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I think its worth spending more time in it. I've been working on an MMO in Elixir and I find myself coming back to rework/expand earlier subsystems and expecting to dread understanding WTF is going on but that has not been the case at all! Regardless of what knowledge I had of Elixir at the time I wrote the module - I can quickly pick up the chain of thought I had when I first wrote it. The code usually boils down to a combination of atoms (symbols), pattern matching on atoms, tuples, return values, and some sort of enumeration using Enum.map or Enum.reduce to produce an output. There's no other fancy tricks beyond that. And regardless if the data changes from list of tuples, to a map, or a set, the Enumeration logic doesn't change.
Except you can't actually vote out the Republicans in Congress that are committing stochastic terrorism, because of gerrymandering.
Ego is a universal human problem, not only at work and sports, but in anything in life.
I was confused by them in the past, too.

My problem was that I had used tools that use the x-axis for time. So you can follow program execution over time by reading the graph from left to right.

However, that is NOT how flame graphs work. At each level of stack depth the called functions are sorted alphabetically and the cumulated time spent in the function is represented as the length of the bar in x-direction. So yes, x has a notion of time or duration, but what you see is not chronologically ordered data.

Understanding that brought the breakthrough for me.
As is common, the article does not link to the actual opinion. Here it is:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf
Nah no way, there's no X or anything, the ui seems to be a load of lua.
Dumb decision, but we really just gotta build more homes mainly.

A good overview of why this is the best solution to homelessness: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-...
Did you read Death's End by Cixin Liu?
That’s still deferring, just to the courts instead. The demand was for Congress to not defer that responsibility, and they literally can’t do that.
This is insane, so you are at your lowest in life and it is now illegal for you to exist.
TLDR, you combine/precede naked accent characters with the backspace character on your output device (probably a printer) to get accented characters.
>It will appear stationary against the stars, so will not be detected by these systems. To some extent it also doesn't matter that we are orbiting the sun because while near, earth and asteroid will be in the same accelerating reference frame.

I dont think that is true aside from the case where the asteroid vector is the exact opposite of the earth.

Even if the earth and the asteroid are in the same accelerating reference plane, the background is not.

If you have two race cars going in around a track and at one from the other, it still appears to be moving relative to the stands.
Yes, Apple Silicon only for now (it's well suited for this job).

Are you sure AppleAI is not cloud based when it comes to sophisticated chatbot capabilities? I think they're using openAI for anything more complex.
And these green pastures are?
So Congress would need to vote on every new drug approval
Man pages on some unixes (inc macOS) still do bold-type this way. It’s literally a char(8) backspace followed by the previous character again.
PET used a clone of the Motorola 6845 (also found in MDA and CGA adapters for the IBM PC).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6845

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7117/how-...
Are there any 20 year old Teslas out there? No? Your analogy has no value.
These judges need to face election like most judges, and we need more. I agree.
Would be great to see this sort of thing for all political parties, or at least Labour and Conservatives.
I genuinely enjoy fact checking. Not because I like calling people out – I'm not a jerk – but because I get satisfaction from doing the research to verify a claim. I end up learning a lot along the way too.

I fact check myself all the time too, often when I realize a "fact" in my brain isn't really a fact, it's just an intuition, or when I can't remember where I learned something and I question its validity. My wife and I both frequently pause conversations with "Hang on, let me fact check myself on that [because it might be BS and I don't want to spread misinformation]".

So I can't help but verify it when I read something that sounds true, intuitively, but I'm not certain.
(trying not to respond at too great length to avoid being overwhelming)

vi has been a mode of ex since the inception of vi; early versions of vim (up to 3.0.0 i think) didn't implement ex mode, but later it was added. the : commands of vi are exactly the ex commands (: is the ex prompt; one of the improvements over ed enabled by higher-bandwidth terminals was explicit feedback to distinguish command mode from insert mode)

i don't think of ed as very strange. teco, now, teco is strange. ed is just a more taciturn vi. but i would never describe ed as making state persistently visible!

if you're finding yourself tempted by ed you should probably try sam instead

i don't understand the nature of hedy but it sounds like just another scripting language; what would make it especially difficult or costly to implement? i don't understand what you mean by 'user-localizable' or 'more overtly'
This might seem like a childish retort, but I genuinely think that the job of CEO should definitely be given to AIs. I mean, it's both the most expensive and most risky job of them all, and there's nothing a CEO does that even the current LLMs couldn't handle.

The ROI should be fairly high.
I know more people who currently build things with Ada than I know people who currently build thing with C (professionally, because almost every Ada dev I know have at least an arduino).

