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Using Arch with GNOME, VIM/NEOVIM. Happy value between usability and resource usage. The programmers on Linux usually care about efficiency. Christian Hegert is improving recently a lot in GNOME. This allows me to use a ThinkPad X220 which is running circles around some modern laptops with Windows. I understand that people prefer the small footprint of C. I like C. My personal preference is C++ (low- and high-level, more safety and flexibility).

The problem is greed - i.e. capitalism. The blog mentions Electron and therefore Chrome and JavaScript. They are awful combination and allow companies to save on programmers. Programmers which handle C, C++, Rust or Python are a small group. Java, C# and JavaScript consume more resources, allow using a lot more stuff quicker (like a drug) and most importantly are forgiving mistakes. So the industry decides to waste the resources on our computers because they don’t need to buy and maintain them. The customer pays twice, for the software and the next computer with more soldered main-memory. The key point is - the software companies don’t pay for hardware or the environmental damage! I’m doing myself a little JavaScript and some Java. Efficiency? Nobody ask for that and I should not spend time on it. There is now law stating that managed languages need to waste resources but a side-effect.

Remember Steve Jobs?
I don’t appreciate what Apple does. But he banned Flash for a reason. Resources! Okay. Also bugs. And for the same reason they should ban Electron. Apple devices run faster with less resources because Apple saves on hardware. Why build devices with huge batteries, when you can achieve more runtime with less material and take the same money? The EU needs to enforce side-loading on the iPhone. But I also think Apple should be allowed to keep Blink (and therefore Electron) banned from AppStore. I don’t want see my battery dying because some corporate manager decided to drain it. But if you need Blink? Side load.
Without installing some kind of custom rom? The last two phones I bought wouldn't let me proceed through the setup until I had registered a google account.

No idea how to disable activation lock without a reset either.
February 2022, yes. Now, no.

It has become clear that Russia had no capacity to wage war in Ukraine and take on anyone else in a meaningful way. As long as pot boils, but doesn’t spill over the USA will be able to continue to slowly increase its support.
People sell these used (or give them away) all the time.
Credentialism is not good either.

And in general I've seen little correlation between credentials and quality, both in the software industry and elsewhere, so I don't think any such certifications will really solve anything either.
Would be a good piece for a university course about ethics in AI. Pair it with "Lena" by qntm to present two sides of the same nightmare.
This seems incredibly distracting. How do you get away from people without being penalized with this?
> Probably the same reason video is always hard, there's 7 million codecs.

ONVIF has specifications/profiles for management, functionality, and codecs (S and T):

* https://www.onvif.org/profiles-add-ons-specifications/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONVIF
Hi! Thank you for your comment and screenshot! I'll check them also
There's plenty of software that can kill someone as a first-order effect. If you allow second-order, there's even more.

Avionics. Air traffic control. Industrial control. Automotive software. 911 dispatch. Medical instruments. Medical information. Military command and control. Mechanical engineering analysis software.

Lots of software can kill people.
As I remember, Matter is using blockchain for doing something with their certifications. Does anyone know more about this? What they do there and whether this legitimate usage or just some case of buzzword-bingo?
No need to await next crisis. They are paying for more targeted propaganda with public money:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/law-enforcement/news/eu-com...

Of course, if you're pro privacy, eurosceptic or Christian, you won't be targeted.
I have it on my personal pc already but my work machine doesn't yet have it.
Or just flying is cheap and easy so we don't have a masochistic fixation on choo-choos. There's only a couple places in America where trains even work in theory, and yeah they should have better ones.
I have no relation to Starfighter, but I was part of a similar startup almost a decade ago, and learned a few things that are likely similar to what they faced.

We started with this dream of completely revolutionizing the way people hire in tech (with hopes of expanding to other fields).

First of all, we learned that for 99% of companies they don't have a screening problem, but they have a sourcing problem. Our original company was along the lines of HackerRank / LeetCode / etc, and created due to the founder's experience as a manager at Amazon where he'd get 1000s of resumes that needed to be screened and the process was eating up too much dev resource. A product that solves this problem is appealing to companies that get 1000s of resumes per posting, but basically useless to most companies who get very few candidates, and even less appealing to recruiters who care much more about top of the funnel than the screening process.

After that we pivoted to an event format. The idea being that we could attract 100s of applicants to do a challenge in realtime. This reduces cheating risk and allowed us to act as a means of sourcing candidates (instead of just a screening platform). The idea was 100s of candidates would enter and the companies we got to sign up would compete for the top applicants. It sorta worked. The platform was good, companies were interested, and we got some people placed.

