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I believe Oracle Linux might be the biggest target here.

Paying enterprises that decide to go with Oracle Linux are the real threat to RHEL not the free alternatives.

Very few people that are on the free alternatives will start paying for RHEL if the alternatives go away, it is more likely that they move to another distribution.

This is not even the first time Red Hat try to make Oracle life difficult.
I'm not defending OceanGate, I'm just saying it is relevant to the discussion because we're talking about an inherently risky leisure activity for wealthy elites, they should have done better research on the company.

You hire a shitty guide to take you to the bottom of the ocean because you're bored and the guide gets you killed, that's two mistakes, not one.
Projects on Github are more than git. Commits can move, but issues, pull requests, role mappings, wikis, and Actions, are all potentially impossible/difficult to migrate elsewhere.
I guess the question that would lead to is why a company that didn't want to give it's main product away for free would have had a main product that was licensed as open source for so many years.

We all know that an open source license means people can use it, copy it, modify it, and run it where they want, without paying anyone, right?

(Is it even legally possible to have a linux distribution that isn't open source? I'm not sure?)
Obviously unfortunate for the passengers, but definitely the preferable outcome instead of being stuck on the bottom or the surface until air ran out. The implosion would have essentially vaporized them within milliseconds, there was no chance they even had started to process their own demise, which, in a way, is somewhat positive, in context of the narratives that were pushed for a while.
This is really nice. Just needs one click joining for voice channels. This is an under-appreciated killer feature of discord that slack missed when implementing huddles. The ability to instantly hop in and out of voice channels is what keeps discord from feeling like any other teleconferencing app. Any friction to this makes it so I am less likely to just casually jump into a call.
"Deepest condolences offered to families - US Coast Guard"

kind of funny pun...
It’s open source. The only way to compete is on your merits in open source.

If you want another UI to flourish, clone both it and A111, copy and paste the bits from A111 you’d like to have in yours (with attribution) and push it up along with any features you personally want.

That does require developer time, and developers may converge on a popular implementation with good tests and lots of features as it’s easier to contribute.

The bottleneck isn’t really the community though, it’s the developers.
The elephant in the room is that TLS implementations for browsers and those in the libraries of common programming languages have diverged really substantially: Web PKI is massively more restrictive and depends on a bunch of technology that's not in the baseline PKI.
> No idea why every single journalist kept forcing the "air remaining" theme.

Because there was no proof of a different outcome, and the suspense also works as a powerful bait (== more clicks/copies/attention).
Was there a legitimate reason to take that risk?

What I don’t get is why there is no beacon on this device. That should be law. This search is costing tens of millions and without a beacon they never had a chance. From what I understand of the construction and debris there is a very low order of probability they will be recovered alive. Even if they are found conserving air they can’t extract the module in time. It takes at least 24 hours to build the necessary rig. They knew this going in, so why search at all? I mean they’re lost at sea no matter how you slice it. Apparently while touring at the wreck of others lost at sea which isn’t a rational gamble to risk your life over. I mean they bolted the door from the outside because the pressure was so high surely that was a clue. And if they did survive the impact, five people panicking without air in that confined space can’t have been pretty. What a mess
looks super useful...would be great if generalized to all documentation (e.g., input url to docs then query)
Y'all are talking to the subsidiary of a Fortune 500 like it has ears, or feelings. It doesn't. It doesn't care about your open source. It doesn't care about logic, or slowly shooting itself in the foot, or alienating its base.

It cares about sales, profits, and the balance sheet. As long as it can make a profit, the people supporting and developing for its platform for free can go fly a kite. And it will continue to burn itself into the ground until it becomes a write-off. Because there is no founder worried about its livelihood to try to right the ship. There is merely an executive VP who needs to jigger the numbers to make it look like they got another win this year so he can make his bonus.

I call this Corporate Source.
the "air remaining" angle allows for multiple updates (48 hours left! 12 hours left!) and the build up to some sort of conclusion.
For one thing VS Code has a full debugger with breakpoints and stack analysis that supports many backends out of the box, that's an IDE feature.

Sublime doesn't have any (real) debugger even with plugins. Some attempt to tack on a debugger but they have to do so via popup menus or overloaded "magical" text buffers and it's atrocious. Why can't I click on the line I want to break on? Why can't I see the stack in a nice editable tree? Right, because sublime is a text editor and VS Code is an IDE.
While writing OP, I was curious enough about how they could solve Clever Hans that I went and read the original Pfungst book. I recommend it: his thoroughness & cleverness in studying Clever Hans (as well as the history of previous 'talking animals') ought to be better known than Clever Hans himself, IMO. (Brief review: https://gwern.net/review/book#clever-hans-pfungst-2011 )
This whole situation has been a giant rugpull from under users' feet. Users shouldn't have to worry about Reddit's IPO. They signed on to a platform with expectations that there was some autonomy with administering individual forums. That they could use their third party client. This all makes sense if all you care about is money and ignore what reddit was for the past 15 years.

