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The article makes reference to Tim O'Reilly's excellent Frank Herbert.

That book is well worth reading by anybody who wants to better understand Frank Herbert, and is available for free at https://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/.
SwiftUI is not swift. It's about framework not language. But even that doesn't matter

I think Apple has decent QA for low level stuff (remember how they quietly converted every iphone to APFS and back just to test that it will work later) but bad QA for final GUI.

Most of cocoa/objc stuff was written long ago and back when QA was better. If this was cocoa and objective c today it would be equally buggy.
> Obviously, you can't use it for embedded

Embedded is diverse. I would not use .NET for small embedded, i.e. stuff running on Arduino or ESP32.

However, I have successfully used .NET runtime in production for embedded software running on top of more performant SoCs, like 4 ARMv7 cores, couple GB RAM, Linux kernel. The software still has large pieces written in C and C++ (e.g. NanoVG rendering library) but all higher-level stuff like networking, file handling, and GUI are in memory-safe C#.
Ask them if they want feedback. If they're not ready for it or if they don't trust you, it's usually hurtful more than helpful.

That conversation alone should give you a good hint of what to do next.
This is exactly the problem. It's a game in the existing market without any additional growth.

it's not strange, jeff bezos can buy dozens of yachts, but most people will only buy 1 car for several years
> But several times when I have been doing development work my file based database has become corrupted. I violated some constraint, the sql was poorly formed, etc. Always my fault. I simply remove the file that SQLite is using and create a new one or use a backup copy.

That really shouldn't be able to happen unless you're using the API wrong or have weakened safety with pragmas or database configurations that trade off resilience for performance. Even with crashes, attempts to violate constraints, poorly formed SQL, etc, the file should never become corrupt. If it does, that's a bug with SQLite, not you. Corruption bugs are exceptionally rare in SQLite these days.
Maybe. Less clear evidence of that.

Total cars down by 5-6%, and lower than 6 of the previous 13 years.

Combustion cars down by 24%, and lower than 12 of the previous 13 years.
I don't understand how "consenting adults" implies they aren't "wimps". You can consent to boot licking.

Some people lick the boot by force, some do it because they like the taste of rubber. Do not confuse the two, they are VERY different.
In capitalism, almost everything generates economic growth if you ignore the externalities.
The FSF just filed an Amicus Brief in long running Neo4j case
It looks like the Free Software Foundation is not standing on the sidelines any longer and have called out Neo4j in the newly filed Amicus Brief filed February 28th, 2025.

Many in the community are only just starting to realize the potential impact of this case on FOSS licensing
And with the rest of the world covering to electric, we can expect negative economies of scale alongside the financial problems of economic contraction for combustion car makers.

The coal companies started going bankrupt long before the end of coal. (hell it's still not over...) Simply because investors could see that it's a shrinking industry, making it impossible to get financing for new plants, mines, etc.
AccuWeather isn't a weather forecasting organisation. They merely provide an interface to data gathered by others.

Trump had zero opportunity to privatize NOAA because you can't do that via executive order furthermore that would be were it even true useless in discerning whether he or indeed others in his circle wanted to do that now.
UAW and their >500k members might disagree
Someone Else’s Code was understood by at least one human at some point in time before it was committed. That means that another equally skilled human is likely to be able to get the gist of it, if not understand it perfectly.
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*Phone calls* also please.
Godwin's Law does not let up.
The point of linux is to upstream drivers so that devices just work.
To be fair, I would guess that 90% of the programmers I know would never have learned to program if they had been forced to do it on ancient mainframes with punched card readers. Personal computers made programming something that any schmuck could learn. That sure includes me.

But I think all that does is point to the fact that the average programmer's knowledge about computers and programming becomes poorer and poorer as time goes by. We are continuously pessimising for knowledge and skills.
Strikes by the US on Chinese military facilities are vastly more likely than ICBM strikes against civilian population centers on the other side of the world, for obvious reasons.
No, it is supply and demand. And a good deal of culture sprinkled on top. Americans are much more prepared to accept obscenely high salaries for exceptional talent. In Germany by contrast, even the greatest software engineering genius will not make that much more than some middling developer.
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>You own any right, title, or interest that may exist

>We hereby assign to You all our right, title, and interest, if any

>You are solely responsible for Outputs and Your use of Outputs

I love how it clearly laid out the scenario that the right don't exist, yet you are responsible.
It would be one thing if there was a clear policy and adherence to it. In that case, you could discuss and reason in good faith. However there is no such indication that this decision is based on a considered policy.

