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> doing Windows programming with OWL in 1993 was quite delightful

I never used the C++ version OWL (though i do have Borland C++ 5 around here, perhaps i'll try it for fun at some point), but the Turbo Pascal version of OWL (which i also really used but had a brush with - and some docs) wasn't really that great - more of a helper library for the underlying Windows API, needing to know the underlying API, in practice not very different than MFC (also more of a helper library to make using Win16/Win32 easier than something to let you ignore it).

VCL was by long long far the best API/Framework (and in some ways it still is, though FCL/LCL is better since it is richer and also crossplatform).

FWIW i did a partial recreation of Turbo Pascal OWL in Free Pascal some years ago[0]. It doesn't have much of a practical use though (unless you want to make some small GUI EXE files in Free Pascal) since i think even Borland abandoned the Pascal version of OWL and i doubt many people used it.

[0] http://runtimeterror.com/tech/fowl/
Then the dark theme default was not necessary. And I'll note that it's a private mode indicator on NEW private tabs only.
The "privacy" provided by so-called private browsing mode is just a smokescreen considering how much device fingerprinting is going on. And widespread surveillance of the Internet backbone not just by intelligence agencies but now private organisations like Team Cymru.

It would be better if we spent the resources on a next generation anonymity network to replace Tor, or some kind of alternative data transport like radio or satellite, which can still be used by small niche communities of free speech activists, for example... A one way data broadcasting system, sending compressed text only, provides near complete anonymity for those receiving it. However as it necessitates buying receiver hardware, it doesn't get very much traction.
Huge thanks to author. I use mintotp pretty much always I need to get token from "pass" stored secret.
Didn't do so well for my proposed post to r/qult_headquarters, the Qanon news and mockery subreddit.

I would advise more training in Babylonian hagiography and 80s Satanic Panic fundamentalist prose.
IMHO the real question is why would we do this? Just because we can? Is there a hidden bio arms race we can’t stay away from?
I think by "big company" you probably mean those who do business in other countries. Doing business in other countries requires you to be subject to the decisions of they make if you want to do business there. I think if neither was doing business in the UK (I can only dream) there would be no case to answer.
Password Strength in Dollars
Not an abridgement, just an appetizer:

> It would be a bit glib—and more than a little clichéd—to call this some kind of technological dystopia [...]: Dystopian fiction is generally speculative, whereas all of these items and services are real. At the end of September, Amazon announced a suite of tech products in its move toward “ambient intelligence”, which Amazon’s hardware chief, Dave Limp, described as technology and devices that slip into the background but are “always there”, collecting information and taking action against it. // [...] Amazon has been unusually explicit about its plans[: t]he Everything Store is becoming an Everything Tracker, collecting and leveraging large amounts of personal data related to entertainment, fitness, health, and, it claims, security. It’s surveillance that millions of customers are opting into
> I believe that math is universal. We may use models to understand it (infinity, perfect circles, etc.), but the underlying mathematical truth is independent of humans.

Humans (probably) perceive and understand a slim subset of reality. We have an illusion of universalism of our perceptions because we perceive nothing outside of them. Also, we are the dominant species of the planet, which gives us a reason to believe that our perceptions are "more accurate" than, say, a bat's.

Personally, I don't think an alien's perceptions and understanding would contradict our own, but if it's given that our perceptions are a subset of reality, then an alien's understanding might include elements of reality that we literally cannot perceive or even understand.

> Can you give an example of a mathematical concept which could be different?

By definition, no. But, hmm. What would number and a mathematical system look like from creatures who thought in logarithms? Or in primes? Or that had no concept of "number"? What if even "greater than" and "less than" had no relevance to an alien civilization?
Can you paste your bash one-liner here?
> People doing frontend dev don't want to bother with slow compile time

Honestly, with my previous experience as a frontend web, compile time for frontend is starting to become as bad as a standard compiled language. When you start to have a whole framework, many (many!) dependencies (you know, the kind that make just deleting the node_modules directory slow) and webpack with some plugins for CSS, es-lint and all that, the tooling just can't keep up.
It doesn't help that much of the tooling is also done in JS which is fast but not that fast.
> There is a lot of evidence that points to the virus spreading from a wet market in the city, not the Wuhan lab. But proving something didn’t happen three years after the fact is a challenge that may be impossible to meet.

I find the anxious disclaimer about the Wuhan lab interesting, because of course there were a lot of things the lab itself could have done to clear any doubt at the time, including not muzzling researchers who worked there, and even releasing their virus database (which had been taken offline a couple months earlier, under the pretext that 'someone' had attempted to 'hack' it and has still not been made available three years later).
The actual cost of hydrogen filling stations in California was $10/kg BEFORE the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now it’s higher.

