This is probably not even a rounding error in VMWare, but besides Parallels, what other desktop VM is out there w/ a native GPU driver?

What would it take to see if one can get written for UTM or something like that?

granted how much did Linus spend on Git? probably well south of $17M and he's not beholden to the likes of a16z

The first version was written in ten days apparently, so more in the ballpark of $17k.

I want people to read this sentence from https://www.linux.com/news/10-years-git-interview-git-creato...

> So I’d like to stress that while it really came together in just about ten days or so (at which point I did my first kernel commit using git), it wasn’t like it was some kind of mad dash of coding. The actual amount of that early code is actually fairly small, it all depended on getting the basic ideas right. And that I had been mulling over for a while before the whole project started. I’d seen the problems others had. I’d seen what I wanted to avoid doing.

Just so that people know that creating software is not only coding.

My comment is unrelated on the point you are making about expenses.

at the time he was probably thinking about how much time it would _save_ him

this reminds me of this article https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-end-of-gangs-los-angele...

I feel like nowadays with all the political FUD about "crime and safety" here in LA, this should be required reading

I mean, it occasionally happens. Predictions are by definition not set in stone. I think there were a few iPhone generations that underestimated demand in China, a few iPhone models that overestimated, I think the 5c was the most notable.

When do we get our Kuang Grade Mark Eleven icebreaker?

also, the inaugural special exhibition for the new Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences museum in LA was on Miyazaki; they somehow gathered all these boards and notebooks in one place for several months. This was magical, and I give the curators props for doing this; they could have easily started off with a self-celebratory American/Hollywood franchise...

But I think they released a exhibition book to go along with this that has a lot of his artwork in there as well

Is that their fault or is there maybe a giant reason nearby why they are doing this?

Whatever the reason, this will increase the likelihood of landmine casualties in the future. And not necessarily (only) in this area, but it weakens the treaty in general.

Part of these kinds of treaties is to accept some additional difficulty or expenses in defence for a more widespread benefit. I'm living in Finland and I would have accepted these.

Would you expect other countries to come to Finland’s aid if the country had declined to employ all the ‘force-multipliers’ that were available to it?

I would not expect other countries to come to Finland’s aid if Finland had made such decisions.

161 countries are still in the Ottawa Treaty, including all European countries except the ones who withdrew. I have hard time seeing how this treaty would have much effect on wartime alliances.

But if that's the case, what are "all the force multipliers"? Chemical weapons? Biological weapons? What share of the GDP for defence?

It's nice that so many countries are signatories, but the countries which are currently involved in significant conflicts, have been, or are likely to be, are all non-signatories, have withdrawn, or are not abiding by their commitment. I'm not sure how much it matters that many non-warring countries are signatories to the convention, unless you think the Ottawa Treaty has actually prevented one or more conflicts (which I doubt).

I find some of the signatories laughable, as both sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict have used them (with Ukraine being a signatory), while countries like Palestine and Eritrea have committed egregious human rights violations (since assenting), so I don't trust any commitment of theirs.

With respect to chemical and biological weapons, I think the reason they're not widely used is that they're relatively ineffective, and inconvenient, so I don't think they're a force-multiplier at all. Russia & Syria's (likely) uses of chemical weapons seem like more of a (mostly ineffective) desperate gamble than a brilliant move, though they demonstrate the non-existent consequences to such violations of treaty obligations.

The main effect of the treaty is that personnel mine production and trade has dramatically decreased, thus making it harder for (small) non-signatories to deploy too.

International treaties tend to be always somewhat aspirational and are often violated and sparsely enforced. This does not mean they don't have any effect.

The main problem with biological and chemical weapons isn't their effectiveness (or lack thereof), but the impossibility of controlling them.

You could hit up a public library...

Looking online it looks like the newsstand price of an issue is around $10 (which I'd assume is heavily ad subsidized, if anyone is still buying print ads?) which is an interesting data point for a pricing model. (Of course, I looked online because I have no idea where I'd find a newsstand around here - the nearest newsstand that show up on google maps has reviews that say "It's just snacks and scratch tickets." and "three newspapers and no magazines" - I may have to stop by just to see what three newspapers they have :-)

granted, I feel like maybe a review of lab equipment regularly is not a bad idea. in my low level undergraduate summer job, we realized all the stuff I did in those 3 months were moot at the end because I end up running some blanks on the pipetting robot and discovered that some glitch resulted in progressively less material being pipetted towards the end of the tray vs. the beginning....

not my primary field, but I will say, though, from the folks we see in our clinic, nowadays w/ ocrevus/kesimpta/rituxan, patients are way more stable and dealing with way less side effects than 10-15 years ago.