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Some of the comments here feel weird.

Elementary OS has picked a specific niche, and its arguably the best distribution in it.
It has a really well designed and consistent UI experience, and you can't break it.
I think most of you just don't realize how difficult linux is for people who barely understand how to use a Mac or Windows machine.

Furthermore, linux is a world where mainstream distributions still release with horrible UI experiences with numerous typography mistakes, icons of different sizes and grid alignment imbalances everywhere.

Like check out this Mint (grey theme) screenshot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Li...
and compare it with elementary OS here
https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/elementary-os-0-...

Mint is great, but seriously. Look at that logo render. Even worse, look at the start bar. Every single text and logo has a different height. I mean how do you even do something like that unintentionally?

I am using XFCE right now, and it's great because its much faster than KDE or Gnome on this old laptop. But it sure isn't a pretty UI.
I know a MSc. designer and she claims using my laptop makes her physically sick and dizzy. I don't care as much, but I can see the point. Everything is misaligned, in the start menu, the task bar, the apps. In the window bar the buttons and the minimize arrow aren't the same size. I mean seriously, whoever did this just did not care about Ui.

I don't think ElementaryOS is for everyone. If you have any interest in non-standard repos, recent kernels or doing stuff in commandline, you are just better off elsewhere. I understand their choices, but I don't use it because of how they do the app store, among other things.

But if you just want a computer that runs, looks good and doesn't break if you do X, then I think ElementaryOS is the #1 choice in the Linux world, and we should be thankful that it exists.
Elementary is a good Chrome OS alternative. I just wish Chrome OS was officially available for PCs.
One must be delusional to believe something like this. I work in science and it is still extremely white and male dominated. All the students I teach are also mostly white and male and are very much enthusiastic about continuing in science. If anything, the people who are typically less enthusiastic are the non-white/non-male students. And understandably so, because - despite some minimal effort to change in recent times - the environment just isn't all that welcoming to them.
There is already a Ukraine - Russian war going on though.
> why we even needed the Avogadro constant / mole as a fundamental constant(...?)

It serves as a link between human-scale and atomic-scale observations, classically needed for chemistry performed on Earth by humans. This link must exist, as others mentioned, for stoichiometric calculations (e.g. air/gas mixture in a internal combustion engine). For much of modern scientific history, it was deemed useful to scale into an easily eye-visible human scale (the gram). [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constant#General_role...
just set the timezone of your devices to UTC, and you're done! Actually getting other people to schedule meetings with you in UTC is going to be a bit trickier though.
So night shifts cause cancer[1] but sleepless nights not an early death? Seems very unlikely.

[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320554.php
> I would much rather have raw onions.

Really? Yes, people are different, but this automatically invalidates you from any lists at all. Raw onions. Wow. Why not just eat an onion
imo It's a Chrome OS alternative meant to be used by people who aren't technical.
Yeah be careful taking this if you are already taking an SSRI or SSNRI. You can cause Serotonin Syndrome, which I can tell you from experience is not fun (Mine was caused by taking too much 5-HTP, not by St John's Wort, but the latter can definitely do it too).
> You are partially responsible for this. Why is it the first response to blame everyone else but it is never the fault of those who are on the front lines (teachers, parents, people in the community)?

The article explicitly discusses how easy it is for teenagers to vape in secret, without parents or teachers knowing. "Matt" in the article was able to keep it a secret from his parents for two years. When his parents found out, they absolutely did talk to him. But he was already an addict.

> having any tobacco / nicotine products on school grounds is quite illegal for both students and faculty : with fines and possible jail time

I don't know where you live, but this certainlky isn't true everywhere. Smoking generally isn't allowed in school buildings anymore (possibly there may be a few schools with old-school faculty smoking lounges, I don't know), but many or most places allow faculty to smoke outside.

This of course ignores the problem with vaping anyway - it's much harder to detect. There's no smoke smell, and vapers often believe they have a right to vape anywhere and everywhere, because "it's not smoke." This is certainly true for kids in school. The article even mentions how the teenagers were avoiding being caught. What are you going to do, strip search every day?

> E-cigarettes have helped quite a few people I know stop smoking

That's great. That doesn't excuse their easy availability and the clear marketing toward children. That's how the media and government need to be held accountable.

> there are much more dire issues in many communities that need to be addressed (maybe the opioid and Heroin epidemic?).

