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Wasn't there a major lawsuit long ago between Netscape and Microsoft over software bundling. Pretty sure it Microsoft in reaction made Internet Explorer free to avoid the monopoly claim effectively. This bankrupted Netscape because their browser was their only revenue driver whereas Microsoft could still sell its other products. Mozilla the non-profit was formed and inherited Netscape's browser software which was then supported by Google paying for it's search engine to be the default browser page in Firefox and funding the majority of the donations to Mozilla for years. So it's actually a huge deal with seemingly exactly the same precedent from the same company only a couple decades later. Kind of surprising they keep trying so it must be very lucrative.
Can you explain Transformers in one sentence? (attention mechanisms) [video]
Thank you for this! That was oddly cathartic. I’m so glad he got a refund.

Apple has told me no refund at this point; I have to wait until the panel has been replaced, which is still out of stock. The crazy part is that the current panel seems to work… It displays an image (similar to the error Dankpods was seeing). My gut feeling is that the panel won’t make a difference.
The idea of cars themselves as we know them may be an issue too - tyres are one of the largest sources of microplastics in the environment, and the infrastructure around them (roads, parking etc.) is a big contributor to disruption of local ecosystems. And the costs to the environment of batteries over their total usable lifecycle, and then to disposal or recycling, is still an ongoing project. They take a lot of energy to produce right now, and have a relatively short lifetime.

Sure, don't let "Perfect" be the enemy of "Better", but it's not the end solution.
I just set up Windows and spent an entire week googling how to tame it. Turns out dism.exe at the CLI is required to make it free up 20 to 30GB! of disk space it was wasting.

Many, many hours and late nights figuring out how to turn off telemetry, Edge and more. Multiple Group policy editor settings to force it to do what is asked and no more. For some reason updates and uninstalls take forever and uninstalls can’t be batched. (A powsh I found didn’t work)
I could go on…

“Fades in the background” my ass. :-P
A while ago I wrote a program to renumber TRS-80 Model 100 BASIC code in awk. Then re-wrote it in bash (pure bash, no sed/grep/cut/tr/awk/bc/etc), and the two are practically identical. That suprised me just how practically identical they wwere in the end.

awk is like a hidden miracle of utility just sitting there unused on every machine since the dawn of time.

Normally if you want something to be ultra portable, you write it in sh or ksh, (though by now, bash would be ok, I mean there is bash for xenix), but to get the most out of ksh or bash, you have to use all the available features and tricks that are powerful and useful but NOT readable. 50% of the logic of a given line of code is not spelled out in the keywords but in arcane brace expansion and word splitting rules.

But every system that might have some version of bash or ksh or plain sh, always has awk too, and even the oldest plain not-gnu awk is a real, "normal", more or less straighforward explicit programming language compared to bash. Not all that much more pawerful, but more readable and more straightforward to write. Things are done with functions that take parameters and do things to the parameters, not with special syntax that does magic transformations of variables which you then parlay into various uses.

Everyone uses perl/python/ruby/php/whatever when the project goes beyond bash scope, but they all need to be installed and need to be a particular version, and almost always need some library of modules as well, and every python script breaks every other year or on every other new platform. But awk is already there, even on ancient obscure systems that absolutely can not have the current version of python or ruby and all the gems.

I don't use it for current day to day stuff either, there's too many common things today that it has no knowledge of. I don't want to try to do https transactions or parse xml in awk. I'm just saying it's interesting or somehow notable how generically useful awk is pretty much just like bash or python, installed everywhere already, and almost utterly unused.
i tried Boss hot coffee in japan, holy moley is it sweet. Cant say I was a fan. Though Sydneysiders can be coffee snobs - im sure this works for 99% of the population
>“state-level actor” is a useless phrase

I disagree.

Google can probably outspend the Israeli government, but the Israeli government has capabilities Google will never acquire because Google's control over its employees is limited (mainly to contract law). Google cannot sentence an employee to decades in prison for betraying Google's secrets.

So for example, it turns out that 1 or 2 of the employees of the Manhattan Project betrayed the project by giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, but at least the US government had a realistic chance of keeping secrets there whereas a private corporation embarking on a project of similar scale (i.e., a similar number of employees with similar levels of knowledge and skill) has no realistic hope of doing so.

I think this argument is relevant to computer security because having an exploit is almost completely useless if the entity you hope to use the exploit against knows you have the exploit.
It’s not weird. When you’re dealing with an organization as big as the US government, you’re not going to be able to standardize on a single technology for front end engineering. So you say “Make all your stuff look like this” as an opening statement, and then secondarily work with certain large departments to implement the visual stuff (1em padding on modals, 5px rounded edges on cards, tooltips on icon buttons etc) in the technology that each is using.

