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>I think you're looking back with rose tinted glasses. Making returns in previous eras was very difficult.

I agree. I remember 20 years ago when returns were much more of a hassle.

For example, at Home Depot in the 1990s, to return something, you had to fill out a written form with a pen. The cumbersome pen & paper dance was repeated by the cashier as she had to analyze the receipt and manually circle which items were being returned. Today, their POS system just scans the UPC bar codes and immediately puts the refund amount back on the credit card. Literally 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes.

Also, if I lost my receipt, the cashier justs ask for the card number I used. They can then find the transaction in their database and issue a refund back to the card. Container Store can also do this so I assume many retailers can do it. This convenience is all made possible by modern POS systems. Previously, the stores had a strict "no return without a receipt" policy.

Overall, returns are easier today, not harder.
Single bits might be trival, but the volume is far from single.

Regardless, Netflix doesn't bear the cost of delivery. Imagine if USPS couldn't charge Amazon for delivery.
I love Gentoo. I'm just not willing to wait for my packages for compile.
I have not tried Arch.

Sid is quite stable but things will occasionally break (once or twice a year). Never so bad that it needed a rebuild (touch wood) but enough to be scary if you don't know enough to keep a cool head about it.

Latest example is some nice person breaking udev around Christmas causing it not to mount LVM partitions during boot. Luckily Linux does the right thing and drops you to an emergency shell and it's very easy to mount things by hand and resume boot. It did make my heart beat faster for a few minutes though! ;) This was the worst breakage for several years to give some perspective.

Also, best not to upgrade the (Sid) system for a few months after a new Stable release - that's when the floodgates (from Experimental) open and issues are often seen.

Overall, it is easily worth it for me to run Sid and get the latest software versions. I always run Stable on servers though.
They also worked with what they had. Limited by 640x480, 16 or 256 colors, they weren’t wasting cpu time and memory on alpha blending a menu so it fades in...

At least when they started doing animated menus and such you could still turn those features off.
You could skip the teabags entirely and buy in bulk. Not this particular blend, but tea in general.
For something to self replicate you need some sort reproductive system. A penis and a vagina are the main ingredients.

For a universe to self replicate their must be at least two parallel universes. A male universe and a female universe. The male universe has a penis and the female universe must have a vagina. Then the two must have sex to produce child sibling universes.

There is a flaw in this theory. Ask yourself "How does the child universe self-replicate?" The answer is the child universe must commit incest. This is a problem with the theory of self-replicating universes.

So I'm now going to introduce a new speculative and pointless made up theory about how a universe can self replicate asexually. By introducing this theory I've solved the other pointlessly speculative problem that was basically made up out of thin air in the first place. However by adding enough metaphysical mumbo jumbo to my arguments I make everything seem more legit.

Think about it.
> fundamental constants encode a precise and balanced harmony of physics

We don't know where the constants come from. As such, we can't say if they independently and randomly arose or came forth from a system in which they balance.

More boldly, any assortment of constants can produce a universe. Each of those universes will be different. Calling some of them "good" and some of them "bad" is an inherently subjective exercise. Even delineating "good" and "evil" on a single dimension is a choice.
Not having a VDOM is only a pro if your library maintains feature parity with libraries that have a VOM. Otherwise, you just lack whatever it is that VDOMs enable. This library seems to forget why view libraries use a VDOM. In this library, you have to write imperative update logic, which the VDOM specifically allows you to avoid. The VDOM is a slight performance hit most people accept in order to be able to write declarative code.

In this case, I find it a bit misleading to pass off not having a VDOM as a pro. It's a bit like building a social media site with no users and claiming everyone should join because it doesn't have spam.
The assumed-integrated ecosystem is nice but exposes your information to too many components and too many developers and business people under the apple umbrella.
Have used Oracle for almost 20 years ( also sql server, postgres, mongo, redid, sqlite). The database itself is a great product and has a free and cheapish option. I've worked on major UK utilities, oil and gas and investment banking projects.

Many enterprise companies have multi-million lines of plsql and thousands of db tables. I've migrated some systems away from Oracle to "save money" but it costs a lot to move an entire business to a new platform while they are running in production.
To be fair, early OS X hadn't aged well at all either, but it was pretty revolutionary at the time.
> I'm inclined to believe that a significant urban ebola outbreak in Africa would be sufficiently frightening that politicians, regardless of their political stripe, would authorize the appropriate funding. In any case I'm sure it would fall under the rubric of being a national emergency and funding would be authorized by the executive branch with little controversy.

I'm not so optimistic. I'll believe any of this when I see it.
I increasingly find myself using eBay as a storefront. You can easily filter by “Buy it Now” and “New”, and then it works basically like Amazon marketplace, except that I trust the feedback system a lot more. There’s a lot of small and independent sellers on eBay - plus you can get a lot of stuff shipped directly from China and cut out the middleman, if that’s what you prefer.
Hmmm. From the comments, looks like it's time for modular phones. That way, everyone could assemble what they need, and change when they need.

