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> Iirc the silicon ia32 compat was gone by the time early systems were being built,

Itanium first shipped in 2002 with silicon for the purpose-- it just was not very good. The software compat layer showed up in late 2004 with Madison, and was far superior in every way to the ia32e silicon in earlier processors-- it had near-parity with Xeons for a couple of generations.

But-- why pay tons more for near-parity with a cheaper processor?

> But no shared libraries due to this.

Using shared libraries from a different ISA is hard; x86-64 OSes didn't try to do this, nor did Apple's Rosetta in 2006 or Rosetta 2 in 202. Generally (not always) your user space program is made entirely of code for one architecture. It's hard to deal with different pointer widths, calling conventions, etc.
Why is coercion the chosen course and not voluntarism?

I actually like your reply the most. You almost proudly admit to being in favor of violence against your fellow man but didn't quite get there. I'll help finish your thought:

> then society is free to take its fair share in return. And if you don't give up what society thinks is fair, then society will imprison you and if you resist their agents, society will authorize them to kill you.
That is pretty standard for LL/SC instructions -- you'll find similar constraints on the Arm equivalent insns. In practice this doesn't matter because you only use them in a limited set of handcoded sequences to implement the atomic primitives you actually wanted, so you can always be sure that your LL/SC loop obeys the rules and makes forward progress.
No, they don’t. The vast majority of water is used for agricultural and industrial purposes.

Even if you completely eliminated lawns, you wouldn’t make a meaningful dent in water consumption.
Maybe it's your model? My Zojirushi came with a single clear measuring cup (which is actually just 6 US fluid ounces), the instruction manual gives a quick explanation of the various modes such that I don't find their presence burdensome, and the displays an estimated time right away (which is nice as some of the cooking modes take wildly longer). I'd never cooked much rice at home because I never got good results when I tried with the stove, and this turned it into a solved problem. I'm sure a $20 model could have gotten me 80% of the utility, but gestures vaguely at overwhelming consumer abundance.

(edit: reading another comment, turns out that plastic cup is one gou which is 6.10 fl. oz)
"California Air Resources Board says a gas-powered backpack leaf blower produces the same amount of harmful emissions in an hour as driving a car for 1.1k miles."

The article mentions two stroke backpack blowers are 75% of the market, with landscape company owned tow behind four-strokes making up the rest.
> Ive also tried to work jobs at smaller companies where I'm significantly underpaid, in theory in exchange for a little more freedom and more ability to make a difference, bit eventually that gets a bit boring.

Worst idea ever and I’m not comfortable expanding here. But the dynamics are just too problematic.

Here is my suggestion to you:

1. Go ahead and open the coffeeshop but a really small one with a small office for yourself. You don’t mention where you live and if you are open to move to other places. To make sure you are running a small operation, you should have only one employee (excluding cleaning which you can outsource)

2. Work on an open source project. Find what most interest you and the stack that will make work a delight. Do you want to create a bitcoin node with Rust? Go ahead and do that!

The morning you’ll go to the coffeeshop, you can brew your own coffee and maybe service customers if you feel like it. Or not. You can work from the small office when you need peace or hang at your own coffeeshop to maybe socialize with fellow customers.
> There were plenty of people sceptical of Itanium at the time, including many within Intel as well

Credit especially goes to the people who stayed on the various x86 processor teams. Itanium’s single greatest source of failure was that successive Penguin generations undercut the advantage of x86 compatibility by adding the option of not migrating at all and still getting better performance. They probably saved the company but I doubt that got much praise at the time since it required acknowledging how badly the Itanium project had failed.
I still rather miss it. Sniff...
"12:00:00 + ε" is after noon, but your clock will not show a difference.
Sheep, cows and goats were the original reason
It’s important for me to have grass to keep the dogs away from the ticks. Since I like the grass, I put about 2-3 days a year into maintaining it and making it as nice as I think is necessary. And mow 40mins a week. But growing grass can be just as rewarding as growing anything else.
> Eliminating home lawn is probably one of the singular things that would significantly slow down our destruction of the planet

This is a city opinion that not many people in suburbia would agree with.

It's also motivated by West coast water shortages, something that those on the East coast can't relate to as easily.

It's a lot like the /r/fuckcars argument. It's a great idea inside a single population of like-minded users, but there's an unspoken silent majority whose lifestyle and entire world doesn't work in the same way.
This guy does a ton of mock-ups.
This right here. But then HOAs gotta have lawns which also take mowing most of the times by leisurely ridden gas mowers. The leaves on the lawn obstruct water and sunlight from getting to the roots of the lawn and makes the lawn look not green. So now you have to blow the leaves so you can mow the lawn or just mow the lawn to crush out the leaves. Either way there's double whammy of gas and noise ruining your weekends.

