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Is there a REPL?

I'm playing with appium today and installed a ruby appium repl called arc.

I find that it is helpful to explore the app using a repl, then convert the IDs and locators into real tests later.

Does maestro have a repl? Or, does maestro avoid the need for that somehow?
I got this off a .ke domain site that has an "African proverb of the day":

> In the 1970s Julius Nyerere (then the President of Tanzania) used this proverb in a speech at the United Nations in New York. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) Ambassador to Great Britain used this same proverb in a talk to a group of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) in London. The meaning was the same: In the Cold War between the (then) two great super powers — the United States and Russia — it was the poor Third World countries such as those in Africa who suffered and were victimized.

so that's probably why we've heard it; but it's probably much older than that. i didn't dig in to it too hard because that site was really slow, i got the attribution, though.

you'll note it has a slightly different connotation - the "reeds" aren't the citizens of the warring countries - the "grass" is Africans.
Income Tax
the autopsy that his mother says was really strange and done by the police who acted in a bizarre manner? or has there been another one? and as for motive, you are literally incorrect. if there is a massive copyright precedent set in the courts the intelligence community would not be able to overturn that. and its likely to happen because its legally sound… if i were the cia i would be doing everything in my power to stop that from happening.

and by the way how many people prepare a meal and then leave it on the table and brutally kill themselves?
You might be thinking of unitary executive theory, which is harebrained right-wing fringe nonsense. Public servants in the US swear an oath to the constitution, not to the president, and have an obligation to disobey clearly unconstitutional orders no matter the personal cost (that's what swearing an oath means).
The pedant in me is curious if we would have to call it something different than geolocation. :)
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.

Yes. Everyone knows I'm referring to the two Michaels.

The party that is rogue in this whole story is China. Even if the conduct of the US authorities here is/was suspect the retaliatory arrests is how the Mafia operates. I am not a fan of the way the US and Canada behaved here but at the end of the day for the most part Meng Wanzhou was not locked up, she had a luxury wait while the slow wheels of justice grind. It's almost certain there was some funny business from the Huawei side here as well since naturally they wouldn't care less about violating US sanctions.

The law and the rule of law in free and democratic countries can be abused. But it's still way ahead of the other option.
Apple’s GIF search feature in Messages (#images, like Giphy) is almost entirely content from TV shows and movies. It seems hypocritical for Apple to promote this as a way to express yourself, while prohibiting users from making such content themselves on Apple devices.
Ask HN: What's the coolest thing you've built with AI
Well have to just look out our windows to determine if we need umbrellas or a coat I guess. Like we've done for a hundred thousand years...?
I don't think they are asserting morality or blame. That's just what the game is. We specialized into intellectual property while de-industrializing. The product we make as a country is information, which can be copied across a legal barrier. They products they make are necessary to operate in this world.
I think it’s worth trying for ethical coding jobs for a bit. I think with your resume you could work at a lot of places, and you may be able to rekindle passion for something that you used to love and make six figures.
discourse.mozilla.org is an alias for mozilla.hosted-by-discourse.com.
I've gotten in arguments over overuse of Redis for this very reason.

Redis is cool but people use it too willy nilly. It's expensive to run, and you have to pay a cost of (de)serialization, and network latency. Sometimes that's necessary, especially if you need to share stuff across multiple nodes and you're afraid of hammering the database too much, but a lot of the time, I'd say even most of the time, you can get away with just a big ol' global ConcurrentDictionary (or whatever the equivalent is in your language of choice).

Basically any thread-safe dictionary is fine, because no matter what kind of locking strategy they're using, it will almost certainly be faster than anything that has to hit the network, by several orders of magnitude, and you have one less thing to manage in your application. You can figure out the best way to invalidate old entries, or find a library to do it (e.g. something like a Guava cache), and you'll likely much better performance than arbitrarily farming to Redis.
Actions the GOP is allowing right now have real downsides that inflict real harms on real victims. I am frustrated at them and I wish they would stop, but I recognize that insulting them and calling them names is only going to encourage them to be even less charitable in return.

Actions the left has allowed during past progressive administrations had real downsides that inflict real harms on real victims. I am frustrated at them and I wish they never would've done those things, but I recognize that insulting them and calling them names is only going to encourage them to be even less charitable in return.

It's not about being nice, it's about not deliberately and intentionally making things worse by stoking polarization for no reason other than to dehumanize and ostracize the other side.

