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If you think about it, eating meat is really a terrible thing to do. Most people who eat meat would never be able to kill an animal, I suspect. I know I wouldn't. And the conditions in which the poor animals are kept make it a billion times worse. That's the thought that made me switch to being a vegetarian after eating meat my whole life.
This popped up recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19180280

It's about a guy doing similar things, with model rocketry.

It seems though that the resiliency is all due to field tests/ spectacular failure in the latter. (It doesn't detract from the project at all though).
One man's "flaw" is another TLA's "feature"... ;-)
But isn't it illegal to sell phones having no secret backdoors?

Edit: /s obviously ;) but open source phones for improved privacy and control are always welcome!
The only thing about Linux I never really like is the package system.

Like if you want to install a new software, you usually don’t get .exe or .dmg. If you are lucky, the developer or some fans took the time to package it. Then you can do ‘apt-get’ ‘yum’ or ‘pacman’. However, packages got stalled and sometimes don’t match the original author intent. You can also build from sources, but it takes time and you have to know a bit of CLI. It never felt true freedom to me. But more like whatever the community feels make sense for whatever distribution weird dictactorship. Just a feeling and I still love and support Linux.
I've been using a Google Pixelbook (their flagship Chromebook product) as my main development machine for the past couple months, and I love it.

The ChromeOS "Crostini" project allows you to run a full Debian instance in a container, but with the other benefits of a Chromebook and ChromeOS. Each new release of ChromeOS brings better enhancements to Crostini, e.g. right now backups are manual but a native "one click" backup is coming soon - https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/crostini-linux-backup-... . FWIW some of the tools I run are the IntelliJ suite, Atom, postgres, Docker, etc.

IMO Linux on the desktop is awesome, it just happens to be running in a container on ChromeOS.
I think it is hard to claim that you care about the animals and ethics once you realise what goes on to produce milk or eggs which is what most vegetarians (lacto-ovo-vegetarians, really) consume and support.
OK but what you are suggesting is a fully authenticated air interface and a massive PKI deployment, which while not impossible for future protocols face obvious hurdles.
Thanks -- I'll have to put a bit more effort into this the next time I run a linux laptop.
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Being a rock would be a much heavier experience, weighted with the gravity of expectations for it to support the structures of shorted lived beings.
Not the person you're replying to, but I fall in the same boat as them as far as Linux experience goes.

And for me, I find I have way more trouble doing things on Windows/Mac than Linux. I think it's really more a way of thinking about how a "desktop OS" is supposed to work. People coming from Windows expect things to work the same, and that's just not the case.

Likewise, when I unluckily find myself on some closed-source box, _very little works how I expect_. And man is troubleshooting harder, because there are so many "surprises."

My point is, I think blaming the operating system is not the answer - users need to adjust their expectations and open their mind a little.

This is a somewhat poor analogy, but it's sort of like a Chinese citizen (closed-source user) becoming a citizen of a democracy (open-source user). The government is going to work differently, and you can't claim democracy is broken just because it's so different from authoritarianism.
Without more context the study is not very useful

pesticides, copper levels, phreatic level, number and species of hammerhead flatworms...
This is why I want one. I like to carry a tablet to read books and take notes at the same time (Android multitasking + a bluetooth keyboard) in places (planes mostly) where my full laptop is a bit too big/too much overhead/doesn't have enough battery. Unfortunately, that adds weight, and it's another thing to keep charged. These seem like a great solution - if perhaps a little small for now.
Lots of comments here focus on the fact that this device is WiFi-only and not a "real" cell phone. I find this sad. Are LTE calls really the only use case you can think of for a device that has its source code open, has WiFi and Bluetooth, carries an LCD, a microphone, and a keypad? How boring!

I am really excited about the wiphone, here are some of the ideas I have for it:

* 2FA token generator

* IoT remote

* retro game console

* modern game platform (think pokedex etc)

* educational hacking

And those are just off the top of my head. Essentially, it's a wonderful package for an ESP32 that makes creating useful devices out of that wonderful little processor even simpler.
- One of the core assumptions is that founders and early employees have more context than investors by orders of magnitude. This implies that decisions taken by founders would be more correct than by someone who has seen cos just from the outside. Which means if an investor exercises control over the direction of the company, it would probably lead to incorrect decisions.

- If a co grows and exits, an investor gets a proportional return. Sometimes, the money helps that growth possible and sometimes it makes that faster. Hence, there exists a win-win already for both parties. The board seat just complicates everything.

