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> Unless you already know what it means, the term "cargo cult XXX" conveys absolutely nothing

Unless you already know what it means, 'nothing' conveys absolutely nothing.
While difficult, it's often possible to teach children to be content on their own, or playing nearby, at least for longer stretches. The book Hunt, Gather, Parent helped me improve a lot as a parent. First step was not reacting when a spill or mistake or misbehavior happened, just staying super chill and calm. Maybe ignoring or at most shooting a single "look" if it was clearly intentional. I realized kids do want to do good, they just are bad at it. Next was giving freedom, but also more expectations. I stopped constantly commanding and telling my kid what to do all the time. As the commands got less frequent we were both happier and she listened more. When she was going to hurt herself, I'd explain what would happen instead of ordering her. Instead of "Don't touch that!" I say "That will burn you if you touch it". If it's the rare physical danger so severe that I need to protect her, I change the environment or keep an eye on her.
That’s when each language reached sexual maturity but one went on to get a girlfriend and the other discovered internet porn.
I don’t buy that I’m being tricked into caring about the relationship I maintain with friends.
Netgear is a US based company that makes Ethernet over power adapters.
Yeah most modern web pages are unusable. The most recent browser is Classilla which I copy onto most of the machines I sell. It will be painfully slow and barely load anything. There are still some sites that are designed to work on these old machines like frogfind.com
Linux-Mandrake
Zygote processes for the test binary itself, you mean? That will probably require some coordination from the test because fork is not compatible with most Rust code. Nextest is designed to work with arbitrary Rust test binaries, though it imposes some conditions on them.
Zuck plans to replace Mid-Level engineers with AIs this year
I read it was caused by pesticides that were being applied extra heavily in the areas around the embassy, inside the embassy, and even in the “victim’s” homes due to concerns about zika virus which were hyped at the time

The link below includes results from a study which included brain imaging and comparing the results with other victims of neurotoxicity poisons

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-en...
You just unlocked a core memory for me. I remember that house so well but haven't thought of it in decades!
Nvidia Hands-Down Won AI at CES 2025
"I have no idea why" the industry went there. One can understand a technology or a design pattern yet think it's completely idiotic. (low-hanging fruit: JavaScript, containers, etc.)
In the past when you went to a community for a particular kind of enthusiast, that's what you'd find there. Now everybody is there. Enthusiasts, nonenthusiasts, people posing as enthusiasts, people trying to sell stuff to enthusiasts. So yes, the noise is much greater.
Even with access controls, people do things like download chrome from random web sites, then do their banking with the result. If the fake-chrome requested admin access then you'd never be able trust anything on that computer ever again. Even re-installing the OS wouldn't fix it.

It would no longer be your computer.
Autonomous Aircraft for Wildfire Response
If I find a book on a park bench and read it, am I breaking the law in terms of intellectual property?
Military drone calibration activities to be held in D.C. region
https://bmjgroup.com/flawed-body-of-research-indicates-true-...

Less so now, I agree. But there has been a denialist tendency just as for ME
https://archive.ph/YJ2XG
Yeah I mean theres not even any way to really know what your communicating with without taking the thing apart and following the traces + an ocilliscope. If it was worth obfuscating to a determined company it would be hell to figure out.

You could just be a sandbox root which is pointed at a guest user in a higher namespace.
I detest Google, but I do think they made the right call with Android devices and Chromebooks. You can unlock either as long as you are willing to totally wipe the device first and start over as a new device under a new security context.

This removes the risk of this being abused to compromise the data of stolen devices or evil maid attacks unless a user that knows what they are doing has explicitly opted themselves into that risk.
If its "left" I'm a dutchman. It's as middle-of-the-road as it can be, and for me, thats right of center. National Review is foaming at the mouth.

Remember I said I'm not an american, I don't regard "liberal" as a slur of the right against the left, in Australia the "liberal" party are the rightists.
Why California doesn't do more prescribed burning
There’s a museum built a few years ago in regional Australia that was also designed with bushfire resistance in mind.

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-cultu...
Yep, and if you connected a Windows95 machine to the internet it would be compromised within 15 minutes.
Microsoft Mira was a failure with production units shipped by 3rd parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Display
Direct matter is directed energy.
In this scenario, reading between the lines, the vendor is not providing a public / published package but does provide the source as like a tarball?

I have yet to run into that particular case where the vendor didn't supply their own repo in favour of just providing the source directly. However I do use what are essentially vendor-supplied packages (distant teams in the org) and in those cases I just point at their GitLab/GitHub repo directly. Even for some components within my own team we do it this way.
Stupidest take I've seen today.

There are already myriad unlockable devices.

