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Nope, that is how VB worked until version 6.

In version 6, you could chose what compilation model, classical (p-code) or the new AOT backend.

Compiling BASIC to machine code is how it was born after all, the interpreters came to be in 8 bit machines, due to their hardware constraints.

Besides, Microsoft already had similar experience with a dual compilation model in Quick BASIC.

And not to leave this being my opinion only,

"Microsoft Visual Basic allows you to compile your applications to fast, efficient native code, using the same optimizing back-end compiler technology as Microsoft Visual C++. Native code compilation provides several options for optimizing and debugging that aren't available with p-code. These options are traditionally called "switches," because each option can be turned on or off."

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualst...
I can't comment on the Fairphone 5 specifically but some of the issues reported by the community sound similar to the two predecessors. My personal experience with two Fairphone 4 phones running Android 13 isn't great. Apps sporadically stop reacting to taps and auto-rotate in combination with standby somehow locks up the phone, usually with a black screen. The picture quality isn't good, the stock camera app misses half of the button presses and there's a 2-4 second delay until it actually takes a picture.
Figuring out the size of a molecule in 1890
Ah you mean all those countries I can't actually live in. Yeah, helpful.
They provided a complete exploit. It's only about 50 lines long. If you want to know if it works with other files it's pretty trivial to see for yourself.
The really interesting bit of this will be what the repair costs look like. Since that thing is all stainless, it's going to make repairs nearly impossible. Having done body and pain vehicular repair at a time in my life, I presume these cars are simply disposable in any major accident that isn't a bolt-on panel, or at best it'll need a paint job after to hide the repairs (and bondo).

See the DeLorean wiki how that worked out for his all-stainless vehicle in the 80's, but short answer: it didn't.

But hey, maybe a body shop can fix those bad factory gaps now!
I agree that if government was somehow involved in the lending (ie. choosing which companies to bail out), there would be a risk of picking winners/losers and creating zombie firms, but it's unclear how it's an issue exclusive to fiat currency. After all, governments can still take on debt even while on the gold standard, and can still engage in bailouts.
> gentoo shines when you need system wide control of build flags

I'm pretty sure nixos can do that, though?

There's this for CFLAGs on a single package:

nix-shell -p 'hello.overrideDerivation (old: { NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-Ofoo"; })' --run "hello --version"

And this page seems to talk about overriding settings for all of nixpkgs, and even something kind of like USE flags (although I agree that it's way less powerful and generic than USE flags; that's one place Gentoo wins): https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/nixpkgs-overriding-packag...
Many houses here have those as well. The outlets in question are rated for 3 x 230V x 16A, about 11kW.

I'm guessing it would be the same in Slovenia.
> It is proposed that this arrangement be modified to include a warrant requirement.

That defeats the entire point of this arrangement, which allows them to investigate in situations where the legal requirements for obtaining a warrant are not met. (Which is the elephant in the room: the entire premise of this system is to bypass established legal thresholds).

> Although I am comfortable accepting that your agency demonstrates the integrity you indicate

I'm not sure that's a safe assumption. As you mention, system abuse by law enforcement is incredibly common at agencies across the country. If you talk to any person at one of those agencies, they will almost invariably tell you that their coworkers take their job seriously, that they never abuse their own power, and that they can't imagine their coworkers doing the same.
With last few decades of Bernina machines in particular, techs are very much incentivized to replace failing boards wholesale. Older machines from the 70s and 80s don’t have the compact machine-built boards; in these you can replace blown capacitors, ect and that’s great. It’s one of the reasons you still have machines in operation 50 years on.

The Asian-built boards are usually the point of failure in the new machines (a distant second are sensors, but those also have smaller, simpler boards in em). A few years back Bernina actually lost the ability to claim they were Swiss-manufactured because the electronics were being made in Maylasia (if memory serves, this was back in 2017, I think).
"Users often depend on websites trusting the client environment they run in. This trust may assume that the client environment is honest about certain aspects of itself, keeps user data and intellectual property secure, and is transparent about whether or not a human is using it."

Double-plus-good rights management!
> One of my favorite ones is that the entire idea that any ancient population ever believed that the Earth is flat seems to come from a semi-fictional biography of Columbus from the 18th century.

See also the religion-science conflict thesis, which was popularized by Draper and White:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_thesis

> My guests today are David Hutchings and James C. Ungureanu, co-authors of Of Popes and Unicorns: Science, Christianity and How the Conflict Thesis Fooled the World. David is a physicist, science teacher and writer and James is a historian of science and religion. In this interview we discuss their book and the origin and impact of the Conflict Thesis - the pervasive but erroneous idea that religion and science have always been in conflict down the ages.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkfA4v8cwYM
You hit the nail on the head. It is a complex question without a straightforward answer.
did you check if you have any funky plugins enabled?
The 4090, although definitely overpriced, is one of the most impressive cards I've ever used. It handles almost every game I have at 4k120fps with little to no issues. It's by far the best card I've ever owned.

