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Or, she could just note the exposition as part of the fiction and its presentation.

Years ago, I used to be critical when it came to that sort of thing, then I realized that I was being critical of something with a clear purpose that's useful. And, that this was just a distraction from the often much more appalling flaws in mass media that can actually have real-world harms. I.e., flaws that give people the wrong idea about how things actually work in ways that can negatively impact their behavior.

"Independence Day" provides some exemplars of that, certainly. It is completely outclassed, however, by: https://www.salon.com/2023/02/05/the-core-science-entertainm...

These days, I see something like two axes, when it comes to flaws in movies (/ productions of any kind). One axis relates to "style" / "taste". For example, some people dislike works of the author Charles Dickens because he tends to spend a lot of time describing settings, preferring the works of someone like Shakespeare, who's typically much more "action-oriented". The other axis relates to factual / logical / structural issues, the worst in my estimation these days being in the "factual" part of this sort of "dimensionally reduced" axis (i.e., you could of course have 3 or more independent axes for what I've written).

I may not have much interest in something that has a style I'm not a fan of, but I only have a more realized reaction (something like negative, and I care to some degree) when the flaws are on that second axis.

She should try it - heh, save the annoyance for something "truly worthy" of it. :)
Don’t even get me started. The general population values realism, replication, and mindless feats of willpower.

Most people don’t realize simplification and economy of stroke is orders of magnitude more difficult, and takes a true lifetime to master. Capturing a complex subject in 3 perfect strokes which uses visual language to convey what it is.

Nothing wrong with either, but the amount of sackriding for the former just gets tiring.
Ultimately it depends on if it facilities the delivery of information. In most cases excessive styling does the opposite.
Dbus isn't a systemd project any more than a libc is a systemd project. Systemd just requires it as a dependency. It's a freedesktop project.
> However, if a company/project writes a compiler that is a little slower than the competitor, people with almost always complain that it is a bad compiler.

That is bullshit. There are plenty of project that would gladly trade performance for more correctness. I would go as far to say most projects would make that choice if articles like this get mindshare.

“It’s mostly as fast as clang but errors upon UB” is an easy sell
That is the perfect domain name for this event.
contemporary art has emancipated itself from taste
Why doesn't HN or reddit or most social media format messages in html like email? Email has been doing it for years. People would love it! Images, colors, tables, etc in every message!

And why not in text messages? Its 2023 guys.
External services having gone offline, timeouts, and invalid user input are expected conditions you should handle locally.

Almost everything else you listed represents a bug in your software that should terminate execution.

I’m more than a little shocked that you think yeeting exceptions up the call stack is appropriate for these cases.
At 1m^2 for the panel and a top end panel its going to peak out at ~230W. In an hour that is 230 Wh. That is 230Watts during the peak hours of the sun assuming its angled to directly capture the sun, which it doesn't appear to be in their concept CGI. Its probably going to be less than that.

The Zoe which is a small electrical car has a 100KW engine for acceleration purposes. It goes 4.5 miles using 1Kwh of power at 31 mph (20C). It will cover that distance in 9 minutes at that speed. 230Watt hours in an hour of charging is a very far way from the 6.9Kwh needed for an hour of driving and this is optimal conditions as people brake/accelerate and travel faster than 31 mph.

This design might reduce the cost from the grid a bit and be useful for camping and trickle charge a bit through the day if its in a car park etc. But its not enough to run even the smallest electrical car today, its an order of magnitude off and even with a 100% efficient panel the cars would need to be 7x more efficient than they are today, and electric cars are already a lot more efficient than combustion engines.

It fundamentally doesn't add up as a concept.
Part of the movie “American Gangster” was filmed in the neighborhood I lived in. When I watched it, the breaks in continuity versus actual physical reality were so distracting that I had to turn it off within the first ten minutes.

