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Way worse building, packaging and dependency management experience. Worse ORM experience. Making simple single-file executables requires way more ceremony versus 1-3 toggles, sometimes not even possible at all. A lot of small and large papercuts in places where Java simply does worse, more expensive interop and reaching performance ceiling is way more difficult due to lack of low-level primitives. Terser syntax especially the functional parts of it and more lightweight tooling in the SDK, a lot of ceremony around dealing with just making sure you dev environment works does not exist in .NET (as long as you don’t start putting everything into custom paths). Building a complete product is dotnet publish, running an application is dotnet run, which requires more setup and scripting with Java.
> Nobody wants to drive what feels like a Prius

I'm quite happy with my Prius. I think it's a skill issue. Roof racks and a tow hitch on a normal sized car handle the vast majority of cases where people imagine they need a truck or SUV. But I remember a young couple showing up to buy a mattress from my roommate, and being flummoxed when the mattress wouldn't fit inside their Subaru Forester with built-in roof rails. I had to show them how to tie it on the roof. They never did return my rope... If you can only imagine putting things inside the vehicle or in the bed of a pickup truck, then having a truck or a big SUV must seem essential. What makes it even weirder is that the Prius has more interior space than a lot of SUVs.
Can you explain it in a different way? I have no idea how it relates to my comment.
Anyone using these tools is asking for all their data to be hoovered up. Locally powered AI is the only way to use it if you care about this kind of thing.
I've never been convinced that communism wasn't about power, like with capitalism, it's just different people holding the sticks.
Yep. Commercial -> Residential conversion is far from easy.

I'm active in a multifamily investor group and what I am hearing is that it is damn near impossible to make this work and actually cheaper to just build new multifamily vs convert.
The FTC is a government agency. Did you think I was asking for Joe Biden to personally issue an executive order against this?
Sorry, what are document proxies?

EDIT: Oh, is this it? [0]. I can't say I ever noticed that before (when it still existed)

0: https://osxdaily.com/2014/08/20/open-files-new-app-proxy-ico...
We pour concrete to make Atlas stones for specific weights knowing that these artificial stones will eventually be ruined by accident by the people who have a new interest in stone lifting. We also collect natural stones which may get ruined by mistake so people in the club can get used to lifting irregular shapes.

But when it comes to the historical stones, all the prep work above is so these stones are not ruined. It's a privilege to try to lift a stone that Irish or Scottish men would lift to become huscarls for their lord and breaking one out of carelessness is a loss for everyone in this hobby.
OP here. My kid is a new Dr Who fan. An old photo of the cast of Local Hero popped up in one or another of my feeds, with a 1982 photo of an impossibly young Peter Capaldi. Kid loved the photo but had no idea about the movie. I found a good photo of Pennan on the Wikipedia page, amazing place. The article mentions lifting stones, which was unfamiliar. Google brought me to your site, which is very appealing, as many have noted. I’m a non-tech in the tech industry, so I like to contribute outlier things here, usually resulting in crickets, sadly, but in this case it resonated. Huzzah!
Even if I am probably not going to use it (too heavily/deeply invested in Azure Devops), I just wanted to give kudos to your product demo. By itself it's straight to the point, doesn't ramble, and calmly highlights whats important about your product. Compared to your other videos on the YouTube channel, it's a dramatic improvement. Congrats on the launch.
We've used ScraperAPI for a long time: https://www.scraperapi.com/

Couldn't recommend them more.
> In conclusion: It only makes sense to buy right now, if I have an expectation that the price will go up on the home.

What if someone does not want to deal with the volatility of a landlord, such as rental terms changing, or the property being sold, or the owner not maintaining the property?

At a minimum, being able to ensure you don’t have to move your family due to landlord changing their mind is worth something.
WebKit on Apple platforms uses Core Graphics and Core Animation, yes.
'Dust is everywhere': rare glimpse of how Michelangelo's David is kept clean
you should delete this Brian. This is embarrassing for you.
Came here to write about Playwright. I've been using it for the last ~13 months to scrape supermarket prices and it's been a great experience.
Ok so you covered the things going wrong. What are some things going right? Anything? Can you leverage things going right to address things going wrong
We should apply the same logic to other things

Kids should school from home. They don't get to choose who their classmates are so they're being forced to have human interactions who they haven't chosen of their own free will.

Colleges should all be remote. Same reasons.

I'm relatively confident that interacting with others is kind of the point of school and college and I'm just as confident that many (not all) of those same reasons apply to work. WFH ignores those reasons.
Effort to Build Out EV Charging Stations in Wyoming Struggling to Find Traction
I'm skeptical private jets are in the 1-3% range, even after the EV and grid conversions are complete, but I would love to see some sources if you have any! It's not something I've looked into.
Yet

void f(size_t n, int cond) {
if (cond) { n += 1; }
int x[n];
...

does resize x depending on the value of cond, so the size can't necessarily be known until the point where the type (int[n] in this case) is named.