This isn't a complicated idea, it's like mutually assured destruction: we're all better off when we all step back for a second from being pissed off and afraid... slow down... think... recognize that we all lose if we all stay on the offensive, so let's dial things down and be more diplomatic instead of intentionally continuing to make tensions and polarization worse.

Both sides have to recognize that both sides do it and both sides are better off if neither does it.

We are not the foolish prisoners in the prisoner's dilemma who are unable to communicate and thus unable to collectively work together to find win-win and avoid lose-lose. But we have to actually humanize and respect eachother in order to facilitate that dialogue, and that starts with not dehumanizing eachother.
Well IP is social construct. It is literally only illegal if your country’s laws says it is.
Yep, exactly. It's not like any of these efforts have enough resources to progress fast. And Servo looks by far as the best of them.
Well sure, if only everyone would just lie down and let Putin walk over them, once he was world dictator he would be appeased and the risk of nuclear war would finally go away.
Double Density 1.3 GB CD-RW from Sony: https://www.dpreview.com/articles/5586166218/sonyddcddrive
> You're a zealot or incapable of cognitively understanding what the words mean.

Straight to ad hominem. Excellent.
Hurricane season will be wild this year between NOAA and FEMA cuts, vindictive state funding, and a general restriction on accurate government statistics.
The second part is what I'm dealing with. I didn't even realize I was getting nearly enough the market rate until I started looking around a few months ago. Feelsbadman.
That's true of all law, including all property law. It’s not a distinct feature of IP.
Also seems to be unaware of the fact that NGO's are usually soft-power. They are either carrots or sticks in diplomacy or a cover for IC.
The examples in that article (CreditCardExpiredException, SuspiciousActivityException, CardTypeNotSupportedException) show why no other languages follow Java's concept of checked exceptions. Those are examples of business logic or control flow being done by exceptions, which has been, in my experience, considered an anti-pattern for a very long time.

Other languages use union types, enums, or other type system constructs to represent operations which may have multiple possible outcomes. You're correct that these languages don't support business logic exceptions, but that also isn't an acceptable practice outside of Java.
One of our Chinese AI devs mysteriously reported "visa issues" and having trouble returning to the states.

I found it odd she didn't say from whom she was having visa issues with, and I suspected it was on her side. This supports that hunch.
i created a tool to get around this. (called "valet vision".) of course, it involves using a raspberry pi and a camera pointed at the phone's screen. as they say, life (and automation engineers) finds a way...
Such an inspiring read! Thanks for writing and/or sharing. One of my many future hermit projects is to hack on an early version of Linux.

------------ Please ignore just jotting down for future myself ---------------

(Actually I want to study Win NT more than Linux as it brought me good memories, but Win NT was designed as a mature product from the beginning, and even the leaked 3.5 source code is way too much for me.)

I checked the version history and 0.11 seems to be a good start. Reasons:

- There is this book (https://download.oldlinux.org/ECLK-5.0-WithCover.pdf) which follows the style of Lion's Unix v6 book and uses the 0.12 kernel as reference;

- 0.11 doesn't have a virtual memory or a virtual terminal, and they are among the software I'd like to implement;

- 0.11 does have the basic stuffs so I assume it is not too difficult to set it up with QEMU and QEMU-gdb;

The list of software to implement in mind:

- a Debugger (I'll probably use QEMU-gdb, but if I can write a simple step-in debugger maybe it makes it a bit easier to dogfood? Still too early though as there is no compiler on it)

- a Virtual Memory system (following the MIT xv6 lab, maybe a bit more advanced as I will complete the MIT xv6 labs before pursuing this venture);

- a Virtual terminal (not sure how much I can implement, maybe just a basic one with limited control sequence support);

- a USB driver (not sure if it's possible for 0.11, I have never written a driver before);

- a mouse driver (again probably too difficult for me);

- a LOT of CLI programs as warm-up. Basically simpler versions of modern ones (less switches);

- a text editor. I never liked the key layout of emacs or vim so this is going to be my own thing. I care a lot about moving caret around without using a mouse;

- a very basic GUI system. Nothing fancy, just something that can show windows and some widgets. Maybe don't even care about multiple windows. Showing one window with a menu and some buttons probably needs a lot of effort;

- a compiler/linker of a simple language (can't dogfood without an editor, a compiler, a linker and a debugger I think)

Preparations:

- I need to complete all MIT RISC xv6 labs;

- I need to figure out how to write drivers for USB and mice;

