end of the day ... I just don't think they tell you that much.

Certainly not in the divining-rod, "finally I found a question that will sniff out the true h@ck3rz from the wannabe drudges" sense that people seem to think questions of this sort are imbued with.
I was in YC >5 years ago when batches were in person and in the large-two-digit range. The experience of YC is completely different. The class sizes are in the hundreds and many times I've spoken to founders who didn't know another company in their batch existed.

It's a highly optimized assembly line for getting a company to give a 1 minute pitch. They said they'd never do remote, for good reason, then (understandably) flipped when the pandemic happened. But the downsides of remote didn't disappear when covid appeared...

This doesn't mean that founders don't love YC or that it's not worth it. It doesn't mean that parts of YC haven't gotten better over time. Again, highly optimized. It doesn't mean YC isn't a huge boon to your company's reputation.

But if you're looking for small, focused mentorship then YC is no longer the same place.
Parent commentator's contention..

Pixels are there anyway, and infinitely scalable - you can sell exact same pixels to infinite number of people.

So why not to make a very easy UX to extract the pixels of your choice as per customized timeline.

It almost sounds foolish not to do it.
>So you are trying to say that any action of the US military is a white action?

How many of the commanders in chief were non-white?

I rest my case.
One thing that comes to mind for me is GasBuddy. They simply show me the raw data feed (price of gas at various stations). It's up to me to decide based on my MPG, distance, price, etc. what is worth fueling up at.
yeah. talking about "rockstars" and "newbs" is probably not helpful. but...
the veteran not only can do what the newbies are doing, they can do it better and faster. The point is that in having the newbs do that, the veteran's time is better used on harder / more open ended problems.

to use an analogy, if we are building a sewer line, the veteran knows how to dig as he's done it before and it represents no challenge to them. Not only that but they have better technique and stamina. Now, someone has to also decide where the line goes and organize the workers. So the veteran's time is best used figuring out where the line should go and coordinating, not digging, but his work is enabled by the people that do all the "actual" work
>the only way we'll see long term change is to keep the friction on

... but there are two possible long term changes, right?

In one of them, the friction incrementally pushes manufacturers not to have proprietary firmware and the number of machines supported by the Debian official install improves.

In the other one, the friction incrementally discourages users from installing Debian, and they either give up on Linux or adopt a distribution that isn't quite so user-hostile.
> Like I said, if someone comes with an obvious use case, and you claim it's not a use case, or however you want to twist your words ( impractical use case or whatever), well, then the discussion ends right there. What else do you want to discuss then?

Did you not read the comment where outlined some of the holes in those use cases?

Here's a gist of how these coversations usually go:

>>>> We should use literal bricks as currency.

>>> That sounds dumb and pointless.

>> No it isn't. Here's an obvious use case: if you want to buy something from me, you can push over a wheelbarrow of bricks to make the exchange. This is superior to fiat because it's hard currency, and far more difficult to steal than banknotes or even precious metal coins. No way the government can confiscate it, it's too heavy. IT'S THE FUTURE OF MONEY!!1!

> That doesn't make any sense. It's a PITA to cart around bricks, banknotes and coins are way more convenient. Also the government has trucks.
May I ask what computer it is?