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> Both zips and sqlite cannot be read with a text editor. Both are open formats with widely available tools to read them.

Well, that's why your archive format of choice should be cpio, which is almost a text file except that modern implementations tend to 0-terminate the filename!

Jokes aside, there are widely-distributed tools that can take in an almost-arbitrary zip file and account for every byte in it. The format is straightforward enough that, were you so inclined, you can do most of it (other than, like, decompression and crc-checking) manually in a text editor. The SQLite format is not like this. There is one implementation, and relatively easy to "hide" data in a database file that its tooling will not reveal.
Is it irresponsible to just not tell the jeweler what it is? You’ve already confirmed that it’s not radioactive.
> Warthunder forum arguments

Context: [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Thunder#Documents_leaks
Your comment is ignorant and myopic. The area I come from has switched from being hugely important to completely worthless multiple times over the past few centuries.

Even then, being profitable is not the same as being useful to society.
Sad thing is they ALSO lost the gamble with the large studios. A half dozen of them turned off ads in protest. Even if the price was dirt cheap, businesses don't like contracts being changed, so that was another miscalculation.

Maybe if they actually promised something exciting in Unity 2024, they could change the contract there and entice people to join. But that's another historical pain point for the company. What's the last actually shipped feature that really excited developers? HDRP? I sympathize with how they went about it, but they underestimated how much people wanted some sort of migration strategy. DOTS thats still floundering on what it wants to be 5+ years into development, and also a shakey target?
And we likely both agree that continuing to improve those processes is worthwhile and critical. There is plenty to be left desired with modern farming - lack of variety, agriculture as IP, flat taste, etc... but this talk of "home-farming" as a solution to the bigger problems is foolish. I'm not saying don't grow a garden. I have a garden with fresh vegetables, and I love it, but I'm under no illusion that it is a solution to any other problem than my desire for fresh veggies.
Outsourcing some things can be an existential threat

edit: Note that China just the other day extended their 9-dash line to a 10-dash line
I came first across queuing theory in the context of managing software development processes. it looked at the flow of bug fixes and feature requests through the hands and brains of people out to users, and how task switches of those doing the work and task and context switches of teams and set-up times for steps like testing or doing a single change how all these timings and little queues at each step add up and define team productivity.

"The Principles of Product Development Flow" by Donald Reinertsen.

it made me realize queuing theory as a framework for "agile" or "lean" workflows, pull (kanban) or push (scrum), without ever using any of these buzzwords.
I paid WinRAR to use its zip function. There a lot of convenience features even if you don’t use rar format.
Multilingualism and Cognitive Advantages for LLMs
https://www.aviacionline.com/2022/01/f-35-cheaper-than-the-g...

Specific figures will differ depending on how exactly one calculates acquisition costs. These numbers differ depending on the acquiring country, the block numbers, etc. But as rule of thumb the F-35 cost is roughly 10 million USD cheaper than the much less capable Gripen. This is notable as the Gripen is being marketed as the cheaper alternative. The F-35 has much higher operational costs (mostly due to the costs of maintaining stealth coating), but here's the opinion of the Finish and Swiss governments on full life-cycle costs from the article:

> However, both the Swiss and Finnish authorities argued that the F-35 was the best cost/benefit investment, if its full life-cycle economics were taken into account.
If you like this sort of thing I highly suggest checking out Light and Magic, which is a documentary by Lawrence Kasdan about the history of ILM. In specific, startup fans will appreciate the early days of the company. Just an insane rise of an industry in such a short period of time. It gave me a lot more respect for Lucas, who seemed less a Director, and more a powerhouse visionary of technology.
Sorry for the confusion, yes, its a running fitness coach!
These things can carry nukes and we can lose them. Hmmmm.
Thanks! It's inspired by this https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/
"But that doesn't mean freedom or flexibility for citizens. "

It does, because if laws want to cover every case, they need to be so verbatim and rule out so many possibilities, that in the end, every action is encoded in law, which will result in people only doing things that are explicitely allowed. That limits a lot.