Takes 5 minutes to fill up if the hydrogen is pre-cooled and you happen to be at the filling station (which is rare).
> Last year we launched Firefox Colorways, a new desktop feature that allowed our users to express their most authentic selves and bring joy while browsing the web

> “‘Independent Voices’ are the voices of the past and present that create a better future,” said Keely Alexis. “I chose this [analogy] as my inspiration for the collaboration because it feels authentic to me but it also aligns with Firefox and the vision that we can make the world better, on the internet and beyond.”

Jesus, can you just say "we've got themes?" No one is going to remember Firefox as the next MLK Jr because they let you turn the window chrome orange.
The corp speak at Mozilla is getting even weirder. It sounds like something my HR VP would say:

> new desktop feature that allowed our users to express their most authentic selves and bring joy while browsing the web.

No, it’s just another color theme setting.
> I've been looking for a reason

If you’re looking for a reason, you’d have found one regardless of anything else.
I find that this comment reduces humans to elaborate Markov chains and then uses that misconception to make a point.

Many of humanity's best works (paintings, classical music, golden age of physics) have been created before humans voluntarily reduced themselves to automata.

AI hasn't produced anything apart from mashing together other people's creations, usually with a somewhat creepy result.

In programming this may work because quality does not matter, only LOC and social capital with the rest of the brogrammers. The objection that therefore real programmers do not have to be afraid is false. They either have to join the mediocrity or clean up the mess that the brogrammers make (while being disrespected by them of course).
> I don't care that it reproduces copyrighted content.

Do you also just rip any open source code, violating the licenses? Nice.
> What do you mean by “no”? Computers and information theory most definitely rely on logical and axiomatic systems, and particular ones at that.

I mean "no" to your implicit assertion that such basic logical and axiomatic systems would not evolve in any alien species capable of mathematics. Any such alien will distinguish true and false, will have AND, OR and NOT connectives, and will understand a form of implication (it's inherent to causality). That's all you need to build an understanding of most of our formal systems.

Yes the particular expression of our information theory and computer science depends on specific syntactic choices which implies a surface dissimilarity, but the underlying structure will be the same even when expressed in alien math.

For instance, an alien species might evolve in an environment in which hyperbolic geometry is more natural (say a species large enough that they can sense gravity directly), and so they develop that geometry first. This will have an isomorphism to our formal model of hyperbolic geometry, and we can then explain Euclidean geometry to them from there.

Edit:

> Mathematics is also shaped by our thinking, which was my point.

Yes, but ultimately irrelevant. This drives the pace of mathematical discovery, and what kinds of mathematical formulae we develop or find most interesting, but this is ultimately irrelevant to the fundamentals which underpin all math, which is what this really comes down to.
I was a little surprised to see Bugzilla being chosen for a new project. I have historically not enjoyed using it. Maybe it's better now.
We already live in that world. Try paying your taxes in anything that isn't USD. Why is that relevant? Because you need to pay sales tax or VAT or income tax on almost every transaction which means even if you barter you are going to need dollars to pay the taxes. If the economic system does not provide you enough currency to pay your taxes then nothing else gets done even if you introduce your own superior currency.
Video 4 Linux, and yes it's the second version. v4l was added to the kernel in the late 90s, and v4l2 replaced it in the early 2000s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video4Linux
> - assign (scenario, subsystem, level, description) to breakpoints and watches, so they can be turned on/off or selected in groups for debugging without removal?

In Jetbrain's tools they definitely can. I can

* create a bunch of breakpoints

* give them descriptions

* only have them break on execution under certain conditions (conditions stated via the programming language being debugged, so `my_struct.some_func() == 5`)

* disable and enable breakpoints with a click of a button

* have a breakpoint only become active when another breakpoint got hit (and therefore only cause the debugging logic to execute in certain code paths

* Have a breakpoint not stop execution when it gets hit, which is useful because I can then

* Log when a breakpoint gets hit, including it's stack trace (so I can see exactly the flow that got me to that breakpoint)

* Evaluate some variable when a breakpoint is hit and log that evaluation.

All of this with an extremely simple UI that can be manipulated without any recompiles and while the application is running. I've gotten tons of value of debugging complex scenarios in both C# and Rust via this constructs.

So while I'm not going to convince you that debuggers are worthwhile, to call them "too dumb to be useful" is pretty naive.
I feel compelled to echo that life is worth living without a booming economy.

You’re here because that’s true and your ancestors agreed.
That's true, and when Google started extracting information from web pages and displaying it in results pages without driving any traffic to the original websites, the authors of those pages were justifiably upset.

Google Search is ethically acceptable because for the most part website creators like being in search results and are "compensated" in the form of more visitors, and if they don't like it they can easily exclude themselves. Website creators famously do NOT like it when Google indexes their content and then serves it up independently.
>[...]Firefox Colorways, a new desktop feature that allowed our users to express their most authentic selves[...]

