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> "Politics and corruption" is exactly what is complex about society, and it is absolutely intristic to society. That's why we have laws in the first place.

The reason we have laws is to facilitate corruption? That seems like something we ought not to want.

> Personally, I've observed the opposite more often: somebody feeds the public a clickbait-ey and manipulative "explanation" of how things work, and public becomes enraged without any real understanding of complexities and trade-offs of the system, as well as unintended consequences of proposed "fixes".

That's the media. The government over-complicates things. The media over-simplifies things.

It has the same cause. People tune out when something becomes so complicated they can't understand it. So if they want people to pay attention to them, they over-simplify things. If they want people to ignore what they're doing, they over-complicate things.
China in 1990 was a poverty-stricken, hungry backwater, following a philosophy that just bankrupted their richer big brother.

Ideological change was needed.

By contrast, the US system of capitalism + democracy is not only blowing the rest of the world out of the water, it has shown itself to be remarkably resilient and responsive to change.

China has thus far prospered by being great at manufacturing. Can they innovate and change as needed? We’ll see.

The US has thus far prospered by being great at whatever is currently most profitable. Will they change as needed? Yes. Change is how their system works.
That's not new at all - we already accept ICE's losing a ton of energy as heat, we accepted incandescent light bulbs losing a ton of energy as heat, etc.

It's more like we have to resist calls for everything to use the minimum amount of energy possible when the relevant thing really is minimising externalities.
I don't think that's really possible. The issue isn't so much that there isn't proof, it's that proof existing would be counter to everything we know about how the universe works. It wouldn't just mean "oops I'm wrong" it would mean that humanity's perception of reality would have to be fundamentally flawed.

I'm not even opposed to believing that our perception is flawed - clearly we don't know everything and there is much about reality we can't perceive let alone understand. But this would be so far outside of what we do understand that I cannot simply assume that it's true - I would need to see it to believe it.

There are virtually limitless ways such a being could make itself evident to humanity yet the only "evidence" anyone can come up with is either ancient stories or phenomena more plausibly explained by other causes. To me this completely tracks with the implausibility of the existence of god.
I have an opensource android app on the app store. I was a little annoyed/worried that the 'Verify your Play Console Developer account' was going to be super painful since I'm not running a business or trying to make money off my app. The messaging was, shall we say, confusing. They wanted you to choose a verification deadline for some reason. The email talked about a D-U-N-S number, and an official document verifying your identity.

When my verification time came up, I basically didn't have to do anything. I checked a checkbox saying I was an individual, not a business/organization. I didn't have to verify my identity (maybe I did that when I first created the google play account).

Even though my situation was not the same as the OP's, I do have a lot of sympathy for them. Its a pain to distribute apps through the play store (or the app store). I would opt out of there were a real alternative.
I like the sentiment but I think most people I know would be better off freed from their hoarded items and actually able to be somebody.

Your comment does remind me of the replicants from Blade Runner and how they need their “precious photos” that aren’t even real as a touchstone to link them to the implanted memories.
> SpaceX ICBM interceptor

I never heard of this and searching for this term brought me back here. Any more info?
Agreed. High quality dress shoes and boots are very repairable. And men’s shoe fashion changes very slowly. A good pair can easily last a decade with good care. Modern sneakers are another story though.
Admittedly git absorb solves a smaller problem. Because if you do squash merges and leave the history in GitHub you have much bigger problems.
The prettier way is English.
It's honestly sad.

Cartoons and other media for children have always been ridiculous, over the top, a bit silly, etc. But this stuff is on another level in a way that clearly isn't just some sort of "back in my day" rant. It's creepy.
If it was actually more efficient the jones act wouldn’t matter because the other options use US labor and vehicles constructed in the US so it’s a fairly level playing field.

Instead the issue is shipping point to point usually saves a lot of overhead compared to ports and the distances involved are rarely enough to offset that overhead. You do see a fair amount of traffic via the Mississippi because that’s actually efficient.

Also, people forget about is how much oil, gasoline, and natural gas gets shipped by pipelines. Without that we’d see more ships going from the gulf to east coast cities.
This is like the person who says they woulda gone pro but their high school screwed them out of playing time.
Their title is fitting at least: "Truly Incredible WordPress Hosting by Pressable". Yes, it's hard to believe their antics.
I am very surprised at how many recording programs / devices don't have an option to auto-stop on black. It's a real pain to have to hit record / stop and would be so much nicer to just start and when it stays black for like 1 minute just auto-stop.
So far they have 233 DTC satellites in space, but some are still raising their orbit and not operational yet.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/09/24/live-coverage-spacex-t...
> Starlink would be the platform for the interceptor as discussed in Project 2025

This makes no sense—a plane change in LEO takes about as much energy as a launch to LEO. What you gain in proximity you lose in propellant. Interceptors on Starlink is nukes on the Moon.