Simple example, despite being an adult, I like to climb trees. And sometimes also in parks. So I had discussions with officials or or wannabe officials about: is this allowed?
It turns out, there is no rule allowing it. But there is also usually no rule forbidding it. But most people default to, if it is not explicitely allowed, it must be forbidden (which is a very german thing, but is not unique to us).

Michael de Montagne, a old french philosopher who is also quoted around this thread, put it way better in words. I try to find the passage.
Originally, and currently, the USDA does.
For those who are curious here is the Github repo https://github.com/akuity/kargo
1. iCloud Private Relay:

https://adguard.com/kb/adguard-for-mac/solving-problems/iclo...

2. Too much jitter and latency in browsing. I can tell when Ad Guard is running. I can't tell with 1Blocker. No problem with ads, it's the feel.

That said, Ad Guard will kill trackers and ads in everything if you use the (hair raising) https filtering:

https://adguard.com/kb/general/https-filtering/what-is-https...

Note that NextDNS, eero+ DNS ad blocking, and AdGuard DNS are all surprisingly friendly ways less technical users can enjoy equivalent of piHole benefits for the home, including ability to block ads from "smart" TVs and consoles when the router can distribute DNS settings, as well as for mobile devices where they help with any browser or app that uses device DNS settings.
I have noticed a lot of inconsistency on (US) "nutrition facts" labels. I've seen anywhere from 5g being 3% of the daily recommended amount (~150g per day) to 15g being 33% of the daily amount (~50g per day).
To be fair (although I don't agree with him in the slightest): he did say “free market” to begin with, which in the common vernacular is contrasted with more state intervention.
>Meanwhile, the C++ projects I found built without issue or hassle, had correct timings, ran all the games I've tried, had lots of features, etc. What gives?

Aside the fact of the C++ projects being from seasoned C++ developers (which exist 3 decades now in huge quantities), not people starting with Rust as their first "native" language and using an emulators as a toy project? C++ exists for 3 decades more on top of Rust's entire life of 8 years since v1.0. And given the over time adoption distribution, most Rust devs are like 1-4 years old Rust users max.

Or the fact that those C++ are probably much more mature, and with more manyears in them compared to the Rust ones, some even being major community projects?
You can get a copy on the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cnc-red-alert). I don't believe that this is copyright infringement. I think that we're just that old.
It definitely is more of a Windows thing, but that's not saying much, since it's not like Windows is this niche OS that no one uses. I'd actually dare to say that more people have heard of WinRAR than tar.gz.
Just a heads up that it looks like you meant to reply to miki123211, but you've posted a top-level comment instead :)
> The difference is when there’s a profit motive for the person to inflate the actual numbers or distort their recommendation.

Grant money is distributed based on the perception of a problem. Nobody would be funding climate change research if the scientific consensus is that it wasn't a problem.

I am 100% a believer in anthropogenic climate change, but it's ridiculous to claim that there's no financial incentive for researchers to find positive results.
The USA really is in decline.
Who would have thought that replicating nature would yield the best results...

The Miyawaki method is probably relevant to this discussion - https://www.creatingtomorrowsforests.co.uk/blog/the-miyawaki...
That has once been true for Unity as well. People laughed about it being for gimmicky games that weren't too serious.

I think an engine today is about a lot more than rendering performance and quality. It is about the development pipeline, the tools it comes with and the interfaces to integrate assets and loading those. In that regard Unity offers a lot by now.

They also feature their asset store and whatnot. Of course it will take some time to develop such features for any new engine and it won't come to pass until it reaches a critical mass.
I'm not searching for anything terrifyingly illegal, and for the rest Google and MS already scrape and compile every byte of data I've ever generated. Why would it suddenly be a problem when a more reliable and less vicious company is doing a fraction of that?