The one thing that helped somewhat is replacing windows on my house - new windows seem a lot better at noise reduction. I am also seriously considering synthetic grass and getting rid of the stupid Oak trees on my lawn - I don't think those leaves decompose soon enough!
Yes although there is a growing movement towards “no till” farming where you just plant right on top of the old.

https://regenerationinternational.org/2018/06/24/no-till-far...
This has some merit in the mountain west, but back east nobody waters their lawn, it just comes from the sky for free. (I know some people have sprinklers, but having grown up in Chicago, I can tell you that they're not strictly necessary.)
There is no way to pay for adfree YouTube. In stream promotions are ads and it is impossible to pay to block them. Yea, sponsorblock is a great alternative.
Ridiculous, kids love trees. But also, rats and therefore snakes love leaves, as does fire. If you live in the woods the kids will love it, but you still have to keep leaves away from the perimeter of the house.
Higher than that in my neighborhood in Redmond, and it is not even one of the nicer neighborhoods. Myself and a couple others do our own mowing, the rest hire someone. I mean, anyone that can afford to live in Redmond could afford to hire someone, but it would take me longer to write the check than do it myself, because our lots are about 7-8K square feet. IOW, small SFHs on tiny little lots. Half hour of mowing, tops.
If leaves are just left alone they cover your grass and kill it
> he air quality index in the city hit 500 – the highest the measurement will go and 100 times the limit deemed to be healthy by the World Health Organisation (WHO)

From airnow.gov

Daily AQI Color Levels of Concern Values of Index
Green Good 0 to 50
Yellow Moderate 51 to 100
Orange Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups 101 to 150
Red Unhealthy 151 to 200

So it is 10 times the recommendation
Only if you cook rice like, every day, or multiple times per week.
Well, fact is they're very, very useful. I spent a solid couple of decades poo pooing them. Finally tried one, and was instantly sold. It's not just the time savings either, blowers allow doing jobs that just aren't very feasible otherwise. I can get rid of leaves and debris from stony/leafy surfaces and structures that can't be raked. I can clear snow from rough whole rock paths all winter, and it will completely clear the rocks and get between them unlike snow shoveling, which prevents the snow from getting compacted and turning to ice. I eliminated like 99% of the need to ever apply any sand or ice melt when I switched to clearing with a blower. Feet of snow on cars, my solar panels, etc can be blasted off quickly and effectively with zero risk of surface scratching. The ROI has been high, even though I don't actually use them for leaves on my lawn those I just mulch. But getting acorns and such off the lawn and blowing leaves onto it from driveway and walkways for mulching is helpful.

However mixed fuel ones really do suck, but happily electric ones are finally getting really solid too. I got an Ego 600 CFM as soon as it became available and while air velocity and total volume are somewhat lower than my Stihl it was able to take over a good 70% of the work. For this fall and winter season (about a month ago) I got an upgraded 800 CFM Ego Commercial one that takes double battery packs and look forward to putting it through its full paces, but so far I'd estimate that has closed the gap to something like 90-95%. Maybe even enough to completely get rid of the gas though the winter will be the real proof. But the pace of advancement has been pretty solid. They're far far quieter, they don't produce all the awful fumes, they're incredibly reliable and convenient in terms of instant start.

The remaining flies in the ointment are just lack of standardization in batteries and interfaces and upfront battery cost (when used a decent amount I think the value vs cost of fuel and oil is often positive over lifetime, but that doesn't change the fact that it's hard for many people to plunk down hundreds/thousands upfront vs as opex buying fuel). Both hopefully will get addressed over time. But I think at least the capabilities to match/exceed 2-stroke in raw performance is there for nearly everyone which is a good change and makes it politically much easier for governments to step in and start accelerating the transition.
Maybe it's worth rethinking what a "better neighborhood" is to exclude their use. Do appraisers put extra value in manicured lawns having pesticides in them and the leaves blown off? When someone says you can't have X on your property or you need Y there to maximize the value of a property, that's all the excuse people need to act like assholes sometimes, imposing stupid HOA rules or, in this case maybe, polluting & making a racket.

Edit: Seems like I wasn't far off. Stopping homeowners from making bad choices will need to include real estate agents not playing into the idea that a leaf-free, poison sprayed lawn is more valuable.

> Lawn care specialists have claimed for years this strategy leads to better lawns, but it would only work if customers are willing to accept a change to the manicured status quo, a look that real estate agents and landscapers claim boosts home values and that some homeowners associations require in their bylaws.
"HBO Max" was the original "rename" for the streaming service. It is now, they insist, just "Max".
> That's not true. CentOS Stream is literally the testing ground for RHEL patches. So CentOS gets patches much earlier now than it ever did as a community project.

It definitely is true, in our RHEL subscriptions we get patches that do not exist in CentOS. We also see those differences in fully patched systems where the patch versions run different binary code.