You won’t be able to get to everyone, but the people you don’t get to (say, the DEA weirdos using MooTools and Stylus) will at least have some guidelines they can follow instead of just coming up with styles on their own.
That's a good question. I don't think anyone has a good understanding of the causes of low fertility rates in Canada and in other developed countries. I personally think economics certainly play a role here, especially in high COL cities. However, there are undoubtedly other factors that affect fertility (e.g. health issues, family getting out of fashion in general) and it's hard to say if any of the factors defines the trend alone, or it's a combination of them that pushed the fertility rate down.
I do think people like Dolby Atmos, Android Auto, Airdrop, SMB, systemd, the whole of SteamOS and I think when you get down to it "tight integration but I don't like it" is the only definition you'll get that actually will encompass what people mean. Because what makes Springboard on iOS okay when on Android you can have Nova? What makes NFS okay to build in the kernel but not Airdrop? What makes Steam's overlay browser okay to tightly integrate but not Edge?

The whole OS is a mess of tightly coupled software with messy boundaries. I don't think the coupling is the thing that matters.
We used to tell each other what stall we were going to. It is fun, like playing video games, but also super stressful.
I can find no source or any mention claiming Akira Yoshino's connection to the US based company you mention other than using his name. The website of the company does not even mention it.

I get a high "using a non existing but near the horizon technology and stuffing it with existing Li cells" vibe from the website.
> That increase was due to the covid stimulus checks

stimulus checks were like few 100B, very different amount, total stimulus program was 2.2T: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARES_Act , while M1 supply increased from 4T to 20T: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

I think institutions took advantage of low interest rates, borrowed lots of money, and now will borrow/invest with much higher return for next many years.

> That isn't the new rate of money supply growth

I don't think there was so large scaled increase in the past ever.
With improved (and patented) design, they can flush much better. And they have better coatings on the ceramic, so that your "output" washes off much easier, and doesn't stick to the walls so easily.

The modern tests for toilets are much tougher than the old tests, and the best modern toilets will pass with flying colors on those tougher modern tests. Older toilets, and lesser quality toilets, can't hold a candle to the kind of performance you are able to get with the better and more modern toilets.

Toto is just one example. They're not the only one with top performing toilets. You can look on Consumer Reports to see the tests they run, and which toilets do well on those tests.
That trend is called 'monetization' if you look at historical videos you can even tell where youtube keeps changing the minimum length for monetization.
How is your personal preference relevant at all under a comment of enterprise-level setup? You are going to ask everyone in the company to use emacs?
also ai agent scientists in a simulated lab could solve big problems like climate change. AI might be the only thing that can save us, if it don't kill us.
The examples are pretty lame since you can do what the examples do way faster without using a LLM and paying OpenAI.
FWIW there's really nothing wrong with uninstalling this kind of metapackage. I've been uninstalling the "ubuntu-desktop" metapackage as I trim my ubuntu systems, for over a decade. I use a combination of "debfoster -n" and aptitude for the trimming ... it is a bit annoying but it's just once per install.

That said, for the past couple years I've just run Debian and Arch. But I'll probably use ubuntu again for a while when I get a new framework laptop later this month, the hardware is too new, some special/custom kernel package provided for the latest ubuntu will probably be the most convenient solution initially, and I find trimming back ubuntu isn't too bad. Yes, you have to remove the "desktop" meta-package. It's fine.
This mixes two problems. The TSA which I can’t really put up much of a defense of and quality declining. On that second point look at the prices. Airfare is only 67% of what it was in the 90s and that’s while fuel costs have exploded
Thanks for the pointless personal attacks, but what you say is, in addition to needlessly insulting, factually incorrect. The US title code is littered with disclaimers preventing laws from "interfering with a law enforcement officer's execution of duty." In fact the US title code has to explicitly spell out what is inappropriate "under color of law," which term it defines, and most of those infractions listed are rights violations or discriminatory actions.

Fifteen states have the Law Enforcement Officer Bill of Rights codified into their statutes. The rest are either considering it or have something very similar codified into law.

Qualified immunity is not "the very thing" protecting law enforcement officers. It is, however, "the very thing" our elected representatives have almost no input into or control over. Removing qualified immunity would in fact not affect any of these actual laws, and replacing it with a codified law would enable more consistent and just application of the concept, which as I said before is currently just something a judge can decide whether and how to apply.

Correcting your ignorant claims is not 'gaslighting.' Your emotional distress over the matter does not qualify you to accuse me of abuse, and I don't appreciate your mischaracterization of my posts.
Think of heat as like nature's income tax, every energy transaction you do is subject to a heat tax. Eventually almost all energy is converted into heat. Even the sun converts every chemical into its lowest energy state and releases all that energy in the atoms as heat. The primary thing the universe currently does is turn matter into heat, and tries to distribute that heat evenly.

