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Sure would be cool if Ars had someone to cover Google who didn't hate Google and every Google product. There have been some pretty minor iOS releases but each and every one of them got a 90-page review by a person who was actually interested in the product.

I only just started using Android yesterday after many years away, and as a reader I would have appreciated more information and less detached snark.
We’re splitting hairs now. News release is the same as a press release.

The “press” section contains a press kit, not press/news releases.
The bootstrap chain is https://github.com/oriansj/stage0-posix-x86/blob/e86bf7d304b...
I like reading posts like this, because I’m always hopeful I might learn about other $#!t phrases, such as, “You ain’t shit.” What TF does that even mean? /rant
You also need to find someone to transport you to/from the procedure.

I moved to a new city and didn't know anyone. I was told to get a colonoscopy for no other reason than I was 50. There was literally no one I could ask to take off half a weekday to accompany me.

Ended up doing the FIT test (stool sample) instead (and once/year thereafter) and 6 years on still haven't had a colonoscopy.
To emphasize chpatrick's point below, there are two definitions of "reproducibility" in this context:

* Input reproducibility, meaning "perfect cache invalidation for inputs". Nix and Guix do this perfectly by design (which sometimes leads to too many rebuilds). This is not on the radar for Debian and Arch Linux, which handle the rebuild problem ("which packages should I rebuild if a particular source file is updated?") on an ad-hoc basis by triggering manual rebuilds.

* Output reproducibility, meaning "the build process is deterministic and will always produce the same binary". This is the topic of the OP. Nix builds packages in a sandbox, which helps but is not a silver bullet. Nix is in the same boat as Debian and Arch Linux here; indeed, distros frequently upstream patches to increase reproducibility and benefit all the other distros. In this context, https://reproducible.nixos.org is the analogue of the other links you posted, and I agree Nix reports aren't as detailed (which does not mean binary reproducibility is worse on Nix).

Your comment can be misinterpreted as saying "Nix does not do binary reproducibility very well, just input reproducibility", which is false. That's the whole point of the milestone being celebrated here!
Yet you didn't really make it for "Free". That's part of the lie (innocent here surely) that developers time is "limiteless and cost free". Lies such as these lead to and support the abusive and exploitative sense of entitlement that many, unfortunately, take towards OSS.

It's costs are many. If you have a more humane bent you will consider the psychological toll, and note the many "I'm leaving OSS" posts one can observe. If you have a different bent you may appreciate the more economic cost incurred by this lack of market efficiency: an exploitative market that fails to ensure commensurate exchange of value does not have much future.

At best, "cost free" OSS is a short-term play, murkily backed by the same "robber baron" attitudes than underpin the exploitation of workers (and the gaslighting of the whole class to believe they can expect nothing more), throughout human history.

Let's not permit OSS to go down this sad, tired and disastrous path. You can't grow the productive output of a market unless you respect property rights and exchange of value.
I'm most certainly not a prude, but I worked for a company that had literal "Gives a shit" as a core value, and DID live it, but I always found it a little vulgar to say in unknown company, and you've also reinforced it doesn't translate globally. I swear a lot in private circles but would never say "shit" in a public forum; I guess I'm not "edgy"
You do realize how you sound saying “Everyone is the problem except me,” right? And then comparing your experience dating in your late 30s to people dating in their early 20s?
Every thing is a SaaS mentality. Dating apps need you to forever be dating to keep you paying.Pharmaceuticals don't want cures, but forever treatments. We have pretty much completely moved to a rent seeking society
ARM hasn't taken off so far, and won't now that RISC-V is a thing.
This society is old because it does not provide reasonable opportunity for youths. It can't (and won't) pay for opportunities for young people, and it can't survive without young people.

Even here, the situation is trivial: they need to pay more. As simple as that.

This is a huge problem in essentially all of Southern Europe, not just Portugal. Frankly, it's "not that bad" in Portugal, compared to for example Northern Spain.

Currently this situation is masking the same problem in North West Europe (.uk, .ie, parts of .fr, .be, .nl and parts of .de). There is a vast shortage of younger people which is temporarily somewhat covered by immigration of skilled labor from places where it's a lot worse. However, that immigration is drying up, and already cannot cover the "natural" outflow (ie. pensioners, and people outright dying). And there's also emigration, which makes the picture pretty bad.

