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Crystal 1.14.0 Is Released
Hard to know if this was truly one of the best albums ever or if I just heard it at a super impressionable age, but the starting riff on When I Come Around gets me every time
Signals are non-reentrant.
I think Bezos has a halfway decent claim at being a visionary, at least compared to people like Musk, but let's be real -- ecommerce existed way before Amazon. He is a skilled businessman and built a wildly successful monopoly, but I don't see many concepts that he pioneered.
Well, roughly a third of pre-WWII Poland ended up in the USSR and remains part of Russia today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
I was under the impression that the estate has to pay the debts before the assets are disbursed, and the step-up basis occurs, thus collecting all appropriate taxes, just deferred until after death. This reddit post says the opposite is true. I cannot find the answer via Google. Does anyone know the order of operations?

If the step-up basis occurs first, the fix here seems very obvious, but I assume ultra-wealth people have lobbied to keep that from changing?
> Or am I just crazy and this isn't an issue for anyone else?

Not an issue for me, to be honest. Why does it bother you at all?
This (spending+net worth) is easier to get a handle on if you don't have kids, but as soon as I had a kid, the exact amount of money I really needed for full retirement with a degree of comfort for my family became a lot harder to track. As they get older, it should become easier, but for now my spending skyrocketed compared to pre-kid.
I agree with others that you are expected to read documentation and use it on supported hardware. I have been using it on my laptop for some time now, though I don't need bluetooth nor do I suspend/resume much, and I don't know about battery life. I guess I use it mostly like a desktop.

About the security, which is my main reason for using it: I like having to install the things I really want, which gives me a chance to consider the security implications of them, instead of having many things pre-installed and I don't know what the total risks are. And nothing else I know of has gone since ~1996 with only 2 of the worst kind of security holes (i.e., remote exploit of something I didn't even need, but was installed by default).

In the base install are many useful things (including a web server IIRC, though the port is not exposed by default), and those are audited and have that excellent track record.

Then when you install extra things, they are usually limited by what user they run as, and usually have pledge/unveil run (limiting access to predetermined/approved syscalls and parts of the file system) so they can't break other things if compromised.

I do change my default umask (/etc/profile, sourced by shell startup files for all users) to 0077, which means putting the pkg_add command inside a script ("pa") that first sets it back to 0022 temporarily.

Also, for finding packages to install, doing pkg_add pkglocate, then using pkglocate -i, or pkg_add portslist then just searching the whole list with things like less /usr/local/share/ports-INDEX or less /usr/local/share/sqlports-list can be useful. There are very many packages available (over 12k on the amd64 platform).
Python 3 broke almost literally every non-trivial Python file on earth, and was saved only by `2to3` and `six` being able to automate or library-ify away 75% or so of the changes. The remaining 25% was make-work for teams needing to avoid the deprecation/EOL/vuln demons (or wanting to take up new language features that became Py3-only), and many teams took the opportunity to instead spend that time rewriting their codebases in Go or TypeScript+Node.

I don't know how much more breakage you really wanted out of Python 3 if "permanently scoured the public image of the language and caused many Python shops to, at least partially, stop being Python shops" wasn't enough.

(I say this as a still-fan of Python who has written quite a lot of it and contributed to MicroPython/CircuitPython's internals - I just also worked at a Python shop during the Py2->3 hell, and frankly, even my current dayjob still talks about that transition as a nightmare to watch out for if any other language starts doing similar talk.)
Python ecosystem is a disaster for certain reasons but there is simply no ecosystem better than Python for other reasons. It's a trade-off. For literally any niche problem you can find out there there will be a Python library somewhere in the annals of the internet. I use many many many programming languages and everything starts out as a Python script in my flow, because by the time you start half the code is already written.
Someone claiming to be his lawyer popped into one of the threads and then played dumb about a blog post he supposedly wrote.

Hilariously bad look all around.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Wanderlog yet — it's great for trip planning / getting other people's trips.

With that said, keep building what you're building, it's not the same thing!
Code compilation doesn't really have much to do with it. Python already has a somewhat similar ability - opting into certain language features of python on a file-by-file basis - using __future__[0]. It'd be pretty easy to add something like Rust editions by looking for a special statement in the file. And to make it more convenient, put it in the __init__.py and have it be transitive to the module.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/__future__.html
It would become a game to NOT capture x% market share to the degree that it suited interested parties to avoid it.
Can you explain what's different about Glasses vs Tavern, where it's allowed in one and not the other?
He's not the only Wordpress contributor banned from Slack for asking questions about the checkbox:

* https://x.com/xwolf/status/1842548019289338346

* https://x.com/rmccue/status/1843967630585311595

* https://x.com/jonoalderson/status/1843985559745921046

* https://x.com/LinuxJedi/status/1843966957495939093

And from Javier's thread, Matt is gaslighting people by telling them to consult attorneys to decide the meaning of "affiliated" in a checkbox HE introduced.