Also, the compiler has to make sure it keeps around implicit locals to store the variable layouts, so that code like

void f(size_t n) {
typedef int array[n];
n += 1;
array x;
...

functions as specified. This kind of pattern is one of the bigger things setting the feature apart from just "syntax sugar for alloca()".
You can set workspace settings in the top-level .vscode/settings.json file of your project: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings#_work...
In my experience the boring "I delivered a project very fast with X,Y and Z and saved the company $100mil" will win over "I rearchitected a massive system to run on microservices"

At a certain point in your career, you'll realize that the business manager can override any technical hiring manager. Because at the end of the day delivering results is sexier, than bells and whistles in your resume.
I'm WSG, so your implication that I am AI is just plainly insulting.

Mothers were having their babies taken from them, to be officially trafficked by their own governments, all the way up until 1982.

You might want to work on your empathy skills.
I wrote a little post about the typechecking algorithm I devised for SaberVM, a typed stack-based bytecode language like Web Assembly, designed from the ground up for being the target of functional programming languages. Typechecking stack-based bytecode is extremely pretty and elegant, and not talked about very much!
Any modern web scraping set up is going to require browser agents. You will probably have to build your own tools to get anything from a major social media platform, or even NYT articles.
It seems to me like there's some distance between wishing one had experienced a certain kind of teaching and wishing only one kind of teaching existed.

> If only all teachers handled essays in this way.
Florida's measles vaccination rate is "not great, not terrible". It is not among the 10 worst states.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/01/12/childhood-v...
> Local media reported at the time of the amendments that changes were made to reflect trends in digital society management.

I had not heard of this term, and I don't find much of substance regarding digital society management on the web. But it does seem to exist as a cluster of concepts at the union of academic, Orwellian, and marketing vocabularies. Sometimes you see a phrase and feel dread that you'll have to live in a world where it's just an ordinary thing people say. I remember when "Department of Homeland Security" felt dystopian. Now it feels like an ordinary, well-worn phrase that I intellectually know must be dystopian, but the nerve endings that used to tingle are now burned out. Here's to the continual process of redefining normal.
Red Ventures also calls itself "the Google of the east".
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You are right and I suppose further debate isn't all that helpful as it won't move the needle in either direction. I guess here's "my truth" regarding Musk if you have time for it, if you don't that's OK too.

I believe Musk very much wants to become the first trillionaire and is trying to longitudinally orient his businesses to achieve that goal. He can't really just do that in the US so it has to be a global endeavor. He's got EV factories in NA, Asia, and Europe. He wants or wanted a solar company as well as the charging stations, and his starlink will service the entire globe and can provide service to his cars and trucks across the world.

With the US he doesn't really need to politically mesh with its foreign policy because his ambitions don't necessarily require American supremacy. If he can maintain a grip on his Chinese holdings and push product there to a population 3x that of the US then he may realize his goal. He gets to be the CEO of an international megacorp where people get their transportation, power, and communication.

I believe all of his business forays are connected and as an American peasant I don't believe he has my best interests at heart. He could care less about the US rules based world order and is happy with any system that allows him to do business across the globe. So therefore I up the greens and you up the blues. Which is fine.
This regulation being proposed would not just effect fabs. I’m originally from southern Illinois, a place with a total of 300k people spread out over a large area. Most towns are <10k and the biggest is 40k. In this area there are a /ton/ of factories making everything from car parts and tires to books to bombs and artillery shells. Most of these factories are outside of towns and there is zero public transportation.

With this in mind do you see the problem with only allowing factories to be built in places accessible to public transportation? The people making such proposals are seriously out of touch with half of the country.
Why bother when you can pick them up from any doorhandle, coffee cup,
pen, table surface, or just a photograph at super high-res.

Biometrics are form of (dubious) in-person identification, and their
use for access control belongs in the all-time stupidest ideas in
computing list.
"AI will cure cancer" misunderstands both AI and medicine
I moved to the Bay Area in 1996 and there was no way I could afford to buy a house there then.
Last I checked, loans with generous terms given to people were called to be cancelled because they were "exploitative." For ordinary people, it makes much more sense for aid to come from a more direct means.

> That "profit" is not commensurate to the risk that the govt took on.