> I relied heavily on CentOS [..]

> Fact is [..]

> So this is why [..]

All those other arguments are not very relevant, they bought CentOS and then broke community trust multiple times to the point where we now have multiple re-incarnations of the CentOS concept and RHEL (or IBM) thought they could prevent that by hiding the sources used for current RHEL builds from the public by default.

Money-wise it's also not relevant because there are only two reasons you pay for support:

1. You actually need support (we never did in the past 15 years)

2. Corporate nonsense (this applies to some of our vendors)

Red Hat is fully leaning into #2 and it's just not having any real value if you don't also fit in #1.
i tried this with the 50 foot sycamore in my back yard and the leaves didn't decompose at all. they fell and froze. then in the spring when things thawed out, they formed a thick wet mat that suffocated and killed everything underneath.
From the wikipedia entry

> WordStar was the first microcomputer word processor to offer mail merge and textual WYSIWYG.

They produced a bunch of different versions, and that screenshot is for an MS-DOS version.
Yes, look, if you have 20% oil in your energy mix, this is used somewhere. For example by ships, cars and also some industries. If you would not use this 20% for some energy, you would need to burn wood instead or maybe better use electricity. :) So burning oil for some extend keeps electricity prices overall lower.

If Google is telling me correctly the kwh price for electricity in Norway is around 12 Eurocents. This is very cheap! In Germany it is currently 30 Cents, last winter even 50 Cents. And Germans getting lower salaries..
What are you going on about? How is a neutral net an internet kill switch?
This project has long been dead. It's mechanic was to map celltower IDs from a public database and alert the user if a change occurred.
Leaves get everywhere and cover sidewalks, roads, roofs and gutters, etc. Over time, they degrade into an unsafe slimy surface.
How to generate a random string in Ruby
Oh no, is ReactOS referred to as ROS? ROS is already taken by Robot Operating System. I fear for the future of search results.
Alternatively, as we do in our (mostly) Chinese household:

Put rice in rice cooker. Rinse the rice and pour out water until it isn't cloudy. Add water to the depth of one thumb digit. Hit cook button, then ignore it.

Brown rice, white rice, whatever, all the same.

I'd have to check if we're still using a zojirushi or tiger, or are using a Korean cuckoo now.

> How is it that this brand, with its special measuring cups and precise water lines, can't tell me how long it's going to take, but the ninja multi function pressure cooker could tell me down to the second as soon as I hit start?

Well that one, cus they know people will just eyeball a thumb digit of water. So it won't know until it gets closer to done.
I don't know Brian is, but I would recommend Expert F#, a book cowritten by F# creator and BDFL Don Syme
Yes, but is the constraint that compiler shall make only a single pass, a rule of the language?
Lawns are beautiful and useful. Are we not allowed to expend resources for beautiful and useful things?
I heard phones were putting a dampener on the lakeside sunbathing too
They use blowers to move snow around in Canada as well. I was a little unnerving to wake up to what sounded like lawnmowers on my first night in Calgary, Alberta, in the middle of winter.

I wonder if the electric ones are quieter and can still get the job done.
> I finally gave up and wrote a multi-threaded c++ program to "inventory" every file and then I imported that into sqlite and started building out scripts to do bulk actions, set a flag on for files to delete and some scripting to show the files that would be deleted etc.

I did something not dissimilar. Basically at some point, years ago, I got fed up of deleting for the ten times that one picture I already had deleted in the past.

So I created a little database of files that are "tagged", based on their size first, then on their hash.

The "tag" is basically: "File with this size and hash can always be deleted, no matter what". Or "File with this size and hash and this name can always be renamed to this-or-that-name".

I've also got a few rules: "Empty directory with that name can always be deleted".

Then I launch my "berzerker" on HDDs/SDDs/SD cards and whatnots I have on shelves and get rid of thousands of files. It always feel insanely good.

When it comes to old CDs/DVDs (I know with your 17TB these aren't going to be a thing for you but I still have CDs and DVDs from the 90s and 2000s and once in a rare while I'll still burn a DVD), I copy them to my computer, run the berzerker, and burn a new DVD. Then when all is good and well, I physically destroy the old CD/DVD.

I also transcode movies (say family movies) for which I don't care that much about the quality to a much smaller size (say to x265) and then immediately tag the old file as "can always be deleted" in my database.

Also I haven't inventoried every single file. But I'll typically use "jdupes" (much faster than "fdupes") to find the worst offenders: biggest files appearing often are the ones I tend to inventory first.

What's really great with such inventories/tags is that it's something you basically do once. Once a file (and its size + hash) is tagged for deletion, that file has lost the war.

It's over: my berzerker shall regularly run and it shall find it. And the file is gone.

The files tagged for deletion are "dead files walking".

