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Qt is probably closest among cross platform frameworks, but comes with some thorns that can be difficult to ignore and contribute to that “hard to use” sentiment.

The way Qt Widgets is for practical purposes usable only with C++ or Python is one such thorn, as is its use of custom types like QString. Both increase friction significantly as many devs aren’t able to use their preferred language and can’t use the language primitives they’re familiar with. Qt Widgets apps also require a good deal extra elbowgrease to make feel good on all supported platforms due to oddities in widget layout and drawing, and to my knowledge use of newer features (like blurred “vibrant” (macOS) or “mica” (Windows) window backgrounds requires dropping down to native code.

For QML, devs are stuck with JavaScript (which while functional, isn’t everybody’s cup of tea) and face some of the same issues that web/electron devs do with needing to pull in third party frameworks (like MauiKit[0]) to have a usable widget set.

Distribution is a problem across the board in Qt with tooling being a less than great state. It’s a very common issue to see crashes in Qt apps as a result of some incantation being missing.

In short Qt has the right idea, but I believe it’s held back by many of its technical and design decisions. I’d like to see a project that’s like it, but built in a modern language with good C interop so high quality efficient bindings can be easily generated, and has a bigger focus on good DX.

[0]: https://mauikit.org
I wish Apple had stuck to Model-View-Controller instead of shoehorning React philosophy into their native UI framework. Personally, I find the "old-school" way of doing things far easier to follow and understand.
check out what epirus is working on, it's basically a directed HERF weapon that can mount on a vehicle or ship

https://www.epirusinc.com/counter-electronics
Somebody didn't believe me that I thought (based on LinkedIn) that there were over 50k AWS employees in 2020. According to this article, there are over 100k AWS employeees now!
I'm amazed at how many there are. Does anyone actually reuse any of the smaller ones?
The reference compiler, DMD, is open source: https://github.com/dlang/dmd

But they don't accept just any Pull Request or features the community submits, understandably. There's a process called DIP for language improvements: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/README.md

However, by some accounts, it's really hard to get anything through.

Given D already has so many features, I find that to be a good thing, to be honest, but not everyone agrees, of course.
This doesn’t make sense to me either. Even when opening a new CD at an existing bank it asks me to confirm the address on file.

I guess it’s possible the scammers scoped out banks and found the shitty ones with inadequate practices…
I'm not anonymous at all lol. And you're right that the news articles you read are about more tangential contractors that might just be doing low rent data collection. Me and a dozen other people have repeatedly told you it's not just those functions. I'm talking core work in core functions on core products. All of them. There is no limit and they are literally on every team doing what you and I can agree to call "real work" in shorthand. Code in Google products. Figma designs used to make Google products. There's no slight of hand, no trickery, no limit. I don't know what else to tell you.
It seems like a giant class action lawsuit with a juicy target if Apple is overbilling customers on usage for videos in iCloud. I know lots of people paying for more storage in iCloud would appreciate the reprieve of lower costs.
> Just hope you don't run into some unforeseen disruption.

Love to see a comparison of trains vs air travel here. My last few trips have had around a 50% success rate for flights.
Where do you live? You may think your area has a drug problem, but it’s probably not on the level of these large west coast cities.
And now it's microblogging, sadly (well, it very nearly was a digital wallet.) I think an AI chatbot's only a matter of time...
I think there are all sorts of modulation schemes that can be used to generate a PDM like signal. The good ones do a lot of clever things to do noise shaping and make sure it's all up the high frequencies so gets filtered out.
Agency work / consulting
I can find evidence to suggest that consuming processed foods increases microplastic exposure[1], but I don't think that's the main reason public health officials advise against eating processed foods.

It's a different level of cause and effect, but the main reason I've read is that people consume a higher amount of calories in processed food to attain the same level of satiety attained from non-processed foods. This is in large part due to added sugar and salt, as well as the removal of fibre and other nutrients during the refinement process.[2]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041201...

[2] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-are-ultra-processed...
But that is pretty much exactly the contention of Rocky Linux. Well actually, they don't explicitly accuse Red Hat of unjustly locking down the source code, just that there are now some extra hurdles required to legally obtain it.

They do contend, that they are exercising their legal rights as enumerated in the software license that Red Hat agreed to, when it started to use and freely redistribute the work of others.

If you are denying they have this legal right, then I believe it's on you to explain and justify this legal position, rather than just asserting it as fact.
Greece Opens Restored Palace of Aigai, where Alexander the Great was sworn king
Who says their self-determination will be any less violent if their right is rejected and they do it anyway?

Let's face a simple truth, Israel has no plan for Palestine but refuses to let it go. They are not winning this except by ethnic cleansing.

