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I do not understand how the engine ran out of water.
They are surrounded and trapped by water.
Could they not shove snow into whatever reservoir
that required it? Preferably well before the water
runs out.

If they had enough diesel to keep it going.
At the Crossroads of Infinites (1971)
The wearable keyboard that's faster than talking [video]
I don't get it. I look at the screenshots, and they show random pics, asking people to guess their age. In what sense is it meaningful? How is it better or different from classic social media?
I agree and have found using a time travel debugger very useful because you can go backwards and forwards to figure out exactly what the code is doing. I made a video of me using our debugger to compare two recordings - one where the program worked and one where a very intermittent bug occurred. This was in code I was completely unfamiliar with so would have been hard for me to figure out without this. The video is pretty rubbish to be honest - I could never work in sales - but if you skip the first few minutes it might give you a flavour of what you can do. (I basically started at the end - where it failed - and worked backwards comparing the good and bad recordings) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyKrDvQ2DdI
Cross platform native encryption with sane fs for removable media.
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What you call "the left" is part of the public, but you make it sound like it is not.
You also make it sound like the public has a coherent opinion, which I don't think it has.

Do you mean majority when you say public? Do you think what the majority thinks should be done (mob rule)?
<<This is, essentially, a conspiracy theory. RTO is happening because management thinks it will increase productivity. Right or wrong, it's crazy to assume the are all working together to keep cities alive.

Eh, I will be honest. At this point, one has to be willfully unwilling to read the news[1] to state something like this. There absolutely are interests intent on keeping cities alive. I almost wonder if we finally reached a point where 'conspiracy theory' is automatically not only not 'a way to diminish a view', but 'a way to enhance it'.

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2022/02/17/new-york-c...
Behind so many anti-lefty beliefs, there’s simply a man feeling like he lost control of some specific woman :(

Seriously, it’s quite a pattern!
Ham radio's decline is more than explainable as a cultural issue.

The culture of every internet forum I've ever visited for it is absolutely deplorable. It seems like each one has a handful of really grouchy old gatekeepers who lie in wait to absolutely dunk on newcomers.
How do big tech companies build their infra?
I always see that the engineers in big tech companies move really fast to deliver features. How does one get to this position? What sort of infrastructure is required for this? How do we get the buy in from management for building a culture like this? How long does it take to build such an infrastructure?
> How is it a strawman to say 'if you win via lawsuits and remove oil companies from modern life, thus driving down the quality of life, you are going to have very heavy pushback from the average person'?

What I said was: "No one - no one - has argued that suing fossil fuel companies is a one and done complete solution. That's a straw man." Why are you changing the argument, acting as if I said something quite different, and then asking me how the different argument is a strawman? ... That's literally a strawman. You gonna strawman all the way down?

And, how do you think the collapse of global ecosystems will affect quality of life? How do you think a billion or two climate refugees will affect quality of life? How are the 83% of extreme weather events which climate change is impacting affecting quality of life? How is the pollution of our air, water, soil and food from oil companies affecting our quality of life?

The reason "average people" aren't pushing back even more on all this is directly due to decades of FUD pushed and funded by ... oil companies. And people are arguing that they shouldn't be sued??

Annual fossil fuel subsidies are in the trillions. They're not likely to be sued 'out of existence' any time soon; it would be admitting that our governments have been complicit. Environmental protesters are being treated as terrorists, ffs.

If we continue business as usual, then we are in for outcomes far beyond horror.
Anyone can in principle own and use a weapon. It doesn't take that much to be bad. And if you act bad enough, you end up in prison.

For the most part, the intelligent man prevents problems that devolve into unnecessary altercations for the bad boy.
I saw it in Manchester city centre too
Graham's article is persuasive on describing societal shifts around 'wokeness'. However, I'd like to see a bit more introspection on what constitute non-'religious' (to borrow his term), or foundational, principles of Western liberal democracy. There are some grounds to prohibit speech in society and also practice - much of wokeness is about practice as much as speech, which he doesn't really explore. At the edges societal norms inevitably become messy, but he doesn't acknowledge this fact. Nor that the edges move over time and, on balance, this has often been a good thing (think of civil rights for example).

In this way, and similar to a lot of simplistic economic analysis (i.e. the sort that blanketly insists free markets solve everything - ignoring the realities of imperfect information, natural monopolies, externalities, etc., and also ubiquitous government intervention even in the US), the argument lacks depth. If we take his piece as a polemic then perhaps this is intentional and not necessarily a bad thing, but I'm not sure he presents it that way.
I'd rather explain fixed point math to a small business owner than explain to his accountant why pennies keep randomly disappearing and popping into existence.
Where I live, while I was at school, the proper way to say that a person was of colour, was the word "negro" (in Portuguese, and I think also in Spanish).