LEO constellations make sense for sensing—it’s harder to plausibly deniably take out a ring of satellites than an early-warning radar. But not for interception.

> Castelion

SpaceX’s work on rapid turnaround and hypersonic reëntry absolutely has implications for missile intercept. But they’re contributors to the aim and not pursuing it themselves.
I read that as 2000 year old VHS tapes somehow...
I used to think this way until I started helping friends with iphones. There's no concept of local file, just things hosted in different places. My friend couldn't even download an image I hosted at website to their device.
links on here are decent https://archive.today/D2zIG#:~:text=Shotwell
> Worth adding that WPE is owned by private equity

How do you think Matt got the money to build his empire?
> it fed a crime wave, something a number of US cities are suing Kia over

A large part of the crime wave stems from the policies these cities implemented. Many times from the same leaders who are suing Kia now.

For instance, a friend got their car stolen in D.C. After they caught the guy, they let him go with no consequences, because they said he was under 25 and it was the first time they caught him. D.C. recently put a convicted murderer on the sentencing commission who believes that this kind of "it's not really their fault if they're under 25" thinking should be extended to murders as well.

Local politicians even told us there wasn't a crime wave, and that it was just a fake narrative. Then when that stopped working, they started pointing fingers at everyone else they could.
I'm not so sure about that - voice control is super useful when it works. Walking down the street for example it would be far easier to reply without having to use both hands, look down at the phone and type.

The problem is that it has to work _all of the time_ and be perfectly analogous to the non-voice control equivalent.

Otherwise, even in basic things like dictation it fails, because if you message a friend using dictation, the punctuation, capitalization, mumbles and other things make it seem jarring to them as if someone else is suddenly speaking.
You have missed one important thing: every passing assertion will define a single extern function pointer with the same signature, so multiple `_Static_assert` invocations can coexist in a single scope. An extern definition doesn't have to be a function pointer by the way, I guess it helped a linker to have an easier time when removing unused symbols.
Google truly abhors its customers, it's part of their corporate DNA. They would avoid talking to their customers at all if they could, but they can't avoid it entirely.

They like to outsource these functions to external outfits like Concentrix. Concentrix literally pulls people in off the street who have no relevant domain expertise, and no discretion to deviate from the playbook they've been given. Small (and large) developers like IA are then relegated to jumping through those ever shifting hoops.
Effect of Banana Peel on the Shelf Life and Antioxidant Properties of Cookies
> if wpengine is hoping to go into court and explain that wp is not related to wordpress, while selling wordpress services… i dont think its going to go well for them.

Of course not. They will (if it goes that far) point out that their use of WP is explicitly in line with the trademark holder's public guidance on that exact point.

You can't tell everybody that it's fine to use wording like that and then sue them when they do it.
With no centralised justice system people had to rely on people keeping their word. If people had lied and cheated all the time their society would have collapsed.

An oath breaker didn’t just harm an individual, they did harm to the whole community, and the whole community viewed them negatively.
Not those scenarios, but I think it still has potential to take place of embedded scripting languages like Lua, if it can keep up of course.
I don't know about iCloud, but on Drive there is no way to see those files outside the app, it really limits what you can do as a user.

Not to mention that it likely means that iA's own apps on other platforms can't access those files either. So much for the cloud.
> as someone half my age discovers a show I first binged 25 years ago from a friend's handmade VHS dubs

What show are you referring to? Consider my curiosity piqued!
That's the place that Matt decided to hit them, but that's not where the complaint lies. The complaint as laid out in the blog posts [0][1] is nearly identical to the complaints that Elastic had against AWS: trademark use causing confusion and drawing customers away from the "official" offerings.

Beyond that, Matt absolutely has beef with modifications that WP Engine has made to the free software, going so far as to say that these modifications mean that what they're offering is "not WordPress". Never mind that WordPress.com is likewise a bastardized modification—that's okay because it's "us" doing the modifying!

> This is one of the many reasons they are a cancer to WordPress, and it’s important to remember that unchecked, cancer will spread. WP Engine is setting a poor standard that others may look at and think is ok to replicate. We must set a higher standard to ensure WordPress is here for the next 100 years.

This kind of attitude is incompatible with the premise of Free Software, which places a strong emphasis on encouraging reuse and modification to suit user needs.

[0] https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/

[1] https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/
Once you digitize them, you'll want to browse the videos. Consider using Video Hub App - an MIT open source application (Windows, Mac, Linux) that shows you screenshots (that you can scrub through) from each video.

https://videohubapp.com/

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
yeah https://aakash.io is pretty solid
> I only read the first part of the article

Don't you think it makes sense to read the whole article before dismissing it so completely?