What a bizarre fantasy you have constructed.
What's the clickbait headline refer to? I can't find any mention of the company in a skim of the article.
Funnily enough many TP-Link models are really well supported by alternative firmware like openwrt. Totally avoiding this problem.
I live in the US. And the US gave the Soviet Union a TON of military hardware to fight the Germans.

Vehicles: 400,000 vehicles, including jeeps and trucks

Aircraft: 14,000 aircraft

Tanks: 13,000 tanks

Tractors: 8,000 tractors

Other supplies: 4.5 million tons of food, 2.7 million tons of petroleum products, millions of blankets, uniforms, and boots, and 107,000 tons of cotton

Other items: Guns, ammunition, explosives, copper, steel, aluminum, medicine, field radios, radar tools, and a Ford Company tire factory

Total value: $11.3 billion in goods and services from 1941 through 1945, which is equivalent to $180 billion in 2016 dollars
>It is like a prisoners dilemma where we have managed to convince 99.9% of people to cooperate and the whole thing can easily fall apart if they dont.

That should give people who want to impose their will on others more pause than it does.
Bob was hilariously bad.

But I never got the impression it was more than a weird experiment, failed, but I dunno about "biggest flop" as the stakes weren't that high. 95 was coming and clearly the way forward.
Yes, that is exactly what the author is saying, wanting government regulation. For one, the government won't simply say "keep the device open for the end user" (or a "smart" government wouldn't), but even if they did, you've now opened that device to any attacker, law enforcement included.
I'm curious to see whether they run any Linux, or just nvidia's Linux.

Nvidia has a long history with "Linux for Tegra" (l4t) and "Jetson Linux", where it's nearly unheard of run to a regular boring Linux distribution. Instead there's a special magic distro Nvidia has cooked up that's essentially the only good way to use the hardware.

If Nvidia actually starts building systems that behave like a reasonably supportable computer I'd be much more afraid of them.
I was given a blue checkmark by pre-Musk Twitter because of the cryptocurrency scams. It was taken away in the early days of Musk Twitter when verification meant “anyone with $8.” Ironically, it was forced back against my will and without my paying for it, because Musk was embarrassed that larger accounts didn’t have checks. Obviously it didn’t serve any useful anti-impersonation purposes at that point, but I got free “Grok” I guess?
If locking the bootloader and comparing signatures against keys burned into a secure enclave allow Apple to make certain security guarantees that helps them sell products, I'm all for their freedom to do so.

Why doesn't OP merely champion competition, instead of encouraging regulation of what software others can write, what hardware others can ship?

I too am afraid of general purpose computing going by the wayside, and I have the Precursor phone and Raptor Talos PowerPC machines on my wishlist, just as soon as I wrap my head around secure boot chains in general before having to implement one myself. But niche hardware is expensive to produce, so we're likely left with what AMD, Intel and Apple provides us.

I guess one quirk that IMO is fair to criticize is that it's not necessarily consumers who are demanding to be locked out of their administrator privileges (the average computer user is of course not aware of the distinction of signed vs unsigned binaries), so I don't know where the pressure for secure enclaves really comes from. Is it the data centers buying thousands of chips that don't want to be pwned? government customers who refuse to buy a single die if they can't verify the bootloader? Or just patriotic engineers sensitive to a cybersecurity regime that demands we keep our guard up against enemies, foreign and domestic?
You don't have to use it just for winning - consider sports betting, you can definitely place multi-million dollar bets, on the team that isn't a favorite, then use your Havana Ray to disturb a couple key players - make millions, repeat.

Short a company's stock - melt the brains of their c-suite. When the news comes out, you'll make millions.
California is typically pro consumer, tenant, employee.

If it could be passed in California it would trickle down elsewhere.

e.g. California emissions mandates leading to less emissions in the entire country because it makes more sense at scale to build 1 SKU.
if Microsoft Bob was too cartoony for you, you could also go with a cartoony puppy, or a cartoon wizard!

I worked with a software developer who LOVED that puppy - way more than I loved MOPy fish (rip)
I doubt they actually make them in the US though.
One was a hero, the other one works for (or is!) cyberdyne systems and doesnt even seem to realize it.
Wildfire recovery as a "hot moment" for creating fire-adapted communities (2020)
When I was interviewed for starting my PhD and asked what I knew about a PhD I referenced this example by name.

Thanks for the articles!

I’ve read through them and they are timeless.

Also the finding cures pivot from CS was inspiring how I could start one problem space and pivot. Definitely a top computer scientist story.
It's not delusional, and I agree that it wasn't a binary choice of do nothing (which the Biden admin didn't choose anyway) or boots on the ground. There was a litany of actions Biden's administration took after Russia invaded, all with the goal of arming Ukraine, training Ukrainians to fight the Russians, and convincing Europe at large that Russia was a problem for the whole continent.

