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grub2 has a builtin scripting language (very much like bash/bourne), which allows you to dynamically do all sorts of stuff.

I did a deep dive into grub2 years ago, and ended up creating my own sort-of-ventoy-like Swiss army knife, boot anything, grub config.

In some ways, you can treat grub2 as a mini os, with a scripting language.

So ... I'm sure that's how Ventoy does it (but I haven't really checked)
Fancy, custom editor or something that's out there?
Tor is one publisher that sells its works without DRM, though if you're a fan of Sanderson then you probably already know about them?
If you like Common Lisp, here is one:

https://gitlab.com/eql/lqml
The law doesn't apply because "Why are Things Expensive?" is not a headline. It's the title of a website.
Last time I was about to remove vmware which was in the end not worth the cost and the dependency, I was threaten of violence. Mafia?
What's the QML story when using pyside6/pyqt? I know it's possible to use both but I was wondering if it's worth it, and how painful it is to add to an existing app?
Neither of those need you to rent anything to throw around either, though, as far as I know.
I think you're right many don't understand it, but also many who do understand it a bit seem to be scared of trying to embrace it, and so never really experience the power of it.

Even within the Ruby community a whole lot of people just stop at fairly basic exploration in the Rails console and don't explore the full level of flexibility they get you.

And I think a good Ruby IDE would be one that tried to be more of a Smalltalk like environment - if you want to refactor Ruby code, you're far better off starting by introspecting an actually loaded app environment rather than starting from a static parse.
Your line of argumentation seems specious. If you have evidence to show that making compliance more efficient encourages non-compliance, I'd like to see it. It seems to me that if a corporation is inclined to knowingly abuse a small inventor's patent, they'll do so regardless of how efficient the compliance process is.

Perhaps I don't know the basic dynamics of patent litigation. You're an expert, could you enlighten me?
It doesn't necessarily matter that there are quadrillions of possible openings. Studying traps that occur often in the openings you play is definitely helpful.

For example, if you're an 1. e4 e5 player you'll want to learn how to counter the Fried Liver attack, as it's one of the most popular lines at the beginner to intermediate level.

You don't need to know many lines 7 moves deep either, just a couple of moves is already very helpful.
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This guy built an entire business off of selling a little JavaScript chat "frontend" to ChatGPT and nothing else? I'm in the wrong industry.
There are a few research languages where handling secrets and constant-time operations correctly is a first-class feature. See for example:

https://github.com/google/rune
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There were technicians long before phones, I'm sure many of them would say their lives were great.

I'm still not planning to give up my phone though. I like having tracking on my keys and being able to add stuff to my shopping list without stopping, and no longer being constantly lost everywhere I go.
> the supply price of diamond stones has almost nothing to do with the cost of a diamond ring

Correct. But it does have something to do with the supply of *diamond rings*. Since there is a de-facto cartel between producers, middlemen and retail, it is not easy for new entrants to sell their rings to consumers. So no, there is not an oversupply of real diamond rings that would depress prices. Also, there is a sizeable % of people that want to spend more on a ring, which is quite rare in markets.

Also, I bet that there is a growing ecosystem of individuals and companies producing fake diamond jewellery and selling it direct to consumer (haven't looked into it).
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The employees certainly benefit from this.

If the original company doesn’t want their staff to be hired away, they can pay them better or provide gardening leaves.

If they have such amazing technology, why don’t they monetise it and pay their employees well? They can provide vesting options to their key employees that require them to stay.
People centralize because centralization solves real problems they have.

If we want decentralization, we have to build alternatives as convenient and simple as the centralized ones, and that's a hard project.
This project always seemed to be swimming against the current by using Go but for the longest time no one would state the obvious. Finally. Now I know I'm not krazy.
Things used to be decentralized well when I think back to the early days of the internet. When I think about why, its because links were expensive or unreliable - what centralization brought was a kind of predictability and ease of use. The challenge for new decentralized systems to address I think is to offer a similar level of convenience as the centralized systems. Just being decentralized doesn't seem enough.
About 15 or so years ago, I was involved in a project to do automatic document generation. The documents that were to be generated were for various clients in various industries. I won't name the company for various reasons.

The idea at the time was to produce a customised document based on client, client industry, products applicable and a few other specified (but varying requirements).

