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> I think it's safe to say that Julia has a notable ability to polarize people -- you tend to either love it or hate it. Personally, I can hardly even imagine using anything else at this point.

I think this is not true, many of us (including myself) were really intrigued by Julia and really wanted to like it, but came away a bit underwhelmed.

It certainly has some neat ideas and people do very interesting stuff with it. That said it is certainly not the panacea of "write code which is as easy as python but gets you the speed of C".

What is causing the current (small) backlash is the community being so strongly fanboyish and are still selling this uncritical view. Compared Julia fans, Rust proponents sound like they hate their language.

The advocacy is becoming quite off putting.
I still don't see why your company should steal two or three weeks of your family time away.

You can see it as a perk, but I see this as a theft.
Jaron Lanier's book "Who Owns the Future?" Is all about AI and compensating those that input in training these very valuable models.

I highly recommend everyone read it.
> It uses a virtual DOM like React, but is much smaller than the existing frameworks plus of course it's written in Nim for Nim. No external dependencies! And thanks to Nim's whole program optimization only what is used ends up in the generated JavaScript code.

This bit really peeked my interest. Are the other frameworks like this one? Aside from Svelte I suppose, it seems like we're heading this direction until WASM becomes a more standardized.
yeah, but production ready is what is checked against, since you have 6 days and 23 hours to compete the code test that should take approximately 3 maybe 4 hours I assume the actual time is 6 days and 23 hours if that's what it takes to make it 'production ready'.

>Edge cases are relevant for some definitions of "production ready" but not for all.

yes sure, if all your platform looks like shit on mobile then when your new component looks like shit on mobile it is production ready, however when all you have is that one component and nothing else pretty sure people will resize etc. and say hey it is not production ready!

Also production ready also refers to code quality of course, did you turn everything that should be module into a module even though doing so of course adds a little more time.

>To put it another way, an engineering constraint is a three hour budget

this is not what they say they want however, I would be willing to deliver as much as I can in 3 hours and say how's that? But then I wouldn't get the job so in the same time I know, well it's not worth doing.

I mean it's not worth doing since I am just as far along with 3 other companies, one which gave me a 1 hour test which took 1 hour and probably will pay better and have better benefits. So obviously there is just no scenario in which I would do this test, but what I'm wondering is how close is my estimation to how much other people think it would take.
One way of checking is that emails and passwords/hashes might appear in leaks and then DBs like https://haveibeenpwned.com/
This is the same argument with all consuming vs producing.

It's why there was a moral panic in the 1800s over Jane Austen style fiction, in the 1930s over radio, and so on.

Being addicted to cannabis is not really any different to playing computer games 12 hours a day, doing endless marathons, watching sports, investing, or many similar activities.
>company’s proprietary e-liquid pods

I'm guessing this is why it is Juul specifically. Other companies may be next, or maybe the FDA hopes using this mechanism to take down the biggest player will strike enough fear in the market that the other vendors fix the issue overall.
> Yet basically 100% of the societies started post agricultural revolution made alcohol central to their cultures.

Yes, but because it provides a safer drinking supply.

We've got water purification plants now.
This is almost what we do for TigerBeetle, a new distributed database being written in Zig. All memory is statically allocated at startup [1]. Thereafter, there are zero calls to malloc() or free(). We run a single-threaded control plane for a simple concurrency model, and because we use io_uring—multithreaded I/O is less of a necessary evil than it used to be.

I find that the design is more memory efficient because of these constraints, for example, our new storage engine can address 100 TiB of storage using only 1 GiB of RAM. Latency is predictable and gloriously smooth, and the system overall is much simpler and fun to program.

[1] “Let's Remix Distributed Database Design” https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3TlyQ3h6lC_jSWust2leGg
You misunderstand me. I'm not cutting out socializing at the job. I manage a large team and never schedule anything outside of working hours for the team. We can socialize, joke around, and make small talk all day long. But once it's quitting time I have other (and to me higher) priorities.

On some occasions, someone from work has transitioned from a coworker to a friend. That was a natural transition and not something that I needed team building events that compromise my personal time to achieve.

I don't have an aversion to socializing at work. I have an aversion to work trying to steal my personal time.
People can (and do!) jabber on in virtual meetings, too. It's only a vaguely related topic.
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I think we basically agree. Hypothetically ideal memory safety is strictly better, but sanitizers are better than nothing for code using fundamentally unsafe languages. My personal experience is that more people are dissuaded from sanitizer usage more by hypothetical (and manageable) issues like overhead than real implementation problems.
I use pinboard.in, 99,9% via either the iOS & macOS app „Pins“. This is mainly something that buys me peace of mind, in case the browser history fails me.
I’m not a lawyer but my understanding these are torts so all you have to prove is Microsoft has liability. I think this would be easy to prove due to the way neural networks work since it’s just a way of performing a search.

