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> “SPS Peaks List”

I’m looking at the site on a mobile phone (and I’m impressed it works so well in this format. Kudos) and I don’t see this link. I do see “Peaks” link. Is that the same?

But my point is not so much a comment on the rest of the site, but for the “About” page specifically. If don’t know SPS is about “peaks”, then I’m not orienting to the site’s ontology quickly enough. I’m lost. I need to get up to speed, so I go to About.

Obviously the site is for a specific audience. If i’m not part of that group, I have to do more work. Maybe that’s OK. But if you want to pull in people on the margins into this detailed world, then About is the place. And I’m looking for who, what, where, when , why. And if I have to go to another site and now learn their ontology, I’m losing patience. Sierra Club is awesome, but they‘re broad and deep. So we’re not going from complicated to simple but complicated to complex.
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Video shows the guy standing on the far side of the busy road behind Abe, and the perp was taken down about half way across it. The loud boom and smoke resembled a car backfiring much more than any gun, so not really surprised the lack of immediate alarm. Kids backfiring sports cars would be a commonplace rebellious act in Japan.
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I agree to an extent. Pass a carbon tax to take care of the externalities, and let the invisible hand work. Unfortunately most people who are as enamored with the free market as you are would never go for it. So instead we get things like EV tax credits.
The center of Amsterdam is usually be considerably busier than that. And on festival days you can walk across the heads, but let's ignore those because they are clearly outliers.
Lol, ya, you have a lot more trust in our court system than you should.
These are new cars, they do have a computer. Why not just to write an app and bake a chip for having AM, CB, SSB, LPD/PMR and any other frequencies and modulations if somebody needs that? Dropping AM saves nothing.
> You need a fairly sophisticated DevOps organization to successfully run microservices. This doesn't really make a difference if you run at a scale that requires that sophistication anyhow, but it is very likely that you are not Google

Correct. Don't use tools aimed for Google levels of complexity if you're not dealing with Google levels of complexity.
Well, yes. I'm talking about corporate trash antics like getting one of your insiders to wreck a competitor so you can buy out the scraps (Elop and Nokia), or using a proxy lawsuit to try to strangle the open opposition (SCO vs IBM). I'm not judging what's best on a technical level. No amount of hypothetical technical goodness can make up for Ballmer.
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I'm using this for about 1 year now. It's super useful.
First, I can connect to my work PC (12 core) from my Laptop at home. Giving me the same speed of a fast PC.
Not just that, I can of course do the same from the train, etc. saving heaps of battery.
We also use it in our company via GitPod for developers with weak machines, or if it's hard to source powerful computer parts in the country they live in.

This is likely the biggest change in dev experience for me in the last ~3 years or so.
Are they ripped off, though? Assuming the name/logo have changed, repackaging and redistributing code and binaries is exactly what many open source licenses permit you to do.

I can understand the sentiment, but if someone takes an open source project not in the store, sets up the necessary signatures/does the necessary payments and provides an auto-updating version of a popular tool, I can only applaud that. Many open source developers don't want to invest the time into that, or they have other reasons to not want to deal with the MS store, which is perfectly acceptable; however, for the users, this means they have to go to alternative sources if they want to get their software from one single place.

I'd much rather get GIMP and friends from the MS Store than deal with downloading and executing .exes from all kinds of different websites and then having to manually check for updates every time. Microsoft should really just provide a free license to open source developers IMO to populate their store with some common applications that people actually want.
I'm reminded of the saying (sorry I don't remember a good quote, but one is from Farscape): "fear at the prospect of death while calm shepherds its certainty."
I know what you're saying but nuclear weapons have been used. There's no guarantee the use of one or two will lead to all out nuclear destruction (yes, I know the WW2 situation was unique). But if only one was detonated in war tomorrow that would be the third such use, not the first.
Interesting. I’m going to try it out.
Sigh, I always see this argument peddled on twitter.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-sur...

> The work began in 2003, and together with a leading private research and polling company in China.

Knowing that studies like this must have government oversight, and that study was performed by a company in China, can you really trust the data of the study?

My point is that we really do not know what is happening in China because we have very little visibility in China. Everything is censored and the CCP tells us what they want us to think.