This isn't about just moderators. There are a lot of people that are moving on simply because of the implication of having to use Reddit's own app. It's not out of spite like you seem to be painting this as, it's because Reddit has historically made terrible software and have relied on the very same people that gives them most of their value to even make "their" content browsable.

And no, spez isn't the only person putting his name next to his arguments - the Apollo developer he defamed also was.
Sampling in the analog world happened for millennia before computers. It's a perfectly good use of the word here. It does not in anyway only apply to digital.
> typescript

Well, the problem is rather, that JavaScript is a pretty bad language (nobody claimed otherwise, when it was designed in 10 days), so that using something like TypeScript makes it much better. Unfortunately your browser understands JavaScript, not TypeScript.

That's the immense tragedy of web development: It's a giant pile of excrement, because it's built on several things that were never meant to be what they are used for today.

It's also why I left a long time ago, and never looked back.
Git, yes. Github, no. Github has many Github-only features such as "continuous integration". Those need to become portable, so you can run your builds on AWS or Hurricane Electric as desired.

It's become dangerous for open source to rely on anyone who can cut off your air supply. Look at the current flap over Red Hat.
"The Titan began its descent Sunday to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, located about 13,000 feet below sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean, with an estimated 96 hours of life support. The expedition was billed as “a chance to step outside of everyday life and discover something truly extraordinary” and cost each participant $250,000, an archived version of OceanGate’s website shows.

"However, the cramped vessel lost contact with its mother ship about 1 hour and 45 minutes into its dive, did not surface as expected and has not been heard from since.

"Aboard the Titan were Rush, the OceanGate CEO and founder, along with Harding, a British businessman; Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood; and Nargeolet, a French diver, according to relatives and social media posts.

"Earlier Thursday, the US Coast Guard said it found a “debris field” in the search area near the Titanic that, according to a memo obtained by CNN, has been assessed to be from the external body of the submersible." [1]

The ocean is very, very deep. The Titanic is 13,000 feet below sea level, and the submersible was scheduled to take 2.5 hours just for the descent.

EDIT: corrected feet/meters

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/us/submersible-titanic-oceang...
WASM and FFIs are orthogonal, right? WASM doesn't specify how to map a Rust Option<String> to a Go string, or a C++ std::string to a Java String object. This is what I mean about things getting conflated.

Note that both the JVM and CLR do try to solve this problem, hence the name Common Language Runtime. WASM actually does far less in this area.

Still, times change. If you want language interop then these days Truffle/Graal is the state of the art to beat. It actually does define both a generic inter-language FFI, but also has a compiler that understands how to compile and inline across that FFI. So in Truffleworld calling a JS function from inside a hot Rust loop isn't actually an insane or stupid thing to do because the whole thing will be compiled and optimized as a single unit, and things like maps/arrays/etc will be properly converted between languages without any data copying.
I'm also an ex-er but was there post acqui. It's definitely IBM influence, but it's long-time Red Hat people who are actually making these decisions. I don't think these are people that actually believed in Red Hat in the first place. Or if they did, they're willing to IBM-ify in order to keep their jobs (or ascend the ladder)
I agree with this, and the rationalization that I eventually worked out and learned to live with is that as you get into more advanced areas of math, much of what you are learning are building blocks for assembling more complex tools - but those are tools you have no use for yet, and therefore can't hook constituent elements into any existing framework of understanding.

There is no way to pass through these obstacles (without spending the multiple lifetimes it took to forge them from first principles) except to memorize them and gradually extend understanding backwards from that memorization into the broader context of dependencies that converge into its formalization.

But having this predicament explained to me up front, ideally somewhere around the age one learns about something as basic as fractions, would have been enormously helpful.
It's very rare for a crime to be truly unsolvable. For the vast majority it's all about the amount of time and effort the authorities want to put in. License plate readers or not, if your local PD and the DA's office have decided to deprioritize auto thefts then there's nothing you can do about it.
I didn’t mean to imply it wasn’t a real thing. (I’m not a native English speaker so I’m probably missing a nuance of “scare” beyond what appears to be its literal meaning of the general public being afraid.)
I go through game controllers pretty quickly. You know you're an addict when you tell people that the thing you like the best about the Playstation Vita is that it is field repairable. I'm planning on showing up at the fixing clinic at my local reuse center this weekend looking for some help fixing an Xbox ONE controller because it takes some soldering but it looks like I can buy a $10 joystick instead of replacing the whole controller for $50.