At the time, using the word that directly translates to "black" in English "preto", was considered extremely offensive and was never to be used applied to a person.

Now, fast-forward a few years and the influence of American woke culture, the word "negro" is now connected with the N-word slur in English and is considered offensive. You now have people of colour demanding to be called "preto".

This is one of the many insanities that the woke movement brought us. I'm glad the world is changing away from it.
There is a third party port here:

https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/Main_Page

It was actually the NetApp lawsuit that caused problems for Apple’s adoption of ZFS. Apple wanted indemnification from Sun because of the lawsuit, Sun’s CEO did not sign the agreement before Oracle’s acquisition of Sun happened and Oracle had no interest in granting that, so the official Apple port was cancelled.

I heard this second hand years later from people who were insiders at Sun.
Imagine company A and B.

A report comes out, turns out that a certain HR person in company A hasn't hired a single black applicant since they got there.

At the same time, a video comes out showing the equivalent person in company B saying the n word in passing.

In this situation, it's maybe considered that the person in A might be racist, while it's completely assumed the person in B is.
> benefits from this effect

"Benefits" from whose perspective? For instance, the Brazilians (the State apparatus, specifically) are also benefiting [0], but are their citizens [1]?

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/48595312

[1] https://idanlandau-com.translate.goog/2016/02/04/technologie...
>- does a commercial airline pilot need to know every single subsystem in order to do their job?

Haha explain this one to the APDs (aircrew program designee, the people signing off training at airlines) please.

Every airline pilot has their horror stories of being asked how many holes are in the alternate static port of some aircraft they've flown. Or through bolts on the wheel hub, or how many plys of glass on the side cockpit window, or the formula for calculating hydroplane speed, or the formula for calculating straight line distance to the horizon from altitude of X... it just goes on endlessly.

I do agree with your post overall though.
What are some cases where 'they/them/their' does not work, but 'he/him/his' does?

As for neopronouns like 'zir', I don't think I ever actually encountered anyone who uses them, either online or irl, with the exception of one Twitter user who preferred 'it'. So I mostly see them as a non-issue, although if someone does prefer a neopronoun I don't see the point of making a fuss either.
Interesting opinions as someone from Europe who a) never watched a full episode b) never got the stuff when it was actually recent (1-2w) c) has been bombarded with, debatably really good, best-of/classic skits on youtube.

I'm just gonna leave this here: At least there still are some quotable or good skits, if I compare this to anything on German TV the last 20 years.. there's still so much better stuff in it.
> Indian government got caught trying to assassinate some Sikh activists

"A former Indian intelligence officer" [1] is charged with directing the attempted killing of "a dual citizen of the United States and Canada" [2] on American soil. (They succeeded in Canada [3].)

It was an incredibly provocative and stupid move, on par with MBS's Khasshogi assasination, but if Riyadh had taken its bone saws to Pennsylvania. (A fair comparison would be America conducting a Bin Laden raid on an Indian national in India.)

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-charges-ex-indian-intellige...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurpatwant_Singh_Pannun#cite_n...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardeep_Singh_Nijjar#Death,_su...
for some strange reason when I say Saudi Arabia is the biggest Asian oil country, everyone gets confused too.

it’s a different enough area geologically and politically, there is a reason everyone calls the region the middle east.
I used it on my home NAS (4x3TB drives, holding all of my family's backups, etc.) for the data security / checksumming features. IMO it's performant, robust and well-designed in ways that give me reassurance regarding data integrity and help prevent me shooting myself in the foot.
I guess it's just a matter of time until the Great US firewall catches up
Is there a reason the OpenZFS contributors don't want to dual-license their code? I'm not too familiar with the CDDL but I'm not sure what advantage it brings to an open source project compared to something like GPL? Having to deal with DKMS is one of the reasons why I'm sticking with BTRFS for doing ZFS-like stuff.
Couldn’t Norway just change their tax code to be based on citizenship and not residence if it truly became a problem?
Speciation and subspeciation must have an amazing filip every time DNA analysis improves. I'm sure there is more to it than that, but it's got to help.

Oddity about funnelwebs: (this was in the news this week, I'm not a spider expert and welcome correction) female live longer than male (predation aside. I mean in captivity) but male venom is more potent and better for milking to make antivenene.

(6 days ago) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-08/sydney-funnel-web-spi...
Erlang actors are not privately addressable, so they cannot be used for capability security. The actors described here are.
I'd be curious if you measured 50x on a single core implementation or is the algorithm distributed to multiple cores?

I ask because you say that the results are similar to Zen4 so this would sorta imply that you run and measure single-core implementation? Intel in multi-core load-store looses a lot of bandwidth when compared to Zen3/4/5 since there's a lot of contention going on due to Intel cache architecture.
Do Synology actually use the multi-device options of btrfs, or are they using linux softraid + lvm underneath?