Now the people could very well be happy, and love the CCP, and not be repressed. But in reality we literally have no idea because anytime anyone speaks out in China its censored.
I wonder how much of this is economy versus Elon wanting to instill the type of workforce he wants by replacing the cause at the source. Similar to how companies make no politics policies and then give people that don't like that a generous severance.
The ML algorithm that powers you can't work with items in your exobrain. The main reason to learn new things is to add those things to your internal training algorithms, the more good snippets it has access to the smarter your thinking becomes. Your subconsciousness is much smarter than you are and creates links and indexes and lots of other processing that you could never add in an exobrain, and in addition is orders of magnitudes faster than you trying to navigate some external thing.
I should qualify this by saying that it happened on the day I first got the device. I was really excited to receive it, and it did everything hoped it would, but a gentle pull to the side on the power lead was enough to break internal components such that repair was out of the question, which is a real shame. This was one of the cheap 11" laptops, the bigger ones are probably better.
Yes, and in some cases, maybe you really need some crucial python library but the rest of your systems are in Go, and maybe you discovered a new library that does exactly what you need, in a third language in the most efficient way possible, you can embed a microservice into the mix. I think though, it is usually best to hire for one common language as much as possible, this way your team can jump across projects if the need arises.
Sure, if you read it literally. On the other hand, they're probably angry and writing this sort of thing for venting their frustration.
Yes, many developers write shitty software that has results in human fatalities. For example: the vertical over correction written into the Boeing 737 that resulted in two aircraft crashes killing hundreds of people.
>Consumers, meanwhile, split down the middle between cynics who’re certain it’s worthless and true-believers who think it sets the standard for how security should work.

There are many dependencies in the software supply chain that are maintained by a single person (open source or not),so it seems silly to default assume malicious intent for employees of a software vendor with a good reputation.

There are bad actors that no SOC2 control would catch, and there are good actors (the default) where no SOC2 control affect their behavior.

SOC2 is never part of my decision making, rather, I carefully study the company and product offerings to decide if right fit.

(This is coming from someone who goes thru an annual SOC2 audit)

https://xkcd.com/2347/
That'd be the first thing he has pulled out of apparently.
Almost isn’t good enough. Our current economic system also demands growth and not stagnation. Immigration is still better which is one reason many European governments changed their stances on it.
I wonder if you could use an autonomous drone that will always keep a distance and film the interaction.
I wonder why the people at Microsoft don't credit code-server which has been around for much longer than their offering.

https://github.com/coder/code-server
My impression from reading various accounts from people with long careers in tech is that the stuff that compounds also transfers. You don't take the obsolete frameworks and libraries with you (for example), but you take what you learned about frameworks and libraries.
The message is clear. If you don’t like this free software then use something else.
I completely missed the year mentioned in the article, thanks.
It's because the web developer is so far removed from the hardware; we work in Typescript, which is transpiled to Javascript, which is minified, optimized and compressed before it's sent to the browser, where it's run in a JS engine in a browser in an operating system where there's a few more steps to the actual hardware.

And that's plain JS, most people don't even work in plain JS but in a framework where they don't just say "var x = y" but "publish this event into my Observable stack which triggers a state update which will eventually, somehow, update my component which will then eventually update the DOM in the browser", after which the browser's own whole stack of renders takes over.

Meanwhile in video games you can say `frame[0][0] = 255` to set a pixel to white, or whatever.

I think it's a matter of levels of abstraction; with webapps, I'd argue they've gone even further than Java enterprise applications in the 90's / 2000's.
This is almost strictly a US perspective.

At some point you'd figure out Americans would look around the world and start asking: "are we sure we're doing this right?".

In every place in Europe I know of, you're not escorted outside of the building by anyone. You just go at a leisurely pace and drop off your badge and stuff, put your stuff in a bag, etc.
If you think that, you don't know half the rotten, criminal shit Ballmer did.
This definitely would not pass constitutional muster. It's been clearly established that if it's happening in public, it's fair game. Furthermore, I'd imagine the onus would be on the Police to affirmatively prove that the person is interfering - they couldn't just say "you're interfering with me, turn it off". This is a horrible law.
Didnt they close the country for foreigners for 2 years due to COVID?

I dont think tourists or people on business trips could come in.
I am starting to like Notion, as I can use it for multiple goals. ( Todo list with detailed links, templates for different checklists etc)
Then perhaps, there should be someone looking over your shoulder.
Mere coders do not embody the state monopoly on violence. So your comparison is nonsense.

This is a case of 'who watches the watchers', not 'who watches the coders'.
As someone with tinnitus that started a decade ago after listening to some loud music over headphones, I strongly recommend everyone to not watch anything "at a painful volume".
Only true if you're expecting the author to behave like a robot and exist without any kind of emotion. I certainly don't see how you would call that constructive in any way.

Loose analogy, I don't watch videos of retail workers being abused and think, that customer is providing constructive feedback.
Its not the obvious dangers that lurk in every room where the kids reside, its those hidden fuckers, the one that is on the end of the stair you first see when you actually stepped on it and fall over screaming, those are the murder lego's.