That there are more dire issues doesn't mean we can't tackle less dire ones. The real tragedy is if the government had been on the ball, this would have never been a problem in the first place. E-cigs should have been much more heavily restricted, no flavorings allowed, etc., then people could have still quit smoking and we wouldn't have a teenage nicotine addiction epidemic. As it is, e-cigs have been sold as something basically completely safe and fun, and consequently millions of children are now addicts.

Also, from the article:

> “Nicotine may disrupt the formation of circuits in the brain that control attention and learning,” said Dr. Rachel Boykan, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Stony Brook University School of Medicine and an executive member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ section on tobacco control. “And there is a higher risk of them subsequently becoming tobacco smokers.”

E-cigarettes helped your friends stop smoking. Great! But apparently they're helping other people start.
You actually are wrong about this. No one here want to work in NJ. Few young people in the city keep cars. People would scratch their heads if you told them you were working out there. Might be just a psychological thing. but it's real. I wouldn't look for jobs in NJ unless they dropped into my lap.
Do you work at Apple/Amazon/Facebook?
> that's not much help when incrementally modifying an existing code base

I am doing exactly that now that I converted the Digital Mars C++ and the DMD D programming language compilers to D - converting the pointer based array code to [] based arrays. Doing it incrementally is very doable and easy.

It's not viral like const is. A slice can be trivially created:

a[] = p[0 .. length];

and the other way:

p = a.ptr;
length = a.length;
Would this be good for people looking to get into the go programming language?
The doctors were getting shown a whole host of studies which all said that there was only a minor addiction risk. You need to be able to put trust into what the studies are showing.
Whenever you feed your sourdough starter, or add locally bought flour, or anything along those lines you are introducing locally available microbes.

A sourdough starter from SF won't be a SF sourdough for long just because of the microbes in the air/flour as you continue to feed it.

It becomes it's own living and breathing organism that you have to take care of or it dies.
Also on the person who cooked it, the ingredients they got that day, how busy they were, whether they got a call during the cooking process, what you ate that day and the day before, as well as what you drank, and even how you go there.

There are so many variables.
What is the difference between a Gantt chart and a dependency graph?
You realize that webcasts extras are not random sample of SpaceX engineering force?

Japan biggest challenge is collapsing population.

Honestly Space or NK for that matter are tiny problems for Japan. Debt and birth rate is what they need to face. That is real crisis.
My thought for a solution to the food-tourist problem in cases like this is that if you've got ID that says you're local, great you're welcome. If not, well we've got 3-5 slots/day for those...
In case you are not joking... in metric countries we still say the same sentences you say, with miles and inches. That doesn't mean we use the olde units to actually measure something...
Who says TicketMaster didn't raise ticket prices?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ticketmaster-c...
This reminds me of a defcon talk by Chris Rock about how to overthrow a government.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1lhGqNCZlA
Your post is a perfect example of the utterly massive entitlement that young people have today. I learned a TON in my undergrad CS classes, and that only began to scratch the surface of what I needed for grad school. That you didn't learn anything is a reflection of you, not your professors.

Life takes work, you are in no position to just jump into research. You don't have the background, the skills, and clearly not the maturity either. You are not experienced, and even when you graduate you will not be experienced. While the economics of development today might mean that you will get a high starting salary, you are still a junior with a lot to learn.
> My theory is, a lot of these so-called job openings are for jobs that aren't really needed. And the stakeholders don't realize that the jobs aren't needed until the final hiring decision sign off is needed.

This. It's a free option (pay if you use it, free if you don't - or, more precisely, it's the candidates who pay, with time and hope.
I was looking at screenshots of the first couple releases yesterday. I’m not surprised if you were unimpressed. I would have been too.

The latest release looks worlds better. If it’s been a couple years since you checked it out, try taking the Juno live ISO for a spin.
Household debt hit a record high of $13.5T last quarter
Linux support was added :^)
Calculating p-values falls under hypothesis testing
Appropriately, it now contains several outdated rants, showing vast impact these redefinition have: we'll all get an update to units.txt soon!
*British themselves have shamelessly abandoned most of them, most of the time, when convenient
I can't imagine taking an hour every night to fall asleep.

Sure, the occasional time spent in fantasyland can be nice, but I wouldn't want it to be necessary.
> I always know exactly what I'm paying with a cab, and it's no hassle.

Huh?? The #1 reason I use ride-sharing apps is because I have no idea what I'll be paying for a cab until the ride is over.
If you’re going to look to the “primitives”, then it should be assumed that killing was always “normalized”: as with any solution, if the conditions are right, and its not that difficult to find such conditions in a primitive society, an expediated exit can be the best and safest solution to a problem.