- I don't deny investors have skin in the game. I just claim founders have a higher sense of it. The stress, effort, and risk that founders take are nowhere close to the low compensation they decide to take for themselves.
That's mostly solved by keeping a screen around for others. I've found that sending the PC output of what I'm seeing in VR to a TV in the same room turns an isolating VR experience into a group activity fairly well.

And if AR ever becomes ubiquitous, the expectation would be that multiple people could wear the headsets and all see the same AR info.
David Embury's 'The Fine Art Of Mixing Drinks' manages to derive everything from two roots - sour and aromatic! See chapter 6, 'Roll your own':

https://www.collectif1806.com/collectif-library/Collectif180...

I think it's an oversimplification, but it's still useful advice. FWIW, this is by far the best book on cocktails i have ever read. Although i am going to buy a copy of 'Cocktail Codex', i think.
> Note though that an infinite universe doesn't imply that everything imaginable occurs within it

True, but in an infinite universe, everything with non-zero probability almost surely happens, an infinite number of times.

Since our own lives have non-zero probability of existing, a spatially infinite universe implies that almost surely there are an infinite number of exact copies of ourselves existing right now, and an infinite future implies that almost surely our current lives will be exactly repeated an infinite number of times in the future.
Do you have a link to a good guide for setting up power stuff on the X1C? I've found a few but they conflict, so I'm keen to hear from someone who actually has it all working well.
> Nvidia really has the most power to stabilize the linux desktop

nVidia/ATI had the power to stabilize the Windows desktop too about a decade ago but didn't.
(https://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/nvidia-drivers-responsib...) IIRC, Microsoft had to move to the entirely new WDDM video driver model and its TDR mechanism (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/di...) to finally put an end to video driver BSODs.

The odds of nVidia getting motivated enough to bring their Linux support up to par with Windows is nil.
Nice. Open source?
I feel like a lot of the usability quirks that Linux has are trying to shoehorn a multi-user system into a single-user context. For example, there is so much work done (and even complaining in favor of doing that work in this article) to make it possible for multiple people to sit at the same computer. Nobody does that! Most people have more than one computer! Why do people spend their free time on that use case?

This could be a long rant, so I'll keep it short... but someday I'm just going to rip the concept of users out of Linux and see what it looks like. Oh no, you say, malware will get you! Unlikely. Malware running as my user can fuck over my life just as easily as malware running as root. So why even pretend that that's a good isolation model? It doesn't prevent any attacks.

(As for how Linux in 2019 is doing... I recently switched back to Ubuntu for a desktop. Whenever I lock the screen and have DPMS enabled, it forgets that I have two monitors and that I want 200% DPI scaling when it wakes back up. What? Back in my day you had to hard-code the resolution and monitor configuration in the X11R6 config and there was no way to change it without restarting the X server. May I please have those days back? At least once it started working, it kept working.)
Nice strawman. I never said it's pointless complaining.
I agree with some of these points, but disagree vehemently with others.

> A smart thermostat could save a lot of money in a hotel. It would save pennies in a 2 bedroom apartment.

My smart thermostat has paid for itself multiple times over. Not to mention, it's made my home significantly more comfortable (due mostly in part to the ability to have a temperature sensor in my bedroom). Could it have been done without being connected to my wifi? Probably. But it was fairly inexpensive, it's saving me money, and it's doing its job. It's simply false to assert that the devices mentioned serve no utility for _any_ consumers just because you don't find them useful.
> That page is static, so I don't see how https is relevant.

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/encr...

Disclosure: I wrote that doc in collaboration with the Chrome security team.
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I no longer have social apps installed on my phone and I’m just doing fine. The social networks are full of garbage these days. I use HN for tech news and use feed api for reading news.
So the marketing emphasizes the privacy aspects of this device, yet in the comments (not noted on the website), you state that it has "no security whatsoever". This seems like an important disclaimer that should be given on the website.
Most of these aren't Linux on Desktop issues that any day to day user will ever encounter. A lot of them yes, but stuff like the author's issues with x.org being a bad piece of software are completely orthogonal to anything a desktop user of Linux will care about. This list would be a lot better if it were cut to just the major issues.
Exactly. You cant walk away from Windows 10 without the chance of coming back to a bricked system because it auto-updated and broke.
Yup, I started using one, and now I only need to remember one password, and the rest of my passwords are as random as possible. If I forget that one password, I'm pretty screwed, but at least I'm not reusing the same password in multiple places.

I honestly think it's irresponsible to not use one these days...
Oh cool. My 2017 MacBook Pro is just getting the stuck key issue. Is performance wise the chrome browser faster than the Windows one?
Yes, I'm aware of this, and I realise I am just an old man shouting at a particularly niche cloud. But many restaurants are foregoing some variety in vegetarian dishes that they previously had to offer meat substitutes. I happened to quite like a lot of veggie burgers, for example, but I do not like the faux beef burgers that have replaced them in some places.
There is a reason why basically every attempt to make this kind of language fast has to support some form of on-stack replacement.

