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> Why did google bother to introduce a new language that still relies on the java VM?

Kotlin was not created by Google, but JetBrains. Also there are many other JVM languages (e.g. Scala). People write new languages for many reasons, and that's probably why we are not stuck with assembly (or even binary?).

> Why didn't they just rewrite their standard libraries in C++, and build kotlin on top of that?

Not sure I understand that. You mean that the Android SDK should be using C++ at the core, and expose a Kotlin API? The user would not see a difference, and I would guess that some parts at the lower level are written in C/C++ (or even Rust nowadays).

> Do google even care about android or is it such an absurdly low revenue division that they try to spend as little as possible on it?

What would you suggest as a better design? It seems to me that you just don't like the JVM (maybe because you read somewhere that the JVM is bad and accepted it like this?) and just complain about it. Or do you have real criticism about the JVM? And since you seem to be targeting Android, do you know that Android is not actually running the JVM?
There's a difference between supporting unencrypted connections, and only handling unencrypted connections. Since civilization has not yet collapsed, I wish they would support both.
It's not better than burning it in a facility that captures the energy, even more so if that energy is displacing fossil fuels from electric or home heating grids.
This describes me well. How can you find the inner home? How can you be more conscious during conversations? I often come from an interaction with someone thinking: "God, I talked way too much. Should've listened more."
I remember reading a lot about this when I was doing my masters in high performance computing! Really want to go there and see it in person one day!
This is very common. Pretty annoying at first, but once I notice someone does that on the constant, I can zone out while they try to divert the story, and then return to continue the natural path of the convo. If it's every other sentence in a group setting, then I play a game of "how will that person turn THAT sentence into something about them?"

It's a forgivable trait! But notice when you do it so you can be more present and empathetic. Discussion is more fun when it can go in so many directions rather than just funnel to oneself! :)
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I think the point here is not the effort it takes to make good lighting - but the cost. A normal person will not have 10x2000w ARRI panels. But they will look at this production and think that they will get the same result because hey it was shot on an iPhone.
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Microsoft's is $2.6 T. they could debt finance it.
I feel like social media made this trait almost into an epidemic.
> Kotlin is already niche anyway

If "most Android apps" counts as niche, yes. Still, that's a pretty big niche IMO.
The popover does seem to require entering an email address before clicking on "continue reading".

It actually doesn't, but it's not obvious and although this time I did click on the right button, I know there are at least a few times where I've just closed the tab because I thought I had to register or give an email address or whatever.
Don't forget about Greg's Wiki

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ

(and of course we're all using ShellCheck to check our scripts for common mistakes)
well, the case has been made many times by historians that e.g. the english/american army went too far during the dresden bombings. So even when dealing with the literal nazis, things are not actually morally black and white in terms of unnecessary force of war against civillians. And palestine certainly isn't nazi germany, I think that's a bad faith comparison.
That really isn't how this works. DigiCert don't have any 'power' as you suggest - the .be government are free to choose any CA they wish from those who are globally trusted. These are for serverAuth certificates, too, so no-one is talking about internal/top-secret/sensitive intra-government communications.

Even if you were paranoid enough to think a US company like DigiCert would 'do anything' - their issuance is subject to public scrutiny (something the EU proposal doesn't like) and malfeasance has very real consequences to the whole of Digicert's business.
Are you familiar with the concept of Chesterton’s fence?
You're likely right, and the many approaches to tackling the disease seem almost endless. There's been stories like this for as long as I can remember. When I was a small kid before starting school my mother took me to a movie matinee and during the newsreel feature there was a story about fighting cancer and afterwards I asked her about it, so as not to scare me she said it's a rare disease and you'll not have to worry about it.

It wasn't long before I found out the truth when several years later the woman—a lifelong smoker—living next-door to my grandmother died of the disease.

Those early incidents stuck in my mind so I've always been acutely aware of announcements like this for as long as I can remember, and I don't think a week has gone by without me hearing or reading about one.

It occurred to me a while ago that if say 0.1% of those announcements had fulfilled their promise the disease would likely have been eradicated by now.

