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>The federal government budget is not a household budget. There's no such thing as having money or not having money.

Entire countries default fairly often, the USA is no exception if such a fate befalls us. We've already had our security ratings dropped once before.

>More to the point, if you shut down 100% of everything that looks like spending it wouldn't save anything important.

So you're saying reducing expenditures won't reduce expenditures. Also, war is peace and freedom is slavery; I implore you to consider WTF you're actually saying.

>The federal government is an insurance agency and all the money goes to Medicare/Social Security payments and military wages. You could shut down the miltary I guess.

As cited[1] by another commenter, Social Security + Medicare account for 36% of the budget with the military accounting for 14%. Together they're 50% of the budget.

Meanwhile, we are $35.46 trillion dollars in debt.[2]

These crazy numbers must be balanced sooner or later, and the costs to do so will be cheaper the sooner we do it. Every single part of the government needs to be cut and likely in most cases eliminated outright, that includes Social Security and Medicare and the military.

Spending even more money (that we don't have) in the hopes that we get more money and more efficient government as we've been repeatedly doing for fucking decades is a fool's errand.

The bottom line if we are borrowing money to make ends meet is: We. Do. Not. Have. Money.

Tear the government down until that red ink is no more. It's stupid that even this basic piece of financial logic is considered crazy and controversial.

[1]: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

[2]: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...
A GREAT documentary.
I think a fair benchmark would be some kind of task that this OS is particularly well suited for, and then implementing it relatively optimally on both platforms.

Hard realtime applications come to mind, though I'm not sure if BareMetal OS is suitable for those?
Why did China hack the world's phone networks?
What happens when the employee steals $1k of wages (by slacking off or lying about sick days)? Even fewer consequences than occur when the employer fails to pay wages that are due.
That's just what he says. He is obviously not going to publicly say that he is scared of competing in the WCC. But in all likelihood, he is. At least Ding could compete in the WCC without 6 months prep, which Magnus clearly cannot.
Thanks for the clarification. I'm curious how you can reconcile your beliefs with those definitions, which I feel apply equally well to your own arguments:

immature: "I know what life means and that is not the meaning of life." or "Suffering cannot be unbearable, can always be improved by sharing it, and everyone has a robust support network ready and willing to share their pain."

arrogant: "15 thousand suffering people, their families, and their doctors and support staff all need to redefine life as I see it."

selfish: "I know what's best for everyone. Differing opinions are mental disorders and psychological conditions and should be discarded out of hand."

What makes your opinion the only privileged one here? Honest question, I just feel like we're operating under different frameworks and there must be something else I'm missing. Can I ask your opinion on the soul and afterlife?
I do believe Foxit didn't present itself as a Chinese company at the time. Not sure where I got the Aussie thing from. They do and/or did have a Melbourne office. Perhaps its address was used for marketing purposes at the time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140529210328/http://www.foxits...

> Founded in 2001, Foxit is a leading software provider of solutions for reading, editing, creating, organizing, and securing PDF documents. Headquartered in Fremont, CA, USA, Foxit has operations worldwide in China, Belgium, Japan, and Taiwan
Death will be the hot new pensioner duty in post-capitalism!
Sorry for your loss. I don't know if he got to explain to you (all) the reasons behind his choice.

My fear is that I will be 70-80-90, I won't be able to serve myself even for the very basics, I will have lost my memory, and will be a total burden (all the pain - zero joy) to my close family. Why would I do this to them? Perhaps he had a motivation like this - to make sure he won't hurt your lives, your relationships, etc.

Either way, it is a very difficult choice..
Well, I think it is impossible, so the comment works for me.

And I refuse to update my priors to account for the fact that somebody did it. Because I can’t even memorize the English scrabble dictionary well enough to enjoy playing. I am happier to live in a universe in which Scrabble is just impossible.
There are stated reasons and there are actual reasons. You have to differentiate between the two, otherwise you are just extremely naive.
The problem is you're not going to fix the obscene compensation scheme for the CEO position. There is no stomach for that.

So, I'm with OP. They're going to have ridiculous compensation, therefore they should have personal responsibility if something goes wrong. Justify that big paycheck and put your money where your mouth is if your want it.
If only they also had access to goods and services at globally average prices...
Apparently the launch tomorrow will be live streamed again.
Always nice to see a new one of these - don't forget this one too:

https://hipsum.co/
Games do in fact have downtimes on major releases and you have to restart the client too before connecting.
For major patches/backend changes that require recompiling - yes, for gameplay tweaks/hotfixes - no, hot reloading is preferable where possible.
When I was 14 or so I took a long bus ride downtown to buy The Wall on vinyl. The ride back home was torture, gazing at that beautiful art work and not being able to listen.
Depends which language learners. There are people who can learn 50 new words a day for months, but those people are rare and there feats are probably not replicable for most of us.

https://isaak.net/mandarin/ is an example

edit: Isaak is great, but it was 22 words per day not 50
Ok, sounds more reasonable now. Being DOM-like or DOM-compatible sounds much preferable, even though I don't see the reason to abandon webviews - you get 30 years of battle-tested tech for free + massive ecosystem.

