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To my view of the world, the reasonable grain of truth in the article is "Don't break our apps when you theme them to match distro". A perfectly reasonable request, and stance that most could support without caveat.

Which is then thoroughly buried by a point of view that feels the app is the only arbiter, and tries to justify that on consistency of brand, icons not representing what the developer wishes etc, and that even individual user customisation is a big favour - an unsupported edge case.

What of the users?

It's reasonable to expect an app to both allow, and to work correctly with any theming built into the platform or distro. Bugs may be on either side. I concede it's mainly the major platforms that have done most to take away choices here, so you can no longer download new iconsets - to transform everything into ST:TNG or whatever. Where a distro seeks to theme everything it's the one app that won't, for brand experience, or developer wishes - that now sticks out like a sore thumb.

That is to be regretted, as much as platforms removing ability to build a custom night mode or extreme low contrast theme, or even add some slight 3d back to Windows. It's the end user who loses out to a worse experience or usability each and every time.
True economic activity is trashing the planet but the biggest CO2 emitter, China, is nominally communist. What we need is a tax on environmental damage applied globally, probably enforced by trade sanctions on countries that don't go along, or something along those lines. Get the financial incentives right and loads of startups and billions of investment dollars will pile into fixing environmental issues. Capitalism can do good stuff too.
> When people make a crude joke or call somebody an asshole on Twitter, they don't expect that to be read by everybody.

If we're keeping up with analogies, that's like saying someone doesn't expect what they say on a soap box to be heard by anyone. That's a false expectation, however.

We have to strike a balance between ideology and pragmatism. The best compromise is likely preventing the government from having access to data we consider private, while understanding anything on the other side of the line is fair game and accessible to friends, family, politicians, corporations, and historians alike.

The only way we can achieve this is by limiting what can be done with this data aka fixing the US government. We cannot, for example, have public or inferred health data used to prevent people from attaining health insurance.
US Government's been great at collecting tons of data. Analyzing it... not so much.
You shouldn’t need the type annotations on the three variables, by the way.
The term you're looking for is finality. Some people are developing consensus algorithms that never reverse transactions but in case of an attack the chain may stop.

BTW, normal people haven't been able to profitably mine any major cryptocurrency for years.
Imagine all the people who have never heard about SpaceX that see these. They will think the aliens have arrived :)
There's privatization, and then there's a faux privatization that removes public ownership but retains the liabilities, inefficiencies, and obligations that make publicly-owned operations into bloated behemoths that hæmorrhage money and achieve nothing. This is a situation that combines the worst of public and private enterprise.
The web browser is problematic - HN remains a bit of a Skinner box for me - but it still denies you two important addictive mechanisms: candy-colored icons and attractive design. If there's no icon begging you to tap it, and the interface when you get there is "crappy", there's much less artificial addictiveness in the equation.
What are you doing wrong? how to get promotion faster?
I mean, I prefer Vue for reasons, but I'm pretty sure you can do that with React too...
This explanation correctly explains why 1/0 and 0/0 are not numbers, but doesn't answer the question of what makes 1/0 and 0/0 different. And they aren't both undefined.

1/0 is undefined because no value of x satisfies 1/0 = x.

0/0 is indeterminate because any value of x satisfies 0/0 = x.
Indeed. Keeping people from modifying their software affects only developers, keeping people from choosing a theme affects every user.

The ability to use what software you want, however, isn't much different from the ability to use what theme you want.

And ultimately, freedom is not specifically about running the software you want, or about modifying software, but about doing what you want.
To my knowledge, this is based on Plasma Mobile which shares some features from the KDE Plasma desktop environment and uses Qt for widgets.

https://www.plasma-mobile.org/
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Convergent evolution is fascinating.

Environments produce animals in some way and a similar environment will cause similar animals to evolve again given time.

New Zealand's kiwi is a bird version of a mouse because mice weren't around to fill that niche.

There are many examples that are bafflingly similar yet share very distant common ancestors:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_converge...

