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In 2024, the recomend ways to write GUIs in Windows are Win32 (your native widgets library), exposed by WinForms. WPF has parity with WinUI 3, in recomended way by the platform owner, officially communicated at BUILD 2024.

Doubled down at .NET Conf 2024 during the last week.

Regardless of the GUI framework from Apple, and Microsoft, those are managed bindings to the underlying native APIS (Win32 and Cocoa), which is why they also expose handles to do lowlevel stuff if one so desires, coding like 2000.

Webviews are a different matter, as they don't require shipping Chrome with the application.

It definelty has a lot to do with Linux shops, as they can't be bothered to support GNOME, KDE, Sway, XFCE, or whatever everyone else uses, so Electron it is.

And then they want Mac OS and Windows customers as well.
The PPP adjusted for COL puts Bhutan roughly on a par with Sri Lanka or Indonesia, which suffice to say are countries where a lot of people don't get their needs met. There's plenty of intra-EU migration driven by youth unemployment, and I suspect that the Bhutanese unemployment benefits - if they exist at all - aren't as generous. And I think the Llotshampa might have something to say about how open minded the Bhutanese leadership really is...
Yeah, Bevy is super, super modular and isn't really a game engine, it's just a general ECS framework that has lots of batteries made for it so you can make a game with it, but you don't have to.

It's so gd versatile so people have done cool weird stuff with it: https://www.nikl.me/blog/2024/bevy_ecs_as_data_layer_in_lept...
you buried the lede in the lead, where it links:

See also LISP 1.5

https://texdraft.github.io/lisp-1.5/listing.html

finally! being able to take the actual CAR and CDR!
"Convincing you is more important than informing you"

Always a pass from me, gets things off on the wrong foot right away.
For the warehouse guards, to summarize, you're saying that night watchmen and city watchmen were de facto warehouse guards before the formation of professional police forces? That seems a far cry from "evolved out of warehouse guards". Police still put resources into protecting property, but this does not make them "warehouse guards" any more than resources put on petty crime make them "cutpurse chasers" unless you're just making rhetorical points.

For the slave patrol point, I would appreciate a single example of this phenomenon. Is it the claim that there exists at least one professional police force that was created to replace a "slave patrol", which previously performed some subset of the civil duties of police officers? I have not been able to find an example; can you point me to one?
Nvidia GPUs, that support ECC, do this. I believe it's called inline ECC and does cost latency, bandwidth, and memory capacity.

This helps, but ideally the entire path from CPU to Dimms is wider and covers not just what is being read or written, but also the address it's being written to. After all writing the correct bits to the wrong address is a serious failure.
The destination fee is baked into the price in my experience. I recently priced used vs new cars, and every new car had the destination fee embedded in the advertised price. Customizing a car on the Kia website included the destination fee. No dealership in my metro tacked on an additional destination fee. The destination fee was line-itemed for total MSRP on the window sticker.
Not really, it just seems that way to someone heavily biased by idealism.

I think you are feigning ignorance, and avoiding a simple question about backing up hilarious claims with a very low standard of minimal proof.

You can believe whatever makes one happy. However, if you want upper level positions it usually means leaving for other firms, and or founding your own entity as a board member.

Good luck, the world needs more dreamers. =3
Yes, Greek has substrate words, but people who are not closely involved in the field must be cautious about this material. Wikipedia is, as always with historical-linguistics issues, well behind the state-of-the-art in the field. Also, the largest works on Pre-Greek were Robert S. P. Beekes’ 2014 monograph Pre-Greek and his 2008 etymological dictionary of Greek and it is easy for a layman to accept these claims. However, Beekes’ work has been savagely reviewed; sadly, he was succumbing to dementia in these years and this affected his work. Subsequent scholarship, for example, has highlighted the fact that many of Beekes’ non-Indo-European words in Greek are not limited to Greek after all, and were presumably borrowed into an Indo-European dialect farther north.
I don’t understand how that is a benefit.
same here. if I want to slap together a quick model or sketch, it takes seconds in onshape vs minutes in f360.

I've even loaded projects into my phone's browser while out to view sketches or assemblies.
2023 which was the peak had homocides at 14,244.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/249803/number-of-homicid...
If there is bad blood leading up to the termination, then I guess so. I haven't witnessed that more than once or twice in my career.

Most people make an extra effort to end on a positive note, both with colleagues and managers. Of course, effectively off-boarding yourself means having progressively less and less to do as time goes by... So in that sense you sort of quiet quit.
> Are there any highly developed nations that allow complete strangers with any nationality to buy and use a mobile phone without showing a national ID?

Canada maybe? [I'm 80% sure that] Public Mobile will sell you a prepaid sim card at the counter. You could pay cash, and set your caller ID to a fake name.

