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I don't think I have ever run into it on Windows, but I have seen it pretty much every time I update it on Linux through the package manager.

I moved to just using Firefox's binary tarball sitting in my home directory, so it uses its own update process, which doesn't have this problem.

At the complete other end there is this art piece which should contain a total of $84,000 in Danish kroner and euros, but contains a grand total of $0:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jens-haaning-take-the-money-and...


There is also a version of Danefæ for non-human made things called Danekræ

https://samlinger.snm.ku.dk/en/danekrae/

There is a lot less specimens in that collection as it only includes specimens that are deemed important in some ways, right now there are 1054.

They can be viewed online here: https://collections.snm.ku.dk/en/search?dataset=5b5305ae-35d...

(edit: That online collection only seem to contain biological specimen, meteors and geological specimens are not included as far as I can tell)


The main author is the person in Linus yells at here: https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/11/linus_torvalds_vaccin...


Honestly the belief of the developers don’t matter at the end of the day. The quality of code is the only thing who matters.

And I don’t imply the quality of code is good or not, I have no idea.


Projects of this size cannot be a one man show. So the ability of collaborators to cooperate matters greatly.


Having a controversial reputation in leader is not always a bad thing, look at Theo De Raadt or Linus Totvald. It’s seem to have already attracted contributors, but let’s see how all of this goes in the next’s months.


There are different kinds of "controversial" and degrees of things. While you're correct that both Torvalds and de Raadt have a well-earned reputation for not always being the easiest person to get along with, most of their controversial behaviour centres around flaming people over technical matters, or sometimes organisational matters directly related to the project. Basically: it's not what they're saying, it's how they're saying it.

I've never seen either Torvalds or de Raadt go off on these mega-weird political rants completely unprompted, or inject that sort of thing in the project's README. Never mind going off on rants that smell an awful lot like Nazi apologetics. This is not just a matter of "how they're saying it", there are some real issues with what they're saying as well.

But you know, it's open source. He doesn't need mine or anyone else's permission. More power to him.

But it's really not the same as Torvalds or de Raadt. And it's also not so strange people want to steer clear of it.


From authors commits to x11 and discussions about that, looks like code was not great.

source comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44200000


It’s more a criticism of breaking certain things, which is inevitable when your try to refactor something. The matter is in the end if the behavior remain the same when you finish.

But it’s just a supposition at this stage, let’s see on the next’s month if it a complete mess or if it’s the XFree86 to Xorg transition


founders beliefs are garbage

Well it's the code that matters. Not what their beliefs are.

code is also garbage

Well it's the thought that's important.


And then I recall that experiment in which an LLM trained to spew out garbage insecure code started to behave like a garbage insecure edgelord personality too.

Guess "you can't have one without the other".


i don't know about you, but i generally do not want to work with people whose political beliefs include that my country is illegitimate or that hitler's rise to power was caused by the polish and the british doing bad things to the germans.


This is exactly the problem with xorg right now and why the woke crowed wants to kill it. You people new to the community have no idea how actually diverse it is. Yes odds are you haven't been involved since the 90s. Let people think what they want or you should go use Microsoft Google or Apple products and be told how to think and feel. Like the poster said below its about the code not what people believe. Funny how RiserFS wasnt an issue but this day in age it would be.


It is not allowed with some domain names such as .DK where you can complain if you see a domain name used in that way.


A better article that is actually about the competition is this one which was on HN the other day: https://iment.com/maida/computer/redref/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44048775


So... he said this over 30 years ago? Makes Ada look bad for no reason at all, then.


There is also no other place that will just implement conversions between utf formats, compression in hardware or various hashed and other crypto in hardware like they do.


I'm pretty sure that at least a few of those are implemented in modern x86 / ARM CPUs? As an immediate example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set


Another, introduced around the same time (SHA instruction set): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA_instruction_set


Yeah there are some of those, but IBM has stuff like Ed25519 signatures, x86 at least seems to be a bit on the back foot when it comes to implementing things like that. They will probably rather wait until AES is popular before they add it.


Nitpick: the SPARC M7/M7 have hardware compression.


That is very cool I had no idea, seems like it is also in the newer T8/M8 according to this whitepaper: https://www.oracle.com/dk/a/ocom/docs/sparc-t8-m8-server-arc...


Modern consoles provide hardware decompression to transfer compressed assets from the NVME directly to the GPU. Similar functionality is coming to PCs in the form of DirectStorage and Vulkan extensions.


Hardware decompression can increase overall processing performance over uncompressed data because I/o is slow.

Heck even without hardware decompression it is often faster.

Considering mainframe sweet spot is I/o processing, not surprising.


Yeah the newest PlayStation have a hardware implementation of Oodle which is really cool. Z/Arch have a inflate/deflate implementation which makes it a bit more general than the texture decompression.


Is it possible to shut the AI things off? As in properly hide all the buttons and stuff that relates to it?


I was interested in zed as I was looking for a performant VSCode replacement, but its inability to fully remove AI integration and disable the prominent sign-in button made me lose any interest. Judging by the project’s response or lack of it on these topics, I am worried about adopting zed in my workflows.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12325

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/6756


Yes, you can. Just edit your settings: { "features": { "edit_prediction_provider": "none" } }


Its a small button in the top right corner. Very oit of the way unless interacted with. I use zed because its faster and cleaner than vscode. I dont want AI in my editor.


Brady Haran of Numberphile and a whole bunch of other channels visited the observatory some years back and made some videos and interviews.

The Pope's Astronomer - Interview with Brother Guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0DAKaR16cY

The Pope's Telescopes - A tour of the observatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccoGKAL6Qas

The Pope's Space Rocks - A look at their collection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OI4wb2XIZc


I enjoyed the book he co-wrote: "Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?: ...and Other Questions from the Astronomers' In-box at the Vatican Observatory"



It took me way too long to realize "brother" is not some postmodern hippie "them/it" kinda stuff.


Randall Munroe (of xkcd) went on to write a full book in that style: https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/


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