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Sorry, I have Dell XPS 17 for 2 years and it’s the best laptop. 0 issues. 16:10 display ratio. Thin bezels. Bright screen. Nice large touchpad. Never had fans work like crazy unless you game. And yes you can even game on it with decent settings on large display. Just get it on Black Friday.

I had pretty bad experience with HP Envy where battery and charging were inconsistent but Dell just works.

You can pretty much tell bad things about any laptop brand.
California also provides an exemption if the second employment is during business hours of the first employer , or with a competitor
The manual bare repo setup obviously offers no user access management beyond what the system's SSH configuration provides. Beyond that, a bare repository is actually an essential Git feature and what software like Gitea and even GitHub uses behind the scenes.

Given all users can share a user account on a server, it will behave exactly like you expect it to. Again, that's a core Git feature. Additionally, AFAIK Git has its own locking management. Also look up the `--shared` flag. `man git-init` is very helpful.
If they don't perform because they have three jobs, fire them. You're trying to protect against rare circumstances and it is reducing the number of quality candidates that don't have to play that game and will go elsewhere.
If you have ops somewhere in your responsibilities, then yes.
Well, it's a very detailed guide how to dump contents of flash device, update and put it back.

If the guide said "dump the flash" and "write back the flash" instead of the detailed instructions, and only described firmware manipulation steps in details it would be much shorter.
'nothing like' is quite the hyperbole - but yes even airplanes and computers are quite a bit more advanced than F-8 Crusaders and Whirlwind machines of 1955. Probably at least as much more than snowshoe advances. It's just the basics are all still there.
> So invade other countries? Establish new governments that do what we like?

You have described the history of every single western country, within which the majority of dominant-ethnicity citizens enjoy a physical safety and quality of life unprecedented in world history.

Modern human rights campaigns and progressive philosophy spring mostly from western countries with ideologies downstream of the Enlightenment. (Note that I am not claiming that only Europeans ever developed sub-societies where human rights were respected, merely that out of the surviving capable violent states today, the western ones are the ones more focused on progressive ideals.)

The Western countries were invented after violent conquer and rebellion against regional warlords by sub-factions within their own lands, and the rule of law and power of finance was allocated mostly to people who had ties to the most powerful warlords at the time of the founding of the countries. One example is England, which conquered Wales, Ireland, and Scotland through a military alliance of the internal (English) territories that recognized a seat of power based in London and an ethnic identity manufactured whole-cloth to encompass Danish, Angle, Saxon, and Scandinavian immigrants to the Isle. The "United Kingdom", once a brutally violent and despotic place, is now one of the number one immigration targets for people freeing lawless, economically depressed war-torn regions.
Show me a laptop touchpad better than apple's and I will at least consider switching.
There's more wind at higher altitudes, so I expect industrial-scale wind farms to have an inherent advantage over any rooftop solution.
Link to demo page hijacked my "back" button, not a fan.
I think population density is a poor comparison simply because the amount of space the US has that people aren't screws with the density numbers. New York City won't be able to find a field somewhere and subsistence farm.
I have sympathy for the semantic point you're making, as I call myself "conservative", but match ideologies with very few people in the US that self-identify using the same word.
Chicago metro real estate is unique in its price changes due to outlier amounts of debt for state and local governments. Both Chicago and IL are multiple standard deviations above the norm for projected tax liabilities, so accounting for that reduces the amount people pay for the real estate.
> I wouldn't put that much importance into a specific editor

vi and emacs are a bit special because they have demonstrated extreme longevity. So in the spirit of the original question, it could actually be prudent to commit to one of those from the get-go and the mastery could compound and last your entire career.
I think there needs to be a hybrid system for some redundancy when there's no sun or no wind, of course then maybe we need a water feature so we can have hydro when there's no sun and no wind..hehe.
One thing that is hinted by the article but I think isn't fleshed out well enough, is that "process gates" per se aren't bad. It's the mentality that a process gate is an "add and wait" thing.

Like any intervention that is a "change in process", they should have clear dates and/or criteria under which such a gate either straightforwardly expires, or is at least expected to undergo review to confirm it is still needed, works as intended, and isn't causing more trouble than it is solving.

This isn't just a "project manager" thing. It's a very common mentality found in most professions. Doctors, for instance, are notorious for being very eager to "start" drugs, but very reluctant to "stop" them; especially when "someone else" started it. This leads to an endless cycle of people ending up on bucketfuls of pills every day, many of which interact with each other in adverse ways, and some of which are only there to counter side-effects from drugs that could have simply been stopped a long time ago.
I find it interesting that everybody in this thread seems to take exception to the comparison to "farmers". I mean, farming is brutal hard work but it also does not require a high degree of thinking, so I can see his point even if he has made it in an offensive way. Personally, I'm much happier sitting in a warm comfortable place thinking hard about code instead of being out in a cold field 20 hours a day, but meh.

