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A "pure C ABI" doesn't really mean much, last I checked, seeing as how just about every combination of OS and CPU has its own quirks re: calling conventions and struct packing and such. Ain't sure what's meant here.
But we should still check that things are going the way people expect them to, right?

Of course the point is moot - can you point to any former part of the English Empire that has ever expressed a desire to get back to being ruled by them?
Ah, no wonder I felt unproductive with C# on VSCode. I couldn't wrap my head around that it is now how you should write C# code with such bad intellisense n stuff.
I think this is a valid stance if the writers now uncovered tendecies don't start to colour the decisions they took in their writing.

Good writing remains good writing, but realizing why somebody wrote something might just be something that cannot be undone for the informed reader.
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Perhaps I really should just pull up my notes from college and when I was in, but I am very much unconvinced by the arguments that take the form of "the free market solves this military staffing problem and technology made the draft obsolete, so whatever". I realize that what you're saying is more nuanced than that, but after witnessing how contractors behaved in Afghanistan I'll just say I'm not convinced of their competence, let alone their actual commitment to the job.

I am not, necessarily, concerned about questions of if the military wants conscripts. I'm concerned about the ability of the nation-state to properly respond to a crisis that precipitates major war. If you just consider the military's wants in a static context and extrapolate forward, just giving them what they want, the entire procurement roadmap for the next 10 years would probably still look like IED defeat devices and other garbage "future" tech that didn't and doesn't work, with the actually useful stuff arriving in 2040. We've thankfully had, on rare occasions, some smart civilians and DoD contrarians who have edged things in a different direction in some cases.

>Conscription stopped being relevant when technology became more important than numbers.

Hard, hard disagree. It is not at all decided that technology is more important than "numbers" (I'm assuming you are referring to raw numbers of troops in a particular combat zone). "Technology" has a lead time, and while humans have an approximate lead time of ~18 years, whatever technology that would beat them on the battlefield isn't stockpiled like humans are.
Indeed. We also kept chemistry and physics under control. Biochemistry too. Nothing can harm humanity.
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I don't think they work on people.
Sure. Playing violins is great, but trading shares hours away from death is frowned upon?
> The Fed is barely doing anything,

That is really not correct. The Fed has engaged in four phases of Quantitative Easing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#United_Sta...) since 2008 alone, with the last one in Mid-Summer 2020. This one resulted in an additional two billion of asset purchases with Money that didn't exist before, meaning that in 2020/2021 the Fed's money generation accounts for a total of 10% of US GDP. Having this much more money in a system with stable or declining supply (especially in conjunction to the Covid Relief Packages under Trump and Biden) is to me quite likely to have created the very problem the Fed is now trying to solve.
I still do not understand your objection, since the whole thread has been about shares, not options. The options were already exercised so what they are holding onto are these now likely worthless shares.
yesterday it was the debugger, then the hotreload, now it's the language server

people are still blind
In the real world there is stuff that is illegal and some of those things can be in image format.

And the part that sucks is clearly the retaliation from whoever it was.
> His joint venture with MS what turned everything sour for many people, incl. me.

Why did it turn things sour for you? I mean, ever since the Xamarin acquisition, MS .NET has become open + cross plattform and Xamarin which was a commercial/paid-for product is open too. VSCode is a first class citizen for free C#/.NET development on macOS and Linux. Not saying all of this is related to de Icaza getting bought by MS, but just saying ever since the ecosystem has become completely open.
> A carrier costs $10 billion. Without considering the crew and stuff in it. You can fire 50 $100 mil missiles simultaneously at it would still make a lot of sense, especially considering the morale aspect.

It would make sense for equal economies fighting.
A quick Googling turned up a Cities:Skylines map importer for real world terrain:

https://www.pcinvasion.com/how-to-import-maps-cities-skyline...

One idea I had was to take my home city and improve it with more pedestrian streets, greenery and light rail and to see the effect on traffic
The problem is not the repository, it’s having the translation data in the repo.

We have the same issue at $dayjob, the repo is quite large and 80% of it is translation data. Even if they compress ridiculously well (99% last I checked) the number of translation files and the number of exports makes them the vast majority of the cost.

However that structure remains a convenient nuisance, and more importantly removing them would really only be useful if we rewrote the entire repository, which breaks all working copies.

There’s been a task in a wishlist for years now, but the business incentive just isn’t there.

Exit: actually the translation files are 80% of the working copy, they’re closer to 90% of the repo, and on the far side.
I bet a whole lot of your day to day technical and administrative work is gibberish. Your yearly evaluation alone probably would require training for an outside person to understand.

Which is to say... don't assume jargon is pointless.
Grapes of Wrath solified my empathy for the poor amd the difficulties they face.

How to Win Friends and Influence People taught me that negotiation is not adversarial, and that most businesses is about mutual respect.

Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman made me want to be more curious and more adventurous. Not to be successful, but to have an interesting life.
You can read some of the essays John Keynes wrote, still as relevant as when they were wrote, especially now with the pandemic and inflation.

even if you don't end up agreeing with his views(I do agree, and I think he is very underrated), its still a very good and eye-opening reads.

https://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/keynes-essaysinpersuasion/ke...
> I agree that it's "mystical" to postulate that consciousness is fundamental; but it's equally mystical to assume that matter is fundamental.

Sure using "matter" like this without defining it is equally mystical. That's why we'd take 'computation' to be "fundamental" or 'the wave function'. "Matter" is just a higher level emergent property of what we perceive.

> I happen to take the view that consciousness exists, and is not an emergent phenomenon

OK, now I see why my viewpoint would sound so "off" to you, we're probably on different extremes of the thinking spectrum :) I don't discard you're viewpoint, it's just so so so so far from mine:

I take most of what we label "reality" to be emergent properties from some kind of fundamental computation (and by "computation" I don't imply a "computer" like we know, just "math that `can run`") whose math is probably too complicated and strange for us to intuitively understand (we can just hope to get to calculate better approximations of it). I don't just see consciousness as an emergent phenomenon. I see matter as an emergent phenomenon. And also space-time itself as an emergent phenomena inside our emergent consciusnesses. The "fundamental" could just very well be something like the simplest celular automaton with non-periodict behavior or maybe something too strange for our ape-minds to ever be able to comprehend (or too simple to understand how it could be the basis - there could be enough complexity/structure in just 'the distribution of all the prime numbers' or 'the digits of pi' to contain our entire universe with its infinite past and future "inside of it").

And to clarify, "simulation" is also quite generalizable - a simulation is just something that runs as an informational phenomenon on top of some physical substrate, but is fully independent of that susbstrate to the extent that it could be "ported" from that substrate to another completely different substrate that just happens to also preserve the subset of mathematical laws required for the computation. Eg. "software" that can be "ported" so it's independent of the actual nature of the hardware. Digital/discrete (as opposed to analogical) computation gives you this magical "divorce" of computation from substrate. It doesn't have to be something like our current day software running on something like our computers - any kind of "portable discrete/digital computation" is "a simulation".
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I don't understand the fuzz about it. There are a lot of commercial/closed-source devtools out there (IntelliJ, Rider) for otherwise open languages/platforms that devs are obviously happy to use and pay for. We are not demanding that every Java/Python/PHP etc. tool is open source and free, why is there this double-standard for Microsoft?
Drew has said [0, 1] that it's not possible/practical to build a browser today (enough counterexamples exist for this to be not really true) but the way his projects are going I kind of expect him to announce one in the next few years.

[0] https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/13/Web-browsers-need-to-stop...

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope....
Happened to me with telegram. Reported a scammer in relevant tg channels, next thing I know , several users reported me, and telegram blocked me for spam.
Yes, "Leap Micro", "MicroOS" and "SLE Micro"
Just like with Cpp and complicated templates this reads to me like “The language saved me from a world of trouble… that it put me into in the first place”
So THAT'S why google doesn't have human tech support!
I've had millions of files in git using git-annex. It kind of works if you're very patient, it's definitely not something I'd recommend. I wish there was a solution, such as git-annex, that worked well with millions of files.
That's fair, and I think you're doing great work. I enjoyed the article
Options give us 'regular folk' exposure to private equity, which comes with potential for very high (& improbable) returns. As a salaried employee there's really no better vehicle for this kind of exposure. You'd need to start your own business, or play with leverage - which is dangerous.

That said, the common adage of 'winning the startup lottery' is very true. The likelihood of actually (i) joining early enough, (ii) getting a reasonable grant, (iii) having market conditions work in your favour, (iv) the company growing exponentially for years, (v) you actually being able to stay the 3-4 years to vest enough options, and (vi) a liquidation event happening .... is quite low. Most, if not all, of these factors need to happen together.
I read it as "we actually thought about the ABI" which is always better than libraries where the ABI is an afterthought.
Are you comparing a public park to the website of a multibillionaire corporation?
No, they are equally "guilty". At least they don't brag how OSS friendly they are.

There is open source debugger from Samsung (https://github.com/Samsung/netcoredbg/), but it does not see much use.
I have to agree. The BI article really makes it seem as if Powell just wants to hasten the exit of agitators and malcontents. But the NYT article [0] makes it clear that Powell himself is the agitator.

[0] Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220615180655/http://www.nytime...
$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/helios
Cloning into 'helios'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1820, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (493/493), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (444/444), done.
remote: Total 1820 (delta 242), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1327
Receiving objects: 100% (1820/1820), 415.45 KiB | 455.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (867/867), done.