Is paying for WPEngine hosting "affiliated"? https://x.com/LucP/status/1843926970763227255

Can we now agree that Matt has lost his marbles and his ego is leading him to burn the entire Wordpress ecosystem down? These are megalomaniacal and dictatorial actions.
Here are some examples of DDG utterly failing as a search engine compared to google: https://www.tumblr.com/ddgvsggl
"The Marginal Utility of Income"

> We have thus confirmed the (cardinalist) assumption of nineteenth century economists that marginal utility of income declines with income.

https://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0784.pdf

People say stuff that needs evidence then say "according to economic theory" like its a source.

(fwiw I agree that this isn't a good argument for a log scale)
I am not Matlock, who is that?
> forget why there's so much interest on loans to pay in the first place

Not only that, but we consistently manage to forget who that interest is being paid to. The economy is complex, but we keep treating it like a larger version of a household budget.
This is great, and I'd like to see more of it. Honestly we should be asking why we tolerate any type of corporation except one that's public benefit. Why are we as a society giving owners of capital any special, privileged shield from liability if they aren't using it for the betterment of society?

And it wasn't ever thus, either. Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. really screwed things up.
Wow - what an amazing site!
> This is not a serious argument. You're telling me that if shareholders see a founder divest entirely from their companies, they aren't going to take that as a bad signal, and also choose to divest? Bullshit.

Other investors would choose to divest because ownership of those shares signals control and power over those institutions. Someone with a massive set of shares selling their stakes signals some lack of confidence, perhaps. But more importantly, it injects serious uncertainty and risk into the future of the organization. Who will buy those shares? How will they vote? Will there be power stuggles on the board? How will that filter into the effectiveness of executives, and down from there? Uncertainty and risk come at a premium. Redistributing ownership of a huge institution introduces at least uncertainty and probably risk. Therefore, stock price goes down.

But there's an important corollary to that. This isn't just a graph of how wealth is distributed. It's also -- perhaps primarily, to your point -- a graph of how power over other people is distributed.

I don't particularly care about how money is distributed; call me selfish or lazy or stupid, but I have plenty of money to live my relatively simple life in the countryside as I wish, and that's enough for me.

But I do care deeply about how power over me and others is distributed.

When I look at this graph, I see the consolidation of power in the hands of the few, and in that I see a threat to my freedoms and way of life, regardless of whether I have enough cash to sustain myself indefinitely.
Nice. I'm looking to migrate away from a legacy custom framework over Express and this could help.

If someone has tried both, can anyone share how it compares with tRPC[0]?

[0] https://trpc.io/
There are only two approaches to languages that the world will follow.
One is the Chinese approach, where you create a big geographical entity that speaks your language.
The other is the European Laissez-faire approach of respecting a plethora of languages with few speakers which is worthless for most foreigners to learn, all of your mini languages die and get replaced by English.
https://ashishb.net/short-stories/prague-airport/
It is a giant pool of free labor, but it's an uncontrollable pool which will go in whatever direction it wants to and doesn't care about what you would like it to do ;)
Foxconn builds Mexico plant for Nvidia as Chinese decoupling continues
I'd wager that it's in the training data.
What are the other ways? XML inside the attribute value or splitting up in a bunch of data attributes?
Are you being deliberately obtuse? My objection is to how your description needless obscures that the North was a mixed economy based on mostly free by also decidedly slave labor.

Surely you know there's a long history of Yankees taught that they were on the good side, because they didn't want anything to do with slavery, because that's the more comfortable history to teach, rather than the real history of how many Yankees profited off of slave-made goods, just like those English not-so-gentle-men still honored today whose wealth was built on the backs of black slaves.

Surely you are also aware that apologists for the treasonous Confederacy say the Union should have just waited a few decades for slavery to reach its natural dead end, rather having all those poor white boys die for a few black folk.

Given that knowledge, please try to not sound like a supporter of either false narrative.
What drop in equivalent exists for Android? I have no desire to move to iOS.

What drop in equivalent exists for Google maps? I have used OpenStreetMap for a personal project and have tried other proprietary options. If Google maps disappeared, life would go on but I would be worse off.

What equivalent exists for Chrome? Even on desktop I prefer Chrome over Firefox. On mobile, Firefox falls far behind Chrome.
A lot of comments are about this affecting existing unmaintained code and causing problems with upgrades.

But couldn’t the old code be automatically updated? E.g. wouldn’t replacing every ‘except:’ with ‘except BaseException:’ make old codebase compatible with the proposed change?

