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Mise has quickly become my favorite local development tool.

Only thing is I wished it had windows support, so my (misguided) coworkers could use it too.
If you don't sign your Windows installer, then the first N users to use it will get a scary pop-up message saying that the AV "protected your PC." I think you might also need do code-signing if you distribute through the MS store.

Compare with the web where LetsEncrypt just works without demanding a king's ransom.

As for the APIs, it is very easy to get into dependency hell between all the different UI technologies, .NET implementations, and target systems. Want to develop a brand new plain-old GUI app? Probably simple (although I've never tried, the web is right there). Need to develop a plugin for an existing application, or a new app for something like Hololens? Have fun.
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If it’s alien that means you’re not trying to have a focused experience. You just prefer living in services with lock-in. Perfectly fine to do that.

For me a dedicated desktop app means I’m isolated to the tasks associated with it. I can always open a browser when I need it. There are plenty of equivalent apps in the browser that have eaten that workflow now but there are many more restrictions too (vpn compatibility, auth flows, ads distracting, user hostile flows) where a dedicated app shines is that I’m not stuck on the net. 90% of the time I just need text syncd in some manner. I shouldn’t have to load a web service for that.
> you do realise that ussr does not exist anymore

O RLY?! That fact totally changes my whole argument... unless it was an example of a non-capitalist society and I never claimed it currently exists and the point was the comparison of living in capitalist and non-capitalist system.

> the existence of people being highly paid does not disprove the fact tha the us-style capitalism is a terrible system for anyone but the highest echelons

The guy complaining about it is the highest echelons. He was working for frickign Google, which pays tons of money. Not that this duckspeak isn't a complete lie for pretty much all people. As a person who, unlike you, actually lived in the USSR, I can tell you that it had humongous inequality and a myriad of daily degrading and humiliating problems for almost everybody "but the highest echelons", on the level that somebody living in a Western country can't even imagine. Capitalism may have its flaws, in the US and everywhere, but man you don't know how lucky you are, compared to the alternative. And I don't wish on anybody to ever learn it. Just stay ignorant and take your knowledge from your weed-smoking cool pol-sci prof who surely knows everything about the matter. Really, this way it's much, much better.
That was Space Travel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)
Samuel Gompers has a lot to answer for. Debs was probably naieve thinking the AFL would come on board with a radical strike. What I read suggests Gompers rejected radicalism all his life, battled the IWW throughout the Americas.
Neither of these are actually the case: one doesn't need to be fluent in PL research to understand Sail specs (see @timhh comment above, forex), and Sail was developed independently of the origins of RISC-V.
The employee is at the wheel here. That’s the realization that’s setting in. Want more engagement? Make the work more engaging. Or just realize that you get what you pay more.

What the “bar for the role” gap is really is the zone you work in when you don’t care about getting ahead. Getting ahead has never been mandatory, at least post the first few years at work (often the first few levels in most corporations have an expiry date you need to matriculate through or be let go). Once you’re in a terminal role it’s supposed to be ok to stay there and not put in that extra to get ahead. It should be ok for people to not always be striving and reaching higher and higher. Often other things in life become more important - children, last years with parents, your maker hobby. That’s ok.
How long do the police spend on a fatal car accident that fits the standard profile of a no-fault accident? A couple hours, maybe? What are the chances they notice anything suspicious in that time frame? Pretty low, in my opinion.
One thing is clear to me (if not to you): These schools live on their reputations, and if you have to rely on biases of alumni of similar gilded brainwashing centers to make it worthwhile, it truly is not worth the money. Also, people who call everyone who didn't go to get annointed at such a money pit "unwashed" are so far up their own asses that they cannot possibly grasp what a waste of money it was to go there in the first place.
The US navy has failed miserably against the Houtnis though.
it seems 160 is a trigger for BOJ to intervene

https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/yens-slide-toward-160-l...
> think food and shelter are primal

America is the world's largest agricultural exporter [1].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0712/top-agricul...
Which theory are you talking about?

See https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
its not only that the yen is dropping in value like a rock, but the double-punch of recently doubling (in 2 steps) of the sales tax from 5% to 10% is really making hard on things (e.g iphone is ridiculously expense now, just as one example [1])... it doesn't seem like anyone has a solid plan to fix these issues....

[1] https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000006.000053691.html

(you dont have to read japanese to understand the chart)
> What are the chances there isn't a backdoor?

mrustc, an independent implementation, has produced identical output.

> rustc bootstrap tested and validated (1.19.0 isn't fully repeatable, but later versions are)

https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc?tab=readme-ov-file#p...

This means you'd have to land the same attack in both mrustc and rustc, making the possibility infinitesimally small.
I mean, the vibe might be shifting. But if you're thinking it began to shift only a year and a half ago, I think that's why you might feel you're out of whack with other people here.