> It's amazing how much digital garbage we can accumulate, I often wonder what my kids will do when I pass, will they try and sift through all of it, or just toss it in a closet somewhere to be discovered in 1,000 years by some digital archeologist?

They'll use a dumb but convenient "AI": find me all the pictures, movies and writings from my dad and sort them, de-dupe them, rate them and show all that to me chronologically and nicely sorted.

At times I'm wondering why I even bother cleaning that mess. I could just wait and have some software sort it for me in 20 years (or if I'm dead by then, my kid shall do it).

Now that said: we're not the first ones to come up with our own DB of files that can always be deleted, always be renamed, etc. I'm kinda surprised there's not yet some open-source software out there doing just that.

Mine is not shippable as it's Clojure code I run directly from the REPL.

P.S: for the hash, to be really quick, I use Blake3 (which may not suit everybody as it's kinda recent but, darn, is Blake3 quick -- and automatically running in parallel).
An Entire Continent Went Missing–But Scientists Have Found It Again
It's happily unambiguous:

https://www.google.com/search?q=cxl
Really? More than manufacturing or vehicular emisssion, and agricultural waste? Color me deeply skeptical of that priority...
Americans use more than seventy million pounds of pesticide annually to maintain their lawns. That's ten times more poison per acre than all of America's farmers use on their crops: https://progressive.org/magazine/vox-populist-lush-lawn-kill...
What is this article about? If it is getting rid of noisy gas leafblowers im sure we are all on board. If it is about getting rid of beautiful suburbia and replacing it with Magnasanti then I think only a tiny minority want that.

MAGNASANTI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU
I wonder why something like that can still happen in 2023. Shouldn't web traffic be orders of magnitude cheaper now than twenty years ago?
> Chinese incentives are aligned with a lack of IP protection right now.

Even that is essentialist. In some areas, sharing IP is beneficial to the originators and incentives are aligned. In other areas, not so much.

Duxiu makes money selling access to their collection of scanned books. Their incentives are not aligned with having others use those scans for free. Currently, such cases seem to be mostly handled under the most general provisions of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (反不正当竞争法), but new amendments are likely to make it more explicitly illegal https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/china-releases-draft... ("Improperly obtaining or using another business operator's commercial data")
> Once you hit start, no timer is present. You have no idea how long it's going to take (turns out, about an hour).

The rice cooker doesn't know either, it will take whatever is needed to take. Short of putting an extensive sensor array and ask you for the kind of rice you put in it, there's probably no way to actually predict it.

On the quick/normal setting, they taste different. My best image would be on black tea: you can use 95C water or near 100C water, one is quicker than the other to fully extract the flavor, but won't result in the same profile (you might actually prefer the quicker one, your choice)

On the UX...welcome to a world where you buy products of different cultures.

If that helps, many people don't actually follow the dosing cup to the letter and adjust the amount of rice and water to their taste, relative the rice we're using at that time after a few tries (at least I do, and so does anyone I talked to), so there is no guideline that would help us.

I'd perhaps compare it to coffee, there are machines doing it all automatically but they taste bland, and the better tools will expect you to know what you're getting into. Rice cookers are as serious business in Japan as espresso machine in Italy, you won't get a high end machine that catters to people who're not familiar with what's going on.
> some landscapers may charge Montclair customers as much $95 per man-hour for leaf removal, compared to ~$60 per man-hour with gas-powered blowers.

It seems strange to charge more per-hour for raking vs blowing. Per job? Sure, but per-hour seems weird.
Created this as a coming soon page for our 5 minute stress/loneliness removal app. Didn't added that to Show HN, as it shows an email collection box at the end of the questions after you get the answers. Please let me know your thoughts.
Very important to append: when they are irrigated.

Not everywhere irrigates their lawns.

But I agree with the sentiment. The amount of energy I see in the US being put into maintaining an artificial environment in places that otherwise would be barren is astounding.
Disclosure: I'm working on alternative Cgo-less bindings for SQLite, using wazero.

https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3

One of the problems of the modernc approach (IMO) is that they're not just transpiling CPU/compute stuff, but entirely OS/platform stuff.

Each Go file of theirs is a xxx_os_arch.go that starts with 100s of OS-#defines-as-consts, and goes on to transpile fully #ifdefed code.

It also implements antithetical (in Go) stuff like goroutine local storage, because libc pthreads can't live without it.

And all IO is via direct syscalls that will never play nice with the Go scheduler, because again, this is OS level stuff.

WASM defines a cross platform CPU and an ABI, and using that for compute and the bottom OS layer in Go you get (IMO) a nicer end result.

Given the hard task of generating decent code from WASM at load time (wazero's compiler is pretty naive, a better one is being developed, but it will take seconds to generate good code for anything non trivial like SQLite) I wouldn't mind having a solution that translated to Go, or Go ASM, at build time.
Instead many are doing the opposite: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/renewables-pause-albe...