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People have done this of course, but you cannot convince a flat earther with GoPro footage because of the fisheye lens that will allow you to film the horizon curve either way, depending on the angle.

What you'd need is a wide angle rectilinear lens not normally found on light weight cameras.

He shouldn't expect much from 1800 feet tough in terms of seeing the curvature. It won't be pronounced. I think he just wants to fly.
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I somehow do not believe this is the Fabrice Bellard.
The only laptop I would consider upgrading to from my Thinkpad X220 would either be a modern Thinkpad x270 (just for a hardware upgrade because I like the form factor) or to something that provides a similar keyboard, docking, and modern-ish hardware.

Most of my work happens over SSH, my laptop is currently fast enough for Netflix, email, and web browsing. I'm capped at 2 1920x1080 monitors but this is livable.

I think if someone took the old X220 generation Thinkpads, upgraded the internals, and kept the keyboard and docking that they would sell like hotcakes.
"The free market competition among the providers is just not happening and will probably never happen in a lot of areas."

Actually, we know exactly how to create a competitive market: line sharing rules. We used to have line sharing requirements for DSL and there were dozens of competing services in most cities. The situation we face today is the result of those rules being eliminated during the Bush administration.
I want to see someone get the flat earthers and the antivaxxers in a room together.
I also don't think this is "one battery" - is a warehouse full of large pizzas the biggest pizza in the world?
Which version of Windows are you using at work? It has definitely gone downhill since Windows 7, hence this entire conversation. I'm curious if you could expand on the platform goals and how that has affected things.
Why aren't these tuned automatically?
Should be pretty easy.
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Any idea what ODM Purism <puri.sm> uses for their components? This is exactly the sort of thing I find interesting.
I think I saw a documentary where they showed that brain scans of people addicted to sugar looked the same as those addicted to cocaine, and in some lab-rat study where they got rats/mice addicted to both sugar and cocaine, and got the choice to picke between them, they chose sugar over cocaine 9 times out of 10.
I know nothing about Romanian tax system, but in Russia the tax is flat 13%.

What that doesn't tell you is that employer also pays 30% on top of your gross salary in "social insurance", so maybe Romania has something like that in place.

And you don't even do your own taxes if you're employed in the vast majority of jobs. You do them if you're an entrepreneur or contractor.
So... why not launch a drone mounted with a gopro? Do they also believe the government is hijaking those and editing the footage?
Whether a vendor offers any kind of licensing for a software product and whether a vendor still has active copyright are two different matters.
This is very much of a tangent, but I was really surprised by this part: "At the beginning of the year I opted to buy an apartment for myself. [...] The developer behind the apartment did not do his job properly and I found myself having to pay for many things out of pocket (like getting electricity)."

Where I live, nobody owning an apartment would ever expect not to have to get an individual contract with an electricity provider and to pay for electricity based on individual consumption. There are some rental contracts that include a flat fee for electricity consumption, but I don't understand how an owner would expect not to pay.

Maybe the author expected electricity to be covered by other charges? But that would still be a misunderstanding on his part and not mean that the "developer behind the apartment did not do his job properly".
> We should all be asking ourselves where such big distrust is coming from.

Seems to be pretty unique to America - climate change deniers, flat earthers, anti-vaxers, etc are no where near as prevalent in any other first world country.
A basic education (assuming grade school level) would only inform you that the world isn't flat. It wouldn't go so far as to rigorously prove the idea. In fact, I honestly couldn't prove to you that the world isn't flat myself off-hand. My "knowledge" of the unflat world is really just trust in prior mathematicians and scientists who I believe have proven the idea.

I think this continuum between knowledge and belief is where these crackpot ideas are coming from. The average person doesn't know how the things they depend on actually work on a deeper level (e.g. the internet, cars, indoor plumbing, seasonal weather, the stock market). And upon researching the inner workings of these day-to-day mysteries, people realize that the mechanisms aren't 100% clear or they don't fully understand them. I'd wager this is the diverging point: most people give up on learning the mechanisms and accept that they work on belief while a small portion of people come up with alternative hypotheses and/or reject the mechanisms.

A recent episode of This American Life discusses this (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/630/...).
This seems unfortunate to me that they're raising this as a gender/race issue where as they actually seem to be unaware of how business/engineering works.

The fact is, if you have a rather simple product like this, the idea will be copied and probably manufactured in China for 1/10th of the price.

Additionally, if you've approached over 100 VCs and 98% of them aren't interested then you should be looking at your product, not your race/gender
one also needs to be illiterate to believe such things

Certainly not. You just have to not believe what you read.
I don't know what to say about this, other than yes, generics would be nice, but will probably never happen.