> Yes, but this is a challenge in every cross-platform framework. Flutter has pub.dev, react-native has expo modules, etc.

I don't know about those, but I can say with confidence (from experience in Tauri) that the native integrations are absolutely crucial. Getting the API surfaces right, the plugin <-> core boundary right (with versioning, etc). It's hard as hell - do lots of research and try to learn from their mistakes.

> Easier than to try and bootstrap a pure-rust ecosystem (though it would be nice).

One thing I learned from the Tauri FFI story is that Rust mattered very little in the sense of hermetic and safe development. The boundaries get ugly and safety can be violated simply by misunderstanding the model of the other language (for instance, I've had an Objective C autorelease bug that caused a segfault on `drop`).

Investing in good infra, testing, debuggability around the FFI boundaries would have been the right thing to do. You often run into the same kind of problems in different "plugins" and features.
I specifically meant the design of the headset.

The renders of the Samsung device in the Verge article look _very_ close to Vision Pro, and unlike most of other AR/VR/XR/whateverR headsets on the market.

And headsets aren't super saturated and mature market like phones, where you can make the argument like "oh there's just so many ways to make a rectangular slab of glass". No other headsets look like that!
See also:

* An Introduction to the Delia Derbyshire Archive [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPIqq7_RjnA)
Awesome stuff! I used to use Hackers Keyboard (up until … now!) but it’s not OSS, hasnt been updated, and i use the swipe even there.

Thanks for sharing!

[edit]

Even more for making!
> At some point that net loss must overrule the individual's autonomy.

I'm curious why you think of this as such a concrete fact. It is hard to understand that you would consider it your right to override such a core component of human autonomy (the choice to continue living) because they owe you/society something.

If someone's suffering is so great (be it physical *or* mental) that they have reached a point where they personally would trade human life for non-existence, who are you to say "Sorry, we own you. You cannot make that choice"?

I am sorry if my comment sounds judgemental because I am genuinely interested in your opinion about who would ever be qualified to make that decision and decide "No, this person is bound to us."
The Select -> touch to copy is a miserable interaction to me.

Selecting the appropriate text is already a challenge in so many circumstances. Having to tap again exactly inside the selection, then choose from the floating menu are two more failure points and interaction lag.

It's especially painful when trying to select single characters (which happens a lot in CJK land).

I wish I could join the GBoard team for two weeks, just add an optional ctrl key, and quit.

PS: Actually, mapping the physical Volume Up to Copy, Volume Down to Paste whenever there's no media playing or some other condition could be the best choice.
WoW restarts every week. Not sure that’s better than zero downtime deployments
There are many different strains of Christianity. In some of them, like many varieties of Calvinism, the notion that people have freedom to choose anything is explicitly rejected.
I’m thinking the same thing. An engineered form of mass hysteria. The goal is to make us feel that the threats are all around us, leading to hypervigilance and societal fracture.
That's right. "We didn't have enough people to schedule a meeting" is identical to "we failed to employ enough people to have the meeting". Lack of staff isn't an excuse, it's a root cause analysis.
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Most of these aren't sensible.
Original source: https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/1hc0kit/wa...

(Or at least the one linked in this summary article)
Many players do indeed memorise groups of related words and patterns of word formation.

But Nigel Richards? He's on another level: https://youtu.be/35rqRFXPWJo?t=143 knowing even exceptions to patterns and differences between dictionaries, for 9-letter words, in a game where players only have 7 letter-tiles.
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Imagine if building data apps was 100x easier—what would change? In the 1990s, photography was deliberate and scarce. Film was expensive. Every photo was a decision. Fast forward to today: with smartphones, photography is instant, cheap, and everywhere. We don’t just capture special occasions anymore—we capture everything.

This same transformation is possible for data apps. Right now, building even simple data apps is complex:

Setting up connectors to pull data
Writing SQL to clean and model it
Engineering a frontend and backend
Deploying and maintaining the stack

The result? Data apps today are reserved for the most critical use cases. No one spends $50K to build a temporary dashboard for a weekend festival or a hyper-local app for a single restaurant. The ROI isn’t there.

But what happens when building data apps costs 1/100th of what it does today?

A restaurant manager could quickly analyze food waste patterns, broken down by dish, time, and chef.
A festival organizer could track foot traffic, vendor sales, and bathroom wait times in real time.
An individual sales rep could spin up a live dashboard to track their own deal pipeline.