Much more offensive (to me) is this gem from later on:

> Designing clever, binary and minimally repetitive protocols saves enormous amounts of CPU-time otherwise lost to compression.

Well yes, but also, and more importantly no. This is technically true - not compressing the data is more efficient in terms of computation per bit on the wire. But it is also wrong in a much more subtle way.

The advantage of using JSON (or an equivalent) and then compressing it down is that we inject a large amount of redundancy into the format. The CPU is taking that redundancy back out for us to save bandwidth, but we get to exploit it in much more valuable ways. The encoder/decoder are generic, simple and highly optimized. We can use them everywhere and trust them to work. This has value in itself, and it means that we can spend our limited budget of programmer time in optimizing other code where the payoff is higher. It means less time tracking down bugs in "super 10x programmer's one-off encoder that was only written for this specific application". And lastly, but my favourite - it means that when something goes wrong we have a hope of repairing the damage to the data. Because redundancy gives us options for error checking and recovery, while optimizing the binary format generally does not.

Also, if you want the format to really be optimal it should not be designed as byte streams (as low-level binary formats generally are) and instead should be a stream of variable-sized tokens that are fed through an arithmetic encoder.

The first half of this week I spent repairing data corruption caused by some of my code. Luckily there is a lot of redundancy in how I encoded the data (in a structure that is described in JSON inside the records) so I could write a tool that repaired the damage. I guess I'm lucky that I'm just a "farmer" :)
Projects can get income or donations and still be open source, what matters is the license. While allowing contributors to be rewarded for their work generally creates healthy incentives.

Handling rewards in public discussions on Github naturally prevent bad behaviours from maintainers (ie making bad-faith choices as to what does or doesn't get merged) as they would lose reputation with their contributors and community.
My HASS VM is my oldest VM by far, it's never let me down.

I agree it's way better than the docker approach, especially once you start adding USB things that need to be piped in.
What was the point of writing that?
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The value of git is distributed operation and tamper-evidence. What would be the value of these attributes for a cloud-based app?

To me it seems more logical to use versioned data in a database that only the cloud app accesses.
According to the article, Aeromine is the company making the claim that the design can produce 50% more energy. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect them to validate that claim.
I remember hearing people say things like "it's not about profits, it's about eyeballs," and thinking, you can't pay the rent with eyeballs.
Came here to recommend this. tl;dr "Good strategy is coherent action backed up by an argument."
The original comment, to me, reads more like "subject GRE is a definitive measure of eventual success in academia." I was arguing against the definitive part. Thanks for the clarification. Maybe it might be a good measure for your cohort, you, and people in similar situations.

> Almost no undergrad gets a first author paper

Maybe this is different in different fields but we have a lot of undergraduate first author papers in programming languages and machine learning. I mean -- through and through -- undergraduate students bringing up a topic, getting guidance from professors and senior PhD students, getting results by the end of the semester, and publishing results by next year. Even the people who end up "running the sds slides" either fall out by next year or end up working towards their own first author publications. I've always chalked this up to the experimental setup cost being very cheap in CS compared to in the "hard sciences" so most undergraduate students are already comfortable with all the tools they need to do research.

> I wasn't interested in trying to become a professor

I think this is precisely the variable that a standardized test cannot account for! I feel an "authentic" undergraduate research experience is successful if it helps students realize if research is right for them or not.

> ... papers ... the son of the department head...

I see where your frustration is stemming from. Sorry this was your first experience with undergraduate research.
But vesna was stuck in the fuselage, not just free falling. So she may have had a higher speed, but she have experienced fewer Gs as the fuselage crushed upon landing, giving her a greater distance to decelerate.

But really, it's silly to compare these. Neither relied on any personal qualities to achieve the outcome, it is basically just blind luck in both cases. Without Cliff's lack of spleen or Vesnas weirdly low blood pressure, both probably would have died. Or if they just landed oriented slightly differently.
It's not an "eventually" thing. It's happening now, and has been happening for a long time.

I don't use much libre software in my day to day (desktop) life because most of it is only good enough if you feel strongly that libre is a value unto itself, and worth hassle. I mostly don't. I mean, in some places, there's definite parity or even advantages on the libre side, but holy crap on the desktop it's bleak.
Right, I think tech is a little different because salaries went up so much in the last 10 years. For most workers there are big shortages and raises everywhere. I know the people I've been involved in hiring are up 10-20% from pre-covid, even social security is up 8.7% for next year.
Indeed I have been active. I am passionate about funding in open source, and saw someone link this on mastodon, and so I signed up to comment on things. I only know what has been said in the blog post. I have attempted to disclose all my leanings, and follow ddevault [0] and disclose especially around crypto things

> Additionally, we’re planning on establishing a fund to be able to provide support to contributors who not only contribute features, but also bug fixes, performance enhancements, and important refactors.

