For what it's worth, probably not much, net/openbsd still has raw devices /dev/rsd1a vs /dev/sd1a(the block device) while it looks like linux made them all block devices (unless opened a special way O_DIRECT) and freebsd(as best I can tell) made all devices raw. https://docs-archive.freebsd.org/doc/11.2-RELEASE/usr/local/...
So, on openbsd, make sure you use the raw device when writing images with dd, and in my experience you want to use dd because the block size on cat is too small. dd bs=64k if=image.file of=/dev/rsd2c (c on obsd is entire disk)
What I would always dream about was actual tis-100 like hardware, each module a small cheap microcontroller with 4 uarts(does that exist?) and a self interlocking module design so it is not constrained by a base chassis. And because I am insane, in-band programming, that is, each module needs to and can only be programmed by it's neighbors. It would be such a nightmare to actually make anything.
Heh, That would make for an interesting sequel. You thought tis-100 was obtuse and hard, now you have to design autonomous self duplicating code, it's the tis-400 virus processor.
The "real" problem is the public suffix list. All domains should be considered public, that is, a sub domain gains no trust from it's parent domain.
There is a good argument that the public suffix list should be distributed via dns, and it is easy to propose a scheme for it. Two I know of are. A specific public suffix record marking a domain public or private. The presence of a soa record which already transfers the authority of a domain, should be used to determine if that sub domain is public or private.
But private unless in some third party list is the worst way to handle it.
Making the natural comparison to unix pipes. I would say CMS pipes were better for complex pipe lines, the primitive names actually made sense and no need for that awkward setup stage on unix where named pipes need to live on the filesystem. But for simple pipes the unix syntax... felt better? Looking back on that manual now, simple cms pipes look fine, I don't remember why I felt they were worse than unix pipes.
Anyhow it is an interesting alternate take on what pipes could be.
The web(html) is a hierarchical system and as such it's proper place in the world is mapped to the filesystem.
Which is honestly what I thought plan9's webfs https://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/webfs did and then you could use the filesystem api to parse it. But alas, I actually read the man page to double check, and it looks like it does the much more sane option and just fetches web resources(http), I am crushed.
But it may be a fun weekend project to see if that mapping could be done and where it fails. So not a complete loss.
I have only ever seen fiber optics described in terms like "total internal reflectance" so it sort of blew my mind to consider them as waveguides for terahertz em fields, sort of obvious in hindsight, but most popular literature really appears to avoid thinking about light as a field preferring a photonic particle approach.
Which was one of many topics of that channel that also blew my mind, that photons might not exist, not as a particle anyhow, a photon(quantized amount of em field energy) is just how the em field interacts with matter. However because that is how we detect light, via it's interaction with matter, that interaction is probably the most important aspect. But it is totally possible to have sub-photonic levels of em-field.
I even half believed them, old stable systems tend to suffer from version stagnation, where the major version stops moving. Not that that is a bad thing, it is just a sign that your software is mature, it no longer needs a major version jump. but having a vestigial number makes some people nervous and for commercial software hurts sales so they find different ways to change it.
Apple stuck at 10 for a long time. solution: drop the major
Just curious, because it looks fine to me(ad blocker?), but there were other comments saying how terrible it is, what is wrong with it?
Header large image, small pointless article, see also navigation. Sure nothing exceptional, but also, nothing offensive, looks like every other "news site" I have seen.
I suspect "other" is mining or equivalent natural exploitation(oil)
And pet peeve, personal income tax and corporate income tax are almost the same thing. With few exceptions the individual person does not pay their income tax, the corporation does, and for those exceptions the individual is the corporation. Income tax is really a sales tax on a corporation biggest expense, it's payroll.
Corporate income tax is a very different thing from an employer withholding wages. Withholding is still considered the individual paying the tax, just they never get to hold the money. Corporate income tax is money the corporation pays based on its own income vs expenses.
You can also just go to your employer’s HR software and change withholding to 0% everywhere I’ve worked, giving you a bigger paycheck but moving the burden of paying the IRS on you.
You still need to do the withholding or pay a penalty at tax time. I suppose you can pay quarterly instead of biweekly (or whatever), but is it worth it?
I agree, I don't think blender has changed as much as people say. But I don't think it is baby duck, I think blender always had a good UI, it has just taken the rest of the world 20 years to catch up.
A lot of people go "Blender UI was horrible, but they redesigned the whole thing and now it is good" Having used blender in a minor role for 20 years(i think I started on 1.7), I think this was just a big psyop by the blender team. Sort of how the client goes "Change things" and you change nothing, wait a day, and tell the client "I made the changes you requested" client: "I love it"
I am not saying the blender team has not made substantial improvements to the UI over the years, but the core is still that same quick blender workflow, This is very different from the normal clunky GUI design of 3d modelers of the era and as such blender got a reputation for having a weird UI which was easily translated to blender having a bad UI. So what do you do when you have an unwarranted bad reputation? Especially now that the rest of the world has caught up and is using your flows and they are not so weird anymore. Make a dark mode and put out a big press release "we redesigned everything, it's good now" so people will try it.
So, on openbsd, make sure you use the raw device when writing images with dd, and in my experience you want to use dd because the block size on cat is too small. dd bs=64k if=image.file of=/dev/rsd2c (c on obsd is entire disk)
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