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I more mean there are whole aspects of science that aren't provable without being able to actually obtain counterfactuals, and that means time machines
It's not just that it's free software, it's that it's designed to be modular.

Haiku is free software too but their desktop environment is tightly integrated into the system because that's the experience they're building towards.
I call bullshit.

Take housing in China. You can buy a place in China, but making money off of it with rent? Good luck.

It’s a common problem that people who can afford to buy a place, can’t rent it for a profit if they are still paying a mortgage.

Why that is, I really don’t know. But the fact is, it can be possible to have cheap rent available, if the owners are willing to not make a profit. But that’s just not how capitalism works.
I remember reading Howard Rheingold's book "Virtual Reality" when it came out almost 30 years ago, and seeing the Alvy Ray Smith (co-founder of Pixar) quote where he claimed that "Reality is 80 million polygons per second"

80 million is nothing nowadays, and we still have 20 years to go. How could he be so far off?
If a baker has deeply-held religious beliefs, can they refuse to bake cakes for people with different religious beliefs? If not, why can't online platforms decide not to do business with people whose beliefs or actions they find distasteful? If so, can you articulate a meaningful difference between the two cases?

And that's without getting into the issue where you've just effectively rolled back CDA 230. Why shouldn't sites be able to make and enforce rules for the use of their platforms? And how small can a platform be and still have you put the government's gun to its head and force them to act the way you want? If I run a web site where people can discuss things, are you going to send a SWAT team to my house and have them shoot me unless I stop kicking out Nazis?

For all the hand-wringing you want to do over what is, in the end, an exercise of the right of free association (which includes the right not to associate), you seem completely unconcerned with the kinds of horrific consequences that would come from forcing everyone to provide a platform to the whole world. So maybe first you should practice what you preach -- start tithing in support of causes you hate, listening to lectures in support of those causes, and going out in public carrying signs and banners for those causes. After all, by not doing that, you're already censoring them, and that's horrible!
Joseph Swan, or any of the other 23 inventors of the lightbuld prior to Edison
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Generally the opinion is that KDE is the superior experience.

Your complaints are like an American saying that their 110v electricity is good and everyone should switch to it. But it can't even boil a kettle in a reasonable time.
There is no shortage of unemployed academics (including radio astronomers). At that salary, located in rural China, they're not competitive with the local Walmart.
The term "mainframe" was also used for the part of microcomputer cases that held the expansion cards, but they weren't referring to the computer itself.

It seems to come from microcomputer hardware and accessory companies trying to throw the word "mainframe" into their ads somehow and make their stuff seem more important.
I won't because as I tried to allude to earlier, he's an incredibly biased and poor source of any sort of information. One glance at his twitter and youtube account told me everything I need to know.

Again, give me a neutral source and I'll be more than happy to debate you.
> Many things are created with out them being 'investments.' The builder just needs to be able to sell the home for more than the cost of labor, material, and land.

Spending money on something in th expectation of being able to resell it later for greater than the cost is, exactly, an investment.
I've known a few families over the years in California who rented detached houses. They rented houses (didn't have the down payment) to get the benefits of more space (ex: 3-bedroom place), yard (well small yard, this is California), garage, and washer/dryer.

Every single one of them had to move out before their kids grew up old enough to go to college. In fact they didn't last more than a few years at each house because every landlord would come around and ask the renters to move out.

The excuses given were:
- I'm selling the house (turned out it wasn't sold years)
- I'm remodeling the house (nope, not true)

Pretty much in all cases, the owner of the house was forcing the renter out so that they could raise up the rent much higher with the next, new renters.
I appreciate the fight you're fighting, friend. Free speech has become inconvenient, so long live the tyranny of the feudal corporation apparently? It's pretty gross.
Isn’t that implicitly an argument for keeping the surface area of fundamental rights small?
Anything other than Gnome or KDE will use less than half the resources. XFCE, Mate, LXDE/LXQT, etc. while maintaining the whole "environment" part of "desktop environment".

There's a huge difference between a tiling WM and a full-blown DE, and people who want the Gnome or KDE experience should absolutely not install sway or any other tiling WM.