For example, it's hard to optimize even local variable dataflow in python since it's part of the API : you can inspect the local frame of your caller, so you have a problem as soon as your function contains a single call. And no you can't know statically what is the call target since it can be replaced dynamically.

So either you perform the optimization anyway and then have to try to support reconstructing values correctly to support introspection, or you just do that generically with OSR and use the simple introspection on the interpeter.

Either way, there are not a lot of "simple optimization" when the language is so dynamic.
Terrible isn't really the right word here. Keeping animals in cruel conditions, terrible. Eating meat, not so much. It's a natural part of the animal ecosystem. I often find that those who hunt are also much more appreciative of animals and thereby more careful with their consumption.

That being said, we're in a position where our consumption (or more importantly, manufacturing for consumption) is out of hand and is causing great deal of harm. I'm all for meat substitutes.
Yes! Humans are matter and Humans are Conscious ergo at least some matter is conscious. Rather, matter is the conscious. But it's not just the matter, it's also the radiation and what have you between it.
Also cheap dog-food is mostly vegetables or fillers, but that fact never seems to be brought up when vegetarian dogs are discussed.
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Thank you. Talking to people about this project often feels like 80% explaining why they don't actually need LTE for this use case, and 15% listening to whining that we haven't released the source code yet :)
This might be an unpopular idea among the fossil money and investment people, but as a victim and witness to pipeline activity by an unscrupulous corporation, I would suggest that there are a mountain of unstated risks and hidden costs. This example [1] pipeline has state and local criminal and civil legal issues, spills, runoff, poisoned wells, sinkholes, inestimable property value loss, loss of use, an explosion, and all other kinds of malfeasance. This line passes literally within feet of homes and schools, and I don't think we've begun to see the true danger: the stated blast zone is 1000 feet and the "self" evacuation zone is 3 miles [2]. Someone is going to get hurt.

Perhaps the biggest hidden cost has no price tag, which is the damage to democracy in the form of bad precedent that occurs when a big corporation steamrolls local governments, gets itself declared as a public utility, and begins to eminent domain and wreck everything in sight, literally bulldozing through suburbs. These are homes and businesses a dozen feet from the line: [3,4,5,6]. This is not CNG, it's other more explosive fractions. It's a travesty of injustice.

1. https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2018/12/24/spills-s...

2. http://marinereast2.com/index.html

3. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0571635,-75.6675604,3a,75y,1...

4. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9789588,-75.5377762,3a,75y,2...

5. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0390132,-75.6366127,3a,75y,1...

6. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9874756,-75.5431866,3a,75y,3...
I like the sentiment, but there are big differences.

In software, you can poke/prod away at the running application to get it to do something it shouldn't. To me, this is a bit like yanking wires that you know are important to see what happens to plane in mid flight. Another anecdote I use is to image pulling the steering wheel off a car while someone's driving it.

I think modern software testing and security analysis is probably far away better than what the ntsb provides because we've already systems in place to cope with crashes.
Say you keep wifi off most of the time and don't use a lot of apps. What's the massive difference in privacy?
It's not that cut and dry.

- Most professional investors aren't investing their own money and understand a majority of their portfolio will fail. Even if the fund performs poorly it will take years to find out and they are paid relatively well during that time. A founder runs a gauntlet of practical risks (career, depression, monetary, reputational).

- Most professional investors do not have the experience necessary for running a company. Though obviously they can provide helicopter view support and leverage knowledge from their portfolio.

At the end of the day even co-founders diverge in terms of motivations and end-goals. Obviously investors VS founders will too. If you'r taking on investment its obviously critical that you are aligned from the outset. And if its a VC, then you are aware of how the VC business operates, what their goals are and how that will impact your company in different circumstance (liquidation etc)

Finally, if you are really aligned, it's likely you will welcome their view on how the business is run and being transparent as to strategy & finances wont be an issue.
But we have the tech to do that right now! Maybe 8k per eye is outside our current capabilities without being ludicrously expensive, but 4k should be doable!

And the rest already exists in other products!
Piece of advice: Turn off notifications for messengers and email apps. You’ll see how you feel better without being distracted. Also it makes you more productive.
"Muddle-headed confusion" is harsh. I'd prefer something like "human intuition not being particularly reliable on questions it wasn't evolved for".