It is easily preventable get a huge box for all legos, legos are only played with on a carpet thats easy to pick up and put back in the box, at that point most of it is around that area.
Japan's death rate seems higher than the US by quite a bit (14 vs 10 per 1000). I believe this is because they have far greater violent death than the US, but don't call most killings 'murder'. E.g. a person that owes money is found hanged in a Japanese park, it's suicide even when it's obvious they cannot have hanged themselves.

Culture plays a large role in statistics. It's hard to interpret from outside. But surely the choice of weapon is less meaningful than the outcomes.

The term 'gun violence' is designed to cherry-pick numbers out of a whole landscape of social problems and argue toward a point.
Also, several versions of TECO (like TECOC and the Scintilla-based SciTECO) are still in active development. :-)
Yellow text on a black bg works better for me.
I cannot help to wonder how long it will take for the following scenario to play out.

1. Someone films the police from a distance.
2. The police moves closer, and either gets too close and arrests you. or..
3. You start moving away from them, and they yell stop, and arrest you for trying to run from them, or for not complying.

I hope you guys fix whatever is going on in your country.
The coding equivalent is saying that auditors cannot look at the code nor the server settings, that they need to trust you.
Nice visualisation. The pedant in me hates that "zooming in" doesn't keep the point around your mouse stable, and there's no way to "drag" the background to move left and right.
While police can enforce a perimeter in the course of police work, specifically outlawing recording will be/should be struck down as unconstitutional.
I bought a Dell Inspiron some years ago. It came with Windows 8 and Bitlocker was not enabled.
There are occasions it happened in India. In fact, it happened in my city, I think I read of one happening 8-10 years ago. Could be more recent, I don't really remember, but it was a big deal back then that's for sure. Some bully kid shot some kid with his father's pistol. But it isn't as widespread a problem as in America. I personally had more things to worry about, like casual racism and bullying.
I so much wish to be able to use Classic Mac OS without all the jumps and hoops. Apple, please open source the darn thing.
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Reasoning cannot depend on “a search”. It is based on memory, on knowledge (not on its accessibility).
> I live in Netherlands and most Chinese here (specifically: those who came from the mainland) are supportive of China.

I don't think I've met a person in Singapore who wasn't supportive of China. They all love their country, and why wouldn't they, beautiful country, people, food, culture. But what I said was they don't like the CCP. You can hate the CCP and still love China.
Then Nigel Farage gave a tub thumping victory speech saying brexit had been achieved ‘without a single bullet being fired’. Which while technically true since it was not a shooting, still shows what kind of horrible man he is.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/eu-referendum-nige...
> Alternatively, the author could adopt a common style used in business communication where the author creates a label...

Yeah no offense but this style of writing makes me go look for something else to read, whereas tptacek's style made me keep reading the (long) post..
I don’t really get what you’re saying, but ok.
That might be 2% snide, but it’s 98% practical advice.
ApplePII?
> they're probably angry and writing this sort of thing for venting their frustration.

Yes but why should the maintainer be obligated to endure that?
Just because it's a _human_ thing to do doesn't mean that it's a correct thing to do.
The return of the Peek Messenger?
I was a couple of time in japan, and I felt always super save everywhere, even middle in the night somewhere in the city. I even felt much saver in Japan than at home in Switzerland.
>It is ridiculous that people still downplaying Linux's PC market share when the latest version of Windows ships NOT ONE but TWO Linux emulators/virtualizers BOTH designed to allow you to run Linux binaries (desktop & Android) under Windows in the most user-friendly way possible.

Mate, you're contradicting yourself here more than you are contradicting me. WSL and Linux as a main desktop OS are two completely different things, and nobody is downplaying Linux's desktop market share, which is <3% no matter how you try to spin it, those are the statistics.
https://youtu.be/MixNh9L7G5M
I've dealt with many laptops and its not as easy as you make out. In particular I've had to open laptops to set jumpers so I'm allowed to even make changes to the boot settings.
We're still learning ... how to Google anything efficiently and how to filter the crap. I think we're good with search as a part of our extended cognition. One advantage is the ability to quickly dive into any topic and learn what we need on the spot.

As a student I was cramming before exams and forgetting everything almost as fast, to make space for the next batch. And that was before Google.

To make a parallel - we have pure language models, and retrieval based language models that have access to a search engine. Retrieval LMs get a 25x boost in efficiency (DeepMind RETRO).
The new law has legalized an existing abuse - police threatening concerned observers who are recording - so I suppose you could say it's no longer abuse. Compelling stuff!
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Opening to immigration would lead to cultural genocide of Japan. Eventually those immigrants would (rightly) want equality and would introduce their own customs, traditions, and myths, etc. They’re better off preserving their way of life than destroying it so make believe numbers look better.
I'm sure theres stories of "we re-wrote everything in $(modern language) on time, in budget, and now everything works so much better"... I've never heard one tho.

