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Kotlin Asynchronous Framework, Ktor 2.0, Released
MSVC project files can be portable, if you are careful about using relative paths, and use environment variables for CUDA, PYTHON_PATH, OpenCV etc (if needed).
Berliners are a weird group culturally. This is the same bunch of people that went on an anti-Semitic and racist bender and massacred millions of people across Europe. I don’t think they are a good example of how life should be lived. Weird/crazy people being weird. Everything is acceptable to Berliners.
I suppose so.

Do you have a writeup of your methods anywhere? The reMarkable let me down too badly for me to remain very interested in giving it another chance as a wholesale replacement, but I'd be a fool to assume that means there's nothing worth learning from someone who's found success with it. If nothing else, maybe there's some way it could be useful to me after all!
> A halving of population would do nothing on any time scale. A small blip easily recovered by reproduction.

The population was half of 2020 in 1973 (1). Emissions were also half of now back then (2). That’s nearly 30 years of runway that Thano’s solution would provide. With today’s technology and rapid iteration, we could definitely do something better for climate change.

I’m not endorsing the method, but merely disagreeing with your assertion.

(1) https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat...

(2) https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissi...
This looks almost exactly like https://lists.sh/ which I stumbled upon today.

Maybe that guy saw your blog and re-did it. Or you saw someone's blog and re-did theirs. idk.
But the 2 looks so similar that I had to comment on that.
That's pretty weird. If you or anyone has time to help me debug this, I would much appreciate your help. Might be something with the CSS.
Flows: A New Approach to UI Development (2018)
Yes, and your point makes of the OP article's take on "the list" of requirements for a partner. A lot of people do get trapped into an unduly logical mode of thinking about prospective partners. I could see that dating on apps would encourage this way of thinking. I strongly agree with the article's take:

> For ex: someone might say, what I want is a guy who’s athletic, has a stable job, wants to have children, good relationship with his family, is funny and emotionally aware. I don’t think lists like that are helpful, because you’re probably subconsciously filtering based on those qualities anyway. The real thing people should be actively looking for is strong emotional connection, as in: to what degree can I share who I am with this person, do they get it, how interested are they in who I am, my feelings and thoughts, can we accommodate each other’s preferences, are we good at talking.
It's not going anywhere. Programming is becoming larger, and the problems it can reasonably (as well as unreasonably) solve are increasing in scope as business managers try to leverage a more socially-acceptable field.

Additionally hybrid developer/business folk are becoming a thing, diversifying the demand as well as the skillset. To say nothing of the "CEO Compensation" halo effect Silicon Valley wages have on the industry.

Next to sales it is increasingly becoming the most valuable aspect of many industries that are critical to modern western economies (finance, insurance, technology), and AI is 'always' on the horizon as a future cost cutter, so I expect the trend to stick around.
Escaping the Botnet: A Practical Guide
I don’t intend to use it away from a socket so I dont want to conpromise 1% of the performance when plugged in by getting a lower power CPU that has better perf only when not plugged in.
What CPU do you have that doesn’t throttle? It’s not an Intel H, I’m guessing an Intel U version, M1, or Ryzen then.
In Swedish, "isk" endings are sometimes contracted to "sk" such as "polsk"="polish" and the only way to say "pertaining to Köln" would be "kölsk" (unless specifically the beer.)

But "människa" is a noun. It's pronounced "menisha" but it doesn't mean "manish". In Norwegian, the word for humane is spelled "menneskelig" literally "menneske-like". (In Norwegian the 'k' is hard.)

As I can gather, the literal meaning in sanskrit of "manusha" = "born of Manu" = human. Manu is a god.
My previous company had instituted the forced holiday once or twice a quarter and it was truly effective at getting people who never take time off to take a break. They tried to discontinue it after the pandemic receded a bit but people protested so they kept it in the end.
>> Or maybe we're really on the verge of some new industry discoveries that could explode into gaming we couldn't imagine before, without this new world of different gaming perspectives.

You mean like what happenned to wargames back in the day, when D&D came out? Nobody makes or plays those anymore, far as I can tell (and from what I gather, the majority were solo-played anyway, which sounds a little sad).

This might be a little morbid, but I often wonder what Gygax and Arneson, and the other people involved in early D&D, thought about the genre they had started up, as they went to their graves. "I left something worthwhile behind", or "Why are all those people messing up my game"?
The Atari ST was the real "poor man's" version. Though PC-compatible systems with good soundcards, etc. were even more expensive back then.
All users are, at some point, stupid and easy to fool. Proof of this is as simple as looking at the recent spat of “I’m a security expert and I got scammed” headlines.
A good skeleton UI should not stop you to interact with the page. You should be able to click on the image placeholder to direct you to the related page.

