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> An healthier way to respond would have been...

True in theory, but a lot of the time leadership doesn't care and wants it made NOW, with no care or consideration being given to bugs, because the execs don't play games and don't know (or rather, care) how much buginess can ruin the experience.

For them it's a battle between pushing the broken version ASAP, versus taking an unbounded amount of time to properly do it. To be an exec you have to be short sighted since the only thing that matters is the current and potentially the next quarter, so you get shit like this all the time, since they're incentivized to do it the idiotic way to earn money ASAP and leave for greener pastures right after the money settles.
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Ehm... Does someone think ALL smartphones are not spying devices controlled by many more than their formal human owner?
Do you really believe in the existence of Pluto?

For them, it was the same type of situation.
I tend to eschew these categories and find that trying to collect human relationships into different buckets often confines them in ways their extremely fuzzy and dynamic edges don't want to conform to. As we get older and have more experiences, we grow and continue to evolve each of our relationships. I also find that you lose the "organicness" and some nuances that are present when one lets a relationship flow naturally, lets it be what it wants to be, instead of trying to define it. Heck, even our daily mood can have an impact on our perception of a relationship. In essence, there's often too much shift to make categorizing them useful, to me.
I didn't say that; not sure how you got that from my comment. Sure, disable it, but don't let that make you believe it's gone and permanently inactive.
In many european countries we pay already for news ( the TV tax ). In Germany is pretty hefty ( ~150 euro per year afaik ).
I think in many parts most people's lives are not simple because they engage with them through muddled and complex intellectual frameworks using 16 letter words to explain 3-5 letter word concepts. You'd be surprised how much modern life begins to make sense viewed through the framework of antique philosophy.
Writing network protocols in Python is an odd choice indeed
I heard stories of how Spotify used to have obscure death metal records the staff would rip, but which were gone by the time the service gained traction.
Walking out with a phone? Everybody knows where you had been for the entire year with a precision of minutes.

Walking out with a covered assault riffle? nobody can know the position of a shooter; in what roof they climb, how much closer to the president they are, or in what class of the school that weapon is currently located. Is as ridiculous as that.

In a world when your car, TV, even your toaster, is calling home; the war weapons shouldn't have the right to remain occult to the police. Not unless they are being used on a real war. Acting in that area seems more efficient than spy every frustrated adolescent on internet.
>Borlands tools were mostly used by business professionals. Sure they sold at discount to students/ hobbyists etc but professionals were the core of their market. It wasn't cheap software.

No, the early Borland of 1980s was the opposite of what you describe.

Borland marketed to the hobbyists and ran ads for Turbo Pascal in hobby computer magazines like BYTE and PC MAGAZINE with low pricing of $49. E.g. :
https://blog.marcocantu.com/images/forblog/turboad.png

Borland Turbo C with the lower price of $99 was also advertised to hobbyists compared to competitors such as Microsoft Professional C Compiler costing $299. (E.g. https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1987-05-12/mode/2up) ; Microsoft responded to Turbo C's pricing with lower-end products such as "Microsoft Quick C".

It's the later years of Borland trying to go up-market with more expensive "enterprisey" products such as Interbase and subsequently Embarcadero, etc.

The main reason Borland didn't create much software for Macintosh was that they were a small company and didn't have the manpower to build tools for the tiny Apple customer base.
Why didn't they set up a global DHT to find peers, like bittorrent?
> 10 years from now they’ll be busting down doors for sharing illegal memes (Seems to already be the case in the UK).

UK law does not prohibit memes. It prohibits incitement to riot, as does US law. It prohibits incitement to murder, as does US law. In fact, these acts are illegal in almost every democracy in the World, even the most progressive and liberal ones, because they are reasonable statutes to extend common law (protecting people and their property from damage by others).

In recent weeks, a young man born in Wales to Rwandan-born Christian migrant parents, diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders, stabbed three 6-year old girls to death at a dance class. He attempted to murder the other children in the class, and the adults who intervened.

The "illegal memes" as you put it, were that he was a foreign-born Muslim who had entered the country illegally (all aspect of this narrative are false), and that people should riot to show their displeasure, and kill Muslim migrants to "save our children".

Seeing these "facts", mobs rioted in multiple towns over the course of a week, injured multiple (unarmed) police officers, caused tens of millions of pounds in damage to private property, and attempted to burn down a hotel with 200+ migrants (including children), staying in it, while many people of colour were individually attacked, their shops looted, their homes and cars damaged, and so on.

Arresting and charging the people who did these things is an obvious priority.

