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I mean, Microsoft has been very clear about their business model of VSCode -- similar to Chromium, the base product is free and you can do whatever you want (and indeed there are lots of products reusing the core of VSCode), but extension marketplace/remote/GitHub Copilot are proprietary. It sounds like a fair deal to me -- Microsoft can't just do open source without expecting to get something in return.

Now, coming back to private APIs, it's hard to know whether this is because Microsoft intentionally wants to keep competition out, or it is just hard to standardize/finalize APIs. I do know that VSCode development team takes extreme care when it comes to their APIs -- new features can take years before they are ready (most recenly coverage APIs, for example), and they don't want to release something when it's not ready, and I respect that. And to be fair, they have a number of "inline completion" APIs standardized as both VSCode APIs and LSP protocol (upcoming). I'm sure there is a lot to be desired, but it should be a nuanced discussion instead of simply "Microsoft bad".

(I am a VSCode extension & LSP author, not affiliated with Microsoft at all)
I understand the sentiment behind your question (lashing back in hurt), but not your reasoning. What is it? Do you believe that people can live prosperous lives in harmony with nature, and thus what you perceive as cynicism offends you? Or, do you agree with me but you think that it's something better silenced in polite company? Or something else entirely? Do you like the mosquitoes and the crocodiles, or do you believe that it's unfair people have to live near them? The mosquito is the Great Killer, the animal that kills most people, even above and beyond other people. I like swamps though, they are beautiful. And I like the happy careless shoppers and their giggles in huge malls in huge metropolis, but I know the terrible cost it has to our nature. And I resent the contradiction dearly.

In any case, I can't elaborate on the things I say without understanding what exactly you take issue with.
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> Really focusing on stretching yourself necessarily means lower grades.

I'm reminded of a saying/trope (whatever) I've seen in reference to surgeons and lawyers (I'm sure it's also been used in TV and movies). But the trope is that someone is looking for an expert and will be talking to a bunch of hotshots (let's say lawyers). They'll be bragging and then asked if they've ever lost a case, to which they proudly declare they have a spotless record. To which the person responds: then you've never taken a single risk.

It's overly dramatic, but I think gets the point across in an easy to understand way. It's exactly why you see the lower grade ones tutor the high grade ones (this even happened in my undergrad and I did physics[0]).

It's because learning happens when struggling. It happens at the edge. This is also a big reason some learn a lot faster than others or even why someone will say they don't understand but understand more than someone who says they do (and who believes it). Because expertise isn't about the high level general ideas, it's about all the little nitty gritty details, the subtle things that dramatically change things. But a big concern I have is that this is a skill to learn in of itself. I think it's not difficult to recognize when this skill is learned (at least if you have) but it's not something that'll be learned if we focus to much on scores. After all, they're just a proxy. Even the institutional prestige is a proxy (and I have an argument why it no longer matters though it did decades ago).

I do wonder if this is in part cause for the rise in enshitification. Similarly if this is why so many are bad at recognizing issues in LLMs and ML models. I'm sure it is but not sure how much this contributes or if it's purely a confounding variable.

[0] when I signed up to be a tutor at my university I got signed off my the toughest math professor. When I took the signature to the department the admin wasn't sure if I was trying to trick her because she immediately called the professor to confirm the signature. Then told me I could tutor whatever I wanted because I was one of two people he had ever signed off on. Admittedly, I'm sure a lot of that was because people were afraid of him (he wasn't mean, but he wouldn't let you be anything less than the best he thought you could be)
I think you're right. Even worst cases of climate change and habitat destruction won't match historical mass extinction events.

But there are a lot of people who are weirdly invested in humanity causing a mass extinction. I think for transparent psychological reasons.
Of course not, but they could have and that explains the use of data to associate a returned letter.

It's a form letter. In the event it's returned you want the data, regardless.
The lines that really got me in this post were:

> A Licensing officer may call at your property not to collect the letters but to check that you are not watching a TV.

and

>...Cas Scott has said that the letters are not sought by TVL/BBC agents who make street visits.

Like, they show up at your home and ask to physically view your TV to make sure you aren't watching TV! It's so incredibly bonkers to me, I'm laughing out loud at work at the mental image!

Never change, UK, never change.
Wonder if they had any claims. As well those reasonably can affect the rates. Which could explain things specially with 6 cars... And what does fancy mean?
If I didn't have to work I wouldn't sit idly and do nothing. I'd create things, have hobbies etc. Maybe do some volunteering.
Wolfram would disagree.
Culturally, the Chinese population has more of a rebellious streak than people realize. It's a weird contrast - the Great Firewall is there but citizens and often the workers that maintain the firewall seem to circumvent it on a regular basis. Often in order just to function day to day and survive, as noted above.