Probably that says more about the people I know than about the language if I'm honest.
It's now, effectively, illegal to just exist as a homeless person.

Sleeping in your car? Jail.

Sleeping under a bridge? Jail.

Sleeping on a park bench? Jail.

Sleeping in the woods? Jail.
Vue!
Regarding making friends, I think quite a lot of that comes to language. Swiss kind of expect expats to learn the local language when they want to be integrated. Otherwise we kind of assume they are just “in transit” I guess.

To make matters worse, the local language in Zurich is Swiss German which is different enough from German to probably count as its own language (which will be completely useless outside of Switzerland).

And we’re not even easy to make friends with on our own. ;)

Source: I’m Swiss, originally from the agglomeration of Zurich and have worked in many international companies/with many expat colleagues.
If there was one thing craigslist could improve on, it would be managing the spam listings. I think we all can close our eyes and imagine how these listings look: dozens and dozens of identical listings on a single point on a map about some scam used car loan, or an apartment that doesn't actually exist, or stolen playstations. If its so easy for us regular craiglist users to see this spam and subconsciously tune it out, then why is it such a hard problem for the craiglist developers to establish what I would guess are pretty trivial filters to set up to catch these listings that I stress again are posted dozens and dozens of times identically over the years? Seems they have tacitly acknowledge the issue with the hide duplicates checkbox, but why even have the user need to check that at all? I don't think anyone wants to see duplicate spam.
This won’t change Congress, which is more partisan than ever. It just means what we have in code now is what we are stuck with for a really really long time.
Hopefully, this is a useful analogy.

Congress is like the product manager and creates something like the URS (user requirements specification).

The executive branches like the developer team that has to Turn those high-level requirements into detailed implementation plans.

The judiciary is typically the quality assurance and auditing team. They make sure that the executive branch hasn’t gone way past the initial requirements and they also check to make sure the initial requirements make sense and don’t cause other problems.
Any predictions on whether Elixir will eventually gain more traction?

I have 10 years with the language this year, much of it as a professional fulltime focus in senior IC roles.

I would be shocked to my toes if there was ever going to be even 10 times more active Elixir devs than there are today, let alone more extreme growth. And I think that hypothetical plateau is an appropriate outcome commensurate with its ecosystem's breadth, applicability and quality today.

Many libraries have single or absentee authors, even some you would assume were critical to the community, and major vendors in many verticals don't give us any thought when providing SDKs/integrations. Elixir seemingly doesn't have any major backing or adoption from large polyglot orgs or top FortuneN groups. We have failed to reach critical mass for broad mindshare, IMO.

I have no personal plans to write net-new Elixir that I wasn't explicitly hired to work on in that specific stack.
Perhaps, but for me, it's more like having to slow down to let the scene play out in my mind. But that's really interesting to hear about your experience.
I was hoping this would address the recent mini-buzz about stealing paid apps from Macs at Apple stores.
3 of those things are simply trespassing.
Why is it a dumb decision?
So you fine them and arrest them... then what?
Where should they sleep?
Big W for the prison industrial complex.
>A massive reason in this case is that congress are not matter experts,

Perhaps they should not be crafting new laws concerning things that they do not understand. If this results in fewer new laws, that may be better. If this also results in their having to spend more time doing homework on new urgent laws of greater importance, that may also be a good thing.

A return to the Constitutional prescription that Congress writes the laws, the Executive administers them, and the Courts interpret them certainly does not seem inappropriate, and discarding this framework in the name of arbitrary desired outcomes like EPA rulings feels off. If it's a bandwidth issue, maybe we should up the number of judiciary and lower the number of extra-judicial agency bureaucrats.
It doesn't take a whole population to grind the process to a halt - just a legislator or two, and not passing legislation is just as important to some voters as passing legislation is to others.
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> "well, I'll leave it up to unelected bureaucrats to decide"

This is not *at all* related to what the Chevron defense is about.
Sorry, there might be a misunderstanding —- I’m looking for an example of when the dependency array needs to be [], is that what you posted?
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

Median salaries in 2023 were $130k. Yes, salaries are higher now but not by an insane amount, but this is a software team. They don't need an office, they don't need custom hardware. They don't need to invent ethernet along the way to make this work. They need to make a terminal emulator that people are willing to spend money on (good luck). Push the salaries up to $200k/year and total cost to $300k to cover other expenses (HR, health insurance, buying their laptops, etc.) and $23 million supports a team of about 77 devs for a year or about 25 for 3 years.
https://archive.ph/ufyoy
I think there's plenty of reasons to be a hard sell on relativity's take on black holes. After all, it's still a plenty hard sell today. The evidence that things that looks like black holes on the outside exist is pretty solid, but the evidence we have about the insides is zero. I don't particularly "believe" in the relativity take on black holes either, which is to say, I have very high confidence that a real and effectively-correct theory of quantum gravity will remove the singularities.

