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Kind of curious, what don't you like about ConEmu?

I've been using it for many months now and it's been nothing but solid.

I spend 99% of the time using the WSL terminal, and every once in a while I run a PowerShell terminal too.
I’m not sure I so much trust Microsoft as that I’m fairly certain they’re not actively out to fuck me over.

With Google I’m not so sure any more. Hopefully I’ll soon be able to say goodbye as well.
I'm pretty sure that's half of the point, stop any radicals from forming large followings.
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> The world’s data centers already have roughly the same carbon footprint as the global aviation industry

While this is true, it does need to be put into perspective. People's appetite for computing isn't likely to go away. A thousand people sharing a compute resource in the cloud might be more efficient than those same thousand people each having to do those same computations on bigger beefier machines in their homes. One of the reasons laptops can be so small nowadays is that they're doing less locally; that's explicitly part of the strategy e.g. for Chromebooks, or for Adobe's Creative Cloud. Also, our connectedness through those data centers sometimes saves energy by allowing people to work from home instead of commuting.

So yes, there is a problem with the energy cost of computing, but using data-center consumption as a proxy for that is a bit like using increased wind/solar energy production as a proxy for excess overall energy use. The problem is on the demand side. The suppliers are often doing the best they can, and an increase in a particular supply segment might sometimes be a good sign.

Of course, I'm biased, because my day job involves making the storage part of data centers work more efficiently.
Economic transactions create a tax debt which creates demand for currency to pay the government. Sell stock, car, or some Twinkies, even in a different currency, and they get a cut.

Indirectly, messing with your currency risks economic harm creating a huge incentive for governments not to do that while things are going well.
This level of rigidity would preclude the gradual adoption of newer workflows, and hence be a hard blocker preventing any improvement or advancement.

I hesitate to criticise it, but I don't think such an environment would be polished. A frozen environment is one which can't be improved, so will naturally stagnate. You couldn't achieve a state of being "extremely polished" because those who cared to do the polishing would be denied the ability to do so because it requires change in order to do so.
I just have mail left to migrate, which in itself is proving quite difficult. Mail services are plentiful, paid or free, but mail for 5+ custom domains, where i'm not paying $5/mo per user, those are hard to come by.

I'm planning on, once again, spinning up my own mailserver on a $5/mo VPS. Have lots of domains, but not that many users/traffic.
>The main killer features compared to YAML/TOML are the following:

>Comments as first class citizens which means programs can manipulate and modify files with comments without destroying them.

>Safe

>Human and parser friendly

>Easy to use

Those were also my goals with StrictYAML: http://hitchdev.com/strictyaml
Another thing that is required for X11 forwarding is installed xauth on the server side (that means even the middle host(s)), nothing else X11 related is required.
>Does every journalist really "create controversies where there are none?"

Yes.

>Is every news story really an attempt to "divide society to get you hooked on news?"

Maybe not every, but yes. Not only to get you hooked on news, also to advance certain political ideas which depend on the journalist/medium.

>Do you also believe meteorologists gin up their weather forecasts with storms for better ratings?

I do. I'm not saying they make up storms, but they could very well make things look more grave than they are so people listen to them.
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The only times I have ever wanted to freeze an application it was for the purpose of it not hogging CPU time in favor of some interactive program, and had no better way of doing that.
On Linux, the Con Kolivas MuQSS CPU scheduler introduces a new scheduling policy called SCHED_IDLEPRIO which runs a program only if there is absolutely nothing else to run. It is perfect for long-running programs that don't need interactive performance.

EDIT: The example given in this article is also IMO better solved by using SCHED_IDLEPRIO
>Other example may be some heavy processing. For example you started RawTherapee or Darktable processing of large amount of photos and you are not able to smoothly watch a video. Just pause it, watch the video and unpause it again to finish its work.
> prosecutors say he did provide the murder weapon

I get that it's not fashionable to defend police and prosecutors in this zeitgeist, but this sure seems like it's more complicated than a simple frame job. If you don't technically pull the trigger but your friend does while you go next door to pick up a six pack and an alibi, are you really not guilty?
Heres a signing bonus, when can you start?
The observed one has just narrower wave function. That narrow that we can be pretty sure that next measurement of the same thing will fall close to the first one.
I’m an extrovert, I’ll never pick digital communication above face-face.

If we’re talking personality types I think it has more to do with people who are motivated by acceptance. I get that part of it, and I understand why the social media gurus and journalists are there, it’s basically their linked-in. (Which is basically management porn).

