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Yeah, probably just coincidence. /s
> what was the harassment?
At least in New York, there was legitimate conflation between believing Israel has a right to exist and supporting a genocide.
It depends how fast or slow your GPU is. I tried it and saw the effect you described, but within a second or two it started moving and was obscured again. Obviously you could automate the problem away.
Salesforce as a company hasn't been innovative in 20 years. It's no surprise that they can't make anything of AI outside of a couple fancy marketing campaigns.
I think it's a fine argument to make. At some point, the price discovery mechanism has to ask someone a price that's too high. Someone then has to say "no".
Everyone starts off with a price that's too low because you want a "no" from a customer to be "no, because your product isn't useful to me" and not "no, I don't have that kind of money". (Maybe this is a flaw and generalizes to generative AI. I like Github Copilot for $0/month. I would not like it for $200/month. If it costs them $200/month to run it, then there is a big problem with the business model.)
IMHO "allow" is a rather moot term, when you already have access. Their API is surprisingly well-documented; when I worked at a place that used Slack, I had a logger hooked up to a local database, which was very useful when their not-quite-search failed to give any results for a comment that you and others very clearly remember making.
It didn't sound like sarcasm at all to me?
Relatedly, Sinclair Media (which owns several ABC-affiliated broadcasting stations and has long been regarded as skewing very conservative) issued a statement suggesting that Kimmel could only be rehabilitated by apologizing and making substantial donations to Kirk's estate and to Turning Point USA.
failed to properly validate the originating tenant
One wonders whether those who designed all this ever considered what that field in the token is for.
The word "tenant" is also very telling --- you're just renting, and the "landlord" always has the keys.
This isn't entirely correct.
Freedom of speech is a broad philosophy "that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction" [1]. It's a cultural norm and philosophical principle more than a legal one.
The First Amendment is a legal principle that restricts the government from policing speech.
So yes, if "you're yelled at, boycotted," banned of cancelled because of what you say, that is not consistent with the principles of freedom of speech. Whether your right to free speech has been abrogated is more complicated and context dependent, since rights are a social contract. And in no case is a private actor retaliating, censoring or sanctioning someone for what they say a First Amendment violation.
We tend to conflate the First Amendment with free speech because the former probably remains one of the strongest expressions of the latter in any body of law in the world. But it's important to remember that free speech is broader than the First Amendment, and that someone can have their freedom of speech infringed upon without falling afould of the law. (The fact that the First Amendment restricts the Congress from "abridging the freedom of speech" directly cites the fact that freedom of speech exists outside the First Amendment and that it's possible for someone other than the government to abridge someone's freedom of speech.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
[2] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/
I saw the keynote, and while everything about the glasses was more or less as expected, seeing Zuck easily navigate the interface and type 30 words per minute while barely moving his fingers was a true WTF moment. If they can actually make the neural interface work that well then Meta has won this round.
Man, the sheer transactionality that guides these people's lives is pretty disgusting to me. Granted, you probably don't get to be a billionaire unless you are pretty transactional, but I am kind of thankful that the vapid hollowness of these billionaires (despite always cloaking their rapaciousness in some sort of larger societal purpose) has been laid bare over the past few years.
Related:
Study Shows Number of Childless Women in the U.S. Continues to Rise - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45268830 - September 2025
There can be outlier bugs, that only appear for a small subset of users, under certain conditions (from different OEM parts combo among dozens to different software packages installed, update paths followed, or options enabled).
People are dismissing it because it sounds like FUD.
>Daydreaming and singing to yourself is not entertaining. It's just something that an unstimulated brain does.
That's not even remotely true. People also do it for entertainment and are entertained when they do it, like all the time.
They're not necessarily "misrepresenting the facts" as much as "correcting the half-truths in the official PR"
This is not a serious question. Nobody, including the Koreans, has been been arguing that ICE should have just ignored it. The objections are twofold: that instead of raising the issue administratively with the company they just rolled in and arrested everyone in sight (including people with valid visas), and that they engaged in egregious human rights violations.
That's not pointing fingers but an objective fact. Technical audiences are more likely to use adblockers than the general population. If your channel caters to them you will be disproportionately affected.
