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> Zig does not have a good package manager, does it?

This describes upcoming changes in zig 0.12
https://ziggit.dev/t/build-system-tricks/3531
I fiddled with NoScript but I must have done something wrong because I broke the site entirely.
Ok, this would still obviate the use of gRPC on lambda
> pumping during the day into a storage tank, and irrigating at night

Or, irrigate during the day but use sub-surface drip irrigation. [1]

1. https://www.ksre.k-state.edu/irrigate/oow/p05/Evett.pdf
I'm in Canada and have a triple-digit plan, in MBs. It's for emergency use only. It would be nice if something as simple as checking on power outages didn't chew up a good portion of the data plan.
Well, it's not a question of whether people are allowed to work on remotely or not. That's not at issue in this situation: Dell's policy is that you can if you want. The issue is on what grounds people should be promoted. This may also be entirely at the discretion of the company, and any silly reasons it wants to use. Or, it may be classified as a form of discrimination, like refusing to promote someone because of ethnicity, gender, disability, age, or other categories. I don't know the law here, if it's even been settled.
It sounds like really that’s just a word for “the day adjacent to this one” then
macOS breaks POSIX compliance at many levels. It’s Unix only on paper, lol.
Was it https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/08/i-try-synthetic-salm... ?
> Nowadays if you refer to "alternative meat", that means plant based meat substitutes 99% of the time.

in what context? I'm betting this would necessitate not mentioning cell-cultured or lab-grown meat at all.
it has package manager as golang has. Just no central repository of packages.

https://ziggit.dev/t/build-system-tricks/3531
Remember how people thought WWI couldn't possibly happen because the powerful people were incentivized through their business dealings to keep the peace? It's all fun and games until it becomes an actual threat, and unfortunately we have a pretty good idea from history about how commodity money can turn into a threat.
I guess it's just my circle of contacts, but we find it's nice when the cheese becomes more structural so the toppings don't all slide off. Ten minutes in the car is perfect.
Surfshark wireguard not detected.
Using this on memory-unsafe languages is just asking for trouble.
I run Firefox with uBO and NoScript. Based on the other replies, OS version may play a role.
> It must be hard for a young grad student to swallow the pill of human mortality and reconcile the disconnect that a lifetime of hard and rigorous science will merely move the needle. Fruits of their labor which might only be tasted centuries after their death. Of course, only through this sacrifice has the needle been moved so much that we have the things we have now. Something something shoulders of giants. Understanding this is a key part of accepting reality and becoming a mature adult, something it seems you've helped many people do, and something many people never do.

Totally. It's so much harder in some fields too.

A friend who is a primate researcher describes it as having 20 experiments that he can run in his entire career. I still think about that sometimes.
> If you don't irrigate during the day in hot climates most crops will die

That is clearly not true.

Most crops are fine with watering after sunset / before sunrise.
macOS dark ages.

I wonder if we’re about to enter 4-5 years of macOS “dark ages”, due to Apple grappling with EU/DMA.

Much like Microsoft in early 2000s, between IE/lawsuit and grappling with internet security/viruses. Windows XP, launched in 2001, was considered by most a great OS, didn’t have another good OS successor until 8-years later (Windows 7).
Maybe I'm being pedantic but as far as I can tell that document doesn't say when a SIGKILL can or can't be issued. So it seems like it would be valid to issue a SIGKILL at any time the kernel wants. Obviously, that's probably not users/programmers want but it seems to technically meet the specification you list.
> their several-decades-old faux-environmental schlock

Sorry, what are you referring to?
Yeah I'm a little worried about a future where I can't show up at a place unannounced and just order and eat there or take it home.
I'd personally just like to see things even more separate. I wouldn't want what I do on my VR headset tied to anything else.

Sorta like how I might have a Nintendo account (or whatever they have now) for games on a Switch. It's just about my gaming activity on that one platform, and that's it.

Tying a headset to a Meta/Facebook account is just too much: I don't want my Oculus activity tied to my social media.

