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> Intel syntax for NASM

Like the Good Lord intended.
I was just looking the Preceden site today. It looks like a nice timeline program. Good luck!
>> binge-and-purge cycles

I think of it as a career thing. Someone gets promoted they need to hire 5-10 new people to manage. They lay off 5-10 people their career is facing a setback.
I don't think this really has anything to do with the two methods being weaker or stronger than one another.

I've seen plenty of the example that you give involving things like iNaturalist. These are people who just plain suck at learning on their own. Sorry, I know it's harsh, but I think that's usually the case. These are people who wouldn't be particularly successful in a classroom either, though they may do somewhat better in a classroom setting merely because it does away with the need for the student to exercise the skill of seeking the right information.

I am more adept at the on-demand side of things. It's not that I can't learn in a classroom setting, but a classroom can also be smothering to me because it doesn't permit much deviating from the formula. What I'm good at is getting the basic idea of something, ditching what I don't think to be relevant, identifying what I believe may be incorrect, and using that to go on my own learning journey and developing the necessary skills. Only after I have exhausted every other feasible option will I ask someone "What is this?" One reason I hated being in a classroom is that a certain amount of question-asking is expected of you, and you'll get singled out if you're not asking enough questions; I don't ask questions because, quite honestly, most lectures are redundant to reading material and taking notes.

For the preliminary learner, they need the classroom (learning on rails) because they don't have what it takes to be self-directed. They're probably not going to rigorously question the information being given to them. If they self-guide their learning, the process they'll go through will be one of frequent astonishment.

What I'm trying to say is that I think this really comes down to the individual and not so much the process. Certain personality types are better suited for preliminary learning, and others are better (and happier) with on-demand learning.
Complete globalization was always a very bad idea. Journalists like John Pilger have been trying to warn us for decades but were ignored by society because there was so much profit to be gained.

Admittedly the China we moved all our production to in the early 2000s wasn't that bad a business partner. However we've always known that countries can change very quickly and since Xi JinPing it's become a major geopolitical threat. Only now we're too invested and it will cost us a lot to pull out again. Still, it has to be done.

I hope we never make that mistake again and diversify in countries we can actually trust.

Personally I think leaving everything to "the market" is also a very bad idea since all the market cares about is money. Not the environment, not people, not society. Trying to get the market to take these into account makes for very awkward workarounds like carbon taxes/credits. There needs to be a balance between free markets and protecting our own interests, and those of the world as a whole.
The idea is not centered around F-keys. The idea is to have fast shortcuts to every app you need regularly. You can use any other keys.

The problem, of course, is that all keys are already taken. Even F-keys are normally taken by volume control, playback control, brightness control, etc, and you have to press Fn-F1 to access F1. There are no spare keys, unless you buy a dedicated keypad.

So I, as likely everyone else, have a bunch of Win+something shortcuts, often involving 2 or 3 more keys. (Using KMonad to have modifiers on the home row helps.)

But the idea still stands. I already have shortcuts for the screen shot app, for the character map app, etc; why not add shortcuts for bringing Emacs or Firefox or a terminal to the front? I'll explore that.
Steaks and strippers. A relative of mine asks if there's a Ruth's Chris in the area and if there isn't then he is not interested.
The idea of tons of 3rd-party plugins, with WordPress and also Drupal, is just disastrous for security.

Anyone with any ability to write a little PHP would be far far better off building their site in a CMS like ProcessWire [1], which has a very small core, but a extremely powerful content (PHP) API [2], which means you can replicate pretty much everything you have in Wordpress and Drupal with a few API calls in your templates.

This means you build your listing and presentation-logic custom made with the minimal amount of code needed, and the attack vector shrinks to pretty much nothing, as long as you don't voluntarily do something stupid.

[1] https://processwire.com/

[2] https://cheatsheet.processwire.com/
I can't remember ever seeing those notifications? I must have turned them off years ago.
Ha, off-topic but I love that macOS properly calls it Bin when set to British English
On-demand learning is popular because the general quality of documentation is awful due to mismatched incentives and rapid changes in the tech industry.

Programmers quickly learn that the presence of good documentation cannot be relied on, and bad/outdated documentation is worse than no documentation.

This is a very different paradigm from traditional schooling where almost everything is built on mostly reliable documentation (i.e. carefully curated textbooks).
Plus France, and to a lesser extent other countries, inflicted extremely punitive economic costs on Germany following WW1 that were arguably designed to reduce Germany to client/vassal status. Whereas the victors of WW1 had a wholly legitimate argument for the abolition of the German monarchy, elimination of the German general staff and so on, the German public suffered disproportionately to their degree of political agency.

