We recently had a few submissions about this topic. Most recently Ilyas talk. Further improvement will be a research type problem.
This trend was clear for a while already, but is reaching the mainstream now.
The billions of dollar spend goes into scaling existing technology. If it doesn't scale anymore and becomes a resarch problem again, rational companies will not continue to invest in this area (at least without the usual research arrangements).
If you live in a country that has consumer protection laws maybe you can get a refund. There is a whole sub-reddit about recovering the money ( https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/ ).
Do this soon before they run out of money.
(It is just a scam, not a pyramid scheme. E.g. it is perhaps the same as the Tesla full self-driving)
The history as a prosecutor might be a significant advantage in a general election. The anti-police senitment has waned and she can position herself right at the center w.r.t. rule of law.
Most Black folks want safety in their neighborhoods, period, and that is not possible without police and hence most support it. You don't hear "Defund the Police" anymore because we know how well it worked out.
In Seattle, many police quit or transferred on grounds that they refuse to serve a populace that sought to defund them. Net-net was that police force size and responsiveness dropped.
After this, our Black mayor ran on a campaign of funding the police and won.
We slashed police funding in Portland and decimated the force available (to the point where the 911 response time to a robbery in my building was ~6 hours, local businesses my friends work at have private security for employees to call instead of 911, I've been on hold for the non-emergency police line for over 3 hours on multiple occasions, etc).
Things are swinging back the other direction now, as seen by people like Rene Gonzalez (who ran on re-funding and utilizing police toward the local homeless problems) beating out the incumbent Jo Ann Hardesty (who refused to work with police in almost any capacity) in 2022, and a few more police re-funding votes passed since then.
I really enjoyed "The Calculating Stars". As did apparently many other people.
It's totally normal to dislike some winners, I certainly don't like them all. But that doesn't mean quality is down - it's a matter of taste, after all.
Books do exist that are objectively bad, but consider that maybe this time - and other times - this is just a matter of taste. (And it's entirely possible that the folks who pick out Hugo winners don't match yours, and that's fine.)
Funnily enough Wise is the only "non-bank" that currently pays me interest on my money voluntarily (that is going to be fun doing taxes for). All other banks are currently forcing me to open new accounts and shuffle the money (triggering god knows what checks each time I do this).
You can do that if you have full control over the toolchain.
For example I ran into this issue with the AWS C++ SDK ( https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-cpp/ ). And then I had to go into several CMake files and remove Werror. What do I as a user care about warnings? Can I only use that SDK once I have fixed (probably more like silenced) all the warnings?
Yes there are a few certificate authorities. For example DigiCert, SSL.com and others. You can also create your own e.g. for enterprise deployments. Or you could even set up a public CA if you wanted to, the process is standardized.
So whilst Microsoft will sign for you if you distribute via their store, otherwise you pay per year for certificates and can distribute outside the store.
There are problems with the system (cost, bugs, usability problems) but it is decentralized.
MinIO had a large investment round at unicorn valuation at the end of last year. Watch them desparately move up market (or more like flailing around) to recoup that investment.
Meanwhile they cannot get their software to work on ext4 and it is apparently ext4s fault[0].
You're misinterpreting the bug, the software works but could lose data. However, the person who wrote the update about O_DIRECT and ext4 in production environments is just wrong.
I mean, losing data is an extremely complex problem. What I'll say is that I've run large production systems with heavy load on ext2 and ext4 and did not find that it "lost data" more frequently than xfs, and in fact performed fine.
What's really important here is the person who closed the bug did some summarily, with little to no explanation, other than a reference to O_DIRECT not being supported in ext4, and therefore it "loses data" in production. This is an unprofessional comment to close a bug and I'd expect one of the co-founders of MinIO to do a better job. See https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Clarifying_Direct_IO%... for a discussion of the subletly of O_DIRECT. It's also not really required to make a production filesystem reliable, and would only be a tiny part of an overall reliability solution (because drives themselves often buffer and reorder their writes, sometimes even lying about whether data was "commited durably to disk")
“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
Applies to the democracy + capitalism combination, as well.
We can try to improve upon it, but should be carefull to not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
One can believe that the combination of democracy and capitalism is the best thing humanity could come up with, and realize it still sucks.
Humans are tribal above all else. We evolved to cooperate on small bands hunting animals in some African savannah, not to cooperate in large scale as the world we create requires. Any government system we come up with will become dysfunctional because we are unfit for the world we created.
My point still stands. The ruling class is as powerful as they always were, and operate on rules designed by them, so that they can better oppress the lower classes. And I don't advocate that a different system would be any different. There will always be a ruling class.
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