Trump's supporters would say that this is a result of not wanting the US being involved in foreign conflicts. That is a laudable goal, however that is not what is happening here. From the article

> On Friday, the administration said it was sending Israel nearly $3 billion in new weapons, including more than 35,000 new 2,000 pound bombs, invoking an emergency rule under U.S. arms control laws.

This just makes it look like a petty tantrum at best and a wilful desire to cleave our relationship with Europe at worst.

Yes, we can all argue that Europe needs to be less dependent on the US, however what's on the other side of that is not pretty for the United States. Our ability to have the world's de facto reserve currency and hence our ability to sustain debt loads way in excess of usual is largely dependent on the US being the world's cop and sole superpower.

A truly multipolar world might be good for the world, but it's certainly not going to be good for the United States.
yeah, because despite the UK training a huge number of doctors and nurses, the government doesn't want to pay them enough to stop them emigrating the the US or Australia, which have a lot of demand and much higher wages. So then they try to import health workers from elsewhere. Great plan.
I tried a Macbook again when the M1 chips came out, and wasn't impressed with the performance. Despite incredible benchmarks, the interface just felt bloated and sluggish.

The biggest issue for me though was Darwin's weird psuedo-complete unix environment. All of my production servers are Linux, and it's a real pain to have to torture software that works great on Linux over to Apple's OS. Homebrew is nice, but even that would fail sometimes, and if the software wasn't available I would have to wait for someone smarter than me to port it. Also, it's weird that the community has to maintain this despite Apple having a gajillion dollars because they simply do not care about OSS.

More of a personal ancedote, but in the end all I'm really using a computer for is a web browser, code editing, and running linux production software locally. Just made more sense to stay on Linux, which I run on an excellent Framework laptop. It feels nice to be out of the software bloat treadmill.
It was pretty rough at first - my background was doing UI in C/Xwindows/Motif, followed by Java/Swing UI which was by far the most glacially slow stack. Javascript was fast taking over the browser but I didn't know it. I remember failing a job interview because I had no idea what a closure was although I was familiar with C stack frame and Java variable scoping. Another time I got a trial job at a one-room startup mainly on the recomendation of my reference, who reported back to me that he advised not working for the startup's CEO. Sure enough I lasted there a week although to be fair I was not yet competent in javascript. I did some private projects to learn it - sudoku websites - and later landed another startup job (mostly because I got the brain-teaser style interview questions right) doing javascript UI where I had free choice of frameworks and chose ExtJS. Six months later I got headhunted by a large company that was using ExtJS for its internal web framework. But JS frameworks were coming thick and fast: ExtJS, Dojo, jQuery, Angular, React and each harder to learn than the last for someone in their late 50s. But I would have to say the relief of earning a full salary again was immense compared to scrimping and saving and juggling credit card balances.
> The 1962 film based on a romanticized version of Lawrence’s journey... rested on the idea of the ‘white savior,’ whose role was to lend a sympathetic ear to oppressed peoples and provide assistance to improve their lot in life.

I really think this is the wrong interpretation of the end of that movie.
It does not get into the "why", but I realize that is hard to determine.

My question is, are these sales for brand new cars or does it include used cars also ?

I know my days of buying brand new ended years ago due to how expensive new cars are. My current car (bought used) is from 2007 and if I have to buy another, it will be used.

So I have to wonder, are people avoiding buying new due to the expense. That could point to a reason. Would be interesting to see charts based upon Country or group of countries.
Yes: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/doge-...
Apple OS. Indeed.
In the case I personally know of, they brought in offshore workers. It also only generates reasonable numbers of jobs during initial construction.
It doesn't - just a source for the component having existed in its current form since the NeXT days.
> A monolithic kernel with a clearly defined device driver API would do the same thing.

Maybe, but I doubt it. History has shown pretty clearly that driver authors will write code that takes advantage of its privilege state in a monolithic kernel to bypass the constraints of the driver API. Companies will do this to kludge around the GPL, to make their Linux driver look more like the Windows driver, because they were lazy and it was easier than doing it right, and for any number of other reasons. The results include the drivers failing if you look at the rest of the system funny and making the entire system wildly insecure.

