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So one thing I don't understand is why window managers in linux never seem to have ways to let the user tweak the UI? I mean it's something to add, but I find it odd that no one has thought to add it?

Or is it just a feature hidden somewhere?

I've thought on several occasions that I'd be pretty happy if I could just hijack how the UI layer was rendering some program, tweak text sizes, adjust colours and make that a user specific choice that can be done at the OS level. It would make linux far more accessible in my opinion and give the average user a way to fix issues that as you say may make some feel physically sick and dizzy.

Users could then start sharing fixes and tweaks and devs who are interested could pull in these settings into the main program, the work could be shared and these OS's could get better! =)...

It just seems such a prefect example of give power to your user and everything is editable, many people don't have time to dig into the internals of everything, but they'd be happy using a relatively straightforward tool (or at least one with tons of tutorials) to adjust the programs they use to their liking, and I'd wager they'd be pretty happy sharing the tweaks they made too.

Maybe this already exists? If it does please tell me! It's the one major thing that keeps me coming back to macs/windows machines. I find it pretty funny, most of my linux time is lived in servers and when I was a teen I ran ubuntu desktop for some time, but I just couldn't deal with it after a while. Which is a shame in my book, and I could certainly see something like this being in the community spirit of linux.

PS: If anyone is thinking of doing this and want's to talk to me for some reason, I'll be happy to discuss this further =)...
It is also worth pointing out that Tom Wheeler's decision making was impacted by public comment -- his proposal went from weakening net neutrality rules to a fundamental shift in how ISPs are regulated after a public outcry. Ajit Pai was never going to be affected by public comment and completely dismissed the comments people submitted.
I wondered if this was the case too. I’m also curious the mechanism this uses, what’s mentioned in the article (flood of calcium into the nerve ending) doesn’t make sense to me, but I have no expertise in this field.
If they actually reached the sea they would ditch it sooner. Because of the faulty controls they couldn't orient themselves, and more important, the airplane did not turn the way they wanted it to, and kept jumping altitudes. Because of that, at some point they kinda started to figure out how to manhandle the jet, while waiting the Portuguese F16s to come and help orient them. If I read correctly somewhere, the autopilot had enough life in it to keep the plane basically flying. If they were closer to water, maybe this would not be such a happy story.

The fighter pilot(s) and ATC did a whole lot actually, they seemed willing not to give up and let them just ditch. The fighter pilots obviously new the local conditions and airports very well and led them to land.

Sadly, the Lion Air had a different malfunction, they did not have time to react. Maybe, just maybe, another crew would, but that's not the point. It is pointless to sorrow about people not doing something they were not trained for, and possibly not even aware, in a profession heavily dependent on training and procedures.
I've avoided Ubuntu since the Amazon-search issue, so I haven't tested 18.04 personally, but the second article I linked to says:

"This data collection is turned on by default"

I took this to mean that telemetry was being collected and, if someone desired, could be turned off after the fact. I have a problem with telemetry being opt-out (it should always be opt-in). If Ubuntu is prompting to allow or disallow the collection of data, then that is good news, as people are being asked for their informed consent.
Great point. Python 3 for many just wasn't a great carrot. That's why they didn't switch. For a while it was even slower. Also most importantly Python 2 wasn't that bad of a stick. It was just pretty darn good to begin with. And of course that it is still supported on some OS-s people will keep using.
that's a poor argument. Your conclusion doesn't have any evidence or examples to back up a counter to this article.

One conveniently forgets Japan's lost decade after a very similar credit bubble pop.

China is not the US. Japan is not the US.

US is US. There are no equals.

edit: What evidence do you have to counter the trillion dollars of debt that China has been accumulating? How is this not different from Japan's credit bubble of the late 80s that subsequently led to a 20 year stagnation?

We seem to have a very different definition of what a credit bubble is, you seem to completely ignore the huge amount of credit lent out to state owned assets, banks which in turn have extended credit to allow massive speculation on real estate? How do you account for the ghost cities where speculation has made prices out of touch with reality? Are these not tall tale signs that there is something much more startling being covered up? Which government has a history of fiddling with numbers and refuse to allow international audits? Who believes that China will surpass the USA? Apparently a lot of people believed Japan will surpass the USA shortly before the credit bubble popped. You are doing a poor job of arguing that this isn't another credit bubble.
Digital products illicit emotional responses just like physical ones. Aesthetic clouds our judgement when it comes to usability—it's a well documented universal design principle and affects people's sense of usability regardless of culture, location, or education.

There's a relevant XKCD for this discussion:
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/kerning.png

Some folks value privacy and control over appearance. Their sense of value from both outweigh any cons of a bad UI. Others can't move past how a UI feels. Both positions are completely valid.