I first saw a moral panic over ‘cancel culture’ circa 2013 from The Atlantic and the opinion page of the New York Times. (The first because it’s demo is the naive liberal and pearl clutching parents of college students and the second because folks like Brooks and Blow don’t want to be canceled themselves). It was until 2017 or so that conservatives noticed the phenomenon and started to talk about it in The National Review and such.
Ezra Klein, who I generally respect, said he got more crap over
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/opinion/charlie-kirk-assa...
than anything else he’s written but I think it was unfortunate that he chose the words because Kirk, among other things, promoted Trump’s lies about the 2000 election, bussed people to the Jan 6 riot, and had a hit list of professors he wanted to punish just like David Horowitz, dad of the Andressen-Horowitz Horowitz. That bit about “prove me wrong” was always disingenuous, it would fool the pearl clutching parents who read The Atlantic and the likes of Ezra Klein. Probably the most harmful thing about illiberal campus leftists is that they allowed illiberal rightists to appear to take the high ground.
Here's a video of the Maher reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1c672...
> The right, has for the past decade or so taken a moral high ground with regards to cancelation.
Have you been in a coma for that decade?
Sounds fine to me. I'm assuming it wasn't obvious to readers that there was a confirmation message that appears when thumbs down is clicked.
Keep in mind that Kimmel has been hinting about retiring for a couple years now, his contract was up in the air, the "late night television show" category is evaporating (if there's still even a Tonight Show in 10 years, it'll be purely for nostalgia), and this sends Kimmel out in a blaze of glory.
I think it's too easy to sort of anthropomorphize these kinds of conflicts --- Kimmel's show has a large staff, and he's responsible for their livelihoods --- but it wouldn't be totally out of the question that Kimmel steered right into this.
There's nothing new about this, though: ABC also took Bill Maher off the air, 20 years ago, almost identical circumstances. Maher wound up at HBO. Kimmel will wind up on a podcast, and, like Conan, probably gain in relevance.
Moments later
I think some people here might be too young to immediately get the Maher reference, but the point there was: he was forced off the air for political reasons as well.
Thought this might be about Hans Reiser for a minute.
I kept waiting for my picture to pop up ...
> the part that has been the most surprising is how stupid it is
Read The Wages of Destruction.
The Nazis were economically inept. This part of fascism’s history—its incompetence–is often overwritten by stories of gleaming German engineering and Italian timeliness.
> why on earth would anyone want to associate (let alone buy) a brand synonymous with "scam"?
It’s honestly hilarious. Like, I’d pay something for one of Ponzi’s original investment contracts.
I wouldn’t for Madoff. But his crimes are emotionally proximate. Influencers getting ripped off doesn’t really trigger my sense of moral outrage.
> And Tesla cannot admit that because Musk can't admit he was wrong.
Führerprinzip [1]
That's a good insight.
Inept authoritarianism - the worse of both worlds.
SBERT embeddings make short work of many classification and clustering tasks. I made an RSS reader using SBERT and scikit-learn.
This is if you like tinkering with printers. I gave away my Wanhao and bought a Bambu, and I haven't thought about the printer since. Now I just print.
Yeah, this is an era which is notorious for pseudoscience.
> Most results in the field do actually replicate and are robust [citation needed], so it would be a pity to lose confidence in the whole field just because of a few bad apples.
Is there a good list of results that do consistently replicate?
I hate to say this. Bambu A1. I'm operating a farm of mixed plumage: 20 Prusa's, 12 Creality K1s and 24 Bambus. Of all of those the Bambus are by far the least troublesome and I would definitely recommend those to a beginner. That said, Bambu is a crap company and they can't be trusted not to do a rugpull sooner or later. We don't have them connected to wifi for that reason alone and tbh it doesn't really add anything to the experience. I like the fact that they're all stand-alone and as long as the power is up the printers are printing. In the last year we've processed about 3000 Kg total with these. In some more detail:
- The Prusa's are real workhorses. They are not the fastest, but they're expensive and they break. But you can always fix them and the degree to which you can tinker with them (especially while they're running) is much higher than the others. I've made a couple of custom ones (one 1x1 meter x 25 cm build volume, five more that are the regular width and length but 60 cm height), with adopted firmware. It's an insanely flexible platform. If you can think of it, handle a hex key and do some minor firmware hacking you can probably make it.