If we're talking about mobility plans, the identity requirement is more about the credit check they might want to do than anything else.
This. There are valid reasons to have the big guns, though I still think we’ve overreached. It is terrifying that a damn teenager managed to trick the cops into whipping out the big guns hundreds of times.

Despite that the teenager will likely be going to jail, the most damning indictment is of the police forces that were repeatedly co-opted by the teenager. It should really take something much more clever to trigger this kind of systemic response repeatedly.
Although solving a captcha can be translated into a monetary cost (often the cost of labour for a human in a clickfarm to solve it for you), the nice thing is that it's still "free" to solve normally.

If you switch to direct payments that are still affordable for routine use by your poorest users, then your rich adversaries can afford to generate orders of magnitude more spam (until we solve unequal wealth distribution globally).

Also, the cost of using a postal service nominally covers its operating costs. The cost of actually transferring a spammy HTTP request over the internet is negligible, but the costs imposed on its receiver are less so (i.e. the cost of responding to it (cpu/ram/disk/bandwidth), second-order costs of lowering the quality of the service for everyone else, etc.).
>> inexperienced programmers who lack the ability to judge the applicability

In other words, the author knows better than you.

The author could have put forward precedent, principles, or examples. But instead he chose to make it about the people (inexperienced), not his arguments.
Railroads inspired the creation of time zones
man who do you think joins swat teams
Them receiving surplus military gear is one aspect.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/06/1...
The full title includes an important qualifier: "... to visit Amazon rain forest".

FDR visited the temperate rain forest of the Olympic Peninsula while a sitting president, back in 1937.
Related:

Sweden's 'Doomsday Prep for Dummies' guide hits mailboxes today - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42173777 - Nov 2024
Host an indie-web yardsale on your /junk page
The reason LUMI is advising against many files is that it uses the Lustre parallel filesystem, which is notoriously bad with small files. See here: https://www.lanl.gov/projects/national-security-education-ce... .
The real reason is that it's basically impossible to produce a cheap new car that is a better deal than a Toyota with 80k miles on it.
Yes, but the amount of people "flying around" is pretty small, and the cost of economy air travel is next to nothing in comparison to daily commutes by car. Keep in mind you share that plane with hundreds of people.
What exactly is meant by the word "kind" here when you say kind-specific vectors?

If I have `function X(a) { this.a = a; }` and then `function Y(b) { this.b = b; }` does that mean `new X(1)` and `new Y(2)` are considered objects of different kinds?

And what about creating objects with literals: are `{a: 1}` and `{b: 2}` considered objects of different kinds?
The weapons are orthogonal to the culture; most of the police abuse volume is in beating, arrest and confinement, property destruction and confiscation, etc. The shootings make news, but lots of people don't get shot and still suffer lasting material consequences
40 years ago, the Yugo was sold in the U. S. for $4500. I’m not questioning the truth of your story, but I think it a poor basis for arguing that cars should be $10K today. The dealer obviously was willing to take a loss to get those Chevys off the lot.
exactly, I found that you don't even need labels for functions to be able to do programming.
The amount of energy needed to pump enough water for ag uphill is insane. Well beyond "just" throwing some solar panels out there. If it was that easy we'd pump Mississippi water into west Texas (which there was a plan to do in the 60s with nuke plants, but I cannot find the name right now).
May I ask what state are you in?
The article you point to is explicitly debunking the idea of slave patrols evolving into police forces.

> The claim that modern police originated from slave patrols is a dangerous slur designed to delegitimize policing ... Bad policing must be criticized, but we should not do so by resorting to historically flimsy myths, especially myths that unfairly tarnish the reputations of those in law enforcement and cast aspersions on their motives.
'there's no way to stop this' says the government of the only country where this happens regularly.

source: the onion [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...
Shrimp do not have experience. There is no place within the shrimp, no anatomical structure, where experience can reside. The article, and many of the articles it links to, confuse the existence of pain receptors, complexity of behavior, memory, aversion, intelligence, learning capacity, and other measures for experience.

Since they don’t have experience, they can’t suffer, in the morally relevant sense for this argument.
>> PHEV is just too complicated to support long term (imo).

> PHEV isn't that much more complex than an ICE.

I've been an owner/operator of two Gen3 Prii for 14 years and agree in practice even though in theory I would agree with the complexity argument. The one maintenance hit for both was for the vacuum pump needed for brakes/etc because the car cannot assume the engine is always running.

Toyota has moved to hybrid only for the Camry and Sienna. This is an indicator to me that technology maturity and US manufacturing is where it needs to be for broad adoption.
Honestly I doubt it, because these Western oligarchs rely on cheaper labor and manufacturing in Eastern countries. I don't think any domestic companies will be able to compete even with the tariffs.
> All this talk assumes that USA or Western countries have always had a level playing field whereas companies like Boeing or Airbus are prime counter examples

As I said, every country does it. It is rational to protect your own manufacturing industry. China does it. We do it. European countries do it. Just because we protect our own industry does not mean we have to protect China's interests too. That's their problem.
Extending the context length to 1M tokens
I wonder what this means for the calculations outlined here: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/how-much-energy-do...
There are few reasons to use a CRC64. Your purposes would probably be just as well-served with a good CRC32.

