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For most of the last 15 or so years, I've been running Linux on the desktop on a work or personal computer, actually, and wouldn't say it has always been a bad choice.

Some hardware + distro combinations have certainly made that easier than others, but the general trend has been towards a good experience. Certainly there's been less headache with the average Linux desktop, than some Windows (plus whatever Antivirus that the IT higher-ups have mandated) machines I've had...

This particular laptop though, has highlighted the poor Linux support for "DPI Scaling" (a 15" 4K screen was the only option at the time), and touch screens. Combined with some questionable hardware design decisions (webcam, speakers), and some generally crap design (the TB16 dock) though, this whole package just isn't a purchase that I'm really happy about - and that's only partially about Linux. The touchpad might well be the sort of issue you describe, where a better driver could better adjust the sensitivity, but even there I'd look first at the vendor before blaming "the community".

It's a shame really, because as these MacBook Pro threads attest, there are a lot of folks looking for something that's totally feasible, but no manufacturer seems to be aiming at...
The (closed cycle) cooling compressor uses helium as a working fluid, but Tue quantities are usually very low. Hight temperature superconductors are usually cooled with just liquid nitrogen
I would love to hear more!

1. How did you set it all up?

2. What stack are you using?

3. Do you have to use (gasp) Docker?

4. Performance issues?
the only difference is that on non-windows platforms google strips font hinting. That's just a (very minor) performance optimization done to reduce file sizes. Just download the windows version of the fonts (in all of the formats - woff, woff2, eof, etc).. the minor difference in size isnt worth the effort.

You can also just download the ttf files, and run them through a web font generator w/ proper support for hinting, etc... and then you'll have all of the formats you need.
Does this just mean the theorem has been stated in a formalism, or that there's a machine proof?
It is much more readable than the version using full-length words for variables.
Been using Linux as my daily driver for the past ~7 years or so. I use Elementary and Arch as my two go to systems - one for work/stability, other for Wayland/playing around.

Contrary to what people here are saying, HiDpi support really isn't ready for the mainstream in my opinion, solely because of the fact that mixed dpi really isn't possible under X or Wayland. If you're using a single monitor, however, HiDpi support is just fine.

That is: If you have a 4k primary display (such as an XPS 13, like I have) and 1080p external display (like the one in my office), then it's basically impossible to work with both.

Under wayland: Native wayland apps (what your DE provides, usually, and QT apps) work fine. Everything else (the majority of programs I find myself using, including Firefox, Chromium, Electron apps, basically anything using Xwayland) will not scale properly when moving from display to display, meaning you can usually only run them on one screen. Once more apps start supporting wayland, I think things will get much better, but that's still a few months (if not a year or so) away.

Under X: You can use some Xrandr hacks to get the second screen working properly, but it either introduces viewport problems (an issue I couldn't get past, but I'm sure others have solved) or screen tearing and general blurriness (another issue I couldn't get past)

So I'd say stick with something else for the coming months. Elementary itself is trash when it comes to supporting external displays: the GUI Settings app - Switchboard - basically bugs out if you try to change external display settings when using a 4k primary monitor, and will render one of the displays unusable. This happens every time. You'll have to use xrandr to configure your monitors by hand, which isn't too bad, but not conducive to the experience Elementary claims to provide.
> Delivery to big Western markets takes about 30 days by sea

Or 12 days by Sino-Europe rail.

It's expensive though.
I use the exact same hardware with the same apps and use case as OP, and yes, I would say so.

The magic keyboard has an escape key, which is handy when using vim on a server, and a function row with brightness and volume buttons that work on iOS. Pairing is automatic, battery life is great, the keyboard is more clicky, it's not bound to the device physically, and when you switch devices 5 years down the road you don't need to buy a new, shiny, expensive, essentially the same keyboard. I use the MK with my desktop as well, just so I don't need to adjust to different keyboards during the day. And it's cheaper.

Personally I see only upsides to the magic keyboard over the smart keyboard.
I just replaced the battery in my Early 2015 MacBook Pro Retina 13.

When it was new i would regularly get ~12 hours of light usage from it (safari, email, terminal, VPN, citrix, remote desktop). It has been providing around 8-9 hours steadily for the past year or so. I finally noticed when placed flat on a table it wasn't sitting flat, and the battery was swollen.

Now with a new battery we're back to 12+ hours of light usage.
So facebook does speech recognition in realtime for every android device out there and share it in realtime with the many ad networks. Someone is really screwed up at facebook to share such an incriminating secret or business leverage (depending on how you want to see it) with competitors.