If you want someone else to fund such a thing, it's probably gonna need to be something that has immediate, slam dunk sales prospects at then end... like "we're gonna re-write the post office systems and we know we can sell it because the Postmaster General is my father"
Okay — but the US doesn’t have a “rogue police force that kills citizens”.

That’s not supported by actual statistics, even if it’s a popular narrative among some political groups.
Dear Jesus,

The bread you gave me the other day is pumpernickel. I like pretzel bread. I don't understand, what were you thinking?

I have had it with you and your weak bread magic.

- Sermon attendee

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I'm pretty sure that Jesus' reply would have been much snarkier than from the Notepad++ maintainer, who probably has a lot more to gain from being snarky in their reply than from trying to cater to this childish user's outburst.
While you are right that there are a lot deeper topics, the point of this primer was to be a primer, not a language design piece. It was also to show off one of the more powerful pieces of Lisp/Scheme: that metacircular evaluators (or, as you say, tree walking interpreters) are trivially easy to write partly because of how the language works in a way that is fairly unique to those languages.

If you read SICP, chapter 4 is basically a long-form introduction to the tree walking interpreter I introduce in the document, and chapter 5 gets into how to write a register VM with the lower level details you describe. However chapter 4 is where the most important unlocks of demystifying how programming languages work. Much design of programming languages in lisp has happened within metacircular evaluators first, and the efficient implementation later. Within a few tweaks, you can change your language to a logic programming language like Prolog, or switch from lexical scoping to dynamic scoping. This is power. And it isn't possible in most other programming languages. SICP was recently ported to Javascript, and it's an amazing conversion, but there's an extra step for parsing the source text which turns it into something that doesn't look like javascript anymore, whereas a lispy evaluator looks just like lisp.

Again, this is a primer. Showing off that you can do such a thing in 30 lines of code is something that few primers which are less than 30 pages would dare to do. It's possible to demonstrate in lisp/scheme partly because of lisp's language choices. And it's hopefully useful: I know when I wrote my first metacircular evaluator at the end of reading The Little Schemer, it demystified programming languages for me in a huge way. I hope a bit of that demystification shows up here for others too.
There are caveats. Laws that make it harder to vote a party out of power, e.g.
In your dreams, von Neumann!
Haha i remember doing halloween and we had to hit a pinata thing which was essentially a barrel with candy in it, when it was down i walked over it just to get a rusty nail in my foot, i swear the lego still hurts more than that.
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There's no contradiction there. Voters would not submit to the horrors we perpetrate around the world, were we not subject to constant fear- and hate-mongering from corporate media. The horrors we perpetrate on ourselves are sort of a ricochet, because isolated desperate males are subject to the same media gaslighting as voters are, and they simply cut out the intended side-effect of further enrichment for Raytheon.
> Plato(?)

Yep, in Plato's Phaedrus. https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3439

Plato wrote the story, attributing it to Socrates. The story is about the egyptian inventor Theuth who showed his inventions of numbers, leters, etc. to the god Thamus (Ammon). The god liked the numbers, but for writing said:

> "For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem [275b] to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise."
It's really not true that Debian is 'woefully antiquated'; Debian 11 was released less than a year ago, in August 2021.

Debian is stable; I use it for my desktop and all my servers.

It is true that 'Ubuntu never was reliable,' at least in my experience; I honestly do not comprehend why so many folks base things on it.
It's a shame that it will probably take many people getting caught up in this law over multiple years before it's thrown out as blatantly unconstitutional.
yeah but deployments and language choice are no longer a single teams choice now. microservices really do allow for a "we did our job" development
If a single bullet can kill, that means the size of the attacker doesn’t matter.

What if your attacker with a knife is in better shape?

Cities and densely populated areas rightly restrict firearms, but what about anyone who is in poor physical condition? Pregnant? Elderly?
People nowadays have no trouble remembering the ig, twitter, tiktok, twitch handles of the people they follow.
> We might be messing with our brains more than we think, that's the point of this article.

That's simply always true.

Since prehistory:

- We eat foods we never used to eat

- We live in larger groups

- We discovered a whole bunch of drugs/medicines.

- Artificial light

- Artificial strength

Now artificial information. Sure, take precautions, try to think about what you're changing. Try to understand the tradeoffs.

The cat is well out of the bag however.