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>But this was one of the critical elements of the system and they had to fork the entire distro because the way it was done actually made the choice more limited.

This isn't very accurate. When Debian decided to switch to systemd, they also agreed to support other inits in the distribution.

This wasn't good enough, so Devuan itself was forked before this decision was made. The end result is that Debian had less people to support the init script alternatives. It became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I'm confident Debian could support other inits if there was more Debian devs available to work on it. But because people left for Devuan the pool becomes smaller.

Even the last decision on inits from Debian says that the focus should not solely be on systemd.

https://lwn.net/Articles/808217/
Missed one: On a computer, everything is a binary string. It's zeros and ones all the way down.

While I think it simplifies the electrical engineering in that it provides consistency*, I don't think it provides a good interface. The problem is that there are lots of totally arbitrary ways of encoding different objects as binary strings; and lots of nonsense operations you can do on those strings. Maybe the other examples in the list are similar.

I think another relevant quote is: "It's better to have fifty functions over one type, instead of fifty types with one function each."

* - which is the main concern for EEs anyway
Don't worry - I just started looking at his code - it fails on tons of common examples, completely demonstrating what we pointed out. There's no need to even have him try to compute things past what he claimed his ever changing claims can do.

I will post results soon.
The only thing I am refuting is his focus on technology. By beating the constant drum of “be helpful in peoples live” he is making the help explicit but the technology is implied. My point is he doesn’t _focus_ on technology. He is trying to get the company to focus on people
Yeah. As much as I prefer the ethics of Apple to Facebook, and as much as I would like Facebook to go away, this isn't good behavior from Apple.
33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene
New App Store ad slots heavily promote gambling apps
My opinionated "This Is The Way" stance, as a work in progress:

Daily fines proportional to installed user base, on the basis of confirmed and not yet fixed CVEs. Amount inversely proportional to price of per-user software license (ie. the cheaper the gadget, the heavier the fines). Exception for AGPL-compatible licenses.

Incentives and credits for smaller companies' training and audits. Funded by fines above.

Incentives and credits for companies fixing CVEs on AGPL-compatible software. Funded also by fines above. Amount of incentives proportional to installed user base and severity of CVE.

Audit practices defined by group of international bodies.
4. You are not fucking suppose to verify or reference check on me before I even had my interview or offer. So now my boss / management knows I am job hunting?

Many years ago, I posted my resume on a job site to see what my options were. An enterprising recruiter called my current (at the time) workplace asking if they'd need help filling the position I might be leaving.

To make his pitch, he asked to speak to the "hiring manager", which happened to be me. He quickly hung up.
libaom is the 'reference' encoder, it is built for correctness, not speed. rav1e and SVT-AV1 are built for speed.
This theory should be easy enough to prove with experimentation. Anyone see any work on that front?
I think the first few lines are fear mongering. Apple is obviously not going to ask for a cut when you transfer money in a banking app, pretty sure that will borderline be illegal. Same goes for E-commerce.

> We slowly turn into a world where everything can be managed via an app

Is it not fair then, for a company creating a platform for the app, making your app available to billions of users, while also keeping the platform safe and providing new features and capabilities consistently to ask for a cut of transactions made on their platform?
If a feature is not enabled in a browser by default, it doesn't count as "Yes, supported." Sites can't be designed expecting users will all go into their browser's experimental features list and turn things on.

Some CSS features can be used even without widespread browser support because the content's meaning isn't changed in browsers that don't support the feature; border-radius is a classic example. For something like CSS counter styles, if an ordered list is equally well-understood with the default numbers or the custom styles, they can be fine but it's easy to think of examples where meaning would be lost without the counter styles.
Thanks for taking trouble to actually link to the resumé in question. I'd only wish critics of it were similarly verbatim.
Borland Sidekick, you could pop up a text editor anywhere in the days of MS-DOS

Borland Delphi 5, it was the peak of productive windows programming

debug - the DOS command, you could write small programs on the fly.

list - an incredibly fast file viewer by Vernon D. Buerg.
I love React. They realized that the whole "class" thing is unnatural to Javascript and replaced it all with hooks and functions. It also makes it very easy to collaborate with coders of various skill levels because there's one way to do it.
“Modern HR” (aka in-house commissar) is a top-down legally mandated entity to 1) exert regulatory control on all but the tiniest companies and 2) reward the useless-nagger constituency of the party with jobs.

