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On the desktop, I've had an extremely positive experience using Ubuntu for the past few years. Honestly, at this point I find it easily a better desktop experience than Windows or macOS. However, I've so far stuck to macOS for my laptops and iOS for my other devices mostly because I tend to need more reliability for these (and a bit of my own bias).

With how toy-ified iOS is and the progressively worse state (imo) of macOS-running hardware, I've started considering other options more seriously. Are there any tablet PCs that work well with Ubuntu?
microsd card, though I should’ve known better. Thankfully there’s plenty of complaints and test programs out there to check. And amazon gave me a refund (something worth noting - generally I’ve found amazon/ebay great at defending the buyer but the stories usually are with genuine sellers dealing with fakes)

Since then learned to be careful (e.g I don’t buy things that seem too cheap to be true, or things I’ve heard are have high fake chances like cr2032 batteries)

...also Adobe master collection CS6: it was a burned disc and in a printed DVD case and was priced at a point that was hard to tell (several hundred bucks but less than retail, think it had a return policy). Technically the license worked and it did work well for about 4 years. Then one day it didn't - from my understanding it was some type of educational license laundered into being sold as a regular product. At that point adobe was all SaaS anyway so from that perspective they solved the fake/laundering license problem.
I use Gitea and Drone and I love it - the flow is pretty similar
Sometimes when things get broken, they're broken forever.
Counterpoint: nearly all of those of us in developed countries are now better-off with agriculture, due to:

- Even more variety of fresh, healthy fruits, vegetables, and meats than before (especially in winter)

- Lives that are incredibly richer (all of reading, writing, culture, and art)

- Vastly lower mortality (fell from a tree and seriously injured yourself? Thanks to modern medicine, you're not dead)

The way I look at it, agriculture made things way worse... until we advanced far enough to get way, way better.

And even if you argue there are some populations in developing countries which are still worse-off, it's hard to believe that's going to last long as economic development progresses.
Help me understand why this isn't a sublimely silly argument. The era of hunter-gatherers spans the time from 12:00 midnight on Diamond's metaphorical clock all the way to 11:54PM. Virtually every advancement in human history, from the Enlightenment through the germ theory of illness all the way to the Internet, occurred after that time. What ordinary person would elect to time-travel one-way to 11:30PM on Diamond's clock, as opposed to living at 11:59PM?

By Diamond's reasoning, we could live far longer on this planet if we lived like chimpanzees, scavenging what we could from the natural bounty of the land without bending it to our will. But I don't particularly want to be a chimp. Couldn't his argument be reframed as "the worst mistake in the history of the world is the human race"?
I thought pretty much everyone used syndaemon for disabling the touchpad while typing. Does your OS not install that by default?
Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy (2014)
Personally, I feel that the SourceForge brand has negative value right now. For me they burnt almost all of their goodwill during their long, long period of neglect and stagnation, then went sharply negative when they started distributing malware.

I'm willing to give the new team the benefit of the doubt; let's just assume they want to create a high quality product. That's great, but I think the first step is starting over with a non-tainted brand.

It may make sense to migrate existing projects and accounts across, or even to build on top of the existing code base, just don't call it SourceForge.
What peace? I suppose that you mean the safety of geographic isolation. The US had gotten very complacent about taking military action with virtually no fear of retaliation. I mean, Europe got trashed twice within a generation, and the US only lost troops, and expanded its manufacturing sector.

But really, wasn't the Cold War enough? Maybe not, I suppose. There was never an actual attack, just testing and proxy wars. And notwithstanding potential impact, there were really just two adversaries.

Anyway, it's just war. It does suck when it comes to your home, but that's just how it goes. Labeling adversaries as "terrorists" is just propaganda.

Edit: And by the way, in my childhood, damage from WWII was impossible to ignore.
There's still a lot of tools that exist nowhere but sourceforge because they were abandoned by the developers years ago
You can emulate a full graphing calculator using wabbitEMU.
No doubts about her solipsistic incompetence. :)

Just as devil's advocate, was she that much worse than the other Dear Leaders of her corporate generation? Mark Hurd, Meg Whitman, Ginni Rometty? Heck, even the older but monstrously odious Jack Welch can fit in this cauldron.

The idea of something like the HP Way is anathema to such people.
"poor sleep causes ..." or does it?

"... causes poor sleep" or does it?

Which one is it? Neither yet both?

Come on folks, we learned this in 3rd grade. The real answer is "it's complicated".
G.O.P. Pushes to Overhaul Law Meant to Protect At-Risk Species
The art world really bothers me. Every artist I know (successful or otherwise) admits that success at art is essentially a popularity contest.