The conspiracy theory doesn't seem to hold ground.
Little known fact: The stock video app in EMUI 8 running found in stock P20 Pros from authorized dealers in Singapore regularly make requests to Facebook over over IPv4 and IPv6 even though it only supports local video content. t.me/paranoic for proofs.
I assume that's why GP was talking about Tesla trucks. If a truck has two drivers it can be used for nearly a whole day - assuming the batteries could keep up.
Does gitless really achieve the depths of subversion? Judging by the command list it looks like to add more easily understandable commands, some maskin the originals, ethers doing something more elaborate without requiring the use of flags, etc.

(I'm definitely not going to start using this since I already know the real git, but I can understand where it is coming from)
> Thousand years ago they (the people that "created" religions) already knew that humanity left to it's own wouldn't grow in a positive way.

You could make a decent argument that religion itself has been problematic. This is a massive can of worms, but everyone's heard all the pieces:

- Gets in the way of progress

- Intolerant of alternative authorities

- Tramples human rights

And so on.
AFAIK Google Fonts doesn’t allow browsers to cache the fonts for tracking purposes...
THE MANY POSSIBLE BLUE BORDERS OF BADGE BUDDIES FOR HOSPITAL USE
Why, to grow a competition?
Also imagine how a manager calling for sale of a unprofitable product would like if someone else made that project profitable.
The LA Times has the 'fuck your privacy rights' wall.
I get your point about the difference of scale in power but cars routinely reach 100 kW - that's just 134HP after all. Floor the gas pedal on a mid-size sedan or a small truck and there you have it, 100kW. Good point about the load cycle.
Nokia merged with Alcatel-Lucent, so it is not purely European anymore.

Ericsson works on 5G with Fujitsu, so that looks more like US-free option.
gitless is just as expressive as git though. It's just a better interface with less state. Nor is it new. Check out their research paper.
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Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
V for Vendetta (and a for Agile)
On a related subject, I've noticed that my local gas station updated their software for their fuel pumps and it is terrible. For some reason the latency is very high, so high that I can't reliably type in my PIN. It literally takes 500ms - 1000ms for key-presses to register, plus it doesn't seem to cache them very well so if you go too fast it drops the key-press altogether. Finally, they changed the font to a fancy script that is difficult to read on the low resolution display.

At first I thought it must be a hardware change or something on the back-end is slower. There is another gas station of the same brand just 3 miles away and it is still running the old version of the pump software, which is fast and user friendly. In fact, it makes me want to drive that extra bit in order to not have to put up with the slow software.
This company is no longer active it seems. Very vague website with a Buy Now button leading to 404 on a museum site.
I'm new here, so perhaps I'm missing something, but how does this submission meet hackernews guidelines for posting?

This is a superficial, brief opinion piece outlining someone's thoughts on a piece of hardware reviewed ad nauseam across the internet.

How is this submission 'deeply interesting' (or am I missing something here)?
Which is why I like gutless. Same VCS, sane interfaces, less state to juggle.
BitBoost
Sounds like they are stuck in a local optimum with their site.
The two basic ways to deal with bacterial contamination in NGS sequencing is to minimize it during extraction (e.g. extracting DNA from isolated nuclei, which bacteria do not have) and to clean up the raw reads by comparing them to known microbial sequences (e.g. with http://deconseq.sourceforge.net/ )

Considering they offer the raw data on a 500GB hard drive in a FASTAQ format (https://us.dantelabs.com/pages/faq), I doubt it's just SNPs.
I literally think that some cults are formed for exactly this purpose. "If I could only get people to do what I want, then the world would be a better place!" How do you get people to do what you want? Convince them that there is a higher power that compels them to do that.

It's that benevolent dictatorship kind of thing. If you have a very smart, very selfless and very altruistic leader, then everybody marching to the same drum is a good thing, right? Everyone knows that humans are fallible, so this is the incentive to have an infallible god that knows how to do everything correctly and who is willing to tell your leader what to do. Why have just one leader? Well, it's a matter of trust, of course. If anyone could speak directly to the infallible god, how would we know the tricksters from the true prophets? (I suppose we could ask the infallible god, but it's possible the god is too busy to respond to every request). Better to have only one true prophet, if possible. Even better if they are a god themselves (might as well cut out the middle man).

But even being sarcastic, I think it's really true. It's hard to sway people's opinions because especially in this day and age there are so many opinions vying for your attention. If you are absolutely certain that you could do good in the world, if only people would listen and you were willing to do anything... I seriously think that there would be no more effective strategy than to start your own religion/cult.

Of course, these things get corrupted. Maybe you even start out doing good, but then someone drugs you and stuffs you in your bedroom for years on end and uses you as a puppet figure head because the cult is a good money making opportunity. Maybe, some influential and charismatic person takes your flock away from you (splitters!). Maybe you're not as smart as you thought you were. Maybe after you die, your appointed leaders become more and more corrupt until the organisation you built is just a mockery of what it was supposed to be.

