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I've always felt that RHEL really excels at that old school corporate Unix feel of having to deal with stodgy tools that are either really old and/or lack basic ease of use features.

Reminds me of the time I wrote a script that called 'hostname -x' on SunOS instead of Solaris and it changed the hostname to '-x' and broke X11. RHEL is the nostalgia Linux.

But seriously, has anyone ever empirically verified that the Debian Stable/RHEL model of shipping a bunch of really old packages and then layering years of patches over top actually generates more stable, more secure code?

My intuition after a couple decades of software dev is that bugs will fester longer in the old version and the patches themselves will start having bugs as the top of tree diverges more and more from the shipped package over time.
The Linux Kernel is a 60s era monolithic architecture. Windows 10 is a modern microkernel. So, of course, the Linux "kernel" has more stuff in it. But that means that every driver and feature has to be carefully compiled in. It's no wonder there are far more audio, video, and specialized drivers on Windows 10.
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On trains and planes, my main critieria is that I arrive by the stated arrival time and therefore am pretty unfussed by stories about padding time etc - that's more of a long term structural concern than something that will bother me on the day. I think operators have figured this is all most people really care about over time (perhaps excepting highly competitive routes.)

You lose this ability to check timings with a non-fixed timings, and have to rely on 'oh, it's probably about half an hour from here to here' or google's guess at the real timetabled journey you'll do (which the operator hasn't really promised you at any stage.) People don't seem to mind this too much.

I wonder if part of this is that waiting for a bus is usually less pleasant than being on one in countries where there is often cold/windy/rainy weather. That's something you don't really get with long-distance trains or planes. I'm going to be grumpy if I have to wait in the pouring rain for 15 minutes, even if I still make it to my appointment on time.
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> I waited for like 10 minutes past by appointment time and everyone was booked up

Ha. Here in New York, I’ve never had an Apple Store appointment honored inside an hour. Usually an hour and a half. My strategy is now to get a cocktail at the Cipriani Dolce, walk it across to the Apple Store, ignore the “you can’t bring that in here” protests and wait out the hour with a drink.
>or have a plugin that rotates it often to counter fingerprinting

That's not going to fool any competent fingerprinting scripts. Blink/webkit/gecko have different javascript implementations so it's easy to cross-check whether your user agent header matches your "real" user agent. The only thing you're really going to fool are server side logs for user agent. If anything, using user agent spoofer is an entropy source (makes you stick out more) because most people don't spoof their user agent.
Alacritty uses the gpu for acceleration, where iTerm uses it only sometimes. That might have changed in a recent release, but originally iTerm was limited in when it used the gpu.

I notices it a little bit when moving around quickly in NeoVim.
>> there’s well-tested highly optimized libraries for it (JSON) for practically every supported platform and language.

> If it has to be a loose bag of value data format you could at least CBOR instead of JSON.

so you think there are well tested, good performing CBOR parsing libraries in basically all languages?
Yeah. I wish someone would build a native port of i3wm.

There's an autohotkey project that tries to be a tiling window manager but it's quite buggy and feels very forced. Cool project tho.
I mean, China only got where it's now by stealing tech from the US and EU. Either with spies, or by letting foreign companies "compete" in China, only if they partner up with a local company, and then for the government to clench the foreign company so that they finally quit the market. Also, if the IP was actually protected, Chinese companies would have to pay billions back to the US and EU... I only like Trump because he sees the bigger picture in terms of China being a threat, how much China is making a fool of the west, and also due to the tax cuts.
I'm sort-of supporting IE11 at my current company and it's not about the features, IE11 is full of rendering bugs & quicks which make you work more. Lots of CSS bugs, lots of JS bugs, it's just an outdated browser which has a real cost to support.

Then you need to be careful to include enough polyfills because even what you assume would be there probably isn't, there's no Promises, no Array.prototype.includes, no arrow functions.
In practice there is no strategic benefit of having more cards. There is one bad deck that uses more than 250 (to win with Battle of Wits). It arguably breaks the rule already.
> Poorer black communities have little to none of that.

So do poorer white communities.
You’re right that if the only aspect of the prohibition left standing is the law, the issue is probably lost. But morality and law feed each other, so I disagree that it’s totally irrelevant.
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"I think the horse has already left the barn. An individual with $500 worth of equipment could disrupt cellphone reception along an entire corridor of an interstate. What kind of legislation could prevent this? Outlaw private ownership of SDR? I do not think there is any way to stop what is coming..."

Keep in mind that story was just about a single driver's concern over safety. There is also a huge economic incentive for hotels and other business to disrupt signals to force people to pay to use their own wifi services. Marriott tried that. Guess what the consequence was.