Whole new ecosystem follows.
I have often wonder why Netflix doesn't uses its Fast.com to offer CDN services.

They could also have offer their Encoding System as Services. I upload a video file, sets a few requirements and I get Netflix Quality encoding in return without me fiddling anything.
IMO, those keyboards are ok for some quick notes, but for anything longer, its going to give you issues (unless you have tiny hands).
Instead of "what do I want to stop doing" frame it as "what would I like to be doing".

Get more engaged in something particular. Build your own car, for example. But that might just be me.

It's possible, that if you have free time to idle away reading, that your work isn't occupying as much of your time as you'd like.

Shift that free time usage to something you find more personally rewarding or that involves more in person social interaction.

It's tough. Bear in mind this is my own take and might not reflect the reality of your situation.
(1)I cannot stand the standard UIs and DEs from Linux. I use openbox with no DE because it provides me with the best experience. I only ran Ubuntu Minimal when I used it. (2) all the complaints I have with Ubuntu apply equally to Mint.
I don't know, the whole aesthetic of the Alien universe is so coherent and well thought out that they don't really stand out to me.
With the crucial difference that the somewhat funny message is followed by actual detailed description of what happened instead of "something went wrong".
this article is about feature completeness of the different managed kubes

https://kubedex.com/google-gke-vs-microsoft-aks-vs-amazon-ek...

It's pretty easy to dig up speed tests of the overlay networks, but a lot of these are just rating userspace overlay networks. The new hotness is the plugins provided by the cloud vendor which integrate with their SDN, and I haven't seen a good benchmark for those yet.

Most interesting reading will be to look up managed kube networking plugins on github and look for open/closed issues with lots of stars.
In principal, I disagree conflating two different types of advice/goals like you are in your original comment (1. a statement about what is/is not healthy to eat, 2. what or what not is ecologically sound, made clear in your second comment to which I'm now replying) without making it clear that you are making that leap. The two goals may prescribe some contradictory action.

For example, lets pretend for a moment that the worst sort of ecologically disastrous forms of industrial farming happened to produce the most healthy and nutritious food; it's conceivable GMO could well spark that debate not unlike that. Do you make a single statement saying to eat good organic food to stay healthy without also making the statement you're compromising the health portion in balance with ecological concerns?

I think making a simple health statement without also being fully clear about also making an environment statement also erodes trust if found out.
It was quite the shock coming to OS X from NeXTSTEP. I actually ran with NeXTSTEP icons on OS X for a lot of years until they made it super hard with SIP.
Good point, but how is any of this articles speculation testable?
The "not blocky CRT" argument doesn't really apply to personal computer CRT monitors, as even when they maxed out at 640x480 or 800x600 the display was still pretty crisp.

I can kind of see this argument if you're talking about playing nintendo on mom's old dog-eared TV with the UHF adapter... but frankly I prefer to see pixel art in its original unmolested, pixellated form

edit- on that note I remember very clearly that 320x240 games had a blocky appearance in the 640x480 era. That was one of the biggest reasons to get a 3D card!
If I could choose to only get security updates, I would go back to Ubuntu in a heartbeat. Instead I have to pull down a gig of system-breaking masturbatory open source "enhancements" every upgrade, even though I was on xenial LTS.
FYI, these idioms you talk about are called "signifiers", which are signs indicating what you can do.
> Are you saying that we ought to change society such that this is true, or that when accounting we shouldn't consider the cost of production

Well, copyright was intended to "change society" to treat every copy as valuable as the original.

My issue with copyright is that it compels me to value something at exactly the price that the author demands; even though creating an exact copy neither costs the author anything, or even involves them.
In the small business dominated world of 40 years ago trust was a fundamental economic asset. A bad seller would immediately get a bad reputation and it would be known around the community. People trusted each other because that's how society has worked for millennia, to the point of tribalism, we are never allowed to scam "our" people for we might be ostracized and literally be in mortal peril outside the tribe. A handshake and a look in the eye says: "I'm staking my family's livelihood on this".

Then the tech revolution happened and took the corporatist economic model to massive new levels. Large capital owners could more effectively circumvent the lack of social capital (trust) by investing in technology. Communication tools allowed them to better manage sprawling business empires and reach the consumer directly. The mom&pop gave way to the franchise and the retail chain, it's social capital was undercut by media-induced branding and billion dollar advertising campaigns.

For the national chain, it's largely irrelevant if some old guy got suckered into buying crap by an underpaid employee looking to make a commission. He might complain to his neighbors but unless the media takes an interest, it's not an existential threat to the corporation with national level PR and advertising. The chain has other things to worry about, like expanding faster than the competition and hiring even more cheap & sleazy guys capable of producing income.

