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That's cool, and it's good to see work going on in more fundamental building blocks of Linux like Gnome to support mobile and reactive UIs. I always felt like this was the biggest blocker to using a Linux system on handheld devices - having a good ecosystem of open source projects that work for that, and having the ability to pick your own desktop environment and components rather than having to have an "all in one" solution equivalent to Android. Admittedly I know that isn't a killer feature for average users - they do want the all in one solution. But having these things available makes it easier for a company like Purism to build a product using existing software.

It feels like this announcement is missing a step though. What can we do with this? Does this allow plugging your phone into a monitor and then running your phone apps in larger windows (eg, the opposite of what's shown in the videos). The idea of having the same programs running on your phone and laptop is nice in theory, but I'm quite happy with my own custom Linux setup on my laptop, I don't want to install PureOS on there.

Of course, much more work will need to be done in other programs to support this. The Gnome Web example looks really slick, and it's great to see this sort of 'responsive design' applied to native application interfaces - Android took a step backwards in this regard. But on desktop I'd rather use Firefox, and they have entirely separate builds for desktop and mobile. I wonder if Mozilla have any plans to support this?
> I really think sandboxing built-in emulator for android apps has to occur for the phone to get traction

> I think i'm their ideal consumer and still can't see the value yet

I don't think you are their ideal consumer. They're appealing to the Stallmans, the people who aren't looking to replace their smartphone, but for which this would be one of their first. I have heard someone say about the Pinephone (similar project): "I don't want a smartphone. But I want this. "

I do think they could vastly expand their appeal by adding Android emulation, but I have a feeling using the (which seems like the) market leader (Alien Dalvik) would be some licensing hassle, as you'd want to allow people to install their own distro and still use it. Add to that the whole (admittedly important) thing about everything being open software.
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Plot twist: the adoption of the orphans is in fact the canonical blockchain transaction and the recent slowdown in verifications is due to a lack of orphans. This need for more orphans is the fuel for global warfare ultimately turning the purpose of humanity into that of being slave to the blockchain.
I've become unenthused about this software "dream". Having spent years designing and building UIs on the web, what I've learned is that:

1) Convergence works great for "casual" apps - messaging, stores, content feeds, etc.; anything where the amount of stuff you need to see on screen at once doesn't need to be especially large. But the web already does a great job of making this type of application both responsive and cross-platform.

2) Advanced, dense professional tools will never adapt automatically to mobile screens in any meaningful way. And frankly, these are all I find myself installing natively on my desktop anymore.

The vast majority of software these days falls squarely into one of these two camps, and neither seems to benefit much from the prospect of convergence.
I meant the JV but in fact as noted upthread the JV itself always used "Advanced". I faked myself out by remembering Apple folks working with Acorn before the JV was formed.
The profit margin on payday loans is not nearly as good as one would think. I know that there are concerns about allowing people to fall into traps, but the statistics on profit margin make me think that these companies are not predatory. The high interest rate on these loans doesn't go into heaps of profit so much as it reflects the true costs to offer this type of loan.

In some ideal libertarian-ish world, these payday loan shops would still be allowed to exist, but nobody would use them, because they would recognize them as a bad deal. This is not the world we live in.

I'll just link to the google results regarding profit margin, because my first result was from adamsmith.org, and I'm at least trying to present my evidence neutrally.

https://www.google.com/search?q=profit+margin+on+payday+loan...
How are the drivers paying for it? From what I understand from the article, the school isn't receiving any extra money to clean this up, and the drivers aren't paying any additional road tax to drive on this piece of road.

As the article points out, and as has been known for decades, car drivers don't pay for most of the external costs they cause, and this is an excellent example of that.
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I think you're too late, but you can make an account here and ask: forum.mtgoxlegal.com

It's a forum organized by creditors who together pay for a lawyer and an activist to represent us in the bankruptcy.
It solves a _development_ problem

I think the GP meant to ask "what problem does this solve for end users?" It's hard to market to consumers if your primary differentiator is only useful to developers.
As well, contrary to what your debate 101 professor might have taught you, appealing to authority is not always a fallacy.

If I had said "Mr Obama and Mr Holder think the border is dangerous" then sure.

But what I said was that a US president and attorney general have previously used the loose writing of the 2001 AUMF to expand the "War on Terror" to new theaters. Therefore it is likely a similar case can be made to expand the theater to the southern border.
Further: there are 'board support packages' or BSPs that are tailored to the processor, support chips and package that you're coding too. They work exactly for that configuration and no other. It'd be impossible to fit much in there otherwise!
The flightsuit i don every morning, the one with a flag on the shoulder, says otherwise.
Hello! Coffee enthusiast here. I'd like to follow-up on this statement:

> They roast it until the oils come out and then the oils go rancid because it has been sitting on the shelf for the last 6 months getting to you.