- The K1s... well. Initially we were very impressed. Got a couple to test with, decided they work and ordered 10 more. After a few days the first extruder broke. Gears just snapped their teeth right off. Turns out the extruder gears are plastic. So, ordered upgraded extruders. Next, one after the other, power supplies dying. After that print fans, Then cpu fans. They also had many screws loose right from the factory, we had a whole inspection list made just to structurally address all of the shitty stuff that would be wrong. For $10 more in parts and better QA it could have been a winner.
- The Bambus. We plugged them in. They work. They still do.
People in this thread are mentioning the SOVOL, if you have the money, that's probably the best printer. But I'd get a couple of Bambus instead and get that many more kilos pushed through. At 200 bucks for the mini and 350 or so for the big A1 it's insane value for money.
Does that help? Feel free to ask more questions.
Back in 1975, my dad got a copy of Creative Computing magazine from a colleague, and gave it to me as he knew I talked about computers. I was in heaven reading that mag. I still have it.
In the 80s, I regularly went to B&N to troll the computer mags. They're all gone now.
My hot rod magazines have all disappeared, too. Magazines like "Chrysler Engines". Sigh. The only one left is Hot Rod.
Like C, which offloads IO to the standard library?
"Without a human in the loop, there’s still some “thing” that gets compromised, whether it’s a token or something that generates time-limited tokens."
Speaking knowingly reductionistically and with an indeterminate amount of sarcasm, one of the hardest problems in security is how to know something without knowing something. The first "knowing something" is being able to convince a security system to let you do something, and the second is the kind that an attacker can steal.
We do a lot of work trying to separate those two but it's a really, really hard problem, right down at its very deepest core.
I know I was amused 5-10 years ago as we went through a lot of gymnastics. "We have an SSH password here that we use to log in to this system over there and run this process." "That's not secure, because an attacker can get the password. Move that to an SSH key." "That's not secure, an attacker can get the key. Move the key into this secret manager." "That's not secure, an attacker can get into the secret manager. Move it to this 2FA system." "That's not secure, an attacker can get the 2FA token material, move it to...."
There are improvements you can make; if nothing else a well-done 2FA system means an attacker has to compromise 2 systems to get in, and if they are non-correlated that's a legit step up. But I don't think there's a full solution to "the attacker could" in the end. Just improvements.
Unfortunately, this is not possible with such a simple approach. In 2 and higher dimensions, the problem is that any attempt to create a cancelling wave from a position other than the source of the wave will not cancel the wave. Instead it will create a network of places where it cancels and places where it constructively interferes, depending on the wavelength and their relative positions, and there is no way to make the entire space be cancelling in such a short space. You can only get various arrangements of cancellation but also constructive feedback.
(Some other things happen as you get a large number of wavelengths away from the source, but given the wavelength of the audio in question, being in a room with it means you get that local behavior, not long-range behavior.)
Probably somewhere on the internet is a fantastic interactive diagram that would clearly demonstrate this for you, but I couldn't google one up. Links solicited. (I got a lot 1D stuff but this phenomenon doesn't show up in 1D. 2D is adequate, 3D just adds more nodes in more dimensions.)
The way noise cancelling headphones work is that they know where they are relative to your eardrum, and as such, they can arrange it so that for all incoming audible frequencies, your eardrum is in a cancellation location for that frequency, ignoring a lot of details. They'll still unavoidably create locations of constructive interference, you just won't have your sensors there.
In principle you may be able to do this with some very precise location of where your ears are, where your mics are, where your speakers are and the exact characteristics of all of these things, and some very clever coding; I've seen people kicking this idea around but I haven't yet heard of anyone pulling it off. I can say it's still yet harder than it sounds at first, because you have things like echos and all kinds of other fun effects to deal with. In theory it should be possible to echo cancel at a distance, but you'd be getting into super high end audio processing, not just a weekend project where you record a microphone or two and "just" invert it with a couple of speakers. You might need something as fancy as https://youtu.be/UPVcwDzhBZ8?t=463 just to get started, and an accurate room model, and all kinds of things, and you might still get something that only works as long as nothing in the room moves, including you or even parts of you. In practice, I'd guesstimate this at the level of difficulty of doing a PhD in audio processing at a minimum... but not necessarily impossible.
