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> but refers to the architecture as x64

What do you think the correct name is? I call it AMD64, as that's the name the authors gave it. But they also previously called it x86-64, so maybe that's valid.

x86_64, x64, etc, no idea why people had to come up with their own names beyond AMD64 or x86-64!
I guess we'll have to disagree, I think we have different views on human nature due to our upbringings, and neither of us really have hard data (how do you really measure abuse / neglect in reality, or long term outcomes due to it). I would hazard it's more widespread then you think, especially since most abuse victims feel shame and hide it thinking they deserved it or it's their fault somehow.

Definitely agree that access to abortion is the best outcome.
It's this + wealth inequality.

The increased population growth means that an event that had to be affordable for a median income, now needs only be affordable for a 75th percentile income. Since median household income is around $68k and 75th percentile is 122k. A 75th percentile family can spend $50k on season tickets for a sports team, and still live an otherwise median income lifestyle.

If wealth inequality wasn't so extreme, then such large price caps wouldn't be economically viable.
This. Talking to people on both sides, it's all just regurgitation of headlines and pundits. Most people know how to deal with people who are "with" them or "against" them, but don't know how to react to someone who partially agrees, or agrees on issues, but not solutions. Anything outside of mainstream rhetoric is immediately labeled conspiratorial. Which is strange to me. Most people on both sides seem to recognize the media is rigged by big money, but they don't seem equipped or encouraged to form their own opinions that incorporate this knowledge.

Also I think experience has been devalued because its anecdotal. Only facts from an omniscient source are accepted, no matter their often dubious original.
Dang. I'd run into Tom now and again in Berkeley city politics circles, never put it together that he was _that_ Tom Lord. I hate to know that he's passed like this, all of a sudden. What a unique and interesting man he was.
No, you are misunderstanding their point. If the problem of using Qt from D is that you need the MOC, then the fact that you can work around the need for MOC and use Qt without it seems quite relevant?
Firefox invented and is still leading development of wasm. And Safari is really only distantly related to Chrome these days, their last common ancestor was in 2013. Wasm wasn't even announced until 2015. Safari's JavaScriptCore replaced the JS JIT in 2016, and V8 has had two new compiler pipelines since then.
> my ZX Spectrum

I'd hazard a guess OP meant early personal computers with something like Win 95, not underpowered microcontrollers.
This is a fairly recently development too.. in 1940 it had a population of only 8000.
Web devs have zero right to run their javascript disasters on my computer. Htmx outsources 99% of the rendering and logic to the server, where it can use up their valuable time.
For java the virtual machine provides the GC for everything, but then you can only use JVM libraries and not libraries in other languages.

The reason C and C++ libraries can easily be included in basically any other language is that they don't have a GC, so there are no such issues, just call the functions and things works fine.
This is a total buyout. There is no “you” left after the deal. Total liquidation of all shareholders.
Increasing the rates increases the amount of available labor and makes training programs a feasible investment.
My take on this is that those people lack fundamental understanding of science and how it works [1]. Their math is of the level of a sixth grader. If you do not understand something, it is easier to mistrust it and they are easier manipulated.

> Is there anything we (as in people who believe in science and still have some institutional belief) should be doing to help science/media/institutions get their shit together?

Help in Education. There are levels to this. Start with your children. Encourage and foster their curiosity. Help them to become critical thinkers. Be involved in their educational institutions. Asks if the kids could have a field trip to the local museum of science / natural history or the planetarium or astronomy observatory. Offer yourself to be a reading/literacy mentor and pick interesting books. If you really got a nack for it, get involved in the institutions themselves: Become a science educator, be it a school teacher, in a community college, or elsewhere.

This is the long game. Will take at least 18 years.

Change politics. Again there are levels. Become interested at first. Then become more involved. Bring your expertise to the table. Etc. It is a very very difficult path where we will often fail to succeed, but I think we should try. In politics we would have access to the biggest levers to enact changes.

A big problem is that science becomes politicized and corrupted to serve a certain agenda, see COVID response [2]. Or how big corporations can sponsor fake science (tabacco, oil, sugar industry) and use it to deter political decision.

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[1] on a very basic level, like looking for patterns in empiric observations, of formulating a falsifiable theory, test it with experiments. That level.