I'd like to express myself and say that I just want a secure and privacy-respecting browser that gets its priorities straight.
Agree that _systems as a whole_ should be designed for one name, but that's often out of the hands of whoever is developing the form.

If the system _is_ designed to require a first name/last name, trying to correct for that on the front-end just makes the problem worse in my opinion (e.g. doing something like breaking on space and calling the first bit the "first name" and the second bit the "surname").
Singapore is aligned with the West, trains with/by Australia who are aligned with the US and NZ.
> poorer security.
likely so, Meta does have thousands of competent engineers, ensuring their data remains exactly where they want it to be
Unfortunately the tone I'm getting from many of these comments makes me feel that people see open source projects as a resource to be mined rather than as a product to be respected. A very entitled attitude ("I really don't want to lose my lovely tool")

There seems to be -- on the whole -- little respect for the spirit of the GPL and LGPL and it really is quite a change from, say, 20 years ago, when the 'free software' movement was I think more ascendant.

I think we have a generation of software developers who have only known a world where copious quantities of high quality source code has been made available to them under very liberal licenses -- which they in turn make careers and companies out of using / exploiting.

I, too, do this, and I generally open my modest projects under Apache or MIT or Mozilla style licenses. I do this because I want people to use my things, or to be able to use them as resume / portfolio material. Or because my employer at the time has helped fund construction of them.

But I also occasionally use the GPL/LGPL/AGPL, when I want to explicitly avoid corporate entities from exploiting said material without either consulting with me or in turn making their efforts free.

And in turn, I respect the value and power of the GPL for that purpose.

So many of the comments here are trivializing the value of free software and the licenses which make it possible, and acting like there's just this... natural right... to go out there and build on other people's work without recognition / compensation / contribution.

There are too many examples of CoPilot violating the spirit -- if not the actual legal letter -- of the GPL. This is unacceptable. I'm glad that someone is attempting a legal test.

Free software is not your data to mine. It is the blood sweat and tears of thousands of developers who do their work in community spirit, but under explicitly free software principles.

Putting something out under a free software copyleft-style license is not the same as saying "You can do with this what you want." It's "I made this, you can build on it, but what you made also has to be free. Or you negotiate with me."

And what I'm getting from the whole CoPilot fiasco is: GPL / free software does not belong on GitHub. And it might end up having to be put, generally, behind barriers that explicitly (technically and legally) prevent CoPilot & similar systems from getting access to it.

EDIT: I also fully expect a new version of the GPL to be published that includes clauses against this kind of datamining.
I kind of have similar problem, except I completely avoided twitter for months because it made me less productive, and now I feel a bit out of place, I’m guessing most people just got tired of news content , they have twitter spaces and twitter circles as new features, it could be many people now are only tweeting within their circles.
Of course it should. Who hasn't had the experience of an unhelpful message telling us that all required fields be completed, but without indicating just which those are supposed to be. The question is horseshit.
I take it you've read the judgement in full and are familiar enough with EU competition laws to dismiss the evidentiary basis of the court's findings /s

This has no more repercussions for "American tech" than any other US company that has a business and tax presence in the EU. The EU has previously ordered Microsoft to sell Windows without Windows Media Player in EU markets. Yet Facebook still saw fit to open an office there.
The Modern Contract is Broken
Depends on what you want. If you're rendering a 3D world (with perspective projection) and use a coordinate system where the camera is always at the origin or close to it (floating origin), then floats give you more precision where it matters (objects close to the camera) and less precision where it doesn't (faraway objects).
Is there reason to believe "long covid" is even a thing? Is covid so significantly different from many diseases that it has about 50 various "long" symptoms that run the gamut from brain fog to change in taste to a rash and now to hair loss?

I do notice that there's significant baggage associated with covid, and a large number of people terrified of it, along with most of these symptoms being neurological (and the rest self-diagnosed). It's also politically convenient to push "sure the disease itself is like a bad cold, but you'll be permanently damaged in various unforeseeable ways!".

I'm 3x vaxxed myself, I've also had covid to be clear. All the evidence I've seen about long covid is anecdotes. Is there any hard data to substantiate?
Can you describe how she was impactful to the culture?
What do ad networks have to do with the messengers I use? Few if any messenger apps actually sell ad space inside the app.
What forms could have existed in the Middle Ages that would necessitate using an asterisk for a required field???
https://archive.ph/l95hs
The enum example in the article
Has it ever occurred to you that men and women often have different interests and value different things, and what impact that might have on career paths?