When I was younger I considered economic sanctions a far preferable alternative to the brutality of kinetic warfare, in line with the prevailing view of western statecraft. Over time I've come to think it's significantly worse, little more than a form of state terrorism in which populations are politely murdered. While the architects of such policies talk about accountability, containment, etc in reference to unfriendly leaders they'd like to displace, starving children and blaming it on someone else is fundamentally genocidal and in my view constitutes a grave moral crime. I was disgusted by the eulogies heaped upon the late Madeline Albright, because when I think of her I can only remember her assertion that the deaths of 1/2 a million Iraqi children in the 1990s was 'worth it.'
Some sizable percentage of that is acquisitions as well though
And that's what I'm fundamentally disputing. We're in an age where "trade school" programming is needed - someone has to do the work and there's no shame in a job well done.

A plumber doesn't need to master the mathematics of fluid dynamics or have an advanced degree in chemical engineering to do their job well. A hair stylist doesn't need to pursue a dermatology medical degree focused on hair growth.

Plumbers and cosmetologists have plenty of work and it's a good profession. They need to go to school, pass exams, get a certification, it's a real thing.

Similarly, getting an e-commerce site up or building a mobile app doesn't require an ability to say, demonstrate the correspondence principle of procedural abstraction in lambda calculus. There's jobs that do but that ain't one of them.
thank you, appreciate it!
Would have been better to use ahead of time (AOT) and just in time (JIT) as they have analogs in CS.
Recent and related:

The FDA will likely approve the diabetes drug tirzepatide for weight loss - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34220996 - Jan 2023 (100 comments)

Tirzepatide delivered up to 22.5% weight loss in obese or overweight adults - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33221121 - Oct 2022 (21 comments)
I am not going to pretend that I actually know the details of itar, but suffice to say my understanding is that it is in essence an export restriction on military technology.

Hence, while you can source certain aspects of the supply chain from abroad, you can’t offshore the whole industry wholesale, which is the main point.

Even with the hubbub about TSMC, the chip maneuvering is only about bleeding edge chips, not the chip industry as a whole.
> Part of the problem here is that you tried to push through it. Basically the only way for someone who immediately experiences VR sickness to acclimate is to stop after 5 to 15 minutes, give it a while to go away, return to it, and repeat the cycle a couple of times until it stops completely.

Considering the context of adoption obstacles, this is worse than VR just making people feel nauseous.

If VR made you feel bad, be sure to both remember how bad it made you feel, and also voluntarily make yourself feel bad again, repeatedly, until (maybe) you won't feel as bad anymore, and then you can have the day-1 experience? Am I tracking this correctly?
I haven't used Rust, but many of the comments and articles I have read about the benefits of the language and the strong desire for develop robust and/or safe software are virtually the same as what Ada supporters have been claiming for decades.

It's a good thing more people are realizing we really need to stop settling for C and C++, stop investing more money into tools that simply compensate for the weak foundation of those languages, and finally adopt safer alternatives.
Maybe we should skip the foreplay and go straight to “lizard people”.
The practical effect that my coworkers keep telling me about is that the client or an intermediary like a load balancer may retry the same request until it is successful, with the expectation that the resource (records or settings in a database system in our case) is only modified once. A database query that does something like value = OLD.value + 1 cannot be safely retried. There are circumstances under which the outcome of a transaction can be unknown but it might still succeed, and the client should be prevented from doing accidental changes. With read queries this should be rare, but even then there can be side-effects affecting the overall system state. There are of course solutions to this for the application side, like the usage of idempotency keys.
The problem with your definition is art is worthless.....

Art in a sense is no different from money. If it can be counterfeited in such a manner that a double blind observer has no means of telling an original bill (human made art) from a counterfeit (AI art) then you're entire system of value is broken. Suddenly your value system is now authenticating that a person made the art instead of a machine (and the fallout when you find that some of your favorite future artworks were machine created).

The problem comes back down to inaccurate langage on our part. We use art as a word for the creator and the interpreter/viewer. This it turns out is a failure we could not have understood the ramifications at the time.
If you're looking at a blog that might've been presented with ads, but you're not seeing those ads, well that's nice. I also rarely see those ads. But how do you know whether the blog itself is an ad? That's the more insidious problem.
Good point, I thought there was a prior instance, but couldn’t remember the specifics.
I think the "if I had a hybrid, it wouldn't get plugged in" part is what they were calling out: that is now a fossil fuel car even though they could quite comfortably plug it in.

Hybrid cars are, effectively, enablers. The not-even temptation to just top it up, in under a minute, at an entirely acceptable cost (given that you could afford a hybrid, you can afford gas) is the best way to prevent people from actually going electric.