[2] in the beginning the response was science based, but then an agenda kicked in and the measurements did not change when the science/dynamics of the pandemic changed. (Vaccines do prevent hospitalization, but not infection. They do not lead to herd immunity. They became ever less effective with newer variants. The variants became less lethal. Still the government was hell bent on vaccine mandates, when it was clear that it would really just only protect you and not others. There was never a study on the effect on long COVID. Children's response is overwhelmingly mild, ect.
I imagine his point was that there is no reason to believe a disputed 100f peak temperature during the notorious 1911 heatwave makes today's 104.5f temperature advance on 2019's 101.6f peak in a country that does a lot of weather reporting unremarkable and unworthy of media coverage. Unless one was using the wrong Fahrenheit/Celsius conversion factor and somehow didn't realise the claimed 1911 temperature was smaller...
Or all the growth and actual engagement is going to TikTok
You "just" need to find good science news outlets. Ars Technica is one of them. The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast is another. I'm sure there are plenty more.
Same thing just happened to me, hope no one falls for it.
don't forget about Meta-Metadata: https://ecologylab.net/research/publications/metaMetadataCIK...
I feel like this is an excellent example of what the Hugo awards are about these days. If someone were to craft a piece specifically targeting that award, I feel like this is exactly what one would craft. I bet it wins.
Same thing my doctor said. But getting appointments is really difficult around where I live so I'm just waiting for now.
Apple agrees to pay $50M to settle lawsuit over flawed keyboards on MacBooks
I've been a software dev since the 90s and at this point, I've learned to basically do things like audit trails and soft deletion by default, unless there's some reason not to.

Somebody always wants to undelete something, or examine it to see why it was deleted, or see who changed something, or blah blah blah. It helps the business, it helps you as developer by giving you debug information as well as helping you to cover your ass when you are blamed for some data loss bug that was really user error.

Soft deletion has obvious drawbacks but is usually far less work than implementing equivalent functionality out-of-stream, with verbose logging or some such.

Retrofitting your app and adding soft deletion and audit trails after the fact is usually an order of magnitude more work. Can always add it pre-launch and leave it turned off.

If performance is a concern, this is usually something that can be mitigated. You can e.g. have a reaper job that runs daily and hard-deletes everything that was soft-deleted more than n days ago, or whatever.
Right. A temperature measurement on one day is a temperature measurement on one, regardless if its 1911 or 2022.
What happens if you take it into a parking garage with no service? Do you need to carry the bike out now?
And you don’t find it weird that any argument that doesn’t match current US policy looks wumao to you?
If you can't have a second laptop (e.g. Lenovo X230 can run coreboot and Qubes) or mini-PC/NUC for DevOps, then look into ways to harden the local OS and regularly scan your local laptop for compromised software.

Apple's MDM subscription solution may be worth a look, https://www.apple.com/business/essentials/
> Burning animal waste methane is actually carbon negative, wonder if anyone on this board will finally acknowledge that mining can be good for the Earth, if done properly.

That doesn't make mining good for earth. That same energy source could've been used to reduce locals' reliance on other worse sources, but it's now unavailable. Taking clean energy off the market for mining is not "good for earth".
LOL. The whole Twitter thread is news agencies asking if they can use the video, and regular people telling the OP to "screw credit, get paid!"
Completely different type of lawsuit, and in a completely different court. There is decades of precedence here. It takes doesn’t take long to decide these cases, and the appeals are quick. This will all be over before the end of the year.
Back in the day I worked at MetaCreations née MetaTools[0]. We had a web browser plugin that rendered streaming, progressive, interactive 3D - well before WebGL et. al. It shipped with IE and was available for other browsers as well. The MetaStream logo[1][2][3] was surprisingly similar to the Meta one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCreations

[1] It was surprisingly hard to find a copy of the logo on image search.

[2] https://browserengine.net/wp-content/uploads/metastream3plug...

[3] https://twitter.com/Salliemeta/status/1454571901381058562/ph...

Nothing new under the sun...
> Major problem with GC languages is that it is horribly to link against libraries that ships with a GC.

I'm curious which GC languages do this. The most popular ones that come to mind for me are anything on the JVM, JS, and Go, and I've never heard anyone point this out about them.
> How is baseball a monopoly?

Major League Baseball literally has an antitrust exemption granted by the US Supreme Court and has for 100 years.

"MLB’s antitrust exemption empowers the league and its clubs to conspire in ways that might otherwise run afoul of antitrust law. The current version of the exemption allows caps on minor league players’ salaries (also known as wage fixing), denial of clubs opportunities to move to larger markets, and pooling of intellectual property rights, all without worry of antitrust litigation." [1]

[1] https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-antitrust-exemption-explained-r...
I believe this: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/introduction
I've been using Joplin lately. Syncing is done via Syncthing.

I like it for the markdown and encryption. Also free.
In case you're not familiar with DBT, it helps with the "transform" in ELT https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/introduction.
That is because the benefit of doubt was applied asymmetrically (some people got infinite amount of it, others almost none) and was abused by bad actors quite a lot.

Also, ignoring impact meant that you could actively damage people you did not cared about while pretending ignorance again and again.
True for sure. This made me laugh. Lol.
> If God is real, that is the single most important fact in the universe.