There is no system-wide hard-reset, not in our lifetimes. There is retreat & regroup, away from the eye of sauron, while the parasite devours the host.
Government IT provider UKCloud goes into liquidation
There have been YouTube outages that were exacerbated precisely because the SRE teams explicitly trained for the disaster scenario where everything is hard down and needs to be brought back as quickly as possible.
> That said, Com­mon Lisp is weird. What I find par­tic­u­larly jar­ring is that func­tions and vari­ables live in dif­fer­ent name­spaces:

Lisp-2s aren’t the only languages in which functions and variables are different namespaces - the same is true of PHP, Perl, Bash, etc. But the later mark the distinction through syntax - variables start with a dollar sign, functions don’t. I think there is something to be said for that approach, compared to the Lisp-2 way it is easier for beginners to understand, and it is instantly obvious whether a symbol is a variable or something else like a function, while also avoiding the Lisp-1 problem of built-in function names clashing with those of popular variable/argument names. I wonder why there are so few Lisp-like languages which adopt the “sigil solution”. (Common Lisp does have sigils, such as :keywords, but not for variables.)
You can use ES as data storage, and in that case SQL makes sense. It was originally created as full-text search utility, and for that part SQL is not very useful.
I think it will just take a few big names to popularize a different platform so they better be careful.

There's always piracy too, that could easily make a comeback.
> How do they measure your race?

Great question.

My guess is that they would only take action if you did something like brag on social media about hacking the admissions system by lying.

Stranger things have happened...
>> 1. 90% of the Application's Data are already in my LinkedIN, or my CV / Resume. Why the heck do I have to fill it in again.

Not only that, but the terrible Taleo software consistently fails to import a CV without completely failing to parse it and leaving you to manual update what was imported.
I said Kotlin over Dart. Not over Flutter.

Flutter doesn't make sense as the native OS framework for Android.
I'm still wondering if the old builders used this to melt stone, through parabolic mirrors etc.
I'm not wanting to insult you here, so please read in that light. I'm not trying to be the dick here.

>> The problem

Problem to whom? Not the customer (the one paying the bills), not the developer (the one getting paid) but by "the rest" - the ones consuming but not contributing.

>> closed source

Unfortunately the term "open source" encompasses a group of freedoms - the lack of any of them leads us to the term "closed source". For some projects the freedom "removed" is the right to _distribute_ the proprietary source. In other words the source might be "open" in the sense that the customer has it, but it might be "closed" in the sense that they can't distribute it.

I'd suggest that the freedom-lost in the "can't distribute" model is a good compromise (developers wanting to get paid.) I'm less favourable to a "binary blob" model. Clearly in the abstract projects could go either way.

>> not available on the same terms

ie - for free. I hear you, but I feel like developers have a right to take their project in a paid direction if they want to. The demand that they continue the project forever for no return seems, well, unfair.
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Preppers get made fun of because the stereotypical prepper is actually not preparing properly against realistic threats and instead prepares against perceived threats at the expense of preparing for plausible scenarios. Your neighbor apparently doesn't fit the stereotype.
This isn't unfamiliar territory.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20117583>

<https://web.archive.org/web/20190606173136/https://pfrazee.h...>
On a side note: Pico-8 is such an awesome platform. I'm truely impressed.
You don't have to be of any special status to make arguments, that's the definition of democracy. And they're 100% right.
I suspect no such explanation can exist and therefore the hard problem does not exist in the sense of a solvable problem in pyhsics. It's really a question of metaphysics.
I wonder what the ultimate fate of apps will be. If browsers get great sandbox features and hardware acceleration with access to all sensors will there be a future for apps?

Apple is pretty incentivized to not allow that future to be realized so we’ll see.

Though I do see the value of curation, reviews and exposure, it’s not really clear from me technically why you can’t side load apps onto iPhones easily.
Equo Chromium: The cross-platform browser for Java
The tight coupling, the non-portability, all of that are technical choices, that can be debated on their own merit without the need to attribute malevolent intentions to the developers.

Projects merged changes because they wanted them, not because their goodwill was abused to make them merge anything. People got systemd on their OSes because they chose OSes whose developers chose to move to systemd.

It's not like Lennart comes to your home with a gun if you install OpenBSD.
Really depends on what your threat model is, no? To anyone who doesn't even know whether there is something to look for, it's definitely far less suspicious than a TrueCrypt container.
Unfortunately, I'd need a few more fingers. Not too many though which makes that argument for Cucumber fairly moot. I did work somewhere where each team had 2 testers. One to write the cucumber and one to write the glue code for it. It was about as successful as you could imagine.

I'd also say "non-coding" rather than "non-technical". Coding is just one aspect of being "technical".

There is benefit in making the tests easy to read but this is better done in actual code, e.g. the screenplay pattern.
I would be interested in an explanation that understands the mechanism to the point where one could arbitrarily insert information into a qualia experience. E.g. controlling what someone is imagining by placing objects there, etc.
Clearly someone didn’t use software from even the 90s.. a lot of it was pure crashing garbage.
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I believe the thinking is: "This is a great filter to ensure we only get great and passionate people!"