Eventually most of the energy for earth either becomes heat in the earth, gets radiated into space, or slows the earths rotation around the sun, or spin. Of all of these things the dominant two are heat radiating into space (this is by far the largest), and heating the earth, with a few things like the tides slowing the rotation of the earth.

A little bit of it gets stored as chemical energy through plants and animals, but eventually those get burned either through fire, or chemical decomposition.

To give you an idea of how much heat escapes, if the sun stopped, and we used our nuclear arsenal to replace it, we'd have about 30 minutes of sunlight.

The idea that AC causes heat in cities to any real extent is laughable, if AC was capable of changing the temperature of the earth to any meaningful degree we'd just water cool the heat exchanger and solve global warming by dumping the heat into the ocean.
How could the early Unix OS comprise so few lines of code?
The President was put onto Air Force One: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/were-the-onl...

From there, he was taken to STRATCOM, which was in an underground bunker: https://www.ketv.com/article/tracing-president-bushs-path-at...
Microsoft is the one generating the deep links.
The meta argument is the one which is unreasonable. Forming reasonable small arguments is easy. People engage them easily. But because so many can be created so cheaply it’s possible for people’s minds to cloud.
Possibly Fortran.
Performance isn't the problem. Cost is.

Every time I do the calcs it takes more than ten years for the extra cost of an EV over a roughly equivalent ICEV to be recouped in my situation (which admittedly is fairly low mileage). And that's assuming tyre costs are the same, which I doubt for a heavier vehicle, and other maintenance costs (steering, brakes, suspension, body, lights and accessories, and interior) are zero for the EV.
I do wonder how electrification of ships this will affect navigation for larger vessels. A retired friend used to captain container ships, and during some unrelated story, he mentioned being able to navigate one particular channel because the ship’s draft was higher in the water from having less fuel (the old “fuel makes you heavy”).

Batteries don’t have this feature, so it gets interesting: it could be that a less energy efficient route overall needs to be taken for some trip. If it results in less emissions overall, it’s obviously a win, but there’s some interesting subtleties to consider in this problem space that aren’t immediately obvious.
In the US, the dishwasher discharge hose is often piped into the garbage disposal unit under the sink.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_disposal_unit

Looks like those units are really uncommon in Europe.
200 scans and the machine is paid for.[1] Which is under two months of use.
The problem here is retail markup, not machine cost.

[1] https://info.blockimaging.com/bid/92623/mri-machine-cost-and...
Looks like they really learned a lot from that $613M EU fine. I hope they double it next time. How much exactly do they make from forcing IE down users throats? Apparently enough to justify this behavior given the past penalties, just mind blowing that they’re able to continue to do this and just pay fines. You’d think there’d be more backlash at the board level to this type of behavior.
How does this compare to agentGPT?
Just wanted to comment on a UX point - the page jumps to the top every time I go to a question and then go back.
This would only work if every source of atmospheric carbon was equally taxed - otherwise you get incentives to have indirect carbon usage, be it in costs of manufacture, or energy generation through other means.

Otherwise you get BS like scrapping vehicles that took significant amounts of atmospheric carbon to produce, just because they have a slightly better gas mileage. It should only be encouraged if the total over the lifetime of the vehicle is better, but manufacturing costs are often excluded.

Plus this naturally excludes those who can't afford the upfront cost of a new vehicle - even if everything was taxed "correctly" by this logic and so was lower cost in the long run.
The claim that trying to do good results in evil is a well-worn trope of reactionary rhetoric, a sort-of universal argument about any collective effort at good.

Humans are flawed, our enterprises are flawed, and all will do both good and bad. But that is a useless, binary analysis: It means there is no pure saint or demon - no 100% or 0%; it's just simplistic philosophical theory: Nothing is pure, ok.

In reality, every significant distinction is in the range 1% - 99%. Our choice - our free will and moral choice, now that we're out of Eden - is what we will do in that range. Some is easy, some is hard, some is harder.

If you don't choose to work at it, you won't be doing much good. And then who will?
Although I generally like Technology Connections, I've always found that particular TC video hilariously wrong. Every dishwasher I've ever owned has been basically a sterilizing machine, not a cleaning machine. I always wash all my dishes by hand to the point where there is no visible food on them before I put them into the dishwasher, because if I don't do that half my dishes come out of the dishwasher with food crud still on them.

And no, I'm not talking about crappy, dirty, worn-out dishwashers. I'm talking about state-of-the art modern dishwashers. I thought it was normal for everybody that you had to wash all your dishes by hand before putting them in the dishwasher. I thought TC was basically making a big joke, but after TFA I'm thinking maybe dishwashers do exist (or did exist?) that actually ... wash dishes?? And don't take 4 hours to do it??
What’s the turn around time for a full body scan these days anyways? 1hr? More ? Less ?
My only problems with those listings are that they place a top premium on loudness of the dishwasher, and therefore they recommend Bosch as the quietest ones you can buy.

