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Explains the explosive growth of European regional and budget airlines. Especially with excellent public transportation to airports.
That town and the surname is apparently derived/corrupted from the word for Maple tree
What UNIX way?

The religious text files scattered everywhere on the FOSS clones?

The adoption of registry ideas by GNOME on gconf?

The configuration databases used by HP-UX and Aix?

The plists used by NeXTSTEP and macOS?

The settings per app used on Android (technically UNIX based at its Linux kernel)
Probably relavent: This is an SSD?! from Linux Tech Tips (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4AKeW0Y-F0)

They introduce in the program PureStorage's FlashBlade, which uses Intel Xeon CPUs as the controller for SSDs.
https://www.purestorage.com/products/file-and-object/flashbl...
> Pre-Windows Vista, Sound drivers were responsible for a double digit % of Windows crashes.

I sound drivers on linux have historically being (somtimes buggy but) extremely stable. I don't think it has anything to do with them belonging to the kernel; but I do get your point in terms of crashing potential.

> And video cards drivers aren't exactly the most famously reliable bits of code, having the entire display subsystem be restartable is an amazing boon to stability.

This is something I envy on windows: I once saw a warning on windows explaining that the display was restarted because the driver crashed and wondered that on linux I'd have to login through the network to do the same and would still lose everything that was running under X. Video drivers have been also so stable that it has been a non problem nevertheless.

>> Your computer shouldn't get slower over time

>Wish someone told my Android phone that!

Although I hear windows users saying that third party software are to blame and that windows 11 is better in this regard, this has not being what I saw with people who bought recent windows computers.

>That is one of the things Windows popularized. Auto-mount is a Linux thing. Heck I remember circa 2005 being yelled at online because I expected my USB mouse to work under Linux when I plugged it into my laptop, something Windows had been doing since 1997 or so.

In 1997 I can't tell much about how hot plugging would work with a USB mouse on linux. But my experience is much better than on windows these days. It is funny I plug a keyboard on a friend's computer and windows says "installing driver software for hardware..." and wastes some time installing a driver that should already been installed because the other keyboard already is a USB keyboard.
One last thing, as a suggested quality of life improvement for a chronic hard of hearing in US or Canada, one can make phone calls with confidence by using a Federal-sanctioned relay operator.

CaptionCall app will let you converse using your own voice with the caller and type back what they are saying. I find that to be an excellent tool in the last bridge of divide between HoH and hearing world. Use it all the time to interact with DMV, doctors’ appt desk, and voice mail systems.

Even with my now superhearing, this tool is actually less stressful than trying to decipher their voice myself. Kinda like a messaging app but with voice one way and text and voice stream the other way.
A couple more examples are Oscar Peterson and Rashaan Roland Kirk.
Capacity is not the major problem. It is the $/TB price points. SSDs are still 5x more expensive than HDD for bulk storage. It doesn't matter if you can buy a 200TB SSD if it is 200x more expensive than a 1TB SSD.

HAMR technology is going to give us much bigger HDD. If I can buy a 50TB HDD or a 50TB SSD in a couple years, which one will I buy if the SSD is 5x more expensive?

SSDs make total sense for storing the files you need on a regular basis (e.g. your operating system and most used applications). They are just too expensive right now to store your massive video collection on them.
It is on there - highlight Brussels and it’ll show that you can reach Newcastle within five hours. That’s only possible if you go via Eurostar.
Ask HN: Are there any companies that do a good job of 'being big'?
Every company that grows into a big enterprise seems to run into the same pitfalls:

- Too many middle-managers

- Technical debt

- Lack of innovation

- Shady business practices

- Overpaid executives who are disconnected from reality

The company may continue to pull in massive revenue, but it feels like that's due to inertia more than innovation.

Meanwhile the company's public image gets worse and worse. And while that's a controversial metric that's hard to measure, it's important, since so many of these companies used to pride themselves on "not being evil" and "making the world a better place."