I agree that the Apple situation is better, but I wouldn't want my Vision Pro activity tied to iPhone, Mac, Apple TV, etc. activity.

And I get it from the "building an integrated ecosystem" perspective, and don't really begrudge them their desire to make something like that, but I'm just generally tired of being a part of some company's ecosystem.
Yes, every corporation will try to stay in business. But there are many labor intensive industries operating on thin margins and a rise in labor costs (whether forced by market or regulation), will inevitably push the price high enough to drop demand and hurt the business and completely wipe some out.

Sanders is effectively proposing a 25% raise for everyone. That will definitely destroy a lot of these businesses.

You might say “good riddance, they weren’t good businesses anyway”, which is a fine political opinion. But don’t pretend everyone can drop their work hours by 20% and not have a huge impact on what we produce as a society.

Unless Bernie has a mandate on dropping demand by 20% as well, a bunch of businesses will be destroyed.
Its very dependent on a corporation, maybe I could rephrase it as only choose software not tightly coupled with a single corp
2017? Wiki says macOS are UNIX 03 certified ;)
Since I have a ton of tabs open and jump between them, this ends up not being a solution I use anymore.
The US has done most of the things you are laughing off, lol.

It's not common for a superpower to deploy its strength. Most of the time you would be right to laugh off the suggestion that it would. Most issues are pretty minor on this scale and internet tough guy rhetoric tends to overestimate the importance of every stupid thing. However, the BTC maximalist scenario is not minor on this scale. It's up there with oil. If it comes for the USD, there will be a fight.

I would bet on BTC today (and have). I would not bet on it to win this fight.
The efficiency cores actually aren't the primary thing that makes M-series chips so power efficient, even though they help. Even when you're ripping big data apart the chips do it faster than nearly anything else on the consumer market, while managing to be far more efficient as well. It's not just the process node, it's stuff like decoding multiple instructions in parallel being simpler due to the architecture.
How are topical TV shows getting around this? They rely on having a setup recording many TV channels so they can quickly find and reuse clips.

Is there a lower resolution available without the DRM?
CXL is probably a non-starter for disaggregated memory because it blocks the CPU on remote reads/writes.

To understand how expensive that is, consider the fact that NVMe durable writes to an enterprise SSD are generally faster than a CXL write to remote ram, but applications still insist on using asynchronous I/O to talk to the SSD. CPU level access to CXL is fundamentally synchronous (because of the X86, ARM and RISC-V instruction sets).
It sounds like you still go to law school but there are alternatives to the bar exam now, e.g.

> Law school graduates can complete a six-month apprenticeship while being supervised and guided by a qualified attorney, along with finishing three courses.
Overturning millennia of business practices?..
Yes, sub-surface, or drip close to root zone, is perfect -- however that's really expensive, in terms of capex as well as maintenance, harvesting, etc.

Drip systems tend to require a) a lot of pressure, and b) a very consistent pressure, to get reliable output. These are also expensive to buy & run.

Drip or leaky-hose type underground systems are difficult to maintain (I've tried!) just because you can't see them. The way you find out something's wrong is usually because a plant or an area is looking very very happy, and other plants / areas are dying off.

Under-mulch is good, but doesn't lend itself to broadscale cropping as described in TFA.
Good luck getting a good job as a lawyer without passing the bar exam. No reputable firm will hire you, and you'll have an expensive degree that has no value.
Can you run all your traffic through a self-hosted pihole to avoid such things?
whistles in javascript
Apps don't create deal flow, they hijacked it.
My 2017 i7 MacBook Pro struggles on websites. It’s absurd.
> If you're the only person that can review/fix/maintain something then you're part of the problem, not the solution and you might need to hand over to a wider audience or flat out remove yourself as a maintainer.