Are you saying that it's bad if my coffee beans are glistening with oil? I usually took that to be an indicator of freshness. Or do you mean that if they're no longer glistening that the bag is probably stale?

FWIW, most of what I buy (except for the Costco bag that I take to work) has a roasting date on the back so that I can guarantee a certain degree of freshness.
The American dream was always unsustainable. It relied (and still does) on exponential growth, the idea of unlimited free land, and the exploitation of other nations.
That would be a good argument if the state and the corporations it is in cahoots with weren’t creating the problem in the first place.
It was just an idiom as this isn't a technical discussion. I think most readers could get the idea.
Writing off all the big computer shop stuff as irrelevant means you throw away all the experience and best practices and will be repeating the mistakes people made 50 years ago. And maybe reinvent some wheels too.

A computer center is your best resource for observing and learning how to build computer services, deploy them, and keep them available. And for knowing what experienced computing people and their customers expect.

And some of the stuff you do today is descended from here:

You probably wrote this comment in a program that displays forms, and allows you to fill in forms and call up other forms. This is how the 3270 terminal worked.

Maybe you have some hypervisor running somewhere. Welcome to 1970s IBM. We don't want to rewrite our 360 stuff so we will emulate the 360 in its own sandbox.

Saddest part of these things, when they come into general awareness one way or another, they are so out of tune with the universe that the public hail them as new "technology." The ideas are old, it's only some new implementation or circumstance that's novel.
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I'm generally not a fan of regulation. But lately, I've been changing my opinion on that. I don't see how we can all play in the economy game without having a set of unambiguous rules and referees to enforce them.

Regulations do add overhead, sure, but how else can we prevent companies from acting in ways that are detrimental to society? Capital finds the shortest path to profits, and without rules, it becomes a quick race to the bottom. For example, payday loans. I would love to make 20+% return on capital. Who wouldn't? And, acting purely as a business-owner, I'm would be required to use every trick, no matter how shady, in order to win. Why? Because I know my competitors will.

Unfortunately, as history repeatedly shows, tricking people is usually the quickest way to make profit. Regulations are necessary, but there should also be continuous effort to decrease the overhead costs without sacrificing the intent.
But SSRI's don't have as much of an abuse problem - there's not immediate feedback that makes you want to take more SSRI's - at best you feel "normal" and "numb in a different way" with a side order of sexual dysfunction. Nobody is going to street vendors for that.
For the majority of people, this isn't the case. The body of evidence backs this up.
I'm sorry you and your partners had a bad experience, but comparing it to opioid withdrawal is an unfair comparison and could discourage people from getting help who need it.
Yes some story-telling from BBC's website is very UI-unfriendly. But please do take the time to read the story.
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In addition to everything else it may be, Master's degree is a public achievement. It has about 900 years of history [1]. It confers a social status (that may or may not be valued by another individual). There's nothing wrong with assigning a non-nil value to any or all of those things. If a person does, then a master's is non-fungible with a nano-degree.

The other thing a Master's is more likely to provide than a nano-degree is a network of other students and the program's professors. And of course the Stanford and Georgia Tech alumni networks are meaningfully stronger than Udacity's. [2]

The third rail is an on-campus graduate education. I mean if your working at a startup and what you really want is to learn, then on campus is more of what you really want. And it opens up many many more educational options. Specific professors. Specific topics. All over the world. [3]

Good luck.

[1]: It's also formal, like this citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%27s_degree#Medieval_era...

[2]: Though an online degree almost certainly creates weaker network connections than an in person educational setting.

[3]: If you want to advance your career through education, on-campus full commitment.
To be honest, after I started in software development 10 years ago, the most important skill is (good) communication. If you can't understand your stakeholders or express concerns the prettiest code won't help you. Obviously it will help, but only after figuring out the former.
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From my research:

ZFS is more stable, has the downside of not allowing expansion of volumes, and has the issue of not being upstreamed.

BTRfs has the option to expand volumes, is native to Linux, but has a wiff of unstability. Most notably with the persisting raid 5 write hole.