Combined with the fact that resources are limited, self-preservation and tribal-preservation is embedded, populations want to expand (as part of tribal-preservation) and we actually have some capacity to harm one another, combat is pretty much inevitable. Given a pacifist vegetarian clan, and a non-aggressive predatory one, in trying times, the pacifist must build up their defenses or perish. If they’ve built up their defenses, they will undoubtedly be capable of waging war, (humans are quite versatile in that) and in trying times, they likely must wage war, or perish.

A purely pacifist stance is only viable if no one does anything; that is, a standstill. The possibility of killing is always there: I’m sure you could convince rabbits to murder one-another if you take enough from them. It is normal, because death, by any means, is normal.

Pacifism is the normalization, not aggression. That we can, through research and technology, better resolve resource contention through more efficient production, than seizing the resource from one another. That, and the realization that we’ve long reached a point where it’s near impossible to wage war without heavy (or even heavier) repercussion from challenging even a weak opponent. The world wars were to an extent a result of failing to make that realization. The cold wars was a direct result of making it.

(Outright) War is no longer as viable an option because peace is intrinsically better, but because its become difficult to successfully do. War was not engaged because it was “ingrained” upon us, but because it was viable strategy (or even defense against passive invasion).

Hunters and gatherers merely allowed us to better engage in war; it did not open the possibility (it was always there), and its absence would not have closed it. Rabbits simply don’t have the intelligence to realize the option (or coordinate it, or even the tools to effectively engage), even when it's clearly their best option. But they would have reached the same conclusion as we did, were they capable enough toolmakers to resolve those weaknesses.

Also notably, almost every given collection of humans spends far more time at relative peace than engaging in war (the US today is capable of engaging continously in small wars, but it rarely engages in significant ones). It’s difficult to ascribe a “tendency” for war to such a species, except by skipping over the peaceful periods.
I agree with this. I've seen it happen at a Fortune 100 oil company. Times were crappy post 2008, we had regular drip brew coffee. Then oil prices suddenly went up and we were getting literally billions of dollars of orders, and the fancy custom tea and coffee machine was installed.

Anndddd thenn the oil price dropped and a crappy drip machine was installed, and 80% of the staff was laid off.

The ideas I've read in this thread ring true!
cough Bitcoin! cough
Oh, I was happy with it technically, and I'm glad you're doing something similar with some success! It was just the wrong direction there because it added some friction, building new things where we don't need to build new things. For a personal project, I would still be doing it that way :)
I had a post viral illness this year after glandular fever. The post viral illness is related to chronic fatigue and if it hadn't resolved I would have been diagnosed with chronic fatigue. I had every test the doctors could think of and I was seeing specialists, yet every test said I was a bill of health. It's incredibly frustrating to have medical practitioners not believe you when the illness is ruining your life.
It would have been a tough regulatory battle to ever recoup an investment in the US even if it did work as advertised.
Here what I would have done if I were Stanich (and didnt experience those personal family problems)

If you're a regular / local / I know you. you get service as normal.

If youre an out of towner coming here on the basis of the review then you must book in advance. and we only book as many of these per day as we can handle.
If your an out of towner and just turn up, and we're not booked-out, or happen to be under capacity then you can dine as normal.
Fascinating, thanks. No idea why the negative reception.

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18429409
When I said legit newsletters, I meant the sort you get from sites you've already signed up for. Newsletters that arrive out of the blue are not legit and you should of course never interact with those, but that's self-evident for the reasons you stated, and the whole point of me mentioning legit newsletters specifically was to point out that these shouldn't go in your spam folder because they tend to look too similar to legitimate notification emails, and you only end up skewing the filter toward false positives.
Portlander here and experienced very similar circumstances to what is described in that post just before Stanich's closed.
Nope, because we don't use the Imperial system, though. We use American Standard Units. They happen to be just like the Imperial units, except they have more freedom.
There also was a very strong emphasis on pain treatment as part of standard-of-care.

When pain management is legislated, it becomes a lot easier for doctors to accept it as necessary.
I work in a hard science and, while it may not look as egregious as p-hacking, my field is riddled with misapplication of statistics and problems that generally follow the trend of your parent comment.
The thing I find most amusing about your response is that it could cut-and-paste replace my own response to the OP.

