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Really? So nobody's using Linux as a traditional desktop because they like it better than what Microsoft and Apple have to offer, do they?

Well, I beg to differ.
What about the Bullet Cluster[0]? How does his idea address that?

His idea deserves some study but a title will "Kills off dark matter" is very infuriating

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
Hindsight is always 20/20.
Agreed. Will change my landing page for next release.
People here will downvote things that dont come across as interesting.

Also, you label things as "fake news", defend pizzagate, and your views, particularly this one, make you come across as a crony of the political establishment you came from. Why do you expect hacker news to love you?
But...you can do that. Right now. The Surface Pro 4 has no "bootloader tricks"; it has Secure Boot, which you can disable from the UEFI menu. No x86 Surface ever has ever had any "physical" methods of "locking you out of their competition".

So either you want something that already exists or you want something new, and I'm very confused as to your initial post.
Elsewhere in the threads here someone noted that a lot of young teams don't have upper managers. And frankly, I'd believe many simply don't have any proper management.

Where "proper" is critical. I've had a lot of managers, but few effective ones. And almost none who led the department. I found my mentors in other departments. It's a real shame, since a great manager will do more for learning and quality of life than anything else, I think.
Yes, exactly my opinion if Hitler had won.
IANAL, but I've heard in California at least, companies can't claim ownership over work you do on your own time on your own resources, that don't directly compete with the company.

Of course, things get muddier since Google does almost everything. But I doubt they'd want to engender ill will by suing an ex-employee for ownership.
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Doesn't Hanlon's razor makes a post like that really uncomfortable?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
User space software stack is not aware of it, the frameworks know only of scale 1, 2 and 3 (on iOS). Nothing between it. That's why it is integer scaling.

The fact that the framebuffer size is not the same as display resolution is known only to the driver and it is not something that is requested to be implemented for Linux.
Losing 15"? Care to explain?
Given how SpaceX has landed things on a drone ship, presumably they're considering launching from a rocket that's been lifted above the bulk of the atmosphere using a balloon of some sort.

You'd probably save a ton of fuel if you could launch from 40 or even 100K feet.
If you have an unusual usage pattern -- eg you only turn your laptop on twice a month or so -- I guess you're going to get a backlog of updates. If you check the update settings, you can set "active hours" when it won't update, or a custom update time when your machine will be on.

Our laptops are not having problems but they are in regular use...
Seems like package hashes could be stored in a block chain to prevent modification by certain three letter agencies and other non-benign actors.
They fixed the DPI thing in the early build. At least for the native stuff, like device manager.
I used to think the same way. As an addict of 20+ years who's been in recovery for about a year, I hated hearing that my family system was something I needed to work on, as opposed to what seemed to me like more relevant/prescient issues of not being able to develop basic self-care behaviors/routines for myself.

Then I came out of denial about being sexually traumatized numerous times by someone close to as a kid in March. The changes I've undergone since have been dramatic as hell & I became a completely different person within a week. I started learning to: speak my fears, say what's on my mind, abandon seeking the approval of others, let go of my anxieties, allow myself to feel my feelings, identify emotions I hadn't felt before or at least not since I was a kid, and more.

I now think we need to tell people the most thorough approach to dealing with addiction starts with assuming there's a deep seated problem until another cause has been proven because that mindset helps break through any denial the addict may not be aware of. I was certain my experiences hadn't traumatized me & it was only after I developed the habit of questioning everything I thought about myself that I challenged the assumption it wasn't traumatic.

The problem I foresee is people taking a less-than-compassionate approach or not educating the addict on the reasons for THE ADDICT to adopt that line of thinking. Once an addict is willing to admit they have a problem & to work on it, then we can ask the questions of how thorough they want to be with their recovery & whether or not they're willing to take a scientific approach for the sake of being thorough.
> John McCarthy didn't implement Lisp in machine code.

McCarthy also didn't expect S-expressions to be a concrete form. He expected everybody would write in M-expressions.

The fact that S-expressions worked as the language itself is again due to Steve Russell's insight.
> So once again freedesktop.org pushes out the new software with the promise that some day it will meet the capabilities of the current tools

You can use Xorg as you always did, Wayland is fully optional.

> They did it with systemd

What part of hacky, inconsistent, non-dynamic and hard to maintain InitV shell scrips do you actually miss in systemd? Or do you just hate it because it's cool, like it was with PulseAudio?
From [0] > Of course building everything yourself generally isn't practical.