The customisation of the document was in the hands of the relevant sales/marketing person involved and was based a that person specifying a range of options (standardised by industry/products).

What became obvious over the time of developing this particular systems was that the sales/marketing people were actually not interested in such a facility, even though it would save them many hours producing the documents required.

Work undertaken with other companies that had interactions with sales/marketing teams also highlighted that there is a level of distrust with such systems.

Over many years, I have had to write user guides, functional specifications, technical specifications and product documentation and even though there may be company standards for such documentation, every document has had much that was not common even in the same class of documents.

I don't know if your system would be that helpful to many people. It might be useful for a small class of people. However, I don't think that this would be a useful idea to try and sell, so to speak.

Of course, things may have changed in the last ten years.
The fissure length at its maximum is thought to be around 4km in length, about 2.5 miles. The output has diminshed and the webcam is zoomed in on the most active part right now, which is probably not more than a few hundred meters.
In general yes, there are other languages where this is easy too.

Then again, ruby and rails make it especially easy; perhaps the amount of conventions helps. Other things, like the ‘?’, clean syntax and focus on structure (OO), help too.
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For me, creating tech very often starts on a phone, as a random note that probably sits there for months as a "Wouldn't that be cool" project, before I collect enough of the pieces of research to actually start.
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A friend of mine devised an empirical rule to predict the highest Go ranking that a player will reach: the ranking after the first 4 years of play plus 4.

You can check that on https://europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/
and pick some players at random.

They have a nice date/rank graph and all those graphs start with an almost vertical growth which slows down and flattens. Some players play less often and get weaker but that's not the point.

I have no idea if it applies to chess too, possibly with different parameters, but why not? They are both games played with the brain by humans.
> The ability to get directly into the machinery to inspect and command the state of your systems is super powerful, and as a result, very little work is put into higher level ops tooling like it might be in more opaque systems.

Yes, but this is something that IMO didn't age too well when we transitioned from pet servers to cattle servers (and that's even more true in a serverless scenario or even just Kubernetes). I'm not saying that you can't do it but 1) it will discouraged by security best-practices in most places 2) the Ruby in which you are in might disappear under your feet in a second
That doesn't obviate the rights of the other Masimo shareholders. Imagine Apple owes Masimo a $2B judgement. Then they buy the 50.1% of company for $500M and write off the debt to their subsidiary. The other 49.9% say, wait, we were owed $1B dollars in that settlement and all we got was $250M of AAPL stock! And they sue.
I'd put a lot of fault with the internet search and discovery mechanisms, that almost all favor popularity based mechanisms.

This works well in a vacuum, but as they start to direct traffic, they feed into themselves to increase the popularity of whats popular, and obscurity of what's obscure; and inevitably create an extreme Pareto distribution where the Internet seems to consist of only a handful of different services.
Is there still a legless phantom crew member on ISS?
Are people actually using this to 10x themselves / create actually profitable services already?

Or more like finetuning a model to have an edge on the leaderboards for a day or two then taking VC money, or integrating som "AI magic" into existing userbases?

I've been following the locallama sub on reddit and the few services created seem very niche besides tons of hobby stuff.
chess.com puts some effort in detecting cheaters. When I was active user I was receiving messages stating that such and such game was lost to cheater and my rating is updated to reflect that.

Cheater detection sounds like very interesting problem
The problem with Flutter and Dart is that it changes so often; a 1-year old codebase is probably always non-compilable on a newer Flutter version. Even the language evolves quickly; I did some app on Flutter one day, only to discover two years later that the language itself evolved to support nullable types, and the official way of migration was to "just create a new project from scratch and copy your files to this new project, fixing compilation errors", because the amount of small items to tweak was too high.

Another problem with Flutter is that the build system is arcane, nobody understands it, save for framework authors. It's being marketed as "you don't need to understand it, just push this button", until something breaks, and something always breaks from time to time.

One could argue that it's good that the ecosystem evolves to a better version; but the problem is that often this "better" is different for different people. If we're aligned in the same set of definitions then maybe it's a positive thing, but when the definitions diverge, a problem starts to be visible.

So I wouldn't say that using Qt/C++ is harder than Flutter/Dart. Maybe for one-off easy apps that are forgotten about a few months after creation. But for long-term programming and maintenance, Qt/C++ beats Flutter every day of the week.
That's literally contrary to what FSF says.