Are there any examples of companies that have handled 'being big' particularly well?
Not just google. See playsforsure, amazon drive etc
i use facebook in a write-only mode. I just post pictures of various life events ( vacation, bdays, those kinds of things) for my family to see. I don't think i've ever gone to facebook to consume content.

edit: well, i do goto facebook marketplace when looking for things to buy like tools or computer parts.
That's like saying that if you're watching a blu ray rip of your own purchased disc, it isn't the same product you bought. Technically correct, but it's completely legal to rip your own discs(at least in the EU, can't comment on other countries).
The New Study on Serotonin and Depression Isn’t About Antidepressants
> casual gamer

Same.

I had a month off between jobs and used a week of my evenings off to play through red dead.

I don't particularly care about losing the license, because I just wanted to play the game through. Haven't touched it since then.

Stadia's ideal market wasn't "real gamers" -- those folks will buy rigs. Their ideal market was people like you and me, who don't have the time or interest to justify purchasing a gaming machine but still want to play through a AAA title or two every once in a while.
The next time we need to print $1Tr we should build a high speed rail from SF to NYC, via Detriot.

#NeoIntercontinentalRailroad
Eh, the GC you are describing sounds like something out of 1994. Modern concurrent algorithms do not need to stop execution. This type of code may paradoxically be slower in benchmarks when there isn't any memory churn, as it necessarily introduces barrier instructions at key points to ensure the GC has a consistent view of the memory (although memory consistency is also a concern for reference counting).
‘Martino Unstrung’ is a documentary about him and talks a lot about what he was like leading up to and after the aneurysm was discovered. A great look into one of the giants of jazz guitar but also fascinating to learn the things he could remember and what he couldn’t, personality changes, etc.
They liked 1984 because it says you can't stand up to torture and it's better to be a good little bitch. That's why they allowed some parts--select passages--of that book remain and got rid of all the other literature I read.

They did let me read Hacker News though, while inside the torture ward. They have a little cluster of PCs which they keylog to get your passwords and impersonate you to the outside world, rob you, and in one case say my suicide note to a friend was just a joke. So don't use computers while tortured.

But hey a little Hacker News brightened up my day every once in a while, take the good with the bad, if you're forced to.
Accuracy-Aware Inference Optimization Tracking
A hyperparameter optimization library for reproducible research
modern netbook:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-11-6-laptop-intel-celeron-...
As a frequent traveler to Tokyo, I became a fan of mass transit.

A guaranteed way to become sad, is use the Tokyo trains, then come home to New York, and use the Metro/LIRR.
> absent of nuance

Yes, this is a good point. It makes overly general claims.

E.g. a GC proponent could claim "well, tracing collectors do no work for dead objects, so they have no overhead!" Which is a good point, but not the whole story. Tracing collectors may need to repeatedly traverse live objects. Sure. But then generational collectors only traverse modified live objects that point to new objects. True. And concurrent collectors can trace using spare CPU resources, incremental collectors can break marking work up into small pauses, on and on. There are zillions of engineering tradeoffs and the GC Handbook covers most of them really well.
A credit card transaction does not in principle have to send the credit card number to the vendor (e.g. Apple Pay already does this).

But a crypto transaction in principle does not allow for charge backs since transactions go one way.
You can go from Edinburgh to London in 5 hours or less, that's pretty damn cool.
I like to think I am a sauna and bath house afficianto.

I think this reaction is entirely normal. Humans have emotions but should be judged on their actions, not thoughts.

If someone takes issue with you averting your gaze, they have an issue with reality.

It unreasonable to expect others to simultaneously pay attention to your genitals and but also not notice them.

That said, I think there is a lot less cognitive dissonance in taking a polite look and moving on than trying to pretend people are disembodied heads floating around.
> And there's piracy. I do not see any governments creating legislating to force publishers (or platform (e.g. Steam) or console manufacturers) to remove anti-piracy measures.