Since it’s a tort I don’t think you have to prove they should have know it would return copyrighted code, the fact that it does is enough to have liability.
The "oh it's deductible" is way WAY overplayed and I suspect people use it as a fig-leaf for otherwise dubious purchases.

Meanwhile, things like making the electric car tax rebate an actual refundable credit can't be done because that might actually help poorer people!
Developer tools is pretty wide bucket, some of them are indeed suck, some are pretty good like Cloud9, CodeBuild, CodeArtifact
NetBSD has Lua support.[1] Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a lot of published material on it. One interesting application I found was secmodel_sandbox[2] which used it to implement something similar to AppArmor.

[1] https://www.netbsd.org/~lneto/bsdconbr15.pdf

[2] https://github.com/smherwig/netbsd-sandbox
You can already get some bounds checking, although more work is needed:

https://godbolt.org/z/abx7KE44z
I'm currently doing a read of Manufactured Consent and I can't help but imagine these articles are the harbingers of really stupid regulations "for the children." Juul was banned today for the children in related news, after years of these sorts of pearl clutching headlines. All the more motivation to continue growing my own removed from potential overreach or all the overtaxation.
Shitty headline: the SC didn't expand gun rights. What they did is void a NY law that restricted gun rights by "requiring residents to prove 'proper cause' to carry concealed firearms in public".
AWS Announces Copilot Competitor
Rust is definitely different (and calmer imho) on bare metal. That said (as much of a Rust fanboy I am), I also enjoy Zig.
Maybe training it is not that expensive?

I know from practice that it takes a really really long time to train even a small nn (thousands of params) , so you'll need a lot more hardware to train one with billions... But, it's expensive to buy the hardware, not necessarily to use it. If you, for some reason, have a few hundred GPU lying around, it might be "cheap" to do the necessary training.

Now, that's not your point - cost != price. But, still...
I see the free software movement as a variant on your ideals but rooted in practicality given the current environment.
I was in business class on a United flight over the US. I was pretty sure the cabin crew was aware and my partner didn't want me to make a fuss over it.
They're saying "none of those are simple" and also tossing in some examples of how much the brain does and how easily it's disrupted. I don't really know why you're having such a hard time of it.
I was wondering about something similar. Can we get Copilot to come up with some non-free algorithm under copyright from another big company (with lawyers), e.g. Oracle, Microsoft, Google, etc? This is a little difficult because it would need to be non-free but public, be specific enough that we can recognize it, and I think Copilot has protections against outputting code verbatim (but it could be made to output code with variable names changed or similar).

That is probably the way to kickstart a legal discussion about Copilot.
https://github.com/singhsidhukuldeep/Google-Colab-Shell

pops a terminal inline in the colab notbook on the backing vm. super useful if you get tired of having to shell execute all the time via the cell interface.
For Laravel.
Yep, they started doing the same dumb car-centric infrastructure as the US around the 50s but unlike us they stopped when they saw how it was negatively affecting life for their people.
Sorry but every part of that sounds so terrible.
> Is there any leaked Microsoft code on GitHub?

There seems to be. Google 'windows nt source code leak github':

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+nt+source+code+leak+...

First search results:

Windows NT 4.0:

> https://github.com/lianthony/NT4.0

> https://github.com/ZoloZiak/WinNT4

Windows XP:

> https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src

> https://github.com/onein528/NT5.1
It's quite telling even the most pro-EU people are very opposed to creating anything resembling a real country. Opposition to the EU is often branded as nationalistic or insular, yet the EU and its proponents are dedicated to keeping the people divided along national lines.
It's a very strange Rube Goldberg contraption. It's unsurprising most opponents want to simply disband it - hard to come up with a workable reform plan. Once it's dissolved or enough countries quit, you'll probably see more real integration but on a smaller scale.
I don’t depend on the collision resistance of SHA-1 for the security of my git repos because I don’t accept pushes from people I don’t trust. If I did, objects with hash collisions would not be transferred or (I hope) accepted. Am I missing something?

Granted, signed tags do depend on this collision resistance, but I don’t use that feature. Signing entire releases from a trusted repo seems like a better approach.
Higher than that I would guess. Bolivians seem to handle it at a rate of "all of them".

Of course they're using quids, if they were injectors of pure cocaine the situation would be less rosy. But you didn't specify the route and concentration.

This isn't a gotcha, it's a habit of daily use by millions, all of whom are basically fine.
Right, exactly: when that much care is put into a resource, I truly feel that I enjoy it more, even if the material itself might seem dry at first. Those kinds of feeling books are truly special.
Awesome alternative. I've been using Shaarli for a very long time. Very stable, always works, everywhere works. Doesn't look fancy, but reliability is off the charts.
I don't think it does; sure, someone could potentially craft a malicious commit that causes a SHA1 collision in your repo, but I think if you are merging commits from malicious authors, you've got way bigger problems than that.
"A commons of knowledge is a public good."