Also an analogy re how the image is of communist central planning, but post Deng, it's maybe even more of a freewheeling capitalist economy in some regions than the US....(especially in Shenzhen - see Bunnie Huang's write-ups of the ecosystem/economies there)
If only they knew the fate of the letter before sending, then
Sometimes archaic things persist indefinitely in formal communication. Multiple organisations remind me I will need to install Adobe Acrobat in order to read linked PDF documents in their electronic communications.
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That won't work in a tutorial system, the student will be quickly discovered to know nothing about the subject. And in open note finals, as in the Exeter Uni. Physics department of the 1970s, regurgitation of course material was of very limited utility because you were never asked for that kind of response. The quantum mechanics final didn't ask a single question that had been directly answered during lectures, it asked us to extend what we had learnt. That exam was what I think Americans might call a 'white knuckle ride'. Open note finals really sort those who understood the subject from those who thought they could just look up the answers, the invigilators spent a lot of time shushing people searching through rucksacks full of notes.

Many years later I took a course in C# at a university in Norway and that was not merely open note but also open book (you could take the set book in). Again that gives the exam author the possibility to really discover who knows what.

I doubt that your rich middle-western student would have passed either of these
Enlightened enough to know that open source is good, but smart enough to realize that it’s a pain.

I’ve embraced the pain and have been using Linux as my daily driver for like 5 years.
How dare they add undocumented APIs to a product they pay to develop and give away for free.
Rearchitecting the storage layer takes time. A storage manager API didn't even exist until fairly recently, maybe 14. That API needs to undergo changes to account for things that Oriole is trying to do. Postgres is not developed by a team. It's a community effort, and people work on what they want to work on. If you're interested in a previous attempt to change the storage layer, you can learn about what happened with zheap[0].

[0]: https://pgpedia.info/z/zheap.html
Plankton, balloon to six time their size, in a newly discovered mode of travel.

FTFY
Amazing to me how your simple two-word response could conjure such a vivid vision in my mind of the absolutely dumbfounded look on your face as you "gesture broadly" as if to say "Do you not have eyes?" You could not have painted a more appropriate and apt picture there if you had tried. ;)
Exactly. That's what Cursor did, and (I think) Microsoft will agree with that and maybe even welcome developers to do this.
So how can I get on to eaglercraft does y'all know
Decoding Meshtastic in Realtime with an RTL-SDR and GNU Radio
You can see the landing arms adjusting in the video as well.

His choice of stainless steel is panning out well here - I doubt if aluminum or composite body structure would hold up as well to the "grab" forces from even minor misalignment. A composite structure would likely be entirely compromised by a big scrape.

It would be interesting to see a test where the landing speeds were deliberately too high - how much deceleration can the arms handle safely?

I think the chopstick mechanism is probably the best possible catch mechanism for such a tall object. The booster will be suspended from the top, which means the booster isn't subject to tipover as it would be if landing legs were involved. We've already seen this many times in the Falcon 9 booster series.

I can't see chopsticks ever working from a droneship, though - too much induced rotation for chopsticks to compensate.

As an alternative to chopsticks, a catch 'sleeve' might be possible, though it would magnify alignment errors considerably.
I have a similar (yet different) experience. I rarely (e.g., once every few months) log into the portal and it dies with some impenetrable error if I use the same browser on which I last successfully logged in. So I often find myself firing up an incognito browser so I can log in.

My guess is that some change to the login process is not compatible with the cookies I have sitting around from the last time I logged in.
More like "once you try an 8-hour workday, it's hard to go back."
There's an entire mechanism to build custom VSCode based applications right there ready to be used. They did more than could be expected.
If you find this remotely intriguing, I highly recommend Ross Duffin's book How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (And Why You Should Care)

https://search.worldcat.org/title/How-equal-temperament-ruin...
> Students are not used to doing the necessary work to learn. They are used to doing the necessary work to pass.

Can you blame them? If they do the necessary work to learn, but do poorly on an exam for some reason, will you still give them a passing grade?
Careful, this is what I suggested below and I'm already being punished for it.

It seems the most likely explanation to me!
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Getting a 7800x3d for $300 in January was a great decision in hindsight
Conroe company still using computers museums want to put on display (2013)
The lower level async-as-state-machine (or coroutine or whatever) should be more standard, but that's an argument for another day. For now, you're right and the opaque threading model is basically what Go does. On the other hand, it's not suitable for Rust because in some ways Rust is lower level. C# went and did it the Rust way, which I personally appreciate but I understand fits into the problem you're describing.
I would maybe entertain that idea in a vacuum, but that's Microsoft and they already did that in both Windows and Office before so no.
In Sweden there was this whole thing where you apparently had to pay even if you only owned a laptop.
Won't really help ya. As outlined at https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ as soon as you compile "VSCode" (MIT) the ecosystem fractures in a bad way (tm) including no-license to run majority of MSFT extensions (Language LSPs, Copilot, Remote Development). If you are a vendor producing a MIT fork then one needs to iterate the graph and convince 3rd party extension authors to _not use the MSFT extensions_ as dependencies _and_ to publish on open-vsx.