Decriminalization of piracy so people can support themselves would be a good start, but I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
Before "tactical", "military surplus" was popular with the more excitable civilians, to the point that there was far more demand than there was actual surplus. There were manufacturers of "milspec" gear targeting the civilian / law enforcement / "non-state-agency" market long before "tactical" became a way to refer to that target demographic.

If "tactical" is now "a call to action"; what's the choice? Find a new word to use in promotional materiel or start restricting who you sell to based on their political correctness?
I see no mention of 737’s and A320’s here or in most posts. Compare the price per mile with those of alternatives. The U.S. doesn’t even resemble Europe.
It took me a minute to recall what Amazon Drive is/was. It debuted well after I was using Dropbox, Google Drive, and (to some extent) iCloud file storage. I didn’t have a need for Amazon Drive.

Amazon Photos, however, with unlimited storage has been great for archiving family photos.
People do cloud games all the time. Steam and geforce now and xcloud are great. We just don't trust Google because they don't give a damn.

Stadia was never marketed much and always had a tiny library with no cross play. The moment Nvidia stepped up, Stadia was dead.
Thank you!

We're aware of this and a revamp of our pricing is planned to have cheaper tiers or a freemium model in the future.

But yes, the product itself is more on the premium side because we're mainly targeting already established course and content creators who want a really advanced course platform for their students, not just an all-in-one tool like Kajabi or Podia that doesn't go in depth on the education side.
Can you share the namenofnthe clinic that did this?
UNIX has been free since V6, that is why it got adopted by everyone, and then AT&T sued Berkley when they got the opportunity to actually be allowed to charge for it.
Are you serious? They bought the game, now they don't have the game. They didn't rent it.

Google still exists, and has plenty of money to make all Stadia customers whole by buying them a retail copy of all of the games. But they choose not to because they are greedy.

Note: I am not a Stadia customer because I figured this would happen.
I ran a home search startup in 2015 and I will always remember the moment my searching finally came up with the name "isochrone" and the explosion of research and data that came with that. Our home search went from "we'll send you an email when its done" to adding fake loading bars to make it seem like it was doing more.
I look at it like this. When I signed up for the job you promised me this thing, we're in a bit of a downturn, am I still able to get that thing you promised me?
> No, probing around the file content with a gazillion format-specific heuristics/hacks is not how it should be.

My favorite file browsers do it wonderfully. I don't even care when using network because performance is good enough and updates are done async.
The Modern Invention of White Marble
From my experience at a French company, Microsoft is very popular because they provide documentation and support in French.
“No Sex for You”: Life in the metaverse will be tacky, prudish, and dull
> "we're doing something stupid that will save us time now and make us hate ourselves a year from now"

Not to be pedantic but the metaphor is intended to speak to the economics of making short-term gains at the expense of long term savings. Developers need a way to communicate to business what cutting corners will cost them, financially. The concept of "technical debt" isn't perfect but it's a start. It speaks to the fact that if we don't adhere to engineering principles that allow for easy maintenance, expansion and extension then the company will pay the price when they want to engage in those endeavours.

If we're talking about these things in terms of "we hate ourselves" then we're having an emotional conversation. Unfortunately, that's all too common and it comes about because we didn't have these conversations in terms of dollars early enough. At that point you don't just have a technical debt problem, you have a morale problem. Engineers quit and people are brought in who don't understand the spaghetti coded system and end up exacerbating the problem because "we need to get this feature out before <insert arbitrary deadline that has some apparent meaning to the business>."
Well, maybe the people who desire gender affirming care should just get in line and get over it, like you seem to be wanting the population of balding people to do.

Which, I might add, is not limited to men and their "ego and surface level masculinity." There are plenty of scientific reasons to pursue a cure for balding that have nothing to do with aesthetics.
So J. Lo is from Brooklyn now? Lol
So this changed recently. Didn't know that.
Meta might not be legally able to buy “the next big thing” in international markets. Neither the EU nor the US are particularly “friendly” to them right now, and pretty much anything Meta does in the social media category is going to run up against anti-trust regulation.