So if the horse has already left the barn, how do you explain the fact that cell phone towers seem to work in practice, esp. in large cities like NYC and LA? How is it that nearly every single baseband OS in existence is locked down to comply with FCC regulations?
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Why don't you try contacting protonmail's support rather than being offtopic here?
I think it's indicative of a larger problem in society: people don't value bytes of video and will penny pinch to the extreme in that department, but they'll gladly drop any amount on Amazon shipping.

After all, why should they? The entertainment industry has acted atrociously to consumers in recent decades - it's just a shame that independent content creators are being stifled (declining ad revenue, refusal to pay, etc..) by the behaviour of megacorps.
>"If the FD were a file on disk, knowing ahead of time that read(2) isn't going to return quickly is kind of a clumsy task."

But isn't this exactly what happens? A process running in kernel mode calls schedule() and sleeps waiting for I/O. The reason for calling schedule() is that it already does know read isn't going to return quickly. But maybe I'm completely misunderstanding your explanation about why current AIO on Linux is clunky?
The .init and .fini sections are run at object load and unload times, respectively, yes, but DllMain() also ets called for each thread at thread startup and teardown time. On Unix you can catch thread teardown with pthread keys, but you can't catch thread startup.

Just an FYI.
> Just recognize that those are questions that every new reader to that very early page in your docs is going to have.

I doubt all new readers will have those questions. It depends on their background. For example, plenty of languages use similar syntax for sum types (Scala, Swift, ML, Haskell, etc.).
Wow, so when would be the worst time to suspend your computer?

The only time I imagine this, is when generating a private key for a production environment.
The context of most of these threads on HN is environmental impact. And invariably, vegans show up with an "all or nothing" attitude. I understand if environmental impact is not their primary motivation, but then they should say so.
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>If you don't have any alcohol you can use it without interacting with anyone at all and its much faster.

I agree that you can do it without interacting with anyone at all. But I question whether it's faster.

For a class assignment on usability a while back, I observed self-checkout users and manned ("proper") checkout at a local grocery store and found that the absolute fastest of the self-checkout users were only just as fast (per item) as the average manned checkout user (among 24 users).

A few factors increase the speed of manned transactions. First, cashiers are familiar with common
produce numbers, avoiding the need to search for stickers or slowly look up the number of a particular
item. Second, a cashier can begin bagging items as the user pays by credit card or pulls out cash, so
some of the work is done in parallel. Third, sometimes manned checkouts have a person dedicated to
bagging, which reduces the time even further (though all times recorded for this project are single
cashiers without baggers).

Self-checkouts definitely feel nicer for me (except when the anti-theft "place item in bagging area" nagging starts). But now, when I'm in a hurry, I'll make a beeline for a register with a cashier instead of the self-checkout.
Time zones are something that should be federally mandated, not decided in piecemeal like this. They are just creating a fucking mess.
If it's a robot, designed, programmed appropriately, and trained using the correct data to digest and understand later data, can it be unlucky?
> I mean I cant even control when my computer reboots anymore on Windows.

I've been using exclusively Windows 10, for 2 years at work and more at home, not once had I an uncontrolled reboot. Perhaps rebooting at least once a week help.
Nukes including fusion are an obvious dead end with solar and wind so cheap and battery storage coming.

$Billions better spent elsewhere.
I can completely see the logic. If this only works for point sources it may not scale sufficiently to be viable long term. So that capability needs to be proved out early in order to demonstrate it's long term value to investors.
There isn’t “extreme” inequality, there is higher inequality though. Btw, if you were to lookup the root cause for this you’d find the government and the fed printing money that pushes up equities.
>networks NEED to be significantly over parameterized for SGD like methods to find the minima

Why?
In theory, if you can perform a computation/algorithm on one turing-complete device, you can transform it to run on another. That is to say, anything your desktop computer can do, Magic can do as well (albeit much much _much_ slower).
Guys help ete to write a Python class for comparing dictionaries. plz
Guys need to write a class to compare dictionaries of different depths who can help?
That brings back memories. Used gobby all the way back in school.
The first title I saw did sound a bit clickbaity, and it looked like someone later rewrote the title, and then tweaked the rewrite (changed "user" to "freelancer").

If the penalty for sounding clickbaity in the submitted title is that the post then won't be seen, that sounds plausibly appropriate, in the context of widespread poor media practices we're trying to improve.

In this particular instance, such strict measures might be unfortunate, if the writer is raising a general industry situation, in which many of us might be involved without knowing it, and which situation should be improved.