HOWEVER, the profile of people that will do a multi-hour open ended challenge for the chance to maybe get hired by some companies largely leans toward entry-level people. We had some experienced people that did it because they were bored or just curious, but generally seasoned engineers aren't going to waste their time, and forget about "passive job seekers" which is what all recruiters want most of all.

Ultimately, the company ended due to a lot of personal issues between the founding team, but the product itself was good, and the market fit was decent, but far from perfect. I'm pretty sure if we would've kept it together we would've eventually became very similar to HackerRank just offering a platform where people can conduct the same crappy tech interviews we've been using forever.
Haven't used this until today, but I browsed the code and the docs and it all made a very solid impression.
The EU is European Project.

I think it's very easy to take the benefits of the EU and our resulting prosperity for granted. We need to actually have some power in the US-EU relationship, and the only way is to combine further.

I don't know what that will look like, but I'd like Europe to be able to chart its own course. We know what happens to nations that are at the mercy of countries more powerful.
this is how CDNs make their money. They replicate popular content close to the users. They generally do that WITHOUT giving anyone hardware, but by renting hardware in smaller areas, and setting up their own data centers in popular areas.

source: I used to work at Akamai (it was a while ago). The myriad things they do with their edge servers is pretty amazing, but for simple CDN stuff, most of the time clients aren't shipping hardware to isps. That being said, if Netflix can convince an isp to pay its electricity and hardware maintenance costs for a popular isp's customers that's going to pay for itself very quickly. So, i can see why Netflix offers this. It's just not normal AFAIK.
The vast majority of humanity has always run on duct tape and bubblegum. :)

There are still computer systems designed with high reliability and accuracy. See flight control systems.

New technology typically doesn't work on duct tape and bubblegum. So it has to be good. Current technology is going to be just right enough to work.
You’re right. It would be better to abolish corporations and only allow fully worker owned co-ops. That way at-least all employees benefit from their companies loopholes
Please report the exact wavelength for verification.
> yet have never discharged static electricity through any one of my personal circuits

How would you know unless you took precautions? Static electricity doesn't necessarily make itself obvious by arcing, yet the voltage can be high enough to damage sensitive components.

Also damage sometimes isn't obvious in the sense that that a component or circuit is killed outright. Instability, reduced lifetime and increased susceptibility to future ESD events are other known consequences of electrostatic discharges.

For more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkECJlA2Fg4
No time like the present! The platform itself seemed like it worked great, so the question is what did it look like on the other end - were you able to get any companies to actually take on candidates who passed the test? The software's the easy part, it's everything else that's the problem.
I think there's a fine line here. If someone is openly supporting terrorism or harm then they should be called out. Expressing support for Gaza, or Palestine, on the other hand is very different.
Super excited to see this land. I've been following this closely and experimenting with the beta branch; the ability to swap out real network requests with mocked ones in process is a huge upgrade for any kind of work you might have wanted to do with a proxy.

Congrats on the release!
Quite simply: you don’t ship code, you ship features. You don’t ship automated dependency injection. You don’t ship elegant abstractions. You don’t ship cool compiler tricks. You ship new stuff for customers that they’ll pay for. Your high unit test coverage that makes any refactor a painful slog gets in the way of shipping features far more often than the TDD zealots are willing to admit. Most of the “best practices” in the industry is unrealistic dogma created by people in post PMF, entrenched companies that no longer need to do much to print money.
I have to say, I recently got a push into the direction of agreeing with "the EU" a whole lot. The CNCF was organizing a "security slam" where they surveyed CNCF project users what they would want for security compliance in the projects. See one such post here [1]. As you can see, we got some high profile users: Epic Games, the Space Force, and I personally know of two household name telcos who use it.

I asked the organizers about potential funding for the work that needed to be done since the project wasn't a commercial endeavour for us. They didn't even consider this before making demands for work that would consume several days if not weeks. The funding they had amounted to some gift cards and t-shirts. (They are very nice people, but there is not much they can do either.)

I am personally very frustrated with FOSS as it stands today. It's disingenuous: either the project is almost unusable on its own and you need to buy services from the people creating it (Kubernetes), it's missing parts you need, you get a pseudo-OSS license (BSL), sometimes funded by a foundation that has to do a whole lot of extra work to get donations and more often than not pays entry-level salaries or you run a project because you love doing it where you are expected to do the compliance work ... Why exactly?

And about 95% of the changes requested are basically paperwork to check off the boxes, ship material of bills, etc. Not the fun kind of problems. (Note: the CNCF doesn't pay its contributors anything, at least I didn't get a dime so far. The only thing I got was a truckload of paperwork, requests for more free work besides the project reviewing conference submissions for KubeCon, and more.)

