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> Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 for PowerPC

Wait what! That one slipped by me. MacOS on Intels and Windows on PowerPC feels like upside-down 90s.
I will never understand how Reddit bungled this so badly. I'm no Harvard MBA, but here's an easier way out – instead of asking small-time app developers to pay millions, put API access contingent on the account subscribing to Reddit Premium. That way users get to keep the experience they enjoy, independent developers can keep doing their thing, Reddit gets to make up for the lost ad revenue in the form of subscriptions, and if people complain about it they are the ones being cheap.
I've never gotten a CAPTCHA-hellban that I know if, but I absolutely get a CAPTCHA when I use "site:" for more than just a couple searches. (It sounds par-for-the-course w/ Google, though...)
Think of it as a Universal Basic Income pilot.
Why do you think they held this big hearing and then didn't show any videos that showed anything anomalous? They talked about "orbs" that moved in anomalous ways, but showed no videos of this. They then showed a video of an "orb" that didn't move in an unusual way--it could easily have been a balloon.

The story always seems to be: there are thousands of reports of UAP. Most of them are readily identifiable, and thus eliminated as UAP, leaving some hundreds of reports that could not be identified. They then release one or two videos, which usually have plausible explanations and don't conform with the wilder UAP descriptions.
It is probably not reasonable to suggest that Eliot Cohen advocates forceful resistance against Russia because CSIS corporate sponsors happen to include arms manufacturers. First, CSIS sponsors are a "who's who" of blue chip corporate America and are in no way dominated by arms dealers; second, Cohen is well known for his foreign policy positions, and if Northrop happens to be bankrolling 1/40th of his work, it's because of Cohen's reputation; the article has the causality reversed.

Further, the article would be a lot more honest if it more clearly acknowledged that CSIS does make its corporate donor list public.

This is one of those pieces where I feel like the authors are counting on the audience not to know basic facts. It feels like they're trying to hoodwink me. The Quincy Institute has what I understand to be a solid reputation, so you'd think they'd do better than this.

(None of this makes Elliot Cohen right! He goes way farther than the mainstream consensus on how to respond to the Russia/Ukraine situation. But to the extent that Quincy --- an overtly isolationist think tank --- wants to advocate against him, they should do it on the merits, not by trying to work the refs.)
Reddit is garbage these days anyways. Even communities that are scientific/technical seem to be toxic these days. If you want to get to a comment that has any substance regarding some topic or article, you have to scroll all the way down.
I think the better question is, why are we talking about a short term fluctuation that happened years ago and has since corrected itself?
What I fucking hate is writing a query, sometimes even with parts in double quotes to clarify, and google "helpfully" correcting it to something unwanted, and then putting up the damn captcha when I click the link to search exactly what I want.
10 or so years ago I wound up blocking everyone other than Google in my robots.txt because I was sick and tired of webcrawlers from China crawling my site twice a day and never sending me a single referrer. Same with Bing. Back when I was involved with SEO the joke was you could rank #1 for Viagra on Bing and get three hits a month.
Sigh... It's sad to see a $600K townhouse in Reston termed "reasonable."

I know a lot of folks on this site are from the Bay Area, where something like that would probably be twice that, but it's actually more expensive than around here, which is considered one of the more expensive areas to live.

It's astounding to see kids out of college, starting at more than I ever made, in my career, and yet, they can't afford to buy a house.

But I'm not one to talk. My father never made more than $40K, and had a house in Potomac, two cars, and a stay-at-home wife.
I really hope one of the bigger third party apps finds a way to just point their front end to a reddit clone and eat reddits lunch.
> This is an academic argument for a purist.

Yes, this is Spotify's argument to anyone who says it's bad that they liberated "podcasting" from web standards.

> The fact is that Apple checkmated them by allowing monetization of podcasts directly.