OSS needs more UI design talent—if you've lodged complaints here, pick a project/distro, dig through the contribution guidelines, and improve the UI.
So if my language (Ukrainian in my case) is not in the "I speak" list, there's nothing I can do except for closing the browser tab. It would be much better if I could contribute something instead, or at least indicate interest in my language if the language is missing from the list.
Bit anecdotal, but if I eat a tablespoon of Pepper X with other food, I do feel a general numbing of pain for a while after.
It banned smartwatches that have remote cover listening features. Smartwatches for kids that don't have them are fine.
You saw what they did there eh?
Show HN: Gmail Classic – CSS for Reverting Gmail's New Look
This is my mini React template for experiments, including JSX: https://gist.github.com/Badestrand/3609e7c3c88ba47bb9682a474...
I present an Open Source, versioned, linted set of CSS rules for reverting Gmail to the theme that was so forcefully taken away from us. Change is hard, and sometimes change rubs like coarse sandpaper. I wasn't and still am not a fan of the new design, so I put this together after not finding a well-rounded complete solution. And that's what this aims to be. There are surely quirks that haven't been adjusted, and if you see some, please open an Issue (preferably with a screenshot) so this can be improved.
You must live in the US.
Honestly, UX is probably the easiest thing to do better than the big companies. Their UX is usually terrible.

Just look at how much worse Google recently made the GMail UI.
> How do we do that? Maybe start by not making it an issue that only geeks or tech savvy types are outraged about.

As far as I can tell they throttled Netflix and the people didn't move.
Changed the link in my HN profile, will remove
The share button when that site is redone. Thanks!
It is already true that robots grow our food, the labour productivity for food production is orders of magnitude higher than 100-200 years ago, huge tracts of land that previously required hundreds or even thousands of workers are now managed by a handful of people and their machines. That process in a way has already happened. And it is already the case that most career opportunities (and a high percentage of young people) are in the cities.
> Why cant you accept it as it is

I can. But... this isn’t happening in a vacuum and there is context to this situation.

While it seems to benefit the public, WL also is aimed at taking particular groups down. The groups being shielded are not “good”. Ultimately “public benefit” is questionable. You don’t know my political beliefs and I made no reference to them...
- Honda Civic Coupe HF 4 cylinder (M5) 1985: 49 mpg [1]

Pretty soon we will be as good as 1985.

https://www.mpgomatic.com/2007/10/16/honda-civic-gas-mileage...
One possible outcome is that you donate more before getting the same net return.

It really depends on the target metric: Do you want to donate at least x? Do you want to net at least y? Or do you want to pay at most z in taxes? Only z would cause reduced contributions from shrinking tax rate. Unless of course there is some disguised return channel hidden in the charity and those contributions are not as selfless as they are supposed to be to legitimate deductibility.
When I used it 2-3 years ago the UI was slick, lean, responsive .. above ubuntu in terms of average user appeal.
Except it's not, as a pint is 20 fl.oz, while a pound is only 16 oz.

UK resident here, in case you couldn't tell :).
> the stock market /is/ a set of correlated random variables

No. this is neo-platonic bullshit. In this context is here must be a type-error. What could be imagined in not what really is - reality is one, interpretations are infinite. Stock Market is the result of human (and computer) actions - the result of actions of all institutional participants. This is what it is.

A model could be created to be superimposed on these partially-observable stochastic processes (and, boy, there is no shortage of these, and no one is right, of course) but it will be only a model, usefulness and applicability of which depends upon who is using it and for what means (usually, bullshitting).

Geometry is closer to "what is" because it abstracts out "concrete" patterns this universe is able to produce (and lots of imaginary bullshit, of course).

Let me stress is a gain - maths are generalized and abstracted out patterns of what is, plus abstract sectarian bullshit. Reality comes first, (it is a closure) interpretations and abstractions are bound by it.
Phys.org isn’t a popsci publication, it’s a press release aggregator for scientific publications.

This is a press release from the NRAO.

https://public.nrao.edu/news/2018-alma-luminous-streamers/

Also in this case luminosity is exactly the correct term as it describes the intrinsic brightness (how much light is emitted in a given unit of time) of an object not its appearent brightess (how bright it is to the observer) which is affected by distance and other factors.
> it was pretty hard to get people to give up fisher price windows xp

It was a decade ago. The world has moved on since then and the expectations are much higher nowadays. For example, see software landing pages today vs. 2008. Even modern Instagram photos look like they were professionally edited for a magazine.
This might be true if you're an english speaker, running the script on an english platform and only consuming data from english services. And also you are sure that no non-english speaker will ever take over the development of your script and you will never have to localize it to other languages. Otherwise, it's exactly the opposite. Python 3 is what you should be using if you want 0% chance of being stopped by a string encoding issue.