The problem is not just very visible in the financial situation, it is very visible in actual population statistics. Despite the complaints about it, even the inflows due to conflicts such as Afghanistan, Sudan, and the same will be true now with Israel, these conflicts cannot get Europe to breakeven anymore for even a month.
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> the "monkey brain" side of love. The subtle things that make us truly love a person

What kind of things should I imagine here?
It is not even being highly desirable or passionated - just caring. I work daily with people who sling code just for a paycheck, they do not give a shit, just as long as they get paid the end product can be whatever and that really pisses me off
People who live for short tenured stays at FAANG companies and optimize their time and skills exclusively for interviews?
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>Students were definitely using Unix in 1975.

What I meant was that none of the various large multiuser systems in universities in 1975 ran on Unix. I imagine that most computer people probably vaguely think that Unix was the first large multiuser OS, and that all Berkeley, Stanford, and MIT students were using it, when neither is the case. If a random university student in 1975 wanted a computer account, assuming that such was available to a non-math/engineering/CS student, it would almost certainly have been on a batch system like your UMD example.

As I alluded to at the end, it's striking how within a decade Unix had clearly gained the momentum. Many (even majority) of non-batch systems in 1985 were likely still on VMS, RSTS, TOPS, or some other DEC OS, but those DEC-hardware sites were of course the first to move to Unix despite DEC's best attempts to prevent this.
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If there's a fence between empty land and empty land that disrupts migration patterns, money is needed to buy a tiny corridor of land so that wildlife can migrate. Unlike programmers, wild animals don't live a sedentary lifestyle.
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Where did you conclude it was somewhat better than using electricity for electrolysis?
> I pushed for it because I just really enjoy propofol

After about the 4th? time I had it (I've had 9 cardioversions, along with many types of surgeries), I realized I liked propofol. By the 6th time, it was the highlight of any procedure. I found that the high comes from trying to fight the anesthetic and the amazing quality of sleep you get, plus I will agree the wakeup is tricky. Be careful about what you're really obsessed with, as you'll likely talk about random aspects of your hobby as you come out of the stupor.

The next best thing, I would say is Demoral, which gives me the instant feeling of being peak-drunk without the need for all the troublesome alcohol. Anything acute and severe, that cannot be immediately triaged, can justify getting an injection. This drug is very tightly controlled now.

I do avoid pain killers as a personal policy, to ensure I am aware of what's going on in my body at all time (since it's a delicate thing). That being said, I can understand Michael Jackson's addiction.
"Freedom for whom?" For the developers whose time they invested. For the users who are not "free" of their problems that prompt them to see these "free" solutions?

Nothing about OSS is free. "Free" is a lie. Pernicious, in that it was passed off under the guise of some ideal, yet it undermines the long term sustainability of the field by supporting a sense of entitlement.
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That's wonderful, thank you for sharing!
Not to mention the banks... 4 out out our 5 largest companies (according to Forbes) are banks[1]. But perhaps that's how it is everywhere? :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Swedish_compan...
My mother in law had a negative stool sample and died of colon cancer 9 months later.
I find it fascinating how many bizarre, wide gaps we have in evolution where we are left wondering how something could have possibly come into existence at all in the first place.

And clearly, the questions are completely valid. From the most basic "how did life start" to questions like in this article (where did mitochondrion come from?) ... it is very difficult to make sense of. The timescales involved are long, any evidence of the in-between steps is long gone, and simply the odds of these random things occuring would seem to be astronomical.

Taking even just the first premise in this article, that mitochondrion came about due to a cell ingesting another cell, I can see that occuring. Given enough cells, and enough time, I can see it happening repeatedly. I mean, putting a cell in a cell doesn't get you mitochondrion, but you can start with the idea. But how do all these separate isolated occurances, which have no impact on each other in the vast ocean or wherever it is assumed this was taking place, move to the next step?

One single one of those events, then somehow needs not only confer an advantage, but also have the ability then to recreate that "cell within a cell", and then over time that not only needs the survival advantage, it has to undergo further continuous refinement to where, what was a simple merger of two similar things, has become specific internal machinery doing things that confer advantages to the whole.

Just trying to imagine this occuring due to things literally bumping into each other in the ocean already makes my brain start thinking "there's no way". But it is billions of years, there's theoretically a lot of these "primative" cells everywhere, and I just accept that part as seemingly impossible, yet obviously wasn't. And this is all still to try to figure out how only the most basic stuff came about. When you start bringing in complex structures that have to orchestrate with other ones in order to function, it only becomes more difficult and confusing.

At the end of the day, it's obviously evolution. There's literally nothing else it can be. Even if you think it came in on an asteroid, it had to start somewhere. The only other option that I can think of is that none of it is real and the simulation we're living in is glossing over some important details! But I'll stick with evolution.