I know Synology Hybrid RAID is a clever use of LVM + MD raid, for example.
Witty. But then, why do people answer on questionnaires that they are fine? Because they are not?
Indonesia plans minimum age for social media use
The BCPL runtime environment was completely alien compared to C's and a fair bit of glue was needed to get the DOS portion to talk to the rest of the system.

I reverse-engineered the "echo" command - the simplest of them all - to see what was actually involved.

https://wandel.ca/homepage/execdis/echo_disassembly.txt
Those are tiny state insurance companies. I was thinking large national ones.

Regardless, the Florida examples are eligible for FIGA insurance that covers claims that insolvent insurer can’t.
It only lets you store whole pennies, not fractions of a penny. This is to help stop rounding errors accumulating, and eventually making a calculation wrong. With fixed point, if you put the formula in right, there will be no surprises.
What are you trying to say, that everyone's wrong?
I don't like lawyers so I use public domain.

Also code is like math which is public domain.
> The dunk-and-spin maneuver is risky, Yarger notes, as roughly one in every four dragonflies eventually drowns.

It's not that risky, with about a 99.99% success rate. But in their lifespan of a few weeks, they will still be doing thousands of them...
Probably a bit against the grain, but I don't think you need to try and act like you are an experienced PM. No amount of blog posts or books will quickly get you to that level, only experience will. They were well aware of your background when they hired you. Perhaps they hired you _because_ of it? At a company that size, PMs are often just corporate animals playing politics a good chunk of their time. You'll probably have to become more similar to them over time, but for now, you might just have a honeymoon period where you can add your own flavour to how the product you're assigned to should be run, and make it more successful.

As a founder, you probably already have a lot of the skill set that's needed for that. If you listen to people and apply your intuition, I bet you'll do well.

Sure, understand what the role is generally about, what the expectations are and all that. But I don't think it's a problem that you didn't hold it before, no need to make it one. PMs are in my experience a slightly different job at each company anyway. The most important thing with your background is probably to develop an eye and tactics for the games other PMs and middle managers play.
Old Sonos hardware works great with Roon.

I am very annoyed at the planned obsolescence that Sonos has been pushing for a while now. I stopped buying new Sonos hardware, I'm still using all my old hardware, just not with the terrible Sonos apps, but with Roon.

I also took to aggressively repairing very old hardware that was actually failing (ZP80 players), because of the Sonos planned obsolescence policy. Recapping the PSU did the job, and I intend to keep them going for as long as I possibly can.
> Remember when maintaining a blog was THE way to build your developer brand?

I don't think that the popularity of blogging overlapped meaningfully with the era in which the term 'developer brand' was a thing.

By and large, people blogged because they liked it, back when it was popular; the reasons that it became less popular are fairly complex. But I don't think many people were blogging to build a 'brand', back at the peak. I'm sure some were, but it wasn't a major motivation.
Starbucks says people using its coffee shops must buy something
An interesting project, but it seems to be in its infancy :)
I definitely want an actor based language to play with, and something with a strong type system would be perfect. gleam [1] and inko [2] look promising in this regard

[1]https://gleam.run/

[2]https://inko-lang.org/
You’re right that he doesn’t condone it from any side, but the article would be much stronger if it spent more time on right wing forms of this problem too.

For example, any of the “go woke go broke” forms of right wing cancel culture, the ways that Christian colleges require professors to sign statements of faith, the way that sexual repression is still very much the norm in many conservative circles…

I mean, look at the paragraph surrounding this line:

> Of course [we shouldn’t require signing DEI statements]; imagine an employer requiring proof of one's religious beliefs.

It’s seemingly ignorant of the fact that this still happens a lot on the right! A family member had to sign something to the effect that they wouldn’t drink alcohol even off the job because the employer was religious.

A more timely example is that a core part of project 2025 is replacing bureaucratic federal workers with specifically conservative, Christian individuals.

Now, I don’t believe PG supports that. But if you spend an article mostly only attack one “side,” without acknowledging it’s somewhat of a two way street, you’re not going to convince that many people, and you can see that in this thread.

If PG’s goal, as he says, is to fight back against the prigs, he needs to better appeal to those who want to continue being respectful & progressive. And to do that, he needs to avoid being so reductive with what “woke” means.
LA wildfires disinformation reveals limits of fact-checking
> Unfortunately, we can't restore extensions.

Lol. What an interesting way of saying "we don't want to restore extensions". Newspeak FTW.
Oh yeah ok, I guess I did forget a bit the important detail that most WP plugin developers are making money from a subscription plan on the WordPress.org site. So yeah their income is basically tied to that domain name.