CRCs allow you to precisely tune the type of error detection guarantees you have to the application. You just pick the combination of hamming distance and polynomial size that you like best from the CRC Zoo:

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/crc/index.html

A hash function is essentially just a statistical version with the avalanche property that works acceptably well the majority of the time instead of a hard guarantee.
Honestly, whenever I heard any opinion by Tim, he seems like he doesn't really have an understanding of the inherent difficulties of introducing standards in the real world, and then I think he got lucky that HTML since it came around is a much simpler and emptier digital world, with more technical users.
I mean, that's exactly what I'm saying. It's a compromise. A pure EV would be much better if the charging infrastructure was great. If it isn't, then you need a compromise...
total BS and a scam
Interesting.

I'm fairly puzzled by sensation/qualia. The idea that there's some chemical reaction in my brain which produces sensation as a side effect is very weird. In principle it seems like you ought to be able to pare things down in order to produce a "minimal chemical reaction" for suffering, and do "suffering chemistry" in a beaker (if you were feeling unethical). That's really trippy.

People often talk about suffering in conjunction with consciousness, but in my mind information processing and suffering are just different phenomena:

* Children aren't as good at information processing, but they are even more capable of suffering.

* I wouldn't liked to be kicked if I was sleeping, or blackout drunk, even if I was incapable of information processing at the time, and had no memory of the event.

So intuitively it seems like more neurons = more "suffering chemistry" = greater moral weight. However, I imagine that perhaps the amount of "suffering chemistry" required to motivate an organism is actually fairly constant regardless of its size. Same way a gigantic cargo ship and a small children's toy could in principle be controlled by the same tiny microchip. That could explain the moral weight result.

Interested to hear any thoughts.
America's grid isn't ready for massive EV adoption, nor are its fire departments or insurance underwriters, indoor parking garages, etc.

Price is not the thing holding back EV adoption. The people who are in the $20k car market don't own their own homes and don't have anywhere to plug their theoretical EV into consistently.

EVs as they are now are only as successful as they are because of a set of diehard futurists with cash to burn and excessive government subsidy.
Do note that HDI does indeed depend on some assumptions and those includes "equating earning more money with a "better life"" as GNI (PPP) per capita. With no further increases after 75k USD (International dollar), unadjusted for inflation since introduction more than a decade ago. It also does give large amount of value to traditional education (i.e. total amount of years in full time schooling) and not outcomes of that (e.g. literacy). Schooling is also capped at 18 years, which is in line with a Master in most western countries; if schooling is this important then why cap it?
What would really help the working class is building out actual forms of transportation beyond private automobiles. That way we're not subject to a single point of failure in our ability to move around. Maybe warm up to the idea of ebikes for getting around town, and bring back some trams for city to city connections. Then you can free up the roads for actual useful transit.

The US is one crisis away from our expensive to maintain road infrastructure being unsustainable. The American people are one crisis away from their $60k SUV being worth nothing and still owing a four figure note against it. They're also one fuel crisis away from being unable to pay to use it. And we don't really have any alternatives at a scale to handle those sorts of things.

We're really going to have egg on our face at some point. And the only option will be to import affordable EVs the rest of the world has been building and developing.
You also leave out the emissions exceptions for vehicles above a certain size, which also incentivizes manufacturers to build and sell larger vehicles.
CRDT at the very low level is an append only operations log with snapshots.
This can be easily stored in a file. The trick is to solve merging with another version you just got from a friend. But then operations are idempotent and appending two operation logs with idempotent operations is simple.

Yes, ideally OS would provide a container that it natively merges, but meanwhile nothing prevents apps from storing their data in say sqlite based append only logs and when needing to solve conflict/import/merge just append new operations.
People in India suffer from these same scams, too. They are pissed.

I haven't lived in India for decades, but saw an interesting TV show about a famous phone phishing operation run out of a small village in Bihar state. It's fiction, but based on a real news report.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamtara_%E2%80%93_Sabka_Numb...
Camera, Frigate: Intelligent AI-powered notifications
> Finally, those with active cosmic consciousness bother themselves with things unthinkable for the former two groups: they quickly recognize each other, form a wall around everyone else to protect the herd from even greater evils and to balance the good and evil deeds, prolonging the suffering of the herd.

What kind of evils and good are we talking about here?
Don't think it's going to work, except in the smallest forums?