There's really no need for that. An active fork will eventually show up if people care enough. If it keeps improving, it becomes the new upstream and the original gets left behind. That's the way it should be.
Encoding and storing billions of videos in a format used by 0.1% of users feels like a waste though
Reading of law, where retained, replaces law school, not the bar exam.
Honestly I’ve never seen a $4k car that I would consider worth purchasing and driving. I’d be too concerned about reliability and maintenance. Then again I haven’t seen any new cars in the $15k range that I’d consider driving either.
Love the idea. I'm not sure if anyone has found a sustainable model yet.

Looking at the current CNCF landscape, majority of the graduated projects have huge backing from single corps - promoted with the open source labelling.

https://www.cncf.io/projects/

i.e. argo by Intuit, Cilium by Cisco, SPIFFE/SPIRE by VMware/HPE
I know some farmers in North Texas where they are pulling water out of a depleted aquifer. The water is starting to get salty so they're adjusting to salt tolerant variants of their crops. The ground is also starting to drop due to the aquifer draining. It's crazy to see
It appears to me, as an outsider, that interfaces are designed with a "one size fits all" approach, at least at the prestige end of town. Instead of allowing the user to choose design and interaction that works for them, the designer (or product owner) acts as if they know what's best for all users.
And that's how you know someone has not used the 8GB MBA model. 8GB is more than enough for the light usage you'd buy a 8GB model to begin with. Which means not running 3 IDEs and 5 VMs at the same time.
Also check out his personal site!

[1] https://jjh.org
Or when empty nesters refuse to downsize their 4 bedroom house 15 minutes drive to downtown offices.
I tried making my own version of Devin (super rudimentary) when GPT 3.5 was new and holy shit, that was a lot of glue. I’m not a genius but I don’t think there’s a way around it. It’s also not as cheap as people imagine. You need a lot of prompts for so many scenarios, and prompts to verify the outputs of those, like loose abstracted decision trees to create the scaffolding of “thinking” about how to do the job and the workflows themselves.

You end up needing to make calls to the AI a tremendous amount compared to when you query it yourself and do work in between responses.

If single shot results improve dramatically then some glue and scaffolding might be able to be removed. I think that’s one thing we won’t see particularly fast improvements on in spaces like software engineering, though.

Of course despite leaning on compute more than people think, it’s probably still orders of magnitude cheaper than a developer. But what’s the quality like? Devin still only succeeds less than 15% of the time. Reaching even 25% without significantly increasing compute and complexity is probably still quite far off, even with the steady advances we’ve been seeing.
One time long ago, e-commerce company i worked for decided to add tiktok analytics to the front-end. The dev team added the changes but were worried it might impact performance and UX. As a solution we were told to run the performance tests to check it.

The performance tests were created to mimic user behaviour but only involved company APIs. Not third party requests. No one in the top level, cared about this bit of information. We ran this performance test and saw the the response times are almost the same so it's time to pat ourselves on the back and move on ...
> These are also expensive to buy & run.

Long-term, it’s the cheapest option if you want to farm in an arid region.
Viewing humanity like a single organism, this is the strategy where like a slime mold we expand to consume all resources, then most of the organism dies off while some number of spores go on to continue to the process elsewhere.

If we'd like that not to happen, because we like our civilizations and like not to see them crumble, we must develop some kind of governance mechanism to prevent slime mold behavior.

Seeing so many conversations about resource exhaustion/climate change/ecosystem collapse boil down to "nunht uh" is.. I can't even say tiring anymore. I'm beyond tired. At this point we're gonna find out exactly what behavior is encoded in human nature one way or another.
> In the dev tools I added the following to the body to make it readable

For cases when you don't agree with styles there is Reader Mode. Your way works also, but Reader Mode just simplier, it is just one click away.
How long do you think you'll go?