The case against universities, against higher education, against ivy leagues etc, has been a topic of conversation for years. Most of my life I think. I don't know how many pieces I've read about why higher education is now going to become less relevant.
Just use Kotlin. I'm honestly not seeing any need nor benefit in writing Java anymore.
Ukrainian team is radically redesigning the submarine to fight the Russian navy
How are these kinds of self-reinforcing systems usually brought down?

I doubt some shifts in the opinions of normal people are going to stop the elite flywheel -- there's just not enough connection between a machinist in Ohio or a nurse in Phoenix and the elite for their opinions to matter.

The Ivy League can fall apart one of two ways:

1. The levers of power move around to new groups of people radically enough that the jobs that were once elite are now irrelevant and forgotten, like a guild for some forgotten craft. AI is obviously one way this might happen, where many elite professions might just collapse.

2. Internal bickering over identity that just makes it impossible for normal people to attend. Think crazy stuff like requiring graduates to share their income for life with other graduates, or requiring some weird kind of binding pledge about who you can work for. Colleges already have a weird possessiveness over their graduates, this just takes that to the logical next level.
I haven't. I will.
It's not really out of concern for people's cultures. Lots of cultures have all sorts of taboos about types of images or information. Muslim fundamentalists for instance don't like pictures of any people, of any ethnicity, alive or dead. This is just a nonsense fashion for the Australian government. All their websites have something like the one at the bottom of the page:

"The Australian War Memorial acknowledges the traditional custodians of country throughout Australia. We recognise their continuing connection to land, sea and waters. We pay our respects to elders past and present."
The market indeed seems to put rather little value on growth these days.

Example: Google. Their p/e ratio of 30 seems low if you assume that they will keep growing like they did for the last ten years. Which was about 19% annually.

At a p/e of 30, to outperform a ten-year bond at current rates, they would have to only grow at about 3% or so from now on.
> limited feature-wise from a 3-decade view

Outside gaming, ai and big data, aka things for instance my parents don’t use at all, what limited feature wise? Browsers, sure, however my father prefers Teletext and newsgroups and Viditel (doesn’t exist anymore but he mentions it quite a lot) over ad infested slow as pudding websites. Email didn’t change since the 90s, word processors changed but not with stuff most people use (I still miss WP; it was just better imho; I went over to Latex because I find Word a complete horror show and that didn’t change), spreadsheets are used by pros and amateurs alike as a database mostly for making lists; nothing new there. You can go on and on; put an average user behind a 80s/90s pc (arguably after win95 release; DOS was an issue for many and 3.1 was horrible; or Mac OS) and they will barely notice the difference. Except for the above list of ai, big data, gaming and most importantly, browsers. Ai is mostly an api so that can be fixed (I saw a c64 openai chat somewhere) , big data is a very small % of humanity using that and gaming, well, depends what you like. I personally hate 3d games; I like 80s shmups and most people who game are on mobile playing cwazy diamonds or whatnot which I can implement on an msx 8 bit machine from the early 80s. Of course the massive multiplayer open world 3d stuff doesn’t work.

Anyway; as I said before here responding to what software/hardware to use for their parents; whenever someone asks me to revive their computer, I install Debian with i3 wm and dillo and ff as browser, Libreoffice and thunderbird. It takes a few hours to get used to but people (who are not in IT or any other computer fahig job) are flabbergasted by the speed, low latency and battery life. I did an x220 (with 9 cell) install last week; from win xp to the above setup; battery life jumped from 3 to 12 hours and everything is fast.

I install about 50 of those for people in my town throughout the year; people think they depend on certain software, but they really usually don’t. If they do, most things people ask for now work quite well under Wine. I have a simple script which starts an easy ‘Home Screen’ on i3 with massive buttons of their favourite apps which open on another screen (1 full screen per screen); people keep asking why Microsoft doesn’t do that instead of those annoying windows…
I imagine because the framework isn't working for the way they want to build things. That's a good reason to switch. Teams should pick the tech that aligns best with the way they want to work.

If they're switching for user-facing reasons it's likely that they're using just the framework poorly. Changing your own code is usually a much more effective way to get a perf boost than changing an underlying library.
> how trite

How gammon.
> Luckily, there was one capture of the jar on MediaFire from oddly recently (Jan 23 2024).

Why is that lucky? The MediaFire link is still live anyway.
having concepts you're already aware of parroted at you in order to check off a box on a spreadsheet somewhere isn't a productive workday -- so mandated diversity training is a waste of time for some people.
Great story ! I'm proudly responsible for a small perl script that pre-processes SWIFT messages before sending them in a back-office banking Java app. It's barely 10 yo but I'm not a dev, and I suspect it will probably run forever.