You have to understand that most of us aren't fighting some battle for "perfect privacy," I just want a search engine that works for me, rather than advertisers, at the level of the search results themselves.
Is this because they are making a trade-off between surving some amount of solar flare activity vs increasing satellite weight by hardening them to radation?

I imagine it's preventable since the ISS and other large orbiters stay functional forever.
blanket free lunch is disgustingly wasteful and a terrible solution for needy children. It is like buying a new car whenever you have a flat tire.

I can feed my own kids, I don't need them picking up an extra slice of pizza every day for fun and throwing milk and plates and disposable utensils in the garbage. Ask any lunch worker about the additional garbage and waste it generates.

The correct solution is to remove the barriers stopping children from getting free lunch- stop requiring parents to sign up for it. If a lunch aide feels like a kid needs food, they should be able to sign them up without anyone having to know about it or consent to it. Let the schools give kids in need double lunches if they want them and/or something to take home with them. Double down on the kids in need, don't force it on everyone.
>Isn't this also the case of blue cities in red states? I believe e.g. there's a big hullabaloo in Virginia at the moment where the bluer school district close to DC is resisting anti-transgender top-down demands from the state. If we want to argue about rural people being disenfranchised, by number, way more people in cities are disenfranchised simply because cities are more populated.

Absolutely, and my point isn't about a "rural vs urban divide" at all.

It is a general argument and principle that can be applied to every action of government.

It doesn't matter if oppression is done by a dictator or by a Majority.

The problem is too much state power.
Zig provides tools to avoid memory related bugs, but it doesn't enforce it via compile time checked RAII/burrow checking etc.

Nullability (and error handling) is compile time checked though.
Also that they hired thousands of people based on the assumption that they’d be selling tons of ads. That 50% unprofitability was a choice made by their management.
And unfortunately, a lack of empathy is often confused for a lack of care, or a lack of kindness. There's no particular reason the two have to be intertwined. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if you cannot care for someone without feeling empathy towards them, then this represents a deficit.
What's a False Dilemma?
The Japanese government is not a golden beacon of success and efficiency. Their economic stagnation is arguably from their over investment in useless projects, and archaic regulations, leading to the employment ice age. That's ignoring anything about their social policy. They are not so good that they don't deserve criticism.
Flawed argument because animals still eat 10x the amount of plants vegans do. So if plant suffering was a legitimate concern, one would still be vegan, which is a lifestyle to reduce harm to animals.
Well, the F-117 was developed in complete secrecy. And, I'd like to add, in busget and on time. All that using a bunch of stuff coming from the F-15 and F-16 programs. My pet theory is, that those twonhad a ton of cost overruns regarding spares and such because avionics and engines for the F-117 had to be sourced somehow.
Kinda.

2/3 of their internal services don’t. You can do ipv6 only vpc but not if you wanted to use rds or ecr or …
Personally I think C# is a great language to get stuff done. The big problem it has is the portability (especially when it comes to using it with a GUI).
Well, where are you from?

If you are from The Netherlands I can recommend Freedom Internet [1]. A /29 (6 usable IPv4) costs 17 EUR/month (VAT equivalent included). That is less than 3 EUR per IPv4 a month.

[1] https://freedom.nl/diensten/subnet
Are they more of a scam than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
I collect things related to Sega CD and one day I came across a set of press CDs from Rocket Science games along with some other Rocket Science swag. Several years later I was scanning the disc and covers and noticed that Ron had written “Heads Up! Ron Cobb” on the CD liner for an alpha build of Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine.

He had been one of the early employees of Rocket Science, whose goal was to being Hollywood quality movie experiences to console games. Several of his designs from Space Truckers were brought in for vehicle design and I believe he wrote the story.

It’s become one of my favorite bits in that collection.

Throughout my research I also came across Elon Musk being an early contractor there who wrote their video compression algorithm for the PC versions.
You're totally right and I agree too :) I forgot Deques (and DS) were via PECL.