I've been using gentoo for a decade and I'm sad to say that I still can't get to 100% built from source. There is always some useful program out there, or something that I don't want to maintain the build process for, that ends up being a binary that I know nothing about.

Getting to 90% is possible. 100% is extremely difficult requires making some hard choices about what software you are going to use.

0. http://sobersecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/trusting-trustin...
> Associating yourself with people like him will do you no good.

that's called "blaming the victim". how do you not "associate" yourself with your own supervisor ??
As I am approaching my 50s, I kinda find this type of jobsites a little discriminating. I know that age should not contribute to whether you are suitable for a job or not, but the reality on the ground is rather different.

Should there be sites that zone in on a particular discriminating aspect of a person? Hmm, like www.hireanoldveteran.com for old veterans that are having trouble looking for jobs.
IIRC they were written in German, and when translated the translation at the worst didn't mention piracy - but did reference them as bad people.. with the best translation that it would be a confusing mess for the authorities to look through... You'll have to check the exact reference, but it wasn't as clear cut as your comment looks.
Love, happiness, curiosity, and a seething rage at seeing the world around me deprived of those vital things on so regular a basis.

I make no claim to being a healthy or normal individual.
If you read the Wikipedia article, it points out what MOND advocates say about the Bullet Cluster: they try to handwave it away. It's likely that Verlinde's theory needs a similar solution. Unfortunately for handwaving, over time, the number of weird dark-matter-related observations is growing.
Unfortunately being right is of small consultation if the situation is plunged into economic, diplomatic and military disaster by an ill-informed tweeting leader.
> Now, I do swear to have heard US diplomats and academics discussing the Hong Kong and Taiwan timeframe as a single event: "One Country, Three Systems." I have nothing formal or official to point to in this regard.

It's definitely something people talk about sometimes as a potential (or for some even predicted) outcome, but it's mostly speculative with little firm basis in general, and even less in terms of any specific time frame.
I just wanted to say I enjoy the video series on that page, Totally Tooling Tips.
You should try out VS2017 (RC). It is much better in terms of performance and setup. And they improved the update thing in the early build. They are giving you a better choice regarding reboot / installing updates.
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I wish I could down vote this, after all the work that has been put into this I find unrespectable to post a link.
I also recommend the Vive as the most viable.

If you prefer sit-down VR and don't see the potential in room-scale VR, then I would recommend the Fove.

It has eye-tracking which allows for focusing rendering resources around your gaze as well as some cool interaction and less stress on your neck.

John Carmack was sniped by Oculus while back to figure out things like inside-out roomscale, specifically with the Gear VR, so you might be keen to keep up with those developments.

Gear VR is fairly affordable if you have a compatible phone and will hopefully stay that way once they implement Carmack's reverse tracking.
I would bet that a lot of companies consider certifications to be a negative signal when evaluating candidates.

Likely because the certifications aren't meaningfully standardized, so there's not much point in seeking external validation unless you're not confident in your skills.
This is the challenge I have as well. I want to use Lisp for a lot of things but the reality is that parsing PDFs, tagging parts of speech, and then throwing it all into Postgres/Elasticsearch is a lot easier with a bunch of "gem install" commands than anything I've seen for Common Lisp.
Pretty accessible on the WebVR space if you are interested in getting in early. Works on Rift/Vive/GearVR/smartphones/desktops/laptops across multiple browsers. An accessible tool includes https://aframe.io
There's also the litany of massive strategic blunders which happened on his watch, the consequences of which are still plaguing the US today.

- Discouraging counter-terrorism investigations prior to 9/11 [0,1]

- The famous ignorance of government warnings of the coming attack which arose despite that discouragement

- Decision to invade Iraq

- Initially laissez-faire approach to the housing and financial crises. You didn't have to be smart to see those coming, you just had to be paying attention and apply basic economic principles.

These are all executive decisions for which he was responsible as President.

If this is smart, I'd hate to see dumb.

[0] http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=thomas_picka...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Clarke#9.2F11_Commi...
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I'm not certain, but I think they're still running Firefox under Xwayland along with LibreOffice. I'd like to see them run the native Wayland versions of those apps by default.
One of my students asked “How involved was President Bush with what was going on?” I smiled and responded, “What you really mean is, ‘Was President Bush smart enough to understand what was going on,’ right?”

I'm probably just missing context here (details on what exactly was being discussed at that moment, tone of voice of the asker, etc), but the question as asked seems perfectly sensible. How closely did the head of the executive involve himself vs letting the experts it should have been delegated to deal with it?