Instagram was probably the last time Facebook could have gotten away with that sort of thing in the North American and European markets. I’m being cautious to only include those markets because I’m not familiar with the regulatory environment elsewhere.
Indeed, it's very well done.

Each isochrone is loaded from a static server/CDN -- for example https://chronotrains-eu.vercel.app/api/isochrones/7100002 -- and that bit of vector map data is then rendered using the mapbox gl/js frontend. Great work
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I think it's because more and more people are opting to use phones to consume their media instead of traditional avenues like TV.

Lying in bed, on the bus, in the classroom, etc - less time to sit down in the living room and watch youtube/movies on the TV - especially with the TikTok(/vine?) generation latching onto vertical video formats too.

I think it's just a generational thing - I remember being amazed at how people are consuming vertical video now like it's anything else when 5-10 years ago people would give the cameraman grief for filming this "crazy moment!" in vertical format :P
Wasted money buying Borderlands 3 on Stadia, mostly because my old PC couldn't run it and I wanted to play it. And while it did run fine in the cloud, I always wondered what would happen if the service shut down. Now I know.

For the sake of comparison, there are games I purchased on PlayStation Network for PS3 almost 10 years ago, and they all still work. The PS3 is a 15-year old console discontinued ages ago, yet the games work as they did the day I downloaded them.

Now I know. BTW, I have a PS3 from 2010 and all the PSN downloaded games still work, despite PSN itself being
Hats. It’s hats.
Note that if you can afford stop the world pauses, GCs that use them are much more efficient. Parallel stop the world garbage collectors are by far the best for minimizing runtime, while concurrent GCs have higher overhead, but can guarantee no significant pauses.
According to the article, poor internal quality means your software just can't keep up with competitors. So you don't get punished for releasing buggy software, you get punished for not releasing software at all.
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
Still using one as a daily driver to write code and read articles on. (1gb ram, 1.6ghz, Win 7)

It's painfully slow at browsing some websites, but runs VSCode and all of the dev tools just fine. There's some weird pleasure in knowing that if your stuff runs on that, it will run anywhere.
Got it, thank you. Will tread carefully.
Do SanDisk sell enterprise / data center class drives?
Yep! The only people I've ever known who were (literally) "on steroids" were uniformly and without exception psychopathic jerks. It's a stupid epithet, frequently used to describe the exact opposite of the sentiment it tries so pathetically to convey. Phrase ought to be retired.

More on topic: I'd love to see a mission or more focussed on exploring interstellar regions. I'll bet there's a whole lot more we'll learn there, even though I'll be long dead by the time it rolls around.
I think it's more likely platforms services and low/no code offerings will fill the gap
> divided from the hirsute future by a follicle singularity

I love the sound of that! Pretty awesome prose :)
Exactly. Lol I'm just imagining a company trying to use their chat services. "OK guys sorry, I know we just did this three weeks ago, but they've launched a new chat service and are deprecating the old one. Yeah, again. What's new? Uh... there's a new logo this time. And you can install it as a progressive web app."
There are some errors I think - According to wikidata & wikipedia the famous Diego Maradonna is not
born in Colombia but Argentina. It strikes me as worrysome since this is such a famous person - I‘d rather expect such errors for less famous persons, right?
I regularly travel Tucson <-> Ft. Lauderdale. 2100 miles. Including ground transport, door to door is 10-12 hours.
I'd imagine. Do they make stuff now that's intended to be spec'd for enterprise servers?
That’s likely just Google burning cash to attract users though. Unsustainable.