What I don’t get is why regular people join. I mean, I’m a manager, I play the “look-at-me” game on linked-in, in fact it’s part of my damn job to sell our stories to other managers - but I wouldn’t expect my neighbor to want to read about our approach to behavioral design and I’ve frankly never used it in any manner that wasn’t job-related either.
I totally disagree with Gruber’s “niceness” argument. The crowning achievement of the Series 4 is the democratizing effect of the technology re: Wharhol’s “A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke...”. Everyone can have the “best” watch. Apple unfortunately got away from this when they launched the watch. I’m glad they are back.

(Yes, I realize the watch is $400 which is outside of some people’s buying power)
https://mxroute.com/ is what I use for this very purpose and so far I'm very pleased with it.
A cheap electret microphone with a good signal chain and some DSP can easily compete with expensive condenser microphones. Condenser mics these days are used for the same reason vacuum tubes are used.
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Git over IPFS is already WIP:

There is mostly functional git remote - https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/git-remote-ipld - It's still missing "full" remote tracking with IPNS, that will get implemented soon after next go-ipfs release, so it's a bit weird to use now

Git portal is also taking shape: https://igis.io/ (also accessible via any gateway - https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipns/igis.io/). Git repo is at https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/IGiS (Dynamic features like pull-requests are hard).

Edit: formatting
That's why there is alphabet, labs etc. The business is trying to diversify.
> I was able to get stuck on an edge. Player's upper left edge caught on wall's lower right corner

Same here.
> Also, this is a refreshing take on RC aircraft that hasn't been done as much before.

Maybe the reason it hasn't been done much before is because one doesn't have to actually go and build this to know that it will be extremely inefficient and painful to fly...
Google birthed a parent company called Alphabet.
As much as a Google replacement would be great for competition, it would be extremely difficult. Google was able to scale with the web gradually through anti spam and proprietary software, but a new competitor would struggle to reach such a needed scale so quickly

Tl;dr: High cost of entry for newcomers
Approximate web traffic growth over last 6 months.

GitLab: 4.1m to 4.6m visits

GitHub: 542m to 561m visits
> I'm not saying "crime arrests per area is wrong".

But that's what you should have said if you were making a rational argument. Instead you made it a political statement by playing the racism card.
The space race was a one-time oddity. During it's peek NASA used nearly 4.5% of the federal budget[1]. The Soviets poured so much into it, it practically bankrupt them. The military wanted better ICBMs, the government wanted to win the race. No one ever dreamed of making it profitable.

SpaceX for comparison only relieved about 100m a year[2], or 0.0026% of the federal budget. Boeing and other groups have similar funding for their space programs. They also, as a commercial company, must be profitable (or try) which isn't as easy as it sounds.

Rocket development is slower even with better modern tooling because we just don't put any money into it anymore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
[2] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-annual-budget-of-SpaceX
Mercurial and git started the same month.
I like the very straightforward ui. But after making a test offer, i couldn't even cancel it.
> Conversely the South African "truth and reconciliation commission" seems to have played a part in the healing of that country - but at the cost of leaving crimes unpunished.

You punish people to deter others for committing the same crime. The other benefit, revenge, has a scope that is too narrow to benefit the masses. So, if you are replacing an evil regime with a new regime and there is no possibility that the old regime will come back (apartheid has run by a small minority of the population) then there is no benefit from punishing past crimes. This is why the "truth and reconciliation commission" was so successful.

Very few countries can boast to such a peaceful political turnaround.
To eliminate, first isolate. Dropping off social media only helps to isolate the groups being targeted there, much like walking away IRL. Using social media to challenge or balance out the misinformation is much more supportive of marginalized groups.
> I will never be Robben

And that's ok! And neither will I. I think some of my enthusiasm comes from picking up soccer later in life. I've found learning things as an adult is a totally different skill from learning as a child. By accepting that my goal is improving myself, and not competing with the world's best, I've found great joy in the smallest steps towards being a more perfect player.
Bloomberg is a market data provider, so it doesn’t really matter if someone wants the Terminal vs a data feed — we can sell them either.
A formal difference on paper. Top management actually transferred from google to alphabet when alphabet came to life.
Completely off topic but would you care to describe how you install your system automatically?
I'd imagine given her husband is a Chinese civil servant, this is either with approval or she has been asked to do it.