What new behaviors and ecosystems would emerge if building data apps is this fast and cheap?
I think with the “casual” qualifier it’s accurate. I used to listen to a couple of radio stations when commuting in the 90s and 2000s - DSOTM and The Wall were staples (the former even got a full album play when they were doing a weekend top album event) but I can’t ever recall hearing anything from Animals on a mainstream station.
The retelling of a story can never damage the integrity of the original, and it is very foolish of you to even suggest that it could. The original is always the original, and is unimpacted by anything that comes after...

This is as silly as suggesting that Tolkien's work somehow tarnishes or damages nordic/germanic mythology. utterly ridiculous.
The risk/reward scale with the stakes. If billions are at stake, then it's fine if CEOs make millions. But yea, if you lose billions and destroy the company, the C suite should personally get cleaned out and creditors should be able to garnish their wages for the rest of your life like alimony. This stuff should be written into contracts to weed out grifters.
Erlang does have a mechanism that allows a module to control when it moves from the "old version" to the "new version" of its own code. Calls to the module with the fully qualified name (e.g. `module:function()`) will invoke the "new code" once it's loaded, but calls within that module using only function names (just `function()`) will continue to invoke the "old code".

If the portion of the app you were hot upgrading was an OTP process like a GenServer, you could theoretically wait for some sort of atomic coordination mechanism to make that fully qualified function call after the new code has loaded, at least in theory.

We use hot code reloading at my work, but haven't had a reason to atomically sync the reload. Most of the time it's a tmux session with `synchronize-panes` and that suffices. If your application can handle upgrades within a module smoothly, it's rare to have a need for some sort of cluster-level coordination of a code change, at least one that's atomic.
I agree. I don't know much about Erlang but what I've heard seems to indicate it's used for high-uptime systems that handle errors well.
And didn't have watchdogs. Or redundancy. Or analysis of what failures would do. Or ... etc.

It wasn't just one thing. It was a near complete and total disregard for the fact that they were writing code for machines that could kill people.
Seems like they picked some unusual lighting for the face models. It looks like the nose casts a shadow on each side.
That's mostly tangential to my argument though. In many people's lives, there comes a point where you can spend arbitrarily large sums of money to postpone death, but only in a form that I, for myself, don't consider all that valuable: I would be willing to be bedridden, intubated, and barely-conscious as a temporary condition if it meant a full recovery for more life later. But as a holding pattern before death, which is what it usually is, I'd rather not, and I personally would like to spend that money in other ways.

Note that this applies even in cases where all the costs are paid by taxpayers. If the state is making me an offer saying, "we'd like to spend $100,000 to keep you barely-conscious for a few months", that might be more generous in some sense than offing me, but I'd still rather they just give that $100,000 to my kids.
Thanks for all the hypotheses and anecdotes! In either case I'm always a bit pleasantly tickled to know there's some Lisp lurking in macOS quietly doing its job.
That’s a very big assumption that they do code hotpatching.

It would seem far more likely they seperate the stateful (database) and stateless layers (game logic) and they just spin up a new instance of the stateless server layer behind a reverse proxy and spin down the old instance. It’s basically how all websites update without down time.
shot-for-shot recreations are a waste of time. a robot or algorithm could copy. we watch adaptations to see a new perspective on an old tale. if you want a copy, just read the original.
I do not find it credible to jump from one person showing a happy emotion at a stressful time, which happens in the real world all the time, to “this whole thing was the biggest setup of all time, a dozen children are fake, there are no bodies buried in the ground, but no one will admit it out of the hundreds who must have been involved”, and then to continue that, with no concrete evidence, for years and years (Jones will say he mentioned this once or twice. That is a clear lie with obvious evidence against it, we have the tapes proving it).

Again, if he’d said this once, or even a couple of times, we wouldn’t be here now. If jones could have provided any reasonable evidence to back up his claims, we wouldn’t be here now.
Does anyone really believe that FOIA responses actually contain real information on classified operations?
Not for generating 3d models I don’t think.
If the title doesn't tell you differently you can assume it's WEIRD.
I'm a bit excited but also a bit tired of hearing about all these batteries. I just want someone to wake me up when we have a commercially available 1kwh+/kg with decent durability, decent price, and good safety.

Maybe this is a good idea for an ammoseek website but for batteries that can send alerts. I'm honestly surprised a quick search didn't turn one up.
People may "prefer" simply replacing containers, but as some siblings mention, some applications might require more reliability guarantees.

Erlang was originally designed for implementing telephony protocols, where interrupted phone calls were not an acceptable side effect of application updates.
I wonder if any of this misperception would go away if you found a way to use revealed preference instead of asking people what they prefer.
Nice to know! I’m used to having to vigorously shake my phone for undo. And for it randomly popping on when i pull it from a pocket…
>"I would opt for an end on my terms that respected my dignity and that of my family. As an American, however, I expect to die like he did: poor, mostly alone, and in pain."