Plus, from an industry perspective, hybrids are the perfect excuse for manufacturers to just keep spending on ICE improvements rather than EV improvements: as long as the total package seems to get more mileage every year, no one's paying attention to the fact that the EV parts don't get improved nearly as much as the ICE parts do. And because hybrids cut into EV sales, manufacturers have the perfect excuse to keep working on ICE tech because "the majority of people are still buying cars with an ICE or ICE component".

Hybrids would be great if people were rational. Instead, people are the exact opposite, and hybrids are the perfect "let's not move to full EV" excuse for consumers and manufacturers alike.
Why do we need chargers in every parking space? Is every space allotted? In our parking structure (five floors) we have about 50 EVs and only four chargers, there’s always at least one spot available. I guess there’s no real harm in it but seems like a waste of resources.
True, although we already do this. We can tell if someone is being guarded or open.

Presumably the Mediator serves only you, and you can ask it to deceive or project different intentions if that’s want you want.
Filtering in less is one of the features that ov doesn't have yet.
I will refer to it. thank you.
One thing Atul Gawande writes about in Being Mortal is podiatry as a simple intervention to reduce the rate of falls amongst the elderly. I don't have the book to hand and don't know if it had a corresponding citation, but worth a look.
Also greatest album of all times.
And of course there are plenty of industries outside of tech where severance itself is an alien concept.

Absolutely. People in tech don't realize how good they have it.

The first time I lost a job I found out when my company phone started showing alerts on a Saturday night that it couldn't connect to the e-mail server. It turned out that my entire department was canned.

The second time, I came to work on a Thursday only to discover the door locked, and a couple of coworkers lingering around. Eventually, we decided we had the day off. Same story Friday. In the Sunday newspaper there a small note that the company has been bought. So Monday morning, it was off to the Unemployment office.

For 99% of American companies, you're lucky to get notice before you get laid off, let alone severance pay.
Yep - very disappointed there is no discussion. Maybe a Munchausen by Proxy kind of thing, though not quite at the level of causing physical illness? Maybe jealous of daughter? Who knows.
Habitual Checking on Social Media and Longitudinal Functional Brain Development
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May I suggest a simpler and smaller scope? An AI converting speech to text, extracting a bunch of still frames (or short video rolls) as illustrations (where relevant) and making it an ol' good readable article?

Then it can be fed to the search engines and those would do the rest of the job just fine.
Most likely the parallel requests are done using a single connection.

So of course HTTP/2 will outperform, that's what it's designed to do.

Now try again, but use one connection per thread, and connect it before you start benchmarking, i.e. use it the way it's meant to be used.
>If so, try writing a check a Russian oligarch, to pay for cuban cigars, or to sell something to Iran.

Which of those transactions is "normal"? It should be noted that even with cryptocurrencies laws still apply. You're still seeking "permission" for your "normal" transactions.

Here's the deal. The commentator said, effectively, it is NORMAL for "duh gubmint" to control your spending.

It is not.

Normal has a well-defined and commonly-accepted meaning. You cannot call bribing a Russian oligarch "normal" unless you are a different kind of person than most. Unless you are an abnormal person doing abnormal things.

There are edge cases where the government does regulate cash transactions and whether or not those edge cases are right or required is a separate discussion I am not having right now.

Also, checks aren't cash?????

>...and Bitcoin is mot digital cash.

The title of the bitcoin white paper is "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System". Is it lying?

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

To ape on Diderot, "Man will never be free until the last libertarian is strangled with the entails of the last cryptobro".
I don't think blaming the individual soldier is ever a fair choice. Most folks in the army aren't there by first or even second choice. the amount of pro military military people is shockingly low.

to say it another way:

veterans should never be ashamed they are veterans, the government and voters should be ashamed they're creating veterans.
but if you are shitting your pants every day, surely you want to see those diapers plastered all over your personal internet?
> Six connections with H1 means waiting for the server to process only up to six responses at a time. You also can't send any additional requests until one of those six ongoing requests has finished. So at the very least, you're paying a full round trip cost per request where no useful work is happening.

Browsers disable pipelining on H1 now, but it used to be a real feature to avoid this problem.
Eh, your car will run a little shitty with the old gas, leaving an engine without running it for extended periods can cause somewhat faster corrosion depending on your environment, and old gas can increase things like various gunk getting deposited around your engine.

All in all, a mild shortening of the life of your engine and perhaps triggering some maintenance sooner than otherwise.

Realistically, not much. The people saying “bad for you” aren’t wrong but they also fail to mention the effect size. It’s not particularly relevant unless you want to own the same car for a few hundred thousand miles and absolutely minimize maintenance. (Small aircraft for example, you want to care a lot about these things because they’re very expensive, when the engine fails you’ll be thousands of feet above the ground, and a well maintained plane can last decades. Your daily driver probably doesn’t have any of these issues)

There are various preventative things you can do to minimize the effects anyway. It’s one of those internet things where yeah they’re not wrong exactly but they need to relax. Having too much beer and cheeseburgers last night long term probably wasn’t the best decision, but you know what I’ll probably be fine.