If you want to a driver not subject to competent code review abide by the terms of the box in which it lives, then the system needs to strictly enforce the box. Relying on a header file with limited contents will not do the job.
> A QA specialist would stumble over this in 5 minutes of trying to break the app.

Yes, but code reviewers signed off on it, our unit tests have 100% code coverage and they all passed. It must be okay.
How did South Korea start producing more babies after long decline?
Is it really that difficult to believe? When you see a crazy person on the street yelling into the air, do you think that there must be someone there that he can see that you cannot?
repro'd works for me.
I get it; many of these degrees are nice to have, but it's hard to justify their cost given their low job prospects. I know of a guy who got his degree in old English literature. He graduated with zero prospects. He decided to go into finance. He retired early as a millionaire. I know a guy who got a CS degree from Columbia. He has struggled in his career. He gets laid off or quits. The old English literature graduate is not the norm. He's astute and completely knew what he was getting into and dealt well with his situation. The CS guy has a hard time managing his situation, like many others. Ultimately, it comes down to the individual. Getting a degree is just the start of a working life. You need to fight for your desired job and not stop until you retire. That's what is ultimately important.
"Feels too hot" is hardly an objective measurement. Why worry about something that "may" occur. Use your device. If it fails take it in a get it replaced under warranty.
Yes. If you want a nice, secure driver model, a greenfield project is much easier.

Maybe one could run a Fuchsia-like thing inside Linux and use Linux to provide the Linux userland ABI, but that might be challenging to maintain.
It is more moonshot to design an API while Linux devs are constantly pulling the rug under.

Microkernels provide nice secure API boundaries and optimizations to reduce performance impact when crossing them on modern CPUs.

The monolithic design forces you to stay in either user or kernel mode as much as possible to not lose performance. Adding the API and ABI incompatibility makes it near impossible to maintain.

It will require a hard fork of Linux, which won't be Linux anymore. Monolithic design is the artifact of low-register-count CPUs of the past. If you are going to create a hard fork of a kernel, why not use a more modern design anyway?
Not to take the spotlight away from the UK, but I am pretty sure that all highly developed nations are struggling to find enough nurses amongst their citizens. Even Japan (gasp) has a special programme to help foreigners learn Japanese and immigrate as a skilled nurse.
Have you given pglite a try?
I think that Apple, perhaps naively, expects display manufacturers to adhere to spec when in reality they often don’t.

Either way macOS has no trouble with my 27” 2560x1440 Asus and Alienware monitors. Both connect with 10bit RGB no problem, at least over USB-C and DisplayPort (haven’t tried HDMI).
Related ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243580
All you tried there was two strawman arguments, or else you didn't carefully read my words.

1) I said BTC failed as a currency. And yes all the people currently holding cryptos are indeed claiming it's an asset, but they all have one thing in common: They gave their REAL money to someone else in exchange for nothing. You purchased a jar of air with the word "Digital Gold" printed on the side of it basically...with the reasoning of "If everybody treats this special air as Gold, then it might as well be Gold"

2) Neither Credit Cards nor PayPal are money. They are technologies for HANDLING money. A technology for handling a thing is not the thing itself. Not a hard logical axiom to grasp is it?
Why is it "music for developers"? I was expecting one of those Lofi music videos designed to enhance concentration or similar. These are typically instrumentals, ostensibly because they are less distracting, something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QY2_8704o
A view into what might have been: This corporate documentary produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) chronicles DECs two year odyssey to bring three personal computers, the Professional 325 (PRO-325), the Professional 350 (PRO-350), and the Rainbow 100 to market a year after IBM launched their personal computer. DEC's strategy was driven by the fear was that if they did not immediately create a successful product that the Japanese who were already producing low cost IBM PC compatibles would capture the market.
The narrative follows the challenges of the CT Program Group - Avram Miller (project manager), Michael Weinstein (merchandising), Ron Ham (software), Art Williams (hardware), and Vah Erdekian (manufacturing), as they race to develop a personal computer to show at the June 1982 National Computer Conference in Houston, Texas.
Wow.

Elon Musk was never a democrat. In the first book which was written a decade ago, he proudly state that he will do on media whatever necessary to push his companies forward.

Every company needs a long-term marketing strategy, and using climate change as a growth vehicle in early days was needed.

He endorsed Trump and was his advisor in his previous presidency a decade ago.

JD Vance did 180 on Trump as well.

So we are talking about people, who will say whatever they need to say to get the results they want. They don't have any principles or political values.