Please read: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html .

For example:

Apache License, Version 2.0
This is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GNU GPL.

Or:

Expat License [this is the MIT license]
This is a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL.

The fact that a license allows derivative work to take away the 4 freedoms don't make the license not a free software license. An end user in reception of a permissively licensed free software can make full use of the 4 freedoms.
There are memory management tools:

You can layout a struct (which are value types not class types in c#/dotnet) with LayoutKind attributes: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime....

You can also use things like Span<T> and other types for better control.

But honestly C# performs generally so well that it tends to be you only reach for these tools after you spot a performance problem and profile it, which is actually quite rare.

IME most performance problems and solutions still tend to be, "Oh this person took a naive approach here, we can use a specialised loop or data structure to fix that".
You know, the boys who don't brag are harder to notice in the sea of testosterone. This is one of the reasons that prejudice is so unintelligent and problematic.

There's simply zero chance that you didn't have a single male student who could outcompete a female student at least once in any topic. Your eyes were ignorant with prejudice.
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they are shooting fish in a barrel, the fines should not go to the local government = severe conflict of interest, they should go to the Crown...
> everybody turned the heat down

and the weather was unusally warm. If it had been a bad winter, i doubt people will be so willing.

> haven't really reduced out CO2 emissions

nobody wants to pay the costs (neither collectively, nor privately) to do this. It's the fundamental reason why climate policy doesn't work. It has to be based on economics, and technological improvement - these takes quite a while methinks.
A tangent, and (for Dr Propp) suggestion and question:

- Related: https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2023/06/16/what-is-a-matri...

- May I suggest adding a link to https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/feed/ somewhere more easily found than via "View Source"?

- Since you (a) mentioned a working title "... Adventures of Plus and Times" and (b) have classroom experience, do you have any opinions on the following: when overloading the "high school" arithmetic operators for ring- and lattice-like structures, is it easier for people to learn (a) overloads with traditional use (ie × ↦ meet, + ↦ xor in Electrical Engineering), (b) overloads with mnemonic stories: "product makes things larger; modulo makes things smaller", or (c) any consistent overloads, because just making the abstraction leap is much more difficult than remembering any operator assignments?
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C# has support for unsafe code / pointer arithmetic / memory pinning / unmanaged types [1]. Using them it's possible to write performant computations where needed.

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> Not everyone's so greedy that they must be compensated for every breath they take.

It's not that they are greedy. It is that well performed job takes time, years and years. It is not a firefighting job you can do in your off hours on a weekend. We wouldn't ask the caretaker to work for free, we wouldn't ask the director to work for free, we wouldn't ask the desk clerks to work for free, so why are we asking IT people to work for free?
This is not a paper about wage inequality though, it's a paper about sorting. This is pretty much all it has to say about wage inequality:

"Sorting between workers and firms can have significant implications for wage inequality."
I guess that I missed part of the URL. Resubmitted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38694391

https://nitter.net/bwesterb/status/1734586155868287457
He never actually said that though. It’s attributed to him a lot (on “inspirational” quote sites, printed on mugs etc) but apparently there’s no proof he actually said that.
People act as if there are two companies (Google and Apple) and two business models (ads and selling devices). In fact Google is perfectly capable of charging a subscription in a context where ads don't make sense, like Drive, or even as an alternative, like Youtube Premium. Many people would pay a subscription for an assistant that's actually good, and of course having such an assistant integrated with email and calendar would be extremely valuable.
Seeing that both the devs and target audience are in mainland China, they're used to rules and regulations being more like suggestions anyway.
Very nice!
I feel like this is a perfect case of what PWAs are made for.
Just to be that picky guy;
> Android phones might even momentarily be more desirable than iphone

Most of the world is already there, and it's not momentary. iPhones only dominate the market in North America - Android has the majority basically everywhere else

As for docs, I can see them pushing for more Gemini integration depending on how M$ Copilot goes when it reaches saturation
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I can sometimes smell this from my house (about 50 miles away) when the wind blows just right.

No many in the Houston area seem to think twice about this stuff. You will see endearing remarks about it in news and social most of the time. Very rarely is the local attention negative in tone.