That's not how it works — as with Spotify, listeners pay Apple, and then Apple gives podcasters a percentage of the proceeds. https://podcasters.apple.com/support/892-apple-podcasters-pr...
1. Europe isn't a single tech market, it's dozens. You might get paid California wages in Switzerland, Midwest salaries in London, and less elsewhere.

2. It's also dozens of markets when selling products. As much as the EU tries, functionally there are still barriers to trade across the EU, let alone places like the UK. Stuff like language, culture, religious practices all impede easy scalability, not to mention differing laws.

3. The US is a continental-scale superstate mercifully isolated from most of the world's wars. Europe is not. It's that much harder to grow the amount of capital North America sees when the continent is split of more than often at war with itself.
I'd struggle to name a period where this company has ever been viable.

Even in profitable years (year??) the profit per employee was woeful.
Over the years, I've found the frequency of "0 result" queries has gone way up. Subjective anecdata from me, but it's a pretty big difference. There must be some large areas of their index that have been dropped over time.

From what Google's hinted at and probably your own experiences (which I reckon are like mine), it's pretty clear that most folks aren't great at Google searches. This might be why Google has leaned on AI to "guess" the best results. They figure their AI can predict what you want better than you are able to specify via your search query.
Augmenting neuronal synchrony during sleep enhances memory human consolidation
Emulation doesn't mean just hardware emulation even if some die-hards might want it to. Certainly not in colloquial usage.

ScummVM in particular started out as an interpreter for SCUMM bytecode, emulating the original interpreter that ships with the games. It's as much as an emulator for those games as WinE is a Windows Emulator - that is, saying so will make some people upset but being upset does not make them right.
Thanks for some real numbers. :)
I too have 10 years of C++ development under my belt, also in HFT, but this was from 2003-2013. I do find it easier to understand and solve a lot of problems by going one level lower than most developers (TCP packets, call stack, heap memory, disk blocks, CPU instructions). However, this depth, at least for me, seems to come at the expense of breadth of knowledge of different technology offerings and the best way to apply them. E.g. I could write a queue from the ground up, but I don't know enough about the features and behaviours SQS, RabbitMQ etc.
Unveiling OpenObserve, the High-Performance, Cloud-Native Platform
For amusement value only -- a modern user:

https://srslyriskybiz.substack.com/p/putins-chef-cooks-up-in...
Here's one reason you might want to do this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53882855/simple-explanat...
I presume that going dark means that there will be less traffic on the site, which ostensibly would put pressure on the ad revenue. How long would this have to go on before it was a noticeable effect on read its balance sheet?
And is whatsapp now dramatically better than it was at acquisition time...?

Maybe it's a bit better. Is it 10000x better, though? I used Whatsapp before and after, and I find it hard to believe.

(One thing it's definitely better at, though: anything you say will almost instantaneously turn into an ad on the next website you visit.)
The major innovation in this space is to make the compiler an interpreter which can evaluate the language at compile time (and emits code for runtime where it cannot).

This makes brining in the "full power of dynamic languages" almost trivial and extremely performant.

Delete half of rust's symbols, get rid of its macro system, rewrite it until lifetimes are inferred /or/ allocators are explicitly chosen, etc. etc.

I don't want to feel visually assaulted when writing the type signature of the sort of function common in a dynamic language. Here `mypy` is also treasonously guilty.

Consider, eg., zigs "function which returns a type at compile-time" is an example of where blindingly-obvious syntax retains its blindingly-obviousness because of compile-time eval... ie., we dont need a "second syntax" to program the compiler.

This "two syntaxes, one for the runtime and one for the compiler" approach -- has swamped Rust as it aims for greater expressiveness. Not least, because it has a third syntax: one for unsafe.
Its not about the revenue, its about forcing everyone to get ads, with endless tracking.
What I'm really thinking about is something approaching Snap Layouts from Windows 11. SM kinda, sorta does this, but the layout isn't as nice as what Microsoft did, hence the complaints.

I would argue that the idea that windows are ephemeral doesn't work for all windows in all situations - I'm almost always going to want a window with BBEdit, another with Terminal cd'd to the current project (whatever I might be doing, and there likely will be a fair number of these, more than 1 at least), plus a web browser with email/documentation.