Sounds like occasional contributors can receive payment as well.

Like you, I also agree that financial disclosures and citing sources are important, and so so that is why I took the 5 seconds to validate a claim someone made, and also found someone in this thread who very clearly is not disclosing a financial stake in the matter.

Edit: I have seen a maintainer in this thread, perhaps he could share some more details as they come.

[0]: https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/26/Cryptocurrency-is-a-disas...
Both absolutely insane and completely understandable.

...hopefully RISC-V will save us from this nightmare.
This is basically right.

I'm a software professional. My hobbies are fountain pens, chess, and Go (the game, not the language). Going to a pen show I meet people from vastly different career paths, including those who make a living in the orbit of the hobby.
Compiled list of the best cyber security channels someone found on Youtube! It was posted on r/CyberSecurity and has been in my bookmarks since. thought maybe you would find this useful.
8 -> 9 wasn’t that hard for me personally. For our applications it was just adding things to the build to make sure javax.xml was present.

The real difficulty for us was upgrading the Play framework since the Scala community likes to make breaking changes with every release.
But according to Intel it exists to provide functionality that is desired by hardware owners.

Big "Look what you made me do" energy.
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> Why wouldn't you?

Because it's upside down? You can buy another place and owe less on it?
Looming USB-C Makes the iPhone 14 a Trickier Upgrade Than Ever
SATs are predictive of college completion rates. Deemphasizing them in favor of another predictive metric (that women tend to do better on) exacerbates the disparate graduation rates that are adversely affecting men.

If we knew SATs are more predictive of college success for men than women, we'd even be able to simultaneously increase both representation of men in college and overall success rates. That's received a lot less study than other topics in vogue for educational researchers.
Very cool! This reminds me of the ops challenge @ Slack. I'm not sure if they still do this, but the SRE/platform infra interview used to involve a VM running a malfunctioning LAMP stack.

You'd get SSH access to the VM, then submit a diagnostic report of what was broken (and how you fixed it).

Reminded me of how Red Hat used to run their certification test (RHCE). I probably still have the live CDs for my RHCE laying around somewhere.
Every man needs a hobby he can't afford.

For me, I have multiple:
* woodworking (always need more tools, things to build, techniques to try)
* playing guitar (always more gear to buy and things to learn)
* baking (more recipes to try, and equipment)

The hard part, since hobbies is more about how you spend your free time, is not making the easy ones your hobby, like watching movies or spending hours on social media. At least for me.
> The whole description is wordy

I for one really enjoyed reading this story, it was quite exciting and I never noticed anything 'wordy' about it. I thought it was very well written.
Is this real? That thing talks as if it was sentient.

Or, if it is not actually sentient, maybe we are also not “sentient” as well.
I think there is. Furthermore, the machining should be very simple, as the triangles can be all the same shape as the focus doesn't need to be so sharp. The lenses can be angled so that they focus the sun in the same spot.
I pretty much did option 1. I attended a community college and then transferred to the state school that was in my home town. A lot of folks did this anyway because it was much cheaper, you could do all your general ed at community college first and get an AA and then move to another school for your major studies.
And it's precisely their lack of commitment that's put Google in this position. Everyone knows that unless a product is a smash hit at Google, they will almost always kill it in a year or two. But the reason Google isn't making smash hit products anymore is no one wants to try it knowing Google will probably kill it, it's a death spiral for any new products they release.
While I lack personal experience with Rust and I really appreciate fast compilers (that is why I am a Go user), over all features and characteristics, Rust seems to be the best choice for safe kernel development. Other posters have described well how urgent it is, to improve the security of kernel code. So just not doing anything about this, doesn't seem to be a good option.

It seems, there is a wide group of developers which thinks that Rust is the best candidate as a kernel development language. If you see issues with that choice, now would be the time to propose an alternative and try to find momentum in the developer community supporting that alternative. While I also lack practical experience there, by all what I heard, ADA could be one. But I don't know how it exactly compares to Rust and what the trade offs are. But so far, no one has pushed for ADA as a possible kernel implementation language.
at that point most things are compressed decision trees.
I stuck to Mojave for essentially the same reason. Then I found out you could provision another volume, install Mojave on it, and treat the Mac like a dual-boot machine. When I need to run any of my 32-bit apps (mostly games, but there are others), I change the startup disk to that volume. I switch back to run in Monterey (still deciding on Ventura).
IIUC you would say that if someone spends ~$1000/yr on their ice-skating hobby and say makes $10 back on ice-skating-related affiliate links on SM posts, that that's not spending a net $990/yr on their hobby, it's "monetizing their activity"?

