This is where you praise the creators of the Electron framework. A copy of Chromium for the GUI, a copy of node.js for the backend, what's not to love?
ThisEl Reg article gives a good overview of just how messy the development of this PRC production capacity has been. They of course stole a lot of tech, in particular from Micron through UMC, and have added lawfare to the mix, a dubious lawsuit claiming patent infringement, and what I would guess is a much less dubious anti-trust price fixing action.
Just be careful out there: when buying from Amazon/Walmart/NewEgg, NEVER buy from ANY of the marketplace folks and use the vendor filters if necessary, and they'll eventually just go away on their own.
This doesn't work with Amazon due to comingling with 3rd party vendors who use Amazon for fulfillment. To improve the efficiency of their logistics, everything gets thrown into one virtual and many physical bins, I'm not even sure they maintain any traceability. So when you think you're buying it from them, it's a crapshoot... although as of late I've wondered if it's 3rd parties or Amazon that notoriously puts bare hard drives with nothing more than an anti-static bag into their inventory bins. NewEgg, as far as I know after they got acquired, doesn't do 3rd party fulfillment, and still packs their hard drives well, but I haven't bought anything from them in some time.
For that matter, I've had very good luck with 3rd party Amazon vendors as long as their satisfaction rate in >= 96%, they've been in business for a while and have shipped "enough" orders to customers, and of course they do their own shipping. But the way Amazon has been raising their fees, more and more I judge their quality by Amazon feedback and then look them up on the Internet and buy direct, for often substantially lower prices including shipping.
Our customers trust that when they make a purchase through Amazon's store --either directly from Amazon or from its third-party sellers -- they will receive authentic products
We HOPE to get authentic products....
Before applying a lot of heuristics that allow me to (I think) safely buy various items from a small set of categories, I don't share that hope, my default assumption is that what Amazon will ship me is counterfeit. If it's safety critical in a way I can't judge until I've for example suffered a chemical burn (some herbicides are nasty acids, especially when shipped as a concentrate), I'm not willing to take a chance, I'll buy it from Walmart.com or for a purchase of a chemical resistant apron yesterday, Grainger (my default for safety equipment), companies who give a damn about their supply chains... and nowadays for the same price or often less.
I wonder how that eclipse sunglasses lawsuit is doing....
Any traditional autocrat in a The Emperor's New Clothes situation would make an example of the young child and his family so gruesome that no one would dare try it again for a generation. It's telling that the story was first published in 1837, when that sort of autocracy was on its way out (of course, only to be replaced by worse ones "in the name of the people".)
Azul started out selling custom hardware and software to achieve better performance, most specifically (or at least after a while) concurrent garbage collection. After 3 generations of that, commodity x86-64 hardware got cheap and capacious enough, and they figured out a variety of tricks, so it's now their Zing software product.
They've published some interesting papers, in one they claimed a metric of ~1 second of pause per GiB collected in stop the world mode. So if your image is 100s of GiB....
As part of getting set up, they got a precious Technology Compatibility Kit license, which they're obviously using for the Zulu releases.
I too have no relationship with Azul besides using their OpenJDK builds, which I'll also add don't contain any licensing traps from Oracle....
How about the Treasury Secretary worry about banks that are a proven risk to the financial system first?
I'm sure he does. Note how the story begins, "When asked if Google is a monopoly, Mnuchin said, "These are issues that the Justice Department needs to look at seriously...". It then confirms that he knows this is not under his jurisdiction. But there's no reason for him not to have a general opinion, and be suitably suspicious of these companies. As most of us here are....
It's hard to say how basic a security error this is, I mean, you're supposed to think hard before even logging the user id, because people will occasionally type in their password first.
Another possibility is that they're scoring a lot of Americans who are upset by this, who I'll note are on all sides of the political spectrum WRT to this apparent debacle, as "Russian Trolls".
Weasel word "apparent" because there's the slightest possibility this is intended to send a message to Rocket Man, which is the only positive interpretation I've heard of it.
Rust is not trying to invent anything, it just combines features from existing languages.
I was under the impression that the borrow checking paradigm, while not entirely a new thing on earth, was something of an "invention" in making it front and center for what it does.
It is impossible for the Rust community to ruin your career unless you did something seriously wrong. Like, criminal kind of wrong.
Of course, but with thought crimes ever expanding, and the Party Line changing from day to day, it's very easy to inadvertently commit crimes in the eyes of SJWs.
As many people can attest, like Pax Dickinson as one of the most extreme examples. And Curtis "Moldbug" Yarvin, one of the prime instigators in deplatforming him from Strange Loop was none other than "I want a (violent in the Twitter stream context) tech anifa" Steve "Rust documentation" Klabnik. Or what about that Drupal guy, they spent years assembling a dossier before purging him from the project, his career will be crimped for some time. And we can of course close with none other than Brendan Eich.