We can imagine a State of Palestine stabilizing eventually, but we can't imagine how Israel can ever stabilize its roofless GULag camp.
We spend tens of thousands of dollars per homeless person, and even more per drug user. We should just sweep them up and move them to forests or parking lots where they can camp. Much easier to manage them, and the drug dealers will know where to go. I don't see why they should have the right to tens of thousands of dollars in free resources PLUS living where all of the tourists and workers need to go.

I say, move them to the woods. If you want to go camping, do it in nature
California judge rules Snap must face lawsuit over children's fentanyl purchases
I have nothing specific to add on the subject, but…

It’s ironic to see PG flagged on basically his own website.
so are what are you actually opposed to? the general concept of drugs? you can't really get rid of those: pharmacologically active substances exist as a natural consequence of how biological receptor and message-based systems work. unless you propose dispensing with organic bodies altogether and uploading our consciousnesses to the cloud. until such time nature can and will produce molecules that fit into the same receptors that dopamine, serotonin, GABA, glutamate, etc. do

are you opposed to "non-productive activity"? fuck it, let's ban the entire concept of recreation. free solo climbing isn't particularly productive and is a risky activity; anyone caught doing so should be promptly and harshly scolded, and then sent to the salt mines forever to produce economic value

are you opposed to violence and human suffering? yeah, me too, but drug abuse is by far not the only thing that can result in negative societal consequences. antisocial behavior (which, to be clear, is not _all_ drug use, but is some, same as how not all driving is reckless driving) is an unfortunate aspect of the human condition

"things that I don't engage with personally are inherently bad and should be purged from society" is a bigoted and egotistic argument. you probably do things i find unpleasant and i probably do things you find unpleasant. as a society, we find ways to understand why others do things and to minimize their negative impacts--we allow drinking, but not the markedly more dangerous drunk driving. "simply eliminate everything that may have a negative impact that i, personally, the saintliest person in the world, do not partake in" is a non-starter.
No, we haven’t agreed that. I continue to feel somewhat rude when not looking at the camera during a conversation. And it matters to nonverbal communication.
Sure, this may be the perspective of an individual suffering from a mental dependence on a dangerous mind-altering substance, but it deserves equal consideration. (/sarcasm)

Unfortunately, I don't think it's this type of visible but marginal nonsense which perpetuates the SF drug economy. There are simply a lot of people making money on the blight. Private equity funds have piled into methadone treatment, even though other treatments are more evidence-based. No matter the customers are penniless wretches, the government is billed astronomical sums to perpetuate their suffering. These are some of the highest profit margin balance sheets I've ever seen. A public which lacks the stomach to account for whether remediations are evidence-based, collaborates with the cartels to keep the whole thing spinning and shambling.

Walk into any hospital waiting room, and count the dollars disappear to "treat" the dopesickness of a victim. Like the rest of the US healthcare system, it's a galactic obvious grift enabled by regulatory capture, operating in plain sight.
I guess I don't consider this a legit argument. You could point to negative externalities that are the result of literally everything humans produce/consume.

But if we want to use that metric, OK. I would venture a guess that the production of coffee yields a heck of a lot less suffering than the production of cocaine, heroin or meth. Any far fewer people consume the latter.
Please explain how it's not!

And exception is a deviance that must be tracked and taken care of adding mental load to the list of things a pilot has to do.

The normalization is pushing this deviance into a new system that isn't complete and therefore has no refit requirement over a large base of aircraft.
How do you build a thinking AI? First come up with your own definition of what a thinking AI is, then design one that meets it.
It is reverse mode, not forward mode.

As for the edsl, you can claim it is, but why? There is no parser, no syntax, nothing that would make any user think they are learning a new language. Would you call numpy an edsl ?
Good, very long overdue. Blast them for forbidding competing browsers on iOS.
Meanwhile, Japan operates trains at 200mph and operators apologize profusely should they actually experience a 25 second delay.

Maybe the issue isn't that people complain about shitty service, but the fact that the service is shitty in the first place. At 80mph and at 30mph.
The Israeli lobby is the most powerful, and it mostly consists of disoriented pseudo-Christians who misread the Bible and people who directly benefit from doing so. Most prominent American Jews support Palestine; Religious Jews, too!
nope, that's essentially the problem. Snap is curated and controlled by Canonical and they are forcing the issue.

The issues that both share are slow starts, larger package sizes, lack of safe ways to interact with the rest of the OS, etc.

Base concept is actually really good- Separating out dependencies and "containerizing/sandboxing" userspace applications is just a no brainier from a security and maintenance point of view. Its so nice to be able to easily install several versions side by side and know you arent fucking up system dependencies. Once they (flatpack, snap, some future competitor/iteration) iron out the kinks it'll 100% be the way systems are managed.
There’s no such thing as a right or wrong side of history.

If the allies lost WW2 the right side of history would involve singing the Horst-Wessel-Lied with your morning coffee.

It is only thanks to human sacrifice and spirit of will that we don’t.