I think the mid-range may not be as attractive but even the 4080 boasts some pretty impressive performance. I don't really think we need yearly releases of cards if the current generations are already doing so well.
"better" is completely subjective. From my point of view dev tools are way better in Blink-based browsers, so Chrome is my default dev browser. The browsing experience is really good in Safari, I love the compact tabs and minimalist UI, so that's my default on macOS. Edge has a really nice productivity feature that lets you split a window to see two different pages at the same time, so that's my default on Windows. Other than being open source I don't see what would compel me to go back to Firefox in 2024, the competition improved a lot. Also I personally lost faith in the Mozilla Foundation.
I wonder how much video games contribute to the cultural spread of these things. For example, my first exposures to druidry and shamanism were from Everquest and World of Warcraft. They probably also contributed to a resurgence in tabletop games and Dungeons and Dragons.

As for manifestations and such, they're not that different from prayers, are they? Especially for lower status people with limited social and economic mobility, wishing something into reality is often the only thing they can actually do feel like they have some say in their lives. That's more a symptom of runaway capitalism than a tech backlash, IMO, though I guess the two are all too closely linked in this day and age.

People always seem to turn to spirituality in times of crisis, and the young today have no shortage of crises to deal with, lol. Bombarded with political vitriol, culture wars, viruses, wars, homelessness, climate change, recessions... who wouldn't want to disconnect and quietly yearn for a better world, however imaginary?
yeah you're right, you can get it, but it's not actively used as the main ingredient for meat substitution both in recipes and commercial products. In China it was one of the main ingredients already for decades I think, if not longer. Here it became soya for some reason
They pop new tabs, little “hint” boxes, et c, all the time. It’s the kind of thing that’s easy to become blind to as a power user (but is annoying if you do notice it), but that murders UX for lots of folks.
Vivaldi has been my browser for quite a while now, the customizability is great. Many of the features can be replicated through extensions, but the cohesive experience is unmatched. The bookmarks, window, and the (new) sessions are extremely useful and make tab management a breeze.
Boring React: my way of react
> I don't see the distinction

Performant Pytorch compatibility can be achieved without CUDA compatibility.

> In some cases one can replace rocm/openvino incompatible libraries with pure PyTorch

This is the crux of my point: AMD ought to focus on fixing these Pytorch incompatibilities instead of splitting focus with chasing CUDA translations.
What excellent evidence to my point!

Livy: Uniquely without a patron, so uniquely able to write without fear of reprisal -- he was independently wealthy

Chaucer: Dependent on patronage

Tolstoy: Yep, wealthy people can make art in their leisure time

Chekov: Yep, wealthy people can make art in their leisure time

Hawthorne: Registered his works with the copyright office. Lived with very well-off relatives throughout his youth. Had his college paid for by well-off relatives.

Thoreau: Went to Harvard and was the grandson of a very wealthy Boston merchant -- had plenty of access to money. His indigence was a philosophical decision he made.

I never argued that no good art is produced outside of commercial incentives, I didn't argue the "average" quality would go up or down. I believe that overall volume and diversity of art increases with commercial motivation, as artists can produce art without a direct attachment to existing wealth and power structures. There are more great pieces of art across a more diverse range of styles, perspectives, formats, etc. This is readily apparent in the historical record, and outliers like Livy are the exceptions that prove the rule.

We've never had a problem producing high-quality art from the perspective of and at the whims of the rich and powerful.
I miss chrome cast.
The few times Firefox hasn't worked is on incredibly niche and outdated sites like a local kennel to board my dog or my university parking system.

Edge works fine in those incredibly rare instances since I can't get it off my computer anyway. I think I have one
One of them happens to be the educational site https://www.deltamath.com/
Tell HN: TikTok is making users give their iPhone passwords for unclear reasons
See this article here for example: https://nypost.com/2023/12/27/tech/tiktok-makes-users-give-iphone-passwords-reasons-unclear/

Yes, it is a native iOS dialog and TikTok is not collecting your password, BUT when this report was discussed (and somehow flagged to death despite friendly comments), I did not see anyone mention the fact that the ACCELEROMETER - which TikTok has access to - can be used to discover your password even without direct input into the app.