Admittedly, some of my complaints come from having my current setup with a DisplayPort hub and 2 HP displays, yet not having the horsepower to drive them each as independent screens. It's a holdover from a previous setup when there actually was a Windows machine in the mix.

Apple seems to begrudingly acknowledge that people might actually have more than one display in their setup, so features like this sometimes feel incomplete.

See also - the "bug" in prior versions of Spaces which didn't account for multiple monitors correctly. A simple oversight that shows they think about this kind of use last, if at all.
Twitter cuts off API access to academics who noticed CSAM being posted
I heard some expert recently saying he backs this idea but thinks it should be 9th. Otherwise it’s in the middle school and that creates pressure for 7th and 6th graders. Makes sense to me to have the transition be middle school graduation.
No HPUX, No party!
While somewhat useful - there are no systematic ablation and comparison studies, datasets, and quantitative evals here.
It's all anecdotal, so should probably be a blogpost and not a "paper"
In their mind, they know someone else will come along and pick it out. Despite there being plenty of trash cans all along the walkway. Saigon is full of waterways and they are all full of insane amounts of trash. https://imgur.com/ZSwfRPt and https://imgur.com/nhpfqQe

Picture of some random beach somewhere... whole entire coastline is trash and Vietnam is shaped like and the size of California... https://imgur.com/fp6D7Ca

When I went to the world heritage site, Ha Long Bay, I went out in a kayak and picked up a whole bag of trash. I didn't even need to take a bag with me because I just found plenty floating around to use.

This is also a country that still eats dogs (and cats) and really anything that moves. You won't ever get them to stop making waste. https://imgur.com/ItvSF6T
Yeah OpenAI just demonstrated how effective this is.
Honestly, it's not up to you to say. Real diplomacy happens behind the scenes. What politicians say in public is just a facade.

That's not even the point anyway. I'm asking about the possibility of military contractors lobbying for more war, as literally any business will lobby for more problems to be solved with the solution they sell.

> The only diplomatic solution is for Russia to pull back its forces.

Please don't alter the established meaning of words. That's not diplomatic, that's a military victory of Ukraine where Russia is forced to retreat.

Additionally the solution you propose comes at the cost of potentially hundred thousands more deaths on both sides, while a cease-fire would come at the cost of some territory for Ukraine. I value life over territory.
It seems reasonable to pass around 32 bits in a u32 or 64 bits in a u64 rather than using arrays.
> all functions marked inline (regardless which crate).

Is this a problem is rust? Is too much/too little marked inline? What if you really need to inline some function from some library that was not marked inline by the author?
If we side with Ukraine then let's end this as quickly and decisively as possible.

And how exactly are you going to achieve that? The thing about war is that you can’t just decide to win, you actually have to do it.

Stretching this out to years of gradual escalation

This gradual escalation is at least as much to the “benefit” of Western audiences as it is to Russia. Just imagine telling people (Germans in particular) about German tanks in Ukraine against Russia at the beginning of 2022…

Another psyop targeting Western audiences: the notion that Russia is losing[0], can’t or won’t retaliate, even that its strategic nuclear weapons won’t work, and in any case “MAD” will protect us. All these things are very wrong, no matter how mad that makes people here and elsewhere.

[0]: Open your favourite satellite image service, visit an Ukrainian city, count the fresh graves, do the math. Kharkov alone easily has 13k KIAs buried or whatever’s the official count.

Meanwhile: https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/04/14/bbc-news-russian... I‘d say it’s something like 50k total but point is: not even close to what Ukraine has lost. And even if it were, that’s not how you win an existential conflict against a country five times your size.

Finally, I don’t agree with everything but here‘s Mearsheimer with a good overview of the situation: https://youtu.be/v-rHBRwdql8?t=385
I'm using them precisely to make packages available for them, so I don't think it's fair at all to say they're unusable.