It's a poor example to give in relation to the article's real-world cases. Nonetheless, it is relevant to queue theory, and knowledge of how, why, and when these data structures can be more optimal than simple arrays has helped me more broadly in the past.

A much more real-world example would be Laravel Horizon, which uses Redis queues to build scalable distributed systems very easily. The last time I set it up I think it took me 5 minutes at most... https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/horizon
While "knowing they need to run an export to sanitize their data" is (unfortunately!) a thing user just Have to Know, a wider issue imo is that we also shouldn't really be encouraging developers to casually assume that users will only interact with their software through their own ordained interfaces.
Nothing. That's the point. You don't need active radar with the right mix of broadcast stations and math tricks.
For anybody who hasn't already read it, I highly recommend the book: "Crypto" by Steven Levy. I was 30% of my way through the book before I started recognizing real world events, news stories, whispered computer secrets; and realized that it wasn't a fictional book and was instead talking about real history.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984428.Crypto?from_searc...
Wasn't the original backdoor in a code example the NSA provided to companies interested in using cryptography? They gave an example seed or whatever, and most companies copy/pasted it instead of generating their own primes, so the NSA could break it trivially.

My memory around this is fuzzy and I can't seem to find the original source.
In case anyone is tempted to read the article: it's totally incoherent, even to someone knowledgeable in the field.
Good for them! Lately I have been enjoying PeaZip[1] since it supports all platforms and a lot of formats. It also has some good UI and helpful functions.

[1] https://peazip.github.io
They won't hear me out, tried a few times. People don't know a damn thing about this stuff they just assume you're insane for even touching it

Keep in mind these are the same people who are afraid of microwave ovens

Hell even we were a little freaked out of it enough to go hit a scientific supply shop before realizing it's well past its half-life
California's Delete Act will make erasing consumers' data easier
Is Oatly Oat Drink Like Soda?
excellent, thank you for the information :)
I did as well and believe my classes improved as a result.

I was taught "flow charting" as an attempt to teach coding without having to code. Of course, the teachers missed the point and forced template-driven syntactically correct charts that were more painful to build than the programs.

I have never taught software to complete novices, but I would think that it's difficult to teach something without teaching the thing. Have you tried the "wax on wax off" approach? That is, break things down into stunningly small pieces and build them together? You could spend days grounding on the fundamentals. (It works for training sports, rapid demonstrate/mimic/correct cycles on the basics)
Last I checked, most of that IPv6 traffic was mobile, and most residential ISPs don't offer IPv6, or if they do in areas, they don't always provide IPv6-ready equipment. We're in a similar situation up here in Canada - adoption is slowly trickling in through mobile networks, but many large ISPs still aren't offering it.
We spent months preparing to switch from Stripe to Stax, but we were eventually scared off by Stax's sloppy support and incompetence. It was a shockingly clownish operation. We ended up with zero confidence in their service or security.

Sorry to hear this is happening to you, but not surprised. Consult a lawyer, I'd say.
Hilbish
Yes, red text on black is a terrible combo.
Few contractions foment confusion as much as “auth”. Don’t do it.
"However, a lot of ambiguity, underspecification, and just plain sloppiness in language is there for no good reason and causes problems, and it would obviously be a good thing to get rid of that."

100% agreed. When clear (and simple) rules are possible, vague rules just create opportunities for shady things. And yes, we have many, many laws that could be made simpler and therefore more clear. And if a programming language can help with that, that would be awesome.
It's been a whirlwind and a half this week with a few dozen links pertaining to Unity (and this place doesn't talk about gamedev as much as other communities).

But it all started here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344
Notes from “Weathering Software Winter” by Devine Lu Linvega
Here’s the routing table that the HE.net Network Tools shows for my cellular connection shortly after I’ve turned off WiFi on my iPhone 14 Pro.

None of the entries in the cellular routing table is IPv6 with my current SIM card. So I am doubting more and more the claim that iPhone is somehow IPv6 only.