Signed, a tiling WM user.
I've been on XFCE for over 10 years. Old style menu, never gets in my way, runs GTK and QT apps, easy to exetend, four monitors, etc. So simple and stable. I've avoided so much yak-shaving that other desktop Linux users I know have been stuck in, more than once.

Cheers to XFCE team!!
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- In my projects, I rarely run ad-hoc insert/update/delete queries on live production database. Instead, I write scripts using the language I used for the app for all database operations. I test the script on a local database, make sure there is no unintended side effects, than run the script on the production database, thus avoiding any chance of typos or wrong queries messing with the database. In any case, I also take a backup right before I run the script on production.

- For SQL injection, if you are using an ORM or library, it should have safe parameter binding for queries, make sure to follow its guidelines.

- It's mandatory to have an automated backup system for your database to ensure you can recover from any data loss scenario. Remember, a backup is only valid if you have tested to restore your database from it. So ideally your automated backup system should also check if the backup is working properly. I realize it's a lot of work, but it'll pay off when (not if) you encounter a disaster scenario that requires you to restore from backup.

At the very least, create an automated backup solution, and test it manually periodically to make sure it's working properly.

Store your backups in two or more separate places, if possible. Always encrypt your backups. You can check out Tarsnap.
Sure, you'd at least have a debatable case of a First Amendment issue under the Marsh v. Alabama precedent if the federal or a state government was enforcing a content-based deplatforming effort by ICANN.

But that's not at all the actual present issue.
For anyone looking for those videos, here's a link to them:

https://eater.net/quaternions

Each video is interactive, just pause and tweak the 3d visualization.
The videos are very good!
That isn’t the same though because a cheap off-brand iPhone clone still isn’t an iPhone by a long shot.
tldr; Tetris is a great distraction to keep your mind off of an anxious situation (e.g.: waiting for medical results).

To me it's just hypnotism, it works with other games or other activities but it's still escaping. Sometimes it's okay to escape, sometimes not and if you suffer from general anxiety disorder you have to work to recognize when it's okay to escape and when it's not.
My takeaway is that if I'm ever lost in the wild I need to make something VISIBLE.
Having multiple resolutions on a mobile device doesn't really make sense, but in iOS one can adjust the size of UI elements and text. There is a text size slider under display & brightness
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You could almost say we mostly learn from failures. If you had blind success with a complex method the only way to test the limits would be tweaking it to failure.
damnnn that pay is low !
That says more about you than the analogy.
For smaller work, it works for both Freelancer and buyer.
Making credible and specific calls for violece (e.g. "actively advocating for your murder" as you put it) is punisheable by law. There does exist a mechanism to punish people actively working towards causing harm, rather than spreading ideas. Of course, many would try to claim that whole ideas should be off limits - but that's essentially a concession that they're advocating using censorship (whether through government or corporate action) to manipulate which ideas can be disseminated through societies.
Yeah that's HiDPI scaling (for the whole screen) and I agree it's silly that the options are only 100% or 200%. In their defence, most screens are either 1080 or 4K, not a ton of resolutions in between for desktops or laptops.
> Isn’t that implicitly an argument for keeping the surface area of fundamental rights small?

It is at least one premise short of a basis for such an argument:

P1. All “fundamental rights” are products of human invention not found in nature.

P2. ?

C. Therefore, the number of fundamental rights on which a social system rests should be kept small.
Some phones have these apps preinstalled. I never used Facebook but I can't fully uninstall it from my Samsung Galaxy phone.
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Don't forget their most important advantage: they grew up and came of age during the post-WWII boom period, and therefore enjoyed unprecedented rates of wealth and standard of living increases.

You know, in direct contrast to Millennials, whom they enjoy criticizing so much.
The reason ME is there is for enterprises. So indeed, they do have clout.
Oh, scientific/research code is hard

First of all, a lot of people writing it are inexperienced in SW best practices. Then, turning formulas into code is hard, not to mention some article "handwavings" like showing pseudocode that's almost ok except for "do hard thing in this line" and that line expands into a lot of code.

I've also had some weird bugs in code like that (but nothing that would invalidate 18mo of results - btw did you know RAND_MAX is as low as 64k in different compilers, like some older versions of VS?)

(And computation times, though the cloud helps a lot with this)
> I discovered that you could take a thin piece and connect one dot from above and below to other pieces( "-=" ), and that piece was now free to swivel.

