The most interesting part is that IIRC they shipped the entire Windows 3.11 memory allocator to make it work.

I have very little understanding on how allocation works at OS level, but I'm surprised there are no wrappers like dgVoodoo or dxWrapper specifically for this kind of issues. There are quite a bunch of old Windows games (Need for Speed 1-4 for a start) that refuse to run on modern OSes due to rather...bold memory management strategies.

Apparently the recollection of the fix was that they deferred actually freeing memory for a while if they detected it was SimCity running. [1]

[1] - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii...

The most controversial part is probably that something like jqwik could be a dependency you're not even aware of. You could be asking your agent to fully analyze a project to isolate a bug and in the right situation that would probably trigger the exploit.

Thanks for this. A lot of folks here going "well you read the license agreement, didn't you!?!" As if that was even an option when you update some package via NPM or whatever.

Are they counting “frontalieri” towards that cap?

No? Funny how that works, isn’t?

Mark my words: they will keep growing until they collapse, and once that happens, they will use their reach and contacts with the Italian government to ask to be bailed out out of debt. It’s not a matter of “if”, but “when”.

It’s a well known strategy that has been applied by several Italian companies, FIAT (now Stellantis) first and foremost.

My Nokia 5800 express could connect to a VPN and run a bridged internet connection over Bluetooth in 2008. I clearly remember using it in Switzerland around 2010 to pay for a tramway using a QR code.

Sure, UI was way worse compared to UIKit but in term of features Symbian phones were light-years beyond the iPhone at least until the iPhone 4.

He's missing the last step:

Somehow around the 2010s we all decided that everything in the web had to become "reactive" and "asynchronous" - which is a fancy way of saying things can theoretically happen at any time but realistically if you try to make it happen in ways that don't resemble the previous serial approach you get weird race conditions - and instead of making sure this was implemented in HTML now we have to write another web browser on top of our web browser in javascript, using a thing called shadow DOM.

Also somehow now you have to understand how the internet works at protocol level unless you want way worse performance than that page written in Dreamweaver 20 years ago.

But this is fine because this is the way big companies run things, which we all know they always make the correct decisions like giving their AI full access to their login and password recovery process.

I have been building a small web app for my family recently. I was planning to host it on my own server and not do any fancy reactive and asynchronous stuff. It was a simple multi-page app with simple forms and links. And it sucked because we didn’t know who was doing what live, we needed to refresh pages needlessly just to see if something has changed. Funny that it seemed fine while I have been the only user testing the app but once we got more family members in what seemed like “production ready” it was immediately obvious that it needed interactivity.

Because once shit hits the fan, those responsible for destroying the ecosystem will take a one-way flight for a fully air-conditioned bunkerized apartment lot in Dubai with any Epstein island-level luxury you can think of and fuck the consequences for everyone else, that's why.

They also offer substantial discounts if you attend their seminars. I was able to buy Live Standard for roughly 150€ a few years ago.

I hope before I die we finally prove that the human brain has no peculiar qualia but it is an entirely deterministic, albeit extremely sophisticated, machine. And by touching the right triggers, even the worst human being can become a saint.

That would finally force us to rethink how we see the morality of "virtuosity", punishment and our justice system.

Our thoughts are an electric cloud and I believe randomness is involved, and like a bolt of lightning, the path taken is unpredictable.

And make it a tempestuous lightning storm where the state of all lightning bolts represents a moment of consciousness. That will take a lot to model accurately.

An electric cloud with quantum effects that we also don’t fully understand. There will always be a layer deeper that we just do not know the effects of or what actually exists there or “under there”.

You may have set up a false dichotomy. Qualia and determinism aren't necessarily at odds with each other.

What we too easily forget is that for millennia we had societies where an infinitesimally amount of people (a dozen of families, at best) held almost all the wealth, another thousands ensured that order was maintained throughout the kingdom/empire by force, and everyone else lived by subsistence economy.

Such societies were terrifyingly stable, lasting hundred of years before slowly collapsing. We're not immune to going back to this.

> Such societies were terrifyingly stable, lasting hundred of years before slowly collapsing. We're not immune to going back to this.

They were very vulnerable to succession crises. This is the main problem that representative democracy fixed.