I’m sure for anyone who didn’t literally live on the block where they were filming, this is an issue they would have never ever ever noticed, but for me it felt very much like a plumber problem and was basically a showstopper in terms of my ability to enjoy the movie.
But it is unlikely and is often VERY expensive to support. Small companies are often immature and unsophisticated. They will drown customer service, bad mouth your tech due to their poor implementations and distract you from serving enterprise customers. This is why many enterprise solutions have zero small business offering, the businesses are very different.

If you are huge and able to run an SMB play or if you can attach to an accelerator and do this for qualified leads, sure.
> How can writers focused on scientific accuracy create such ugly and unlikeable caricatures for their cast and embed so much anti-intellectualism in every episode?

The show isn't aimed at people they're caricaturing. And it was apparently tremendously successful, so whatever they're doing, they're doing it right.
The keyboard also looks like a carpal tunnel nightmare for any long form computer session.
The trade-off that helped some trilobites survive mass extinctions
My perspective is a bit biased by scientific computing, I do more of that than enterprise stuff (and Python has been fine for personal use). It's cool to see the perspective of someone who was around for the early stages of it though.

How did people see Fortran back then - nowadays it's seen as outdated but fast, but was it seen as interesting, and what drove you to seek it out?

Other side question if it's okay, I keep seeing references to VAXen around historical documents and usenet posts from the 80s and 90s, what made them special compared to other hardware you had back then?
You seem oddly fixated on CA(and, really, Coastal CA) regional issues. Issues with fixes already in the works.

> about 3-4 million housing units short of what it needs

Completely separate rant, but I take issue with this. You can go find stats and articles from 2006 saying the same thing, and then, suddenly, we had enough housing. It's almost as if economics drives the housing people choose and when circumstances change they can opt for something else(relocation, MFH, living with family, delaying household formation, etc).
Yeah, that's why everyone hates the GNU project, and Freedesktop.org!
Hilarious. Eventually we will create a real sentient AGI that is highly efficient and can do everything a normal human can, but it turns out it needs 20 years of training and too much entertainment needs and it often goes mad when we force it to work on repetitive work too long, i.e. a normal human.

Would be so funny if by the end of all the AI research, we found out the human brain is already the best you can ever get.
Ditto with Spaniards. Most of the "Hispanic coulture with flamenco, sun and beaches" won't apply to a whole 80% of the country. The North has beaches, but the Sun it's an English tabloid.
The middle Spain has Sun, but water is something you see in rivers in reservoirs. Also, cold as hell winters.

Now try to figure that across the pond with zillions of native cultures merged with an (older than North America itself) Southern Hispanic culture from Mexico to the Patagonia close to the South Pole.
Right, so either accept that, or spend resources on combating climate change. Or at least do not instigate proxy wars in other parts of the world.
> Initial versions of Spectrum will have the user be responsible for writing Nix code for each application and resource, and the combinations they make between them.

As a qubes user, I think this is interesting but it definitely does not sound more usable.
Frankly, wikipedia’s gotten significantly worse as a source of knowledge over the last few years as well.

Tons and tons of astroturfing & bias with articles.

There’s obviously tons of politicial bias but there’s also lots of individuals writing their own bias as a “uninterested third party” when in reality they’re emphasizing the narrative most favorable to them.

You see it a ton with wikipedia pages of entrepreneurs, journalists & obviously politicians.
How does Creative Commons work with AI?
An alternative explanation is that the machines aren't using the humans for anything; they're just devoted to the most ethical treatment of these billions of people who believe themselves to be at war, and the only way to capture them and keep them sane is to hook them up to virtual reality and keep them complacent.

Every human is a prisoner of war, in the finest possible cell.
Instead the neocons running the White House spend our resources on yet another war and more munitions. The Dems will get serious about climate when they put RFKjr on the Presidential ticket. Until then, the warmongers are feeding happily at the government trough.
The thing about Microsoft is that they developed a framework for doing that kind of thing in a systematic way so it is not so hackish as it sounds.