The technique used here is >6 years old and was 70% accurate on the first try: https://www.techradar.com/news/scientists-find-a-way-to-crack-your-phones-password-using-just-the-accelerometer

Don’t dismiss this.
Yup, here is an example with all listed agents, although you probably want to modify it to not fully block all of them: https://darkvisitors.com/robots-txt-builder
Is there a way to use Apple's keychain with FF?
Voting could be handled with comments with specific content - wouldn’t even need to have a body, as everything could be in the headers. Totals could be computed at the server, unless we wanted real NNTP-style distributed discussions.
Yeah, IME it's always a tiny number of packages; IIRC my system only took a day to build because webkit took most of that time, and I didn't even try to compile firefox. (In fact, some of my setup retains the expectation of running firefox from a tarball from Mozilla specifically because I used to run gentoo)
Point in case:

Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients

https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-c...
I don't understand. How does Firefox on desktop "break" access to some websites? They ban any IP address using Firefox desktop? And somehow detect when the same person uses a VPN service?
WebKit is founded by Apple selling their devices and it runs perfectly fine on Linux via Epiphany. I don't see how it is related to ads in any way?
Sure, but you didn't need to suffer compiling stuff from scratch to know how UNIX works.

I used first Xenix in 1993-1994, and naturally wasn't compiling it from scratch.
Yes, we can all verify what's written.

I didn't use Smalltalk until 1988, so there was at-least the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of others.
What happens if you put a black hole into the sun?
I sincerey hope nobody reads this and thinks "I should start ghosting too". We want less ghosting in this process, not more.
Apple gets 36% of Google's advertising revenue from Safari's default search. So Apple is earning from Google's advertisements.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-witness-a...
I have the same experience. Interviews are very time consuming (prep 30 min, interview 1h, fill out the feedback form 30m-1h), and having several interviews each week means I spend ~1 day weekly on something that's not going to benefit me directly in any way (excluding the benefit of potentially working with good engineers I helped hiring).

So unless the incentives change, I don't see this process improving in big tech.
If you wait a year, you can instead contribute to the next $8.5M+ compensation package. It will be announced at the same time Mozilla announces that they're shutting down the browser and committing to becoming an AI cryptocurrency.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38794068
I am immediately nerd-sniped by this. Is there any code out there you know of I can see? The dual meta-data pages sounds precisely like double-buffering (from graphics; my domain of expertise). I am also drawn to append-only-like and persistent data-structures.
This. I gave up working with external recruiting agencies even if budget allows it for exactly the same reason. They just can’t beat me and my team in productivity and opportunity costs are high. Investing 40 hours of personal time to close a vacancy 1 month earlier means being able to delegate 1 month worth of work earlier.
Apple gets 36% of Google's advertising revenue from Safari's default search. So Apple is earning from Google's advertisements.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/google-witness-a...
Tor + ssh onion service?
It is common in languages that phonemes (groups of letters making a single sound) are pronounced differently depending in where in a word they occur. At the start of a word, they may get more emphasis and that can chance the pronunciation. At the end of the word, there is a tendency to drop emphasis as you prepare to speak the next word. That causes a phoneme like “er” to sound like “ur” at the ends of words.
Are you saying that, by default and without any account, the official YouTube iOS app does not display ads? Then why are there so many alternative frontends which have ad blocking as a feature and Reddit is littered with threads asking how to block ads in the app?
> Well thats the rub, isn't it? Right now the courts don't see this as a violating of the 4th amendment.

You omitted the end of my sentence in your quote, which is operative in this case. As explained in the article, the Third Party Doctrine establishes a loophole in 4th Amendment case law. The system you're describing is one which was created specifically to exploit this loophole: to violate patients' privacy while still complying with the 4th Amendment on technical grounds, all the while grossly violating it in spirit.
Learning to love to draw with Commander Mark
Tangentially, this makes me think about how much recently-introduced slang is for basically-random reasons like "it happened fit well into the rhyme and meter of a popular song" or "somebody attractive/famous said it" or "it sounds cool and kids' parents hate it".

Maybe there's a good reason for the bacon thing, or maybe some guy just tended to buy bacon on payday. /shrug
We need an updated version of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sKppwrLBY8
Ok, but obviously in this case you can check the "Don't show me this message again" checkbox and, like me, you'll have had to endure the burden of responding to this nag just once in years of using Firefox.

I may be forgetting about nags that don't allow themselves to be disabled, but if so, they're infrequent enough that they seem insignificant and obviously non-memorable.

Edit: I should add, when I had to have Chrome installed I really didn't like the fact that it updated itself automatically via a daemon process. I don't think having a constantly running background process for a browser, especially one from a giant advertising company, is a good alternative.
> > People will try and post early attention grabbing comments that are vaguely related to the story in order to get lots of upvotes

You sure? Speaking for myself of course but to me the upvotes do nothing , it's about being the author of a comment that sparks a debate between factions and hopefully my faction gets to clear the table on intellectual merit on each and every comment and that has more to do with how elaborate the comment is vs. how many upvotes it receives.
57,000 engineering interviews: Interview threshold, magic number, + more lessons
ChromeOS is a gentoo derivative, but I struggle to describe a system as being gentoo if portage isn't available in the final image.
I'm curious if anyone knows how far a model 3 will go at 45mph?
Lots of 5 year olds display superior cognitive ability.
EA (the philosophy) is simple and reasonable: the idea is to engage in altruism that has the greatest impact possible. Essentially, getting the most bang for your buck.