> the hypothesis that depression is an evolved adaptation for surviving no-win scenarios that can only be waited out holds
I remember from my days studying to be an actuary that the population that can best estimate mortality odds from the gut are actually the depressed. (Most of us tend to be way too optimistic about common risks and pessimistic about uncommon ones.)
This was also used to explain mammalian postpartum depression, when the mother has to make a wretching call as to whether to keep the offspring given its health, her health and the environmental context.
I've seen this kind of talk used to sell scams like Amway. See
https://www.amazon.com/Amway-Motivational-Organizations-Behi...
A definite bad smell.
Not, Lyft, Flexdrive. Flexdrive is a fleet management company which Lyft owns. They have the things Waymo needs - parking lots and vehicle maintainers. Waymo doesn't need the rideshare service and Lyft app.
In San Francisco, Waymo has already passed Lyft in number of rides, and is projected to pass Uber by the end of the year.
The point of the GPT-5 model is that it is supposed to route between thinking/nonthinking smartly. Leveraging prompt hacks such as instructing it to "think carefully" to force routing to the thinking model go against OpenAI's claims.
For historical reference, this is how longshoremen/dockworkers were compensated when shipping containers increased efficiency.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30856522 (citations)
This looks like a great release! Lots of stuff people have wanted for a long time in here.
With, apparently, a board member appointed by the Trump administration.
The U.S Steel deal included three board seats, but the Intel deal did not include any.
This is starting to look like the way China does things, with the central government having a financial stake in important companies.
The trouble with AAA games requiring high specs is that hardware is not improving the way that it used to.
The PS3 started out crazy expensive and got cheap. Current gen consoles like the PS5 and PS5 Pro either went sideways or went up! As a result a PS6 is kinda unthinkable, to be solidly better than the PS5 Pro it is going to have to cost upwards of $1k.
My suspicion is that it mostly is about problems in the electronics industry and secondarily about crypto, AI and all that. Not too long ago you couldn't get a top of the line GPU whatever you were willing to pay. Intel's roadmap for improving their chips went off the rails 10 years ago, it seems the only silicon vendor that is making steady progress is Apple and their idea of gaming is primarily Candy Crush and secondarily Genshin Impact.
VXUS, BNDX (investments) and euros (short term). Gold feels overbought already imho, but some may differ on that thesis. Swiss franc would also be a reasonable short term currency depending on your needs. Outracing inflation and currency devaluation is hard.
(not investing advice, educational purposes only)
Would you be willing to share a link to that vacuum cleaner? I would like to leave Dyson behind forever.
> hostile take-over of the American mind by a tech billionaire who just overtook Elon Musk to become the world's richest man
Ellison read and responded to the political situation more skilfully than Elon.
He used Stargate to cement himself as a power broker in AI. He used that influence to provide antitrust assurances that gave his son a leg up for Paramount. Meanwhile he used that proximity to media to get a foot in the door with TikTok.
The root cause is the partisan politicisation of the economy. This is a project all the major Trump donors and high-level supporters contributed to. That Ellison is coming up as one of the new aristocrats is closer to a dice roll; that we have oligarchs, now, is very much by design.
"Reality has a well known liberal bias" -- Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Reality_has_a_well_known_lib...
https://www.quora.com/Does-reality-have-a-liberal-bias/answe...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abf1234
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.12681
"woke" currently is used as an insult for a form of empathy; how much empathy you have will be a function of brain structure and lived experience; a platform's vibe is a function of its userbase [and their underlying politics expressed in their online participation based upon how their brain operates], extrapolate accordingly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke#2019%E2%80%93present:_as_...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79310-1
https://news.osu.edu/brain-scans-remarkably-good-at-predicti...
If you want to visualize why US reality tilts "liberal/woke":
https://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/960533_81_90771_6LZWd...
https://www.core77.com/posts/90771/A-Great-Example-of-Better...
(i hope this helps, I have attempted to keep the comment as data driven as possible vs subjective or political in keeping with forum guidelines and moderator requests)
It has come lightyears.
ProtonDB has a feature where you can give it access to your Steam account for reading and it'll give you a full report based on your personal library: https://www.protondb.com/profile
And I find if anything it tends to the conservative. I've encountered a few things where it was overoptimistic but its outweighed by the stuff that was supported even better than ProtonDB said.