Arresting and charging the people who spread misinformation (I believe it was actually disinformation - purposeful, intentful lies), and suggesting that riots and murder should take place, are just as guilty of incitement in the UK as they would be anywhere else in the World.

The internet is not a fantasy land. What you post has real World consequences. If you get together in a private forum and plan to kidnap, rape and kill a celebrity (a case also tried in the UK recently), that's not "online meme banter", that's conspiracy to kidnap, rape and murder. You're going to prison, you're a threat to public safety.

The lines you say the government don't have, they're there. They're called "laws". Some of them are arguably unjust - I've campaigned against some IP law extensions in the past, including the introduction of software patents in the EU (when the UK was still a member), and think RIPA was a tragedy of law making - but to say that laws are irrelevant and action is defined only by the resistance a government faces is absurdly cynical, naive, and simply not true.

Your last sentence leads to an obvious question: what do you think people should do instead of "sitting by passively and praying that the system will come to its senses"? Do you think inciting riots and murder are the way to go?
If your definition of "think" doesn't directly describe the cognitive processes that happen when humans process and react from the inputs they get, then what does the word mean to you? If you don't agree that humans think, then I think we just need another word. But that other word, applies to both humans and dogs and many other living things.
Yeah, but then we get used to non linear laws.

Also I think our bodies like waves. Staying at the same pace sometimes makes me muddy. So I vary the pace a little every no and then.
This goes into a similar direction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love
A lot of people in professional jobs who identify with the wealthy to distinguish their place in the hierarchy from the next layer down.
> Reticulum does not use source addresses. No packets transmitted include information about the address, place, machine or person they originated from.

So there is no way to reply to a packet? Sounds useless except for some very rare usecases and spam.
A replica of what? Of your words? Your thoughts? How would it access those thoughts? What about your feelings? What about the things that actually go on in your physical body outside the brain?
> it was psychological hacks: that people are mostly holding themselves back from what they want, one just needs to align their unconscious desires with their will, and it will happen.

This is the correct understanding of magick, at least as formulated by Crowley and other western esotericists such as the Hermeticists. "As above, so below" and the principle of correspondence refer to the way in which our inner psychological worlds correspond to the external world without. To the degree that we are able to transform our inner psychological world and the ways in which we perceive reality [0], we are able to at least modify our own subjective take on the world, which influences our behaviour and the actions we (are willing to) take or don't take in the objective, outer sphere, and thus, as a downstream consequence, modifies the external world without.

Crucially, this modification of one's internal state can be done through sheer application of will alone, and so in a similar fashion as one can invent entire software systems, logical structures, and psychotechnologies [1] through nothing other than the operation of one's mind, one can rewire aspects of their own subjective, psychological reality, and thus minutely affect the real world without.

The conjuring of firebolts and magic missiles are to be regarded as "stage magic" or prestidigitation, not the psychological/spiritual practice that produces inner transformation and mastery of the self (magick). Religion, spirituality, and mysticism are studies of the mind/soul (synonyms for the exact same thing, that which beholds the unconscious, intellectual, emotional, and other aspects of reality not having to do with meatspace), not cheap conjuring tricks or metaphysical assertions about bearded men in the sky or "energies" pervading the universe.

[0] As a modern, practical, worked example see the "Practices" in Igor Kusakov's Psychonetics which can be tried right now, in your browser: https://web.archive.org/web/20160520233250/http://deconcentr...

[1] https://www.meaningcrisis.co/episode-1-introduction/
In other news, the sun rises from the east.
nahh I don't buy it. You don't have friends OFTEN asking you how it feels to test a compiler bro stop the cap
Same. Only late, when I get cranky I realized I pushed too hard.
>>> The outdated concepts may not stand up to modern thinking

Can you elaborate ? From a quick read, the concept of good ("A good thing fulfils its unique function") and how to be a good human ("to have an excellent soul. And this excellence reveals itself in a clear intellect and a noble character.") seems timeless to me
Nice Article, always good to be reminded of the fundamentals - Love the Graphics
> I wish it had C++ support as well, akin to C++Builder. Pascal syntax is off-putting for many

I write my "app" as a library (.dll/.so) in C and use Lazarus to do the GUI, because FFI from FreePascal to C (and back again, for callbacks) is almost transparent.
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> Considering that in Meta I heard (from friends) it is/was easier to work remotely and even easier to get into (they are less leetcode oriented)

This is a weird take. It might pertain to 2020 during Covid when Meta encouraged remote working, but it's not like that anymore. Interviews were always leetcode focused so nothing changed there.