I think there is more than enough info about how to end it painlessly should one decide to part. No 3rd parties needed assuming that person is still mentally and physically adequate enough.
That's just how it works when your backend is a hybrid software that utilizes a low-level compiled programming language and a high-level language that runs in its own VM. You can use the latter for gameplay features, and can hotfix on the go, and then for core changes you have to restart, which is also why WoW will hotfix the latter on the go, usually every day on an expansion launch, whereas they defer the bulk of backend changes for the next weekly restart without continuously disrupting the game for players.
Where did you pull your training data from?
It's not super common but if I was playing against somebody who didn't speak the lingua franca I'd probably throw out a couple phonies to test the waters.

The CSW is the official English word list used internationally (outside of the US/Thailand/Canada because we just HAD to be different) and contains over a quarter of a million words. Unless you're at the UPPER OF UPPER ECHELONS, there's a chance a crafty player could slip a phony in by hooking an "S" on the board or some other subtle stem - especially with the pressure of time controls.
You beat me to it. This Guardian article kind of summarizes it for the layfolk.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/12/unprecedente...

Reading the paper itself, they say it will take a decade of research along the lines of the human genome project to fulfill this, and recommend stopping funding. Interesting caveat about public disclosure too.

I have two gut reactions.

1. The concept of forbidden technologies, like in Herbert's Dune series. Although pure curiosity and scientific endeavor always pushes the bounds, is there a moral point where we must draw a line?

2. AI powered research means that, even without funding, eventually the genie will be out of the toothpaste tube.

Xenobiology is fascinating, and the fact we can make synthetic biology is terrifying.
It was extraordinary for watching movies. except the fact that the phone would be burning hot after 10 minutes.
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> However, I say that with not fully understanding the seperation of actions between Automattic the company and Matt in his own personal capacity.

Automattic and the Wordpress Foundation are both Matt's to use as he sees fit. There isn't a meaningful distinction between him and his organizations.
I think there is a ton of wiggle room in the words prolong, burdensome, or discomfort
There's more details in the wikipedia talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Foxit_Software

seems like most of their presence was in china, and was domiciled in china, but they had sales "offices" in other countries and so they emphasized that part for better PR.
Then we’re going to need to spend waaaaay more money on policing, if we don’t allow any paperwork shortcuts. Imagine 2 hours per report for a 2 hour incident - we’d need to double the staffing versus a no paperwork force.

Or just stop responding to nonviolent crime, which already happens. We’ve got to be realistic about the tradeoffs.
Global variables (nee static) are fairly normal in embedded. You want to preallocate all your memory since you generally don't have a heap.

Mostly you have specific inputs from some other tasks and your outputs are consumed by different tasks. So, even though the variables are "global" they generally only have one writer with multiple readers in properly done embedded programming.

What Toyota did was not even in the same universe as "properly done embedded".
How can your registrar confirm that it is a valid legal claim?
The ones I listed were mostly descriptive, until recent years.
I can't adequately express my revulsion at the idea that "net loss to the state" ever must overrule my autonomy to the extent that I'm not even allowed to die. What entitlement.
FWIW as soon as you start using containers you should be able to handle those containers spinning up/down. Pretty much the whole point of containers. At which point you don’t need to bother with code hot swapping since you already have a mechanism for newer containers to spin up while older ones spin down.

The sibling post “that’s how they update without downtime” is super naive. It is absolutely not how they do it.
Even when passing the array as a borrow instead of a clone[1], map still auto-vectorizes and performs the new allocation in one go, avoiding the bounds check and possible calls to grow_one

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/K9z6PvdYh
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The author completely misses or ignores the volume of research on line length and readability[1].
"I cannot find a single logical reason for why we would actually need character line limits when writing code - at least when we assume that part of the developer’s job is to structure and format their code in a readable way."

How about this one:
if a developer chooses a smaller line width for readability reasons,
depending on the editor to wrap code is a fail.
The chance the editor wraps the line at a semantically sensible point approaches nil.
Perhaps there's a place for better code editors that wrap according to semantics,
but for now,
editors don't take it into account.

Betteridge's Law applies.

1 "both very short and very long lines slow down reading by interrupting the normal pattern of eye movements and movements throughout the text. " https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234578707_Optimal_L...
https://archive.is/XLNG1
It's a win-win for Microsoft and the developer, but not for the consumers. It's better if someone else buys the company.
Way more money compared to what? Not having AI is the status quo. Perhaps AI will free officers to spend more time responding to nonviolent crime, but that’s not exactly proven.