I think even Kennedy Steve wouldn't do it just for the love of the game. At this point you have to figure a lot of the people calling out "sick" are just doing it so they can Uber or door dash or something like that to come up with money for a car payment or rent/mortgage.
The analysis and conclusions of the responders here (2018) seem pretty invalidated by the 2024 F-35B ejection incident. Maybe more thought should be put into what the autopilot should do?
A single incident doesn’t invalidate anything. No one has argued that it’s impossible for a fighter to fly on for a significant period of time in good shape after a pilot ejects, or the pilot has never ejected mistakenly out of an air worthy aircraft. Rather the argument is that this is a vanishing rare occurrence and the complexities of trying to implement an unmanned auto pilot of a potentially damaged aircraft are probably not worth the handful of times it might be used. One incident doesn’t disprove that it’s vanishingly rare.
The post you are replying separately mentioned both the "linux kernel" and "linux" so the "Linux is a kernel" pedantry feels misplaced here.
Besides this old debate is pretty silly because I doubt anyone could propose (and get a majority of us to agree on) a formal definition of an operating system that would allow us to unambiguously say "that's an OS competent", "that's an OS", and "that's just software that ships with the OS" across a suite of OS's.
Sure but are those connotation consistent across people (this thread would tend to say no)? If not, that is essentially the core of my argument that nobody agrees on what "OS" means.
Both can be true: a majority of people agree that the is a difference between a 69MB boot and Windows 7; whilst no two people agreeing exactly where to draw that line.
That adds various NT 6 APIs and even compatibility modes for various newer versions of Windows up to Windows 11. At a glance, it appears to have support for Vulkan, Direct3D 10 and Direct3D 11 through software rendering, with the option of using WineD3D to get hardware accelerated Direct3D 10 and 11. I assume old WineD3D-PBA binaries run very nicely on that.
Interestingly, the developer suggests that installing graphics drivers from newer versions of Windows might be possible at some point, which I assume would provide native hardware acceleration for newer graphics APIs and support for recent graphics cards:
> WDDM is not impossible, only very hard. Currently initializes and the subsystem runs, but every driver fails to communicate with it's internal hardware due 2000/XP/2003 doesn't have support for MSI/MSI-X interrupt, required to WDDM drivers works;
Was playing around with a fundamental frequency calculator [0] to associate certain sizes to hertz, then using a tone-generator [1] to get a subjective idea of what it'd sound like.
Though of course, nature has plenty of other tricks, like how Koalas can go down to ~27hz. [2]
I wouldn't recommend using Tor with anything other than Tor browser because there are so many browser features that will expose you now. If you don't need the Tor browser protections, you probably don't need Tor either.
Given the actual correlations attacks governments have done on Tor traffic, I don't think more traffic moves the needle in any appreciable way. Ultimately the Tor architecture is very vulnerable to timing and correlation attacks (never use something like IRC over Tor), and the kinds of changes that would be needed to mitigate those would probably slow it down past the point of usability.
One could argue, given the limited bandwidth of the Tor network, that by using it when you don't need it, you make the experience for those that do need it worse (looking at you everyone who tries to torrent over tor).
This seems like a nice alternative to Lua. I've always liked embedding Lua in other software, but I confess I have never really liked Lua as a language.
I really like the sound of Wren, but you may also want to look into Squirrel, it's basically Lua re-imagined/reimplemented but without all the Lua quirks and with C-style syntax (but it still has optional lua-style prototypes, which means it ends up very similar to Javascript). Its embedding API is largely a copy of Lua's. There is also an active fork called Quirrel that makes the language more like Python.
There are loads of scripting languages but very few of them have an embedding API as powerful as Lua or Squirrel's. (My benchmarks: what's the overhead of a userdata pointer? Is there a proper debug API? Can you suspend a co-routine from inside a called C function? Very few languages even have coroutines.) Last I looked at it years ago, Wren was one of the best.
Of course, the most featureful embedding API of all belongs to LuaJIT.
Most recent commit on the github[0] was only 11 months ago.
Also, it's not a javascript framework, a stable software doesn't have to update often. Look at Lua, most people still use Lua 5.1 and that was released in 2006.
It's not being actively developed but gets some occasional patches on Github. It's mature (e.g. was used for a number of Valve's games). If you want an actively improving language, look at Quirrel.
Yeah, Lua's implementation is fantastic - but the language is "quirky" at best.
Wren looks a bit more orthodox, although it's heavily built around class-based OOP - you can't even define and call a top-level function without extra syntax to (1) turn it into an object, and (2) call one of that object's methods:
var sayHello = Fn.new { System.print("hello") }
sayHello.call() //> hello
You're running at a pretty small scale if running your database locally for sub-milisecond latency is practical. The database solution provided by the DBA team in a data center is going to have about the same latency as RDS or equivalent. Typical intra-datacenter network latency alone is going to be 1-3ms.
They were talking about using things like Supabase, not just RDS.
Also, "small scale" means different things to different people. Given the full topic at hand, I would call it "nano scale". Depending upon your specific schema, you can serve tens of thousands of queries per second with a single server on modern hardware, which is way more than enough for the vast majority of workloads.
>Paczynski says they once hired a private investigator to find someone living off the grid in the UK. He had unknowingly inherited the rights to several games
My grandfather was a "landman" for oil companies tracking down mineral rights and has all sorts of stories like this. It can all get messy and weird fast.
Stuff like tracking down people you'd assume would be dead but are in fact ancient and alive at 103 in a nursing home. Convincing a bank that through a series of mergers and acquisitions that they are the rightful owners of the mineral rights to a piece of land foreclosed on in the great depression by a bank that itself failed. Generations of poor people dying without wills or settling probate. Inheritance battles spanning generations until no one alive was around for the start. Step mother that swooped in and married a man at the end of his life, inherited everything, remarried, had kids and left everything to them instead of the step kids.
I work for an oil and gas brokerage company. What you say is absolutely true (Especially your last sentence!). Some wild stories. We've certainly dug up some family drama throughout the whole process.
> Convincing a bank that through a series of mergers and acquisitions that they are the rightful owners of the mineral rights to a piece of land foreclosed on in the great depression by a bank that itself failed.
What's the goal of convincing the bank that they own some land? Is this a case where the original bank foreclosed on the property, resold the surface while carefully keeping the mineral rights, and then failed? And the current owner of everything-but-the-mineral-rights is fully aware of not possessing them?
If you determine that someone else is the owner of some land, and they deny it, you can just start doing whatever it is that you want to do on the land, and you'll become the owner.
>What's the goal of convincing the bank that they own some land? Is this a case where the original bank foreclosed on the property, resold the surface while carefully keeping the mineral rights, and then failed? And the current owner of everything-but-the-mineral-rights is fully aware of not possessing them?
Pretty much exactly. It's pretty common if not the norm. Splitting the rights is normal when say a large ranch is broken up into plots. It would be very rare for say the deed to a suburban home to include the mineral rights.