So I think you can't really go that way in the long run. "Just do as I say and believe that it is right", can only lead to corruption because it focuses power too much and there is a limit to what one person can accomplish. Instead, I think you have to create a culture of good. A small post like this is too small to describe how to do it (and besides I have to get some sleep because I have to fight a dual tomorrow -- err just joking... it's really because I don't know how to do it). Anyway, I'm convinced it's about building a culture with a small network of people and growing that culture so that treating people well is a kind of common sense.

Strangely, despite the challenges in today's world of instant communications, I think there is more opportunity to build that kind of global common sense than there ever was. YMMV.
This is actually the method used by MS Word as far as I know, or a reduced dialect of it. It's a mix of convenient and inconvenient, can't make my mind up about it.

All I know is that LaTEX is much, much easier to manage than this jumbled mess...
That's not politically incorrect, but simplistic evolutionary thinking.
Microsoft has also discontinued a lot of programs over its life, but there's one major difference---I can still use those Microsoft programs! Microsoft long ago stopped supporting MS-DOS 2.1 but I can still use it. Heck, I even have a verion of PC-DOS 1.0 around here somewhere.

But the discontinuations at Google? Gone gone gone. I can't even keep a copy around for my own use. That's one reason why I dislike web applications.
My next MacBook Pro will be a ThinkPad.
The Human Side of Microservices
I've heard this argument a lot... Basically all that needs to happen is to "figure out haptics." 1) what's the evidence that haptics could give anyone the same level of productivity without the z-vector of mechanical keyboards? 2) I don't see how this is an argument. It is more an obfuscation. It is like saying, cancer is basically solved, we just need to figure out the wjwjrnc (where 'wjwjrnc' is defined as "cure").

There is no reasonable excuse from Apple for decreasing the quality and desirability of their laptops and desktops from the point of view of so many of their customers. Cues soapbox on corporatists vs capitalists
Rover? I don't see how it could move.
Pen is undeniably worse than keyboard for full fledged code writing. But that is for laptop & pc. For iPad I prefer to use its native input device instead. Editing code is mostly about navigating and reading than writing and changing.
Snabb Switch: kernel-bypass networking illustrated (2015)
Naming is difficult. Good names suggest the right metaphore to understand something. But for git, there is nothing similar in physical world. "push" "pull" and "merge" seem ok, but even "branch" is an original concept different of its usual meaning. Maybe git should have used non english words to avoid confusion.
So the patient rent a device for a price higher than retail, got personal data collected so to be denied for medical treatment and trust some device manufacturing company for transmitting data securely. It is eyeopening on so many level
I’d be skeptical, but as it’s Tim Harford...
> But I do never want to die in pointlessly extended agony, unable to think because the painkillers of my disease are fogging my mind like a bad dream.

Yes, that is the case where you can get pretty broad consensus that suicide should be an available opion.

> Or withering away in an old peoples home because the kids are living in far away countries.

I don't think you can really assess how you would actually feel in such a situation.

> Not sure how somebody would want to deny that right, or automatically label suicidal people as depressed or mentally unstable.

Because, as I wrote before, the vast majority of suicidal thoughts and actions are not based on objectively bad and unescapable circumstances.

> Optimists will simply never learn. It's another form of extremist or elitist thinking.

Exactly the same can be said about pessimism. It's a lazy way to avoid responsibility for your own life and at the same time cultivate an empty feeling of superiority.
Facebook is dead. It's just taking a long time for this to become apparent.
By 'course', I had assumed the parent meant something valuable: a degree, masters, PhD or well-recognised certification, such as PRINCE2. But reading your comment, and again that of the parent, I'm now not so sure!

Anyway, my point is that my response had made those assumptions, as that's the kind of arrangement I know is common.
I think it’s just a publicity stunt.
There is no way that this wind turbine will be more profitable than a normal one given the pretty crazy cooling requirements.
Also I don’t really understand why they chose that kind of superconductor that apparently has to be cooled to -240 when there are other superconductors that need to be cooled to just 150K...
There's around 2.23 billion active users you might want to pass that message on to.
There are lots of anecdotes around about things like this, but correlation does not constitute causation. Where are e.g. the wireshark dumps showing that data was transmitted to some server while/after he was talking? Capturing the traffic should be a simple exercises.
If it were up to that guy we'd all lock our phones in refrigerators after dark.
iPad is perfect for those use cases. it's fast, lightweight and the battery is much better than those laptops.
Aluminium recycling – How it works [YouTube 2015]
Well, I think there are three things to consider here, which explain how Amazon does so well despite having made some questionable UI/UX decisions in the past.

1. Most of the changes/extra features were added piecemeal over the decades, with the basic site look not really changing all that much in the meantime.

So a lot of the awkward/poorly thought out/non integrated features are there because that's where it was practical to add them.