This only work if the website isn't a bloated single page app.
> The thing is, you cannot harden it even more.

Yes, you can. You seem to have never used Trusted Solaris implementing the B1 TCSEC level and running on the certified hardware where all system objects are labelled and MAC is enforced at the kernel level. That is an example of a much more locked down system, which you are conjuring up OS X to be but the OS X is nowhere near to being that locked down nor controlled.

The real trouble with the system hardening, however, arises at the network level where the traffic is fully encrypted, and it is impossible to tell whether a network connection, say, WhatsApp has established to 'external.fbsb1-1.fna.fbcdn.net' or to 'scontent.fams1-2.fna.fbcdn.net' is a legit one, or it is used for tracking the user. It is impossible to harden that further and is a unfortunate side effect of the use of the encryption.

App sandbox profiles can still be hardened further by anyone, not just by Apple at a whim; see https://reverse.put.as/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Apple-Sand... and https://paolozaino.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/maximum-security... for details.

Otherwise, since OS X is a UNIX implementation, therefore it can be scrubbed off of undesired features, if a need be:

- SIP can be disabled.

- Gatekeeper can inactivated peacefully (or via brute force by setting appropriate host entries to 0.0.0.0 in /etc/hosts).

- Deemed to be illegit or nuisance services can be scrubbed off via /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister.

- The rest can be unloaded and disabled via the routine application of launchctl.

- Security policies can be amended via fiddling with spctl.

Yes, all of the above is tedious, and it will break all vertically integrated Apple services and official app store updates, but it will give one a sufficiently 'clean' OS X install. If that is not enough, one can install Linux, NetBSD or OpenBSD to run whatever they please.

> If Apple Almighty hasn’t thought about your use case, it may as well not exist. There are two modes: either Apple nannying your systems like the overly attached yiddishe mame, or a mad ex breaking up with you, but also ripping out the locks from your doors before they go.

> […] Apple still owns it, snooping over your shoulder, giving you slaps on the hand if you dare „misuse” what they gave you.

You are misrepresenting a unsubstantiated strong personal opinion or a vague, generic, hand waving for a collection of facts that do not support such an opinion, for none of that actually exists. Apple is certainly not:

- Baby sitting my own or my colleagues OS installs; nor

- Does it slap me on the wrist for running anything I want out of my own moderately wild zoo; nor

- Does it care about the network traffic that passes through.

And Apple certainly does not own the laptop I have purchased from them; you might have a valid case with iPhones, iPads or Apple TV's but personal computing devices produced by Apple are not an example of such an instance.

Lastly, what might be a bug or a misfeature for you is a feature or a conscious compromise (that one has willingly accepted) for some.
It is because it is not grounded. The leakage current then goes into the case.

Unfortunately it seems to be quite difficult to buy grounded usb-c chargers. Most of them seem to come with C7 cables with no ground.
I still wonder what could have been if IBM just kept the Thinkpad lines. Those IBM-designed Thinkpads were built like tanks. Industrial. Legendary keyboards. I really miss those machines. I had some of the best coding sessions on them and can’t help but think Thinkpads played a role in creating that experience.
Hi, I had a look at the position and it fits very much what I was looking for. I hope we can arrange something. I applied to the position with my email (c [at] cfx [dot] lu)
Thank you for sharing! Glad to hear things worked out for you!
I used to make music on the Amiga. There is one aspect that the article doesn't explain too well - what allowed the Amiga to flourish as a music making platform, is that it had onboard audio which was much more capable than most other computers of the time, thanks to Paula, which allowed multi channel, high sample rate audio playback [1]

These hardware capabilites in turn allowed the development of the Amiga music software scene, in particular music trackers [2]

The Amiga was the first mass produced computer where you could make music without plugging in expensive synths or samplers (like was common on the Atari ST for example - I remember my uncle connecting his ST to an Akai sampler and a Roland synth, as a kid I could never have afforded a setup like that). But, if you wanted to sample on the Amiga, you actually needed one external piece of hardware: an audio sampling interface, however these were generally very cheap [3]

Just a few hours ago an article about making music on the Atari ST made it to the HN home page (I also commented there), might be an interesting read for those interested [4]

[1] http://theamigamuseum.com/the-hardware/the-ocs-chipset/paula...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MXYZh1jcs

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31222980
I find it difficult to articulate, so forgive me if I'm not getting my point across, but the gist of what I'm trying to say in that section is less about straight binary compatibility and more about API design in general, playing to the respective language's strengths. I feel like Rust encourages more "C-like" APIs, and its added features (such as memory safety) are in effect the whole running time of the program, regardless of where that memory comes from or how it's initialized. On the other hand, C++ has something of a vendor lock-in regarding how it functions - RAII, constructors, exceptions, inheritance, etc. etc. all assume you have objects with a lifecycle that starts and ends in C++, and that those objects see most of their use according to C++'s object model. All of C++'s features come together in a brilliantly harmonized way and build off each other, but, if you forgo even some of those features, you end up missing out on most of them.
I'm sure there are exceptions. Nonetheless, something like 80% of the PC market overall is Windows.
Chrome LTS
IKEA's restaurants were failing, then it turned to Swedish meatballs
Ah yeah, they are expensive but they do last for years and are machine washable. I've had the same Sturdi XL for over 7 years.