Yeah ok, that sucks pretty hard.

Ok, then what about DDOSing wp.org during the entire transition? Just an idea, maybe a bit crazy.
That's not a joke. This piece is so ridiculously tone deaf precisely because it lacks any hint of self-awareness that exactly the same performative priggishness is normal for the right - with the difference that it's aggressively economically self-serving, often irrational and sometimes anti-scientific, rather than simply annoying.

IMO the priggishness is baked into American culture, which is descended from cranky puritans and literally defined itself as the most moral (police) force in the world after genociding the original inhabitants of the continent and setting up a culture for billionaires that leaves even qualified and talented workers increasingly insecure about housing and health care.

In reality "woke" has been a hugely convenient way for the US establishment to confine the Left to a ghetto of minority interests, especially about sexuality. Because if the Left rediscovered economic justice as a cause it would cross political boundaries and become a raging wildfire. (See also - Luigi.)

So now we have anti-woke for the wannabe intellectuals, and Q for the useful idiots.

Meanwhile Graham is more outraged - outraged I say - by how annoying feminism etc are than by election interference, raw milk drinkers, and the spread of lunatic propaganda about vaccinations and climate science.
Thanks, I keep all monitors (laptop or not) at arms length for work/reading, but for gaming or other immersive activities a 13in screen needs to be closer to match the experience of a full size monitor
Who would that help?

MacOS also defaults to a non-portable FS for likely similar reasons, if one was being cynical.
Thanks for pointing that out—you're absolutely right. The current screenshots don’t fully convey the app’s intention. I quickly put them together without much thought, and I’ll replace them with something more meaningful soon.

The idea behind posting here is to learn from this community because I admire the critical thinking here. This app is my first attempt at creating something that combines fun with value, and feedback like this is exactly what I’m looking for to make it better.

The app’s core idea is to offer a way for people to engage in meaningful interactions—something I felt was missing from traditional social media. Instead of endless scrolling or vanity metrics, it’s about creating questions that spark curiosity and friendly competition among friends. It’s my first attempt at combining fun with purpose, and feedback like this is exactly what I’m looking for to improve.
Radical CS
Douglas Crockford has described Misty as vaporware (hence the name), whereas at Spritely we are building and shipping things that can be used. Rather than build an entirely standalone domain specific language, our research and development builds on top of Scheme because it's a multi-paradigm language that is easy to extend to implement new paradigms (such as the actor model) thanks to the powerful macro system. Lexical scope and first-class functions make Scheme amendable to the actor model (Scheme was initially created as an exploration of the actor model) and capability security. For the latter, we are inspired by Jonathan Rees' W7: A security kernel based on the lambda calculus.

http://mumble.net/~jar/pubs/secureos/secureos.html

We are also involved in a cross-organization effort to bring capabilities to everyone (on the network, at least) called OCapN and we are seeking implementers for as many programming languages as possible.

https://ocapn.org/
> For younger people? It's no deal at all, they have no more use for the R word than you or I do in some obsolete 19th century racial slur.

That's because they replaced the r word with autistic, which I presume will be the a word in about 20 years and some other term will be used to describe autism.
I thought one defining feature was the innovative front-to-rear linked suspension well suited for the poor road conditions in rural France of the fifties. Allegedly you could ride the car fairly comfortably across a freshly ploughed field.

Roads are mostly in better shape today, but in remote places of California there are still secondary roads where long-travel suspension is of benefit (partly explaining the popularity of pick-up trucks there).
One of those is not like the others...
I get surprisingly many cold emails these days with a passive aggressive “shall we schedule a call, or are you a bad person who doesn’t give a shit about security?” approach.
It's doubtful that you could build a high speed rail that could fly from Chicago through the Rockies to California in 10 hours. Even more doubtful that the cost benefit would be worth it considering you can fly from Chicago to the Bay Area in 3.5 hours. And you can't factor time spent getting to airport and not factor time to train station and time to stop at other major cities on the way (as trains are wont to do).

The Chinese route you mentioned does not need to go through one of the largest mountain ranges in the world. It's also at least 15-20% shorter than the distance from Chicago to SF, and experiences much less elevation change over the course of the journey. And the wiki article claims it "averages 10.5 to 13.5 hours", so there is a huge amount of variability in time to travel on that route.
Perfect "we have PowerNap at home" moment for Dell and friends. Well played, Apple.
What a wonderful book
Oh that's all? Just some obscure magical incantations which will probably be gone as soon as Microsoft management learns of it. Brilliant.
No one should be confused about your statement. Middle East is a region in Asia. The hint is in the word "East" which references Asia.

Do you imagine people calling the Earth flat because "everyone says it is"?
Is POSIX Outdated in the Cloud Era? (2023)