Should they have given them more arms, and faster? Maybe, but we have the benefit of hindsight. The Biden admin was constantly worried about Russia's threats of nuclear weapons, which the intelligence agencies were reporting as credible.

This is all detailed in Woodward's book.
The only real synthetic alternative is ammonia which brings it's own host of problems and potential for malicious use. while your arguments are valid, i think we can overcome most of the problems you mention with more research. at some point we'll need to make the hard decision to either give up on the environment or go nuclear and accept the extra cost of safeguarding it. It simply seems there's no other realistic alternative.
I used to have common sleep paralysis which sounds like the author's experience (sans the "demon", which definitely sounds like an improvement). I don't really remember if I could feel or not. A method I learned online (I've since forgotten where) that works even better than the finger-wiggling method is to try to hyperventilate through just your nose. Not sure exactly what's going on but I have a guess it's tricking your brain into thinking you can't breathe and so it wakes you up quick.
Totally?
It's sad how Google has perverted what Android was meant to be.
Cool! Next up, PDF reader that runs in Doom.
Discussion in 2022 (181 points, 157 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30445776 Tricky to tell from the website if this has been used on a wildfire.
There are a ton of products on the market that are vastly more dangerous than computers: guns, cars, motorcycles, bicycles, chainsaws, table saws, cigarettes, alcohol, junk food. Yes, consumers do sometimes harm themselves by using these products. That's the price of freedom. I think it's bizarre that we treat computers as the most dangerous products in the world that for some reason demand paternalism, when none of these other products are locked down by the vendor.

The reason that computers are locked down by the vendors is not that computers are somehow more dangerous than other things we buy. The reason is simply that it's technically possible to lock down computers, and vendors have found that it's massively, MASSIVELY profitable to do so. It's all about protecting their profits, not protecting us. We know that the crApp Store is full of scams that steal literally millions of dollars from consumers, and we know that the computer vendors violate our privacy by phoning home with "analytics" covering everything we do on the devices. This is not intended for our benefit but rather for theirs.
Bullshit. 2018 was the year when the FIFA World Cup was held in Russia. Putin obviously didn't want to sabotage them.

Trumpy tantrums did nothing, I repeat. Neither is he going to do anything useful once he gets back into the office. Putin will play him off like a sucker he is.
Nice, thanks for the recommendation! That looks like an awesome product, definitely something I'd consider experimenting with in the future. I was able to put together a blend that's pretty close to my current mix: https://truenutrition.com/products/protein-customizer?grass-...

A few areas I'd like to see improved:

* The variety of plant proteins could be wider. Or even better, they could add a pre-configured plant protein blend that they vouch for in terms of taste/texture/mixability. As-is, it seems like I'd be taking a shot in the dark to approximate something similar to PlantFusion, and I'd be concerned about that requiring a lot of trial and error to get a palatable end result. (On the other hand, maybe sticking to just the pea/cranberry protein would be good enough, and for extra diversity I could use a little bit less plant protein and throw in some egg protein.)

* I don't love that most of the flavors contain guar gum. Not that it's particularly harmful as far as I know, just seems unnecessary. It looks like horchata, orange cream, and chai latte may be the only stevia flavors without guar gum, which would be pretty limiting if I were to restrict myself to those flavors. More generally, it would be nice if you could just pick whatever flavor you wanted independently of the sweetener, and maybe have guar gum as an additional option if you really wanted it.

* More variety in the "boost" ingredients would be nice. For example, my current collagen powders (Nature Target marine collagen and multi-collagen) include hyaluronic acid, elastin, and a few other minor ingredients that I'd consider adding given the option.

* A grass-fed whey protein isolate option would be nice, since that's what I currently use, but concentrate is close enough to isolate that this is basically nitpicking.

* And of course some assurance of heavy metal testing would be great, if they don't have this already (I didn't see it anywhere).

It would save a bit of time and space to be able to switch to that, though, so I'll pass along my feedback to the company and keep an eye on it for the future.
But filesystems aren't going away, free and direct access to them are just being taken from us.
> Sci-fi electro weapons don't make practical sense.

We all have fairly compact devices in our kitchens which, if you were to put your head in them and press the start button, would literally cook your brain.

Why wouldn’t a directed version of that make practical sense? Just because it’d be bulky compared to a gun? But that would depend on what you were trying to achieve. Killing people with polonium or ricin isn’t the most efficient approach either, but it’s been done.

Note that I’m not saying that’s what happened in the Havana case. Just questioning the statement I quoted.
I do not think internet was more friendly per se back then, and I am not sure this is the general argument or feeling on being nostalgic about that era either. If it is, then it is definitely wrong, but that does not mean that there are no reasons to miss the old internet. I think what made internet interesting back then was that it was much less monetised, more liberating as in providing opportunities and giving access to stuff that were just inaccessible before. Piracy was in its prime, and to a big extent it felt it was about pushing against or breaking whatever rules the world was trying to impose on people.