This is how Cursor gets wrecked in the medium/long term. Coding agent? Cool. You can't use Pylance with it etc. VSCode degrades to being notepad.exe. MSFT uses Cursor for product research and then rolls out the learnings into Copilot because only Copilot supports all of "Visual Studio Code" features that users expect (and this is by design)
I avoid "debunk" channel like theses.
Lots of them "debunked" SpaceX at it's beginning.
At least it’s optional in the uk if you don’t have a tv. In Germany you have to pay it no matter what
Thanks. I felt like things must have progressed from my last sort of insider view from 12 years ago when my company's China subsidiary received weekly meetings from officials to discuss things that needed to be addressed.

"Item number 12. We feel like this URL is hurtful to the Chinese people"
There's a fantastic film about TV Licensing called The Duke, I highly recommend it: https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/the-duke-review-jim-broadbe...

> When the film opens, [Kempton Bunton] is refusing to pay his TV licence fee on a technicality, since he can only get ITV because he’s removed “the BBC coil” from inside the set. It’s all part of his “Free TV for the OAPs” campaign, but despite his well-meaning demeanour, he serves time at Her Majesty’s expense for refusing to pay up to Auntie Beeb.
> I'd use hostnames in either case

How? There is no way to associate hostnames with addresses in IPv6 that works unversally. Stateful IPv6 is _not_ _supported_ by Android, for example.

And since _each_ _device_ handles its own address selection, there's no central way to say "hey, this is an IP camera, let it have a static ::1:2:3:4 address suffix".

Moreover, with IPv6 I'm losing an ability to do quick checks of the network health.
Agree. In my observation people have a natural tendency to float towards a self determined 'busy'. Which is generally not that busy. As in there is a plenty of time to watch shows, indulge in frivolous pet household projects, go to wine tastings, etc. Note that some of these indulgences are what leads to the self determined 'busy'. But the point is they are discretionary.
I initially thought this was concerning emails, because for whatever reason, I've very recently noticed an uptick in "Please do not write below the line" a lot more in emails I receive, presumably to encourage top posting or perhaps for AI email ingestion? Anyway, apparently a strange coincidence.
The world has to wake up. We need a second source after DJI for drones. I think of this book

https://www.amazon.com/American-Challenge-Jean-Jacques-Serva...

which pointed out in the late 1960s that Europe was going to fall behind in aviation if they were going to insist that Italian airlines are going to fly Italian airliners and that Europe was only going to be relevant if it took the Airbus route.

In the case of drones there is DJI and then there is... For all the talk of industrial policy, the RoW badly needs another drone maker.
No, it's literally a historical design feature. Just like high ceilings and center chimneys.

You have modern options also. And of course the new owner can customize to their liking, or pay a markup to someone else to have already done so. Not all of the dead boomers lived their lives with a sense of obligation to please you.
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depends on the system, austria for example used to say if you don't have a radio or tv you do not need to pay.

As of 2024 you pay even if you have no tv, which means the overhead is probably near zero, as you already have lists of where people live.
I am this close to running VSCode inside a VM. The plugins have seemingly no sandboxing. Microsoft has repeatedly demonstrated they view my analytics as their right. Why should I trust this to access my home?
Please don't get me started on these guys.

I don't own a television and don't want one (it's a waste of life). I get sent letters all the time. Last year I had an "inspector" turn up who was told to "fuck off", managed to gain entry to the apartment block and then came and knocked on my internal door and refused to show ID, clearly because he was an intimidating arsehole and didn't want to be called on it. He was told to "fuck off" again and told me he'd come back with the police if I didn't let him in. I told him I'd ram the bike handle up his arse if he came back.

Put a complaint in and they replied asking for my license number. Just like the stuff in that article - didn't even read it properly. Absolute clowns.
this sounds like it's read directly out of the inscrutable text book for the one control systems class i had to take.
I think you just have to accept that without an actual deep dive into this, you're not going to get the information necessary to have anything more than a vague 'someone told me something about something once' opinion.

It's one thing to argue about results, it's another thing to argue about the minutia of the process that gets those results, and who's at fault for what, and which parts of it need to be fixed up, and which are just not a large priority.

You don't need to be a subject matter expert to know that your city had a power outage, and be pissed about it.

You do need to be one, in order to have an informed opinion on how to best prevent the next one.
The point is the transition from "Driving Supervisor" to "Driver" is non-trivial in terms of time.
20 Days in Mariupol was devastating, and a reality check.
It doesn't matter much whether it's "intentional" or "malicious", though. It's still anticompetitive behavior.
This gets raised every charter renewal and they always find the administrative overhead of e.g. collecting Netflix subscriptions, etc. is pro rata higher than the overhead for the licence fee.
That's a fair position - I'm also not insistent on using an open source product. I'd just prefer that the nature of the product isn't silently changed underneath me.