- I want to investigate how X11 and Win32 GUI were implemented and figure out the architecture;

- I need to figure out how to write terminals and text editors. There are tons of tutorials online so shouldn't be too tough;

- I need to study compiler theory, just continue reading Crafting Interpreters should be good enough;

- I need to figure out a comfortable development and debugging environment;
Why “of course”? It’s not clear to me why that would the case. For instance, we wouldn’t expect the top 10% to account for 50% of all food consumption simply becuase they control 50% of the wealth.
N = 14 053 for https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... , which looked at if GLP-1 RA use was associated with lower incidence and recurrence of alcohol use disorder.
It was something like that the app must have been "originally written" in certain approved programming languages. It basically targeted cross-compilation, but it was written so vaguely that on paper it appeared to even disallow native iOS apps if they started out as a port from some other language.

There was briefly a kerfuffle about it, as people using other cross-compilation tools (xamarin? etc) worried their apps would get removed as well. But IIRC apple never actually enforced the clause, other than to remove existing flash-based apps and reject new ones.
"They bring in a rookie, throw money at him, buy the car, the house, after a couple of years, and your kids are in private schools, you're used to the good life, they tell you the truth"

Big salaries thrown at young people are bait. They don't need wild animals, but circus animals that are obedient, dependent and consistently perform tricks without too much thinking about why. Over time this involves such animals to loose all sense of self. Naturally this won't work on everyone and causes all kinds issues for both sides.
I appreciate that. I was thinking of ones like these:

"Don't be snarky."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"Converse curiously; don't cross-examine."

Most people (me included) underestimate the amount of provocation in their own comments (but feel it keenly in others'). To avoid running afoul of this dynamic, it's best to err on the side of making sure that you're following the rules. A sort of safety factor if you will.
Apart from public bathrooms being much dirtier on average, they’ve modernized quite a bit. So, you can take me as 1st hand anecdotal evidence.
GLP-1 drugs offer palliative mercy for terminal societal malaise. You're in the bargaining stage.
wait, does 130nm imply i can send them verilog and receive ASICs in the mail?
My Dad took me to the Dayton, Ohio Hamvention a few times back in the late 80's/early 90's. It looks like they still exist. I didn't really have a lot of money to spend, but it was fun experiencing the culture and looking at all of the neat toys/junk.
This topic should be shut down. Many people are presenting outlandish ideas here. Especially common is the idea that organizations act (and even think) the same as individuals.
Protesters gather outside Tesla showrooms to rally against Musk's role with DOGE
Yes. Apparently Gabe Newell [1] was right:

> We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.

[1] https://www.escapistmagazine.com/Valves-Gabe-Newell-Says-Pir...
It’s a weird feeling to be young enough to never have experienced a world without Linux, but be close enough in time to its creation that many of the people involved are still around. My entire professional career has mostly revolved around it in some capacity. My entire life even since age like 12? It’s pretty crazy to think about the impact it has had on my life
I think the path to solving problems doesn't start out by deliberately and intentionally trying to derail what otherwise has the potential to be a mutually respectful dialogue.

There's no guarantee a mutually respectful dialogue solves the problem, but it sure doesn't hurt to try that instead of starting out with dehumanizing the other party in a social conflict as the opening move.
I think perf is usually relatively close between an optimized design in a 7 nm FPGA and an optimized design in ~40 nm CMOS, but it's not 1:1. The FPGAs are usually higher-performance than 130 nm, but there are certain things that are easier in ASICs (eg analog-related stuff).
> Yes and infected Xcode and various SDKs you get on your laptop are actually the biggest threat to iOS security (other than just literally malicious devs). Devs torrenting an xcode and then infecting their users is a thing.

Would it happen as often if the tooling was free?
> I want surgeons to decline any case that looks technically difficult. A better surgeon should handle those cases.

Already happens all the time, although it's at the discretion of the first surgeon. Again, it's difficult to formulate objective criteria for when a surgeon should forward a case on to someone else.

I don't believe that surgeons obviously over operate.

In my career I've seen

- A case where the surgical team declined to operate for endocarditis with congestive heart failure, despite the fact that the society guidelines recommend surgery in that scenario

- A case where the surgical team declined to operate for a spinal cord injury that left a patient paralyzed from the neck down (and dependent on machines to breathe due to the paralysis affecting their diaphragm)

- A case where the surgical team declined to operate on an abscess even after a patient's blood stream infection failed to clear after two weeks of the strongest IV antibiotics

In all the first and third cases, the disease turned terminal after our surgical team declined to operate. In the second example the patient opted to die rather than live the rest of their life on a ventilator and I was left with the responsibility of arranging hospice for the patient.