I'm not decrying the efforts of researchers for a moment nor do I deny progress has been made but there's just something about this disease and research that attracts media attention no matter how small it is.

I'm not sure that so much publicly is a good idea as it gives victims false hopes, especially so if the research hasn't proved effective in the clinical environment.
If these are FISA warrants, the whole thing is meaningless. The FISA court is truly a rubber stamp.

”During the 25 years from 1979 to 2004, 18,742 warrants were granted, while only four were rejected.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intell...
Remember the Slashdot Effect? I'm not sure if it lives up to its expectations this time ;-)
There is a balance to this. If you always only listen to others and never speak about yourself, you fail to build connections with them (because they know nothing about you). I had the opposite problem, I made every conversation about them and had to learn to change that in order to be able to make friends.
Maybe WeWork can reinvent itself in this... business.
I'm more than happy to hear people talking about themselves - I just wish people would remember that they've already told me a story before. The third time you hear about someone's school days when they did X, Y and Z can get a bit boring :D
New EU regulation is forcing Meta to offer users an ad-free alternative. That’s why they are doing this.

Meta’s revenue per user is around 40 USD iirc.

Tbf, as much as people like whining they definitely get 12 bucks a month worth of entertainment off of Facebook and Instagram. People will easily spend 4-6h on social media daily.

The reality is that this move will just prove that people like to talk but they are not willing to pay for their “freedom”.
> The memo warns that the quality of free software can meet or exceed that of commercial programs and describes it as a potentially serious threat to Microsoft.

Every industry seems to have gone through a similar cycles where the free has been a threat to the commercial products.
Proportionality doesn't have to be linear, and in this case it's unlikely to be, but in the way that makes the AML rules even more worthless.

You might deter the large majority of crime if the chance of getting caught is one in three, because the cost of getting caught is also high. But if the chance of getting caught is only 0.2%, from a psychological perspective people are much more likely to see that and discount the possibility of it happening at all, and mathematically it would be unreasonable to impose a penalty high enough to compensate for such an abysmal rate of effectiveness. So ineffective rules aren't just useless, they're disproportionately useless.
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> The final text of the eIDAS regulation counters this with a right to pseudonymity[: i]t allows users to use a pseudonym generated by the Wallet and that is only stored locally

In which scenarios could it happen that for pseudonymity, for the purpose of anonymity, one should resort to a pseudo-identity generated by the certificate for the actual identity?
A dating advice, for a guy, is "70/30"; Let her speak 70%, you speak 30%. People really like to share their own knowledge because that is their comfort zone, especially about themself.

When I throw a few cocktails back, I can get too comfortable with ranting, so I try to stfu every couple minutes to let others take the reins just in case I'm being overzealous (which is also embarrassing).
That line of business was proven unprofitable with the purchase of Sun by Oracle in 2009, finally closing decades of non-x86 server architectures like SPARC, PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha, and Itanium.
It's ironic that certain people claim that socialized medicine results in "death panels" that decide who lives and who dies. Turns out we already have them, in the form of for-profit corporations that have strong incentives to deny treatment.
They just changed the Strategie.

If you install LLM stuff or the relatively stable atom clone vscode. You are seeing dependencies that are also maintained by Microsoft.

No issue so far, except when you run a bleeding edge system and realize that all required M$ libs are outdated and either you downgrade or can't use that tool that has that single M$ made python dependency that won't build on a modern system...

More often than not the dependency issue was already reported months ago on their issue tracker, many people put their thumbs up and someone already wrote a patch. No active maintainer to comment, merge and release tho. This is exactly how we don't want our libs managed.

You can run linux on Windows but still can't install a dual boot system with Linux first. IMO that says it all
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That read to me like a veeeeery long complaint about... not sure what. The TL;DR is: "Kotlin Multiplatform will not replace everything everywhere, because nothing does". Apparently that counts as "not succeeding" to the author.

My hope is that JVM languages will come back for Desktop apps. And if some code/libraries can be shared between e.g. Android and Desktop, then that's a win.
“An easy method to reduce calories” is fairly revolutionary in the academic diet world. Consistently losing weight is something that people find hard to stick to. A diet that is safe & makes it easy is in and of itself something very interesting.

