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This reminds me of Alan Kay's OOPSLA 1997 presentation "The Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet" when he describes the Air Force / Burroughs 220 file format from 1961 where the file/tape contained both the data and the procedures to read/write/print them: https://youtu.be/oKg1hTOQXoY?t=1355

With Red Hat's UBI Micro:

  microcontainer=$(buildah from registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-micro)
  micromount=$(buildah mount $microcontainer)
  yum install \
      --installroot $micromount \
      --releasever 8 \
      --setopt install_weak_deps=false \
      --nodocs -y \
      httpd

Speaking about high agency workers, this Company as Code framework reminds me a lot of SaaSiroth introduced in https://youtu.be/dLTUqPue9sQ?si=OIxmP5_D-YZZD2UO&t=200 (KRAZAM: High Agency Individual Contributor).

I was completely struck by how elegant its codebase is.

Well... I like Clojure but I bet you will reconsider that sentiment if you scroll through https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju... .

There's a nice Manning book from 2014 about this way of working named The Mikado Method.

Adding product location would be great! As a resident of the European Union I'm unlikely to order one of these mini PCs from the USA due to import taxes and additional shipping costs.

Looks like it: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/...

aching for some higher level abstraction

CI/CD components (GA since 17.0) improve the situation a notch: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/components/

Reminds me of this previous effort to build upon Go but add a more flexible type system: https://github.com/oden-lang/oden

[…] they have 4 lines of code in Wing, but the long Pulumi example sets up permissions. So how did the permissions get set up in Wing?

As it says on the page: "Wing allows developers to write very few lines of code and let the compiler take care of IAM policies and other cloud mechanics."

Basically it auto-generates least-privilege IAM policies.

May 23, 2019: "Dependabot has been acquired by GitHub and we couldn't be more excited!" https://web.archive.org/web/20190601064131/https://dependabo...

Your comment reminded me of this wonderful demo of NeXTSTEP 3 by Steve Jobs himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UiGnpmwAJk

For the record; you were observing the behavior of Apple's Bonjour Sleep Proxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_Sleep_Proxy

I simply can not imagine even a whole fortune 500 company supporting their own business logic written on top of Spring, which includes log4j and a whole host of other open source dependencies.

And what's the commercial alternative? I'm personally not aware of one.

There's commercial support for Spring:

https://spring.io/support https://tanzu.vmware.com/support/oss

[…] Airfoil software does all this & more […]

Not quite; Airfoil Satellite does not implement an AirPlay 2 receiver which is what this is all about. See https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2018/06/25/current-notes-on-a... :

Can Airfoil Satellite receive AirPlay 2 audio? Airfoil Satellite receives audio via the AirPlay 1 protocol. Because of this, it can’t currently be part of a multi-speaker group receiving audio from iOS.

Still a great piece of software (that I also can recommend).

FWIW: Minecraft: Pi Edition is discontinued. It only saw a single release (0.1.1 alpha) in 2013. More info over at https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Pi_Edition.

You don't even have to buy the songs on iTunes to have Apple stream them to all your devices. With iTunes Match (included with Apple Music subscriptions or available stand-alone) you can build a "cloud library" from local files: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146

It would be nice if GitHub allowed comments on commit messages and not only the changes so that they could be discussed for the benefit of learning and improvement.

Squash merge commit messages are currently not reviewable at all since they are not entered until just before the merge.

I'd prefer for nothing at all to be able to enter the main branch without review, if not for anything else to protect myself against my own mistakes.

Guess I should give Gerrit a shot.

3D acceleration is not enabled by default for macOS Big Sur in VMware Fusion because it's not considered stable yet. It's possible to activate by tweaking the vmx file: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/81657

In Parallels it's on by default but you need to allocate a lot of RAM to the VM: https://kb.parallels.com/en/125105#section6

I don't think they deprecated shared folders, only shared VMs (a function that enables Workstation to act as a virtualization server).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation#Version_his...

That strategy did not work out well for WSL, so in WSL2 they chose to virtualize Linux instead: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-version...

Debian testing doesn't get timely security updates so it's inappropriate to use on production servers.

Source: https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing

It's proof of the downsides to the IBM acquisition, [...]

I think the movement to this outcome already started in January 2014 with this event:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-incorporates-free-red-...

[…] but for the past several years they default to a scaled display mode. For anyone not familiar, the frame buffer is a higher resolution, and scaled down for the display, trading sharpness for screen space.

My understanding of how scaled resolutions in macOS work is that graphics are always rendered at the display's native resolution. The scaling factor only decides the sizing of the rendered elements. Can you point to some documentation that supports your view? I'd like to learn if I'm wrong and understand all the details.

I used to work this way too but get fed up with keyboard and mouse buttons getting stuck in VMs making them go bananas when the system was under load. Really nice experience apart from that and the half-broken support for Retina displays.

VMware Fusion (now changed name to VMware Player).

It's still called VMware Fusion but is now available in the variants Player and Pro: https://www.vmware.com/se/products/fusion/fusion-evaluation....

I'm going to buy a new PC in 12 months and I'd need to make some research about hardware compatibility and performance. Especially on the motherboard side. I have to make sure that it contains no funny devices or memory mappings so, I can't use an on-board peripheral until someone writes a quirk just for that.

There are certified/tested Linux computers available from vendors like HP and Dell. Just buy one of them instead of wasting time researching hardware compatibility only for it to break later with no one to complain to. Some links:

HP Linux Hardware Matrix: https://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/4AA7-6280ENW.pdf Dell Linux Workstations and Laptops: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/overview/cp/linuxsystem... Ubuntu Desktop Certified Hardware: https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop Red Hat Certified Workstations (incl. Laptops): https://catalog.redhat.com/hardware/workstations/search

Neither the Windows or macOS versions are subscription-only but they have hidden the standalone license option carefully… See e.g. https://1password.community/discussion/107609/is-1password-7... for some first-hand informaton.

It's not a separate Java implementation, it's just a Java wrapper for the Ruby library ("AsciidoctorJ provides Java bindings for the Asciidoctor RubyGem (asciidoctor) using JRuby").

If I was a Microsoft or another enterprise tech company I’d hire a thousand engineers tomorrow to develop a Jira/Confluence competitor before the grace period for server licenses ends.

Microsoft already has GitHub that works fine as a Jira/Confluence substitute for technical people. Maybe this will be their call to make it more accessable.