I'll admit that these are extreme cases, but my point is the patients and family members in those cases likely had a very different view about whether surgeons should decline high risk surgeries as often as they do, let alone more often.
Crime stats are down in parts of America too, and it doesn’t mean a thing. Trust your eyes, not stats that can be gamed. These days a lot of crime stats are influenced by soft on crime laws, victims too jaded to report crimes, and more. The perception that crime is increasing is more right than wrong in my experience.
It really is amazing how uptight people are and the lengths they'll go to ensure your managers know how much you've "offended" them. I've left all non-work Slack channels as a result of such an incident. Employees will also ask you questions as if they genuinely care about you and rather than correct you or give friendly advice, will go to your manager.

I've worked at startups for most of my career so I'm used to people talking to me directly with misgivings. The passive/indirect bullshit is super frustrating.
"films" world also work. or "narwhal's shown to use tusks... in the wild via drone footage". or any number of other ways.
$4600 on ebay for a 7/10nm xilinx versal. So is 130nm/40nm ASIC cheaper than $4600?
Which is why consumption taxes tend to be some of the more regressive forms of taxation we have.

If you’re poor, you tend to have to spend a much higher fraction of your wealth on consumption just to survive.
I think a good chunk of America had their "Soviets seeing an American supermarket" moment on Red Note when they got to see what city life is actually like in China from the perspective of regular people.
… per core. There are eight per compute tile!

I like to ask IT people a trick question: how many numbers can a modern CPU multiply in the time it takes light to cross a room?
Is it then up to the human to specify the services and how they interact?
It teaches you specific, actionable tactics for learning. If you put them into practice, you’ll learn better and remember more from every other book.
Genuine question, what were trips to the bathroom like drinking your olive oil shake?
If there's any mineral, water, or food supply advantage to doing so they'll be there with Pink Yuen before the undrunk US coffees cool on the table.

China is nothing if not pragmatic and there's central party policy vs. China's regulated but somewhat free market here.

It was the US after all that forced the sale of Grindr by the Chinese Beijing Kunlun Tech to San Vicente Acquisition for ~ $600 million. I dare say fear of communists having a direct line to toe tapping Republicans drove that.
The wealthiest 10% of American households—those making more than $250,000 a year, roughly—are now responsible for half of all US consumer spending and at least a third of the country’s gross domestic product.

As of Q3 2024, per https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr..., the wealth held by the top 10 percent was $107T. The other 90% was $52T.

The top 10% has 67% of the wealth and only contributes half of consumer spending and a third of the GDP. They doing less than their fair share.
Biden was too old. And the problem with his age was not the number, it was that he was visibly very, very old. 10 years ago, Biden was fit, spry, and sharp. He rode his bicycle with ease, and was quick-witted with journalists. In the last year+, Biden became frail and tottering, and his words slurred at times almost to incomprehension (I once rewound a clip 10 times to figure out what he said, and never untangled the phonemes).

Trump is no spring chicken, but he hasn't yet turned that corner into rapid physical decline. It will happen in the next couple of years, but he's not there yet.
I understand, believe me! It's clear that a lot of us are experiencing this right now.

Thanks for the kind reply.
This. I can’t believe so many people fell for the scam claim that flash needed to die for security. No, Apple and Google needed it to die so they could control their respective platforms and rent seek.
>You are the only one putting forward such an idea

This was the very first comment you made that started this thread:

>> If none of your tests fail then does it really matter?
I'm an American and what's actually embarrassing to me is the hundreds of millions of dollars we have spent keeping a meat grinder running that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands to a million good men and women. Likewise the Biden family's involvement in corruption in Ukraine stinks to High Hell and I cannot be moved to regard these two phenomena as coincidental.

I actually do not care one bit where the line on the map is drawn between Ukraine and Russia and I find it very weird that so many of us claim to. Think what could have been done instead, with all the wasted lives, time, and money. THAT, is embarrassing!
Digressing a bit: is there any correlation between Bangaldeshi-Americans preferences in US politics (Democrats vs GOP) and their preferences in Bangladeshi politics (Awami League vs BNP vs Yunus)? Or are those largely orthogonal dimensions?
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