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It's a 32-bit unsigned integer, so that should give us until Feb 2106.

> A time field is an unsigned 4-octet number containing the number of seconds elapsed since midnight, 1 January 1970 UTC.

There don’t seem to be any challenges there yet, and the page states it doesn’t begin until December 9th.

From the PEP:

> A tool will be provided to automatically update code to replace bare except: with except BaseException:.

Yeah that's the normal way in physics in my experience, certainly from undergrad level up.

As used on HN. It just works, even today.

The article links to Mozilla’s press release / blog entry about the acquisition of Anonym [0]. It’s pretty dystopian reading. The last three paragraphs and the summary of Anonym are more worrying than anything else I’ve read on this so far:

> This acquisition marks a significant step in addressing the urgent need for privacy-preserving advertising solutions. By combining Mozilla’s scale and trusted reputation with Anonym’s cutting-edge technology, we can enhance user privacy and advertising effectiveness, leveling the playing field for all stakeholders.

I can only interpret this as the urgent need is money, and wants to sell its "scale and trusted reputation". Mozilla has been down this road before. It was not good for them.

> Anonym was founded with two core beliefs: First, that people have a fundamental right to privacy in online interactions and second, that digital advertising is critical for the sustainability of free content, services and experiences. Mozilla and Anonym share the belief that advanced technologies can enable relevant and measurable advertising while still preserving user privacy.

This is some pretty weak wording for a press release. The economics of the situation are that advertising will always trump privacy. Researchers have successfully de-anonymized anonymised data sets, including medical records. Why would these data be any different?

> As we integrate Anonym into the Mozilla family, we are excited about the possibilities this partnership brings. While Anonym will continue to serve its customer base, together, we are poised to lead the industry toward a future where privacy and effective advertising go hand in hand, supporting a free and open internet.

Anonym’s customers are advertisers, right? The same people who for decades poured money into eroding that free and open internet that we had…

> About Anonym: Anonym was founded in 2022 by former Meta executives Brad Smallwood and Graham Mudd. The company was backed by Griffin Gaming Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Heracles Capital as well as a number of strategic individual investors.

Well, it seems Anonym, Smallwood and Mudd had a nice piece about them written in the Wall Street Journal [1]. From the second paragraph:

> Graham Mudd and Brad Smallwood each spent more than a decade building Meta’s advertising system, which allowed the company to offer granular data about how ad campaigns worked with individual users, often by tracking their web and mobile activity.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-t...

[1] https://archive.is/17c0f#selection-5751.0-5751.246

In England and Wales, at least, there’s even a legal principle that information produced by software is correct unless it is proven otherwise. [0]

[0] https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/32105/

About 1.8e20 US cups according to Google.

Well, that's the first time I've seen cubic miles used as a unit. For reference it's about 4.4e19 litres or 4.4e16 cubic metres.

Can confirm Bard is available in France and the UI has been translated to French.

For those interested in using AES with reduced rounds as a PRNG, it is covered in the paper "Parallel Random Numbers: As Easy as 1, 2, 3" by John Salmon et al.

https://www.thesalmons.org/john/random123/papers/random123sc...

Interesting article. Probably better to link directly to where it was originally published, because there are pictures: https://theconversation.com/if-the-first-solar-entrepreneur-...

> When the FreeBSD kernel boots in Firecracker (1 CPU, 128 MB RAM), it now spends 7% of its time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs.

It’s a 100x speed increase on 7% of the boot time, so it should be approximately a 7% decrease in boot time.

If you look up a data sheet for any 7483 variant, it is immediately notable: the first lines are something like "4-bit binary full adder" and the description says "…accept two 4-bit binary words" If you skip to the next paragraph, you’ll see they are onto transistors. Ideally the author could show a data sheet, but there may be reasons they can’t.

I found the material that followed to be a clear exposition of the fundamentals – this is as somebody who has tried to learn electronics over the years but nothing ever stuck. This did a better job than anything else at a pace that is about right for me.

But YMMV and I personally relish being in a room full of people who are smarter than me.

For garbage collection, which operates at runtime. Integers are unboxed; every other type requires additional data.

> We designed our initial solution as a distributed system using serverless components (for example, AWS Step Functions or AWS Lambda), which was a good choice for building the service quickly.

The message seems more that they outgrew AWS lambda but that lambda was a good choice at first.

I’ve been asking questions about F# after a while of using OCaml. I’ve found GPT-4 to hallucinate syntax that doesn’t exist, such as being able to do open <modulename> in a function. It’s actually something I assumed too, because you can do this in OCaml with "let open <modulename> in", but you cannot do this in F#.

Despite this, it’s still been a lot more helpful than searching, is mostly correct, and is my go-to resource.

Had to admit I came to the same conclusion when I read this part of the readme:

> The NC license permits "use by any charitable organization, educational institution, public research organization, public safety or health organization, environmental protection organization, or government institution is use for a permitted purpose regardless of the source of funding or obligations resulting from the funding."

But on reading the license, personal noncommercial use is fine too. It would have helped me if that info had been in the readme!

I have the kernel and zfs modules in IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf. This way I have to update them explicitly.

I usually have to manually install a kernel from archive.archlinux.org/packages but I find this much less fragile than DKMS.

I have found Blender more than competent for my relatively simple video editing needs.

Here is an example in ocaml, where |> is the pipeline operator:

https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/chapters/hop/pipelining.ht...

That post is dead, so by my understanding that will be why you can't comment on it.

If you were to have an array of such sensors, perhaps you'd be able to estimate direction of travel.

Having just recently played with astro, I can confirm it's got some really nice qualities.

Things I liked about Astro:

- It can use front-end js frameworks like Svelte and Vue as components (and it can load the JavaScript only once these components appear).

- familiar JSX, scoped CSS and single-file components for astro components.

- Some nice plugins for responsive image optimizations.

- nice touches like hot module reloading. It's nothing new, but it does just seem to work.

I also believe there are optional SSR elements to astro now, but I have not played with these.

I'm actually in France, but I agree with travel being great. I haven't traveled as much as I'd have liked to, and I have committments that make travel more difficult than when I was in my twenties.

For me, personally, volunteering in a small association has had a life-changing impact to me in a month.

> 1. Take time off, like a month or more. [1] Use it to do anything other than coding. Hone a hobby, travel, volunteer, etc.

I really recommend the volunteering, especially if in a field unrelated to your career and more aligned with your values.

Not only is it a great way to get to know people, it can really give you a better sense of what skills you can bring. You will make even more of an impact if you do bring a different perspective and skillset to others who normally volunteer.

I came to say the same thing. The video editing features were very usable in Blender in 2015. Given the open short movies they do are used to drive development, I would be surprised if the video editing hasn't been improved since.

"much worser", perhaps?

Interesting to compare it to my preferred keyboard layout, BÉPO [0][1].

In Halmak, the vowels are clustered around the right hand rather than the left. Like BÉPO, the punctuation is reachable with index fingers. There is some difference with the home row consonants, but otherwise this looks like an interesting layout.

Although BÉPO is a French layout, I’ve found it works well for English – despite giving space to accented characters that are not often used in English.

[0] https://bepo.fr/wiki/Accueil (in French) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%89PO

> Well... turns out, I had rotated the CPU 180 degrees from it's required position. OMG... here I am a teenager and now I am going to have to pay for a $1200+ part?

I did something similar with an i486 DX4-100; I wasn’t so lucky: the power supply held up, the CPU smoked and it took out the motherboard. Thankfully this was well into the Pentium-II era, but it was still pretty devastating. If I recall correctly, it just slotted in the wrong way like it was meant to go; I guess modern CPU sockets have fixed that.