The cloud time is the expensive part and most of the purchase price is likely going to go to the publisher. How many hours of gameplay before they’ve lost money on your purchase?
I meant to say: it is more than half the Brazilian minimum wage.
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You're right of course, I've been stuck on the M1 on a Sunday night and watch a train doing 100 mph blast past. There are good and bad parts on either side. Yes driving means you dont need to concentrate, but you're stuck on someone else's timetable, you can't play your own music or stop off at interesting points along the way.
Looks great! Also following for the name of the clinic…
It's about birth places and he was born in the Austrian Empire, if you check Central Europe you find him right there.
Funny as stadia might have seen huge adoption IF they didn’t have a reputation of killing services and leaving the service user to hang.

Killing of stadia only reaffirms peoples fear to use google products. This includes GCP.
What in particular are you referring to? A lot of software still depends on paths that adhere to the FHS. Dynamic linkers, etc all bake in assumptions about search paths based on FHS. Certainly application developers will violate FHS when placing config files etc but I’m curious what the Distros are tossing out?
Being attracted to someone is not a choice. If people could trick their brain into being attracted to whoever they want, they would. I am afraid it is "built in" to a large extent. I agree with your sentiment, though. It is worth trying, but it is not as easy as an attitude adjustment.
False rumor or not, Stadia has very little market fit.

It's no solution for budget gamers. You still need to pay for the services, the individual games and need to have an excellent network connection to make it usable. It's not exactly a solution for the "poor".

It's not really a solution for most casual/infrequent gamers either. Most high-end games are not casual games, they require a time investment. Plus, in this case there's hefty competition from mobile games, which is highly social: everybody's playing the same viral game none of which are on Stadia.

For the frequent gamer not on a budget, a Playstation/Xbox is affordable and in fact heavily subsidized. A one time purchase with a typical life span of 7 years. No latency issues and a vastly superior catalog of games.

This leaves...whom? A small audience of ex-PC gamers perhaps, tired of PC woes (loud, constant upgrades).
I recall during my android root days that banks would block your phone from running apps if you were rooted - I needed to install a separate app and define which apps I could "sandbox" of sorts, to convince them they were running on a non-rooted device

Are there any workaround apps sort of like this now, or has Google finally plugged all the loopholes for this?
> This is about as minimal as you can get short of nothing at all.

With GC, you can do nothing at all. In a system with lots of garbage, you can do a GC by copying everything accessible from the GC root, then de-allocating all the garbage in a single free.
For anyone not familiar with the Voyager missions I highly recommend the 2017 documentary _The Farthest_
Looked at this recently because I'm on the verge of upgrading my Dropbox to a bigger tier but even though files were syncing they changed the dates. Maybe it was a bug but that instantly was big no for me. Honestly I just wish Dropbox has a "consumer" tier, I don't need 2TB and don't want to pay 12€ for that. Something for 3-5€ would be much better
> The UNIX way is undeniably more flexible since it isn't a virtual filesystem, it is just a filesystem. The problem is that everyone invented their own configuration format to store configuration data in /etc and there's no format agnostic API to access that information (you can open it, but can you understand it?).

It's an interesting point and it would really be nice if there were some kind of standard, especially a standardized C library within the standard C library for configuration files, but in practice almost all of them are also easily understood `key=value` pairs that only differ by how they denote this.

Still, it would be very nice to be able to inspect and modify them by standardized tools but in practice almost any configuration file opened is obvious.
Yeah same. I feel like a new man.
Warrants cover everything in the U.S. I'm referring more to people that shove their money into offshore accounts designed to be hard to locate and examine. Think the cayman islands, the panama papers, etc. Physical money already has to be declared if over a threshold and moved across borders, and I don't have a problem with any amount of cash kept wherever locally. If it's illegal in some way there are methods to find it.

The goal isn't to lock all money down and infringe on personal rights, it's to keep it from being hidden and untaxed en masse by many very rich entities.
There goes my morning of work /s
Someone needs to summarize the history of Gunkid and the tactical wheelbarrow. Entertaining stuff although apparently they are in jail now.