Sure, that’s a pain too and I’m not a fan of the change itself either; still, a breaking change that can be addressed automatically sounds relatively easy.
> Chief executive Sam Altman will also receive equity for the first time in the for-profit company, which could be worth $150 billion after the restructuring

A net worth of $150 billion is quite an achievement.
My definition of minimalistic is a SSG where you use Github's WYSIWYG editor and push changes to trigger a pipeline that rebuilds the page and uploads it to a cloud service with S3 support.
There is not authority for french, it's a myth.

The Académie has no authority whatsoever, it's little more than a club for writers. The Education Ministry has authority for school programs and what is accepted in French language classes, but only in France. It only ever allows new uses, never forbids previously allowed things.

The OQLF (and French language Ministry) has a broader authority within Québec, but only for Québec.

The Ministry of Culture has some authority within the Brussels-Wallonia federation but it's quite limited.

No idea what it's like in Switzerland.

But there is no global authority for the French language (unlike German or Dutch for example). The language evolves by consensus.
This. Haxe is a more sane TS alternative in 2024.
You can: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/compatibility/raw_...
Python offers typing with static compiling. .Net doesn’t really match with startup culture.

I’m on the fence about Go, but maybe that’s my preference to having classes.

But yeah I’m the general case if I was an investor I’d be more careful with purely Python based startups.
> Yet, even a very competent C++ dev is going to have a ton of trouble figuring out the Chromium code base.

I don't think this is true, or at least it wasn't circa 2018 when I was writing C++ professionally and semi-competently. I sometimes had to read, understand and change parts of the Chromium code base since I was working on a component which integrated CEF. Over time I began to think of Chromium as a good reference for how to maintain a well-organized C++ code base. It's remarkably plain and understandable, greppable even. Eventually I was able to contribute a patch or two back to CEF.

The hardest thing by far with respect to making those contributions wasn't understanding the C++, it was understanding how to work the build system for development tasks.
zod is great, but I have been moving to @effect/schema and think it deserves a mention here. @effect/schema is the evolution of io-ts, which originally inspired zod.

It supports decoding as well as encoding, and fits natively into the rest of the effect ecosystem.

https://effect.website/docs/guides/schema/introduction

It does come with the cost of importing effect, so might not be the best in certain scenarios. However, there are smaller options than zod if that is a concern.
I look at that graph and think that on the one hand Musk must feel pretty good being on top. On the other hand, though, most of his wealth is tied up in an single incredibly overvalued stock and when the market corrects that interpretation he won't be anywhere even approaching the top. I'd feel much more comfortable being someone like Gates or the Waltons.
> This has historically been the philosophy of English linguists

It's not unique to English linguists, it's a tenet of modern linguistics in general. A language is defined by the way people actually speak. If that's influenced by a central organization, fine, but that does not contradict descriptivism at all. Someone studying a language should always study the way the language is spoken by real people, using prescriptivist sources as supplementary sources of information where needed.
the actual business logic that's holding you back

If the reasons for choosing Slack instead of Discord are business reasons, the choice is not holding a business back. If a choice is not holding a business back, then that's the very obvious reason.
> Counter-intuitivly, the first instinct of a programmer should be "buy that, don't write it"

I don't think this is counter intuitive at all... this is the whole premise behind free software. Why write it yourself when someone else already has and there is a community around using and updating it. We all buy the vast majority of our software and it is usually our go to move, unless there is an itch.
Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon -- the US could easily break all of these up. There's a huge risk to stagnation and over-optimization once these companies get as big as they do.
It's an advertising billboard that if you scroll past might have some relevant links at the bottom of the page.
Yeah, but "one click checkout"? Before Amazon, all the greatest minds could come up with was 2 and 3 click checkout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent
> This is something people love to rage about, yet it's not one with an obvious fix.

Removing the step-up in basis seems like an obvious fix. Record the basis at the time of transfer, then charge taxes when or if it is sold. Adjust for inflation if that seems reasonable.

Is there anything wrong with this? It doesn’t require selling on receipt.
I'm not always a Lex Fridman fan, but the interview with Demis is well worth a listen.
I'd take the whole album in 8-bit chiptunes in a heartbeat. Heck, I'd buy an old GameBoy if that was the only way to listen to it.
Well, ASALE[1] (Association of Academies of Spanish Language) is already a cross-national body that negotiates these rules among several countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Academies_of_th...
> Ok, so like filesystem snapshots.

Sort of, but only sort of. The filesystem is actually (mostly) unchanged for the backups. You have the /nix partition that can only really be touched by the nix program itself, and you have your root partition built based on the manifest defined in your configuration file. As such, every time you want to change anything about the system, you "rebuild" it, it stores a "copy" of the old root system, but since it's a cool lazy functional thing, it really only stores the diff's from the configuration, so they aren't terribly expensive, so it's not weird for me to have literally hundreds of generations stored on my laptop. Old stuff in the /nix partition isn't deleted until it's garbage collected, and a lot of stuff can't be garbage collected until the generation attached to it is removed.