So far as the engineering, it seems that everybody except for the "big three" console makers struggle to make game controllers, look at the failure of the Steam Controller and how you can't really get a high-end gamepad meant for a PC, what you do now is just pair an XBOX or PS controller with your PC. Maybe the big ones struggle too considering the problems w/ the Joy-Con.
I think this is a key part of where they've been aiming for years. Since the '00s, even. Maybe earlier, IDK. I just have their public behavior to go on, but it sure looks like a long-term strategy. If it's not, it ought to be, because they're doing most of the work for it anyway.

1) Steer enough of the Linux ecosystem that Red Hat is the most-qualified support source for common Linux stacks, including maneuvering to make it difficult to decouple or avoid them in other distros (Systemd, Gnome, and Wayland are key plays here).

2) Cut off access to the blessed least-risky-for-enterprise version of your product.

3) You are Linux for much of the market. You own it. Profit.
Have the solved the problem with people feeling dizzy or sick when using this type of device?
I think a lot of companies are using RHEL and Alma/Rocky side by side. Because they are compatible, because people have an easy time to switch between them. I don't think that those people will move their license free servers to RHEL, but they will probably switch to Debian/Ubuntu.

So in the end Red Hat will have a smaller market share and less support from the community. Currently most software provides a package at least for RHEL and Debian/Ubuntu. That may change in the future, if the amount of RHEL compatible systems drop significantly.
Enterprise software and B2B:fastest growing SaaS categories in current downturn
I haven’t seen this combination of Unicode forward slashes and http auth before. I would have fallen for it. Does anyone maintain a kind of “phishing URL menagerie” of interesting cases like this?
Employee headcount in Enterprise Software and B2B categories has grown by more than 5% on average last quarter.

Financial services and Fintech have struggled with almost no increase in headcount on average last quarter.

Companies in categories like Marketplace, Cloud computing and CRM have actually shrunk in employee headcount by almost 1%.
Audible-at-a-distance implosion ==>> Everyone inside is ~liquified

The actual Pro would be "minor calibration opportunity for our secret sensor network".
>But what makes it worth the effort to learn a new SDK, or even buy a MacOs device to develop for it, for just a few thousands of devices?

This is a new official platform from Apple, not some random Google experiment. They don't do something like that willy nilly. This will be supported for decades to come now, and be the basis for who knows how many products. It's about getting in at the ground floor, a la iOS circa 2007.
Think of a docker container, they don't include a kernel. There is still a kernel somewhere obviously.
If you don't understand why including third party resources for developer convenience is a bad idea then you probably shouldn't be building commercial websites.

Of course startups here - and everywhere else! - have to think about applicable law. Just like if you want to start a transportation company you'll have to think about applicable law. If a company does not collect any data at all then the GDPR is a complete no-brainer.

Try this and see if you can make it work for you: to identify an individual you need ~33 bits. An IP address, even though it doesn't quite get you there gives you a very large fraction of the number of bits required. Adding a few more makes the individual identified. So therefore it is a very good idea not to allow access to the IP address to unrelated parties from a privacy point of view.
Maybe a solution for point 2 could be that the first five licenses or activations are free.
The thing is, I'm not so sure RedHat actually lost revenue over CentOS. The people who want to use CentOS is a very different type of userbase than the people who would use RedHat/RHEL, and the CentOS people would simply choose Debian or something else over RedHat.

From purely a business perspective I think the entire thing naïvely makes sense, from a far-away view without much knowledge of the business space. But once you look a bit closer I don't think it does.
> Wake me up when I can google site:discord.com

I agree. I'm not a huge superfan of Reddit, but it does occasionally have nuggets of great user-generated content. Moving that content over to some site that is walled off from the Internet and un-searchable would be a huge blow for the open Internet.

Reddit is an open sewer, but I can at least stand over an open sewer and look at what's in it. Discord and Facebook and their ilk are underground vaults.
Are carbon-fiber pressure vessels well understood?

I get that there's a lot of armchair quarterbacking from internet material experts here, but this does seem to be an outlier with this particular submarine.
I think they mean footage of the Titanic.
So, there are at least a few dozen AI image generating sites, some specialized, other not. Are they all powered by SD? Maybe just with some better pre-prompting? Or are there other engines (eg DALL-E)?.

AFAIK only SD can be run locally?
> Thracian has been conclusively shown to represent a different branch of Indo-European than Albanian,

Has it?

And to the intonation thing, maybe I worded it wrong, as English is obviously not my primary language, but I'd say each and every language (or the great majority of them, anyway) have a distinct way of pronouncing their words. For example Italian, which I managed to learn just by watching TV as a kid, has definitely a different intonation compared to how we, Romanians, speak, even though they're both Romance languages and pretty close (closer than Romanian is to French, for example).

