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And I agree with you that younger generations, probably at large due to social media, are not patient enough to get rich by saving.

Speaking as someone in a younger generation, there's a sense that with the climate sword of Damocles dangling overhead and countless people stressing the already fraying hair, perhaps we may not have sufficient time to accumulate any sort of wealth by saving. Perhaps this is just a lack of patience in our generation, but I think it's quite possible there are bigger factors at play.

Much like GPLv3 was written to counter tivoization, I’d love a GPLv4 to kill what RedHat is doing before they do irreparable the entire free software ecosystem.

Quite to the contrary, the clock is set by the Science and Security Board which seems much more focused on geopolitical questions instead of scientific. The Science and Security Board is advised by the Board of Sponsors, which does have quite a few scientists, but only in an advisory role.

Problem is they have to keep moving it closer to midnight or they won't get any media attention.

It was last moved in 2020 and doesn't appear to move every year. Moreover, it has been moved back in the past. I don't get the impression this is some cynical media ploy but instead an educational effort from some well meaning experts in their respective fields trying to raise awareness and provoke action towards remedying various existential threats, including nuclear war, but also climate change and biological threats.

Would increasing the RAM really make that big a difference in terms of kernel compilation time? It feels to me that 16GB should be plenty for any sort of caching that will speed things up.

There is no record that he attempted to use internal channels

From the beginning of the Snowden quote:

I could not legally go to the official channels that direct NSA employees have available to them

In addition, I find it difficult to take any congressional report on this matter, including the one you cited, seriously given that their primary source is a group of people who have repeatedly lied to Congress without consequence.

Regarding trying internal channels, Snowden says he tried this

despite the fact that I could not legally go to the official channels that direct NSA employees have available to them, I still made tremendous efforts to report these programs to co-workers, supervisors, and anyone with the proper clearance who would listen. The reactions of those I told about the scale of the constitutional violations ranged from deeply concerned to appalled, but no one was willing to risk their jobs, families, and possibly even freedom

The fleeing to a foreign adversary part would have been completely avoidable if the US had stronger whistleblower protections. It's perfectly reasonable to see what happened to Chelsey Manning and Julian Assange and not want to suffer a similar fate.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious but all I see is the source amalgamation, not the files used to generate the giant source code file. Did they take the SQLite source amalgamation and write their changes directly against that?

Linux Sucks 2022 4 years ago

Could you explain the Gnome workflow and how it doesn't necessitate the use of minimizing and maximizing Windows?

I love Dhall and have used it in production, but I will say that the documentation, especially for things like dhall-kubernetes, often leaves much to be desired. You may need to spend a bit of time reading the source code.

Would it be possible to design the device to detect if the speaker has been tampered with? Perhaps having some sort of microphone on board to detect whether the speaker is functional would work.

You're right, ignition does generate bytecode from the AST; it also interprets it.

With Ignition, V8 compiles JavaScript functions to a concise bytecode, which is between 50% to 25% the size of the equivalent baseline machine code. This bytecode is then executed by a high-performance interpreter which yields execution speeds on real-world websites close to those of code generated by V8’s existing baseline compiler.

Emphasis mine.

https://v8.dev/blog/ignition-interpreter

You can also find this information on the Wikipedia article you linked to

In 2016, the Ignition interpreter was added to V8 with the design goal of reducing the memory usage on small memory Android phones in comparison with TurboFan and Crankshaft. Ignition is a Register based machine and shares a similar (albeit not the exact same) design to the Templating Interpreter utilized by HotSpot.

In 2017, V8 shipped a brand-new compiler pipeline, consisting of Ignition (the interpreter) and TurboFan (the optimizing compiler).