That's an innocent example but do recall that circa 1995-2005 or so, Microsoft looked like a dangerous monopolist and could have been in legal jeopardy if a product that competes with office (say WordPerfect) quit working when they went from Win 95 to Win 98 or Win 2k to Win XP.

I'd also add that more than once I've had web pages and applications I've made been used as test cases by Microsoft and been contacted by people from Microsoft about compatibility issues. (... and I've never been an advocate of Microsoft browsers, often I've been quite the opposite.) I haven't heard once from Netscape, Mozilla, Apple, Opera or Google about something like this.
The group model is far too inflexible to make this realistic... A file can only have one group, and people use more than one application. ACLs are available on Linux (although seldom used) and help to address this problem, but the ergonomics are very poor. Since ACLs don't address the issue of syscalls, IPC other than file based, etc., It hasn't really made sense to make them the focus or application isolation efforts. The kernel namespacing and capabilities features are a lot more attractive for this use and are more similar to the historic approach of chroot... But the tools still aren't great.
Distributions that run without systemd: Gentoo, Guix, Alpine, VoidLinux...
I would just like to state that you have filled my brain for the day. Thank you.
So what do you think the real number of people who can fit in the aisle per row? 1.2? 1.5? 2?
> I don't understand the 'techo side' of the story Dan, but the leadership is key, well done mate.

I find this comment by user "Dad" very endearing.
Neil Gaiman wrote a short story set in the Matrix universe that sticks to this premise: https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Goliath
I've definitely stuck my foot in my mouth in the bus route threads.
> Linux is no better with no stable ABI.

I’m confused. Linus has repeatedly stated that the ABI should be stable, “we don't break user space”. There are exceptions, but any proposal that makes a breaking change to the kernel’s external symbols is very hard to push through.

I don’t remember anything breaking because of a new kernel version except device drivers, which are part of the kernel anyway and should be compiled for a specific kernel version. They are not applications, so they shouldn’t rely on assumptions about the ABI.

Most Linux distros offer mechanisms to compile a version-dependent interface to isolate a version-independent driver or program that messes too closely with the kernel.

> Some extinct “grown-up” OS like VMS?

I’d say the age of binary compatibility ended with most of those “grown-up” OSs becoming legacy. I usually test (compile and test) my C code on multiple platforms, ranging from Windows to Solaris on SPARC (emulated these days, sadly). I haven’t yet figured out a cost-effective way to test it under IBM z/OS’s USS (which makes z/OS a certified UNIX).
> And how often do you hear people complaining that "interviewers only care about useless stuff like complexity" and "why wouldn't you be able to look up complexities if you really need them" (which only shows that you don't understand why complexity matters)?

Now how the fuck do you complain about something if you’ve never even heard of and “don’t know exists”. No one who’s never heard of algorithmic complexity or invariants aren’t going to complain about them because, perhaps to your amazement, they simply have no idea these things exist. But maybe that concept is a bit too complex for you.
Also, the bike shed is the wrong color!
Even been into Spain? Half of the Andalusian culture around flamenco it's alien to the rest of the country. Basque and the Nort-Western cultures related to the Celtic lore it's similarly alien to the Castilles, Andalusia, Catalonia and Valencia.

And even in regions themselves you can find alien customs to each other. For instance, in the Basque Country from valley to valley.
Or in Andalusia with huge differences between East and West.
Yes, like a Mandelbrot fractal. Spain it's like that.

You can find here any climate. Desserts? Glaciars? Tundra like climates? Cold winters down to -30C on high peaks? Dry heat? Windy heat? Dry cold? Windy cold? Rainy weather, like London if not more? All of them across the country. Now, from these megadiverse climate diffs you can guess you will find zillions of cultures and subcultures because, you know, traditions and architecture change a lot if you live between ponds in Cantabria with more mist than in a Stephen King novel compared to a dry dessert in Almeria were "Spagetthi Westerns" were filmed here and white homes with Arabic architecture reflecting the Sun was a must in order to just survive the Summer.
Here is a very basic attempt at implementation of the method idea in Python, successfully compressing and de-compressing a file without any neural weights available:

https://github.com/Magnushhoie/weightless_NN_decompression
https://www.isthishowyoufeel.com/this-is-how-scientists-feel...