The OS is fully, 100% supported, so we're not even talking about that. See:

http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/arm/

The number of packages available is decent and is only improving:

https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv4/
I was curious as well so I made a simple example to see how easy it is[0]

The documentation, especially for the build system, was lacking. But the interop itself is pretty smooth. Only rough point is that I can't define a struct type in Zig and use it in C; you HAVE to define your structs in C if you plan to pass them between the languages (as far as I know anyways).

Zig has documentation on making your Zig structs match the layout of C structs[1] so I assume the intended use case is not as I have done (use the C type in Zig) but instead of define a matching Zig type and cast your C structs into Zig structs, or vice versa, at the boundary between languages.

Structs aside, for functions you just stick "export" on the Zig functions to make them available at link time (presumably) and use "callconv(.C)" so C can call them cleanly. Very easy.

[0] https://github.com/kmz42/zig_c_interop_test

[1] https://ziglearn.org/chapter-4/#extern-structs
This is just paid viral promotional material to keep the movie top-of-mind until release.
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> US policymakers have repeatedly stated their aim is to remove Putin, and they have plans to break up the country.

I have certainly seen assertions by US policymakers that Russia (and the world) would be better off without Putin, but this wording makes it sound like there is a non-fringe group calling for the assassination of Putin. Do you have a source for this?

I would also be interested in a source where policymakers have called for the break-up of (post-Soviet) Russia.
And now you've added one more variable to the equation, for no additional benefit. Hard pass from me, thanks.
Thankfully those ads were an enormous waste of money because the law was passed anyway
> Logistics have to be set-up for everything from spares to consumables, that takes time. Not to forget that some of the stuff wasn't properly maintained for quite some time by the donor nations, so they need repairs, maintenance and overhaul. That takes time.

This is not representative of what is actually going on.

The Russians for the most part have a fairly clean logistics system based on their weapon systems they are employing. Nonstop convoys of Trains and trucks.

The Ukrainian logistics system is a debacle because it is a mishmash of Old Soviet and a smorgasboard of Western donations, and many things are being repaired in Poland then shipped back.

Becuase the Ukrainian tactics are effectively Russian tactics still, they are using Western vehicles in ways they are not intended to be used (e.g. using a tank as a mobile artillery platform shooting at max range with max charges, wearing out barrels early).

Given the tooth to nail ratio (Warfighter to logistics) and given losses already, Ukraine is pretty close to losing generations of men, and a wide depopulation of the country.
yea, right
Alternate link: https://archive.is/jKOpl
Says who? They are only pushing the "official experience" to make up for lost ad revenue. If I pay Reddit $50/yr why would they care what app I use? YouTube does the same thing with Premium, and it is working out great.
The article is basically trash. If anything the content of the article is the opposite of the headline.

To me, on a 50+ year time frame, the rupee is more interesting than any of the 4 mentioned.

I was just thinking yesterday how if 1989 in China went differently that the dollar right now could be in trouble.

Lula's currency is pretty laughable. A currency that you share with Argentina? What could possibly go wrong?
That does a different thing. It converts the actual number represented by the float to an integer. We want to get an integer that contains the same bit pattern as the float.
Is a superpermuation just a more efficient annotation or is it more helpful in solving an optimization problem? They talk about the travelling salesman problem in the article but they don't exactly explain if knowing the superpermutation helps solve it faster.
DNA damage repaired by antioxidant enzymes
I think Tildes (https://tildes.net) is great. Invite only for now, but easy enough to get one.
I keep hearing this, but how many of reddit users actually use third party apps?

If Twitter proved anything, its that its really hard to kill a popular social media network, no matter how badly managed or drama filled it is.
Search engines in general have realized that it's more profitable to show you irrelevant results than to show you nothing. Furthermore, they've realized it's more profitable to show you irrelevant results laden with their ads than show you highly relevant results from ad-free sites.

Perverse incentives at work!
Or Fuerteventura… it is also as dry.