Meta is an interesting comparison because the performance culture has historically been way tougher than Google (sans Covid years). It's quite a shock for a lot of Xooglers who join. One Xoogler at Meta who told me they only used to work 4-6 hours a day at Google. That is basically impossible in Meta - you have to constantly prove your value and the perf bar is high.

I think Google is changing now though and I wouldn't be surprised at all to see them adopt Meta/Amazon style perf cultures in the future.

Source: I work at Meta, and have close friends at Google.
I think Aristotle would be of the opinion that most people's lives could in fact be quite simple, but many choose to complicate because it makes them feel important, because they are confused about what they want out of life, or both.
As jasode said. Borland's low pricing was a revolution and suddenly made it possible for hobbyists to get a real compiler without paying a fortune. This created an explosion of activity back then. We all jumped on Turbo Pascal for CP/M and DOS at the time.

It was much later that things changed, but then it was another world already.
I never understood why AMD is not at least making the source of these available. I would actually really like a secure cryptographic processor that's been extensively vetted and trustworthy.
Genuine question: why reads it "1-100" as 1 .. -100? Google is (was) good at that even when I think it was taught by pure statistics. I never saw people would mean by that, only by bots. Does bots have too much influence?
Yeah, and that's why I'm doubting this definition is very useful.

Aristoteles should also have gotten a chicken plucked on the market square ...
I just really liked this.

There’s a lot of wisdom in Aristotle even if you don’t accept his entire system.

For example, in his politics he says mechanics are not capable of practicing virtue. An interesting claim!
> NPR is undoubtedly a "leans left" shop in the same way Fox is undoubtedly "leans right".

Oh c'mon, it's ridiculous that I need to call out a false equivalence like that.

Fox News isn't even news; they've admitted in court that they're an entertainment program. NPR is... not even remotely that. Certainly NPR has a bias, but they at least do their best to tell the truth. Fox News makes a business out of lying for outrage engagement.
> If you have a game about battling in Japan, and you want to make a game about battling in Rome...why does that need any programming at all? New maps, new units etc.... then maybe use it as a chance to launch the latest version of your game engine

Well the new version of the engine is what makes the programming required :p

Each new Total War game introduces some new mechanics, so obviously it needs a rewrite sometimes. As the author said, they had 2 systems that now had to be merged together, and the engine wasn't built to handle the situation properly.

Even between the Warhammer games, they massively changed things around between 1, 2 and 3, with lots of new mechanics and tweaked old ones.
These companies somehow always at the brink of bankruptcy and have to ship shit
Or even better... While booting, using either grub or systemd-boot, enter a uefi shell and change the kernel parameters to include 'init=/bin/bash rw'. Boot like that and you'll get a rw root shell.

The point is.. a system someone has physics access to is never secure. One thing that helps a little bit is using LUKS full disk encryption.
Yea, buying into a MMF only makes sense if you need the money to be semi liquid since it only takes a day or so to cash out.

Otherwise buying short term treasuries is quite easy on most brokers. The downsise being it may not be as quick to sell on the secondary market when you need to cash out unless you get competitive with the sell terms.
I just gradually added that one in - the scissors don't really cut wires
or zip ties.

the other "cutter" is just a very good letter opener

You may be right, I use it much less frequently (but when I do use it,
it is the right tool).
if you are UK tax resident, there is no CGT on gilts, which make some low-interest-paying bonds interesting to hold outside a tax wrapper.
Of course there is a nice way. 'getent passwd' if you have a shell script, or the getpwent() libc function if you are in some real programming language somewhere. That is ages-old POSIX stuff from almost the last century even (POSIX.1-2001, actually older than the standard even, since it has been in SystemV and BSD...), and Linux has always supported that.
That seems so easy to game. Do some small change that brings short term gain, bag the profit and let the rebound be the failure of another team.
well, for anything related to photographic equipment, try B&H, much better. Decent search too and without all the ridiculous crud of false buy leads that Amazon dumps on you despite being one of the world's biggest companies and perfectly capable of providing a clean product search that¿s reliable.

Or, for random products, even damn walmart does better, and that's just embarrassing. I could go on with this but if you're defending the obviously broken interface that Amazon provides for buying products, I suspect your motives.

The one single thing I continue to use them for is book reviews, not buys, but just reviews, and that's a low bar indeed.
I remember that Neo4j Enterprise used to be available under AGPL. They pulled it and now it's available only under a commercial license.