There's no way a marketing consultant and a civil servant don't understand the potential ramifications of being part of the article!
That's not gonna happen. Pijul's innovations originated in SCMs much older than git, and Torvalds evaluated all those SCMs before deciding to create git, so he was well aware of those ideas.
If it didn't happened in the beginning I doubt it'll happen in the future.
My comment was actually prompted by looking at Json5 features and thinking that I'm not really bothered about any of those other features. I'd just like JSON to have comments.
No one expected a miracle, but she was a Nobel Peace Prize recipient! She could have done much more to prevent the atrocities happening to the Rohingya.
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I'm also always actively looking, and they look interesting, but their recent blog posts don't fill me with too much confidence (although they have to be commended on being so open about it). Any personal experience there?
I'm going to post the same answer I gave in another thread on the initial post:

As said elsewhere, I mostly act as a curator of a very large effort of hundreds of individuals. The project was actually co-created by several other people who work on infrastructure at ZEIT (e.g..: Naoyuki Kanezawa led all the initial releases, designed important parts of the framework, Arunoda Susiripala contributed the test harness and key build pipeline infrastructure, and so on).
Hi Jon, amazing work! I am happy to try this out as I'm starting to get annoyed with SourceTree, it often hangs on me.

Is there a way to delete a local tracking branch and its corresponding branch on the origin in one operation? I often use this when cleaning up old branches that have been merged into the main development lines.
What's the name of that weekly paper, if you don't mind sharing?
my got over my deep depression with therapy and medication ( prozac ).
and keep my chronic depression under control with the therapy. i really should be doing some exercise, hit the gym, but still struggling with this one.
Gitlab, from my outside perspective, seems to be a company run with commonly accepted (here) best practicies through and through.

Very transparent to users, open core, very modern tech stack, entirely remote workforce, what more could you ask of a company? They aim to do things basically the way we as a community would ask.

How will it turn out? Anyone's guess :)
Because at the time the US split from England, there were myriad concerns about judges being influenced by authorities to convict innocent people for political (or personal) reasons.
Just for reference the original title was 'Leave no dark corner'
That makes sense. I guess with enough money we could develop a rocket much faster.
> I guess what is missing from your equation is that the model you are advocating for is not sustainable for large parts of the population.

I don't think anytime we'll have more than 0.1% of population living digital nomad lifestyle. Even most people who have the opportunity, still prefer living in one place, with their family.
Thanks. I just deleted it. I didn't want to get into authentication to let people update or delete their posts so for now I'm just going to get rid of them manually. Maybe I'll probably add it for next sukkot though.
Rust has safety and zero-cost abstractions at it's core, they provide a by now quite stable interface. You can't just move fast and break things. You need to stabilize at some point or it's impossible to use it in real world projects that are also commitments of a certain kind. And for that stability you need some kind of consensus of what to work on and what not to do.

I think the primary value of these new toy languages is they can explore aspects freely that can't just be explored in a more mature language. Sometimes after a concept has proven useful a mature language might be willing to incorporate it.

But I wouldn't use them on a serious project, because there will probably be few libraries and maybe no long term support for it.
Really, and its a terrible reason to write an entirely other app, but I just don't like the styling on the tabs :/ That tabbed Windows GUI is just so damn ugly it actually distracts me.
Regarding meteorologists “ginning it up”: maybe not to the degree of making storms up, but here’s a recent, widely covered example of sensational reporting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/09/...
Is perjury actively lying or also withholding exonerating evidence?

Rather than just if it results in execution, you'd think perjury resulting in jail time should mean the person lying should face the same jail term as the defendant.
Classism is certainly a thing, and that’s unfortunate, but it’s also really hard to deal with people who see in black-and-whites without appearing condescending, because almost everything is extremely complicated.
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She could have done much more to prevent the atrocities happening to the Rohingya.

Such as?
I'm nitpicking, but is there a reason why you use the numeric signal number in Linux? On my machine "kill -SIGSTOP" works as expected, and I don't remember a time when you couldn't use signal names like that.
> Gitlab, from my outside perspective, seems to be a company run with commonly accepted (here) best practicies through and through.

Don't they have massive scaling problems? And didn't they delete their production database by mistake recently?

GitHub doesn't seem to have faced the same problems - so it seems difficult to argue GitLab has better practices.

> what more could you ask of a company?

Reasonable page response times?
I wonder how much more power you can provide it to lift a human for a say half an hour.

I've always wanted to build a jetpack like that from xDubai [0]. This is definitely easier to build for an amateur compared to the one professionally built in the video.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl6ezyc
An application should reject anything not in its expected format. I would not want to be boxed into the limits of the configuration format's date and time representations. For example, TOML accepts datetimes with fixed offset time zones, but not time zone designators with multiple offsets, like America/New_York.
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Google code is back? They really do indicate they can host your repo in the post!
If you are suggesting I see in black and white, you are in error.
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> But who is going to implement them?

Well the question is if you were the CEO. The CEO is going to have to roll up their sleeves and be the change maker. The environment will have to change. Staying the same is not an option in the long run.