But it's still very mysterious, to the point it seems to border on the impossible.
Yes it does. We (at the Netherlands eScience Center) will be building such an interface next January, extending Entangled (https://entangled.github.io). This approach uses Markdown and enables editing your code both in Markdown and generated source codes, synchronizing when files are written to. Currently with traditional documentation site generators like MkDocs, you can get nicely presented content, but what you suggest requires a bit more work. We will build better content navigation in Pandoc, and a side-by-side view as you suggest is definitely on the table. Also: outside contributions are more than welcome ;)
Heterosexual women and men have fundamentally different biological incentives. Gay men don’t.
Hiking, Netflix, concerts, and brunch probably covers 95% of young adults in the PNW. Personally, defining your personality by watching TV is objectively boring and lazy. Dating is alot about marketing yourself, which I'm sure dating coaches would agree on, so yeah, I'd encourage people to aim higher and at least make stuff up that sounds more interesting.
I think many (most?) combined cycle plants use ammonia to destroy NOx in the exhaust (selective catalytic reduction). Some diesel cars use this technology as well (using urea instead of ammonia).
Still seems quite high, but I imagine a lot of tech founders reach for tools like this if they've not been tasked with designing full systems before.
For better or worse...that's Ron's whole personality.

He used to be good at holding the manufacturers a little bit responsible using it back in the A.P. (not _that_ AP) days, now it just feels like every article is "why does google hate you? These features are why."

I don't know the full situation, it could be because of Ars' editing policies, or it could be any number of factors. Me saying this isn't to knock him, just that I don't enjoy his writing on Ars.
The statistics is from a study. I don't remember the original but here's what google suggests «women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium.» http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/11/17/your-looks-and-...

I guess 80% in 2009 is better than 95% that I remembered.
Even by 2005 design standards this would be a terrible logo to be fair, it looks more mid 90s
The results vary study to study, but a good ballpark measure is that the average EV is 15% heavier than the average ICE [0]. Other studies I've seen are in the same range, roughly between 15-20%. So if anything, I would call it counterintuitive at best — it's a very real problem, simply the awareness around it is low.

[0] https://www.automotivelogistics.media/insight/you-gotta-carr...
There is a strange paradox where sometimes you see a bit coming and it's hysterical, other times it's predictable and falls flat.

Ex (first case): In Ruthless People, they walk into a store to play a VHS tape on a VCR. They don't know (but we do) that the tape contains embarrassing scenes, which are about to be displayed to the whole store.

Another example of first case: In Asterix, whenever the Pirate Ship appears. We know (and they know) they're about to get trounced.

With the Three Stooges, we know he's going to smack him upside the head, the question is just how's he going to do it this time?
It seems like AI-related orchestration better be more closely related to the application domain than to an abstract reasoning pipeline. The LLM already “knows” something about reasoning, but it doesn’t know anything at all about your private domain models, what they mean, or how to efficiently integrate your data. I think this is why LangChain tends to be abandoned when moving up from a proof of concept (where the developers are most interested in learning how to use GenAI) to a production application, where effective integration with internal services is a bigger challenge.
> Don’t be embarrassed, the hospital staff do this all the time. They don’t really care about the things you are worried that they might care about.

Facts. My mom was an Endo nurse for 40 years, and it's true that they don't care. That said, the single most important thing you can do is just be a nice person. They see a lot of people at their worst, and a nice, kind person will put a smile on their faces.
> None of These Theories Seem Adequate

Agreed, theories are testable, all of these theories are easily disprovable, in fact we can construct test jokes that abide by all of them and are still deeply unfunny.

One of the most counterintuitive elements of humor is breaking the flow by saying a wrong word and then correcting one’s self completely tanks jokes.

I have a comedian in mind who does this at least once per his weekly show — cue a grown from the audience and polite applause — it’s a friendly crowd.

Explain this and I think you’re on your way to a proper theory.
I think you're totally right, and I think that's the tragedy of apps like grindr. I was on gay websites as a teenager in the late 90s/early 00s, and it was only tech savvy guys. You could chat with someone for weeks without exchanging photos. The horny, shallow guys somewhat weeded themselves out because there wasn't a large enough population to sustain that.

But as the internet became more popular, dating sites became more mainstream, and then the location-based ones matured, it almost became a race to the bottom (so to speak).

If someone is horny right now, why chat with person A (with a text-based profile) when person B has photos? Why chat with person B when person C has shirtless photos? Why chat with person C when person D sends dick pics right away? Why chat with person D when person E sends dick pics and will drive to your house in 10 minutes? So a subset of users start pushing this towards being hyper efficiency, but that comes at the expense of the other subset of users who don't necessarily want that.