Glad I could help with the info. Cheers.
All the 'translations' seem to hinge on the assumption that the recipient does not have malicious motives, but rather, they seem to be doing something bad that you'd like them to stop doing, and are trying to find the best language for it.

This is a massive assumption.
Ye, agreed - this has been annoying me for a while

Added to my todo list
The big-name ones are Wanderhome, Troika, and Blades in the Dark all of which are fantastic full featured systems that outside of the bundle go for a decent bit.

Pigsmoke and Damn the Man Save the Music are smaller but also very good.
There's a 60s sci-fi story where that happens. It goes airborne. The
insulation on wiring starts to break down. Telephones and power
systems are the first things to go.

Look around you now and see how many objects in your vicinity would
survive.
I think the wearables revenue is overwhelmingly AirPods? I can’t find clear data easily, but the first hit on google is $23B in revenue per year for just AirPods. It also looks like the number of Apple Watches sold is a tenth of the number of iPhones sold.

Like, the biggest contribution of Ive, the chief designer at Apple over a decade, was a product that augments 10% of phones (and of course costs much less than a phone). If you were hiring for design Czar, wouldn’t you expect more?
The law - not the companies - explicitly forbids me from expressing my preferences globally at the browser level.

I know exactly what I am ready to accept - and what I want to reject. The law says "you have to repeat your preferences individually for each and every domain, you cannot have a system that applies your preferences automatically to everyone"

As a consequence I stand my ground: The law - not the companies - is nagging me.
> Rust certainly could ... in my opinion as a long time C++ developer.

Can you link to an explanation of, or an argument for, that claim?
> Animal protein is not a problem. There is plenty of land in the US only suitable for grazing.

This statement is wrong. Livestock grazes early in its lifetime, but is moved to feed lots and feed corn and soy to prepare for slaughter. The US spends a quarter of its corn crop on feeding animals, whereas less than 10% is directly feed to people. Animal protein is a significant opportunity cost to US agriculture.
Parent was asking why we didn't get something like Syncthing or this that did not rely so much on data centers.
I've noticed this too with tomatoes. My parents grow tomatoes in their backyard during the summer. The amount of "meat" in the backyard grown tomatoes is noticeably a lot more than store-bought tomatoes. Stock-bought tomatoes are a lot more watery. and have less "meat" in them.

Similarly, I've started buying a lot more organic fruits and vegetables. The organic strawberries have way more taste than non-organic strawberries.
+1. Being able to keep my rate and adjust for inflation is important to me, so in cases of budget crunch I've negotiated less time. Which has turned out to work great for everybody, over years now.
10DLC will be the future anyways: https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260800720410-W...
Food security always makes me think about food waste.

When I was 17 years old I went to Sweden as part of a cultural exchange program (I'm from South America). One of the first things that shocked me was the sheer amount of food being wasted for no reason whatsoever.

In my country, even though I come from a privileged family, you can't shield yourself away from poverty. Throughout my entire life living with my parents I've seen people ring our door to ask for food. Personally, I NEVER waste any food, if I put something on my plate, I'll eat it unless it's rotten. And that goes for pretty much everyone I know. Every time I went out to eat with my parents, if there were any significant amount of food left, we would always ponder whether or not we would want to it later. If we decided we would not, we would take it anyway and find someone on the street who would.

While in Sweden, I lived with Swedish families and attended to a traditional Swedish high school. So I'd eat lunch at school and dinner with my host families. My first day eating lunch at school I was shocked, to say the least. I mean, yeah, the food was great, it's amazing that there is such a functional high-quality school system there, and so organized too; once you're done eating, you're supposed to take your plate, put any leftovers on a big trash bin, and give your plate to the lady who puts them into a industrial washer. The amount of food kids threw away was just staggering. And it's not a one off thing. It's a behavior, they put more food than they know they'll eat, every single day. It's not like they put a ridiculous amount of food on their plate and throw most of it away. It's like they don't even bother paying attention to how hungry they are, they just put whatever amount of food they feel like putting, and then throw away the rest. That goes even for drinks, they would serve a cup full of milk or water, and throw half of it away.

