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What exactly isn't true? That Xi doesn't control the CCP?

And presumably they also have doctors and even lawyers in the CCP! Come to think of it, I wonder if China is not actually run by lawyers as well...

Nope, China is run by the Chinese Communist Party, which itself is run by Xi. That's it. Just look at Jack Ma for a clear example that China is not run by engineers or tech people.

That is a really silly take. The US has had "advisors" embedded with Ukraine forces since the beginning of the war. Multiple high level Pentagon officials (think multi-star generals) have mentioned in interviews over the years how valuable is the intel they have been learning and collecting from the war. I can guarantee you that somewhere in Langley there are many analysts constantly churning out reports about battlefield lessons and techniques from the Ukrainian war.

I like to think that there is core of career public servants inside the US government who take their jobs seriously and they perform it well. Whether decision makers take their inputs into account is a different matter.

You just don't share certain devices, like Bluetooth. The "main" kernel will probably own the boot process and manage some devices exclusively. I think the real advantage is running certain applications isolated within a CPU subset, protected/contained behind a dedicated kernel. You don't have the slowdown of VMs, or have to fight against the isolation sieve that is docker.

That is a very common pattern. Probably 90% of poor rural America is like that. And the lucky towns have those stores, others not even.

Man, be easy on yourself. You already have the world to put you down, no need to add to it. Life is complicated and I’m sure that you trying to have a better life and a career is not just for ego. Love yourself a bit.

That’s not the same though. Banks literally make money out of thin air when they extend a loan (oversimplified of course). They can choose the time and place to do so without having to wait for “checkpoints”. They can even run themselves into the ground by creating too much money (if there is no reserve requirement).

How would the “out of thin air” value creation work in a blockchain ledger?

Pardon my very naive understanding of both subjects.

We SHALL replace them with MAYBE, IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT, and OR WHATEVER. Will sure make for lighter reading.

I have not used their laptops. You’ll find the usual complaints about their fit and finish on the web, mostly because they are rebranded cleo’s. But I think everything else considered they get positive reviews outside of that.

...and C++ added explicit this parameters (deducing this) in C++23.

x86 Thinkpads + Fedora work great. Hardware support out the box is almost perfect (I would say perfect because I don’t recall anything not working, but I may be missing something). In fact, Thinkpads used to have Fedora as an OS option, which is why I think the support is so good.

Outside that maybe something like system 76. They advertise 14h for one of their models.

Just yield and do as they say, and they’ll maybe spare you.

Dude, this is NEVER ok. What in the world??? A third party LIBRARY running sudo commands? That’s just insane.

You just fail and print a nice error message telling the user exactly what they need to do, including the exact apt command or whatever that they need to run.

And the worst part is that they don’t perceive the massive irony of posting these comments on this particular medium, the Internet, which was initially the product of a military-funded project of the most capitalistic country in history. A project which aimed to deliver a resilient communication network in case of all-out nuclear war!

Most of the people who comment like this most likely have lived since birth in a stable, western democracy with social and economic security and they don’t know anything else. They don’t know what living in a dictatorship is like, or under a fully corrupt government bureaucracy where only nepotism or favoritism gets you ahead. All they’ve known is their little, stable corner of the world, protected by the largest military and economic powerhouse in history, and they don’t appreciate it.

And he's right, one shouldn't buy into crap.

  “ Underjord is an artisanal consultancy …”

If they don’t weave Erlang threads by hand I’m going to be mildly disappointed.

That’s the z-index of your nose.

So until then you have to do what parent said? Change each one individually when you switch devices? Thanks but no.

Same, never had an issue. And I also skip the latest couple of minor versions most of the time unless there’s a security bugfix. Gives the updates time to bake.

Hey, I’m doing complicated things with f-strings so I’m leaving a comment as requested.

Agreed, although that is his personal style. Most of his blog posts are interesting although short. I see them more as very well formatted musings.

You could still have a receiving thread and a sending thread for example, so it’s not as simple.

But googling suggests that if the CPU has the invariant_tsc flag then it’s not a problem, as foobar mentions.

How does rdtsc behave in the presence of multiple cores? As in: first time sample is taken on core P, process is pre-empted, then picked up again by core Q, second time sample is taken on core Q. Assume x64 Intel/AMD etc.

"... spending an hour over breakfast, chatting with Dennis Ritchie about device nodes and timekeeping in early UNIX kernels"

Wow, what an incredible experience!

Perl is absolutely not faster than Python, not even for regexes.

Cross-compilation and using multiple toolchains was/is a nightmare in bazel (at least it was until a couple of years ago).

Not saying make is strictly better here but at least you can find plenty of examples and documentation on it.

Maintaining access to space is a national security priority for states so they will always subsidize their own launch providers. Russia is not going to shut down Roscosmos and launch everything with SpaceX (and they also can’t even if they wanted to). That’s the reason those companies are still around. In the case of ULA the US government maintains two launch providers available by means of Assured Access to Space directives. That’s ULA and SpaceX share the US government’s space market.

But all national launch providers use to supplement their income with commercial launches and SpaceX has completely sucked the air out of the room in that regard. It’s now more expensive for all these countries to keep these programs operational.

For a fraction yes, for a _tiny_ fraction... most likely no.