This is an old article from 3/4/2021 and there have been discussions on HN about this before.
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Monitors are getting bigger and have higher resolution, but the default still seems for a single monitor laptop experience.
Workarounds like Kronkite and others don't do the trick.
I've wanted this for so long now, I'm strongly considering building this out myself as there's no traction behind this from the core devs.
The latest additions are _nice_ but aren't really what I'm looking for.
Yes, Europe generally has Tall Poppy Syndrome and the Nordics have socially accepted norms like Jantelagen.
- https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191008-jantelagen-why...
Yeah, this language is called PL/X and its specifically not for use outside the company. Its a language between Assembly and C and gives the programmer a huge amount of control over the hardware.
Going from PL/X to Java won't work as well as the JVM runtime has overheads that might not be acceptable for 31bit zSeries with its 2gb address space. Also compared to PL/X you're giving up a huge amount of control.
This is a dumb statement, they're referring to zSeries that derives from System 360. This architecture is has been running fine for decades. This isn't to say the zSeries isn't up-to-date, go check the latest HotChips conference to see what's coming down the pipe.
There's nothing wrong with COBOL either its been running for decades doing boring but essential things like payroll and taxes.
Sprinkle all the latest flavours of ML you want alongside it but this feels like a cheap shot. I expected better journalism from Reuters.
I'm the administrator for my family's account on LastPass and my wife forgot her master password and has now burned the associated email.
The account was unused and empty so nothing was lost but it highlighted to me that account recovery was not smooth or seamless. As an administrator you can't just issue a password reset on their behalf.
If you're testing out these password managers, try a recovery first with a burner account before fully entrusting them with valuable passwords.
They have interconnects from Mellanox, GPUs and their own CPUs now.
I suspect the supercomputing lists will be dominated by NVidia now.
I didn't realize launching satellites had become so turnkey now where you don't have all the friction of dealing with NASA or any large space agency.
Nanoracks has an interesting list of customers, like Adidas and Double-Tree by Hilton?!
But I guess the high velocities mean you need a really strong and light net and the rapid deceleration might damage the satellite anyway.
How do you put the satellite onto its intended orbit, like are only satellites intended with a polar orbit capable of this approach?
Do you need booster rockets to get in the right orbit?
Can we go the other way and use the ISS as like an orbital garage to capture and fix satellites?
This is the first I've heard if the ISS holding onto satellites, I thought satellites are deployed by the launch rocket and just put into orbit.
They have special people who are trained in caning and the culprit will get their 30 lashes or whatever regardless of whether they pass out at lash 19 say. They'll heal you up and back you go for the next 11 lashes.
This is what they did in medieval times, not today. Singapore is barbaric in this aspect and this is enforced in middle schools as well. It turns kids into obedient robots.
Whatever solution is proposed, caning is not one of them.
My cpu fans spin up everytime Slack is open.
The issue is the current regulatory and taxation structures aren't built for that. You're encountering friction because of these current systems.
The way to properly address this js to overhaul the system itself, this is by legislation and having representation that is aligned with what you want.
"Hacking" around it isn't the way to go.
To take a coding analogy, you're currently frustrated with the limitations of the architecture, which is understandable and I emphasize. But adding hacky patches to get around it isn't the way to go.
Unfortunately architectural overhauls in society are slow and take a long time.
I strongly encourage you to get involved in any grassroots movement to further the way you want to the world to become.
This increases the burden on both the employer and employee.
You're free to use the simple passes that the JIT there provides, but the more expensive optimizations are also available as the Java JIT has a tiered optimization model. [2]
All the optimizations found here [3] can be used along with the code-generator opts as well.
I guess the idea is to provide a full suite of pluggable components, pick and choose the ones that make sense for your purpose right now, and those needs can evolve over time.
[1] https://www.eclipse.org/omr/starter/whatisomr.html
[2] https://github.com/eclipse/omr/tree/master/compiler
[3] https://github.com/eclipse/omr/tree/master/compiler/optimize...
It hasn't been worked on for 3+ years now, but its an alternative to using MJIT.
You'll need to need to write most of the C function calls back into Ruby and have the JIT properly inline them to get equivalent performance.
You won't get an immediate jolt of performance but over the long tail, it will catch up.
It was also the first I heard of Senna.
Other JVMs like J9 have had AOT support for decades now, its not "lipstick on a pig". There's plenty of material from previous JVMLS meetups about AOT.
You'll constantly get into arguments about why we're not deploying the new upcoming thing that obviously fixes the issue.
At some point you'll need to switch over anyways, its better to get production battle experience by trying the new tech early and rolling it out where it makes sense.
It avoids internal factions and the "shadow infrastructure" that was mentioned.
I highly encourage everyone to watch Steve Klabnik's video on how Rust Views Tradeoffs [1]
Rust has these core values that they refuse to compromise on in this order of precedence:
- Memory Safety
- Speed (compiled binary execution speed, not compile time)
- Productivity
And because of these core values, other aspects emerge such as the long compile time as they value memory safety as the language's highest core value and are accepting the tradeoff of long compile times.
The talk goes on to say, we should ourselves reflect and ask what our core values are that we can't compromise on? What are the secondary values and so on... And then find the language/tool that lines up with our values.
I really can't emphasize enough to go watch the talk.
>Chesa Boudin was only fourteen months old when both his mother and father, members of a left-wing terrorist group called the Weather Underground, were arrested as accessories to the murder of two police officers and a security guard during the 1981 robbery of a Brinks truck. His mother served over twenty years, while his father is still incarcerated almost forty years later (Boudin was raised by Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn). Boudin has said that his earliest memories are of visiting his parents in prison and these experiences formed his political views. Perhaps because of this personal history (along with a general commitment to doctrinaire leftism that saw him work for and praise Hugo Chavez long after he revealed himself to be a strongman intent on governing for life), Boudin has made decarceration — the reduction of the numbers of people held in jails and prisons — his signature issue.
This whole Batman effect of having their personal lives outwardly influence their professional-lives has dramatic impacts for everyone else.
The remaining companies that are pre-IPO or pre-exit will be "go big or go home" types.
SF and Bay-Area at that point is basically a status indicator.