If preserving a sense of profound mystery is your goal then... honestly, that mindset is sufficiently alien to me that I can't really think of anything useful to say on the subject. I can understand and share it as an aesthetic choice - mysteries are cool! - but not as a philosophical one. Philosophy by definition is the love of knowledge, not the love of not-knowledge.

And if you want your mystery to be something you solve, rather than something you live with, I do think you should be able to explain what your mysterious question means.
Does it matter? By the time there’s two major android updates there will be a newer and better version of these devices to upgrade to. Let’s not kid ourselves, phones aren’t “buy it for life”.
Being productive is getting things out the door to production.

Writing code is only a part of this equation. If you don't have a process that cares well about the other required things (reviews, testing, meeting and thinking, etc), you end up with a lot of code written, and much less of it useful for business at a given moment.
Does the streamer get hit by fees or something with chargebacks?
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Why not on the real time chat stuff?
Agreed - to pretend that other countries aren't devoting the top tech talent to advance their capabilities in a similar way is beyond naive.

I _want_ to agree with this "ethical opposition" approach, but I know too much game theory / history to know that I also don't want my power grid knocked out on a moment's notice because, say, Googlers opposed stronger cyber security for our military.
Hmmm, I don't know. If it's not filling the function of a phone, don't market it as one.

> * 2FA token generator

These already exist and are much more secure.

> * IoT remote

No thanks

> * retro game console

No thanks

> * modern game platform (think pokedex etc)

No thanks

> * educational hacking

Ok, I do agree it is interesting from this perspective. I get your overall point, but I still think it's a valid criticism.
What is this source? How about link to the real article - https://hbr.org/2017/09/the-surprising-power-of-online-exper...
no, it surely pays you, it pays you comfortable, and feel good and divine.
From reading the article, the framework they used, Kirigami, should be avoided due to lack of docs and lack of usage outside of KDE itself. He also mentioned that QML is too bare-bones and very difficult to use.
Well, just go buy one of the cheap non-existant versions, right?
I'm afraid that in the search for the perfect, drop-in replacement for meat we're in fact heading towards the uncanny valley. People who grew up eating meat won't simply switch over to eating something which taste and look 99% like meat when that 1% tell their brains there's something wrong with their food.
Often donation payments are used to validate stolen credit cards.
Is this a relatively new development?
I've been using Ubuntu LTS versions since 12.04 on Thinkpad T and X series laptops and I'm a very happy camper - out of the box Ubuntu doesn't suck for me, it "just works". I moved from OS X on latest Apple laptops to make my daily job (interaction design + web development) more productive (e.g. workstation running the same OS as servers, tooling etc) but now it's my preferred OS + hardware combo from a end-user perspective. I have to switch back to an Apple machine for testing and pairing with co-workers at least once a week and between the new Apple laptop keyboard, the random reboots (awaking from sleep), shitty web font rendering and intermittent errors relating to Apple ID, I don't miss it. I really loved OS X quite a few years ago but between the latest hardware (don't get me started about cords/dongles needed for a 2018 Macbook Air) and growing list of OS X quirks I'm always happy to return to Ubuntu 18.04 on my Thinkpad T450s.

I think many of the points raised in the article affect people making desktop software for Linux rather than end-users of desktop Linux. It seems like a global list of issues for the entire desktop Linux ecosystem - which is totally valid but I think a more accurate title of the article might be "Why developing desktop software on Linux sucks" or "Why creating a desktop Linux distribution sucks" because I think my desktop Linux setup rocks!
Steam's Linux support is fantastic these days. Almost everything works through their Wine fork.
Two of my last three laptops have had nVidia graphics and neither of those have had problems with the nVidia drivers; the newest one, a Lenovo T480 with an MX150, is completely fine with Nouveau.
What's your point? I don't think anybody was commenting on how far those numbers go.
Corrupted grub sounds like a hard drive failure. Regarding nic and graphics drivers it is possible to find hardware with good hardware support it is probably impossible for volunteers to fix all possible issues with closed source or proprietary software/hardware. Consider choosing accordingly.

If you want someone to select the hardware for linux compatibility consider buying hardware that comes with linux.
The trouble is that often the thing you are looking for isn't in the documentation, it's in some random Github issue.
With CAA records and a draft extension to CAA [0]. Letsencrypt already supports enough of it in staging. If you enable DNSSEC and set a CAA record like

issue "letsencrypt.org; validationmethods=dns-01"

Then, unless I’m missing something, you’re protected from BGP and other MITM attacks. (Well, you will be once this hits production.) And it’ll be considerably less annoying to work with once the “accounturi” constraint works.

I would go so far as to say that not doing this for a high value site will be irresponsible once this CAA feature becomes stable.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-acme-caa-06