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C’mon now, we know that’s TempleOS, not Debian!

GHC uses self hosted gitlab for its source hosting and review. The gitlab-runners are largely provided by the mentioned support in the announcement, including anonymous and in-kind contributions. The ZW3RK stake pool provides 7 linux, 2 windows, and 3 mac builders.

I only see two directly related supporters? IOG and the stake pool?

Technically it’s running a proof-of-stake stake pool and using the operational rewards to fund CI hardware for GHC. It currently provides 7 Linux, 2 windows and 3 m1 macs as well as covers the maintenance for them.

Thus by staking ada (cardano) with the stake pool, one can “earn” a competitive rate (~4%) of stake return as well as support GHCs CI indirectly as the excess operational rewards from running the pool are put towards running CI machines for GHC.

To compare this to some non-blockchain scenario:

Depositing money at a bank will yield some interest, but also provide the bank with some operational return (they usually don’t provide you a savings account due to altruistic reasons); and the operational rewards the bank would use to run CI machines for GHC.

I hope this makes sense, and explains the concept of how this works in principle.

How do they obtains the mac/ios/... SDKs? I thought they were packed with Xcode, and it wasn't permissible to extract them?

tweag is funding Asterius.

Bike sharing company in Singapore. Initially collected a S$49 to use its service. With the deposit paid you were entitled to rent their bikes at S$0.5/15min.

Bike were almost everywhere. Initially they had lots of free ride promotions.

A few days ago, they claimed that they ceased operations due to newly imposed government restrictions. (To prevent bikes from lying/standing around just about everywhere and have them be rented/returned at designated parking areas)

A while ago I think they dropped the deposit requirement, as other competitors did not have the deposit requirement. You could ask for your deposit to be returned. This would take up to 30days, but apparently took much longer, according to some comments on Facebook.

They also offered a VIP subscription for 3years or so for S$49, which would entitle you to a certain amount of free rides per month, I think.

All in all, I don’t know how I feel about my deposit. I’m pretty sure it’s gone. On the other hand I’ve used the bikes a few times with all the “free”/promotional rides, without giving them any additional money. After all I got some value for the S$49. Did I ride for 25hs in total? I doubt it.

I guess the ICO stuff is just trying to draw a parallel defrauding scheme?

This is probably (and sadly) the same conclusion I came to.

According to the nytimes it looks like the following right now:

- President: Democrats (72%), - Senate (76%) and House (>95%): Republicans

Is this a good outcome for a democracy? And if so, why? Wouldn't this mean that the system is effectively gridlocked?

It feels to me as if GitLab is pushing (major) security updates very often. Now there are two reasons I can think of this happening:

- They are very open about security vulnerabilities and fix them fast.

- There are some inherent defects in their software that cause these security vulnerabilities to come up so frequently.

I'd like to believe it's the first.

EDIT: formatting.

Same here. Even though my current location frees me of the need of a car (public transport is ubiquitous in this city state) BMW has been the make that provided the cars I liked driving short and long distances most. While I'd certainly look at BMWs offering of cars if I ever need one again, right now I'm quite sure I'd opt for a Tesla, as I don't see BMW having a proper contender.

This is going to be interesting! Germany has had The Home Banking Computer Interface (HBCI, now FinTS) for years. I'm really looking forward how this pans out and if the protocol will be as convoluted.

Having these kinds of threads, I think, is very important for the community. On a related note, there has been quite some fallout from the haskell compilation times got worse thread, which resulted in the development of tooling around improving the situation.

> There are very few germans who're actually opposed to having Böhmermann be hit with the full legal force

Can you back up your claims with numbers?

It probably won't; I can see a child assembling this more easily than building a reprap though. I think the target audience are children and I see this (as their whole lineup) as an educational product and gateway into engineering.

On the one end we have these fully assembled one-piece 3d printer. On the very other end we have DIY with or without a construction kit 3d printer. None of these are really targeted towards kids; this is, I think is.

Anyone reading this and being in the same boat, intending to get a degree. Please do yourself a favor and consider getting a degree in Physics, EE, Math, ..., and do some CS on the side. Sure CS might be easier, but you pass up the chance to widen your horizon.

EDIT: many will only study once; why not study something new? Even if tuition is free, why have someone teach you topics you might already be very familiar with? I'm not saying you won't learn anything new in CS. You very much will learn something new. But if you choose a related field with little to no exposure yet, you will learn so much more.

Phabricator is a very good tool! But calling it a substitute for GitHub seems a bit off. GitHub (and GitLab) revolve around repositories. As the name implies they are focused on git and git workflows. As a user you are using `git` most of the time when interacting with the systems.

Phabricator on the other can supports `git`, but that's just one of the supported storage systems for phabricator. As a user you are using `arc`, phabricators command line tool.

I've seen many people having issues with using `arc`, having used, say github, prior to that. This got better recently when the `arc land` workflow was improved.

The whole argument boils down to how developers were treated with apples libraries so far. The submission/review process is quite prohibitive, and the core libraries (like almost every piece of software) have flaws. Together with the opaque intransparent radar bug reporting / bug resolution system, you had to resort to method swizzling to keep your sanity (I guess the PSPDFKit guys can speak volumes on that).

Going forward, I hope apple sticks to the open source approach they took with swift. That more of the libraries will follow, with Apple encouraging more community participation.

There are three very similar fruits I've met so far:

- Durian (looks similar to Jackfruit, a little rounder, and spikier), which is very popular in Malaysia and Singapore, and has a very strong smell. It has a more creamy consistency, and tastes quite different from jackfruit. People say, it's an acquired taste. Some love it, some hate it with passion.

- Jackfruit, I got to know this first in Viet Nam, but it can also found it in other places in Asia, smells and tastes sweeter. Also the reaction to it is less extreme than to Durian; I've seen it on the Seychelles as well.

- Breadfruit, I saw and eat it first on the Seychelles. It looks more similar to Durian, in shape, but less spiky. Apparently it has a very short shelf life, but you can make great fries from it.

It's very hard to describe taste. But I encourage to try it for yourself. (Or for Durian, maybe start with chocolate coated Durian candy, or Durian ice cream, and then go for the real thing; word of advice, if you buy it at the market in pre cut pieces to eat right away, and you do not intend to make it into cake or some derived dish, go for the more expensive packs, they are usually better, less mushy. You will likely have to get over the smell already, so taking the very mushy consistency out of the equation, may make for a slightly more pleasant introduction to Durian. Jackfruit on the other hand is pretty easy, I would say. Just pay attention to get fresh, not squishy (e.g. they are too ripe, or old) pieces.

Didn't work the first time either. But visiting the site a second time revealed the article.

This a good question. But this hits a very interesting point. Let us discard crappy songs for a bit. And focus on marketing and other reasons. Marketing plays an important role. Yet there are artists who cannot afford the marketing or (and this is very sad in my opinion), the produced a piece that was ahead of it's time or just didn't fit the current market trends.

These kind of services allow us to explore the full spectrum of creativity, instead of homing in on current market trends. If we do not support the outlier (or in this case leave them lying by the sidelines and ignore them), we loose a part of cultural diversity. Not everyone has the same taste, but how do you experience new things when you just follow the herd?

Coincidentally I was talking with someone about House of Cards over lunch. And whether this is correct or not, it was claimed that House of Cards was the results of machine learning and figuring out that the majority wanted Kevin Spacey and a political drama. Now if this is the future of tv, this will lead inevitably to less diversity. This would be a very sad development.

This is precisely why I think that services like this one are very important to keep us culturally diverse. (at least in the limited spectrum of songs available on spotify in this case.)