That's because the bailouts was intended to stabilize the economy rather than to turn a profit.
You know, just because someone, like Putin, appears to be opposed to something you are opposed to (like the MIC) doesn't mean the he is somehow a counterweight to "evil", and that you should give credence to what he's saying. Or that this person can't also be a violent psychopath who flat out lies about basically everything important, to everyone, including you.
Why do you assume that maintaining some bushes should be significant over maintaining a road?
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Adding to this wishlist, if it were available on Windows then it would be an option for a cross-platform webview widget, but it hasn’t supported it for a while now.
I have really tried to like Swift, and with new projects I do tend to use it, but legacy projects in Objective-C still make me smile that I get to go back to the old familiar language. I also like its interoperability with C++ through Objective-C++.
>2. At the end of a three year cycle, you can sell something you own. (This has associated costs of course).

This is huge and often overlooked or undervalued. Renting means you have nothing when the contract ends, buying means you have something for your money spent.
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Feeling: Feeling suicidal for the last week or so. Felt depressed for the last couple months, thankfully anxiety is still an unknown emotion for me.

Reasons: Any hope I had of fulfilling my lifelong dream ended half a year ago. Somebody who I envied my entire life, and always tried to surpass, achieved it despite putting in far less effort than me (what I think; the reality may be different). Some people who I thought were close to me started to alienate me. That's the wrong word for it, they weren't doing anything that they thought was wrong. I realized that the next 2-8 years of my life will be terrible due to a very important decision that somebody took on my behalf. This somebody is also someone very close to me.

I am in no position to say this, but things really do get better. Even if you think there's no hope right now, you can't predict what may happen in the future. You may meet new people, understand some interesting stories. There's just too many variables for someone to confidently say that their life will be fruitless.

I am not a certified counsellor or anything but if anybody wants to talk my email(s) is in my profile.
Later versions of WebObjects used Java.
They’re a bank that likes to pretend they’re a tech company. In some ways, they’re right: they embrace a lot of “hard tech”, are all-in on things like cloud, and definitely value engineering skills which shows through their well-regarded program for new engineers. However at the end of the day, they’re also still a bank and suffer from the same bureaucracy and politics that every other bank does.
You can program a robot to scream in agony each time you hit it. That does not mean it became something that feels pain.
Disconnection from reality is such a weird feeling.

Good job on starting psychotherapy and antidepressants! It's crazy how much our perception of things can change when imbalances in our brain are dealt with.
Here is an idea: use Mapsforge binary format for map data. Map sizes are quite small, especially useful for not to huge areas. Implementing HTTP Range requests might be an interesting exercise in reducing bandwidth usage.
> One is that fork() is by definition a very costly operation

Isn't process creation much slower on Windows (not using fork) than forking on Unix-likes?
I disagree. It clearly tells us _what_ is different, it just doesn't tell us _how_ it differs from case to case. So it's not a full explanation (which would, as you note, require a model of how it differs and, optimally, _why_) but it is a step towards a explanation, and not to be sneered at.
I hope things get better for you.
The only one that is clearly not familiar with this domain here is you.
I wonder now if one could emulate fork-shenanigans-exec by:

- clone CLONE_FILES with AF_UNIX socketpair

- send file descriptors through the socket

- do whatever was in shenanigans (you have the socket for communication/RPC/whatever)

- exec

or maybe even easier:

- clone CLONE_FILES with pipe or two

- do whatever was in shenanigans (you have the pipe for communication/RPC/whatever)

- exec
Web rendering engine built on top of Flutter (compatible with old browsers)
Exactly. People forget that the final and most important decision for hiring will be at a less technical and much more bean-counting level.

That's the reason why CS graduates with only bells and whistles in their CV have hard times getting a relevant position - glitter over your resume doesn't deliver value at all.
> Microservices aren't a performance strategy. They are a POTENTIAL cost saving strategy against performance.

Yeah they were a way to handle databases that couldn't scale horizontally. You could move business logic out of the database/SQL and into Java/Python/TypeScript app servers you could spin up. Now that we have databases like BigQuery and CockroachDB we don't need to do this anymore.
I'm not exactly sure what they're saying either. My thought with the "theoretically" part was that the insurance funding program wouldn't be able to support widespread failures. Without adjusting funding, average lifetime claims wouldn't be able to sustain 1 failure per person let alone multiple. Sure, the rules don't stop you, but the reality does.
>but new ones will reflect the communication structures at the time that they were built

It is correlation vs causality question. Conway law may actually be the former rather than the latter.
A large number of mainstream economists believe that without TARP the entire global banking system would have collapsed, credit would have dried up and a depression would have been long lasting.

This is one of those situations where there was no good way out. The least awful option ended up being the best out. The real issue was that Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson could not effectively communicate the economic issues during an election.

As much as I respect John McCain, his decision to end his campaign to ‘return to Washington’ was an unmitigated disaster. Both for the economy as a whole and for that manifestation of the Republican Party. We can draw a direct line from that stunt through the Tea Party and into today’s current populist climate.