In the late 2000s, I played a few things, but I went in with the assumption it either wouldn't work, or wouldn't work without tweaking. Now I go in with the assumption that it will work unless otherwise indicated. Except multiplayer shooters and VR.
Previous:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38585213 - December 2023 (54 comments)
Full output:
https://jasomill.at/sneakers.txt (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38592180)
Spot on, I rather have a Python, Java,.NET,.. standard library, that may have a few warts, but works everywhere there is full compliant implementation, than playing lego, with libraries that might not even support all platforms, and be more easily open to such attacks.
Is java.util.logging.Logger not that great?
Sure, yet everyone that used it had a good night rest when Log4J exploit came to be.
As someone who lived in a country under the russian boot at some point and who remembers the USSR from direct experience, you probably have a lot of stuff to study up on. But be careful on what internet connection you do it.
Plus so many ads are malware, dangerous, or scams that even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/
YouTube is one of the worst offenders for scam ads. Even today you sometimes find an ad that talks about some scary health risk and points to some ad that drones on and on for 45 minutes and if you get to the end they try to sign you up for an $80 a month subscription for some worthless supplement.
It's based on what you watch.
My recommendations are entirely in line with what I watch. I never need to check channels i like for a new video because they automatically get recommended.
If yours is a sewage firehouse, are you logged in? Or are you sharing your account with family members who watch what you consider "sewage"?
I haven't had actual corruption but had imports take an excessive long time or fail to complete in Lightroom because of bad USB cables or (I think) bad USB jack.
Generally I'm frustrated with the state of USB. Bad cables are all over the place and I'm inclined to throw cables out if I have the slightest problem with them. My take is that the import process with Lightroom is fast and reliable if I am using good readers and good cables; it is fine importing photos from my Sony a7iv off a CFExpress card but my Sony a7ii has always been problematic and benefits greatly from taking the memory card out and putting it in a dedicated reader, sometimes I use the second slot in the a7iv.
"Please don't post AI-generated comments, or any generated comments" seems pretty clear to me. My point stands: I'm not interested in watching dueling ChatGPT contexts and I don't think anyone else is either. I can just write what I know about this issue into a GPT5 session and say "change my mind" and get all those 1970s cites myself.
> It's important to remember Rust's borrow checker was computationally infeasible 15 years ago.
The core of the borrow checker was being formulated in 2012[1], which is 13 years ago. No infeasibility then. And it's based on ideas that are much older, going back to the 90s.
Plus, you are vastly overestimating the expense of borrow checking, it is very fast, and not the reason for Rust's compile times being slow. You absolutely could have done borrow checking much earlier, even with less computing power available.
1: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/11/18/ima...
"Algebraic types, by themselves, don't do anything to make things "scary" or Turing-complete."
That's what "offer enough degrees-of-freedom to become scary" is getting at.
The types themselves are no more complicated than non-algebraic types in the end. However it so happens that for historical reasons they have appealed to certain personality types who proceed to build glorious castles on top of them, and indeed per the "degrees of freedom" point, multiple different overlapping-yet-often-conflicting castles. It is easy to mistake those castles as being "algebraic types", which is not helped by the name, rather than being simple things which can be explained to children and could easily be used in an introduction to programming curriculum rather than conventional types.
Conventional types are also not necessarily that complicated, or don't have to be. For instance, the complexity of C++'s towers of subclasses and templates should be accounted to C++ itself, rather than as a fundamental aspect of conventional type systems. There's things like Go that use a much simpler type system that is not generally amenable to such towers of complexity, which is a rephrasing of the most common complaints against it.
Yes, but as far as I know, nobody has shown that the Collatz conjecture is anything other than a really hard problem. It isn't terribly difficult to mathematically imagine that perhaps the Collatz problem space considered generally encodes Turing complete computations in some mathematically meaningful way (even when we don't explicitly construct them to be "computational"), but as far as I know that is complete conjecture. I have to imagine some non-trivial mathematical time has been spent on that conjecture, too, so that is itself a hard problem.