I guess if that's what you need, there's always C# or Hack.
I did some research about "work outside your employment" in Germany and found that the main thing is about the amount of hours one can (or is allowed) to work. The idea here was that working more than the "normal" 8 hours a day, would have a negative effect on the actual job, i.e. you're too tired to do your job properly if you work an additional 4 hours at home. In plain English, if you work additional hours daily on a side project, you'll be too tired the next day at work, hurting your productiveness (and upsetting your employer...). I did not find anything relating to weekends and/or to software created in one's spare time.

Are you aware of any specific laws concerning this whole thing?
Don't want to sound rude but: "created"? Or just resold whatever Compal/Clevo are building with hand picked some components like WiFi card that happen to have drivers in Linux kernel?
Fruits and vegetables in bulk? How are you storing them? If we don't eat ours within a few days or a week they spoil.
There's a few in browsers OSes on http://copy.sh/v86/ too, it seems to be an independent effort.
> And in western countries where people get to go to school (most of them at least), it seems absurd.

When schools make a duty of learning by rote instead of learning to learn and exercise thoughtful criticism, only distrust can emerge.
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> Are we talking about the same language here? The language where arrays implicitly decay to pointers, where integer types get implicitly promoted all over the place, where aliasing rules implicitly define which pointers can and cannot alias, where partial initialization of a struct or array implicitly sets the other members to 0? Where the language will let you call an undeclared function and make up a prototype on the fly for you?

-Wall -Wextra and those issues are made clear to you. But granted, that's part of a good compiler and not part of the language.

> I also don't understand your C++ example, without side-effect why would both invocations of f() within the same scope produce a different result? I thought you wanted to criticise function overloading but you call it with an int both times so I don't see what's you're getting at.

I'm not criticizing function overloading.

> Or maybe you meant that the two calls are in a different scope and could resolve to a different function? But you can do that in C as well in two different translation units and making two static f() implementations.

Yes the two functions are different, but not necessarily in scope, they don't necessarily need to have the same names. Yet at the calling site they look exactly the same: one will modify your data without you being aware of it and the other will not, and there is no syntactic hint to differentiate them.
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1) That's not what most people thought, which is why you were immediately downvoted, flagged, and rightfully called an ass.

2) Stop making homophobic jokes and then pretending they're not homophobic, if you don't want people to know you're an asshole.

3) You've already revealed a lot of personal information about yourself and your character in this discussion and your comment history.

So do you agree to stop telling homophobic jokes, or not? If not, then why do you insist on violating the rules of this community by telling them?
Although as someone mentioned below, they are rebranded Clevo machines, and really were designed to run Windows first. Station X is just offering a guarantee that they will run Linux properly.
Which requires a buy-in, too, at least at the big 4 consulting firms. I've never heard of someone being brought in as a partner without having been partner somewhere else, or bringing over a whole group. (it's not because I haven't heard of it, that it doesn't exist, of course). I call bullshit.
I don't think they understand it either.
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that's still pricey at almost $400 per kwh of capacity... or about $0.2 per kwh of storage, several times the grid prices.
"Hughes only recently converted to flat-Eartherism, after struggling for months to raise funds for his follow-up flight over the Mojave."

He isn't trying to prove the earth is flat. He just wants to ride a rocket. Everything else is oddball marketing to get some funds.
Yes, facebook is doing the same thing (google shadow profiles). Really scummy practice, but nothing illegal there.
My tip: avoid products or services that require face to face sales and support. I've found it impossible to reconcile with the day job.
We run a kiosk thing, use i3 without a status bar, directly launch the program from the xinitrc (or whatever script, which launches i3 in the background, sleeps 1 second, then launches the kiosk thing), and all this via startx.

If the script exits, X exits, systemd restarts it. Works pretty well.
Lowered overall wind resistance also plays a significant part.

With Semi's, each separate truck has to endure its own wind resistance independently.

With a train, each rail car effectively drafts the car in front, producing significant reductions in wind resistance for all cars behind the locomotive.

This site (https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/parasitic-loss-reductio...) quotes wind resistance, braking, and rolling resistance as responsible for a 45% reduction in efficiency.

This site (https://www.nap.edu/read/13288/chapter/7) has a table that separates the factors out. Of the parasitic losses, aerodynamic losses (i.e., wind resistance) is responsible for consuming 53% of the motive power.
Price-wise, I got a zenbook for 2/3 the price, with a 3200x1800 screen (instead of 1920x1080), a slower CPU, same RAM, larger SSD, most other details the same. It's a better fit for my needs, and runs Linux perfectly. I agree completely about the screen - a decent HiDPI screen is quite wonderful.