Seems more like some people have carriers that choose to provide them IPv6 only, and because of that they think that it has to do with the iPhone itself.

PDP_IPO (CELLULAR DATA)

default
via 10.10.67.87 UGSC

10.10.67.87
via 10.10.67.87 UHr

10.10.67.87/32
via link#3 UCS

10.255.91.156
via 10.10.67.87 UGHWli

17.57.144.87
via 10.10.67.87 UGHWli

224.0.0/4
via link#3 UmCS

255.255.255.255/32
via link#3 UCS
Sorry but people DEFINITELY do this at big US festivals too. Bonnaroo/Coachella for sure.
What's the distinction? That the settlers were inferior catholics? (Of course other Europeans at later stages like in Argentina.)

In any case you can cherry-pick any variable you want when talking about such disparate nations.
Buffer analysis when using EXPLAIN ANALYSE in Postgres
EndlessOS (mentioned in the article) is a Debian derivative based on OSTree, in development since around 2016 (maybe earlier).

You might find their forum (intended for end users, not much about development) or some of their repos useful:

https://github.com/endlessm

https://community.endlessos.com/
Really the board needs to go as well; someone pointed out that the founder of Iron Source is now on the board of Unity. The CEO has been in place since 2014, but recent changes were probably motivated by recent board members joining. I'd say the board all need to be replaced for trust to be regained.
So in your view all genocide is justified because statistically no large group of people is all saints? The idea is not to make past atrocities go away, but to point out if certain participants were more of a good guy or bad guy. Or gal. Naming a mountain/street/whatever after you, or having a statue is a sign that you are considered a good guy. So this decision reverses that.
The argument is that it's not predictive. No hard work might mean welfare or it might mean C-level.
Performance matters and is sufficiently captured via working incremental updates. The single largest upside of a proposal like this is captured by using SQLAR over ZIP. That's what the Library of Congress does when SQLite claims them as a proponent. It's what Fossil does as others in this thread have pointed out. It's suggested as "first improvement" in the linked article. It's also the only part that should actually be considered for implementation.

You are right to point out the folly of deeper implementations like having and needing to understand table structures for things like slides. However, the current status quo involves Microsoft implementing a fairly esoteric "update the XML file's bytes as they would be encoded in a ZIP file" in their proprietary tool (where they have enough money to invest the engineering time) and all other tools use the slower "whole file in memory" approach.

User visible features like incremental fast saves (and shared editing) keep people on closed systems and give Microsoft the leverage to do the things you warn against. SQLite as a container format could have prevented that by giving everyone a shot at a lower cost but still fast implementation.
McDougall promotes a vegan fad diet. Not sure why I would trust his literature when there's plenty of contrary scientific evidence today. Also, it's been 16 years since that article was written. Scientific consensus has advanced considerably.

Just because humans survive on very little protein doesn't mean there are not negative implications, notably on muscle mass and development.
Please elaborate. 160 acres was chosen as it was seen as a self-sustaining number (and evenly fit into the T&R PLSS), but interestingly, /that/ wasn't enough land to support a single family in the arid and high-elevation west until mass irrigation came along. Given five years to make proof that their land could be self-sustaining, many families failed even with 160 acres to cultivate. Maybe those are the fools you are talking about?
From the forum discussion, this has been reported as FB12144217.
Soft Robot Walks by Repeatedly Blowing Itself Up
While CMake is pretty annoying the problem from my experience are people using it incorrectly and doing stupid stuff that you can't change if you're using the project as a library.

If every library would be properly "packaged" using CMake would be far less annoying or frustrating. Just recently we had the case where a 3rd party library author of a sizeable c++ library set -Werror in his library which wreaked havoc.
Option-Command-F5 to invert the screen colors.
I think something like this exists actually, even though I can't think of a concrete example, but I am sure it is not easy to implement (in a just way) either.