Whereas I place a top premium on the dishwasher actually getting the dishes clean, and then getting them dry afterwards. Bosch does fine on the first part, but without a heated drying cycle, they're rubbish on the second part.

I will never again buy another dishwasher without a heated drying cycle.

So, yes -- use those tests and listings, but make sure you fully understand the data behind them and assign your own priorities to those attributes that you value. Because what CR values may not be the same thing that you value.
Or God forbid those Next.js apps where the same line of code is ran on the server, streamed to the client, and then ran again on the client via rehydration. 3 different potential sources of failure and you have to debug them simultaneously.
Glad to see someone else chasing this down, and not surprised this is still not yet reproducible.

Paul Thurrott and I were also scratching our heads with this one on August 25. After failing to reproduce the behavior, he wrote up our collective experience [1] the next day. We chalked it up to yet another Windows Insider screw up, marked it as an unsolved case, and moved on.

I certainly hope the change eventually makes it into the OS before the Windows 11 "23H2" release is finalized (imminent).

[1] https://www.thurrott.com/paul/287711/scaling-back-the-terrib... (pay-walled)
helpful - very insightful and well written. I hope to see you around!
Interesting, reminds me a bit of 98lite which did something similar for windows 98.
I've driven many tens of thousands of kilometers throughout close to 20 countries in Europe, and multiple hundred thousand kilometers here in Canada, and have yet to find a multi-lane highway where "keep right except to pass" doesn't make total sense and work well. As traffic gets congested everyone naturally relaxes adherence to that policy since it's not realistic to uphold in all conditions. I mean, if you have citations that support the argument that it "fails often" I'm all ears, but my lived experience with this highway protocol has been universally positive.

I observed that it especially works best in concert with a rule that people entering/merging from the right have the right-of-way, since this reduces uncertainty around "who will go?" that I often witness here in NA (where "keep right to except to pass" is merely a suggestion, or not enforced even if enshrined in law).

Regarding speed limit, I'm not arguing against speed limits or adhering to them, and indeed the more consistent the speed of traffic, the safer it is. On that note, my observation is that simply adhering to the speed limit (and attempting to stay at that speed) means regularly passing vehicles -- that is, in most cases, people are indeed following speed limits and a "keep right except to pass" policy correlates well with maintaining consistent speed and flow of traffic. People who want to drive slower can stick to the right lane without any hassle or problem (it's accepted and normal for them to drive slow there), and those who are driving faster can safely pass and then return to that right lane. If there are deep flaws in this process, I'm absolutely not seeing them and have not observed them.

(yes, of course, the "two-second" rule makes sense and is a minimum IMO - I imagine if more people followed this, crashes would be massively reduced)
Compared to the young person blood mentioned in the article or the exotic ingredients from “blue zones”, this stuff seems exceedingly mundane.
I use powder in both trays, pre-heat the water, clean my filters, and run citric acid regularly. I still had issues when I lived in a place with hard water. I still sometimes get an occasional garbage smelling result now that I don't.

No amount of "aww shucks" and tier 1 support level of suggestion changes or downplays my observations.
As a user of the department of VA website I can say with confidence it is absolutely unnecessarily terrible.

The login process alone is kafkaesque with literally 6 methods of login offered and a Byzantine routing process between nameservers, root DNS bouncers and processes that can’t maintain login state.

What a joke
Did your cofounders forgive you?
But many good things happen every day. Despite many problems, society functions better than ever in human history (if you don't get more granular than perhaps decades).

People do need to think for themselves, and a hallmark of free societies is that they do (to varying extents).

The doom-and-gloom about humans is getting very well-worn and tired for me.
You mean the unsung hero of the Internet.
Learn how to use Helm dry run to troubleshoot templates and preview what a Helm chart will do.
Is the capital cost of the machine the expensive part of an MRI? The cost of many medical procedures is more about the staff than the equipment.
Makes you wonder how big the mountains were that dissolved into all that salt and other minerals…
And if it was a USA company shipping the alfalfa to Wyoming, would it seem scandalous? No, it wouldn't. And yet the water would be leaving Arizona.
Did you test the recommendations?

I’m able to put dirty dishes in mine and have them come out clean.
A log statement isn't a unit test in the same way that apples aren't trees. A unit test is a discrete, runnable program that asserts some state about your program to be true, whereas a log is just some subsystem of your overall program that prints some output with no pass/fail condition.

You may have a unit test that makes assertions about logs though? I would definitely expect somebody that isn't a junior programmer to understand this.
Can’t tell what you’re lamenting.
The End-of-Line Story (2004)
25 years and we've only got 45% We should've been at 95% decades earlier if they came up with an actual transition plan.