Also, I wouldn't want any of the distribution options they offer to pre-load. And I wouldn't want a pre-loaded OS anyway.

I'm not trying to discourage a worthy goal, but these are some of the issues that this company has to overcome.
> If you are poor, getting into business is always hard.

On the other hand, there's internet, and self-publishing creative work has never been easier. Business is hard, getting noticed is harder, but all things considered it's never been so accessible.
I read that as the apartment was a new build of some sort and had not yet been connected to the main supply. So he was then left with that expense as the owner.

I was surprised he paid for such an apartment, it sounds like he didn't get any sort of survey done before handing over funds/agreeing what would actually be completed before moving in. Combined with then quitting a job with so little savings I think this year will be a stressful but worthwhile lesson in planning and being more long term in thinking.
The reason these look similar to System76 is because they are the exact same Clevo chassis. The bezels are awful, but I give credit to System76 and Station X and any other that works to sell and maintain Linux machines.

My next Linux laptop may be from one of these companies if they can work with Clevo to stop making the screen bezels so horrendously large.
Sure, but implied in their Linux branding of the laptops is a promise of testing their configurations with Linux. So you are paying for a promise that the system will be compatible with Linux, I suppose.

If these things interest you, you should definitely take a look at other Clevo resellers in your country, and compare the pricing to help you decide whether the added value of this promise is worth the increased retail price.
Sure. I've been there plenty of times, and have managed to push through to become relatively successful in life in a few peoples eyes.

Look, there's a lot I could say on this, but the one piece of advice I would give is to simply avoid inaction.

Right, I know what you're thinking. That sounds vague as shit and completely impractical. But what I mean by is that, for me, when I was in similarly tight spots to where you are right now, I found that the worst thing I could do was stay in my head.

This is now of course amplified by the information age we all live in. While people argue the converse and say the internet is full of rubbish, you really don't have to travel too far online to purposely find and overturn stones of some seriously deep knowledge and wisdom. Take HN for example - there are so many smart people here that could offer you a smorgasbord of options for how you can elevate yourself from this rut.

But this is precisely what I warn you to be mindful of. Because in the time that you've half-chewed and entertained the plethora of life-changing ideas around here or other somewhat enlightened parts of the web, you've not only not implemented a single one, but you've become addicted to chasing the next life-changing idea that will one day set you on the course you desire.

That's why I say that the most important thing is to do SOME things. Whatever it is: improv, travel, meditation, stoicism, working out - there's so many great things you can do to start getting things moving. But the crucial thing I found was to not get caught up in what the "right" thing or the "best" thing was, but simply pick a few things and start enacting them. This is the way one changes their life.

Additionally. and perhaps this pertains to my genetic makeup and neuroses, but I found more I pushed myself socially and tried to connect with others, the faster things start getting better for me. Even if I'd fuck up and made an ass of myself back in the day, I found that simply the act of getting that social 'ping' from another person emboldened my sense of self - regardless if it was a fun or awkward interaction.
"just resold whatever Compal/Clevo are building with hand picked some components like WiFi card that happen to have drivers in Linux kernel"

Ooohh...bingo :)
One more thing:

> designed and customised to run Linux - and only Linux.

But super key still have Windows logo.
Am I the only one who is completely fed up of this "cult of personality" mentality in tech and tech-related media?

The article itself is not that bad, but the title here on HN makes it look like he built the damn thing himself.
I know everybody is smart enough to understand that there were tons of people involved, but why put Elon Musk instead of, idk, Tesla.

I don't have any problem with any single article on Musk/Jobs/you name it but on aggregate it makes me slightly mad.

EDIT: I'm not trying to take anything away from Musk. He is a very succesful person for many good reasons.
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The Ma Bell breakup was probably started under Nixon/Ford (lawsuit filed in 1974) and finished under Reagan.

Not that it worked completely, because everyone has nearly merged back together, but it is evidence that Republican administrations aren't necessarily pro-monopoly.

A large part of the issue is that, through lobbying and franchise agreements, ISPs have locally secured their status. Even if you break them up they only become more local monopolies (which is better but not competition and still requires regulation).
Can you even see the curve of the earth form there? I've flown paragliders to over 2000 meters and I don't think I could spot the curve from there...

Also how about watching a ship come over the horizon?
Sure, then let's do that.

I mean X as a client server visual/graphical terminal solution is pretty amazing.

But then it took more than a decade to get to the point where it seems that DRI extension is just not going to cut it.