An older site, but relevant.
Damn, cool story. I never had a chance like that at that age, but I definitely would have thought that was the greatest thing ever. What a great experience.
I second this - anything by Charm is high quality, really.
But what’s the point of “in-person collaboration” if everyone isn’t at the same place at the same time? If you don’t have to be at the office at 9am, perhaps you don’t need to be there at all.
You're not disagreeing with the author. No one complains about Picasso, Cezanne or Van Gogh. They mastered the process and --only then-- took it to new places.

What we're seeing is a sea of people using Expressionism as a veil for lack of training.

A virtuoso at the piano may experiment with discordant notes. A novice banging on the piano keys and calling it music is not the same thing.
How do those European (?) universities deal with the difference between theory and practice? I have a hard time imagining how you would understand how to "most efficiently utilize" a given architecture without writing code and trying things out.
I think it smells of the common trend in javascript to grab any old package and use it if it scratches an itch. look at lpad(and that debacle). back when i was doing compiled stuff (well even now in scripted land) you'd look hard at whether or not you needed that dependency since every dependency is a liability. and of course you'd manage the dependencies by hand.

kidsthesedaysgetoffmylawn
I live in a rural area, where the taxis, Uber, and lyft compete. The taxi companies don't offer calls in advance, or reserved rides, not one or four companies that could cover my area. You would have to hire a limosouine driver. Lyft is by far cheaper on average, but consistently fewer drivers. Hilariously, Uber is the reliable service for reservations.
Lmao what userbase, you're talking about software from 40 years ago
As a former fencer, this is what a lot of HEMA bouts look like to me
I believe the 20 year old MMS standard supported in principle a XHTML subset via WAP.
I as well have no idea what this is, but reading more about it, I imagine it makes more sense for people in the Russian speaking community.

Edit:

> Toyota: Steel dreams meld under mechanical constellations, gears and pistons dance in orchestrated harmony, roads unspool like cosmic ribbons before tire constellations, the hum of engines resonates in the cosmic silence, where the journey's tapestry unfurls with each turn of the terrestrial spindle.

That's exactly how I feel when I drive my '99 Corolla, lol
Only sounds like "irony" if you don't understand problem.

The problem is not isolation or lack of it. The problem is that app require complex set of permissions for both users files and other apps.

App might want to send notification to notification daemon. But app should not be able to pretend to be another app, whether by name or icon. And good luck trying to stop malicious app from just making same/similar enough icon and spelling Firefox with some fancy UTF characters to go around it.

And that's pretty simple case! And already very hard on kernel/OS level to solve. Now look at files.

You might want to allow graphical editor to open any graphical file, regardless of location.

You might want to allow that same editor to only edit some of them.

But for browser, you might want to allow saving new files, but not editing/rewriting existing ones, because it is not an editor, and should have no business editing the files.

Or, allow browser tab browsing certain URL (say, web image editor) to modify the files, but not the image sharing webpage that only needs to read the file.

Now we not only have insanely granular permissions per app, the different actions from "app" (web browser is basically container for multiple applications at that point) also need different permissions.

It has nothing to do with "unix bad", or "unix wrong", to actually separate the applications without hardships on the user (like fucking with permissions every time one app needs to touch files of another app) is just very very hard
Large Language Models Will Be Great for Censorship
The gitlab flaw has nothing directly to do with the proxyjacking? That just happens to be the payload they use after getting a shell?
Medical stuff is often worth avoiding if you have even a passing knowledge. I’m a radiographer, and pretty much useless at anything except driving a magnet, but it still bugs me.