AGPL is not a problem for server-side software if you don't need to modify it. Your application (talking to the server) doesn't become infected by AGPL.
Is SQL really that difficult to write? SQL is quite a high level language, although it was pretty much the 1st thing I learnt after c and basic. I'm not sure how writing a prompt to do SQL which you then would have to test pretty extensively would be much easier, unless you were writing a lot of repetitive queries. In general having used sql for over 25 years, you don't have to write too many complex queries (although I have written a fair amount of ridiculously complicated ones). In fact it will be better if you think about taking out some of the complexity at the data modelling stage if you are able to get involved in that?
> they created ephemeral written text as the primary solution for communication

What would that be? They do everything on Signal?
Saying that the US has put “half of the world’s life a living hell” is really hyperbolic and not at all conducive to a real discussion, because again, that’s not how history actually happened.

To give you an example: the Korean War officially started when communist-backed North Korea invaded the Western-backed South. Had the South not been backed by the US, they would have lost - and indeed almost did lose.

Are you therefore suggesting that if the entire Korean Peninsula were under the control of the North today, they’d be better off? Because the reality is that South Korea today is more free and economically successful because the US intervened there.

Or what about Germany? If the US let the Soviets take the entire country, do you think Germany today would be the economic leader of Europe?

Of course, there are situations in which that defense turned out in the opposite way - Vietnam for example.

As to your last comment, again, this is just the typical cynical line that assumes everyone in the government is an evil imperialist that only pretends to care about their values.

You are ignoring the very basic fact that many of these interventions were done in order to prevent the very anti-free USSR from defeating the West. It wasn’t a foregone conclusion that communism would be defeated, or atomic war avoided. And so the people in power in the West needed to make very difficult decisions about navigating this game theory situation.
> There do exist worker-managed companies under capitalism, they consistently underperform.

Of course, according to a metric, how much money I can make out of an investment, without having to do any work, they underperform!

> There also exist (and have existed) worker-managed companies under various forms of socialism, those were an utter disaster

This is simply not true. Where it was a disaster, it was for the similar reason, workers didn't have the stake in the company.

> Bonuses, raises, equity.

Possibly but you have no say how these things get distributed, and they still are only a small portion of what the investors get.
> Mostly because outside US it was nonexistent.

It was also nonexistent within the US.
Linux is an ecosystem that includes Android. Pixel is an Andoid phone by Google that is supposed to be hardened against local attacks, showing when an unhardened OS is booted, etc.

No one cares that you can run a firewall on an insecure OS configuration, but they care if your shipped appliance does it.
Ancient societies were different. A male citizen from the aristocracy could lead a slow leisurely life, gathering with like-minded citizens on the agora and talking for hours, enjoying the finer things in life like wine and sporadic sexual contacts, taking part in sports competitions.

The "ancient wisdom" we consume now is coming from that segment of the Greek and Roman societies.
And qualifying the mac market as “for home use” is pretty wild, during Borland’s heydays design houses were pretty much mac only unless they needed SGI’s prowess. Borland had started tripping over its own feet before Photoshop was even ported to Microsoft.

Photoshop 1.0 was 75% pascal by LOC incidentally (the rest was 68k assembly).
I think he understands it pretty well. Implicitly, explicitly, however you like. It’s a PERL script that has been reimplemented a hundred different ways. “Read” in this instance means as a writer reviewing his own writing, not as the final output.

You can pull up any individual Daring Fireball article and append .text to the URL to read the Markdown source, but you don’t necessarily want to read Daring Fireball (or anything) like that.

Similarly, I think Markdown gets misused in a lot of places it doesn’t really belong. It’s handy, sure, but there’s also nothing wrong with just making a good WYSIWIG editor for people rather than telling them they have to use Markdown. That’s just my opinion, but Gruber has expressed similar opinions elsewhere.
Operation Neptune Spear would like to have a word. Pretty much all combat missions of the Seals are slammed out midnight patches.
The Pixel 9 phones have a new modem, and that's a big deal
3D TVs died before they had a chance to get good (2023)
Exactly why phone numbers are better than SSNs, did you just misread what I wrote?
Maybe you didn't play Rome I?
I also don't understand the death threats but I still remember playing Rome II on launch - after playing Rome I for years - and being absolutely baffled at how bad it was. Apart from the graphics nothing was better and a lot was worse.
And I actively avoided playing siege battles, for fans of those it was even worse as explained in the article.
> The models are trained on something. By definition you can’t separate the output from the input.

I've watched my own three children learn to talk, then to write. The human mind is also trained on inputs.
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The problem that everything is good because it's profitable is quite insidious.

Usually, these early warning signs don't come into effect until much much later. And by then it's almost too late. See total war nkw with the latest Pharaoh release. The debt collector has come to get their due, with interest.