I'd love to pull off the trick of being extremely easy to convince about true things and only true things, and being very stubborn about everything else, but that's basically epistemologically begging the question. It's too much to ask of anyone.
I do not expect Congress to atomically approve or disapprove every regulatory action. That is a straw man. I expect them to write clear laws that state what agencies can do, what they cannot do, and how they should do it.

The case before the court is a good example of how the opaque and unaccountable nature of a federal agency allows them to serve their own self-interest at the expense of the citizens they are supposed to protect. Specifically, Congress specified in law that "authorizes the government to require trained, professional observers on regulated fishing vessels". But their law did not specify who would pay for these observers. So under Chevron, the agency got to decide. And, shocker! They decided they did not have to pay for it.

This ruling stops that specific abuse, and hopefully many others. The actions of federal agencies is not generally a thing to be desired.
For a comedic take on a very American way to do this, Jackie Kashian has a hilarious bit in her special StayKashian about how her salesman father taught her that you should never say no without a number.

https://youtu.be/pr3PYJPvmWo?si=BjhMJeEOi3KvGtjc&t=2176
My first reading is 'WhatsApp', which just makes him sound like a pretty lame superhero.

My second reading was an assumption that it was a US state code (maybe I could have arrived at Washington if I thought for long enough about it) and that there'd be a comment here very much like yours but complaining about 'US defaultism'.

So no, it probably isn't that common outside of Australia, but this is so so common, and bear in mind it's usually a US thing. (Anything 'national' or talking about 'the nation' generally means 'the US' on HN, for example.)
This is paraphrased unironically right there in the majority opinion. "The public-camping laws prohibit actions undertaken by any person, regardless of status."
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They stand. But if you look at the current records (based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_swimm... ), most of them were set after the 2009 ban. In other words, the full-body suit advantage was not overwhelming.
No, again, I don't understand where commenters are getting this idea from. The ruling does not require laws to be unambiguous. It only changes who is responsible for resolving ambiguity (changes it back). The entire system will do about as much work as it was doing before. At a stretch, you could say that maybe some funding would need to be reallocated from regulators to the courts, but one would hope that "cost of interpreting ambiguous laws" is not a meaningfully large line item in the US government budget.

Now leaving the specific judgement aside for a second, IMHO - not worth much as an outsider - Congress certainly should write more precise laws and maybe hire more aides to help them do that. All governments could do better on that front. Clear law is worth its weight in gold for creating a stable and prosperous society because when people know what they can and cannot do it's less risk to create new companies, less risk to create new products, and less time is spent in courtrooms arguing disputes caused by ambiguity. A lot of people commenting on this thread seem to fear a general breakdown if lawmakers are required to do a better job of writing law, but my personal experience of regulation (limited but not zero) has been that laws that have gone via a parliament or Congress are already higher quality than administratively issued regulations. The idea that the former are written by incompetents and the latter by experts is an intuitive one, but doesn't seem to be borne out in practice.

Also, as a general aside, I think Americans should appreciate Congress more than they do. It's popular to take a dump on them but if you compare to other governments around the world US law is fairly high quality. A big part of the success of the US economy and tech industry is related to what Congress does and doesn't do. For example the DMCA was unpopular when it passed but it laid the foundation for the dominance of Silicon Valley today. Apparently most Americans like their own Congressman/woman even whilst feeling the institution itself does a bad job, but this may just reflect the fact that America is very large and diverse, so inevitably a talking shop where people from different parts spend all day disagreeing with each other will seem dysfunctional.
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Can vouch for this having fixed non-determinism bugs in a compiler. Nobody is happy if your builds aren't reproducible. You'll also suffer crazy performance problems as everything downstream rebuilds randomly and all your build caches randomly miss.
There are enough vacant homes in the US to give every homeless person 25 homes. That is not the root cause of the problem.
Yes and no. They said it’s not cruel and unusual punishment to be fined / spend a few days in jail.

The real issue should have been intent, but the litigants and lower courts didn’t base the case on lack of capacity to comply / lack of mens rea / etc. They wanted a precedent allowing for urban camping even if you’re not homeless.
The rules are that the executive can appoint judges. Right wing executives take advantage of this rule. Doing the same from the other corner seems reasonable too. The failure to do so means that the Democratic party is incompetent, uninterested in enacting their own alleged policies, or some combination of the two.