That opens up tons of interesting possibilities. Goes to show you what a kid can think of when they want to have some fun.

> busy learning how to handle a marriage and a career I never got into them

Well, I hope your kids get a chance to do that, you may live vicariously through them.
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No, that's an answer. I also mistook you for the parent comment.

To each their own but seeing travel, or even a short non-work break of some sort, in purely economic value might not be the most healthy outlook.

Who knows -- if you were to take even a one week trip somewhere else maybe the time away from your work will give you better insight into it, or even better thoughts/ideas, that might lead to more money / economic power, if that's your goal.
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sooo, the maple option?
Two ways of approaching a problem can be computationally equivalent and yet one can be a clear winner. For example, take a look at Maxwell’s equations—as originally formulated there were 20 different equations, with many equations duplicated for x, y, and z. Heaviside, Gibbs, and Hertz reformulated these using vectors and reduced the number of equations to four. Computationally equivalent, but nobody uses the 20-equation version of Maxwell’s equations any more.

Now consider relativity, which was originally motivated by Maxwell’s equations. We can describe flat spacetime as a 4D space with the Minkowski metric, which we can extend into a geometric algebra Cl_1,3(R). We can then describe field and current as multivectors, and we end up with the equation (singular!)

∇ F = µ_0 c J

This has the additional property that it captures how observations of electromagnetism change under Lorentz transforms. If you think of a Lorentz transform as just a change of basis in spacetime algebra, and if you think of electricity and magnetism as together being the basis for electromagnetism, then it’s obvious that (for example) a moving observer would see a magnetic field generated by a stationary charge.

This is obvious because the basis change from a stationary to moving observer will directly correspond to a basis change from an electric field to a magnetic field. This is simplifying a bit but I find it easier to remember and reason about the geometric algebra version of many of these formulas.
Ah, state-hosted platforms calling for the extermination of Jews. It's not exactly Radio Free Europe, is it?
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I can't help but wonder what the rate is that didn't admit to being asked to commit scientific fraud because they did.
> They have amazing cameras

Apple don't make camera sensors, yet.
It doesn't even have to be somewhere completely foreign or far away. Getting out of LA just a few hours out to other parts of CA, whether the rugged coast, wineries, eastern Sierras or sparse Mojave for a few days can help one decompress. I know I'm looking forward to my the week I'm taking off in December no matter whether it's a 2 hr drive or flight to Mexico.
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> If you don't own a home, you are effectively short the housing market.

If you don't own a home you are not hedged against the housing market.

That's different from being short.
I agree and included some of those in the tools section.
I love computing history. For anyone in the UK, I recommend you visit the national museum of computing in Milton Keynes.

It has so many things to look and interact with.

Most notably the Colossus, Bombe, Acorn computers and BBC micros.

If you are visiting as a tourist it's not too hard to get there from central London by train or car.
they also ignore the fact you are saving in rent, and you can also rent out your spare rooms (I did).

My house was and still is very affordable and it was one of the best investments I have done.

they are not mutually exclusive objectives once you consider everything.
Everyone I know who cares about the UI of linux doesn't use either.
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A classic on this subject, from British Rail: "The Pain Train".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGMSFWv4Vgk
I'm not sure about any algolia problems, but is there any specific reason you don't want to just use Google? (that's what I use to search HN) If you tack on "site:ycombinator.com" it generally works great for site-specific searches. You can do time ranges and more advanced searches as well.
I deployed a custom implementation of IETF BBR on FreeBSD at one of the major CDNs, Limelight, that was wildly successful for the company. One bit of wisdom I will share after having worked in this space for a few years, depending on what you're optimizing for, it's pretty easy to out-muscle the competition and make a "better" CC for your own selfish purposes at a small or large scale.