But there is also definitely a place where your axiom systems become self-referential in the Busy Beaver and that is a qualitative change on its own. Aaronson and some of his students have put an upper bound on it, but the only question is exactly how loose it is, rather than whether or not it is loose. The upper bound is in the hundreds, but at [1] in the 2nd-to-last paragraph Scott Aaronson expresses his opinion that the true boundary could be as low as 7, 8, or 9, rather than hundreds.
The text of the post where I saw this has this take:
> "So, they're going to make AI generated (and hosted) podcasts because they only need 20 people to listen to it in order to turn a profit from the ads. Who would listen to such content? Well I can think of one way to get listens - to spoof existing content and get listeners through the subsequent confusion. Great"
It's interesting that some of the commentators here are very, very against touch screens on a laptop. I use a MacBook Pro and a Panasonic Toughbook (https://blog.jgc.org/2025/07/ode-to-anti-mac-panasonic-tough...). The Panasonic has a touch screen and I love being able to touch a window to bring it to the foreground and use my finger instead of the mouse. It works well for "I want the input point to be here".
As if "tender lovemaking" is so shocking?
Question for tanepiper: what would you have Microsoft do to improve things here?
My read of your article is that you don't like postinstall scripts and npx.
I'm not convinced that removing those would have a particularly major impact on supply chain attacks. The nature of npm is that it distributes code that is then executed. Even without npx, an attacker could still release an updated package which, when executed as a dependency, steals environment variables or similar.
And in the meantime, discarding box would break the existing workflows of practically every JavaScript-using developer in the world!
You mention 2FA. npm requires that for maintainers of the top 100 packages (since 2022), would you like to see that policy increased to the top 1,000/10,000/everyone? https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/top-100-n...
You also mention code signing. I like that too, but do you think that would have a material impact on supply chain attacks given they start with compromised accounts?
The investment I most want to see around this topic is in sandboxing: I think it should be the default that all code runs in a robust sandbox unless there is as very convincing reason not to. That requires investment that goes beyond a single language and package management platform - it's something that needs to be available and trustworthy for multiple operating systems.
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly kicking squeeling Gucci little piggy
What's brilliant about it? What's the reference, for those of us unfamiliar?
> Maybe other languages that depend on this broken dependency management model, like Cargo, PyPI, RubyGems, and many more, are watching this incident and know that the very same crisis looms in their future. Maybe they will change course, too, before the inevitable.
Unfortunely no, that is why SBOM (Software Bill Of Materials), and only allowing vetted software packages on in-house CI/CD is such a thing on many companies.
Unfortunely not yet spread wide enough, and anyway doesn't do anything for everyone else doing software outside big corporation virtual wall.
Most developers are too trigger happy to add software dependencies without thinking twice about them.
So well that my Asus Netbook went from OpenGL 4.1 down to OpenGL 3.3, and when it finally got OpenGL 4.1 back, several years later, it died a couple of months later.
See Huawei and Xiaomi everywhere else outside US, or how encryption standards went down in the days of PGP book with the printed code.
Nazi Germany provided people the opportunity to become an extremist by answering a job ad, and put together a whole murderous infrastructure of extremism in about a decade.
Fixing that is my retirement plan.
You can dismantle them from the outside, like Arendt, but "debating" them gives them a platform to Gish gallop their views to an accepting audience.
Fascism sounds great. It has terrific marketing. It's like cigarettes, awesome product apart from the bit where it kills people. Including people who never consumed the product.
It is, that is why there is preemptive multitasking and non-preemptive multitasking.
I cannot help when people cannot understand basic English expressions.
That was my hope, between Slackware 2.0 and around 2010, eventually I got Windows 7 and a laptop that supported virtualization, installed VMWare Workstation, and that was it, my zealot years were gone.
Still got an ASUS netbook though, a market killed by tablets and chrombooks.
Unfortunely most of the HP-UX documentation I used to browse regularly is now gone from HP website, at least from public pages, lots of broken links even when we manage to find some old PDFs.
I guess, it might be support/partners eyes only nowadays.
I have been "build engineer" across many projects, regardless of the set of programming languages being used, this is not specific to C++.
Bluntly: because they don't get software and never did. The hardware is actually pretty good but the software has always been terrible and it is a serious problem because NV sure could use some real competition.