Python 3 might occasionally require some extra steps when consuming strings compared to Python 2, but the reality is that those steps were always necessary. Python 2 just hid those details in a way that was only really safe for english-exclusive development. That doesn't mean that Python 2 is easier to use or less brittle. In fact I would say it means the opposite.
Nice I thought about doing something similar, to at least make borders between things stand out better.

Some screenshots in the reader would be nice.
If going from 100 °C to 90 °C was a 10% decrease, then going from 0 °C to 1 °C would be an ∞% increase. Metric units are superior to imperial for many reasons, but this isn’t one of them.
A claim that the Chinese economy is a bubble is sufficiently extraordinary for those who make it to provide evidence. Asking me to provide evidence to the contrary is a rhetorical trick, nothing more.

What is the evidence? The actual economy has been massively growing for 40 years. That's not a bubble.

Again, even whether there may be a credit bubble that is not the same as claiming that the Chinese economy is a bubble.
Software architecture for 5G networks
I think two-way-binding is the reason why many people prefer Vue to React.

If you did Ember or Angular1, Vue is much easier to grasp.
A pint is a pound so long as you're in the US. Everywhere else, it's 20 fl.oz, while a pound is 16 oz.
As the two world wars have shown us, history is written by victors. That also applies to democratic votes.
Renewable generation (solar, wind, geothermal) is usually made in-country. However, fuel-based generation (coal, natural gas, nuclear, oil, etc.) has fuel that can be shipped or piped in if you don't have a source for it locally.

So in general, the "electrification of everything" along with cheaper renewables and storage will likely push countries towards more "energy independence" than currently.
Do you have a source for your claim?

Slavery was the first order cause, so it would be correct to present slavery as having a central role.

source: Texas Declaration of Secession:
http://www.civil-war.net/pages/texas_declaration.asp
As with anything, too much of a good thing can be detrimental: hyperactivity of the DMN has been linked with things like schizophrenia, anxiety, and ADHD. (Indeed, some point to the hypothesis that the DMN was not evolved for today's distraction filled world.) It's interesting that things like meditation (and apparently psychedelics) can quiet the DMN and bring clarity and happiness in people by doing so.
If only 1985 could catch up to our NVH , safety and emissions.
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> What does that cost per month? (if I may ask)

I don't actually remember but I did the test on my own Heroku apps now and with Performance-M dynos (the ones we were using) we were looking at $5000+/month.

To be fair the most expensive things were the add-ons; we were spending over $10000/month for those.
I wrote a tutorial about this.

In this lesson I cover JSX:

https://github.com/kay-is/react-from-zero/blob/master/02-jsx...
This is really cool. As an upper-intermediate Spanish student/speaker, I spend about 1/3 of my language study time reading Spanish books, transcripts, blogs, etc, so this seems like a nice tool. One thing I'd recommend for anyone hoping to make reading a part of their studies would be to get a kindle with a touch screen (paperwhite or otherwise). From there, you can install an English <-> $TARGET_LANG dictionary, and just touch the words that you don't know for instant translations. I think a good target is text where you already know about 90% or more of the words. Otherwise, things get pretty cumbersome (translating too much stuff makes you lose context). Lastly, you can dump the words from your Kindle into an Anki deck or other flashcard program for independent study. This has really helped boost my vocabulary. Lastly, for anyone else learning Spanish, I'd recommend News in Slow Spanish for lower intermediate level, and then I'd suggest Radio Ambulante (with the transcripts) for upper intermediate/advanced level. You can do a "send to kindle" from your browser on any Radio Ambulante transcript on their website, and it renders perfectly for offline reading.
Sorry but maybe that holds for a smaller increase of efficiency but I highly doubt that's true for 20%+
Where do you live? My experience is that the better transport a city has, the more expensive living in that city is, and middle class people are pushed to the suburbs where transportation take a long time to take you to work and you need a car to go shopping and activities.
A State's right to all Powers not enumerated in the Constitution (10A).

That and the Confederate States tried to pull a 1776, since they didn't have a single representative who polled for Lincoln in the EC, the Union states had effective super majorities in Congress, ergo time to form their own system of government, representative of themselves.

They just weren't expecting Sherman.
I thought the cross range requirement came from the necessity of "Abort Once Around" in polar launches.

More deeply, the Air Force was blamed for adding requirements to the Shuttle, when the real problem was the Shuttle had such tenuous economic justification that it needed to pretend it had as many customers as it could. Never mind that much of the projected manifest (and projected flight rate) was an outright lie that the knew was BS as they were saying it.
If vue 3.0 uses proxies (as the slides say), then Vue 3 will also now require ES6 features.
„Under a second“ might be ok for websites, but doesn’t cut the mustard for web applications. People expect highly dynamic user interfaces which react almost instantaneously.
I was about to say.. the oil demand for my old car seems to be increasing.
Today I Learned: A GitHub repository with learnings from the past year
6 Steps to Providing Exceptional Customer Experiences
#Protonmail hacked . a very strange scam attempt
Along with the majority of houses in suburban and rural areas having metal (Colourbond) roofs and brick walls means that the issue of embers discussed in the article would not be as dangerous to homes.
Bfloat16 – Hardware Numerics Definition [pdf]
Also a comparison to standard JS output.
Doesn't matter, what matters is that they published the story with a picture (a stupid picture, that there's no way it would work without alien technology) in hundreds of websites, generating buzz and a rise in their stock value due to investors goodwill.