You'll inevitably have to switch because available hardware will become scarce, what platform will you go to then?
I think Washington also allows you to become a lawyer without having a law degree. I think you can work at a law firm as an apprentice. Presumably, that law firm would just decide to hire you as a lawyer. So, I bet it’s not that far off from most other jobs now where you don’t need an accreditation.
I guess that could be true if you have ready access to things like "the attacker" and "pieces that are capable of moving to block the line of attack".
Where can I sign up as a developer?
This isn't just one company. Lots of people scrape GitHub and your email addresses are publicly available in commits. This data is available for sale in tons of recruiting tools and people databases like People Data Labs.
It’s always so easy to start relationship when two people are in love, so I met my partner and
we were both In love with each other or so I thought until I realized something wasn’t right,
he was just so good to be true, so I searched online on how to spy on my husband’s phone
without touching it then I saw Spyrecovery36 I contacted him via spyrecovery36 at gm ail c om and
he did a very good job, I was able to find out my partner was two timing, I felt so betrayed by him
It’s definitely meaningful in that we can talk about it! But what if I put the code in the data section, but left the data section executable and jumped there? The very idea of a data section in some sense presupposes a higher level understanding of the program.

In any event quines are only interesting because of the rules we place around them so I agree in general with arguing the rules!
That sounds like a shit bank. I can recall only a single system-level outage at my bank in 20 years.
"While people always have been able to study law under another attorney, then become licensed themselves by taking the bar exam, this new pathway creates standardized education materials and removes the examination requirement."

So no LSAT/law school, no bar is a potential pathway to practice law. Wow.
I think Relay would help https://gorelay.co/
> fast fast-fashion is not going to spend more for organic fibres

Agreed, but like the tire wear we will probably have to counter the underlying issue. To me, fast fast fashion feels like a symptom of a depressed attention economy. People feel the need to grab attention/feel like part of the in crowd and don’t have the funds. Maybe they are just practicing retail therapy. In any case these are symptoms of widespread disconnection and avoidance. I don’t think people truly want fast fast fashion or even fast fashion, and I don’t think anyone would argue for producing it (except for the cost).
I can vouch that my 2017 MacBook Pro struggles with all kinds of tasks, especially web ones.
Don’t miss the GnuCOBOL FAQ and How To, perhaps one of the largest such documents ever compiled:

https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/faq/index.html

(may cause mobile browsers to crash while loading)
> "And although Moore's law has continued, it is only just."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count has a table of transistor count over time. 2001 was Intel Pentium III with 45 million transistors and nVidia NV2A GPU with 60 million. 2023 has Apple M2 Ultra with 134 billion transistors and AMD Instinct CPU with 146 billion, and AMD Aqua Vanjaram CDNA3 GPU with 153 billion. That's some ~3,000x more, about a doubling every two years.

Core frequencies aren't going up, but amount of work per clock cycle is - SIMD instructions are up, memory access and peripheral access bandwidth is up, cache sizes are up, branch predictors are better, multi-core is better.

> "E.g., 1 TiB seems to be ~$50"

You can get a 12TB HDD from NewEgg for $99.99, Joel's blog said $0.0071 per megabyte and this is $0.0000083 per megabyte, ten thousand times cheaper in 23 years. Even after switching to more expensive SSDs 1TB for $50 is $0.00005 per megabyte, a hundred times cheaper than Joel mentioned - and that switch to SSDs likely reduced the investment in HDD tech. And as you say "I'm not sure I'd put more storage in a new machine than what I put in a 2011 build" few people need more storage unless they are video or gaming enthusiasts, or companies.
Agreed. And everyone needs to be aware that this is a global problem. California has some of the best farm land in the world, but many of the years in the past decade have been brutal from water shortages. Some years have had 50% water deliveries and some have had zero, depending on the water district, water contracts, water rights, location, etc. Being told you can you use 50% of your normal water supply generally means you plant half your fields and leave the other half fallow, because most crops aren't viable if you only use half the necessary water.
It is for the engineering mindset. 'If I build this, what will happen?' is a question you are taught to consider in school and some of the examples are much like this
It's Apple saying "What part of 'you cannot write to this page of memory don't you understand?"
Vast sprawling suburban wastelands with no services is not the solution. Just build houses is easily said but it’s not necessarily where people want to live.
I just re-read the short story after reading the GGP comment. In the written story, the daughter dies at 25 in a rock climbing accident. The written story makes no mention of Louise talking about her perception of consciousness with anyone, except to note that she assumes a colleague who has learned the alien language (Heptapod B) also experiences that mode of consciousness.