2. Obviously it's a large brand, so people are more forgiving of the design issues compared to a lesser known competitor. That's why copying the market leader may not always be the best idea, since the leader can do a lot of questionable things/make a lot of questionable design/content/whatever decisions and still have millions of people using their services, whereas a small company/site with these frustrations will just go ignored/unused.

3. They A/B test everything, and what the data says is most effective is not always what a designer would think looks/feels best. Look at some of the best performing landing pages; many look outright hideous yet convert really well.
What's New in AWS SDK v2 for Java?
In my opinion it doesn’t make sense at all even in this megawatt wind turbine as per my other comment.
It's ok now. They published a new version of Pijul and it seems that it cause some problems.

https://pijul.org/posts/2018-11-20-pijul-0.11/

https://pijul.org/posts/2018-04-21-pijul-0.10/
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Improve your presence in public speaking
It's not. It shows ads based on other peoples interests or what they have talked about with me. It was about things that wouldn't be in my personal sphere of interests in general. Specific ride-sharing companies, specific speakers a friend bought. A random conversation about a specific and obscure topic I had with my wife...

Lets just say that I'm pretty sure its not may brain going bonkers with pattern recognition here.
Installed a plain Jira software instance on Docker, that wasn’t terribly slow.
Wait, Facebook has over 43 products? What are they?
It is my understanding that Nokia _acquired_ Alcatel-Lucent, and the only significant part of that conglomerate still in the US is Bell Labs (which are also now owned by Nokia.)
does anyone really want to be on "STD Time"?
Gatekeeping much?

Funnily enough your complaints also completely ignore what gitless actually is. It does not hide the underlying git structure, it just exposes it in a sane way. Check out the research papers. It's really well thought out. Same power with less exposed state is to me the definition of good software design.

I don't teach gitless to novices because all the rest of git tooling uses the original git vocab. Unfortunately we seem to be locked into using the bad interface design of the original git forever and ever, along with the chorus of people who claim it's perfectly intuitive (once you spent a few thousand hours debugging user errors).
Thank you for sharing your story!
They are all old. Facebook will probably still be functioning for the next 40 years until it's users finally die and then it's over.
I hope you’re not implying any permanent solutions to temporary problems.
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The irony for me is that if a company wanted to construct a strong profile of me to sell me ads, I'd have to imagine that Feedly (I switched to Feedly when Google Reader was retired) would now be one of the best placed to do that. I spend far more of my personal time there than in any other app.
It's a PMM, so it's in the rotor, and a PMM is much more efficient and smaller than a simple induction generator. By factor 10 I would guess.

Those types (usually built by Bombardier) generate AC, but convert intermediately to DC.
Experiences from building a chatbot for Alexa, Cortana and Google Assistant
Try the search feature in many CMS systems. Those tend to really suck, with WordPress' being awkward enough that a whole ecosystem of plugins cropped up to replace it.

There's also at least one version of the OpenCart admin search which was designed so poorly that it didn't actually search based on whether the term was anywhere in the page title/content, but whether the title started with the search term (I think they'd screwed up the MySQL syntax). That was interesting.

Either way, search on a system not designed as a search engine is usually okay at best, absolutely terrible at worst.
I'm wondering if this is the technology enabling Apple's recycled Aluminium products.

The airjet sorter with X-ray detection at 5:27 is particularly crazy.
Why delayed choice experiments do Not imply retrocausality [pdf]
There's a font I'm curious about, I wonder if anyone here knows it. I seem to see all round Czech Republic, I don't know the name, but you can see it in the sign for this place (the pic outside - "BUN CA HAI PHONG"): https://www.tripadvisor.cz/Restaurant_Review-g274714-d116867...

It's used a lot in Vietnamese restaurants but also appears in random businesses (garages, hairdressers). I also saw it a lot when I visited Vietnam - I'd guess it's from there.
I don't understand what they mean by killed. For example Chromebook Pixel 2 (2015) will receive updates till mid-2020.
Hardware implementation does not mean that there is no timing side-channel. Compute ECC takes few cycles.
To avoid timing side-channel, you must design hardware for this purpose.
I own a 2015 Macbook since the launch in 2015 (duh), and I remember letting people use my force touch trackpad saying that it doesn't 'click'. Took almost everyone at least several minutes to convince them that the trackpad doesn't actually click. :-)

Furthermore I do agree with you on pretty much every point. I don't like my 2017 Macbook and I most certainly won't upgrade my 2015 to any new pro laptop.
It makes sense as a tool that should be available. It does not make sense as a default hoop everyone has to jump through. The way that stash, index, working directory and branches interact is completely non-obvious and induces a lot of accidental complexity

As far as I can see the use case you describe is actually covered in gl commit.