Some days when I drive downtown it's like a chemical river flowing across the freeway. A few miles of "let's keep the windows up" before you make it across.
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> And in reality, Adobe actually lost progress on XD and Figma has come out with an incredible amount of features this year.

Features and free advertising. Many people knew of Figma, but now everyone knows of Figma. It's the tool that was good enough to scare Adobe into paying 20B and stopped by regulators.
So that is two layers of filler to create a perfect bed to print on?
I've just added a Windows version too.
> stole a trillion Euros from the population

valuation of stocks growing higher is not stealing. Using hyperbole is not making your argument any more convincing.
No, that would also be a poor choice.
>Your analogy doesn't make sense

Happy to accept that criticism, it's fair. I'm sorry for pilling on more poor analogies...

> Apple is trying to put a fence around is not something that it should be legal for them to in the first place

Why?

When iMessage was released, it was done so as covenience feature for Apple users on iOS (so iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch) to communicate with other Apple users. iMessage on OS X came later.

From the press release (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2011/10/04Apple-Launches-iPho... WWDC announcement https://youtu.be/MvYEc8bFK-o?t=1709)

iPhone 4S comes with iOS 5, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, which includes over 200 new features including Notification Center, an innovative way to easily view and manage notifications in one place without interruption and iMessage™, a new messaging service that lets you easily send text messages, photos and videos between all iOS 5 users. iOS 5 will also be available as a free software update for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS customers allowing them to experience these amazing new features.

Some have used the emails from the Epic trial discovery to illustrate that Apple whant to keep iMessage as "lock-in" for iPhone. I'd suggest that the very fact that they had the discussion shows that the intention was never to be a multiplatform messaging client. They don't compete in that market. I also see anything inherently wrong with having sticky features which go to differentiating a product to make churning, or steering sales decisions a harder choice. Ultimately, there are choices and kids can have Android handsets and communicate securely and for free with multiple differnt apps. Preventing moving numbers and and therefore blocking the ability to change messaging providers is wrong, and Apple were rightly called out on this and have fixed that.

Should a user be able to choose the default messaging app? Yes. I see no rational argument against, except perhaps for security, but that can be dealt with and limiting liability through sensible terms is always an option.

I'm on the fence as to whether they should open it up to Android users and provide a client. I certainly don't think they should be forced or coerced, especially given that the market is so competative oustide of the US (the 3rd largest market globally, but dwarfed by the first two [CN, APAC] and only marginably larger than the next two (West Europe, Latin America), RCS fallback will solve most of the issues mentioned elsewhere. The color of bubble is not one, and nor should it be. It's an American cultural phenomena. There absolutely should be an easy way to defferentiate which service a message originates from. Note: green has never ment Android.
Could very well be, in which case that would be even worse.
seems like giving people money drives up prices more than giving money to big co's
The original post said that energy costs were high due to failed green policy. Do you have anything to add on that matter?

In the UK we have Drax power plant in Yorkshire burning wood pellets shipped from North American forests and calling it green. I don't think it has much effect on overall global energy prices.
What about this playing a role?

Is the role of anti-trust, big tech regulation and regulatory fees playing a bigger role here?

Is the era of AI more in favour of say both Figma / Adobe competing vs collaborating - similar datasets?

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/19/tech/google-play-store-se...
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> lack of experience

I've had electric cars for almost a decade, and I currently have two Teslas.

> concocting scenarios which don't exist

I've had plenty of situations where my car didn't charge. (Don't buy an electric Chrysler, btw.)

The most recent situations have to do with Tesla's new feature where the car will primarily charge on solar.

> "Be charged to 100% by this time"

What I hit was with my dual car charger. (Grizzle) It gets screwed up by things like timers when two cars are plugged in.

It divides the amperage up evenly until a car finishes charging, and then gives the car that is still charging most of the amperage. If the 2nd car is on a timer, the charger will never give it full amperage until you unplug and replug it.

This is a problem with Tesla's solar charging feature, because only one car will charge at a time. When car 1 finishes and car 2 starts charging, the charger doesn't adjust, and the car 2 never gets full amperage.

You'll hit the same thing if you have two cars plugged in and they are both on timers.

Granted I could probably push on Grizzle to give me a firmware update, but my experience is that they ignore support questions.
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