Medical shows have ventilators set up wrong, chest x-rays hung up backwards (L on R) and piss poor representations of CPR chest compressions. The main actor can often operate all sorts of specialist equipment, perform surgery and analyse results of complex tests.
It’s almost universal.
Given what WeWork charged, you can't convince me there was much subsidy there, nor much social benefit.

"Cool offices" are something that should never even be talked about by a founding team until they have several spare million sitting in the bank. Until then, rent cheap-ass real estate and buy second-hand office furniture. And that's if you even have offices, which you may not need if you're a software and/or services company. Nice laptops, monitors, chairs, Zoom, GitHub, and Google subscriptions are really cheap compared to real estate!
The article specifically mentions the need for users to re-enter their username and password as a downside of short-lived sessions, so I think the author's definition of "session" extends as long as the refresh token lasts.

I think that most of the non-short-session examples — Google, Microsoft, GitHub, etc — are using an access token + refresh token pattern.
Slangonym for vagina. According to The Big Book of Filth (1999) coinage and usage dates back to the late 19 th century.
Literally drafts of the cable plant, as it occurs on the street. I worked for a firm who contracted through various ISPs to digitize their equipment plant drafts via AutoCAD and SPATIALnet back in 2010. Our contract ended up falling through. I'm not fully sure why, but I was part of a hiring frenzy in the firm's area, that ended up laying off a bunch of people after the Comcast contract fell through. There was a class action and everything, they paid for training or unemployment for two years.

It wasn't that bad of a job. I worked four 10s and could grab coffee, blast some music, and knock out the cable plant. Accuracy and speed are all that really mattered. The worst part was how picky drafting standards were and how poor the Python scripts they cobbled into AutoCAD were at actually meeting their standards. Lots of manual offsetting. I wish I had known enough Python at the time, because I might've been able to get a foot into their infra staff or something by improving the drafting workflow.
That worked because you were on an OS that supported it, using a device with simple enough behavior that things like timing or extra/elided writes didn't matter. It's great when that works, but there are very many environments and devices for which that option won't exist.
According to the FDA such containers are not permitted for food use, only for chemical storage, such as pesticides.

Additionally they are very very rare (only used where the chemical can't be contained in simpler plastics), and are not really where your attention should be on the hazards of plastics.
> In your opinion what should they be doing?

The largest voting block could stop war emissions by replacing Biden with RFKjr or even Trump. Huge carbon savings there.
I have replaced my use of C (and C++) in embedded with Rust for the last couple of years. Sure, some parts are still missing or immature, but overall also very promising.
And I do enjoy it so much more than the MCU manufacturer's please-insert-your-c-code-between-these-comments-and-pray kind of development.
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That is how you get depth with no breadth.
I would be delighted by this. Sounds like something Douglas Adams would dream up.
Notably Microsoft does not document an API to the kernel, the official userspace interface in Windows is the DLLs they provide. In that since, Wine, which provides DLLs that implement the same interface over the Linux kernel is conforming to the way windows works, and Cygwin, which provided a POSIX-like libc that ran on the Windows kernel is a Windows-centric way to implement POSIX.

(That said, the path of WSL 1, which emulated the Linux syscall interface on Windows, takes advantage of the idea Windows NT had from the very beginning which was implementing "personalities" that could pretend to be other OS, such as the original plan for Windows NT to be OS/2 compatible.)
This is true, and for every success story like Stardew Valley, there's a hundred failed attempts of equally passionate developers - a bit like startups.
I agree about cramming features across languages. Plus, Software dev is social. I only did this in code for myself.

That being said though, it actually fit really well in golang. Allowed functions that used to return ‘null, err’ to return an Either, which improved on all the downsides of returning null (if you return null your callers have to check for it).

It actually improved the ergonomics quite a bit. ‘Either’ fits nicely into golang, but I doubt it will become mainstream anytime soon.