Art has been transformed from something that attempts to convey meaning and emotion, despite subjectivity and reliance on shared language specific to one's own culture, to a fetishization of an artwork's background narrative. ie the process (this particular painting of a square, that looks like every other uniform square painting, was done by doing xyz therefore it's different) and background story of the artist or artwork (this one was painted by a blind nun from some oppressed country). The artwork itself is meaningless save for the narrative surrounding it. It's impossible to understand or experience anything when looking at the artwork, but the background text next to it elucidates the narrative.

That's why "outsider art" is hilarious to me. In many cases it's totally accidental art, or a pisstake: see, comedy shows bringing random objects, like dustbins or fire hydrants, into galleries.. cue dozens of thoughtful onlookers - or even unrepentant shit. But the fetishization of narrative elevates it to mainstream acceptance (despite the artist not being in the cool kids' club). And conversely, in other cases, outsiders are the only ones actually making art in the first place, because everyone else on the inside is too busy trying to score it big by adhering to trends.
I don't find this particularly compelling as given the author's fundamental assumptions regarding inequity and sexism as natural outcroppings of agrarian society. For example the mongols were a largely non-agrarian society that was highly stratified, and deeply sexist that committed human rights violations on the global scale.
I wonder why it is that linux distros having centralized package management is seen as a good thing, but the windows store is reviled by all
Legislators not understanding tech and doing the same thing they seek to control...par for the course.
I’m seriously wondering if the article is just trolling.
The problem is commingling.
That's sure one way to do it. Another one is to have strict on- device limitations for how much control the power company does have. E.g. maximum delay of one minute for the air conditioning, one hour for the ice maker. A little flexibility goes a long way in load management.
Even in the least developed countries on earth life expectancy is nearly double the 26 years quoted in the article. This article feels less like serious analysis, and instead the product of over-problematizing
Not OP but I type ~140 and there are definitely situations where you feel a desire for higher WPM. Informal writing is the most common one - for example, with this comment I'm basically just typing out what I'm thinking and it reads more like a conversation than a well-planned chunk of text. I'm going nearly full-speed because, like most people in the world, I can compose casual sentences in my head much faster than 2 or 3 words a second. This becomes even more noticeable when you're in chats and just typing as you think of things to say. It's also useful to type faster in settings with repetitive phrases, like coding. There is definitely downtime where you think of what to write next, but it's fairly common to quickly think out a longer segment of simple words and have to wait for your typing speed to catch up before moving on.
I hope they crash and burn, so that 2-3 projects that I still use and that are stuck here move to Github.
At work you will normally have an internet connection, so what are effectively useless "elite code" algorithm puzzles are A) easily looked up, and B) not most of what the work is. Those are not realistic problems, business have better things to do than waste time on those sort of things. Here is a realistic problem that might be encountered at work: "We need output X under these circumstances, but instead got output Y. Track down the problem and estimate time to correct". Another might be, "We have a new business requirement, how long will it take to design and code it - think about it and let me know tomorrow." Businesses are not arcane IQ test puzzles like the sites you are looking at.
>"DRM appears to be useless because you are incorrectly assuming DRM's purpose is to stop or reduce piracy. DRM is and always has been about controlling the playback platform."

I'm no fan of DRM or the idiots in Hollywood but isn't "controlling the playback" a means to control piracy? Why must they be mutually exclusive?

>"Media companies like DRM so the can force anyone making a player to not implement features they don't like."

I'm curious is there any evidence of this? How would the Hollywood studios even be aware of all of the new hardware devices?
Usually there are kiosks near the ticket machines or you could just ask people at the counter. Ironically I always check the printed/local displays since the online versions have no guarantee.
And a toy light bar whose brightness and duration cannot be controlled (which sucks precious battery life) and is an insult to the "Pro" name. Are there any serious options available?
The truth about auto dealer invoice prices (2017)
The best way to improve sleep is CBTI, definitely not Ambien. Ambien doesn’t induce sleep. It induces a non waking state.
> Far easier to email him a command string and tell him to paste it into the terminal

Or, even, set up dyndns and ssh in.
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Linux informs you that an update is available.
Windows doesn't care that you're in a call to a client, update all the things.

That was on a Windows 10 build from a year ago, not sure if things have improved.
Archive.org has the experiment link (Standford page), but misses quite a few images in it. https://web.archive.org/web/20070101025129/http://www.stanfo...
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Not the os updates, the application updates. And fwiw I use linux primarily and think it's overall much better; but I still think it's a bit curious.
Coincidentally, another link on the HN front page is about the image quality of JPEG vs. JPEG 2000 vs. JPEG XR vs. WebP vs. BPG: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587684 ; https://bellard.org/bpg/ ; http://xooyoozoo.github.io/yolo-octo-bugfixes/
You do realize having kids is a biological necessity to continue life, yes?