What about Perestroika? Which side of history was the right/wrong one there, the USSR or the RF?

Is the modern Polish or Ukrainian state on the right or wrong side? Israel and Palestine?

History is history, there’s just one and it’s written by humanity.
>a web dev agency that focuses on an offline business whose owners are not tech savvy or care not to be.

That is a very good idea, the problem I find with that is that is a FB, Twitter and/or IG page are actually going to drive more business than a website as for as word of mouth and referrals, which is where the real growth is. So then if you are to continue with them, you are getting into social media management and higher fees, which they didn't want to begin with.

The website does help with Google searches and is a general must have box to tick off.
How a 110-year-old water bottle became a $750M sensation
I hate going to the gas station
This is also a trivially true statement and meaningless for real-world decision-making.

In a large enough dataset and given enough time, a meteor will eventually hit a plane in-flight and destroy it. Should regulation require the airplanes carry anti-meteor armor?

Your qualitative judgement that these conditions described occur all the time actually suggests it's not a big deal, because the currently-flying Max 8 and Max 9 variants have the same issue, and none have experienced a structural failure.

The scenario here is that, if the pilots forget to turn off anti-ice, the nacelle will eventually overheat, weaken, and possibly fail. But clearly that is not guaranteed to happen, or happen immediately. What I'm saying is that actual decision-making here depends on what the statistics of this possible failure actually are, given that the pilots forget to turn off the anti-ice.
> simulate human-like thought processes

It ought to be clear to a cognitive scientist (which the author is) that we do not know how human thought processes work except at a very course level.

The idea that we have an understanding refined enough to take the next step and "simulate" these processes is just pure crackpot bunk.
Hamas made the calculation that Israel's response to the atrocities of October 7th would be vengeful and unsubtle (and indeed it has been), and that world opinion would reel Israel in before they could seriously degrade Hamas as an organisation. Is this what we want?
> Is it so hard to live and let live?

No, it is easy. As long as the junkies have the same courtesy towards the rest of us.
I'm taking this opportunity to migrate a few k8s clusters from CentOS 7 to CoreOS instead. Which is a big move because it means that instead of using Ansible to setup the k8s services we put everything into Terraform and Ignition. Or cloud-init if you want to use Talos or Flatcar.

Other than those big clusters we have some CentOS systems spread out for minor services and those we're migrating to either RHEL or Fedora, depending on circumstances and requirements.
Closing word at Zürich Colloquium (1968)
I could see this being an argument, basically saying “we’re okay with the size of the problem now but don’t want to make the problem bigger by allowing more planes to fly with this issue”.

But if that was the argument, then that would also mean that we shouldn’t allow any newly built 8s and 9s to enter service, and I don’t see that happening.
Pretty sure two wrongs don't make a right.
The unsafe planes should definitely be grounded but that would be expensive.
Just because we screwed up before, and exempted planes, doesn't mean we should knowingly continue to ignore danger.
A complete (so far) Star Citizen ship collection now costs $48,000
Many voices of reason have been flagged here.
Are we sure the tutorial was medium? It might have been quite good, or at least above average. Ba dum tss.

“medium” should be capitalised in the title, as it refers to the blogging platform.

https://medium.com
Please no. I switched off Ubuntu because of Snap. It always caused problems with Firefox. It would update it in the background, which would cause it to silently break. I switched to the apt source of it but when I reinstalled just opted for a distro that didn't have Snap running.
Mind-Decoding Technologies Raise Hopes (and Worries)
How rough is the terrain you're going over? I've taken a Honda Fit on some pretty terrible dirt roads out in the countryside. Clearance has occasionally been a bit tight, but the Fit is a pretty low to the ground car already and it's made out just fine anyway.

I recently bought a Hyundai Ioniq 5, but I would kill for a 1:1 replica of the Honda Fit but electric. I'm pretty sure it's the ideal car.
What are you talking about, Tesla doesn't ship any autonomous features. Driver assist features do not make a car autonomous. Tesla has always plainly said you must monitor the car at all times autopilot is engaged, the exact same way that turning on cruise control in any other car doesn't make the car autonomous even though the car is managing the speed.
2024 – AI and Rise of the Robots
Yeah, I’ve said in many interviews that I know a lot about signing Apple products, all learned entirely against my will.
If the extreme Israeli rightwing is collaborating with Hamas to use violence as a tool to legitimize them both I think that makes them enemies to the civilized world, not allies against the other of the two. (This goes for Hamas supporters as well.)
Let the mass surveillance begin!
> I'm talking core work in core functions on core products. All of them.

Yet you can't list even one specific example. If you really are seeing this happen, go contact the NLRB or the media and get your observations out there and into the public discussion. If all you're willing to say is "trust me, it happens, but I can't even list any one example of this happening" is it really surprising that you're being met with skepticism?
Wirecutter has gone downhill rapidly, to the extent that I wouldn't trust it anymore. Which is a shame, since it used to be my go-to for nearly everything.