The end game of this brave new world is precisely the "everything store" against which no mom&pop can compete. Our generation instinctively mistrusts the corporate drone regardless of it's physical or online incarnation. Your father is the product of a different social arrangement.
My mom's NUC has never caused any trouble running the latest Ubuntu. Network printer, scanner, wireless mouse, webcam, bluetooth headphones, USB hard drives, sleep/hibernation... not a single problem.
Really like the format of the "movie" file. Very easy to work with:

Line 1: time.Duration

Lines 2-14: frameHeight (currently set to 13 lines in the code on this and the original[0])

Options for (1) pause/play (2) back: frame by frame (3) forward: frame by frame : could make this a pretty good presentation app, ebook tool, story-teller...

[0] https://github.com/nitram509/ascii-telnet-server
Foss desktop software is so hard to monetize. At least with servers you can charge for cloud features (though then the user has given up some control in that scenario).

Industry associations seem to help, like the Linux foundation, where company stakeholders come together to fund the development and get a say in its direction - eg, if the different cloud providers banded together to fork mongo and/or redis in this way (to the unfortunate and severe detriment of the founders)

Possibly purism is pioneering a hardware driven angle too?
There is also a reason why Java lost popularity. People think that languages like TypeScript are somehow different, but they're not. TypeScript encourages exactly the same patterns as those used in Java. Mark my words, it will suffer from exactly the same problems. It will just take a few years for people to realize this.
I never used Docker Swarm (so can't compare), but I don't fully understand your point about Kubernetes cloud lock-in. Certainly there are important differences in networking, load balancing, persistent volumes, and other cloud features, but that's not something any platform can just hide/eliminate (e.g. think about AWS ELB/ALB/NLB vs Google Load Balancer). The Kubernetes concepts (Deployment, Ingress, Service) still work mostly the same for the user across clouds. Some other details like non-standardized Ingress annotations are obviously due to not having them agreed in Kubernetes core API (nginx ingress supports other annotations than say Google LB or Skipper).
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How does one actually build this thing (on Windows or Unix)? This might be a simple thing but I have no idea what I'm doing.
I’m on the go; will report back in a bit with the block list.
You could start by getting out of this thread
this has to be edgy atheists' worst nightmare.
Archetype of the Haunted House: Winchester Mystery House
I still can't tell what L4 you're talking about. I've heard that there are some pretty big differences in performance between other L4s and seL4, for example.
What makes up for this, to some extent, is that you can assign a keyboard shortcut to any menu item in OSX: go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts, click +, select the application (or all applications), type the menu name and set a shortcut.
That explicitly requires superuser permissions. If you give those out, the user has plenty ways to code execution.

(And as mentioned elsewhere, that's server-side, not the server instructing the client to send files as in the tweet.)
There is more to Christianity than unbelievable fairy tales like spermless conception.

Read Matthew. You'll be surprised how... American it sounds. Basics we take for granted like "the blind leading the blind" are scriptural and religious, and things that are easy to forget how to name and call out without the religion.

Indeed, the foundation of capitalism, the right approach to differences in natural ability, and how we should view equality are found in Matthew 25. Just read that one if you can't stomach the Bible in general.
> A radar chart with both being pretty much opposite each other should work better, right?

Not when there's only two values measured. What else do you have in mind?

I'd never encountered people who experience separate influences, academically (that I know of). The best-indicative situation I'd seen (or, perhaps, only noticed) are people who don't do well in school because their home environment is discouraging and negative.

That said, my experience is such that, at school, I'd enjoy doing tasks – exercises, experiments etc. – but would avoid homework as much as possible. I wouldn't be able to sit down and learn anything by rote in a library: somehow, it increased internal tension, I was unable to sit down for the process.

On the other hand, I once memorized the Latin noun declension system in an evening, before the exam – more as a result of procrastination on my part than a motivated necessity.
I guess people act in that information differently. When I saw 3 of the 8 ‘most helpful reviews’ complain about quality, my next step was to look elsewhere. It turns out that a specialty tea shop—and the grocery store around the corner-both sell it, so that’s where I’d go.

For me, the $15 isn’t itself a big risk, but since my spouse is so reluctant to throw out food that I’d be stuck with lousy tea for months.
This is true but users also frequently complained about the number of items on screen at once. I love high-density UI but I think the web and modern design has trended the way it has because focus groups/"everyone else"/"the mainstream" kept saying they were overwhelmed.

Now the prevailing trend is this Fischer-Price children's-toys minimalism, with bright shiny colors and cute mascots. It's insulting
"Upon initial shipment of the Librem 5 in 2019, it will offer the essentials: phone functionality, email, messaging, voice, camera, browsing. The featureset will expand after shipment and over time to more free software applications. Your user experience will improve as we incrementally add commonly requested applications and features (such as calendaring, notes, calculator, PDF viewer, etc.) while keeping performance in mind."