There would be no careers and financials to worry about if people didn’t exist. And there’s no reason to put those things on a pedestal, because they won’t matter once you’re dead.

Choosing not to have kids is effectively genetic suicide. Your DNA will be a dead end on the evolutionary scale.

For someone like me who enjoys life, seems odd that you wouldn’t want to create new life to pass down the experience to your children. That’s why it seems selfish and short sighted to me.
I think you have to drive one for a weekend to truly be the judge. Your argument is the kind of argument people made about tactile keyboards when iPhone first came out with a completely software one. On the surface, it was a valid concern - physical keyboards were simply far better input devices than software based ones when considered in isolation. However keyboards are part of a system, and in the system the physical keyboard was a local maxima. For the system to grow past that local maxima, it had to ditch the physical keyboard.

Yes there are tradeoffs to make, but it's a different set of tradeoffs - ones that we can adapt around given a better future for the system as a whole. That being said, you really have to live with it for a weekend before being able to judge it in full.

I think people are right - purpose built physical buttons and switches will always be superior at some level to software buttons, especially when driving. However, it's worth considering if there is the promise of a better future for the whole system by going down the 100% software route. Maybe it's a bit ahead of its time, but consider a semi-autonomous future where drivers mostly only assist driving and spend 90% of their time free to do other things (1). In the mean time Tesla gets better at delivering software updates to hundreds of thousands of cars in the wild, improving their software processes as a competitive advantage. Other car companies simply aren't doing this. In the future, every car company will need to do this and learn to get good at doing it.

(1) If you've tried Autopilot, you know it's good enough that engaging with the touch screen for extended periods is no problem at all.
How are you with "homework problem" stuff? Some companies will use "you have 24-48 hours to put together a demo matching these criteria" instead of doing technical problems at an interview, with the interview instead talking about the "why" and "how" decisions you made while putting the whatever together.

See https://github.com/icopp/tech-demo-1 and https://icopp.github.io/tech-demo-1 for an example of one I've done before.
I find these descriptions fascinating, because my experience of Park Slope is so different. Short walk to the R at Union Street, easy commute to midtown even during rush hour, rarely more than 25 minutes, almost always get a seat, enjoying a podcast or ebook, never have to worry about parking, snow removal, traffic, car repair, refilling gas.

I grew up on what was practically a nature preserve in rural midwest, and I find Prospect Park is so beautiful, great for a walk or a jog, and has such a friendly community with the farmer’s market, weekend off-leash dog hours, kids programs, free BRIC concerts at the bandshell.

I find quality of life solely on factors like enjoyment of nature, community belonging, diversity of activities, is just so, so much greater in New York. The direct access to private nature areas in the rural and suburban midwest has plenty of upsides, but truly was much less convenient, much less community-oriented, much less diverse in terms of both cultures and variety of free or cheap activities.

I had similar experiences in Boston too. I joined a geocaching group that frequently met in Middlesex Fells. It’s borderline impossible to find such a group in the midwest that actually has meaningfully large membership and meaningfully diverse variety of people regularly participating.

I do agree that one has to weigh the cost tradeoffs carefully with cities. But I think what you get out of a big city is very different than the way you put it. It’s more about the vibrancy and diversity of the community, and that you can find inclusiveness no matter what walk of life you come from.
It’s likely that both are true. It’s likely to be a bi-directional relationship.
Been using Pop_OS on a T480S for a few months now and its been flawless.
Nonsense.

XPS 13 is a wonderful laptop and their support is fantastic for not having stores placed in every city across the country. I work with Dell Support on a weekly basis, and they're just as good as Lenovo. 2018 models have also fixed any and all coil whine that was apparent on some older XPS 13's.

It also works near flawlessly with almost any distro of Linux right out of the box, Lenovo's and Macs do not work nearly as well with Linux. I have a really hard time picking out issues with the XPS 13 other than normal failures at around the same failure rate as both Macs and Lenovo laptops.
This is a topic that you can't meaningfully unpack in a short essay. Whether or not you think this has merit, I'd recommend reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, it tackles this subject in a more philosophical way and is very thought provoking. It is similarly opinionated, but helps you question things you would have never even considered before.
Best of luck looks like a great protect!
I'm pretty sure nearly every modern web technology came about because Google just wanted it, so they just implemented it. If Fabrice worked for Google we'd probably already be using it.