The real challenge in this space is balancing flow fairness, link utilization, buffering delay, heuristics or models to differentiate congestion from unrelated signals like RF interference causing channel loss, and making the whole thing computationally inexpensive. It's further difficult because the internet is a free for all, in a closed network flow control between each hop would make congestion control unnecessary as you could use a congestion avoidance algorithm instead. Fibre channel is an example of that in wide use with its credit based flows.
The source is at least readable on mobile. https://github.com/mvdan/talks/blob/master/2018/go1.11.slide
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Haha! Yes, indeed. A UUID would be better :b
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5. A commitment to elevate the Chief Diversity Officer to answer directly to the CEO and make recommendations directly to the Board of Directors. And, to appoint an Employee Representative to the Board.
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hi, in firefox 63 the autoplay preferences are reorganised in preparation for this feature shipping out of the box in one of the upcoming versions. in about:config you can set media.autoplay.default to 1 in order to block automatic playback on all pages or set it to 2 to decide on a per domain basis.

these hidden autoplay-related preferences have been under development for a long time. If you read past support threads about how they broke the Netflix player, or GIFV "images" on Imgur, etc., you know they needed more work before being unleashed on 300 million Firefox users. Meanwhile, Firefox 58 introduced a new approach to site permissions on the Options/Preferences page. When the feature is fully debugged and ready for prime-time, we expect a new section to appear where you'll be able to manage it like other site permissions, and if you want site-by-site control, a drop-panel from the left end of the address bar.

Until it is fully baked, please understand that its behavior and naming will remain in flux. And please report problems as they arise.

You can set the first two prefs listed below (or at least user-gestures-needed) to true then to have a setting available in "Options/Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Permissions" that also allows to inspect and modify the exceptions.

media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed = true
media.autoplay.ask-permission = true
media.autoplay.default = 0 [0=Allowed, 1=Blocked, 2=Prompt]

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar.You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
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It is great that you can use Gnome without issue, the problem is that Gnome developers and a big part of teh community had this attitude and ignored the complaints about lag and memory leaks until Ubuntu switched to Gnome and a big number of people were "forced" into Gnome and the problems could not be blamed on drivers or extensions.

If you are using terminals a lot you should try Konsole, see how customizable it is(tabs, you can have multiple profiles, set a profile per tab) the app is made to help you do your job better, same with Dolphin. Gnome apps are optimized for an ideal new users, a user that is so "special" that power options will make his brain collapse, the apps are made by designers and not by user feedback.
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> What would it look like for an "anti-deplatforming" initiative to succeed?

Casting mere absence of de-platforming efforts as an initiative definitely gets the golden medal for mental gymnastics in this entire discussion.

>A platform's identity and ability to attract an audience are determined by the activities they accept / cultivate, not vice versa.

It's interesting how you don't factor in the actual value being provided. As if the only thing that can drive people to use a service is whether the company bans the "right" people.

Also, since when does a DNS provider or credit card processor suddenly need an "identity"?

>Gab would like to use Stripe or Paypal because they are trusted payment providers, but those networks felt they'd stop being trusted payment providers if they let Gab stay on.

Users trust PayPal because it moves money in a predictable way without leaking credit card info. This has nothing to do with some unrelated vendor using the system, as long as that vendor isn't scamming people.

Are you seriously advocating baking activism? Do you understand how unstable the entire society will become if more organizations follow this suit in more cases?

>And there's plenty of reason to think they're right: super-permissive platforms exist and work (4chan et al.), they just don't attract the same broad audience.

4chan as opposed to what? Most platforms that are currently at the top of that food chain rose there by being permissive and they're changing their mottos only now, when they feel they can get away with it. Reddit and Twitter used to be staunch advocates of free speech when they actually needed to attract users, instead of relying on the network effect. But that's not even particularly relevant to this discussion.

>When people complain about being deplatformed, they're just saying "the platforms that accept me aren't popular enough". I'm glad our internet is enough of a distributed commons that many platforms are broadly accessible -- but nobody owes you an audience at the most popular ones.

Gab was a social media platform. Their audience wasn't provided to them by PayPal, GoDaddy or Azure. Your argument makes no sense in this context.
> The point matters more than the comparison used to make it.

Only if we assume the soundbite it's just like when Japanese Americans were put in concentration camps didn't happen.

The point could have been made without the comparison, by writing something like this:

"Surprisingly few people cared" is a very poor metric to apply to a principle of rights and justice.

And then we can discuss how social norms and the legal system interact, rather than have this conversation.
Does multi-monitor mixed-DPI work in Gnome?

It does with GNOME on Wayland. I have used GNOME on Wayland for a while with HiDPI and LoDPI displays.