90%+ of elementary school teachers are women, which means almost all kids are taught from a young age that women are teachers. Should society be doing more to get men into teaching young kids? Or can we accept that maybe most guys don't want to deal with kids all day long?
Bell's Inequality: The weirdest theorem in the world – Nobel Prize 2022
He’s clearly not, is the thing, unless he has acquired that education in the last year or two.

His style of pop philosophy is useful in startups because it does not require context. It is ungrounded in actual philosophy, and would struggle to find an audience outside of this group.
This essay would benefit from some examples of common beliefs that he thinks are not "Alien Truths", and what he thinks the implications of that are. As it is, I don't really see what he's trying to get at...
At no point does the author make any assertion that the rate was constant. Presumably, the current rate of recession is just one variable that gets plugged into an equation.
A Different Kind of AI Risk: Artificial Suffering
Yeah, that complaint is a bit weird:

> The rule is that things that get sent to me should be ready before*
the merge window opens, not be made ready during the merge window.*

That's not what a "window" is. If you want the beginning of the two-weeks period to be a deadline, call it a deadline.
Since the 1920's it's been way up there on the list.

But just ignore that. This is about Covid, it must be. /s

It's almost like there can't be only one factor in anything to do with a list containing as many variables as one full of people who died from heart disease.
That is indeed a good point.
In my experience, in small/medium/big companies, I am sorry to say, but most middle “managers” are what Steve Jobs referred to as “bozos”.

They are either professional managers who have only managed but never did anything else, or they are mediocre software engineers who have decided to become managers … because in most cases they couldn’t build and deliver anything.

Unfortunately leaderships let bozos rules, that’s the truth.

“ We went out and hired a bunch of professional management; it didn’t work at all. Most of them were Bozos. They knew how to manage, but they didn’t know how to DO anything.

If you are a great person, why do you want to work for somebody you cannot learn anything from? And you know what’s interesting - you know what the best managers are? They are the great individual contributors who never ever wanted to be a manager, but decide they have to be a manager because no one else is able to do as good job as them.”
These companies operate int he UK and in the EU. Naturally, they must follow local laws and abide to local rulings, otherwise they are not allowed to operate. This is nothing new. GDPR is mandatory to all American companies that want to operate in the EU as well. What's the confusion?
Exactly - that's the definition of a compatibility layer!

If you need to use a camera that's supported by libcamera, but not natively by v4l2, and prefer to use the v4l2 API, then libcamera's v4l2 compatability layer will let you do that.

But it seems the goals of libcamera are quite different than v4l2. v4l2 (which I used to use years ago) seems more about supporting the minimum common feature set of cameras - basic video streaming, while libcamera appears more about supporting the greatest common feature set - with CPU implementation of features where necessary (hence the Mesa comparison).
Why are we fucking with nature? Like literally what is the point of this? To show that we can? Some fucked up biological arms race with the other great powers?

When you fuck with nature, nature wins. Always.
>Do we smash the data centers now

Yes, the sooner, the better.
Apple should be investing in a North America first strategy and getting manufacturer for everything spun up here
Because it has Omicron's increased ability to avoid people's immunity. That would result in higher infectivity than just a copy of the wuhan strain, with near the same severity. Note that earlier Sars viruses had even higher severity than Sars Covid 2 (Wuhan strain), but weren't as infective and killed far fewer people. Which implies that a slight reduction in severity for a gain in infectivity is not a worthwhile tradeoff.
There is only one truth : There is no single truth !

Is a forest intelligent ? Is a cat intelligent ? Is a human intelligent ? Is a chess program intelligent ? Is a proof-assistant intelligent ? Is a numerical solver intelligent ? Is the universe intelligent ?

Depending on your choice of definitions, you can get the answers you like.

Some intelligences will be able to comprehend other types of intelligence. Depending on their resources. There is usually a price to be paid, whether in raw computation, memory, or speed. And this price may often induce a hierarchy where the relation is only one way : where the greater intelligence can predict how the states of the lesser one will evolve, but the lesser one can't.

Because these resources are of various nature, they generate a Pareto frontier. Only while the resources constraint stay relevant. For example, once you reach enough intelligence, given the rules of tic-tac-toe, you can play the optimal game. Similarly there are end-game tables for chess, that allow computers to play perfectly, but humans must use heuristics because they don't have enough memory.

But you can always create a bigger game, or constrain your resources. You can always be a collector of mathematical curiosities, that are in some sense some extrema in the space you chose to restrict yourself to.

AI will probably choose to live in constructs, where this dynamic game of collecting resources until they are no longer a constraint is perpetually maintained to keep it interesting, because the alternative omnipotence is no fun.

Those constructs will be so disconnected from reality, that we won't be able to acknowledge their existence.
Being vaccinated COULD be correlated with being less healthy just in that old people might be more likely to be vaccinated and young people more likely to "take their chances", and there are few things less healthy than being old.