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Smells like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Is this real? salivating

Because if there is something that you can do from an actual Linux install (VM or otherwise), and not WSL, then WSL is not a complete solution, and most devs will see it as such, whether they have a pressing need to run gui apps or not. If it can't, then it's not real.

It feels like part of Windows. It may not quite be there yet, but your drives just appear, you can pipe back and forth, start programs from/within either subsystem.

A VM has always felt a little cumbersome, even with all of the integrations working correctly.

You have a weird definition of the word "subsidize."

I suppose I will allow low-income subsidies, but I consider non-dischargeable federal debt to be less of a subsidy and more of a "sure we'll help, but you better keep paying every f'ing month, or we'll make your life challenging, and we'll still get our money when you die," and less of a "here's some free government money with no strings attached."

It's also an excellent way to "print" money and ensure a steady cash-flow.

I guess it depends on which narrative makes you sleep at night with your worldview.

They are very well compensated for what they do. The work is less strenuous and mentally taxing than being a line cook.

They are usually the highest paid employees in a store, unless it's a Walmart where the general store manager can make just over six figures.

It's not a terrible gig, with only a 2-year program after your bachelor's.

This is why discovery exists, no?

And he's still alive! Wow, 97 years old.

If you are serious, pick an institution and view any of their ABET accredited programs. Look for Computer Science or Computer Engineering and then go to the University to view the curriculum: https://www.abet.org/

I just can't see how a single self-contained Linear Algebra course could in any way prepare one for the actual data science behind AI and ML. But your point is well taken otherwise.

Edit: Reviewing Bretscher (Linear Algebra with Applications, 5th), it appears you are correct; it's not until you study the applications that you need Calculus. Most Unis I'm familiar with, however, will require multivariable (Calc 3) at least as a pre-req for Linear Algebra.

So, people are just supposed to start their 4-year undergraduate degree in Linear Algebra? I know HNers are rare air, so to speak, but what about Calc 1-3 and Diff Eq?

This is like a 4 year plan once your first two years of university are under your belt.

So a combined CS / MS in AI?

Fat pointers were part of Pascal (and derivatives), although I'm sure the concept has existed in one form or another going back to the beginning.

edit: Pascal pointers were just a location and size, however, not a slice-type fat pointer; however, I have always heard of any pointer containing more information than a memory address referred to as a fat pointer (except tagged pointers). YMMV.

A black hole has mass. Nothing has no mass.

(also a somewhat joking answer)

Microsoft is the only company that could have done it. They are the only entity that has teeth through (as you mentioned above) advertising dollars, logo certification programs, etc. Only they had the infrastructure to get the ball rolling. The biggest kicker, the one thing only, and I really mean only Microsoft could do, was provide the infrastructure for revocation. Without their ability to strong-arm (for good or bad), the industry just would have never agreed.

When all it takes is a rogue USB drive and a power cycle to own a machine, it presents serious problems in high security environments.

This is just not true.

Windows NT has ALWAYS been based on Dave Cutler's code, which shares a lot with VMS, because he architected that as well.

Windows 3.0 and 3.1, the non-NT flavors, ran on DOS.

Windows 3.11 added networking to Windows 3.1, and was wildly successful. Google Windows for Workgroups.

Perhaps you are remembering this incident (which involved Equation Editor, a component of Office): https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-ap...

Unfortunately, C is C, and we all know what that means. Anything that achieves true type safety in both directions in going to be a monstrosity on the C side. Lots of boilerplate, marshalling of types, etc.

It all starts to look like COM, lol. Take care man.

I apologize for being ambiguous. You wouldn't gain the benefits of ATS by interfacing with its C bindings from C. You would gain safety and security in interfacing with unsafe C on the ATS side through the ATS type system.

I was speaking about interfacing in the opposite direction.

> You can't have a fancy type system and interop with C strongly

ATS would disagree with this statement, strongly.

To put things in perspective, Google was founded in 1998, making them 22 years old in September. The "Halloween Documents" were released in August 1998, when Microsoft was 23.

Google is indistinguishable from any other corporate giant because they now are any other corporate giant.

Did anyone seriously think an Ad company would go any other way? It's the scummiest of industries. It was always just a matter of time.

And now we've given (allowed, stood by, whatever) them ALL the data for >50% of our cellular users for the last 10+ years. I'm an Android user too. Oof.

My first actual programming class was on an Intel 8085 kit, and I have to say that hand-assembling on pre-printed carbon sheets was pretty cool. It has served me well in my career to have started at that level.

You can't maintain anything for free; everything has a carrying cost-- even cash in the form of depreciation.

Use it or lose it as they say.

And your use case makes sense; but your use case is not typical for 99% of desktop OS users.

And instantaneous results mean nothing if they're worthless. I'd rather let you turn on indexing because you need it and it matches your use case. Leave the other 99% alone.

Very generally speaking, it costs about $5M to start a U.S. bank. Someone of Epstein's personal wealth, not to mention the assets under his control, would not have a problem starting a bank easily. His criminal record would have been an issue in the U.S., however, and any regulator worth their salt should have found it and denied the charter accordingly.

I'm so sorry to respond so late; I would just like to point out "the cloud," and the fact that there have been very few hypervisor escapes. Just because there are more app-based Jailbreaks on iOS has little to do with what is technically possible given the hardware (recent Intel missteps notwithstanding).

I don't really think this is a problem anymore. It's more that no desktop OS provides secure native execution facilities a la iOS. The web browser was the best solution for sandboxing web applications in 1995-200x, but now CPUs have multiple cores, virtualization extensions, systems with multiple gigabytes of ram, etc.

There are better ways to sandbox applications in 2020.

Stagnation was the biggest problem. Stagnation is not the problem with Chromium; in fact, it's the opposite, and that's really what's forced Microsoft's hand. They were simply wasting resources playing catch up to Chromium. Why bother?

AT&T markets a hybrid DSL technology under their UVerse brand name. They run FTTN (fiber to the node), then split from the node via standard DSL, albeit at much closer distances (and hence much higher speeds). This product can provide "DSL" in the 50-200Mb/s range (currently), but it is not the regular DSL that most people associate with the technology.

Well, parallel programming requires discipline, and a plan. Deadlocks do not occur when locks are always acquired in the same order. The fact that deadlocks occur at all (and I know they are notoriously hard to debug-- I've done it, lol), is due to the fact that one or both of the locking strategy and/or adherence to said locking strategy was flawed.

> He wants to stop but refuses to go through long PAWs

As someone who's about to cross 4 years sober who was so stubborn he lost everything (a cardboard box would have been an upgrade), this is just f*cking hilarious. Boo hoo, he doesn't want withdrawal. Lol. Addiction doesn't work that way.

If they're a real drunk, and if what you say is true about him/her not getting drunk, they are going to have much more serious health problems than some PAWs. They are going to start having fatty liver, neuropathy, stomach problems, blah, blah, blah. Once it starts from heavy alcoholism, it doesn't stop until you stop or die. PAWs be damned. The only difference is the booze can and WILL kill you. That's one thing that the booze industry never tells you. Hell, people are still surprised to learn that alcohol is one of 2 or 3 substances where even the withdrawal can kill you. It's just not all fun and games even if you don't have the addictive alcoholic genes.

Well, the last major revision to the Single Unix Specification was released in 2008. Ever since then, Linux has basically become the defacto POSIX standard. So while glibc may not rule the roost, most POSIX OSes bend to the will of the GNU userland and the Linux monoculture in many ways. It's not really like the old days with Sun, IBM, DEC and even Microsoft with Xenix. POSIX is being washed away a little more every day.