This forum should really have a rule to discourage shallow dismissals to somewhat counteract the negative effects of the whole "don't talk about RTFA" rule.
Up to 4x efficiency gains!
My Org has been heavily pushing us to use Power BI, I have found it has a lot of pain points.

I expect how useful it is depends a lot on your use cases. If you want to throw a couple of KPI's on a dashboard it fulfils that requirement pretty well but if you want to do any analytics (beyond basic aggregations like, min, max and median) or slightly complicated trending (like multiple Y axis) Power BI is painfully complicated.
He also denied OpenAI will be a for-profit company. Yet, here we are.

When billions of dollars are up for grabs, values, ethics, morality, past promises and everything else in between will be thrown out the window.

For society, the framework should always be that a corporation is inherently evil. It is only a matter of time when that evil presents itself.
>"In order to get our users full access to their Google Drive on their devices, we now needed to pass a yearly CASA (Cloud Application Security Assessment) audit. This requires hiring a third-party vendor like KPMG."

This is just plain extortion. I am curious how much masqueraded kickbacks Google gets from those auditors.
The conversion is meant to avoid the expensive backreference optimization when it has been already done once by Zstandard, because you can't prepend a Zstandard bitstream with a Brotli bitstream without turning one to another. But well, I think such hybrid scheme is hard to make when the latency is at stake.
If you've covered the personal frustration angle, I'll point to how it also changes the financial odds of turning a profit with malware. ~$700 USD for a week (before getting discovered) means you better turn a profit fast - and if you can't, there's not much point getting that full storage scope
Your point is correct, but it's also a view on life/death that is typically not accepted.

We don't look at human life in that lens, it's a whole can of worm, but we can agree that ending someone's life is viewed separately from whether that person could have not existed in the first place.
Sam: That was child's play for me
Does Florida share California’s problem in that areas have been developed that should have never been developed, and we keep paying people to rebuild there?

> the true cause of energy inflation, which was Trump's 2020 OPEC deal for them to cut the global oil supply by 10%

Wow, I missed this [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/business/energy-environme...
I think we need to start taking this sort of thing beyond money. I'm not sure if it's warranted in this case, but in general I'd like to see more shareholders going to jail for things their companies did.

If my dog bites somebody, that's on me. It should be no different with a company.
I'm pretty sure costs have gone up not due to workers' salaries...
Wouldn't that risk be mitigated if WPEngine were more engaged with supporting development?
So is growing billions of genetic clones of that one perfect fruit, but you know...
Agreed, I ran several busy printers for a large department. The ljet IIIs were work houses and ran nearly forever if you used the recommended part replacement schedule.

We had a ljet III that outlasted ljet 4, ljet 5, and ljet 4000. Ljet 3 was the last with the HP print engine, afterwards they used Canon print engines.

The network interface was brittle, even a nmap would hang the printer. So we firewalled it off and used CUPS to handle postscript -> PCL. Sending only PCL to the printer (postscript memory and CPU is unbounded) made them faster and MUCH more reliable.
Twitter is obviously not a free speech platform, as demonstrated by basically anyone posting things critical of Musk or his allies.
I will encourage you to save them. I use them to train local AI models.
China's newest nuclear-powered submarine sank earlier this year, officials say
> I use libgen on tor.

I believe the context here is the GGP's comment about using Tor Onion services. Are you using those to access libgen?
I disagree, on the basis that retribution should simply not be a state penalogical goal at all. When you say someone "should be executed" you're conjuring up innate feelings of the desire for vindictiveness. A modern state should not have that in consideration at all.

Either they're so dangerous that no matter what you do or say to them they will never change their ways, or they can be rehabilitated. Neither of those posibilities justifies the kind of cruel treatments that plague America's prisons today, much less the death penalty.
Similar in a way to non-dischargable student loans. When lenders are not exposed to the real risk of their loans, someone always ends up holding the bag.

Mortgage loan rates in Florida probably ought to be in double-digits.
Did this book have a positive impact on you? Could you tell me more about how it influenced you? It seems to be an obscure book.
Agreed. And the communications I'm seeing out of WordPress.org around this very much suggest that WordPress is firmly in that category.
You lose job control, but I've just done a netcat to a port on my printer with my document converted to PostScript and it works fine

pdf2ps <doc> - | nc <printer> 9001
Discussions (16+9+11 points, 2-9 hours ago, 5+1+1 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664897 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41662189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41660359
Ask HN: What is the safest programming language?
What language eliminates the greatest number of different types of mistakes that human programmer make and different types of bugs that those mistakes cause?
I agree, and thank you for the username shout-out! In the past I would agree with you about Umbraco, and I guess I still partially agree because Wordpress is in PHP which is easier to learn, modern Umbraco should be very easy to learn. Part of that is probably that I favor making things very explicit and easy to read, over performance benefits. For a CMS, there aren't a TON of performance benefits other than not pulling all your data from the CMS in your view templates. This is very common in Umbraco code, but often the same code works in services called by one-liner controllers. I still write mostly MVC code, but have written my own "to-disk" caching layer, as well as built APIs to make use of Cloudflare to do per-page or global cache-breaking.