Here's an article about it:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/wirec...
That's not how the FAA views it. There's no such thing as "safe to fly" or "not safe to fly." There are simply probabilities of accidents in different conditions. What constitutes an acceptable probability of accident is a judgment call.

The FAA has many, many safety rules, but which ones apply to a particular situation depend on a number of factors. For example, if you're flying by yourself in a small airplane, you don't even need a pilot's license! (solo student)

In the world of aircraft certification, on one end you have experimental aircraft that untrained people designed and built and may be extremely dangerous. The FAA is relatively hands-off on this as long as you put EXPERIMENTAL in big letters on the side and don't charge anyone for a ride. When you start to get into heavier, faster planes, like people who buy MiGs, there are rules about where they can operate that are intended to protect the public on the ground, but not the pilots/passengers. On the other hand, a new Boeing commercial jet is subject to intense scrutiny in almost every aspect. Obviously you see an enormous difference in accident rates between commercial airliners and experimental homebuilts.

One other dimension of this is grandfathering. Once a design is set, can be very expensive to change it. You might like the 737 to have better redundancy in its hydraulic system, and if Boeing ever designs a replacement for it, they will have to put that in. However, if every regulation the FAA made applied to existing designs, either the FAA would have to keep the new regulations to an absolute minimum, which would harm safety going forward, or Boeing would have to redesign their planes every year, or maybe even send all of the old planes to the scrapyard!

This is not economically feasible, so the FAA only grounds aircraft for very serious safety issues. Parts are allowed to have tolerances in service that they aren't allowed to coming off the production line. Similarly, old design aircraft are allowed to have features that a new design aircraft wouldn't.

What this allows the FAA to do though is to improve safety incrementally as new designs are created. Since it's so much cheaper to put in a new feature in a new design, it's economically feasible to provide safety for progressively more unlikely failure scenarios for these aircraft. Gradually, the old aircraft are retired, and safety gets progressively better.

The 737MAX notwithstanding (and you could make a strong argument that Boeing abused the grandfathering rules with that aircraft), the progressive and dramatic improvements in airline safety over the past 100 years is a testament to the wisdom of this approach.
Except Ubuntu did what Fedora/RH didn't used to do - break my shit.

Everything would work great, then bam giant updates, everything broken (bluetooth, wifi, video, graphics cards, audio), have to start from scratch learning some new fad Ubuntu folk had invented.

When I want to tinker or try out cool-new-tech, then sure, a platform like Ubuntu is great - semi-stable, half-working software.

When I don't, Debian/CentOS are hands down just better. Sure, I have to configure my bluetooth, but I have to do it just once _and it never breaks_.

Fedora used to be pretty great, then some personalities with inflated opinions of themselves started ruining the relative stability.
It has been argued very convincingly that the only mechanism that has created actual population level wealth increase in the world has been birth control. So you claim that it is wrong to wish the best for the African nations and hope that they could find a way out of the poverty trap faster? You don't want them to prosper?

Current population increase in Africa simply is not sustainable. For example at the moment African population increases in faster rate than their ability to increase the food production. This has made them dependent on the food imports.

Of course perhaps you prefer endless mass of cheap slaves instead of self sustaining wealthy Africans.
Haha, two hours later and no engagement. Maybe this is just my "Old man yells at cloud" moment.
Oldest known ancestor of MS-DOS rediscovered
I have no problem with the article, wouldn't say that it's clickbait either. Just saw a DAC >:)
It's thanks to the spirit of will that we're not Nazis? That's what they said would lead to everyone being Nazis...
I don't remember specifically if it was the calculator, but at the time I remeber installing a ridiculously simple app, that should be a 5 mega download max, and snap installing a monstrosity of more than 1 gig in size on my disk. It's atrocious and wasteful.
This illustrates that many times induced demand is a good thing as it shows that more people are having their needs met
The opinion piece reads like an incoherent attempt to conflate the negative impact of illegal drug trade with depenalization reforms applied to soft drugs. Rotterdam being used as Europe's cocaine gateway and the Netherlands turning into Europe's financial hub following Brexit has hardly any relationship with coffeeshops selling joints to curious tourists.
Project Farm on Youtube: rigorous, trustworthy, data-driven, hard to watch all the way through, but definitely worth skipping to the results.
In my opinion the main "low hanging fruit" Europe has with trains are international birders, especially if they're trying to compete with flying.

Trains in Poland work great, trains in Germany work pretty well but every train I've taken between Poland and Germany has been delayed. The standard thing is that while you're in Poland they claim the delay is because of previous delays in Germany and while you're in Germany they blame delays from Poland.

If you're trying to do something more advanced like get across Germany to Belgium or France & eventually the UK the it gets quite annoying.