It was not friendly, paedophiles were praying on kids on IRCs, there was definitely sexism, people would get harassed online, you had to be careful as to what kind of information you were putting online, never put one's real name there and definitely not photos or bank info or anything that nowadays is common place. One had to know how to protect oneself online.

It was not free as in cheap or easily accessible either, it was actually quite expensive, but again somehow one found ways to get around stuff like that, through computers in public libraries, breaking through some neighbour's wifi, gathering at a friend whose father had internet for work reasons, getting access to a university's wifi and going around with a laptop to find a place with good signal or staying in internet cafes overnight when it was cheaper.

The point is that one would make all this effort needed to get access to it and go around these issues because it was a window to the world, esp for more introvert nerds. I definitely appreciate having such easy access to it nowadays and the internet being, generally speaking, safer. I just wish it felt less of a prison to escape from/fight against an algorithm or tightly controlled "platforms" that want to hook you up to show you more ads, and more as a means of liberation and it used to feel like.
The succinct expression is the idiom. It is two words that substitute for a much longer explanation.

It is both an expression and succinct, so long as you're willing to learn something new. Once you do, it can be used in the future for all similar circumstances.
I think it makes sense given that people using python to write applications are a minority of python users. It's mostly students, scientists, people with the word "analyst" in their title, etc. Perhaps this goes poorly in practice, but these users ostensibly have somebody else to lean on re: setting up their environments, and those people aren't developers either.

I have to imagine that the python maintainers listen for what the community needs and hear a thousand voices asking for a hundred different packaging strategies, and a million voices asking for the same language features. I can forgive them for prioritizing things the way they have.
The link you provide was AFTER Russia invaded Ukraine. You can't use the actions of a country to defend against and invasion to JUSTIFY the invasion. Well, Russia does, but it doesn't actually make sense to do so.

Ukrainians understand better than anyone just how much you DO NOT want to be under the thumb of Putin. I don't blame them for fighting back.

And this isn't, or at least did not start out as a "Russia-US proxy war". Ukraine is a sovereign country that sensibly wanted to forge strong ties to Europe and the West. For selfish and egotistical reasons Putin hated that idea and his puppet was going to ignore this desire so Ukrainians kicked him out.
To be fair your specific example is due to… well forking terraform due to hashicorp licensing changes.
You disagree that "if you didn't pretend to be white and male, there was a constant stream of abuse" and your counterargument is....that anyone who claimed to be a woman would be subjected to sexual harassment?

It's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see how it plays out.
> Oh please. Do you really think the people who won the nobel prize for this discovery have a grade school level understanding of speed?

Of course not. My comment is a quibble on the one sentence explanation. You seem to agree with me it's insufficient. Thank you for the additional resource.
It must have changed between when you worked there and now, because I just checked and I can't sign up with my old handle (despite it returning a "this account doesn't exist" error when attempting to view it).
Phones with unlockable bootloaders aren't going to be sold for much longer just like dumb TVs aren't sold anymore. There's just too much profit to be earned by corporations locking devices, plus banks and governments want to lock down phones. And once they lock down phones they'll go for desktops as well.
Wow! What fun reading this niche interest. The Pilot FriXion sounds fun, for spycraft, or to recreate the Acme disappearing reappearing ink from who framed Roger rabbit.

"If you accidentally make your writing disappear, you may be able to get it to reappear by placing the paper in a freezer that reaches below 14°F (-10°C)."
Except they end up paying most of that out in stock buybacks and dividends each year, then the state has to bale them out for tens of billion after 40 years anyway, either directly by taking on the liabilities or by bailing out the homeowners after the insurance company goes bankrupt.

Insurance is an industry with great cashflow. They should be able to keep any profits they make off of investing the premiums, but not the premiums themselves. The incentives just do not line up, they siphon off the money and scream about over regulation before they need to get bailed out.
Thank you for providing a reference. After reading the blog post on that page, I'm even less convinced that your point is useful.

I don't think it's a bug if, like in the C example, you don't handle the return value of the function you are calling. The strace shows that the function returned an error, but the code doesn't check it. Not a language flaw.

In fact, in most of the languages that "don't have the bug", the runtime is automagically capturing the issue and aborting the program. Like an exception. Rust just "doesn't have the bug" because the compiler forces you to handle the error. All the .NET languages do the same thing at runtime and force you to handle the I/O error... with an exception handler.

Unfortunately, your talking points just seem like more Rust fanaticism trying to discredit any other language. This happens in every single discussion about any language other than Rust, especially C/C++. I'm not going to engage any further.