If that's how you see it, no wonder you're so tense.

that you exist is the single most important fact in your universe. God can look out for Herself, we'd be better off if we did the same.
It's not an existential problem so much as a political problem. We can literally always boil water. The planet is 70% water and it's not going anywhere or getting converted into other things.
What are the shared caveats you are thinking of?

The caveats that stood out to me were that he mentions: lidar usage inflating costs, targeting ride sharing as path to profitability, and using VC money to fund non-mission goals prior to profitability. Tesla doesn't use lidar, is already profitable without having targeted ride sharing as the path to that, and is already default alive and not dependent on VC money.
The bigger reason to use soft deletes is to keep history. Just because someone does not access doesn't mean we should report on the things they did months ago.
I would disagree. A business-oriented exec may have a general idea such as "optimize pricing" but the "nerds" (your term) will chime in with "let's employ a neural network-based ML training loop" that they clearly have been eagerly hoping to try out.

Doesn't matter anyway. If you've chosen big-corp adtech, datasci, analytics, optimization, etc for a career, not "loving" it is not an excuse.
+1 on audit trails. And one should always store audit trails in machine readable format. That way you can not only manually inspect what happened, but you can query it too (and reconstruct the entire state as it existed in the past if necessary).
I really want to see some sources to those claims.

Illegal farmers and loggers have no interest in preserving the forest. They can just completely destroy some area, then move around to another one and start it all over again. Even farmers don't want to spend too much time in the same place if they can help it, the soil in the Amazon isn't that good for farming after a few harvests.
Not quite. GDPR (and equivalents) have clear escape hatches to allow you to store data if you have good reason (even if the data subject requests its removal).

Invoices, from the article, is a great example. That record must remain unchanged in most financial regulations. I’d wager a customer sending a deletion request for invoices will be met with raucous laughter from the legal and finance teams.
Things are mostly fine as they are(Aside from the rise of locked down, mandatory encrypted, cloud dependent stuff), but people definitely have lost some computer literacy.

Not that they lost much that they couldn't google, even programming is easier than ever, the hard stuff is specialist work like OS and hardware design. It's not like we need average people to know ASM and C.

But people do seem to have lost some of the interest. As I've said before, programming is easier than most other human activities, things like playing guitar or being a cashier are not only hard, they require skills that can't even be described fully.

But programming/IT/etc still takes time to learn, and I do think people probably are somewhat fried from all the short form content and less interested in anything that has a slow and careful process.
Composing Functions in Early Java Versions
Embarrassing mistake on the name then
We need better incentives for science journalism than clicks and ad dollars. The problem is obvious, but the solution is not.

(We also have an incentive problem for science, but that is another problem.)
It also can absolutely grow to tree size, and I’ve found areas with a lot of buckthorn have significantly more mosquitoes. Presumably they have more cover so aren’t as likely to be eaten.

If I were a billionaire I’d fund a secret program to create a disease to wipe out buckthorn. I hate what it’s done to Minnesota’s forests.
Isn't the production deploy of the code dependent on all these modules even more important than the security of your random laptop?

General practice is minimize dependencies, scan build directories by "malware scanners," pin dependencies, block unfiltered outbound access. Personally I find the last to be the most important - even if they slip a discord creds stealer or a coin miner into your system, if its endpoints aren't on your allow list, it won't hurt you.

It does take some inconvenience to install an allow-list based proxy on your non-work machine, but is doable. Hopefully your work is doing that for your at some layer of the network.

Another useful principal is that the laptop shouldn't really have any private or irreplaceable data on it. Push your code to GitHub, clean up the web browsing data, script installing all your apps and stuff that you use, and then the laptop is just a disposable network access point. Maybe have a passphrase protected SSH key for reaching VPS with important stuff. Open source dev should be possible to constantly twitch-broadcast it to everyone.

Caveats I don't use node much at all, and am somewhat strict on being minimalist for python dependencies. My email is on my VPS and all my money is behind 2-factor. And I'll do more random web browsing on my tablet than on my laptop.
Teams sucks. Yammer sucks. They are both has-been afterthoughts as far as tools that actually solve problems well. They are only used in megacorporations where Microsoft has the corp by the balls with AD/Azure AD and Office.
I really thought that Spotify Duo allows 2 people to keep their respective accounts, just that one person pays for both. Are you sure about the one device restriction? I can't find it anywhere.
>China is rich North Korea

And US is Russia with better PR? :-D
>The most important thing for Twitter is to get out of this mess, honestly, the sooner the better.