Comparing the war in Iraq to the war in Ukraine is ridiculous on so many levels that I will not even start.
You're correct ... but then various teams took various measures to try to get rid of QA. So it's spotty.
I've also gotten it working with FNA. I haven't done anything too elaborate in the game development world, but as far as I can tell there's really no limitations imposed by F# in that front.
a cow could drink a can of 80s scotch guard and not die from the pfas, what a nonsense article
Agreed on the social good of open source everyday items. I'd love to go to a build-it-yourself store/workshop where they have tools, materials, experts, and open source designs available.

The social good of open source software is at an inflection point. Stallman has always been right, but for decades it's been an 'yeah, but so what' situation. In today's consumer tech, surveillance is pervasive and manipulation getting more effective. Of course, that's only a problem if we lived in a fascist state where the government could force companies to work against our interests. Or lived in a network state run by a software company.

The only prudent options are moving to open source SW infrastructure running on personally controlled HW, or moving to an off-grid cabin in the woods. I'm incredibly grateful to the folks that create software like immich and jellyfin that allow me to degoogle w/o losing capabilities that I've come to rely on.
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Interesting analysis. The shadow of the Iraq & Afghan wars looms large over current events and shouldn't be underestimated. And of course, those wouldn't have happened without 9/11. That one event seems to have led the US to begin to self destruct.
Tough trade-offs: How time and career choices shape the gender pay gap
That number is a heavy under-estimate and deliberately lowered for public consumption. But, you might want to sit down - The real slaughter is well in the millions annually.
You seem to have no concept of a retirement age. A person of 70 years old is not supposed to be working at all, although light part time work can be okay.

Starting a company using AI still requires significant innovative skills, and is not even for the random 20 or 30 or 40 year old. It requires offering a competitive service or product that no one else offers. AI is never a substitute for putting your brain and body to work in clever ways that others don't.

The only troll here is you for letting working age people rot in jobs that they will bring them to their knees in their retirement age.
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Entire categories of drones are missing from the US arsenal, such as the ultra-cheap wire-guided ones that allow Ukrainians to fly 20 km into the enemy's rear, enter buildings, explore them from the inside, and leave behind presents or detonate immediately if they find any targets. Such drones can be seen at the start of this video, and at the very end too, when they are sneaking up to artillery and puncturing gun barrels: https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1893632328108220538

The US leads in larger drones, like the Global Hawk, which is the size of a regional airliner, can stay airborne for more than a day, and cover tens of thousands of kilometers in that time. The smaller and cheaper ones are just expensive toys, far behind what's seen in Ukraine in terms of actual usefulness. A cheap Chinese agricultural sprayer drone with equally cheap 3D-printed drum of infantry grenades or an anti-tank mine strapped to it outperforms most "military grade" commercial offerings like Switchblade that cost ten times as much and are good for only a single use, unlike the sprayer, which returns home after dropping its payload.
You alluded to this but I wanted to emphasize that a lot of this is just legacy baggage in terms of reputation that windows will have to carry for a long time

I think that when people talk about how shitty windows is compared to Mac/apple they are talking about stuff that was probably true at some point

For many, memories of using windows include blue screens of death, programs crashing often and windows itself crashing often. On top of that, windows was a cesspool for a hot minute while Microsoft got its act together and put better security in place to address malware as the internet got popular.

These are obviously not the same, not nearly as bad as they were back then

I mostly enjoyed windows, and to a lesser degree Linux until a few years ago when an employer made me switch to Mac - which for the sake of my brain’s plasticity I readily embraced

The main differences I noticed at the time were: a much better window manager, a much saner way of installing applications, an overall hard to explain smoothness along with the ability to bring over some of my favorite little Linux tools

Fast forward to today and it’s really just a matter of preference. Mac helped Linux a ton, but nowadays they are all so customizable that you can more or less achieve what you’re trying to do most of the time on any of them

Today, I use all three out of necessity - Mac and Linux for work, windows for gaming, but I can surely tell you that overall my best decision was to just not get involved in holy wars lol
WinXP was just an ugly face on Windows 2000 Workstation without an EOL version of DirectX for gaming.
All that store sells is hot garbage.
How can their opinion be both “not true” and subjective? Windows 11 might be an ok developer platform though (does Cygwin still work?)
I did read. I think the fraction you are mentioning is quite small if it exists at all. Elon was the reason for a vast majority of the people I know voting for him - it's not even close