Long rambling explanation short, I don’t believe there were other options. Decisions were made in real time and in many cases, they had to be made overnight. Two major deals that would have dramatically altered the response to the subprime crisis both fell apart over night on a weekend. Ben Bernanke was (and remains) one of the world experts on the Great Depression. His education lead him to take policy steps that would prevent another Great Depression.

Maybe we’re worse off, maybe we’re not. But I’m glad I didn’t live my entire thirties under a depression.
Why are you under the impression white collar workers are all workers and the only ones that matter? You also are, again, assuming your statistics imply something about their politics
Not even a random "user", but Bruce Schneier!
Ironically, the only “whiner” comment I’ve seen has been this one, whining about people whining.

The topic is about Walmart purchasing Vizio. Discussing the quality of Vizio’s products, their business practices, and anecdotal experience + general discussion about the companies involved in the purchase are entirely reasonable.
For a few very specific use-cases (specifically those involving the objective-c runtime usually), I still use objective-c. Otherwise I’ve moved on to Swift fully and I’m very happy with it. I also use Swift on the server BTW.
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Looking at the syntax in that bug report makes me think I could never learn rust.
I participated actively in SO's early days. However, the platform has (perhaps inevitably) gone downhill. Outdated content, homework questions, wrong information - the signal-to-noise ratio has gotten a lot worse. Add in the pedants, who can be as unpleasant as Wikipedia moderators. It's just not a very nice place anymore.
The first step to addressing a problem is to give it a name and cause. Solutionism without understanding is a waste of effort.
"AI is used to disproportionately benefit the privileged while worsening inequality" the rest of the article can safely be ignored
How is Swift's interop with C++ nowadays? Obj-C's seamless interop with C++ was (is?) the key advantage.
As you say, their profit isn't the point. Giving someone a loan with low enough interest is basically just handing them money free and clear with extra steps. So the real question is whether the handouts to the banks helped the populace or came at their expense. Would other uses of the money have helped more?
First of all, this is not a professional setting, it's a comment section to an article.

Second, you reduce someones completely valid need of being able to cancel a subscription to a condescending straw-man:

> supporting your 0.001% edge case of you wanting to run iMovie on your Sun Workstation running Solaris

Since you see this place as a professional setting, is that how you handle colleagues? With unnecessary and patronizing sarcasm? Anyway, when you get called out for it you double down with "careful, we might meet each other professionally":

> I've had the distinct honor to witness many a person sitting across from me have the unfortunate distinction of being known by me in circumstances that were less than fortunate for them. And at the end of the day that can really affect how someone "gets paid."

Ridiculous. Don't take yourself or this place too seriously. Nobody is angry, we just don't have patience for your bullshit. Where do I apply if I want the opportunity to tell you to go fuck yourself to your face?
You are correct, that being said there are a few "Steam Emulators" out there (of varying levels of shadiness) and Valve hasn't tried to take them down. It seems like they rely on "the ecosystem" as some sort of DRM over traditional almost-rootkit-level DRM implementations. i.e. initial + update distribution, achievements, redistributables, cloud saves, workshop, key management, matchmaking etc.
I'm more interested in them downranking sites obviously written to game SEO. Like when an article takes 5 paragraphs to answer the one line asked in the H1, or regurgitates the same content as written in 10 other SEO spam articles, just reworded.

I kind of wish the internet was just a lot more terse.
Sure, I'm 100% in favor of a wealth tax/cap, but I think that's going to be a lot less effective at lowering emissions than targeting the biggest sources of emissions.
Absolutely yeah, these things are hard enough to test in a controlled environment with a single app (e.g. FoundationDB) but practically impossible to test fully in a microservices architecture. It's so nice to have this complexity managed for you in the storage layer.
Thanks! I'm doing what I can to make Blend2D even faster. It's been really exciting project to work on and I have big plans with this library.
Can’t wait for the AI-generated “botshit” (to borrow Cory Doctorow’s term) to start killing of social media sites. You can see from the decline of Twitter (and Facebook amongst anyone under the age of 40) how weak some of their hold on their users already is. Hopefully AI’s big “contribution” to tech of empowering spammers will be the thing that pushes them the rest of the way into their much deserved grave.
This post brings back memories about the Johnny Mnemonic "interactive action movie" game, back in the 90s!
A Notion alternative beyond the cloud, data ownership and local-first
"--force-with-leash" sounds like git for the BDSM community...
> Luckily NetBSD still exists, I very much doubt they will depreciate 32 bit:

I love NetBSD and their focus ppears to be so you can run a modern supported/bugfixed OS on legacy hardware.

So FreeBSD and NetBSD are perfect compliments to each other.