EA (the movement) takes that simple and reasonable idea and extrapolates it out to support some truly crazy and/or questionable efforts, some of which seem very harmful. In my view, the movement is uncomfortably cultish.

Here's a non-paywalled link to the article: https://archive.is/paC4K
Also, when the wind blows too much, we produce more than we need. Christmas day had negative prices before 7am, as we had too much wind power.
one seldom-mentioned reason employers ghost candidates deep in the process SEEMS silly, but is selfishly rational: they are hedging their bets. you came in second place, and they are waiting to see if their preferred candidate accepts before getting back to you.
As I understand it, EA is about deployment of money, not effort. You accumulate massive money, ostensibly in order to fund things of interest. There is a built-in assumption that other people (labor) will actually perform whatever work you're interested in funding. You don't go build things or heal people, you accumulate wealth and buy from someone the building or the healing.
I had a good laugh reading your comment and then found this: https://www.clownr.com/
I'd assume this also sets the lowest price in the danish zone to the UK market price when exporting?

NordPool market zones are crazy and some zones see insane price surges when demand prices for neighboring zones are high.
You raise a good point. Fortunately, I'm not a web developer but I will keep your point in mind in case I do any web development later.

From a web development standpoint, the scrollbars do seem to be an ignored feature for a lot of web pages. Adding scrollbars actually fixes a lot of issues with some sites. For example, some sites often have a frame inside of another frame, and this reveals the scrollbars for both frames. If I were to use my mouse wheel, I might scroll down inner frame or the outer frame, and I wouldn't know which one would be activated until I try, but with the scrollbars on, I always know which one is which. This was a surprise benefit to this change.
There's no way to do both simultaneously. You can, however, donate to The Mozilla Corporation and help pay their CEO's salary.[0] It won't help Firefox one iota, but you can do it.

0. https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-990-ty22-public-disclosure.pdf
I have a story from a client I worked with. They had 3 or 4 positions they needed filled for their team ranging from Jr to Sr level. But because they worked at a big company they couldn't do the recruiting directly, everything had to be through HR. While the problem was their assigned HR person was unresponsive and slow on the uptake and then took a huge vacation. So they just started looking at the applications that had been submitted through the portal and asking the division's secretary to reach out and start setting up appointments. Time to interview and make a decision on people went from literal months to 2-3 weeks.

Unfortunately this isn't a happy ending to the story. HR threw a hissy fit that they were being sidestepped (because they were completely incompetent ninnies.) And management had to come down on the manager who was doing it and tell him to follow the process.
Ex post facto laws are not possible in the United States
The question is if the problem is Firefox or the webpage.

Remember when Google killed the Edge render engine per YouTube problems?
copyright is a very anglo-saxon view of the thing. have a look on how the French do it, it's quite interesting. for them, the act of creation itself creates the property right of the creator. then, it is separated in several parts : what they call "droit moral" and "droit patrimonial". the first one, the moral right, stays with the creator at all times. it gives each creator a right not to see their work defiled or used in a way they don't want to be. the second one, patrimonial, contains all the rights about reproducing it (if it's a book or sculpture for example).

this is quite interesting. the creator creates something. then, through a contract you give someone either for some time, or forever, the patrimonial rights so they can make copies and distribute those (akin to the copy-right) but the other part of the right, the moral one, stays with the creator. if someone wants to use your creation for something you don't like (for example, using a piece of your music for a politicial person meeting) the moral right lets you say : no. you can distribute it and sell it according to our contract, but THIS I do not want.

we should replace copyright with that more evolved view.
>It severely limits how many filters that can exist within the plugin

The limits are 30,000 static rules and 30,000 dynamic rules. Running tens of thousands of regexs for each request can lead to a performance impact. Allowing for even higher limits may result in people having a worse experience from the browser becoming slower. The API was designed such that these limits can be increased in the future as available computation and user needs change over time. Getting extension developers to design their extensions in a way where they have to think about not slowing down the browser too much I think is a good thing and I would not call these current limits severe.

>also prevents plugins from updating block lists themselves

declarativeNetRequest lets rules be added and removed dynamically by the extension.

>forces those updated lists to go through the plugin store

The Chrome team has said that configuration can be updated outside of a store update. What the Chrome web store does not want are extensions that download and run code. This policy does not related to mv3.
Geographical spread of wind (and solar) generation helps produce a more consistent overall supply.