Funny to read this thread shortly after the short hike to Calderon Hondo volcano.

FV also has natural white sand beaches and giant sand dunes in Corralejo, but I also love black sand beaches. In Tenerife i went to one that was as black as charcoal, kids loved rolling in the sand.
I'm guessing those people are not scientists.
Every time I think of home automation I almost go for it, but upon second thought I realize this means adding an entire tech stack that I will have to maintain to what's basically a couple of switches. Having my windows, lights or thermostat break on updates is something I don't need.
https://tildes.net/

Seems still alive.
Whether or not you think gradual escalation prevented nuclear escalation, it's pretty much done now. Given the US policy of not announcing shipments until they've been used in the field, I bet that ATACMS is currently en route to Ukraine. Storm Shadow and ATACMS are roughly equivalent and they already have Storm Shadow.

F-16 and ATACMS were pretty much the last things on the Ukraine wish list, and they're now (probably) getting both.
They should try mixing a bit of red with a bit of white. I managed that as a schoolkid.
> Not to get too tinfoil hat about it, but an economy controlled by a number of equity firms one can count on a single hand, with fingers to spare, hardly seems a "free market".

Is this the index fund conspiracy theory again? Where companies like Vanguard supposedly form some sort of shadowy evil cabal that secretly controls the entire economy?
Our contribution is respecting their copyright in the first place, which is NOT a small cost for society at all.
It was filmed by a fast-moving drone--It's possible that the apparent movement was just a parallax effect.
Every statement in your comment is a lie taken out from Russia Today's twitter feed. Not even worth debunking.
Worth noting that 2016 election denial (Russia hacked the election!) was never banned. Here's an entertaining compilation of some of it, but there's plenty more where that came from.

[1] https://twitter.com/0rf/status/1664745495288225805
I think the other side of the spectrum, "let's remove from power anyone who does not share our values / does not uphold our interests", also leads to nasty things, like the long list of US-backed coups in Latin America [0]. (I'm not saying that isolationism is the right solution, just that interventionism can go bad)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
I had to deal with it, when I hadto parse Transac-SQL code, and it's not handy. Very difficult to have a single executable file containing everything, it needs a whole subtree.
OCaml is easier with Opam and ocamlbuild tools.
How’d he/she do it?
I once wrote a Perl translator to translate a codebase from a custom business rule language into C++. Not my proudest moment: rather than using a parser, I just tokenised and processed the code line-by-line. It worked.
/r/politics has leaked into virtually every subreddit.
Not disagreeing with your larger point, but a nitpick: at these levels (postdocs, research scientists) the relevant university positions will be funded by grants, in fact largely from the NIH. University budgeting doesn't have all that much to do with it.

Now, postdoc salaries are set by a combination of university policy + whatever the grant budget says, but grant proposals are also assessed based on how much they ask, and postdoc salaries will be set by whatever NIH actually awards the PI. In the end, for NIH to pay their early career scientists more without creating problems for itself (by competing with groups it funds), it will likely have to increase postdoc pay across the board. This will likely add some upward pressure to postdoc pay across fields, since many universities do look at entry-level NIH postdoc pay as a reference.
That’s a monumentally stupid reason to alienate your most dedicated users.
Yes. But mainstream advertisers stay away from many of the talk shows on Fox News.
It all ends in speculation anyway, different industries have different sets of requirements, and regulatory frameworks. Different products at scale have different needs for maintenance and development. I know some people working with hardware with sales spanning most of the globe in a company with 300 employees, it doesn't mean you can have a phone manufacturer selling to most of the globe with just 300 employees.

Of course there's some level of overhiring but whatever comment here saying that 1/10, or 1/2, or whatever other percentage is what is needed is baseless speculation on some non-informed guess. Without knowing the insides it's just baseless speculation, and even in the inside you'd need to be in a higher level of management to have a decent overview of what's waste (and why it's waste) vs what's actually needed.
If you think people 'learn', you're going to be sorely disappointed