I know I'm talking about kids and teenagers, but they will grow up to be adults some day. And I saw that of many adults also. On of my duties as an exchange student was to connect both cultures, mine and the country I was being hosted by. I always tried to give people there a glimpse of what of poverty was and how privileged they were, and I always felt I never got the idea through. It felt sometimes they have a cartoonish idea of poverty and what it means to not have the money to pay for really basic things.

I'm not here to call anyone out. I just think there are times when the people are also part of problem, and I wanted to give a personal perspective.
It is both: it is a sequence of turns that if you repeat them over and over, will take you through every possible cube state. But it is possible that the shortest such sequence is trillions of moves long.
I mean, don't threaten me with a good time.

The Wii U and 3DS are both excellent emulators for a number of different systems once they've been rooted, and arbitrary platform exclusivity (especially with Nintendo) is a huge issue for game access and game preservation, particularly for games on discontinued systems. Emulation/portability helps with all of that, even when it's not officially supported.

There are potentially console-specific economic reasons why we might not want to give people the freedom to root their own consoles without exploits, but importantly those are pretty console-specific. The economics of profitability for game manufacturers are pretty much the only good argument for letting consoles be so locked down, and I'm not 100% convinced even they are a good justification. But regardless of whether or not they're a good justification, they don't really apply to iPhones, products that aren't sold at a loss and don't base their entire model around recouping costs through software sales.

And absent those economic arguments, of course it would be good to allow users to load homebrew onto consoles and/or to install emulators that allow loading games from other consoles. It would be wild for anyone to look at forcibly, artificially tying games/software to a specific piece of hardware with a limited lifetime and limited availability, and view that as anything other than at best a necessary evil.
No feature change will redeem twitter. The basic structure (retweets, quote tweets, replies) lends itself to dogpiling. It's very easy to automate the dogpiling that twitter enourages, but it's very difficult to make a bot-or-not decision.
Except most were also started by Americans or people who had already moved to America for other reasons.
40% of all food that is purchased in the US is thrown in the garbage. It's so heavily subsidized here that people just consider it disposable. They buy way more than they need so they can just eat whatever they're in the mood for, and throw out the rest. Maybe food should be a lot more expensive.
They have. It's called numpy records, and they're delightful.

The problem is nobody is using them.
One of the 4 day week pioneers! And thanks for the shoutout Andrew
I am still dialing things in myself, but a few things I have noted so far. On one I was able to notice just over 8 hour after taking it every day a behavior change back to being on my phone and distracted. It meant something was working at least. And I have a few times, though definitely not regularly, where I can just sit there and be in the moment. Not thinking about work, not wanting to google some random thing I am curious about, nothing. Just there without distractions. Its rare, but I am hoping to get to that place more regularly. At least I think that's what I am supposed to be aiming for. Otherwise I am part of that #2 and have too high of expectations as well.
It's the next big crisis like the incoming ice age, global warming, climate change, covid, etc. etc.
It'll never be solved.
Especially when you think California has a ton of water up north but yet needs to drain the Colorado River.
And nobody wants to take water from the ocean.
Or run a pipeline from the east to the west.
Or pass laws requiring low-flow showerheads. Lots of states in the west have full on shower heads in hotels.
What a big scam.
Downvote me now, you all in on the jig.
In Iowa we have the opposite problem too much rain. We are in the last week to plant corn before seeing reduced yields.
One of my college seniors had one. It was such a beauty with that small yellow light bulb protruding from the top. Absolutely gorgeous experience.

I used to want one so much, none of the laptops since have ever enticed me like that, the MacBooks I use since then are nothing compared to that. Computing was so much fun those days (rosy eyed fallacy likely).
You're downvoted but it's true, there isn't a big company in EU that isn't exploitative. The biggest are banks and loan sharks. And not a single one pays good wages.
It conflating data with knowledge. "Because I deal with X industry data, I understand X industry"
Halving the emissions today would buy us only a couple of years until 2° warming becomes completely unpreventable.
> Don't use Grub or any bootloader if you can avoid it. I haven't used Grub in 10 years. Load Linux directly as an EFI executable via the EFISTUB approach.

I run Windows dual boot, since I need (native) Windows for certain work related tasks.

> S3 suspend was removed as a default option by many hardware manufacturers. You will likely need to enter the BIOS to change this.

It's on, S3 is not the problem

> There is a bug in 5.17.x kernels where suspend doesn't work with bluetooth enabled. It will be fixed soon.

I'm not running 5.17.

But frankly, I don't want to care about all this "oh, but you just have to do [insanely_technical_thing]"

Sure, if I invest $LOTS_OF_TIME in it, I might be able to fix most of the issues. But this is a $3000 professional laptop, which is supposed to have good Linux support. This machine is my work equipment and I chose this expensive machine so I don't have to tinker with this stuff. It should just work.
agree - Jerry Brown called it the 'new not-normal' .. this isn't a drought, it is shift