Assume this were true. Even if this were the case, this might backfire: "passionate" easily works against a company.

This means that if you filter for passionate people, but reject such passionate candidates, these candidates might passionately work against your company (e.g. tell every friend what a shithole of a company this is etc.).

So, filtering for passionate people in the hiring process (even if it worked) is in my opinion dangerous idea.
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BLOOM[0] is another 176B multilingual open-source model whose weights were published.

However, running it locally requires 8 A6000 GPUs. The GPU cost alone is roughly $37K.

Also, there is the concern of performance. The Chinchilla[1] paper indicates that most model sizes trained so far received too little token training (or were too big) to reach an optimal performance per energy expenditure. Furthermore, the InstructGPT[2] and more recently Flan[3] papers show that various finetuning techniques achieve significant gains, without which the result is a bit meh.

The dark secret of GPT-3 is that the model available on the OpenAI website is heavily fine-tuned, even compared to the InstructGPT paper.

[0]: https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155

[3]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.11416.pdf
I'm not a friend or fan of Meta, but I'm astonished at the chutzpah of this move. Reaching into an app and taxing transactions between the developer and the user that have nothing to do with the App Store.

We are once again in the days of robber barons. Apple must be brought to heel.
OT, but UK pylons are gradually being replaced by a new design:

https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2...

The current "Milliken" design as shown in the article has changed very little since 1928.
The usual estimate is that there are about 20-25M programmers worldwide. So probably not.
From the Basics to Complexity and Back
Free will is deciding what to do under the known bodily/physics constraints. Free will is thinking and imaging whatever you want under no constraints.
>Who am I going to punch when I was duped by a crypto scam?)

This is what group violence is historically used for. When responsibility was so diffused among so many people that you couldn't fix things by picking one of the most responsible and making an example out of them the king or whoever would have everyone in the group subjected to violence or some other punishment under credible threat of violence.
They do have the Oculus store. It's not a competitor yet, but may be in 10 years.
That's the entire point of conflict: to me, that's an overreach by the bank, who's now dictating things out of scope of the relationship between us.

The traditional boundary is one drawn by device ownership: my device, my rules; their device, their rules. I.e. my phone can do whatever, their servers can refuse working with me.

Remote attestation is at best a way for simplifying their own service, at a big cost to users' freedom. In reality, it's a bit of that, plus mostly making sure the customers are locked into a bank-controlled channel that can be used to upsell more financial products.
> completely shutting down and crying about how it's not capitalism's fault it's not capitalism's fault it's not capitalism's fault it's not capitalism's fault...

I'm saying no one is doing the above.

As I've already said, I don't think you're able to do this. Let's stop.
Ok nice thanks for the clarification
You could always move to a communist country. However internet communists always get real quiet when you suggest that.
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"'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22No_Way_to_Prevent_This%22,_...
Being off-grid is not going to make a difference whenever all electronic devices become paperweights.
I'm old enough to remember when Facebook started extracting an IAP tax on their own app platform where none previously existed. So forgive me for enjoying this particular turn of the wheel.
I am also exploring the idea for a SciFi setting.

The solar sintering by Markus Kayser looks neet, but it is not practical in its current shape, it does not produce useful outcome. Too brittle.

The main problem is, the heat from the sun is not cohaerent.

There are fluctations in the sky for example, that will make the heat changes drastically. (there is a paper about this from a professional solar furnace, I need to find again)

Reading tip, "The man who sold the moon", from Cory Doctorow. Which also explores the idea of solar 3D sintering (but ignores the limitations).

So I do strongly believe, the whole concept has big potential, beyond entertaining SciFi - it is just not so easy. I think a way to go, could be to have the base load directly from the sun - and then a laser for the exact heat where it is need.
"so slow." JS-perf world is quite insufferable. We're talking 0.09s vs 0.01s https://mobile.twitter.com/youyuxi/status/158506616237077709...
Oh right I probably have a content blocker enabled.

Still surprising how much as revenue they’re generating
The problem isn’t that you can’t trust people. The problem is that people are defenseless in the face of malicious hackers with vastly more expertise and zero day vulnerabilities.

It’s not that you can’t trust your employees. It’s that you can’t trust them to defend themselves from being mugged.

The forcing function for all this removal of freedom is defense against malicious hackers. The removal of freedom is not the goal so much as a side effect.