> Why do you think those 300 people will work against their own interests?

When the company environment is one of empowering people to change themselves or help them move out of the way, because change is coming, allows current management a choice. Believing the best about people and that they also want the company to succeed and that deep down they also are frustrated by the low profits. That they actually just need someone to guide them to the promise land. I guarantee you that this management team is totally in paranoid "How are we still in business?" mode. If you can say, "We are turning this ship around and making this company survive through hard work and tough decisions will get people to leave or to actual apply themselves.

You have to change the work place environment and pretty much that will take care of the majority of the 300 people. The hardest thing to do is to change the workplace environment that really can only happen from the top down.

One thing about change, good or bad is that change is difficult. In environmental change at work it is unbearable for months and months. You keep meetings with fewer and fewer people and they will start looking for greener pastures and search and find these articles.

https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-tips-for-deal...

If people are comfortable they will not look for new opportunities.

I guess I am saying that people don't take a self-assessment of their work till they are feeling left out or can't meet some challenges. Either way you have a better company from your management when they do. People will either flight or will challenge themselves, but staying the same is not an option.
Nobody is _forced_ to pay taxes in the modern age of affordable travel.

There is a competitive market of jurisdictions, offering different prices and products. Jurisdiction A includes trash pickup, which you might want because reducing fly tipping increases property values. Jurisdiction B has no trash pickup but low, low prices.

People who want B but who buy A instead can hardly complain that A isn't B - any more than a person who buys wine can complain it's not beer.
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You’re not guilty of murder, you’re guilty of supplying a weapon. Perhaps you could be convicted on something related to the murder if you knew in advance that the murder was going to take place with the weapon you provided. But that’s almost impossible to prove if your bar is as high as it should be for a murder conviction.
We had/have a similar system in Sweden called SEQR[1] (pronounced secure) which were launched back in 2011 but it never took off widely. However a couple of years later, Swish[2], a similar system by the large banks using phone numbers as the identifier instead (recently launched QR codes as well). Unlike SEQR Swish took off big time in Sweden and is used by roughly 65% of all Swedes.

An interesting side note is that Swish originally focused on easy instant transfers between friends while SEQR focused on mobile payments in stores. The "winner" Swish only started supporting payments in stores officially quite recently and it's still not nearly as widely adopted as SEQR was. Basically, any checkout machine in any large store supported SEQR but very few knew what it was and even the cashiers were often surprised that the feature existed if you tried to use it.

[1] https://www.seqr.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_(payment)
I’m not sure why I feel it’s any different to the other technology I use everyday and love, but smart watches and wearables never really grabbed me the same way phones and tablets did. I have a few nice Seikos and aspire to maybe one day get a used Omega or something, one that’ll hopefully last longer than I do and that my kids might enjoy as a thing to appreciate the detail and craft in one day. That said, the Apple Watch certainly is the one I’d buy if I was in the market, it feels like it was actually designed for people to use and enjoy, rather than just a toy.
There are difference between backing and acquiring. Plus, GitLab is open sourced and self-hostable.

If Google wants to throw some of their money on something that end user can fully control, then why not be happy about it?
I guess we will see how it turns out. I think the lesson here is that you can't just attempt to follow best practices and accepted wisdom without really thinking for yourself. (Nor would I argue they were clearly following best DB practices!)
Its selling point seems to be that it's "simple". Although for me Wordpress for instance is simple too in that it can be up and running within 10 minutes.
Microsoft still the largest software house. Of course Google is bigger on the web, but this doesn't make MS automatically a better choice even if it's fancy to call MS a trustworthy company as they invested few millions (out of billions) into FOSS ecosystem, basically because their cloud platform, meanwhile do everything to destroy competition everywhere else.
Microsoft, since Satya took over, is a developer-first company. Everything they're doing is designed to give developers better tools on whatever platform they choose.

As we're all aware by now, Google is an advertising company (with a heap of technology, but it's still a company which primarily sells advertising).
This looks interesting but impractical for me to mirror hundreds of repos here just to get better search.

Has anyone played with this or similar tools that can provide search by indexing at source. It’s a little surprising that Google doesn’t just index everything public in Github, gitlab, etc.

I would like a good code search solution especially because I have projects across lots of different repo servers but want developers to be able to find code regardless of repo home. A colleague indexed it with solr and that was ok, but had limited semantic ability and definitely nothing like what Google describes where your recent search history and activity is displayed to each user.
> what more could you ask of a company?

Support for plugins?
Yeah I would agree there, I'd rather take Github over Gitlab if Google takes over *lab.