I haven't found a good choice yet. Though I think I'd go btrfs at the moment.
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You think it's possible to unplug from the internet? All you have to do is to talk to one living person in America to feel the cultural impact of social media and the internet. There is no unplugging. Unless you go start a commune in the middle of no where. You can't just turn this off, it's in every aspect of our society. I agree putting yourself on a media diet is a good thing, but my diet isn't going to get my friends in shape.
He would be if he didn’t collaborate with the FBI according to the sentencing documents.
I don't know how Portland/Oregon funds this, but based on my experience in Texas:

1. If the drivers are in a different district, their taxes are primarily going to other schools.

2. The drivers aren't paying taxes to pay for this that bikers, bus-riders, and remote workers don't also pay, so it's not correcting the externality. It's not that the drivers are paying for it; the drivers and everyone else are paying for it.
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Why is truck regulation so substandard? To enter the metropolitan London area (600 sq miles), HGV’s have to meet stringent pollution standards for particulates and NOx or else they pay £120 a day. Under those circumstances they aren’t a dominant source of pollution.

You’re definitely right that wood burning stoves and static plant are big sources, although location of emission is very important, someone using garden machinery intermittently on their own property or a wood burning stove out in the country is mostly polluting themselves, the same can’t be said for a freeway being driven through an urban neighbourhood.
Yes, but to address rampant drug abuse- especially the kind where users are sharing needles-, you'd have to address a host of systemic social problems, poverty foremost amongst them. I agree that's a great idea, but also one that's not in the interests of the pressure groups keeping pharmaceuticals expensive either.

Just in case anyone still needs a source for this kind of thing, here's an example: https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20180326/...
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There's demand for these sorts of loans, so if you outlaw them the demand doesn't go away - it moves to the blackmarket. The classic "loan shark", or local guy with cash that will have his goon break your legs if you don't pay it back.

That's fine, we can outlaw and drive it underground, just as we tried with alcohol, and just as we do now with various drugs. Sometimes society would rather pretend demand for some products doesn't exist.
APL and Prolog/Datalog are local optimums in programming languages. When you enter their domains, you are limping in every other language. It's almost better not to know about them because you can avoid constant "there is a better way" in the back of your head.

I think we should just bite the bullet and make them into standard domain specific languages available in every language and environment.
> In the first world we hide all of that from sight

There's no hiding. The cars are much cleaner with lower emissions. We have industrial pollution laws so auto shops have to safely dispose of waste. We don't leave burnt out cars on the roadside. You can add chaos to anything to make that thing look bad.

Also I hope you see the irony in your comment starting with

> I've been driving around Africa for almost three years now
The white paper says it's personally backed by Ja Rule and Blink 182.
I disagree with the sentiment around space exploration. Having government involved to support the science is very valuable, but private enterprise has driven exploration for a long time and hopefully could open frontiers more quickly.

I vastly agree with the sentiment on prisons and hospitals, however. Prisons in particular make me so angry I could explode. Feels like a fundamental violation of the moral imperative upon which our society exists.
This reminds me of how chit fund scams worked in India in the 80s.

Often people in the same family(cousins etc) would invest. Always in a fashion, where one of them owed money to the fund, and the other was owed.

If the fund went underwater, they would just go to the chit fund office, and do what was called book adjustment. Basically the fund would not give anything or take anything. On paper it would appear as fund gave money to one cousin, and took from another. In reality the cousin who was supposed to get money from the fund, would get the money from his cousin. And the fund, would mark in his ledger as the debt was paid.

This way people didn't make losses.
Microsoft failed in a completely different way: their entire mobile platform failed. I'm not sure it had anything to with UWP specifically, and as far as we know that had little to do with it. But regardless of the reason, I still don't think that should prevent others from trying to solve the problem in different ways.
Wow what a depressing idea! Of course with advancing technology we get more and more for less and less. The American Dream is very achievable. Not some imaginary infinite-resource world, but a society where everybody can work reasonable hours and have their own place. It doesn't rely on any exponential growth ideas at all. There are only so many Americans, and only so many needs.

And America was built on our own industry - the rest of the world had marginal input. Sure greed ran over our borders, but that was a sad side effect and not necessary for America's amazing growth.
Don't forget:

Motorbikes not expensive enough for you? Try jetpack's new flying model!

At a mere US$ 380,000 list price it's a steal.
USA here - I was at a meeting where a teenager was speaking. He was mentioning some other social media platform and said, as an aside, "That's like Facebook for you old people."
For several hours a day the people using this road would be ecstatic if it were that fast.
> black soot in my nose in London.

That's probably dust from the London Underground, which is mostly iron (from the rails and wheels), brake dust (ceramic) and dead skin.
You could switch to working on some other component and then come back after a few days - I find that length of time often makes me fairly critical of my own code!
Drugs are not the last resort. Amputation of infected limbs was once a common treatment for infection. So too blood transfusions. Drugs are now used instead. That is a good thing.
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I pretty much agree with the author.
I'm not a developer but I worked with many developers in the last 6 years.