The idea is to split messages in chunks and sort the rows by ISIN instead of having one big file without any sorting pattern, and it cuts the processing by the app from a few hours to 10 min. Never heard of a bug in this one but it's only like 300 lines of code.
The performance numbers do not show time performance versus accuracy perforamnce. Binary embeddings clearly have a time advantage, at the expense of accuracy. Reporting/benchmarking in this domain requires (at least) two dimensions.
Correct. While there are many rules and regulations that affect the auto markets, ultimately cars, including Europe, have grown in size because of market forces (I.e. what consumers prefer)
> The value of a country's currency = How much stuff it produces / How much money it prints.

The value of a currency is how much people are willing to pay to have the other currency. For example, if Japan is importing many goods and services, they need to pay them in USD and so they have to buy USD on the market.

> Both, Japan and the US are increasing their monetary base by what, 10% per year?

The monetary base is not strictly connected to the money in the economy. Most of the money is created by commercial banks when they hand out loans. So the entire money in the economy can shrink (people paying back more loans than they), while at the same time the central bank increases currency.

For reference:
https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/654284/df66c4444d065...

https://www.bis.org/review/r180118c.pdf
In fact, AT&T agreed not to enter the computer market in return for being allowed to maintain a monopoly. They agreed to the 1984 breakup only in return for being allowed to make computers - a decision which did not go well, since their computer line was never very successful.
“The only software that I like is one that I can easily understand and solves my problems. The amount of complexity I'm willing to tolerate is proportional to the size of the problem being solved.“ Ryan Dahl - creator of nodejs
Vattenfall (a big Swedish energy company) had the same for a while. Their marketing created a website where you could log in as a user, on a completely different domain.

Most have been fixed but my current pet peeve is receiving email newsletters from these companies with tracking links. I get it, you're trying to measure something. But they're genuinly sending you links like sx4pv.mjt.lu/lnk/EEEAAAA-3434-asdfasdfasdf
Food must feel incredibly cheap! Onigiri under a dollar?
Demand can be a function of supply, so no it's not that simple.
This uses less memory so you can do fine tuning or hardware with less vram but at a cost of taking longer on training - there is a throughput penalty, the paper detailing the technique shows something like a 15% decrease in throughput.
My daily runner is a T400 Laptop with 4GB RAM on a fairly slim Linux distro. But in the last 6-12 months it is starting to feel a little tight when it comes to anything web browsing. Even things like Thunderbird are getting very bulky in keeping up with web rendering standards.

I pulled down an Audiobook player the other day, once all dependencies were meet, it need 1.3GB to function! At least VLC is still slim.
It makes a change from chaining aboriginals neck to neck which they kept up after I was born, along with taking babies, and having exclusion zones "boundary roads" in cities.

Is that the era you want to return to?
The article lists it as one of 3 key takeaways:

Market cap is used to determine a company's size, and then compare the company's financial performance to other companies of various sizes.
The simulation that these cars are driving in has no third dimension for the vehicle to fall over into (or where to put another pair of wheels). So, like a traditional four-wheeled car, these vehicles do not tip over at 0 velocity. I think that property is enough to qualify their behaviour as more similar to four-wheeled cars than motorbikes.
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You leave them uninstantiated in the header file and explicitly instantiate them in the .cc file (only works if there's a small number of possible instantiations).
Like, MS-DOS? How? It doesn't seem to have had an x86 CPU to run it on. (I'm assuming this predates emulation like we might use today for that kind of thing.)

Edit: Oh, kept reading the wikipedia article and found the mention of an 8086 expansion card. That's cool:)
Yes - but as we keep repeating - if you do that why would you use null as a possible state to begin with? Not specific to Java, but in general.

E.g a boolean in java has two states true/false while a Boolean with capital B has 3 states true/false/null.

In that context you can choose type to represent how many states you have. E.g if it’s a field representing a cache of a bool value you can represent “not yet calculated” with null. It you were to magically convert null to false for a Boolean it only has two states! It’s now unusable for the purpose.
The 3B1 was one of the few uses of the 68010, which was basically a 68000 with a few bug fixes and, importantly, support for virtual memory. Combined with a separate MMU, this allowed you to run Unix.
Unrelated to Japan, but what's the reputation of train simming video games among train nerds? Are train sims deemed realistic?

Also the trains would be crowded right now. Maybe an interesting experience, since it's a once in a lifetime chance to see how their scheduling handles massive, unexpected crowds.
The fact that you think that the innefficiencies of meat production make any kind of sense in this scenario, make it clear that you haven't thought this through at all.

Any post-apocalyptic bunker dwellers would be 100% vegan.
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Banks have either a federal or state charter. This bank has a state charter.

https://www.dobs.pa.gov/Documents/DoBS%20Forms/Bank%20Forms/...
The US has shown only shameful inaction with the Houthis.
What are you waiting for?