I think, if you are a commercial FOSS user you should absolutely be on the hook for getting your wallet out and paying for people doing the ridiculous about of slog required for compliance. Pay a foundation for the compliance work, or hire the people working on the project to get it done. Does the EU get it right? No clue, but something has to be done. Supply chain security is important and the work needs doing, which somebody has to pay for.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/ContainerSSH/discussions/574#discuss...
I sure hope we aren't training and equipping a future adversary a la the mujahideen.
> A question to everyone: What would a good application process look like?

A complete overhaul of credentialing, so that when I have a degree in computer science from a top university and decades of industry experience, employers don't need to independently confirm that I know how to reverse a string or traverse a tree or define what XSS is.

Also, make a time machine so we can make this change 30 years in the past, if you wouldn't mind.
A victim's recollection of the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
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"My personal recollection of being a victim of the first bioterrorism attack in the history of the United States." (Refers to the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack)
I have little to add to this before comments start going below the fold. Other than to say that I had this realization in the late 1990s as 1 GHz processors were coming online and software was still as slow as ever. Today we have eye candy, but tech has mostly abandoned its charter of bringing innovation that increases income while reducing workload. Like phantom wealth that fixates on digits in a bank account instead of building income streams, today we have phantom tech that focuses on profits instead of innovation which improves the human condition.

We used to have a social contract between industry, academia and society. Company invents widget, it pays into a university's endowment, student goes on to start the next company.

Today that's all gone. Now company invents widget, billionaire keeps the money, student gets forgotten as university is defunded and discredited through various forms of regulatory capture. Often to thunderous applause.

The stagnation of tech and the subjugation of the best and brightest under the yoke go hand in hand. Your disempowerment is a reflection of how far society has fallen. Loosely that means that even though we know how to make programming better, we will never get the opportunity to do so, because we'll likely spend the rest of our lives making rent. Which is the central battle that humanity has faced for 10,000 years. Like the tragedy of the commons, we work so hard as individuals that we fail at systems-level solutions.

Programming won't get fixed until we stop idolizing the rich and powerful, and get back to the real work of doing whatever it takes to get to, say, UBI.
The software itself is not aggressive, it already depends on the management style and purposes.
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As CPUs get faster, memory gets bigger, screens get bigger, networks get faster and everything keeps getting better, one component of the systenm is not improving - the developer's brain. I think it just comes down the the fact that software is hard and bigger software is harder.
It's easy to avoid retaliation, you just have to surrender.
I mean I know a number of people who are cops who are good people. But when I push them on the existence of bad cops they always hand wave it away as either being a) rare or b) not their place to fight against.

On a, what I've found is their definition of "bad cop" has a much higher bound than mine. They always mean the stereotypical psychopath cop. They'll rationalize the egregious behavior and not include more run of the mill rule bending as even being meaningful.

On b, this was my main point. It's easy to excuse it all as long as one is willing to push the responsibility to others. Or worse, they push back on me asking if I'd report or speak out against someone breaking rules at my work. Well yes, actually. And I'd expect that of others.

So my point was that in order to be considered a "good cop" I expect them to at a minimum a) adhere to laws themselves and b) actively work against other cops who do not follow a.
oh my! TIL! ty for this, I never knew and do ctrl+shift, backspace all the time.
Some of us remember when people similarly said that about GM.

Regardless, we'll see what happens in 5 years. The best outcome is that they are truthful about this development.
While not exactly ‘ancient,’ I believe that typesetting machines were an example of early (pre-digital) computers. I actually wrote a paper about it in American Printing History Association’s journal _Printing History,_ issue 21, 2017.

https://johnlabovitz.com/publications/The-electric-typesette...
I find there is less room for yarn in the ecosystem than back when npm was crazy slow.

In my testing, npm has gotten a lot faster that it used to be and often it is faster than yarn 3.x when doing installs in a CI system. npm also has decent workspace support, excluding the important ability to do topological sort-based builds (which I still use lerna for.)

I also found bun install also works great and fast and is a drop in replacement for npm.
as in cardiac arrest
Everyone is huddled against the US border because Canadian Shield causes huge problems for farming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shield
> Rural living has a huge carbon footprint compared to city living for many people.

Ugh...

I want to assume the best about comments like this, but what is the point of citing this metric without context? It just feels like the only point is shaming and virtue signaling.
Either much better superconductor performance at 78 K (instead of the more common 4 K) or much cheaper permanent magnets (the "Inductrack" configuration). Permanent magnet EDS has a risk problem: contamination of the magnet will incur an extremely expensive repair (the field cannot be deactivated), and putting together a vehicle containing lots of very strong permanent magnets is logistically challenging (to put it mildly!). AFAIK all existing maglev is superconducting EDS. The same issue limits the use of permanent magnet MRI. But new permanent magnets are a lot more foreseeable than new superconductors, since at least there are some candidate possibilities for magnets (Fe16N2 and L10-FeNi) while the plan for better superconductors currently relies on star charts and prayers. You could also come up with a way to make Litz wire without copper, but again that's very blue-sky and you'd have to make enough of it to build a whole railroad.