So it's like a filesystem snapshot, but only the system files itself, the actual stuff on the hard drive actually doesn't get touched.

> However, since LiveCD/Flash images became a thing, I stopped worrying about the OS at all, just keep a recent backup of my /data partition.

I actually kind of do that with NixOS too!

My root partition is a tmpfs mount, meaning that every reboot is effectively a fresh root [1]. I have persistent volumes for my home directory and a few other things. To quote a friend, it's like a "new car smell on every reboot".

[1] Followed this tutorial: https://elis.nu/blog/2020/05/nixos-tmpfs-as-root/
Um, anyway for me to put in my money and see where I rank? I'd just love to know how bad things really are.
Why is it dropping, or why 'better luck next time'?

The former is easy to answer. It's a hot, emotional topic and getting comments way faster than it's getting upvoted.
> You should take this argument back to the OP or zahlman re. whether referencing Unicode implies agreement with any nonsense in the standard's comments (such as rejecting the literal "apostrophe" to be used as an apostrophe).

You: No, that’s completely true what they said there

You: Wait, you should take that up with them…

Just don’t speak out of your mouth with “Unicode” when you aren’t prepared to get it thrown back in your face? Doesn’t seem difficult.

> I was responding to the list of symbols named "apostrophe", where zahlman also seems to follow the consistent logic of only listing apostrophes, not quotes

Oh wow they’re named apostrophe? How great. I’ll start using this “start of header” character in my emails, that is probably so fit for purpose.
He's using a lot of that wealth to try to get people elected that say they want to do things that will significantly increase my costs over the next few years. Does that count?
Zod is fantastic, we use it pretty extensively at Stainless. Definitely one of my favorite JS library. Not calling it a parser combinator was a really good marketing move
I wonder how much Bun pushed them to have full Node.js compatibility.
My understanding was that most of the internet infrastructure was laid by Bell before their break-up because they projected video calling being a huge use case in the future.
Loving the discourse in the comments here. Speaking as someone who grew up alongside Google in a sense, I fall on the side of the "break it up" camp. It was novel at the time to have a single company so nicely provide us with everything digitally that we could need - G Suite, YouTube, Search, Maps, Advertising, Books, Reader, etc - but in hindsight, we gave too much power to too unaccountable an entity, who in turn used it to choke off any avenues to challenge its dominance.

As for the rebuttal of "bUt ThE gDp", there's a counter-argument to be made that the GDP would have grown just as much with a higher diversity and stringent M&A regulations by spurring on new businesses and concepts, as opposed to mainstreaming fad after fad that seemingly solely benefits the established players. There's another argument to be made equating GDP values to desirable targets creates a Goodhart's Law problem, thereby making GDP as a measure of growth or success a bad metric; the rise of income and wealth inequality these past few decades, when there was increased focus on GDP as a target of growth or success, could be viewed as evidence supporting said argument.

It's worth noting that this case against Google is likely to be the bellwether for future divestments and breakups. Whatever comes next will be an invaluable learning experience for both sides, just like AT&T and Microsoft's own anti-trust woes were learning experiences for the current crop of companies.
X reinstated in Brazil after Musk pays fines, agrees to follow local laws
It's saying the company itself is worth $150B, not Sam Altman's net worth
Poorly phrased. $150 billion is the total company valuation, not the share that Sam would receive.
Taiwan's Fastest AI Supercomputer Goes to Foxconn
They really went all out on these...

"A preloved Teddy comes with a cassette tape featuring an eight-channel recording of “Chump” including synchronized eye and snout movements."

"This fully-playable version of “Welcome To Paradise” will immerse you in the world of a small apartment in Oakland, California. Search out the record to play the full 8-bit rendition of your favorite song."

Totally impressed and amazed.
> 480x853 resolution

I doubt that's enough resolution for comfortable text editing like I believe the person you are replying to is envisioning.
Yeah I’m with you. I cannot stand having to jump through hoop after hoop just to get started - things to download, command line utils to install, line after line after line to copy into the terminal, layers and layers of dependencies, possibly with version incompatibilities that the “getting started” page was never updated to reflect… it’s a nightmare.

Sometimes you just want to sit down and write code and see it working.
Yeah I want to say it was Rockefeller who is the richest guy in history. He'd be closing in on half a trillion dollars in today's money IIRC. Perhaps we should rank wealth as a percentage of GDP for somewhat more accurate comparisons.
That thought may be comforting, but no.

Don't mistake the limited-purpose US Government for your state government. Colorado does quite a bit, from healthcare to environment to policing. And so does the US, for those subjects it has jurisdiction, and has been doing so for hundreds of years.
A long-time WordPress pro friend got booted from the plugin team this morning.
What happens to the company when it wins in your scenario. Did you leave that out or did I miss something?