Would the writer be permitted to resubmit the post?
Fixing all that would be laudable of course, but how do you solve the problem of foreign governments respecting those? If you go abroad on holiday, you would want the right to speak for your partner in a hospital as well!

Also, what's wrong with calling the set of those rights marriage? Two best friends can already get married in a lot of countries if they wish.
Aside from the plethora of themes and other visual niceties, can anyone explain to be the appeal of Hyper when less expensive, more performant alternatives exist?

A terminal written in Electron seems just silly to me...
To be fair, they only ceased practicing polygamy because it was an untenable position in their quest for statehood. Just like they stopped keeping black people from the temple or the priesthood in 1978 because it was no longer an acceptable practice.
I am still waiting for the reasoning - why the hell can't people do it by themselves and need government for this? What is so hard about creating a Slack group and funding a $10 DO instance together, eventually growing it further? Why would you force the society to pay up for such a unnecessary thing that could be done 1000x-10000x cheaper (not kidding, I have some insight into governmental IT) and better if people just did it themselves? How do you propose to solve issues inherent to governmental projects? How do you propose to solve things such as right to equal access to public services?

I strongly despise the current "'it should be done' instead of 'we do this'" trend. Just get the hell up and do it, code sharing does not even need any investment! Talk to your neighbors/friends/use the internet. You don't need the government to live your life. It was supposed to be there in case something goes wrong and for-profit help could become dangerous, not for other things such as code sharing...

... TBH I still can't really believe someone thinks we need the government to provide repositories, or that it'd be a good thing. Just why?
Your original statement was a response to no one, too. Not sure why you're upset when he did the same. I think it's arguably even fairer of him, because due to your lack of explanation for why you made your comment, he was left to surmise what the purpose could have been.
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Your answers diverge, depending on who is operating the "robot". If it's being presented as a service by an investment firm, then you obviously have a standard dispute with the investment firm, the same as if one of the human brokers went nuts. If was sold as a software system to be self-administered, then you have an issue with a vendor. The latter may hinge solely on misrepresentation, because software is generally sold with little warranty for precisely these reasons.

So much money slushing around can make things a little grayer because in either case the investor didn't actually perform any work themselves. But I'm confident they can use some of that money to discern who ultimately owned what, who employed who, and what type of relationship was created.

I feel like newswriters just love to generate hot air with this "sue a robot" trope. Who to sue for that?
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What's the point of using hypertext-(web)-standard-oriented multimedia-capable framework to create an application that just shows plain text (ok, plain text + 16 colors + bold).

Why would one package a 50MB terminal, packing stuff that will never be needed in a terminal.

It would make sense if they were to spend all that effort to create a terminal-based web browser.
Windows penetration on those regardless of official licenses installed on machine? A good few years ago, MSFT came out saying they didn't care if over 80% of the machine were running unlicensed version of Windows as long as the market share in East Asia for Windows OS was so dominant that no-one would be familiar with anything else.
We all enjoy customising our setup?

A web dev friendly developer experience and a javascript plugin ecosystem opens that up to a new audience.

It's a pretty big audience. I guess the hope is that raises the bar for what users expect from a terminal and it's plugins, while providing performance that is adequate enough for it's target audience.
I meant that for existing works of art that are easily digitized (not created, taken from a physical format to a digital one), there is no such thing as scarcity if the consumers don't strongly prefer the physical version to the digital version.
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A sort of ELI5 on this for those that may not be familiar with any of this:

Ray tracing algorithms require checking to see if a ray will intersect with objects in a scene. This takes a LOT of time, and if you want this to be interactive ray tracing (e.g. in a game, where you need a frame drawn in a very short time), you have to find ways to reduce the number of objects you're comparing the ray against.

A lot of the time this includes culling algorithms, which essentially give you very quick ways to say that a number of objects have literally no way of being intersected by a ray, so you can ignore them. There's also things like bounding volume hierarchies (BVHs), which says things like, if a ray doesn't intersect with a given massive invisible cube that contains objects, then it can't possibly intersect things contained in that cube.

This is a bit different of a solution. If I'm understanding it right, this involves simplifying the representation of the objects themselves, so that something that was once a lot of triangles to be checked individually, can now be checked as one object. This means that a) you don't have to check for as many intersections, and b) it uses a lot less memory.
John Maynard Keynes' remark that 'the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent', springs immediately to mind.
They're tools to achieve altered states of consciousness that can help you change the way you view yourself or your experiences. I meditate daily and have also used psychedelics recreationally in the past (this was a couple years ago, before I really took meditation seriously). I have problems with paranoia and OCD, and meditation has been incredibly helpful for learning healthier ways to deal with my emotions, along with improving my ability to focus in general.