I’ve been using Gnome Console (the successor of Gnome Terminal). It’s based on the same vte engine, but has a nicer UI around it.
There's something to be said for not having a dumb VGA controller.
Some years ago, I had a headless system running QNX in a control application. About 30% of the CPU time was being consumed by something. It turned out that the system had a very minimal VGA controller, not connected to anything. The QNX boot image was capable of running with no console at all, which was the intent. But it found the VGA controller and launched a screen saver. The screen saver worked by shifting the entire screen one pixel at a time, which, with this minimal VGA controller, was a very slow read from VRAM, one byte at a time. This was so slow that it ate up a huge amount of CPU time.
This being QNX, it wasn't at high priority, so the real time stuff preempted it.
What's notable about the text modes is that they are fully done in hardware, so scrolling and writing lots of text is extremely fast and consumes very little CPU. Unfortunately on the hardware side, the allegedly-VGA-compatible part of newer GPUs is increasingly not as compatible as it should be. The "extended text modes" of earlier VGA cards supporting 132 columns or more have become nearly nonexistent, although even the original IBM VGA hardware API should be able to handle a 100 x 75 text mode, if not more, albeit with a reduced refresh rate. I remember almost 2 decades ago trying to get an Intel 900-series integrated GPU to display more than 80 columns in text mode, to challenge the datasheet claim that it was "not supported" (the original IBM VGA had an unofficial 90x60 mode at 720x480), and was unsuccessful; the hardware seemed to be deliberately restricting the settings, and triggered a hard lockup whenever I tried.
You can already do this, and I did it last week on my flight with my Xreal Air.
Yeah, but a 1% angle over a long period of time intersects with the ground, and I wouldn't want to trust your alarm clock with 200 lives.
I wonder if the "programmer" (and I use this term very loosely) who wrote that sleep-in-an-interrupt code ever tested the code personally, or if it was some other distant responsibility-diluted department of a hundred other lamers who didn't care "because the automated tests all pass". This is a situation where dogfooding, in the original Microsoft sense, would definitely be beneficial as among the developers experiencing this on their own machines, surely one would be tempted to fix it.
They have their own issues as well, for those of us outside the distortion field.
Short version: don't buy ASUS gaming laptops until this is definiteively fixed, and if you one under warranty, file a warranty claim, being prepared to go to Small Claims Court.
dual-pane file manager
For some reason, the technical term for these is Orthodox File Manager, which I've always thought was an obscure cultural in-joke from the countries where these were most popular --- Eastern Europe and the former USSR.
This origin is elaborated at length here: https://softpanorama.org/Articles/introduction_to_orthodox_f...
> We don't trust the UN. So which international peace keepers do you propose?
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I don’t know! But the point of peacekeepers is the belligerents lose their votes.
> I just want to say that things like reputation and network matter... and thats not really "nepotism"
I strongly agree with this, and I'm glad you put it so clearly. If you've been in your industry say 10 years or more, you should have built a reputation by that point that makes people say "I want to work with that person again, or I'd recommend that person to a friend who has a job opening". (Important thing to clarify, though, I'm not denigrating anyone who has been out of work a long time. I've seen many categories of jobs in the tech industry where there are simply a lot fewer jobs to go around - it's musical chairs and a lot of chairs got taken away all at once).
I would put in an important caveat, though, and that's for people who are early in their careers. The hiring process really is truly shitty for people just entering the workforce and for people with only one or two jobs under their belt.
Can anyone speak to any practical policy decision any organization or state has ever made in response to this particular index?
Apparently not as scary as 80 other places.
You've reminded me of my favorite letter to the editor I've ever come across.
A while back, we had a whiteout on the highway by the local airport. Someone wrote in to propose - in apparent seriousness - planting trees at the end of the runway to ensure it wouldn't happen again.
More than that, though, this assassination was particularly counterproductive because it basically played to the worst stereotypes about "the left" not willing to listen to anything they disagree with.
I may disagree with the vast majority of Charlie Kirk's opinions, but he was at a university, inviting others who strongly disagreed with him to debate him, face-to-face. I may not be a particular fan of this style of interaction (I find it to be more about shock value/talking points/getting clips of particular stupid things people will say than actual clarification or education), it was still an open forum that shouldn't be feared in a free society that supposedly values free speech.