Leaking gas in a car for a long time is like eating too much fast food. Ok yeah not the greatest but are you the type of person who cares enough to never eat McDonald’s? Make your decisions according to your disposition and don’t take people telling you you’re wrong too seriously.
Yes! This is exactly what I mean. It's a distraction at best, and creates confusion, anxiety, and even anguish at worst.
>In fact I would argue the left as a whole supports globalization so it may actually hurt Biden to talk about steps he is taking to end it.

Ok, but he is in fact taking those steps, and going beyond what Trump did in the process.
Yeah, liberty is totally defined by draconian policies on employers/companies to give hand-outs for lay offs. If that's the case, we need to mandate employees give 3 months notice, for the employer to backfill the position properly. Its only fair.
Oil is a finite resource. Eventually economics will force people to abandon gas (my bet is sooner than the 50 years the industry projects there are reserves for).
Nice to see more articles on data flow techniques. They deserve way more attention as a great whole program model for all sorts of problem domains.
The problem with 'hand made' is going to be the same problem we see with 'human made' art in the future.

There are $incentives$ to lie about your product and sell a mass produced one as authentic.
Congrats and thanks for sharing, as an aspiring SaaS bootstrapper and father there’s plenty of headwinds so nice to see people sharing their stories piloting through them.
Your point is well taken. Consider my remark a bit of hyperbole--though I've definitely been in more than one conversation in which tech docs professionals described something as "engineering docs" with the clear meaning that it fell below some acceptable standard.
I think this also plays to the perception that “Macs don’t get viruses” that Apple would like to maintain.
I don't know any other delivery service that so consistently feeds wrong information by over promising when no one asked it to and then under-delivering even the initial estimate.
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I mean I think you’re both right in ways, but you seem to be equating “elites testing talking about it publicly” with “elites privately lobbying for funding that fixes it” which are not at all the same thing, and the difference is part of the point GP was trying to make.

Your references are also anachronistic to the narrative you’re constructing.
Tail wags the dog is unsupported by biomechanical modeling of Canidae tail use
Power Tip: Deploy Dedicated Master Nodes for Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
Emulating an emulator inside itself. Meet Blink
Blink is a new CPU emulator written in C, made by Justine Tunney. Besides having a really cool name, blink has a lot of impressive features and some of them will blow your mind!
One example, the started (and then stuck) net/ip to net/netip migration?

The tailscale netip package is great (as external pkg), but without commit to a full migration plan, just sprinkle here and there some (half/done/slow/wired/bridge) interfaces leads anyone, who tried to migrate, stuck as well. Some all ready started to migrate back ...
>Have world champioships lost any attraction due to Deep Blue?

You mean after last years vibrating anal bead scandal?
Basically, your applications are pinned to positions on a task bar, and that task bar is made of a row of physical buttons.
Two words: ice bath.
Stupid question so, why would you use a garbage truck to plow snow? Over here, cities, towns and musipalities use different vehicles for different jobs, suxh as garbage, snow plowing, street cleaning and so on...
> It may work for most people

70% of adult Americans are overweight, so no, probably not.

> those studies are performed on a fraction of the remainder

Why would you believe that?
Alt+Ctrl+Delete was special-cased as an unforgeable sequence to access the security screen in Win NT, with special provisions down to BIOS level IIRC. (Else credentials stealing becomes too easy.)

REISUB is for truly exceptional circumstances; I used it 2-3 times in 20 years of using Linux on desktop.
Good scripting examples though in my opinion they left out the most fault tolerant option and that is using the "lftp" client [1] which happens to also speak SFTP and can mimic the behavior of rsync in a chroot sftp-only environment. One of the mirror sub-system options is "--loop" which can repeat the job until there are no differences based on the commands invoked. lftp's mirror subsystem can also spawn multiple TCP connections for a batch of files or even splitting up one large file into multiple streams, thus working around round-trip-time latency.

The downside of lftp's mirror subsystem is that directory enumeration is slower than rsync as there is no corresponding daemon on the other end to assist with the local aspect of remote enumeration. It is just using SFTP commands to do all the work.

[1] - https://linux.die.net/man/1/lftp
Start up idea
That's a great idea for a scifi novel right there. I wonder if you could steer the star around by shining more of the radiation out of one end, or focus it all into a beam of death
The tests cover both cases if you read.

But either way, yes, that's fundamentally a benefit of being able to use HTTP. We can multiplex multiple sessions over one underlying connection.
How much symbolism do you reproduce without understanding?
They say all of that, and more in the article.