Be sure to visit the amazing museums in Nagoya and Osaka.
The really good restaurants, even small joints, are full all the time, even without tourists. So, if you want a really excellent meal, be prepared to wait, or find a place where you can make reservations. :-)
> to me the biggest and most interesting changes were the move from backend-driven rendering to frontend-driven rendering, and the move from DOM-as-state to rendering the DOM from state

I think a lot of this can be attributed the rise of internet-connected smartphones and mobile app development.

This led to a scenario where you had to have a separate backend API anyway to service the iOS or Android app frontends, so it was easy to justify doing an react- or angular-driven SPA for the web.

Plus the new mobile form factor demanded more front-end engineering work, so it made technical sense to have the frontend be completely separate from the backend.

This also explains the shift away from DOM-as-state, since you couldn't really drive mobile apps just from HTML, at least back then.
Another benchmark: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.19.590278v2....
Then again, you could look at it street-by-street and you would see that same sort of thing. Even room-by-room within a single house and again you could see that. Hence my comment about individuals 'seceding'.

Even in the original Civil War, there were cases of individuals within a single family wearing Gray or Blue according to their personal beliefs. Though that was very rare.
Are you suggesting obesity is not harmful?
See https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/optics.pdf

“We give new evidence that quantum computers—moreover, rudimentary quantum computers
built entirely out of linear-optical elements—cannot be efficiently simulated by classical comput-
ers. In particular, we define a model of computation in which identical photons are generated,
sent through a linear-optical network, then nonadaptively measured to count the number of
photons in each mode. This model is not known or believed to be universal for quantum com-
putation, and indeed, we discuss the prospects for realizing the model using current technology.
On the other hand, we prove that the model is able to solve sampling problems and search
problems that are classically intractable under plausible assumptions.”

Which is the basis for the experiment discussed here: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=5122
I think your mistake is not using firefox.
Living in Japan for the last 25 years or so, I with the BOJ would have a bit of a lower trigger. The weak yen is not very fun to live with at the moment...
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> US navy has failed miserably against the Houtnis

With the benefit of hindsight it was a damned clear success. At the time it looked limited. But strikes have subsided [1]. And the Houthis’ situational awareness is so poor they’re potting the Russians [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis

[2] https://maritime-executive.com/article/houthi-missile-damage...
Not in my world and I live in the EU! People raise millions and 10s of millions here for stuff that is nonsense and cannot be done. As someone said already here: openai wrappers that do something intended in <5% of cases but the millions will solve that by insert-some-shite-fine-tuning-rag-bla.

And when at meet-ups people actually tell me that investors will pay whatever for an ai wrapper demo (I saw a few last month that were not even that; just faked) and a few $ charts.
I do web design like it's 1999.

I write the HTML. I upload the HTML. Works for me.

But that was a good article, it explains the rather odd and frankly underwhelming direction the web went in while I was out of it.
It's interesting to note that just by being slightly larger or smaller, a cohort can affect demand for all sorts of things, from college places to the job market, and starter homes.
You somehow think that the demand/supply curve is linear.

Why? It would be quite odd. Certainly Japan has generated far more currency and debt over the last 35 years while inflation stayed low (and the relative value of Yen stayed high). I don't see any explanation for that here any more than the yearly gyrations of other currencies crypto or fiat.
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> fair and equal treatment under the law

That assumes that the "law" in general is fair and not favouring the current hegemonic societal consensus, which is definitely not the case. What people fail to see, or fail to want to see, is that the hoi polloi, the "poors", the "plebs", in many cases had to resort to actually breaking the law here and there in order to make their world a little bit more equal. These types of laws and the way that they are now applied will actively prohibit that in the future, in effect making this a less fair/less equal world (yes, I'm saying that in many instances actually breaking the existing law makes the world fairer for a big chunk of the population).

I'm saying that more probably there was a bigger percentage of Tesla owners paying their parking tickets compared to clunker owners doing the same, so that this law (written and most especially applied in the spirit of the world inhabited by those Tesla owners) will in effect disproportionately affect the "poors"/"plebs" a lot more.
US datacenters are built with computing hardware produced in other countries.

Labor too, TSMC had to bring welders from Taiwan for it's US fabs.
> Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely

If properly operated and maintained. Maintenance requires lots of knowledge. The reactor itself is simple, but the stuff to turn heat into electricity typically isn’t, involving the use of steam under high pressure, liquid sodium, or other dangerous and/or corrosive stuff.

The supply chain for parts and tools to maintain that goes deep. It would not surprise me if it would require millions of people to keep one running safely for decades.
Related from earlier this month:

USPS jumps to first place as most imitated brand in phishing attacks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39969527
Many parts of the underground started going to the overground about that time. The stuff that only weirdos talked about eight years ago is becoming common parlance.