HN types tend to take the “just eat less, lol” attitude, but in the real world that just doesn’t work very well for the majority of people. There’s no point arguing that people “should” be better at it: they aren’t, for sound biological reasons. Forcing them to behave otherwise & then blaming them when it doesn’t work is simply cruel. Hence the idea that a diet that lets obese people steadily lose weight without any other interventions is a bigger deal than you’d otherwise expect.
I think what probably confuses people is that since everything was so dark they think that "wow the iPhone handles low light really well", but actually that only has to do with exposure. If you look at the behind the scenes shots they still had massive LED panels lighting the scenes.
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Interesting. The authors focused a lot on competing with market vs archival purposes. For me, and I reckon a lot of other people, I used libgen because I just want a PDF or epub that is not muddied with DRM or behind a university wall. Most of the books I download I already have a paper copy of, but want to be able to use it digitally. For me it’s all about convenience. I guess that would be pretty hard to measure.
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> Google's Chrome browser now aggressively thwarts uBlock on YouTube.com.

If the browser just does block ad-blocking on YouTube. If I would be hosting a video platform, can I add my site to the list?
Worse than that are people that turn a subject into an opportunity to talk about themself. It’s always the clue I’m talking to a narcissist. They’re always offended, demanding answers, rephrasing what you’ve said, attracting negative attention and blaming you for it.
"The more, the merrier" is an if statement
I know your type and it's great! But yes, a connection is a dance, so if I'm getting pelted with these seemingly reasonable questions (read: "and how did that make you feel?"), they start feeling insincere.
They seem to have rewritten/wrapped OTP, but it's not production ready. https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp

YMMV, but a BEAM language without OTP severely limits its appeal and usability.
One of the reasons it's so ineffective is that you can move to jurisdictions with different laws (or corrupt governments), so the law only negatively impacts innocent people in your own country, meanwhile criminals have stable alternatives.
> Every industry seems to have gone through a similar cycles where the free has been a threat to the commercial products.

I’m very doubtfull of that. How would a free car manufacturer work? Which free watch offering threatened the commercial industry? When did free construction threaten commercial offerings?
It's the geek version of prepping.

It isn't about taking prudent steps to cover yourself again likely scenarios.

It's an excuse to put a flamethrower on you pickup / write you own software stack from scratch.
It's like the old story of an actor:

".. anyway that's enough talk about me. What did YOU think about my performance."
I wish my experience was people freaking out but instead it's continued carelessness and near indifference. Oftentimes with HR NCOs even. I would like to see loss of PII given the same treatment as classified spillage.
Is there any way that someone now can deliberately add a verifiable date to an object/structure/etc.?
Something that a million plus years from now would objectively demonstrate the age to a researcher of the future.

Considering the strong tendency to disregard old written historical records people of the future will likely face a similar dilemma attempting to accurately date any ruins of our present day buildings.
Gleam doesn't have auto currying! Often folks find this (currying) a bit confusing to wrap their head around when learning functional programming and we don't feel like it really affords you much that couldn't already be achieved with just a little bit more work by the programmer.

Applicative builder APIs are the only thing we've found would be much much better if we had auto currying.
Often it's because getting involved on the business side means doing a lot of politics. Is this problem more urgent than that problem? Who will take credit for solving this problem? If I solve this problem, will they fire half the people who currently solve it manually? If I solve that problem, will it empower a certain scumbag VP who's been clamouring for it? Etc etc.

Codemonkey doesn't want to be involved with all that shit.
I thought about Brave, but because they repackage Blink, the EU could choose to go upstream and target the engine rather than the browser, and Google ends up part of the equation anyway.

Firefox is in the US, right? Pale Moon is too iirc and they forked Gecko to make Goanna.
Maybe we just shouldn't allow medical decisions to be made by people whose primary motivation is corporate profits.

Socialized medicine certainly has its issues, but if there has to be a "death panel", I'd rather it be composed of doctors than a bunch of bean counters.
I used it to not have to pay.

I buy 10 books per year off Amazon and the occasional Economist magazine. I am of course not paying for academic journal access or tons of academic books outside my field.
> no idea what force has to be exerted by the robot to keep the box from slipping...