Close to us, I find that both Serbs and Bulgarians have different intonation compared to Romanian.
He was not recognized as an expert by other deep-sea submerisble experts. He was repeatedly warned about safety issue with this design. These events are tragic, but they were predictable and avoidable and that makes it frustrating.
> even here I have friends I could stay with if I ended up being unable to pay the rent

Time plays a factor. How long do you think they'd put you up? One month? Six? A year? Two years? Five years?

And if you pick up some bad habits while being unable to get back on your feet and living with friends... that can get you booted more quickly.
> No idea why every single journalist kept forcing the "air remaining" theme.

To keep people coming back for updates as the clock ticks down. Now that most people pay for news with impressions, they have to cultivate impressions.
I don't think this is fair to say. The sub hull was built by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as part of a program to help commercial companies develop technologies that could be used for space exploration.

Just in our solar system, we have found evidence of oceans on Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus; Jupiter’s moons Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto; Neptune’s moon Triton; and on Pluto.

If we want to explore these oceans we will need to understand how to build lightweight subs that can tolerate extream pressures.

This tragedy will help humanity explore the solar system. I for one salute the explorers who died they have helped push us all forward.
What you are describing is basically WASI [1]. Yes there are exploit concerns in the bridge layer, but it is far easier to sandbox these capabilities-based modules, than native programs. For example, many WASM runtimes are written in Rust, which greatly decreases the risk of exploits in general.

1] https://wasi.dev/
> If they were willing to force a subscription in order to share screenshots what else are they willing to do.

I think this is a slippery slope argument. I also don't think there's something inherently wrong with charging money for a premium feature (large files) on a free service. You could crop your screenshot, for example.

I'm not sure what the username problem is either -- I think having unique names will help them to combat fraud and deception, which is a major benefit at a minor cost.
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What I meant is what would prevent IBM or other large corporation from acquiring them as well?
Because the burden of compiling a binary per architecture is microscopic when you're dealing with something like postgres or redis or memcached. Someone sets up a CI pipeline that compiles binaries for the supported platforms. The pipeline produces the required binaries with each release.

These projects care far more about performance than they do about ease of compilation or even of installation, because they're compiled once and run trillions of times in performance sensitive contexts. As I noted in reply to a sibling, I could see it being useful to run in a browser as a sort of learning playground, but that is not how people are going to deal with their production DBs—the bottleneck represented by WASI is not going to be worth it.
I was stuck once by abusing `bind:` and other time with global exit transitions + sveltekit routing, but that's about it.

React on the other hand feels like a pot warming up and we're the frogs being boiled alive at this point. You can write some perfectly valid, but naive React code and it's going to have some footguns. We're so used to write idiomatic React code we don't even notice that anymore. You learn to use stable references in callback functions, to be careful using Context, and so on. But the list is not short, and it only grows.

Wanna write some naive code in svelte two days in? There's a good chance it's the same code you'd write a year later. Maybe that's what people mean by "just JS".
I often reflect on the massive amount of stuff that is constantly falling out of the trees on my property, and then wonder just how deep places like this must be buried with a jungle growing on top of them for 1000 years.
I'm not. If the article's predictions are correct then all of these will likely compile for WASI or whatever the target at the time is as easily as you can compile Debian for x86 or ARM today.
How long can you survive in a 4000 psi water pressure, going suddenly from atmospheric pressure?
Based upon the date as .21 on the 21st.
As Futurama famously said, airplanes are rated for a pressure differential somewhere between zero and 0.7 atmospheres. With the positive pressure being inside the plane.

This submersible needed to survive a differential of ~350 atmospheres. With the positive pressure being outside the craft.
For the aliens, the right image has much more realistic gradation. The one on the right looks like the grays have been crushed out of it. There's also a funky glow coming from the right edge of the alien.

I'd say the blur effects on the left images are much cleaner as well. There are some weird artifacts at the fringes of objects in the earlier version.
When I was in college, there were basically two completely separate tiers of people in CS classes: People who knew how to program already, and people who didn't

It was pretty nuts. The class was tuned to make it possible for non-coders to learn coding basics along with basics about data structures, compilers, blah blah blah. So for people who could already implement something like fizzbuzz, the class was a joke. We'd get an assignment to store something in a linked list and print it out, and some of the students made fully 3D animated demoscene demos out of it.

(It just goes to show that treating college degrees like job programs is a terrible idea, if you ask me..)
If I recall correctly, Stability AI’s process to skirt copyright is to have the training data compiled and model weights trained by a third-party university. Educational research institutions have more lax requirements around copyright. That may or may not be a legitimate way to work under existing laws, but doesn’t tell us much about what the moral/ethical/legal considerations should be, which seems like an open question.