$ cd helios

$ git shortlog -s -n --all --no-merges

174 Drew DeVault
30 Eyal Sawady
1 Sebastian

Drew is pretty good at getting folks involved.
If I only have order_count, net_gmv and gmv and then 1 month later I want to add avg_user_session, then what I understand is we need to backfill the `session_time` to the 'main' table and do the "avg(session_time) group by user_id" to the final table.

Or are you saying that we can just create another similar table with only avg_user_session and then join by the dimension key?
seL4 has nothing to do with Linux, aside from the fact that the team was involved in another Linux-on-top-of-L4 project (L4Linux).

Also, seL4 comes from a long line of L4 microkernels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#History) which actually predates Linux (L3 was developed back in '88).
Do you know who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
The article, for all its virtues, doesn't seem to mention a famous modern Stoic, Vice Admiral James Stockdale[1].

Stockdale was tortured in the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War and his writings are studied (or at least were 30 years ago) at USNA.

I find stoicism an intellectually useful set of concepts, in a tactical sense. IMO, it seems morally limited, strategically.

For example, taking care of the environment is sensible, but why do I care? If I'm just so many atoms, then the eventual effects of my folly are SEP[2]. The drive to be mature and responsible will _always_ succumb to rationalization.

Case in point: the national debt. Who in their right mond lives beyond their means? Only pretty much _every_ government.

The human flesh is always corrupt; the mind is prone to rationalizations; the only "hope", if one cares to go there, is through the soul. Finding a community of faith to offer moral feedback to the Stoic mind and the fallen flesh is left as an exercise for the reader.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stockdale

[2] Someone Else's Problem
> Just not a flying drone and not just one.

Half-life 2 confirmed.
All this counter-intuitive crap is why I don't ever even open LinkedIn.
Extremely simplified thought exercise with very rough possible #’s:

Vesting 2,875 shares per year

2,875 @ $(14-1.50)= $36k/yr

Assuming IPO @ $200MM ARR, public cloud SaaS benchmark rev multiple was roughly 20x last year before the crash.

That’s a $4B valuation, ignoring dilution from here to there:

$4B/70M shares = $57/share

2,875 @ $(57-1.5) = $160k/yr

That’s assuming the market recovers to a similar level, ignoring further dilution, assuming the company continues executing and doesn’t hit unforeseen difficulties, etc.

Can you make that much with less risk by changing jobs?

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Another consideration might be diversification if your vested options represent a large % of your portfolio.

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Another consideration, “work environment is great” isn’t something that everybody can say and this might be worth more than the raise.
Downvoted, but I'm genuinely curious. At that point (5 employees) the company probably had the standard 10 mil authorized stock.

10 mil * .001% = 100 shares
From my experience there are few examples of software that’s both Linux-specific and actually useful. As for systemd - which container mechanisms depend on it?
This is related to the Privacy Pass protocol that Cloudflare has been working on for a while. Their current implementation uses a browser extension. https://blog.cloudflare.com/privacy-pass-v3/
They aren't wrong because the science proves them wrong, though- they're wrong because they happen to not be right.
Sometimes, the scientific or quasi-scientific institutions we have just aren't sufficiently uncentivised to align themselves with the truth! Modern Researchers are beholden to grantwriters, and grantwriters are biased in what sort of peojects they'll give money to. Specifically, low prestige problems are underfunded.

An example I heard about was light-boxes for SAD. There were some studies with a few lights that helped a bit; nobody had done studies with a ridiculous number of lights to see if it solved the problem completely; one guy did, and it fixed his wife's SAD. In absence of data, anecdata rules.

Alternatively, entire fields can be compromised when they're politicised. The soviet union's physics was good- the scientific method worked there, and if you wanted your ideas about physics to match up with reality, you could do a lot worse than copying the most popular soviet physics world-model! Just don't do it for biology, or genetics, or sociology. (Actually, you probably shouldn't trust western sociology, either.)

One person shouldn't be able to outperform the scientific institutions of the world, but it can happen when they're unhealthy.
> Each dollar spent on nukes is a dollar not spent on radically more productive renewables. Thus, each diverted to nukes brings climate catastrophe nearer.

Unfortunately, it seems we have a fundamental and irreconcilable disagreement on this point as I feel exactly the opposite. At least, I'm glad to live in a country where the government mostly share my view on the topic.
I decided to look up the figures and it's not pretty...

The "United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs" [prevention] had an income of $81m in 2020 whereas the "United Nations Department of Peace Operations" [mitigation] has a budget of $6.5b. And the UN has a budget of $3t!