You can actually see this same pattern as far back as the 60's. When the most dominant player in the tech market adopts a technology, and it's not encumbered by patents or proprietary technology or something stupid like that, it becomes a de facto standard. (It helps when they actually standardize it, but it isn't necessary)
That's what you DNA "wants". Are you a slave to your DNA?
Entitlements, social security specifically, is the third rail.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_rail_of_politics
I'm in a similar place, with Mint on a desktop and laptop for some time now. The real issue is never on the desktop: it always runs fine. However, the laptop seems to have developed driver issues over time, to the point where the trackpad requires special care and feeding... The little nooks and crannies of laptop drivers remain the single reason I think Linux is so hard to get right on laptops. The successful users I know all have Thinkpads.
I see, hadn't considered it from that perspective, I've never driven Uber or Lyft, only have family that have. I've heard only of one instance where somebody spilled juice in my relatives car and they put a negative review against the rider.
"I've always had trouble reading social cues, but in the strip club, where rules and roles are crystal clear, I finally learned to connect."

I work in IT and I find this to be very true, personally. I'm not a socialite and wouldn't talk to strangers at a party, but customer phone calls are not that. We're both there for a purpose and working to meet our goals together through banter and small talk is a non-issue.
I thought the title sounded familiar. I believe I read it years ago in my Archaeology of the Middle East class.
I've been putting Gentoo and Xubuntu on ASUS gear for ages, great laptops for <$1000. Quality is good and cost is low enough it's an easy replacement compared to Thinkpad or Mac
Objectively, I think Canada does need more population growth, be it either immigration or more children from Canadians.

I think people under-estimated the impact of working educated women and modern financial constraints on having more children and thus projected Canadian growth more aggressively than it is so not a deliberate lie.

Immigration in Canada is definitely needed as we've been under the replacement rate for 40 yrs and it will be very hard with such a small population albeit declining and maintain the country in terms of taxes, pensions etc.
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There are issues with both things. Population growth is bad for ecological reasons, and there have been fears of simply not being able to provide food and clean water for the earth's population. Family sizes didn't really go down immediately once we figured out modern hygiene and medicine practices (many children died before modern times).

We have a better handle on much of this, in part due better ways of turning ocean water into fresh drinking water. Of course, we are still suffering from pollution and waste issues that theoretically would go down as the population drops.

On the other hand, we have uneven population growth, so some places are still exploding (Africa and some asian countries, for example). Birth control isn't readily available to all, neither is some modern hygiene and medicine. Population growth is still a problem for parts of the world.

On the other hand, other populations are shrinking and people aren't having enough children to simply replace their parents. This creates all sorts of issues in itself. Partly because of manpower issues: Who is going to take care of the elderly? Will we have enough doctors, nurses, and farmers in these areas? And things of that nature.

Some countries have addressed this through sex education, teaching both how to avoid pregnancy and how to get pregnant (and things that go along with that). Others have not. The best-bet solutions would be things like more service jobs and more automation where humans don't need to physically work, robots for care, and more open immigration policies so countries that are having overpopulation issues can freely relocate to countries with shrinking populations.

IT wasn't that you were lied to, it is just a complicated situation that has changed over time.
Some of the best Product Managers I’ve worked with people with Engineering or Comp Sci degrees who had been mediocre devs for one reason or another.

That said, is there any type of programming are you good at? What actual work have you done? Have you shipped an iPhone app or launched a basic website? Were your comp sci courses brutally hard and you spent hours working at them and barely eked out a degree?

I’m asking because you just may be failing because of anxiety, not “stupidity”.
Re: short sighted

Have you contemplated what your life will be like when you’re fifty, sixty or seventy years old?

I’m curious what you imagine it will be like without having children or grandchildren in your old age.
Agreed. The point of most A/B testing is not to find the best approach per se, but have the greatest number of successes.

If failures essential don't matter (e.g. number of bacteria killed in a petri dish), sure use frequentist p-value.

If failure do matter (e.g. number of patients killed), use Bayesian multi-armed bandit.

Wrote a blog post on it: https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/the-fatal-flaw-of-ab-tests-p...
I feel like the fact that you earned that degree should encourage you to think about what actual factors are limiting your progress.

I don't think "being too stupid" is that factor. I mean... you're smart enough to graduate with a CS degree!

Are you doing these interview prep just because you enjoy the training, or are you in "cram mode" trying to force yourself to get better?

> Even if I get a problem right, I gain little to no satisfaction at this point.

In order to make "deliberate practice" like this less stressful, you should establish a baseline of doing some task in a way that makes you enjoy it.

Step aside from interview prep, take a few days and focus on anything other than programming, then casually think about what YOU want to create -- for your own personal use/enjoyment -- to satisfy your creativity. Not to "grind" and get better at it -- but simply to tinker and fiddle and read and discover.

Once you're programming (or maybe reading, or writing, or painting, or making music etc...) just "for the kicks," you might try to dive deeper into a part that you don't understand well -- if you're not going anywhere, take a step back into the comfort zone, and do what you enjoy for a while, then try something harder again.