My experience has been you can't ever escape that. That mentality has permeated the system, and now we're conditioned to "meet up within 3 messages", "send pics in first message", "no fats, no fems, no flakes", etc. And if you don't like that and want something slower then you get told "it's just grindr, what do you expect?" (which eventually morphs into "it's just tinder what do you expect?", "it's just hinge, what do you expect?"). But even the people saying "it's just grindr" also complain that after they have sex, they just feel lonely again and that they feel trapped or addicted to grindr.

Obviously I'm painting with really broad strokes. Some people do find relationships on grindr. Some people are satisfied with their interactions. But, I think like the original article describes, it feels soul destroying. And by the time you're in your 30s, I think a lot of gay men realize that easy sex doesn't necessarily mean good sex and it often doesn't mean feeling satisfied or content afterwards. But it's difficult when you have a heterogenous population, with a vocal faction of the population that keeps pushing the limits of efficiency, and the rest of the population is just sorta dragged along.
Most likely readable.

Note that while GreaseWeazle is an awesome project, I have had more luck reading floppies with the actual Amiga.

I suspect it would help to use a DD FDD like the one the Amiga has rather than an HD one.
Sometimes, its easier just to ignore certain editors on Ars.
I could be the odd one here but I wrote my resume in Emacs OrgMode with LaTeX embeddings for some decorations.

It was a nice balance between of the two worlds.

https://gitlab.com/Arun-Mani-J/resume

I have tried other ways like using Libre Office, Reactive Resume etc. but a plain-text Git versioned file is very very comfortable.
Maybe it will happen to Twitter the way things are going. Or they’ll forget to renew the name and some kid will sell it back to Elon for $1.
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Not, really as a one-line change to the source code can easily change this behavior. In short, you can run proprietary modules easily, on all hardware the real kernel supports. Try it. No harder than a recompile.

You just can't distribute kernels with proprietary modules outside your organisation, and you have to upgrade and support the modules yourself. Which, I'd bet, effectively means Google, Meta, Samsung & Oracle and other behemoths can and do use proprietary modules.

The main complaint is that, say, any kind of small hardware vendor effectively cannot have proprietary modules in the kernel.

And this is generally regarded as a very good thing, a nice way to deal with a very real threat to open source.
They’re referring to the hedonic treadmill, which is a thing.

Heroin feels really good, which is why it’s dangerous. Because it feels too good, for what it actually does to you, and that’s a trap for a decent percentage of the population.
He thinks farms don't use a lot of fossil fuels because he experiences positive feelings when he thinks about farms :)
How about "modern" Muslim societies where polygamy is still a thing?

Also: Just because you are married, and your wife gives birth to a child does not necessarily mean that it's your child :) Nowadays, with contraception and paternity tests available, the number of guys unknowingly raising another man's child is around 2-3%, but it was much higher in the past.
People are catfishing you whether they intend to or not. Everybody has max confidence online.
> but the end tail is just gatekeeping happiness

How can this be gatekeeping? It's a conversation. Saying "repeated shallow dopamine hits will make it harder for you to build long term joy" isn't stopping anyone from doing anything. It's just a proposition.

> People have been satisfied with “simple pleasures” that made them happy throughout centuries

I don't think this is really...anything. Wisdom tends towards building for the long term and delayed gratification, not short termism at the expense of the long term. Being happy at seeing a beautiful sunset is at the expense of nothing, which is the difference being proposed.
> Do you prefer medical interventions that never work?

Are there medical interventions that never work - aside from bad faith hypotheticals? Even placebo works pretty often.

The article under discussion is all about teasing apart confusing and conflicting data in medical studies. The comment I replied to asks why they have been directed to do something useless.

>> are there other paths to those same success stories.

> Yes, in the US other options include high sensitivity FOBT, FIT, sDNA-FIT and CT colonography.

Statistically, yes - but individual humans don't really think in statistics, we think in stories. My buddy won big at the casino, maybe I will too. I'm sure my dear fellows on this website will never be so stupid as to be motivated by a story about winning at a casino, but it is very EXPENSIVE to apply this level of rational rigor to every part of your life.
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Can you not just trace the investments and find out either way?
Cute idea, but has to be a browser extension using the history, it's too tedious to do manually.
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I think what you’re saying is you had a really deep relationship with your imagination, what seemed to be with another person?
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Not, it's not about the nature of pleasure.

Netflix in itself is not a problem.

Filling your life with it is.

Which is easy to do because it's intense dopamine effects for little effort.