You're reiterating my point. And also, perhaps, missing it at the same time?
How is this different from UML?
Kinda like what's been happening for a few years now.
I’ve never used a snap, but I believe they have a snap manager in the curated section of their App Store, and it looked pretty straightforward.
I've been working in this space for the last few months. While you are correct, you can buy and easily modify a cheap downconverter to receive frequencies quite a lot higher than the plain old rtl-sdr by itself. [0]

[0] https://www.rtl-sdr.com/potentially-receiving-up-to-10-ghz-w...
Are you confusing continuations with closures? McCarthy credits Russell with inventing the FUNARG device to achieve lexical scoping.
* GSM (2g) does not have authentication at all.

* 3G has no integrity protection. Downgrade attacks from 3G->2G work.
Also, it's the base station who decides if authentication and encryption is done. Fake base stations can still be used to track location, intercept calls and data.

* LTE/4G has mutual authentication and mandatory integrity protection. In theory you can't get IMEI if the message has no integrity but the protocols are not perfect.

LTE/4G can still be intercepted by using jammers, DoS attacks or exploiting weaknesses in the protocols and implementations to force a downgrade. Some messages in the protocols still go unencrypted and without authentication. It's for example possible to edit voice domain preference or send "LTE services not allowed" messages or edit the list of supported protocols to force downgrade.

Practical attacks against privacy and availability in
4G/LTE mobile communication systems
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.07563v1.pdf
It’s just a window manager and not even a very good one.
Absolutely, it's candelous that it's part of the standard.
This is pretty much the plot of Goldeneye. A lot of effort will have gone into disaster recovery (tapes in nuclear bunkers etc) but also remember the counterparties have records too.
Pretty much. I just check it occasionally. Did the same thing back when I was a Gmail user, because Gmail has false positives too from time to time.
And we don't even think about these dependencies. In the US, Mastercard and Visa payments are generally both processed by all of the same processors; you know if you use Amex or Discover you'll have a harder time.

I was in Cusco, Peru a couple of months ago, and there are signs ALL OVER saying Visa accepted here, and also quite a few about Mastercard.

Imagine my surprise when we tried to make a purchase at a store (with Visa and Mastercard logos prominently displayed, no less!) where the merchant insisted on Mastercard. Not Visa.

I found my backup credit card. And another. And I went through my debit cards. As did my wife.

We had 9 cards between the two of us, and they were ALL Visas. Just not something you'd even think of in the US, frankly. And I've had plenty of Mastercards over the years, but the distinctions are rarely important to us.
Rouge burger was not a custom meat blend. It was a rouge steak ground from steak into ground meat for the burger as the burger was ordered because there was no space in the kitchen - it was that small.

But that's not the point - the list was of burgers: roll, meat patty, cheese, maybe some other stuff. The one that he raved about had gooish cheese etc. Were there also caramelized onions? It was the "we too can make a burger like those fancy places and not a greasy spoon diner next door".

Burger is a burger. The better the burger the higher its price could be if there are people willing to wait for it.

Chef's burger or no chef's burger - i mean hell, NY Burger Co's burgers beat some of the chef's burgers.
High DPI on Linux is okay if you're using a monitor you can run at an integer scaling factor, e.g. 1x, 2x, 3x. Fractional scaling is still officially supported by Gnome (I'm not sure about other desktops), so you have to do some hacks with xrandr and the Gnome scaling UI.
It’s not just Facebook. GOP-tied firm “brought oppo research to Silicon Valley”
> If companies are successful in pitting one state against another, they will end up paying no state taxes. As a result, the economy will not be one iota more efficient

This was preceded by a claim that Amazon would employ 25000+ people at the new HQs. Those people will pay taxes, and having 25k extra jobs in your state is, economically speaking, better than not having them.
LIGO and the Higgs boson example are both extreme outliers in physics in terms of scale, how much statistics they necessarily involve, the scrutiny and publicity they get and almost every other property. I'd also note that scientists trying to oversimplify things for a media interview almost always screw up somewhere. I wouldn't draw any conclusions about physics in general from either their papers or (especially) interviews.
> Imagine if you had to do math with a bunch of 10^23 exponents all of the time.

What if it was just set to 10^24 then? Much easier to remember and serves the same purpose.

If it was 1 it would work too, since the SI system already has a way to deal with large numbers: prefixes. So we might wrote Ymol for yotta mole = 10^24 mol.
Unless you plop them into a warzone, they won't truly care. In the US we are generally so far removed from the fracas of war.
> I don't get why we would want to allow packages to run any scripts before/after the installation.

That’s because you probably never built a package management system. If you limit the package management system to the actions you propose it’s only usable for iOS type apps and that could be useful but then you still need a solution for managing the rest of the system.