To over-simplify a bit:

Cost(prevention) ~ 1% * cost(mitigation)

Cost(prevention) ~ 0.0003% * UN Budget

So essentially the global institution tasked with preventing conflict spends a rounding error of its budget doing so.
I don’t understand why people are surprised to lose social media accounts like this. Companies decide to stop selling products all the time. We don’t see posts like this every time Wal-Mart decides to stop selling some brand of cookies, and it’s essentially the same relationship we have as their products.
Shades of the original radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds"?
Somewhat ironically Google doesn't use recaptcha on the Google Account signup page, it's some other internal captcha (the warped-text kinda).
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There are situations where a dishonest worker/business owner will harvest credit card numbers but you are correct in that this represents a very small percentage of card fraud cases.
Because the statement that was challenged was "I think Western academia is mostly reliant on immigration" and almost all people not born in the US but living in the US are immigrants.
The honest answer is that I've not yet heard any convincing argument that would cause me to accept this as a reality.

Perhaps this is partly because I used to be a biologist and worked in the medical research field for a while (before pivoting to software development to get out of academia), so I have a very critical eye when it comes to the studies that proponents of this set of beliefs tend to use to support their arguments.
This looks very interesting Sri. Congrats on the launch.
Startup equity will always be worthless for 99.9% of people, and the second it's worth something more, it will be lawyered away from you. So from a business perspective, you should never work at a startup if you're not a founder.

dvs: please convince me otherwise
In cosmology we use a similar procedure to generate initial conditions of sample universes. Just then the noise is in 3D. The article raises a question about the Gaussian nature of the generated noise. To generate non-gaussian noise, you need a way to correlate the phases, otherwise the central-limit theorem will always kick in.
you should be shocked right now!
If you're a .NET developer who uses Linux, yes that sounds nice.

On the other hand. Consider a prominent member one of the biggest open source projects leaves the project, joins Microsoft, and praises Microsoft and pushes semi-closed Microsoft technologies on every project, claiming Linux is dead without Microsoft, and we need to compromise by allowing these non-free technologies and porting almost everything to it.

All is done when Microsoft tried to copy LibreOffice (then OpenOffice) formats, created OOXML family of semi-open formats, and push them as ISO standards to bolster their file formats to kill other office applications for good.

DeIcaza (knowingly or unknowingly) was a part of an concentrated and coordinated effort to EEE Linux, and the open frameworks around it.

I never used and won't use any Mono based application in my personal systems and servers I solely install and manage.

On the other hand, VSCode is not free or open source. This makes it null and void in my radar, because I want my whole toolchain to be open and free, because when I left a project alone, someone should be able to get the whole toolchain and continue development. I don't like the idea of source code being locked in a proprietary development environment and hence suffocated on a whim with a choice of an external party.
Microsoft is not releasing a partly open-source program, they're replacing an open-source {Python, C#} extension with a proprietary one that won't run on VS Codium or Arch Linux packages.
Hi there, I haven't read the whole thread, so apologies if this has already been mentioned, but NHS England have an innovations service for ideas like this - you can access it at https://www.england.nhs.uk/aac/ .
I’m confused. In what way is this like dotfiles? And how is it “for computers” more than dotfiles are already?
I love the way your advice to people is just join FAANG like everyone gets to.

Why not just become The Rock? Dude makes way better money than Google pays.
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I never realised the colour wheel can be navigated using the ab coordinates from Lab space! That makes so much sense.

I've had trouble remembering what the ab coordinates mean, but if I just imagine them on the colour wheel it's obvious that a goes from torquoise-ish to its complement magenta and b goes orthogonal to that, from purple-blue to its complement yellow.

Thanks for linking!
You can make a boot-enviroment-snapshot for active/backup.

If anything goes wrong you boot backup, then again snapshot and repeat. That way you don't need anything more then apt/pkg etc.
The post mentiones seL4 as an inspiration:

> Again, much of the design comes from seL4, but unlike seL4, we intend to build upon this kernel and develop a userspace as well.

I'm wondering why they didn't decide to build the rest of the system on top of that.

I'd totally respect answers like "because building kernels is fun" or "because I wanted to do that in my programming language". I'm just wondering if there was another reason seL4 was unsuitable.
> even though I'm sure it made sense at the time

I think it definitely made sense. Xamarin was conceived in a world of many mobile platforms, and so it was the only way to develop cross-platform apps. Now there are basically two, and it's a much closer call.
It needs to be clarified that power washing is in no way an”mundane task” and doing it in real life is also extremely satisfying.
>> The attention to Aurelius as emperor comes at the price of overlooking the young Marcus, a lover writing erotic letters to his teacher, the African orator Fronto:

There isn't a lot offered to support the conclusion that stoicism somehow caused Aurelius to turn away from love and accept power. I would be hesitant of drawing such a conclusion based on the paucity of evidence; but the author just asserts it. The trope of the philosopher more interested in contemplation than earthly affairs is just that: a trope. There isn't really an argument here, just indignation at this ancedote.
Any one who believes in Microsoft or Apple is a fool.