Some of them were great and some were not so friendly.
-Respect for others
- Being friendly
- Give good energy to the people around you in the office
- Learn how to work in a team

Those are the things that when a good developer has, he becomes a game-changing part in a startup
I should have added "serverless" as well, come to think of it!
It does so more directly by being a PC without Microsoft Windows pre-installed or proprietary BIOS.

Almost always, a majority of PCs for sale have Microsoft Windows pre-installed. In the rare cases that they come with a GNU/Linux operating system or no operating system at all, the drivers and BIOS may be proprietary.

Ubuntu helped enable Purism to exist and they are great for that too.
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Right...I get I was condensing the facts somewhat for the sake of brevity but your expanded point isn't contradicting what I said. The end result is FreeBSD are migrating over to the ZoL code base.

I'm guessing from the way you're spinning things that you're not ok with this switch? Personally I don't care where FreeBSD pull their ZFS sources from as long as it's stable - and I have full confidence in them that it will be.
Is this per 100,000 deaths? In that case, wouldn't lower rates of traffic accidents and lung cancer contribute to higher relative deaths of drug-related deaths?
I tried different drip coffee makers, French press, and percolator over the course of years. The Bialetti Moka Express is perfect for me. However, everything depends on the grind, roast, and quality of the beans. After using medium and light roast coffee beans for five years, I am back with dark roast. I prefer Indonesian beans and a grind slightly coarser than espresso.
There's reason to doubt freeway traffic is the primary source of pollution at Tubman Middle School. Just across the freeway from the school is a non-trivial amount of industrial activity including:

* A Calportland cement facility (2500 ft mi)

* A Union Pacific rail yard (4000 ft)

* Tyree Oil, a small petroleum distributor (1200 ft)

* What looks like a power transfer station (2000 ft)

* At least two glass-makers and a ceramics studio (<1000 ft)

* A sheet metal fabricator and neon sign manufacturer (1100-1400 ft)

This article appears to have originated with a Bike Portland (and No More Freeways) campaign against freeway expansion and for decongestion pricing.
>"Why in god's name would I want to run vim on my phone?"

To be fair, I've used vim on my phone over SSH and it was actually a pretty good experience. Editing is a bit more deliberate of an affair than with a hardware keyboard, but still easier than trying to visually select text on the touchscreen, and no complex chorded keybindings to try to enter.
Payday lenders aren't making 20+% for free. The interest rate is high because the risk is high.

In the absence of regulations on interest rates, competition hammers the interest rate down to the lowest it can be before some other venture can provide superior returns.
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is there not enough tools? what do you miss?
Ah yes, because blockchain data structures are completely useless...
What's the state of running linux natively on Mac these days?
The I5 does often run at those speeds in this location, which is why they want to add lanes here.
I know, but you can donate to them. Chrome, you can’t.
I was thinking about (consumer) packaging incentives last night -- it's really hard to get them to line up properly.

The data center has a lot of attractive properties in this regard as the big players (AAGFM...) are commissioning their own hardware these days so they can definitely design and require to minimize single-use delivery waste. But on the side of actual servers, cable plant etc it's harder for me to see. However the incentive alignment is correct in this case (single consumer for a design to be used in a fixed place).
What do you think about the idea that if someone is charging 20% on a loan and making easy money, you can offer the same service for 15% and take their business?* That is a race to the bottom, but it seems like it would be good for the customer.

* This is essentially what credit unions do with signature loans.
Thanks, and will check those comments.
Despair is the absence of hope. People have been given an unrealistic view of what life should be and when it is so much worse than their expectations they fall into despair.

The media hurts because we are exposed to the "lifestyles of the rich and famous". Im gen X which seems to have the suicide problem. Gen X was raised with "greed is good" and glamorized miami vice. That is a hollow empty promise even when fulfilled.

I think another of the key problems is a lack of life philosophy (spirituality?) where people can find meaning in their lives outside of material goods. This is partially due to the death of religion. There also is a lack of understanding that life is fundamentally unfair and there somehow is the expectation that it should be fair. Without religion people are missing a clear moral compass that guides their life to find meaning. There needs to be a new modern philosophy that has moral underpinnings, but incorporates science, without necessarily having a deity.

Finally, children (including my generation) have been sheltered from lifes daily challenges by being given too much. I suspect when they become adults they simply can't handle what their lives actually are.

I think the current generation of kids are being raised to try to change the world and to seek meaning in helping other people. However they are also being raised to think that life should be fair and they are going to be bitterly disappointed.
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