Yes but this copilot model takes that, adds value and doesn't itself join the public common good. Instead it takes it, and makes you pay to have it back in another form.

If copilot were open source and the model released for the public good, being built of public data (in your scenario) we would have a very different conversation.
No, people are not allowed to just read code on the Internet and then write code themselves. It depends on what the code is that they write and how similar it is to the code they read and how creative the original code is.

For example, I'm developing an algorithm to merge two binary files of the same type, a completely new algorithm. Say someone reads the code for that algorithm when I am done and implements the same thing using the same algorithm, but refuses to put the AGPL on it (because that will be the license). Are they infringing? Absolutely.

This has, in fact, happened with the Fast Inverse Square Root algorithm, whose code is under the GPL. Copilot reproduced it verbatim, including swearing comments. [1]

People are not being ridiculous about this because it has already happened!

EDIT: Fixed a small mistake.

[1]: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309
I don’t have but three people who I consider “friends” at work. I also work remotely. But it does make working together a lot easier when you have actually met the people you are working with at least once whether it be clients or coworkers.

There are also times where it just makes sense to all get in one room together and get things done. It’s especially helpful during project kickoffs and design sessions.

Luckily, my company has a very liberal travel policy where my team members can choose one of our offices anywhere in the country and meet up. We just have to be “frugal”. (Guess where I work?)
In their never ending goal to control kids' lives, a certain segment of parents know they've lost the war against D&D, comic books, rock n roll, TV, rap music, video games, etc. This is just the topic du jour.
Guessing here - the new installer format msix which store apps also use kicking in a filesystem virtualization so even though some garbo app thinks it's writing to `c:/windows/system32/save_preferences_here_why_not` that's still actually virtualized to be under c:/users/<example>/Appdata/...something
How exactly is pre-allocation safer? If you would ever like to re-use chunks of memory, then wouldn’t you still encounter “use-after-free” bugs?
Look, all that the lack of domination of solar/wind shows at this time is that solar and wind are not yet cheap enough to displace already installed, capital-cost-sunk fossil-fuel-using plants which are not being charged CO2 fees. Be able to achieve that would be remarkable.

However, in most of the world, most new generating capacity is renewable, even without CO2 charges. Renewables have crashed in cost so quickly that there's still a large installed base of fossil fuel capacity that just hasn't reached end of life yet. The persistence of this zombie technology doesn't mean renewables can't power the world, it just means zombies are hard to kill.
Has anyone else been noticing an increasing trend of people dooming & glooming over low population? Just seems like fear mongering to me. Specially with all the automation today
I use Wallabag on a yunohost server. I highly recommend it. Easy saving, offline reading, and sharing between devices. I wish it were easier to share with others, but I read some PR comments yesterday clarifying why support has bigger implications for the tool.
> I didn't mind the left leaning stuff in the first 2 seasons because it wasn't so overtly in your face

Uh, what?

Violent, nationalistic, performatively Christian, law-and-order, hero-worshipping big-man conservatism as a front for both fascism and corporate profiteering is pervasive from the beginning.

I’m not sure how it could be more in your face. The Boys doesn't do subtlety.
Julia as a Noob (My Thoughts)
> If some ordinary citizens of Italy, Poland, Spain, etc. were calling out for "widening and deepening" I might be more impressed. Especially if the citizens of the UK hadn't explicitly voted to leave.

Ok, I'm here then. Let me know if you have questions for me?
small critical comment, if btc is not preferred, remove the option, or don't say that. That may be meaningful to you, but not to anyone else.
Sorry for your loss, what were the symptoms that led him to feel that something was wrong?
If you don't trust your own employees, fire them.

Being able to function without constant supervision is expected. Otherwise, you are running a school, and consider employees, children.
If a repo accepts third-party contributions, you can create a split brain where half the people see one set of contents and the others see a different set, but the same hashes are available.

I don't know if this would survive additional commits on top as I'm not familiar enough with git's internals.
Project Nessie: Transactional Catalog for Data Lakes with Git-Like Semantics
I really wonder what people mean by "rural" but I suspect what most people are saying is "suburbs are where I want to live, but I want everything as close as it is in the city.

Because in my "town" which is something like 10k, we're 30 miles from the nearest "bigger town" and 45 from the nearest international airport, but I can walk to Walmart in 30m or walk to Ace Hardware in about the same (though in a different direction).

So they do exist, they just don't exist where people want them to.