I would assume that if it's anything like real chopsticks then the answer would be relatively little.

If you use chopsticks correctly, you can can use surprisingly little force to pick up realistically heavy objects. I believe the physics explanation of this ability is based around the concept of levers.
Could you expand on what alternatives you prefer? I'm not sure what is dated about Crafting Interpreters (but I'm also not following the latest developments in the compiler space).

Thorston Ball's Compiler and Interpreter book series is the only other book on the subject I find widely recommend and modern.
Thanks for getting back to me!

That's amazing, I always had this problem in my head about how to solve people stepping on each other's toes with high volume CD workflows.

This should solve it nicely, thanks again!
Ok this may be a little over the top but in my experience there’s a better way to learn bash: implement bash. I did this for a school project, along with job control, pipes, redirects, builtins. All of the trip ups mentionned in this article will become obvious.
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It's not going to be my favourite song but the official video did bring a few tears to my eye. There are plenty of worse Beatles songs.
Swift for system operations?
They had to. They wanted to get into cloud and their own OS was optimized for desktops.
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Interesting. I had to make a conscious effort to go the other way around, i.e.: to talk more about me. I grew up reading too many books aimed at the extroverts among us ("There's a reason we have 1 mouth and 2 ears!"; "Silence is golden!").

It's hard to underestimate missed opportunities because a shy introvert (me back then) took and (mis)applied advice meant for extroverts who were already unable to stop talking about themselves. I became virtually invisible. Not good for my career, for my social life, or for my success with women.

I realized much, much later, that to advance in my career, to have a social standing within a group, to be accepted and to have my opinions valued, I HAD to speak up. I HAD to sometimes convey forcefully a personal point of view. That's what makes a person interesting. Nobody remembers a nobody who "listened to me all night long". That only works if you're already somebody that people wouldn't expect to listen to them all night long in the first place!

Sadly, very seldom this kind of advice comes with the correct nuances, in which situation it applies, etc.
Certainly agree on the "think more, talk less" front.

I think we often forget or don't realize quite how central talking, and thinking about talking is thinking, is our thought process... or a substantial part of our thought process. How we figure out our values test them and learn to apply them.

We get extremely attached to the stuff that flies out of our mouth, consider it "me."

"You’ll seek only true friends who align with your values, and experiences that bring you purpose and fulfillment and you’ll find a calm quiet center within :)"

Here is where I diverge. I think better conversational habits kind of lead to the opposite. True friends with very different values. A better, calmer separation of self from others, and hence a better ability to appreciate and love those that aren't like us, don't align with our values.
Not a 1:1 replacement, but I created https://github.com/pacha/cels because I wanted to have a more intuitive way of working with JSON and YAML files
You can always politely remind the person that you've heard it before. Skip to expressing amusement or other before they finish the story.
> wouldn’t it be better to get follow the best practices of the era without the patent limitations?

You could gain a large amount in energy efficiency and portability over implementations from that era as well. A small pocket computer that runs well crafted software and a battery that lasts for weeks.
There is a balance. I often tell people a funny anecdote to loosen them up and break the ice. It’s work entertaining people all night though. Back and forth is best.
I don't like to talk about myself and I don't like listening to others talking about themselves, and that's all there is to human interaction so I rather skip it altogether.
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While mining may not be what Nvidia made them for, it's what most of them were sold for, so I think the warning on their likely condition still applies.

Beyond that, I'm pretty sure that the Techpowerup DB is wrong on the PCIe bandwidth. The first-hand reports I've seen online says the P106's are limited to PCIe 1.1:

* https://www.videogames.ai/2019/01/18/P106-100-GPU-Machine-Le... and 2022 followup on P106-90 https://www.videogames.ai/2022/11/28/Stable-Diffusion-Mining...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/lowendgaming/comments/135fymv/bough...

* https://linustechtips.com/topic/1026742-some-information-abo...

$20 is a fair price for those that actually need exactly what the P106 provides, but the cheeky flipside argument is that having a near monopoly might make even the e-waste overpriced. :)