And all the other built-in un-security has to go too.
I am French and I haven't heard of flat earther until recently.I don't think anybody in Europe believe such things. That's just too weird. I wonder if there's really a significant amount of people who believe it or of it just some kind of buzz word..
Curious as to why you linked to your own question on StackExchange that was removed as off-topic and had no good answers?
It sounds simple until you actually try doing that. The thing is, reducing the costing to these two parameters is a significantly simplified model of what happens in practice. So you can't just run some I/O benchmark to measure random vs. sequential requests. For example the defaults that worked fine for a long time (seq_page_cost=1 and random_page_cost=4) certainly do not reflect the difference between random and sequential I/O on rotational devices (where the device can easily do 100MB/s in sequential access, but less than 1MB/s in random).
Can you link to some documentation about how monads work in rust? Based on the sibling comment rust doesn't support higher-kinded types yet, so I'm interested in how you would encode this in rust.
A 17" laptop is great for working from the couch, and that's what I use it for. It's not so great as an actual portable computer, so I've coupled it with an 11" that I carry with me for meetings etc...
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What celticninja said. I’d be surprised if any jurisdiction had a law preventing this; the US does not.

Their SMTP or Internet transit provider’s terms of service is another story. Some allow single opt-in subscriptions and memberships, some don’t, and some (most?) don’t mind unless it generates complaints.

Twoo is known for this (https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/03/a-year-of-spam-twoo/), so if you don’t like it, their SMTP or transit carriers are probably the only recourse, and probably doesn’t care.
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Well. To begin with, if the Earth was round, like some people believe, it would fall rolling from the giant turtle's back.
Please don't mess with the seq_page_cost. It's considered a reference value, so leave it set to 1.0 and tweak the other values.
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Case in point, there was no exit. I had to switch linux terminals and kill the process, because even though I was able to launch the terminal (let's say xterm), but I had no idea how to stop the weston session.
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Somebody _is_ kind of doing that: https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/07/16/thinkpad-x62/ . They also mod x220s but the mod is more invasive since they require a different screen bezel.

I recently got an x62 and it's great, although you must put some effort into making linux work smoothly on it and making the screen brighter. But all in all I am extremely happy with it.
"Hughes only recently converted to flat-Eartherism, after struggling for months to raise funds for his follow-up flight over the Mojave."

What a coincidence.

I do wonder if he manages to fly high enough to see for himself that the earth is not flat, whether any other people that supported him would believe him or would they just dismiss it as another conspiracy theory.

If he's in it for the money though, he'll probably say something along the lines of the flight being inconclusive at best.
So if he doesn't return alive, will his friends think the government sabotaged his rocket to prevent the truth from being exposed?
Gnome 3 for example uses it by default.
Hmm, Google Docs and Gmail are fine for me. Are you using any extensions?
what i'd like is a portable "mainframe" you can remote into from older (or cheaper) machines, something you can still in a backpack along with a chromebook.
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I dislike the website. The reasons are:

1. "Beautiful machines" is the first point being made. This is superficial.

2. "All distros welcome". Turns out that installing a distro is the least of my concerns when it comes to a laptop.

3. The first thing you notice is this video with the multiethnic group of people from which one of them is at the front as well as happier/dancing. This is inconsistent and weird. What is the message being communicated with this? How is it relevant? Sell me a goddamn laptop instead. Put a picture of a laptop or something.

In order to be constructive, what I would rather emphasize is: laptops are hardware. The intended audience here are tech enthusiasts. I would rather speak about hardware specs, or something distinctive about the hardware, compatibility, the ergonomics... post a benchmark. Something that is actually better than "beautiful laptops" and a awkward video. This is common sense.

This is how a system is sold: https://www.apple.com/imac-pro/ . Note: I do not own one and I am not affiliated with that company, just making a point.

Then... just a reminder: most laptops are potentially a Linux laptop.
Or get a Xiaomi Mi Air and get a better laptop for less money. Only downside is the low maximum RAM.
A sequential scan could also be faster if the join selectivity is poor. As an extreme example say if every id in event_type appeared in prop_keys for a given app. So scanning the index repeatedly would be a waste of time since you would have to scan the table anyway.
> using a lot of WWII branding

Yeah tbh that's the only thing that puts me off a bit. War is war, I'd rather not glorify it; it might be a necessary evil on occasions, but I'd rather not be reminded of that every day. Then again, I'm not British.

Still, I would expect the subset of potential buyers for geeky machines not to massively overlap the nationalistic subset of the British population, so to me it looks like poor marketing overall.
I didn't mean layout in that sense, rather how keys are laid out.
Yep. If this guy really believed in a powerful conspiracy to convince everyone the Earth is round, it would be very strange to publicise his plan to expose it. It's weird how many commentators are taken in by an obvious publicity stunt.