I know I'd probably have been torn between protest and silently wtfing if I'd had a professor put words in my mouth like that when I was in college.
I dont think you read her blog post. she wasn't just treated in a sexist manner. That sparked the issue, which turned into alleged bullying an harassment by most of her team. You dont have to be a woman to understand how badly that would suck.
As a "former Harvard public policy research fellow", I'm guessing it's a lot more than just selection bias.

Bush's gift was the ability to be charming. But it's pretty clear he isn't even close to being the smartest person in almost any room, let along a room full of Stanford students as the made-up OP story described.
Net partiality?

What I've heard most often to describe it is "tiered network access". But preferably I don't want a term for it, because it shouldn't exist.

"That which shall not be named"?
The article doesn't really support its thesis - that there's a symbiotic relationship between the gun industry and Hollywood. Clearly gun manufacturers benefit from product placement, but it's not at all clear Hollywood benefits from the gun industry except as a place to buy props.
That repository has last year's challenge and the six days I checked did not involve writing a DSL.
Eh, not really. It's not getting to altitude that's expensive, it's speed. Orbit is blisteringly fast.
Yep, in contrast to the current unfortunate common practice of "hire in quantity and brute force your way to a working app". I've seen places where copy-pasting from StackOverflow was the norm and "getting it to compile" was seen as a milestone worthy of congratulation.
Sounds like Stranger Things to me.
> Would any of clippy's lints pass every Rust crate tested on Crater?

lolnope

Well, there are lint-checking-lints, and there are very few linters out there, and clippy passes clippy, so those would pass. A couple other obscure lints that check for things that in practice never happen. Too obscure to be included in rustc I guess.

IMO a lint passing all of crater is a very good reason for it to not be included in rustc.
>stable digital currency

One such project working on this is MakerDAO. Not the same as backing your crypto-currency with gold hidden in the jungle, but it is backed by assets.

>I don't know that an accessible, anonymous, global, hands-off libertarian digital currency is the ideal situation.

I agree. I think the solution that is likely to work will have a broad base appeal.
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What would you pay for that?
This paean does not address the litany of massive strategic blunders which happened on Bush's watch, the consequences of which are still plaguing the US today.

- Discouraging counter-terrorism investigations prior to 9/11 [0,1]

- The famous ignorance of government warnings of the coming attack which arose despite that discouragement

- Decision to invade Iraq

- Initially laissez-faire approach to the housing and financial crises. You didn't have to be smart to see those coming, you just had to be paying attention and apply basic economic principles.

These are all executive decisions for which he was responsible as President.

If this is smart, I'd hate to see dumb.

[0] http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=thomas_picka...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Clarke#9.2F11_Commi...
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> Seriously, when's the last time you wrote a program that relied on the ability of the display server to draw stippled lines?

or someone?
> Yes, we know the Gnome team (and by extension, most of Freedesktop) wants to reimplement macOS on Linux.

Ugh, there actually are people who enjoy the GNOME desktop, so maybe don't present your personal opinion as a collective sentiment.
As an owner of a MBP, I can tell you that I prefer GNOME in speed, workflow, look, customizability - you name it. In what way exactly is GNOME like macOS in your opinion?
MS still operates a Linux patent extortion racket yet the tech press seem to be all over them since their recent charm offensive. MS is The Beast and always will be. See http://techrights.org/2016/03/10/charm-offensives-distract/ for more.
If they were actually in session it would be fine. It's faking it that's awful.

A recess appointment seems fair here to me. It's not the rules that the president would be working around, it's a failure of congress to act.

Both sides are supposed to have power here. Ideally if either side refuses to do their job for long enough, the other one should be able to install a temporary appointee.
It's hard to propagandize people who are content since they have little incentive to alter their disposition. Of course the populace is propagandized, but you're talking as if they're incapable of having a preference over their own economic situation, which is absurd. People feel sad and angry when their life gets worse, and propagandists can channel such emotions. Angry people are naturally easier to motivate than happy ones, because they want something to change whereas happy people don't. (Obviously I'm phrasing things a bit loosely for the sake of brevity here.)
Launching an initiative to combat AIDS in Africa that has saved millions of lives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-geor...
Ah, I see. Not really sure how to address that. I will point out that folks do use kcov for Rust, so I wouldn't say it's "not a priority at all", more like the status quo is considered good enough.
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ISP-controlled walled gardens.