A phone without a PDF viewer or calendar app? :)
Go on holiday to a place with no internet or phone coverage. You will return in 2 weeks and notice that your absence didn't matter
I guess just a trend. Saw this a few months ago https://www.humaaans.com/
“Scientists prove...”
Ubuntu mate is great. What about the shitty release cycle? I find it easy to understand, unlike Debian.
"Something went wrong" ugh, I HATE it so much, and they don't even dispatch a highly trained team of monkeys to fix it either.
I see several comments from user "andreslucena", who apparently is one of the founders of the project, and they are all dead. Why did this happen? I am totally confused.
I wanted to say that manipulating DOM objects without tricky state machine that was supposed to store the element tree structure as data in JS and subsequently recreating it from it was always faster than with it.

Even in the often brought forward case "when a lot of changes to DOM don't translate to changes in markup," like demonically complex template merges, never seen in real life, that VDOM proponents like to throw into benchmarks, VDOM often lost because they were trying to do browser's job when they really shouldn't.

Browsers already used a lot of very similar logic on the inside when DOM 3.0 was being popularised, and it's only natural that VDOM was losing out by trying redoing what browsers were already doing.
These Graphs Are on Fire – Timo Paulssen
I've long believed that Windows 98 is the pinnacle of desktop usability on many fronts, 2000 was the best NT in my view. The performance was spectacular, and it was rarely unclear how to accomplish something (unless it hadn't been thought of before the release of W98).

Added: I'd be interested in putting together a Wayland desktop environment around the strengths of Windows 98's interface designs (along with some modern discoveries about human interface, and at least whole number resolution scaling). I feel like there should be at least one well-maintained toolkit which doesn't attempt to support full CSS styling on widgets.
Agreed! I often find this kind of self-bargaining helpful, but I would suggest that you start really small with the thing you agree to do. Otherwise it becomes just another set of tasks to avoid/procrastinate over.

I have used the Pomodoro technique on and off over the years, and I find it to be really useful for exactly what you suggested. I promise I will do just one Pomodoro, twenty minutes' of work, and then I can go do whatever. Twenty minutes is short enough to not trigger avoidance or distraction, but it's also long enough to really get rolling. Almost without exception, at the end of the twenty, I don't want to stop. I keep going and end up with a full set of four Pomodoros completed, and desire and energy to continue beyond that (if other responsibilities allow).
> I've always felt that the standard library is a half-baked hodgepodge of inconsistencies

It is!

> Why is open() in fcntl.h and close() in unistd.h?

Because they don't belong together. open() is used to create an FD using a filesystem path. There are other ways to create FDs, like socket(). close() is used to close any FD. You could say open() has an unfortunate name. Neither open() nor close() are part of the C standard library, though. The standard library has the fopen() and fclose() functions, both defined in stdio.h. (And it's the same situation there: There are other ways to create a FILE than using fopen(), while fclose() can close any FILE (although fopen() is probably the only way defined in the standard library)).

> Why did they make strlcpy return a different value than strncpy

My advice is to just write your own string data structures and functions. Make the interface that you need. It's often bad to use C strings, anyway (they don't have an explicit length).

> But I don't know how anyone would find out about, say, strtok or strsep without encountering them in some existing code.

Man pages cross-reference similar functions. And there are index-manpages. For example, strcpy(3) references string(3) which lists all the functionality from string.h, including strtok(3).

> I had a university assignment which would have been trivial if anyone in the class knew that fts.h existed.

Never knew that one either. Not part of the C standard library I guess. Also, just write your own code. In my opinion the standard library is mainly useful for portable access to basic OS services.
Speaking personally, I'd rate that as a career choice/part of the job thing. It's like, if you've little to no interest in working for this or that large business, you've no reason to pull any punches against them - but it's a career choice at the end of the day.

Also, keep in mind that when a congressman leaves office, they usually have relationships with people that can move the needle in government. As such they can do valuable things for whoever is willing to hire them -- regardless of the positions they held while in office.
That ignores the reason you spent 19 hours on Netflix in the first place.

If you are still finding content that you are interested in, you will likely keep your subscription; even if you spend significantly less time using it.

You don't need to binge watch a series of events day to find value to keep the subscription.
As a non-American this seems like a ridiculously complicated tax system.
Good question. I know for a fact that the type of sand is important, specifically that the shape and grain of the sand required for concrete makes a lot of readily available sand unusable for concrete.

As for iron dust, I have to agree. The only way I could see iron dust being practical is if this tech was able to repurpose industrial waste (rusted up sheet metal, old rebar, etc).
I use Ubuntu mate on a 4k xps and it works quite nicely. There is a double dpi button in the tweak app.