Really beautiful and entertaining story, definitely worth the ~hour of reading.

(Also, this isn't much of a spoiler, the daughter's death is mentioned very early in the story's non-linear narrative)
these is modern times, the fact that the learned practice of law itself predates both the LSAT and modern notions of a legal education quite considerably notwithstanding.
There's no evidence that an arhat (saint) sat upon his chair each day and flew out over the lake to have lunch and tea with the naga king in the lake. One day, a disciple of the saint got overly curious and hid under the chair. The dragon (naga) king, sensing the disciple invited him to the luncheon, but fed the saint heavenly rice, while giving mere human food to the unexpected guest. A few grains of the heavenly rice fell into the plate of the disciple, who, upon tasting them, became incensed that he was not fed the heavenly rice also.

The disciple summoned all his past good deeds and willed that the naga king die. That very day, the naga kind developed a headache, and died in the night. As the disciple was sleeping, he too died that night and was reincarnated as the naga king. Because of the slight, he began to cause storms to flood the kingdom.

The local king came to the lake and threatened the new dragon saying he would drain the lake and deprive the dragon of its home. The dragon was cowed and the weather became pleasant again, and the dragon made offerings to the king thereafter, except every once in a while he'd have a temper tantrum and need to be threatened again.

Xuangzang did not experience these things. He was told this story by others as an explanation for the climate changes experienced by the local tribe (kingdom).

I don't think we're talking about transcendental experiences here, nor panpsychism, nor hallucinations. I think we're talking about complete confabulations constructed to explain the ordinary world.

Another example was the tale of a king who, needing to leave his country for a diplomatic mission, left is brother in charge as regent. His brother, expecting court intrigue, supposedly had himself castrated that very night. He placed his bits in a box and gave them to the king to take with him on the journey. He bid the king that he should not open the box until his return.

When the king returned one of the other advisors to the court accused the brother of having an affair with the king's wife. The king summoned his brother to execute him. As the brother entered the court, he begged only that the king examine the contents of the box, and take that as explanation and proof of his innocence.

The king, seeing the bits in the box, forgave his brother. After a time, because of the brother's holiness, his genitals grew back.

I got a laugh out of this story, as it's clear to me that the brother had someone else castrated and claimed the bits in the box were his. But the story is presented as "this totally happened."

So I don't think we're talking about the same kinds of things at all.
They should do the opposite: not require law school but make the bar exam harder. Vermont, California, and Virginia do not require law school.
This exists because most modern rewrites of COBOL systems have been rewritten several times over despite the rewrites never finishing all the functionality of the original.

Modern day software engineers need to eat a huge slice of humble pie.
If you're investing in coins, please don't purchase anything less than a 1oz coin [prices for such "fractionals" are too extreme].
Good question. Without seeing the code that produced this, I'm stuck making some educated guesses.

The "splitting" effect is forced by the enormous computational expense of the numerical relativity calculations.

Instead of thinking of the initial yellow pulse as a plane wave, think of the animation as tracing-out the evolution of a number of representative initial positions in that plane wave. We don't see the full density of the many-many-many particle pulse in any frame. (We're also only seeing two spatial dimensions). We just see pixels lit depending on where the initial positions have led to.

We don't really see advancing "beams" as such, it's just that pixels are left lit even after they spatial positions they represent have emptied. The dimming of previously-lit pixels is artistic license.

The youtube video also doesn't show us the light's change in energy-momentum ("frequency", equivalently), although the twitter version in my other comment (or here: <https://twitter.com/PeRossello/status/1756697785083023812>) does, with the caveat in the second tweet in the thread. (The thread has some nice goodies in it for experts).