This is why I dislike Google. If you read the news, you would think they have the future in their hands, but after 10 years of Android, many more of YouTube and Gmail, and only one thing works, only one thing brings them 90% of their revenue: advertising.

And boy do they sell advertising, but they also know how to advertise themselves...

Google is like a children whose parents give free access to chocolate (ad business money). Why would a child eat anything else besides chocolate? It's tasty, it's sweet, it's easy to eat. And it turns out that engineering something is not as easy as turning up ads on YouTube.
As much as "hackers" wish to keep the word hacker to mean what it used to mean, I think "hacking" has fully entered the English lexicon with the meaning as used in the headline. No amount of complaining and correcting can change that now. It still means what it used to in some circles, but the primary meaning is hacking as in cracking.

Just like we will "literally" never get the literal cat back in the bag.
Minimum Cost Design expendable boosters would have been far better than the Shuttle. And they could have been designed in the 1960s, when Arthur Schnitt came out with the idea.

One can view the (expendable) F9 as an implementation of MCD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_dumb_booster
‘amatur’ In the sense of a person undertaking work without being paid for it; like how Olympic atheletes traditionally were non-professionals (not being paid to be atheletes as their career).

‘Amatuer’ is sometimes used as an epithet to mean ‘novice/untrained’, but in mathematics the usual term is ‘lay’.
Nope. Just pop-sci clickbait.
Just wait until you hear about science.
But... all these gallons are much more easy to relate to than a standard metric liter, thus making all of them superior. If you do not believe me, ask Nassim Nicholas Taleb[1].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=metric%20system%20tale...
The southern states were all in favor of federal power over states in the matter of the Fugitive Slave Acts, and the states' rights story only picked up momentum after it became clear that the federal government was not, in practice, going to enforce those acts on those states that opposed them.
A website will always work best with the browser it was created with.
That literally means that you aren't doing SPAs. If you aren't doing SPA then yes using React or Vue is rather a waste.

However the majority of sites these days use some form of SPAs.

Also under a second is a very low bar to strive to. a fast round trip to the server is 100ms. A reasonable one is somewhere around 300ms. Displaying effects to changes is often under a millisecond in SPAs and is basically impossible to reach in Multi page applications.
If we do this, let's make sure we can switch to smaller and larger units easily, scaling by 10 for example.
Every country does, it is just the case that in most of them you do not vote on the people who set curriculum standards directly. Who decided what would be in your history textbook and how it would be presented? I can promise you that some politician is at the top of that food chain. In some ways the UK is far worse because it is carefully hidden behind layers of ossified class hierarchy and centuries of a toxic mix of arrogance and prejudice.
I don't get the issue. They managed to make something good out of it, it felt like a great tool rather than a niche thing.
Very spicy foods cause you to release endorphins.
Maybe we passed the limits of Jevon’s paradox? There are practical limits to how much time a person can drive, or how much they can consume. I know I personally passed the point several years ago where I want to spend less time in a car, regadless of price.
Wow, I had no idea they were so blatant about it. I thought it was all caped in "state's rights" at the time. But right near the top:

"maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery - the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits"
Probably, for the time being, RTCTunnel will not be detected by NWGF as a VPN and therefor could be used to create a VPN that otherwise would be blocked by a FW.

If that fails, one could reside to sending jpeg images back-and-forth containing not real pictures but jpeg conform files that consist of encrypted data. I’m not aware that such a JPEGTunnel has ever been written but given the source code of RTCTunnel and the like, it shouldn’t be a very difficult task, eg a nice exercise for a student CS.
UBlock-LLC taking code from ad blocker uBlock Origin without proper attribution
Japan, at the end of 2017, had a stockpile of 47.3 tons of reactor grade plutonium separated from spent LWR fuel. This material is not ideal for nuclear weapons, but it CAN be used to make them.
Sounds like you really have a firm grasp of everything.
> No brit says "Britain should leave the EU because they want to ban our high power kettles"

I mean, that sort of (usually untrue; your example has never even been considered by the EU and would make no sense) trivia was a HUGE part of the leave campaign.
> City, State, Country

Not all countries have states.
I remember seeing someone on a night out who had removed the L, the S and the D. Actually, I'd never noticed that those removed letters have a meaning too so it was possibly a much deeper message.