On the contrary I think the most important thing for Twitter is to get $54/share for its shareholders, and liquidate. There is no alternative path with an exit anywhere near $54/share.
You don't have more reactors than you need. France gets 9% of its electricity right now from gas.
You complain about a fallacy and then use this argument? Ars is just one news outlet and didn't put out all those millions of stories, so they don't have to answer for them. If you object to Ars, object to Ars.
A neighbor of mine, a professor at an excellent private college who teaches a stats class where the students are required to do a bit of programming, told me the other day that she's noticed a cycle in her students over the past few years.

15 years ago the students tended to come in knowing more about navigating their computers than she did; now, and especially in the last 4-5 years, she's increasingly having to teach them basic computer literacy in order to get to the learning they're actually supposed to be doing.

This has contributed to my resolve not to let my son have an iPad, but he can have a laptop pretty much when he wants one.
It seems Oracle does it although there is a special syntax to opt-in. That seems wild. I am not aware of another DBMS having that limitation though.
Makes me want to buy the coolest looking minidisc player and rip out of the internals and replace with something else. You could probably embed a small NVME SSD or mSATA into the old mini disc itself or maybe even turn the minidiscs into removeable batteries.
Thaks for that. Now that's a thought that's going to fester. None of the neighbors that I knew from back then nor anyone in my family got cancer, so probably shouldn't let it fester too long though. Phew
Stadiums used to be on the outskirts of cities surrounded by huge parking lots. Candlestick, Qualcomm, Kingdome, Astrodome, among many others. These stadiums have been replaced by modern venues in the hearts of American cities and emphasize public transportation access and walkability to surrounding shopping and entertainment districts. Expecting to drive a car into the heart of a city and not pay exorbitant prices for parking is absurd. [1]

I wouldn't drive to the Oakland Coliseum because it literally has a dedicated BART stop accessible by everywhere else in the Bay Area.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking
The term “metaverse” was first used in Neil Stevenson's 1982 novel Snow Crash. IANAL but it seems dubious to me that anyone besides Neil gets to claim dibs on the word "meta" as used in the context of VR.
I've rarely seen someone upset about social, economic or political issues that don't affect them. Given the very nature of social, economic or political issues though as matters of public concern by their definition that's also pretty rare to begin with.

The article talks about false personalization, giving the example of someone being wrongly upset about a friend not inviting them to a social event, misinterpreting something that didn't involve them.

Views on social issues inherently involve most people. If you hold, and exercise politically an opinion that as a result has a real, negative effect on me being defensive is reasonable.
MariaDB has this -- called system-versioned tables -- but MySQL actually does not. Although they share a common lineage, MySQL and MariaDB are somewhat distinct databases at this point, with each one having a number of features that the other lacks.
That's fine too. I don't care about anyone involved in this.
For those who are expressing favor with soft deletes, do you default to soft deletes on every table unless you know you won't need them? Or do you only apply them where you know you'll need them?

I think people arguing for and against soft deletes both understand that there are cases where you want to use them and when you don't.
There is a very interesting podcast episode on "Freakonomics" where they interview a researcher who posits that there are forms of corruption that speed economic growth at the cost of fairness and other forms which do not speed economic growth. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/season-11-episode-12/
Pretty sure the microcode could be changed to deny a patch, since it has the most privileged level of control on the system.
Well there is some stuff you want to enjoy and there's other stuff you want to process as fast as possible so you get more time to read the stuff you enjoy :)
Ahh… sorry for pirating Kai’s Power Tools and Ray Dream Studio when I was like 14!
The card format connector?

It was cool in a few laptops to be able to add stuff on but I'm not sure it was anything all that special?
This is definitely something to watch out for, but in practice (as someone that migrated a system without soft deletes to one that had them) I found that it doesn't tend to come up nearly as much as you might think - usually the table being transitioned to support soft deletes is a relatively core table (since ancillary tables usually aren't worth the complexity to transition) so a lot of your reporting queries will already be pulling in that table. You definitely need to check to make sure you're not missing anything - and sometimes CRUD interfaces will need to be completely revamped to include the table in question - but it's usually not that hard.
We already do this. In Colorado there are over 50 "Transbasin Diversions" that move water from one river basin to another. Most of them transfer water out of the Colorado River Basin to the east side of the continental divide, usually the Arkansas River or South Platte River Basins. California also does this on a vast scale to move water from the wetter north to the drier south parts of that state.

There are many issues with transporting large quantities of water vast distances. From legal (it is illegal to transport water from the Great Lakes to outside of their basin), to physics (water is expensive to pump up and over mountain ranges and building tunnels is incredibly expensive.

Basically, just like there are only so many places that it is cost effective to build dams or pumped hydro electricity storage, there are only so many places that it is cost effective to build pipelines.
Pretty big red flag that Max Hodak and now Merolla have departed