Or, soon enough, "the way the internet works today"
> It's just a useful idea we have to say there is zero something to designate a lack of something. But there isn't zero water in nature, anymore than there are zero unicorns, or zero Kings of France.

That's just confusion on your part. All of language is just a useful idea we have to designate whatever we designate with it, and you are just confusing things for no reason at all. You obviously understand what "zero something" means, and that what it means is indeed something that can describe aspects of reality, and then you go on and claim that somehow it doesn't. When I say "there are 0 ml of water in this bottle", you understand what it means, right? And if there is indeed no water in the bottle, what is there to be confused about? It does mean that there is no water in the bottle, but it also means something else at the same time? Or there is no water in the bottle, but there is also not no water in the bottle?

> The things we have zero of are infinite. But you don't actually have zero pink elephants in your backyard.

Yes, I actually have. "having zero <whatevers>" is, as you evidently know, a synonym for "having no <whatevers>" or "not having <whatevers>", and I absolutely certainly actually do not have pink elephants in my backyard.

> So if we were to label to cars in increasing numeric order from one end to the other, we would start with 0 instead of 1 at the first car?

There is no such thing as "we would start". You can start wherever you want. That is, as derefr has already explained to you, an exercise in assigning serial numbers. You can use whatever numbering scheme you like. Obviously. Some might be more useful than others, though.

> We don't do that with building levels. You enter on the first floor, go to the elevator, and you push a button for the floor level. The first floor is 1. 0 Would be the basement level.

Except you don't enter on the first floor. The "first" thing in any order is defined to be the thing without a predecessor. Obviously, if there is a basement, the ground floor is not the first floor, because the basement precedes it. Just because the ground floor is commonly called the "first floor" for historical reasons, doesn't make it the mathematically first floor.
I mean, I have to think that's because our field has been exploding for the last 2 decades. Give it 5 years, and all those bars will likely shift down 5 years, and the new 26-30 bar will be yet larger.
It's expensive to build up speed while fighting through the lower atmosphere. Density drops pretty fast[1], so you don't need to fight it with the rocket if the launch vehicle has already paid the cost.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Atmosphe...
I'm not American, so I try to not chime in with an opinion on this topic because I don't feel like its any of my business.

Now that you've raised it though, I think it's worth considering that GWB at least understood the office he was taking (setting aside how I or others feel about the actual decisions taken). I don't feel like your next president understands this at all, and certainly I don't think even his supporters see any reverence for the office.

I see no evidence, even now, that he has any grasp of the situation he is in, which is incredibly dangerous for global stability.

The point I'm trying to make is that I think there's a very good chance that history will remember GWB more favourably after the next 4/8 years are behind us.
Addiction is very much a function of the interplay between a person, their history, and their current environment, in addition to the addictive substance or activity.

Many soldiers, while deployed to Vietnam, ended up addicted to cocaine. Yet when they returned home, the vast majority kicked the habit. Why? War is about a billion times more stressful than being home. They needed a coping mechanism, and they found one, albeit an unhealthy one. Removal of the environmental stressor removed the need for a drug addiction.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/05/37189491...

In addition, addiction is often the result of sheer psychological immaturity: www.substance.com/most-people-with-addiction-simply-grow-out-of-it-why-is-this-widely-denied/13017/

Certainly, there are genetic factors that play into addiction. It is a complex phenomenon. But to say that someone developed an addiction because they have addictive traits is far too reductive.
Could you please work on Diep.io? I've been waiting so long for an update.

And also (if you dont know what discord is, discord is a website where people can chat live), Join the Diep.io discord made from the moderators of the Diep.io subreddit: https://discordapp.com/invite/YDSF2wD#discordbutton

And please be active on Reddit again.

Do not let Diep.io die.
Then that recruiter should schedule themselves for a rectal occipital extraction :)
This article presents one of those ironies about human society: how as much as we promote working things out without violence, we have that inner craving to just see the good guys to blow the baddies away. It's almost like fast food, in fact.

And it's not just movies. You see it in many major video games too. Take Mass Effect for example; You could play as the most loving, all-tolerating paragon character in that game but in the end there are baddies that you have to shoot, not love/tolerate.
Do you love the fact that MS earns millions from patent trolling Linux companies? How's that for open source "support"?
The only car I've ever had that showed MPGs was a 1990 Audi.

Everything else (1998 Toyota Camry, 2002 Chevy Impala, 1997 Ford Ranger, 2005 VW GTI) have only had an analog fuel gauge.