With that said, I'm skeptical of the way the article approaches psychedelics as something of a cure-all for mental health problems, rather than a way to change your perspective. The Silicon Valley techie approach seems very narcissitic and performative, and I'm not sure that mass production by pharmaceutical companies will be a good thing.
Alternate title: How the DOD was locked into depending on single vendor

(this rarely works out well for taxpayers in the long term..)
You seem to have a naive idea of what 'fight it in court' means. When you enter the court system, especially as as a defendant, it is not as if you have been teleported into a domain where enlightened rationality rules, no matter what the constitutional theory says is supposed to happen.

Even if the law is nominally on the defendant's side, there is a good chance that she will be threatened with charges carrying significant penalties, possibly backed up by nothing more than the testimony of the officer who violated her rights in the first place, and offered a plea deal. Accepting the plea deal forecloses on any chance of righting a wrong.
You definitely don't live in Seattle. Hell will freeze over before busses here are on time, even for a single stop.
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Do you know what asserting your rights looks like to a cop having a bad day, especially if they're already anxious and you're a black man in a bad neighborhood? It looks an awful lot like "resisting", and it's going to be really hard to dispute that when they've shot you dead, claimed self-defense, and have their partners to back them up.

The problem here isn't someone failing to assert their rights; it's cops considering asserting your rights to be "contempt of cop" which can carry an immediate death sentence if you're the "wrong" type of person talking to the "wrong" type of cop.
I have a dev license and I can register 16 systems. Your mileage may vary, but it never hurts to try.
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>>For small ticket items, you can scan, pay and leave

This would make me very uncomfortable - without the ceremony of payment it would appear to others that I'm stealing.
+1 for Alacritty. I've been using it as my daily driver (switched from iTerm2) for a few months now and I couldn't be happier.
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But if you look at input latency benchmarks (there was one posted not too long ago on HN, maybe a month or 6 weeks ago) alacritty isn't close to the fastest terminal for pressing a key and being able to see the key on the screen.

IMO pressing a key and seeing it is the primary focus of a terminal.
Is there a good reason this doesn't just use urandom/getrandom? This doesn't look like it's in the "we're so early in boot I haven't restored the random seed yet" case, for example.
You don't have to convince me, I agree. But the fact remains i'm pretty sure it accounts for some number of the reported IE11 users.
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Why don't people just wake up earlier? If we keep shifting the day back, and waking up later, we'll up with the sun rising at 11 AM.
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Can these containers be run hosts that are not RHEL? It seems like it's allowed, but I'm not completely sure I read that right.

I'm also looking to know what packages are available in RHEL8 that are not available to UBI containers. I'm not able to find information as to what subset of the RHEL package universe is available to UBI containers. If you're aware of information on this I'd love to be pointed to it.
Sure, but in both cases they backed the pragmatic policy change with the full weight of the doctrinal power of the Church institutions, which over time (and the monogamy thing has had lots of time, the full admission of blacks less so yet) turns it into a lot more than a position of political convenience.
CodeSandbox is really amazing. It's by far the most useful web app I use on a daily basis. Congratulations!
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I launched a side project ~5 years ago that does simulated API responses with fake data. Never checked analytics beyond launch but I've just discovered its received 4.5M unique visitors and 100M requests in the past 30 days. What would you do with this information?

Context for my question: I'm a developer who's terrible at monetising, or even marketing, side projects.

The site: https://reqres.in/
> When I took a tour of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility a few years ago, Buddy Bland, who is Project Director, told me he could tell when he comes to the Lab in the morning if they are running the LINPACK benchmark by looking at how much steam is coming out of the cooling towers.

https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2013/06/24/the-linpack-ben...

Different programs consume dramatically different amounts of power.
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I can get more daylight in the winter at a later time in Georgia. There’s no reason I should have extra daylight in the morning. I’d much rather get home from work and have more daylight.
I have noticed this paradox when accessing my VPN time based code. More often the time until refresh is >30 seconds than it is <30 seconds (60 seconds between refreshes)
Oooh, thanks for this!
I knew there’s some across the bay, but they sure hide the other two stores in SF. Never seen them even show up on their genius bar search.

Are they official Apple stores or are they apple-branded franchise stores? Reason I ask is because that’s the model I’ve seen a lot in Europe. A store that has a license to be an apple store but isn’t actually owned and run by Apple.
Ah - I scroll up to avoid that (and have my term set not to auto return to new line).