It works the same way in the real world. We would not need borders or armies or police if everyone were nice.
There is definitely a Jeep joke here in how they have optimized getting the error codes since it happens so often.... :)

But really, that is super handy! I wonder if other makes have a similar feature that I just have never heard of or if it's a Jeep thing?
I never realized the zombie diet is keto. Have you ever seen a fat zombie?
> eventually the politicians would tire of playing whackamolecule

"Whackamolecule" is a great word for this phenomenon - both concise and evocative.
In Another Blow to Meta, Apple Demands 30% Cut From Promoted Social Posts
> Apple's been consistent: digital goods and services.

Transferring money between banks accounts via an app seems like a digital service. How is it not?
I don't see this happening. Got a link I can learn more about it from?
I've noticed their disaster of a website before. It's a miracle they sell anything. I work in IT, I do this kind of thing for a job and I can't make any sense of it, for the exact reasons mentioned in the article. I can't imagine any average person bothering with it when the Apple website is right there.

I don't even know why they bother selling laptops to consumers at all (as opposed to to businesses) if it's so unimportant to them that their website doesn't even work.

My Dell G5 5515 gaming laptop has this weird issue where every 15 minutes or so, the trackpad will start lagging consistently for about 5 minutes, then switch back to working normally. Upgrading from Windows 11 to a fresh install of Windows 10 didn't even fix it. The power cable also falls out easily.

They really need to consolidate their laptop lineup.
While Meta's the Cyberpunk 2077 Street Kid we've been waiting for?

For the longest time, Zuck wouldn't even let you have legs.
Two anecdotes that have nothing to do with each other:

1. When I was a computer technician back in the mid 00s, I hated working on Dells most. Their internal architecture was very dense. I often marveled at how little airflow there was.

2. I have an Alienware R11 that I bought a couple years ago. It's still doing fine. The only oddity is the result of a brief power outage a couple months ago; now it always tries to PXE boot on startup for some reason.
A much less impressive example is human speaking. Largely our conscious mind constructs ideas and the unconscious mind compiles them into words.
Normal dishy works fine in motion so while it would be nice to have a lower priced option more suitable for mounting that doesn't work while in motion, such a distinction would be software only, and that always feels scummy.

How would you feel if you paid $700 for a vehicle mountable dish and then had the option to pay $2000 to "upgrade" it to allow to use it while it was in motion?

That's the sort of thing that really bothers some people. Hacker News celebrated when New Jersey proposed banning that sort of thing in cars.
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Those were such gold! The small number of channels available made such programs all the more gripping, I think.
> but author has an ego the size of Wolfram's

Stephen Wolfram is going to be so pleased that he finally has his own unit named after him!

Mathematics, physics, computing, and now psychometrics, is there anything that man can’t make groundbreaking progress on?
In the same token it would be amazing if doctors in America tried calling their own office pretending to be someone else and see what it’s like to make an appointment to their office.

Same with filling their forms for the first time (proceeds to write your name 13 times, your date of birth 23 times, your full address 8 times etc etc).
Several of my friends were targeted by these scammers, and one of them even lost 10000 USD (a big sum in Vietnam) to a fake prosecutor. They even cloned the website of the Ministry of Public Security to scam him. Out of curiousity I took a look at their website source code, found an url to some kinds of a gateway for scammer where they have tools for scamming people, and also an android app that aid them. After finding that the whole operation is based abroad I told my friend that there is zero chance he will get his money back.
I've never understood the need for all the complexity.

Security should be built from the ground up from two physical ports. One is a file storage like SD card and one is a hasher/checker for the blobs that are read form that storage device. One of the blobs should be the CPU microcode. The system can be expanded with additional (tag,blobs).

There. Solved every solvable use case.

Okay, i lied. I do understand why there is a need for all the complexity. Some sysadmins and DRM believers think the complex solution makes their lives easier by being remotely controlled and being "good enough".

Because nobody could ever care enough to tinker with 'baked in' secrets and if they do its above your pay-grade.
What really is the relevant difference between an app and an installed website using browser APIs? When apps were introduced it seemed like a big difference, but now I'm not sure it is.
They'll click the browser back button, get thrown back onto the search/new tab page, they'll click forward to get back to the webapp (which will have saved all of their state), and they'll understand just fine going forward.
Open by name but you need to join their OpenTherm Association to access the protocol spec (or use Google).
What a power play. I guess if your a virtual monopoly that's what happens.
In case anyone wasn’t aware. Libet’s delay has been found to be quite flawed, and the ‘not reproducible’ idea entered popular consciousness: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-a-flaw...

The replication crisis, etc.
This is unfair. MS keeps making it harder and harder to run anything that is not MS-signed (TM) on Secure Boot hardware; any distro that does not bow to the whims of MS is thus likely to be relegated to obscurity or die due to lack of users capable of installing it.