Curious to see other people's responses.

I think the term "monetize" has been debased to almost meaninglessness.
Sounds like a case of "write the code to show what it should look like and show what numbers you get compared to the code they posted"?

But remember that the exercise wasn't "to run the n-body simulation", or even "to run maths", but just to see how fast "plain Python" is with the release of 3.11 - using numpy and scipy, which rely on compiled code that they can hand work off to, would make any runtime value you get completely meaningless for the purposes of benchmarking pure Python =)
I think Sweden is/was a very high trust society.

People knew their fellow Swedes, many times with family links going back generations.

There are a lot of things you can do in a high trust society, that do not work in a society without that level of trust - for example, generous welfare benefits where you trust your neighbors not to exploit the system.
Have any new cities been added in the last 3 years? I think they stopped expanding when the utilities wouldn't give them access to poles and their shallow trenching technology was shown to be a bust. I expect one day they will be sold off to ATT or Verizon
> aren't you more "free"?

More freedom for one organization often translates into less freedom for end users.

That's why GPLv3 has explicit clauses against proprietization, tivoization and patenting.

Otherwise the freedom goes from developers to the first big company and stops there. End users and other developers get closed/patented code or SaaS.
> Why isn't out there an ultimate general-purpose database? Which fits well for 90% of cases at least?

There is. It's called PostgreSQL :)
That's completely dependent on location and geography. Where I am, it regularly blows all night, only to taper off in the morning...
Huawei offers the best bang for the bucks...

I know Huawei is kind of taboo in the US, but for the price I paid (900$), I got a 16", 3:2, 2,5k, glass screen (not "anti-flare", which in compunter screen business, is a marketing code name for "plastic"), ryzen 7 5800H, 16gb, 512gb, usb-c & usb-a, hdmi, ceramic body, precision touch and large hyper-responsible trackpad.
Pretty much everyone I know has hobbies -- straight up hobbies, not side hustles. Most of them are active -- cycling of some kind, for example, or fishing, but I live somewhere that sort of thing is viable year-round.

A really liberating thing to understand is this: You are under no obligation to be good at your hobbies. It's not my line; I forget where I picked it up, but it's absolutely true.
Intel's spyware is one big reason I look forward to switching to Apple Silicon soon.
Am I overlooking something or is this completely uninteresting from a security POV?

Not only does it require a vulnerable niche driver to be installed, it also requires the user to enable VBA macros on a document of unknown provenance, which everyone by now should know is the digital equivalent of licking the floor of a public bathroom.

In fact, how is "Getting Ring0" even relevant once you're running untrusted code on Windows where in 98% of all cases (and 100% when we're talking about opening Word Documents) there is exactly one user who can access everything interesting on the system?
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It requires a culture shift; how they hire, the types people they look for, how they staff teams, how they promote, how they budget, how they measure success, etc.

Product requires commitment and continuity which Google has proven to be really, really poor at historically. Likely because it has the wrong culture for it, is likely organized with the wrong incentive structures in place, and has thus far been wildly successful in spite of it.
'Crypto King' narrowly avoids arrest by handing over cellphones
I know absolutely nothing about Oracle, GraalVM, OpenJDK, or Java development in general. I haven't used Java since a CS intro class during my undergrad like 10 years ago. Despite this, I've internally adopted the general consensus that Oracle is a terrible, greedy company.

Can someone play devil's advocate to explain how this news may actually favor this negative view of Oracle? The sentiment in this thread is praising Oracle's decision here, so I'm just curious if there's an alternative viewpoint that's skeptical or wary of this decision and Oracle's motivation to make it.

With that said, I'm not looking for reason to diminish the positives. I'm just curious. Good moves that benefit the community should absolutely be acknowledged and encouraged.

EDIT: It looks like another person commented how this may not be benevolent in the context of WebAssembly while I was slowly typing this comment up on mobile. I'd still be interested in this discussion though.
I hope more people double and triple-up on him.

You know, we could get people recruited on a double/triple and take an ongoing %, to monetize his crying.
If you're going to be pedantic, at least be correct. "Absolute zero" is basically always referring to temperature, and space is not absolute zero. You're probably thinking of zero g. And in any case, zero g isn't even pedantically correct because you're still in Earth's gravitational field, so it should really be something like zero g-forces.
That's purely incidental, though. There is no hard choice betweeen "all your data has to be public" and "you can be totally screwed by identity theft if your private data is leaked".

The US system could be fixed much more efficiently by putting the burden of proof on the businesses who made the transaction instead of the individuals whose data got stolen (gave someone a loan who gave you a stolen SSN? better find out who you really gave it to).