To me "rural" is mile long dirt driveway at the end of a gravel road that is ten miles from the nearest paved road, let alone the nearest services.
Someone wrote once about how Wall Street people started behaving like the slick image projected of them in movies in the 80s, namely of Michael Douglas; before that they were more like the "boring accountant" type.
This isn't really a danger of weed so much as a danger of the modern world.

I have given up smoking for long periods at several points in my life. Sometimes I filled the time productively, sometimes I filled it with TV, video games, the internet, etc. The modern world afford people many ways to be happy doing nothing, weed just happens to be one of several that are very good at the job.
Regarding alternative forms of cooperation: From 1996 to 2022, Russia was a member of the Council of Europe.[1]

I see no reason why a truly democratic and market-economy stable Russia could not become part of the EU. But I am also very pessimistic that I will live to see it, as much as I hope I will. Under these conditions, Russia could even join NATO.

[1] See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_Council_of_Europ...
Most of the tech companies that are laying off people are money losing startups that have been spending other people’s money like a crackhead - or crypto.
“I don’t like it so y’all have to bend to my will.” “Protecting my hellspawn is more important than your rights and freedoms.”

Your last point would be fine if, as adult, the market didn’t deny me access to a product that is illegal for children to consume anyway.
Sweeping deal aims to transform former Fry's Electronics site in Palo Alto
Trying to get together physically now and then is really a big benefit. People on this thread are belittling them by calling them "team building" but it really is a good setting to get to know people informally, exchange information in a way that isn't half paying attention on a video call, etc.

You can make them optional I guess but the outliers who don't want to go will often end up dropping off of others' radar screens over time. Personally if periodic offsites (or for that matter attending certain other types of events to, say, give a presentation) really aren't your thing, you should probably find a company that better matches your preferences.
The article mentions that “none of the Git hosting providers appear to be supporting SHA-256”, but what about self-hosted solutions? In particular, sr.ht. Seems to be nothing[1] in their issue tracker.

[1]: https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/git.sr.ht?search=sha-256
That was more based upon nobody having a clear vision of what leaving the EU should look like. Even amongst the Brexit crowd some wanted single market membership and some did not. Some wanted to pull out of completely unrelated organisations that just so happen to have the word 'Europe' in the name.

I personally feel that side won by promising many conflicting visions to different groups and not being able to deliver when they won the vote.
>If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren't good at anything

Hah, that's easily done without smoking pot
I use Google for this. It's really annoyingly good at finding previously visited pages.
I included people that are doing FOSS work in there. I also have found very few software engineering tasks that are 5 minutes of work. I am not looking down on 3rd world developers, it is just a simple fact that in most of the western world, doing a few days of work for $300 is not going to equate with getting a job as a software developer. Assuming it takes a week to tackle one of these bounties, 40 hours of work, That is a bit above minimum wage in the US. Even 20 hours is only $15 an hour. I don't think this will inspire professional developers in expensive nations to try and make a serious effort, for just the money for just a simple fact that it doesn't pay enough. But there are many classes of developers that this is good money. I am defending this bounty.
I think we share a lot of the same goals but they presuppose openness based on violence, if you don't do what their license says exactly then they're going to use lawyers and courts and the state's monopoly on violence to make you comply.

I think at a fundamental level this abandons any vision of a true commons since as copilot discussions reveal the well is now polluted (to mix metaphors) and though in some frames the code is more free you certainly won't be if you fail to pay the penalty levied in a civil case for misusing it.
It might be a cultural difference. If not — it might be some sort of a stress test that you didn’t pass.

If not — there are as many assholes and just bad interviewers as interviewees.

No surprise here.
Except said company likely uses one of the Git forge providers, either in-house or as a SaaS, as the (oxymoronic for git) central repo. Until they support SHA-256, or the company goes with a its own git repo solution that is set up for it, companies won't make the move.
Almost feels like by the time git finally transitions to SHA-256 some bitcoin miner somewhere will have a solved preimage weakness on SHA-256.
> Nintendo are in a sticky situation. They are a poor value proposition these days.

If you like Mario Kart, it's a fantastic game that you can play for years. It's also accessible enough that basically everyone can play it.

> My kids quickly lost interest in their Switches when they saw Mario Kart prices and to play each other they would have to buy three copies.

That's a big advantage of the regular Switch vs. Switch Lite: 4-way local multiplayer in docked mode.
I use https://mymind.com

It's also a good dumping ground for any kind of interesting snippet, image, or whatever I find interesting. There are some neat little features for occasionally sorting through your "mind" and discarding unused information.

It's not free, but I don't mind because the UI happens to work well for me. It's thoughtful, well-crafted, and I'm happy to support them.
Clearly your code could be improved with some `Factory` objects and some dependency injection!
For the record, just tried this with my protonmail and the response went straight to spam.
Surprised they’re still not on IBM Mainframes