I went from learning .NET/ASP.NET, to my current employer in 2007 using PHP and some esoteric languages/runtimes (HTML/OS from Aestiva was what I started using, as my boss knew it well). I learned design patterns and was able to make an ass out of all the code fitting in design patterns anywhere I could, because these initial sites got very little traffic. Over time, I moved to other languages, and searched out the easiest to read way to perform anything only rewriting for very critical pieces of code that needed high-performance. 98% of sites roughly, do not need that (but I work on mostly commercial informational websites for corporations).

I know that doesn't totally dismiss the usage of Wordpress, but my usage of .NET is intentionally very minimal unless there is a major performance impact with more esoteric parts of the language (which a normal .NET dev would not consider esoteric, BTW, just confusing for a beginner dev). Most of the code I write is just mapping the field names from content items to objects of the document type that's being accessed/I need to render. Being strongly typed is a nice benefit, and I've done a lot of work with working through garbage collection. I can usually run a large website at approximately 200MB, with the application consistently running. Throwing the solution at a junior would be bad, but I could give a high-level overview in 15 minutes, with an hour telling juniors where to look for further information (plus being happy to mentor for those that want to dig deeper).
That's true and would bring down the average cost a lot
I've wanted to give MSFS a go for a few years now. Unfortunately, good luck if you use OSX devices only ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Mainly a long-term consequence in teaching and readability. The RFC was accepted only after considering such trade-offs.
This line of thinking peeks through all the time from otherwise intelligent people. Merely mentioning how heinous a crime was when we're talking about the guilt or innocence of a suspect should immediately kill your credibility. Too bad the criminal justice system doesn't care about that.
biggest issue with those chips on mobile is very aggressive thermal throttling. i dont have experience with desktop or server line because i just run amd for years (mostly because of ecc support on the entire line)

> Second, the eTVB microcode allowed certain 13th and 14th Generation Core i9 processors to maintain high performance even at elevated temperatures, which was corrected with the 0x125 microcode update released in June 2024.
> As is usually the case, the government will be left holding the bag.

The taxpayers, really. We’re going to pay for stupid decisions by politicians voted in by Florida people.
Poor status, often a 1 line LCD says "processing..." and hangs infinitely.

Different handling of duplex, monitoring ink levels, file formats (PS? EPS? PNG? PCL? Which versions? Etc).

Issues with ink that expire by date, reduced functionality with 3rd party inks, not being able to print black even when only yellow is out of ink.

Different postscript versions and the nature of a language where CPU and memory use is unbounded means you get a nightmare of which files can print to which printers.

Most of our printer nightmares, at least the software issues, ended when we handled postscript -> PCL (a raster based format) on the server side.
Right and what's this business about "gave him a 4% stake in stripe"? PG didn't own Stripe.
It’s not, but the rest of the content is.
Yes, though that could apply to any pre-modern society, whereas the Indo-Europeans were especially caught up on contracts and hospitality, even compared to similar societies. It's all quite fascinating, and in the context of them going on take over a vast swathe of Eurasia, one wonders whether this kind of ritualised deal-making was a significant competitive advantage that their neighbours lacked at the time.
Corporate organisations make use of platforms like Nessus/Tenable to provide this continuous vuln scanning for compliance reasons.

Under the hood its basically running an nmap scan and spitting out a PDF report.
Also, shipyards that recently built one are more likely to get contracts to build more. Because other countries will be facing the same question.
We should expect the non profit foundation to be independent from the for profit company, yes.
This is exactly the type of link someone guilty of aiding and abetting Sam Altman would post.
Heh, I've heard complaints about multi GB driver installs on windows, sounds worse to me.
Encouraging people to donate does nothing. People are encouraged to donate to open source and you see how many open source projects the internet depends on that are wildly underfunded. Maybe you believe people are more charitable than I do.
Freedom of information is an existential threat to authoritarian states. There is no amount of money they're not willing to give up if it mean they stay in power.

That's said, it will not come to that. They'll just mandate spyware installation.
that ship sailed long ago.
I don't think so? It's only seekable with an additional index [1], just like most other compression schemes. Having an explicit standard for indices is definitely a plus though.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/seekable_f...