But thank you for not denying they regularly cost people their jobs. Which should make people think twice and thrice before touching Rust with a 39 and a half foot pole.
The most the Rust community can do is invade Hacker News. But you shouldn't be reading the Hacker News comment threads anyway.
Hacker News is quite sufficient to whip up an Internet mob, although I'm not sure how much the moderators try to stop that nowadays. But Twitter and the like, the classic platforms for that?
To paraphrase Al Capone, "You can get much farther with a book and a community than you can with a book alone." To someone today who's looking to learn a new language, the community matters a great deal. Back the day when I learned C, it was more than the book (which to my memory, in its first edition had a poor introduction to pointers), it was the local community that for example allowed me to procure a copy of the Lions book that helped me learn it. This really makes a difference for the harder languages, compared to e.g. FORTRAN and BASIC which I learned before C.
If the only way to learn a language is by depending on a small group, then that language is either way too complicated or not enough common.
Rust and its ecosystem are young, that goes hand in hand with it being a new language without a huge sponsor like Apple for Swift, so that "not enough common" is both accurate and not a big disqualifier if you want to get in on it at an early stage.
Too bad it is impossible to actually do this kind of policing, just like how Iran can't prevent you from writing an anti-islam text in Farsi.
But they can deny you help in learning and using the language, and like Iran, they can issue their version of a fatwa, albeit only aimed at your job and career. So far.
Did he create that bunch intentionally, though? Who thought the "community code" and all that other toxic stuff was a good idea?
He's a hardcore SJW, then employed by a hardcore social justice company that's still the major sponsor of the language, so the answer pretty much has to be "yes".
Any insight into how they've avoided Donglegating a programmer trying to use Rust? I figure that's the next major step that will increase their toxicity, making it clear that being a Rust programmer is also a clear and present danger to your job and career.
But when your core value is Will To Power, all that ruthless honesty buys you is more efficient ways to send your political opponents to Lubyanka or the Gulag, as real geneticists found out when Lysenko got the ear of Stalin.
Note also the "employee who... exercised free speech that cause[d] problems for a corporation" was the one that leaked the memo from an internal forum to the media, Damore was working inside the system.
And Intel and AMD have extensive cross licensing arrangements dating back to the 8080. Much disputed, arbitrated, litigated starting with the 386, but AMD wouldn't be in this market and successful without and, and they certainly got a whip hand when they defined the successful 64-bit instruction set.
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This is where you praise the creators of the Electron framework. A copy of Chromium for the GUI, a copy of node.js for the backend, what's not to love?
This El Reg article gives a good overview of just how messy the development of this PRC production capacity has been. They of course stole a lot of tech, in particular from Micron through UMC, and have added lawfare to the mix, a dubious lawsuit claiming patent infringement, and what I would guess is a much less dubious anti-trust price fixing action.
No doubt they expected Hillary to be President by the time this capacity came on-line, they'd owned the Clintons since Bill was governor of Arkansas and needed a bailout when the political machine he joined got a bit too greedy in raiding a state pension fund. Instead they got Trump, who's upping tarriffs to cover $200 billion worth of Chinese imports within 45 days, with a promised $500 billion to follow if they don't change their tune. Going to get ugly....
This doesn't work with Amazon due to comingling with 3rd party vendors who use Amazon for fulfillment. To improve the efficiency of their logistics, everything gets thrown into one virtual and many physical bins, I'm not even sure they maintain any traceability. So when you think you're buying it from them, it's a crapshoot ... although as of late I've wondered if it's 3rd parties or Amazon that notoriously puts bare hard drives with nothing more than an anti-static bag into their inventory bins. NewEgg, as far as I know after they got acquired, doesn't do 3rd party fulfillment, and still packs their hard drives well, but I haven't bought anything from them in some time.
For that matter, I've had very good luck with 3rd party Amazon vendors as long as their satisfaction rate in >= 96%, they've been in business for a while and have shipped "enough" orders to customers, and of course they do their own shipping. But the way Amazon has been raising their fees, more and more I judge their quality by Amazon feedback and then look them up on the Internet and buy direct, for often substantially lower prices including shipping.
Before applying a lot of heuristics that allow me to (I think) safely buy various items from a small set of categories, I don't share that hope, my default assumption is that what Amazon will ship me is counterfeit. If it's safety critical in a way I can't judge until I've for example suffered a chemical burn (some herbicides are nasty acids, especially when shipped as a concentrate), I'm not willing to take a chance, I'll buy it from Walmart.com or for a purchase of a chemical resistant apron yesterday, Grainger (my default for safety equipment), companies who give a damn about their supply chains ... and nowadays for the same price or often less.
I wonder how that eclipse sunglasses lawsuit is doing....
Any traditional autocrat in a The Emperor's New Clothes situation would make an example of the young child and his family so gruesome that no one would dare try it again for a generation. It's telling that the story was first published in 1837, when that sort of autocracy was on its way out (of course, only to be replaced by worse ones "in the name of the people".)