According to a random page on internet [0], companies pay in $2-$6 range per 1000 ad impressions. If one pays $0.01 to bypass captcha and just 10 people see the resulting spam post, that's already $1 per 1000 views - much less than facebook charges. This becomes even more lucrative if the ads are expensive or there will be more than 10 people looking at the ad.

It looks you'll want much higher costs than that, which will make it "too much" for other users.

[0] https://spideraf.com/learning-hub/what-is-the-average-cost-p...
A very interesting piece on the history and development of modern policing https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/sarah-seo-how-cars-tra...
>This must be very much true of the US, too, then, and has been for a long time? Its trade balance is negative to the tune of tens of billions.

Quite true. The key difference here is that the USA is a reserve currency and those advantage give them far more breathing room in the balance.

But the USA isnt without the same consequences. The USA could be much wealthier per capita if they had a president who planned to put big tariffs in place.
I think, unfortunately, most accessibility options are not intended to actually be used.

If you are a governement or bigco, accessibility is part of your baseline requirements. You must be able to say: Yes, we are accessible. Otherwise, the public will cause a stink.

So you take your list of vendors, and remove any that don't say they enable accessibility. Vendors know this and make sure they say they are.

Meanwhile, it is a hard to get right feature, only applicable to a small part of your userbase. Multiple disabilities require different affordances. No developer on the team really understands the actual requirement.

The people requiring accessibility will go somewhere else, or grumble and make do. Neither will be detected on any metrics board.

This combination promotes shelfware: Things you buy and put on a shelf somewhere but never really use.
Who's "us?" Personally I noticed a _dramatic_ decrease in spam calls. In 2019 and 2020 I was seeing, at times, three per hour (damn that extended warranty!). Now I might get one every week.
I mean, not having the SVE do not make them run all the workload of P cores, and this is what I said already? They are not of course different ISAs at the core, but they're not the same cores per se. When you are missing extensions, you can't address these cores when there are these instructions present. Forcing it, would kill your application with an illegal instruction error.

So heavy computational stuff is not the target of E cores, you need P cores for that.
When I fire up my jupyter notebook in my browser, what technologies am I using?

When I fire up OPs website, what technologies am I using?
You seeing no evidence of it firsthand != A refutation. It's a globally decried phenomenon unique to the American Police Forces.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-9-11-helped-to-milita...

https://apbweb.com/2023/10/the-use-of-military-assets-by-u-s...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/05/why-are-some-u...

The driving force behind it is this LESO; established to facilitate the "1033 Program", which transfers excess weapons, equipment, and vehicles from the United States Armed Forces to civilian law enforcement agencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Enforcement_Support_Office

From 1997 until 2014, $5.1 billion in military hardware was transferred from the DoD to local American law enforcement agencies. 1/3rd of the equipment was brand-new.
Absolutely! The biggest problem is the average American allows themselves to be duped and challenged by advertising. New tech in cars is great, but spending $40K and up is stupid. I've said it before: my $27K base model Ram truck will go from point A to point B just as well as a $70K(!) model. Is it just as shiny? No, but the money I didn't spend on all that shine won't be wasted on depreciation.

My credit union recently sent me an email telling me I can be approved for up to $70K for an auto loan, this is insane! When we allow competitiveness or temptation to decide how much money we spend, we lose every time. The only way to get Tesla to offer that $25K car is to stop buying the more expensive ones.
No, but it's a reason that changes to the standard economic indicators won't give you as much of an insight into changes to people's quality of life.
I have been running web services for around 22 years I believe. At the very beginning, I had zero problems with deliverability to most addresses. However, even early on, I do remember plenty of forums that mentioned that Yahoo! or Hotmail tended to drop their confirmation e-mails into SPAM. Smaller operators had an advantage in being lower volume; I think that gives you a higher likelihood of delivery. That said, their emails are also more likely to get caught up in SPAM filters without remediation.

Something has changed recently, though. I have found it increasingly hard to even get an IP that is not blocked anymore. I recently migrated a VPS that was almost 10 years old that was running its own e-mail services, and after a lot of struggling... I gave up. It now has to go through an SMTP proxy to send e-mail. This bums me out, but after multiple attempts to get an IP that worked, I gave up. The provider did tell me that I was grandfathered in to have outgoing SMTP enabled on my servers (something that new users do not have by default, by the way) but recommended I stop using it.

Is the network open? Yes. Does everyone have deliverability problems? Probably not. But maybe another question: If you did have deliverability problems to some major provider, would you even know about it? If you're not very high volume, maybe not!
I was the donor, not the recipient
Strengthening FreeBSD: Addressing Vulnerabilities Through Synacktiv's Code Audit
Or maybe form a mentorship program. Every intern once they complete their training must train two other doctors to completion before they can genuinely practice. They must do this at the teaching hospital.

That hospital will then have enough support staff to maintain a large load of interns as the compounding growth continues. Of course the growth has to level off at some point. But yeah.