The tl;dr is that according to physics, making stuff float is hard.
What if europe and the us collaboratively just anex these tax heavens?
Brightline built Miami to West Palm Beach on rails it already owned, I think much of the new extension from West Palm Beach to Orlando has been on existing rails too.

Do trains require more staff per seat? Amtrak trains seem to have 2 staff in the car and I assume 2 engineers, and roughly (5 car consist of 72 seats) 360 passengers, vs 4-6 people for 180 people on an A320.
It's a natural law so long as you have a framework for incorporated entities and you want to allow international trade.

Incorporated entities are intangible. They are just ideas. They don't have to exist in any particular geographical area.
It's not like this is a new problem, and it's been solved for decades - it's just good network design.

One example: This is exactly why randomness is required by Ethernet's ARP protocol: to avoid ARP storms when the power comes back on and all nodes try to get back on the network at the same time. (And ARP is still powering most IP connections (v4) today, since IPv6 is painfully fiddly by design, so no one uses v6 unless they have to...)
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We also call traffic lights “green” in North America and Europe, but if you look carefully they’re actually in the “cyan” color family, much closer to turquoise or aquamarine than a green.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors
wow that wasmer thing is _SLOW_.. we are talking about 57x time slow! (granted most of this is likely startup delay). Here is a random benchmark with warmed-up cache:

$ time cat /var/lib/dpkg/status | wasmer run syrusakbary/pypipe@0.1.0 -- 'i, line.upper()' | wc -l
39175
real 0m5.761s
user 1m15.071s
sys 0m4.838s

vs regular python:

$ time cat /var/lib/dpkg/status | python3 pypipe.py 'i, line.upper()' | wc -l
39175
real 0m0.107s
user 0m0.096s
sys 0m0.026s

and the wasmer install procedure.. not a deb file in sight, adds itself to ~/.bashrc (of course...) and apparently requires two environment variables to even work.

Compare this to OP's instructions: (1) check out the repo (2) execute the file directly.

Not sure why would anyone want wasmer for simple command like tools like those.
Yeah I confirm too. Fast IO plus a little cooling fan makes the Pi 4 almost enough for daily desktop. I think the Pi 5 will get me all the way there.
The mark-to-market value is notional, it is not a realizable gain. Having a vast amount of assets is precisely the part of the market where the gap between notional and realizable becomes quite large.
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I want to provide a "Historical context" for data consumer, so they know that data can change, but that it's under control by the data team.

I used random data for the moment. Will have a proper, coherent environment soon.

Can't wait for your feedbacks !
I kinda agree, but skill issue can be easily extended to time issue.

Because it takes time to skill up.

And also, if you put higher bar on require skill level, you inherently get less developers, which means more work per developer which then converts to time issue.
Obviously it's not a one to one, because great dev will spend less time doing good job then a clueless one making a mess, but still
I liked the emotional rant. Sometimes data just obscures what you know to be true. I don't need data to tell me that I should try my best to make the best software, and that's what this article reminded me.
Exactly. And while I know many otherwise good people who are cops, not a single one of them will do more than pay lip service to "bad cops". For starters, their bar designating someone as a "bad cop" is always far too high.
it's kinda sad that the least viewed articles are about moths. i really like moths they are like socially-awkward butterflies
Is there a SIMPLE way to have a small python or go program act as a "switch" that shows up in Google home? The last time I tried looking at the matter stuff even checking out the git repo required gigabytes of storage and it seemed the opposite of simple.
You can fly from LA to SF in 30 minutes. Even with all the airport security theater, CAHSR's hundreds of planned tunnels will not be competitive for business travelers. The premise is more about people wanting to go to Fresno.
Hi! Thank you for your comment! We have DND mode and possibility to lock rooms. My opinion it's the principle of communication in society, so in our case we solve this by agreements between people
state inspections here record mileage and is used to validate low mileage discount on insurance. it could also be used to determine road use tax. as for public vrs private roads. assume all travel is public roads and let the user provide acceptable documentation that they traveled on private roads (gps tracks)
GDPR: clicking cookie banners till the end of time while any ad-supported startup this side of the pond died or jumped ship to the US.

Right to be forgotten: a blessing for corrupt EU politicians who can finally scrub their record clean after buying out newspapers. Since they couldn’t buy the tech gigants…

USB-C: the largest cable throwaway to avoid… throwing cables away.

Replaceable batteries: something I never needed or wanted but hey, the wise Brussels regulators must know better what is good for me.