Gnome is a special case, where we know in the foreseeable future that its GUI will consist of a single big button labeled NO .
Azul started out selling custom hardware and software to achieve better performance, most specifically (or at least after a while) concurrent garbage collection. After 3 generations of that, commodity x86-64 hardware got cheap and capacious enough, and they figured out a variety of tricks, so it's now their Zing software product.
They've published some interesting papers, in one they claimed a metric of ~1 second of pause per GiB collected in stop the world mode. So if your image is 100s of GiB....
As part of getting set up, they got a precious Technology Compatibility Kit license, which they're obviously using for the Zulu releases.
I too have no relationship with Azul besides using their OpenJDK builds, which I'll also add don't contain any licensing traps from Oracle....
I'm sure he does. Note how the story begins, "When asked if Google is a monopoly, Mnuchin said, "These are issues that the Justice Department needs to look at seriously...". It then confirms that he knows this is not under his jurisdiction. But there's no reason for him not to have a general opinion, and be suitably suspicious of these companies. As most of us here are....
It's hard to say how basic a security error this is, I mean, you're supposed to think hard before even logging the user id, because people will occasionally type in their password first.
Another possibility is that they're scoring a lot of Americans who are upset by this, who I'll note are on all sides of the political spectrum WRT to this apparent debacle, as "Russian Trolls".
Weasel word "apparent" because there's the slightest possibility this is intended to send a message to Rocket Man, which is the only positive interpretation I've heard of it.
I was under the impression that the borrow checking paradigm, while not entirely a new thing on earth, was something of an "invention" in making it front and center for what it does.
Have you ever taught Lisp or Scheme to people?
As a simplified Lisp, it has a lot of advantages for beginners, starting with its very simple syntax, which takes hours vs. days or weeks to learn.
Of course, but with thought crimes ever expanding, and the Party Line changing from day to day, it's very easy to inadvertently commit crimes in the eyes of SJWs.
As many people can attest, like Pax Dickinson as one of the most extreme examples. And Curtis "Moldbug" Yarvin, one of the prime instigators in deplatforming him from Strange Loop was none other than "I want a (violent in the Twitter stream context) tech anifa" Steve "Rust documentation" Klabnik. Or what about that Drupal guy, they spent years assembling a dossier before purging him from the project, his career will be crimped for some time. And we can of course close with none other than Brendan Eich.
But thank you for not denying they regularly cost people their jobs. Which should make people think twice and thrice before touching Rust with a 39 and a half foot pole.
Hacker News is quite sufficient to whip up an Internet mob, although I'm not sure how much the moderators try to stop that nowadays. But Twitter and the like, the classic platforms for that?
To paraphrase Al Capone, "You can get much farther with a book and a community than you can with a book alone." To someone today who's looking to learn a new language, the community matters a great deal. Back the day when I learned C, it was more than the book (which to my memory, in its first edition had a poor introduction to pointers), it was the local community that for example allowed me to procure a copy of the Lions book that helped me learn it. This really makes a difference for the harder languages, compared to e.g. FORTRAN and BASIC which I learned before C.
Rust and its ecosystem are young, that goes hand in hand with it being a new language without a huge sponsor like Apple for Swift, so that "not enough common" is both accurate and not a big disqualifier if you want to get in on it at an early stage.
But they can deny you help in learning and using the language, and like Iran, they can issue their version of a fatwa, albeit only aimed at your job and career. So far.
He's a hardcore SJW, then employed by a hardcore social justice company that's still the major sponsor of the language, so the answer pretty much has to be "yes".
Any insight into how they've avoided Donglegating a programmer trying to use Rust? I figure that's the next major step that will increase their toxicity, making it clear that being a Rust programmer is also a clear and present danger to your job and career.
Meltdown is also ARM, of their 10 Spectre susceptible designs, 4 are vulnerable to Meltdown or a variant of it they found.
Except where prohibited by law, which includes California for political positions, which is of course part of the basis of the class action lawsuit.
But when your core value is Will To Power, all that ruthless honesty buys you is more efficient ways to send your political opponents to Lubyanka or the Gulag, as real geneticists found out when Lysenko got the ear of Stalin.
Note also the "employee who ... exercised free speech that cause[d] problems for a corporation" was the one that leaked the memo from an internal forum to the media, Damore was working inside the system.
Ummm, no, he famously grew up in Queens, and thus has always been an outsider to the Manhattan set.
So ARM is falsely claiming 4 of their processors are vulnerable to Meltdown so they can get some of that broken window action???
And Intel and AMD have extensive cross licensing arrangements dating back to the 8080. Much disputed, arbitrated, litigated starting with the 386, but AMD wouldn't be in this market and successful without and, and they certainly got a whip hand when they defined the successful 64-bit instruction set.