Some people say "if you're not cheating, you're not trying" but this is even a level removed. This is a perfectly legal move that they've denied themselves for no material reason.
This codebase is 99.6% Rust according to GitHub.
From the majority opinion page 20 [1]:

> Under the city's laws, it makes no difference whether the charged defendant is currently a person experiencing homelessness, a backpacker on vacation, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protest on the lawn of a municipal building.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf
> In 2018, Craigslist permanently shuttered its personal ads section following a federal amendment to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a bedrock piece of legislation that enabled early websites to flourish by removing liability for user-generated content.

https://LokiList.com provides a (somewhat more private) replacement for the lost Craigslist personals. Since websites are now liable for user's content, users can only post text. Users may include a Session Private Messenger ID in their post or share their preferred contact information in their post body.
It makes it, not just de facto, but de jure illegal to be poor. If someone can't afford a home, where are they meant to go? Just fuck off and die?
Congress isn't the CEO, the president is the CEO. Congress is the body responsible for writing the company's policy documents.
TBH, "irrationally" is a value judgment that I can't agree with.

Einstein's approach to physics was to reason out the consequences of observable phenomena. He approached understanding of the nature of the speed of light by realizing that a universe where you could travel as fast as (or faster than) a light ray would have consequences that we didn't see. So when the math tells him "gravity causes some regions of space to blow up to become inescapable," and we hadn't seen black holes yet, I think his first intuition being that we'd missed a trick that made the math fail to match reality was a fine intuition.

Math is only useful to physics to the extent that it actually models reality, and not all the extrapolations it makes turn out to have practical grounding; sometimes chasing the extrapolation reaches a contradiction that demands adjustments to math to fix the model. Chasing such adjustments in light of evidence is how we reached relativity in the first place.
Are you asking for mainstream phones with no operating system on them?
>by the sovereign (the People)

This is a mere magick trick that can only ultimately be enforced by private firearms.

You do not hold allodial title to the things which you need to live. You can be involuntarily caged for long periods for mere possession of materials or objects. You are a subject, not a sovereign. Try protecting yourself from kidnap by an enforcer next time he catches you with a joint, you will be swiftly escalated to execution if you successfully fight off application of chains. You are not sovereign if your choices are death or obedience (even to the god/religion "The Law").

Our system kills sovereigns systematically and convinces its subjects they're sovereign (they're not) in order to lessen the odds said subjects learn from the state and get violent against its enforcers. Democracy did not help us: it helps the ruling elite by playing a magick trick on you, convincing you to give up violent power and accept the unacceptable because "We have rules and a system, and you agreed to those rules so tough nuts! You've got a chance for change next election cycle."

Its original intent was noble, but seriously try BSing me that we have any effect after the comedic horror show last night...
Manslaughter?
AOL's server code was excellent. It was written by some people that had done similar things for BITNET and had a deep understanding of Unix programming and how to use event loops for scalability.

It was in C, but the process was expected to run for months without crashing or running out of memory; if it had an abnormal exit, you'd (the owner as set in some code thing) get an email with the core backtrace. If it had a memory leak, ops would be on you quickly. Ops was considered a primary driver of requirements to dev, and absolutely everything could be reloaded into a running server without restarting it. There was a TCP control port where a TCL interpreter inside the service was exposed and generally you wrote the (very simple, CS 101 style) TCL commands to manage the server. It was a "No Threads Kernel", scaled to the dozens or hundreds of physical machines communicating over a very well managed network, and most 1 process per core, and 1 core for the OS. The 200
or so unix developers (as we were called) had a common understanding of how the framework worked and if you were just writing app code it was basically impossible to write slow services. We had technical writers that would interview the developers and write books that could be handed to outside developers and lead to a successful integration with no developer time spent.

The NTK was primarily for sending msgs over the network - we had a principle to never write to disk (which were pretty slow in the 1990s), so everything was just a server to get network messages and then send out other messages in reponse and then assemble the replies/timeouts and send back a msg to the caller. All done over persistent connections established by the infrastructure, the applications just registered callbacks for msg type 'X' which would present one with the caller information, the msg as a buffer, and potentially a "user word" which would be a way to keep server state around between calls.

The layering, from the main select loop thru different layers of TCP connection, SSL handling (if used, not 100% was SSL in the 90s), thru persistent link handling, application msg handling, timers, memory allocation, etc. was done with such art that I felt it to be a thing of beauty.
Just like startups innit? Fail quick or win big. But the worst is muddling along. You might be a figma you might be nobody. Nothing to do but keep going. M
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