If it's proprietary, and that's clear from the start, I don't think that's necessarily a problem.
No. It propagates slower.

https://youtu.be/KTzGBJPuJwM?si=Pab2F0EFsB4oGhUo
Not open source, but a non-profit foundation guarding it: https://proton.me/pass edit: Is open source actually: https://github.com/protonpass/
While I can understand the part about hidden APIs, as they're in flux and experimental, the part that's weird about it to me is the "you can totally build it and share it just not on our marketplace" part. That just sounds to me like they're trying to bar their competitors from the VSCode Marketplace, making installing and updating a lot harder for users.
Calculating logs with a slide rule is fast! It's pure table lookup: slide the cursor to the input value, and read off the log from another row.
Though the original plan was indeed to land it on the (reinforced?) grid fins: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1344327757916868608

I actually think there is some old Starbase tour interview where a SpaceX guy implied it was Musk's idea, though I could be misremembering. Catching the booster kind of makes sense, since they needed the tower arms anyway for stacking and unstacking.
Oh it gets weirder in Germany! See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beitragsservice_von_ARD,_ZDF_u...

The tv license collection agency employs more than a 1000 people.

And this is in spite of the fact that nearly every household has to pay that €18.36 per month.
To clarify: currently, it doesn’t matter what you actually do (listen to radio, own a radio, own a TV…), everyone has to pay, unless they are exempt (due to low income, other social security, or being deaf and blind at the same time). So it doesn’t matter if you listen to radio or not. You (or the household you live in to be exact) has to pay.
I turn the question back at you: why do you think it would be in the interest of the Chinese state to surpress this particular rummour?

I don’t see any implication of this news which would undermine their society, or cause disruption, or make people riot. If anything it is a tepid warm “do your job correctly and don’t be too clever by half or else…” story.

Why would they flex their muscles for this one?
Yeah, the fact that they have direct access to VScode is anti-competitive. It doesn't require intent, it's baked in to the org structure.
They don't use non-descript vans. They want you to know who they are. Now, whether the vans can actually detect anything is a different matter. Some believe they are just a visual deterrent, and don't actually do anything beyond looking scary.
> VSCode is provided fully free as in beer and freedom

No, VSCode is a proprietary text editor/IDE from Microsoft. Code-OSS is provided fully free as in beer and freedom, and is currently what resides at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode.

Why would Microsoft not want other AI agent extensions to get the same benefits, which would benefit all AI agent users?

Edit: I have removed the portion of the comment which discussed the throwaway account.
>novelty in exercise

"Cross training"

Although usually it is more about the physical qualities than the neurological ones
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Not malicious, but still selfish. It's important to remember that the copilot extensions are an extremely effective way of monetizing VScode. So it seems more like they're kind of compromising on their API usage rules in order to get to market quicker. But allowing themselves to use the APIs before anyone else is in a way anti-competitive, because the only way one could compete would be to use the unfinished APIs. But that requires users to go through more hoops to install your extension.

I should also mention that I am a VScode extension developer and I'm one of the weirdos that actually takes the time to read about API updates. They are putting in a lot of effort in developing language model APIs. So it's not like they're outright blocking others from their marketplace.
Sikh retribution?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/19/india-sikh-act...
I honestly don't see the issue here (Full disclosure: I work for Microsoft, but in professional services, not in product - and nevertheless fully expect to be downvoted to oblivion).

If these aren't finished, that most likely means that they still haven't stabilized enough to go through the full support and release pipeline--that usually means documenting them, publishing a couple of reference development samples, doing a public announcement, i.e., the full nine yards of fostering adoption of the product feature.

Which you typically will only do once the "preview" is stable and flexible enough to pass muster.

I mean, it's not as if there isn't a huge API surface for the editor (the sample extensions repo is huge - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples), and there are already samples out there to extend the Copilot functionality: https://github.com/joyceerhl/vscode-mssql-chat (I wrote my own based off this one for a personal project)

So maybe consider that those things just take time to build out fully before assuming the worst?
Consider the alternatives. Anyone else exploiting such a vulnerability would have worse intentions.
It’s weird. They don’t have any actual authority, so if they turn up you can just say “No”.

In my seven years of living in the UK, I’ve paid the TV licence for two years, and had one visit (who I shut the door on).
Thanks for pointing out Yugabyte. I did a search for performance comparisons and there seems (seemed?) to be some performance issues at least back in 2023
https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db/issues/10108

hopeful performance has improved since
I guess you could guage how necessary it is based on your opinion of how useful you find customs, import/export restrictions, etc.