Makes you wonder if the sci fi with human looking aliens is not so far off.
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Ask HN: Starting Your Own LLC?
I want to start my firm in the USA to channelize my creative endeavors. What are the nuts and bolts of starting your own firm? I can register an LLC online, but what else should I know? e.g Filing taxes, choosing between different corporations etc.
What did you wish you knew , when you started yours? What are some good resources ?
> Your entire comment feels awfully dismissive

What's dismissive is this word "dismissive". Sometimes, a comment really is just a random low-effort personal swipe that don't engage with the substance of the subject. The GP did not write one of those comments. Instead, wrote a valid and substantive critique of the article, and you don't get to score rhetorical points by smearing that work with vague labels like "dismissive".
If a distro is committed to modifying the style sheets to look like macOS, then it should be the distro’s responsibility to maintain the applications. Precisely because the distro market for Linux is so varied, it is hard for Gnome app developers to support all possible theme configurations.

Read the banner at the top of the page again. It doesn’t ask users to stop customizing, and it doesn’t say there shouldn’t be distros with custom theming. It just asks distros to stop shipping broken apps as a result of theming, and it asserts that if that’s the route you want to go, then you are on your own.
The author presents valid concerns, but the user is still higher priority.

The consistent theme across apps is more important than the developer's brand. Suggestions for a theme is useful, essentially ordering others how to use their app and theme should be outright dismissed.
"Employees ... can receive significant severance pay, which provides a financial cushion while they look for a new job."

Imagine that. Laws that help people.
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Can GDPR be used to actually destroy a company operating online in the EU? I'm guessing it could be, by simply overwhelming them with valid requests under GDPR, like "Give me all my data!"
It wouldn't surprise me if maintainers suddenly start ignoring issues from non-sponsors because they can't handle all of them.
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Virgil also creates a shield symbolizing Rome's history in the Iliadic second half Book VIII of the Aeneid. Not that many people read the second half of the Aeneid because it's just not as good as the first half. A lot of classes leave it out. The first half is Virgil's adaption of the Odyssey and is a lot of fun. But like Romeo and Juliet after Mercutio gets killed off, once Dido gets lit (literally), the Aeneid gets boring fast. Like Mercutio, she's the best character.

The poem itself is Auden's 1952 reworking with the Cold War and nuclear annihilation as an implicit backdrop. It reminded me of Simon Weil's Iliad or the Poem of Force.
True enough, but that fraction has the biggest impact though.
> making free some of their stack (arguably the less important parts)

How is the core of their product the less important part?
And does it really protect much? As long as you sign an agreement with the 3rd party that they value GDPR you are all golden, no?
I read a relevant article about how the semantics of division by Zero ultimately rest on arbitrary decisions of the mathematics community.

Trying to dig this up I found these:

- https://www.1dividedby0.com/

- https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/divide-by-zero/
Related:
Steve Yegge discussed use of Emacs for a customer-email processing application at Amazon:

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel (2004)

"""
Shel wrote Mailman in C, and Customer Service wrapped it in Lisp. Emacs-Lisp. You don't know what Mailman is. Not unless you're a longtime Amazon employee, probably non-technical, and you've had to [directly talk to customers]. [....]

Mailman was the Customer Service customer-email processing application for ... four, five years? A long time, anyway. It was written in Emacs. Everyone loved it.

People still love it. To this very day, I still have to listen to long stories from our non-technical folks about how much they miss Mailman. I'm not shitting you. Last Christmas I was at an Amazon party, some party I have no idea how I got invited to, filled with business people, all of them much prettier and more charming than me and the folks I work with here in the Furnace, the Boiler Room of Amazon. Four young women found out I was in Customer Service, cornered me, and talked for fifteen minutes about how much they missed Mailman and Emacs, and how Arizona (the JSP replacement we'd spent years developing) still just wasn't doing it for them.

It was truly surreal. I think they may have spiked the eggnog.

Shel's a genius. Emacs is a genius. Even non-technical people love Emacs. I'm typing in Emacs right now. I'd never voluntarily type anywhere else. It's more than just a productivity boost from having great typing shortcuts and text-editing features found nowhere else on the planet. I type 130 to 140 WPM, error-free, in Emacs, when I'm doing free-form text. I've timed it, with a typing-test Emacs application I wrote.
"""
Thanks! Those are all super useful tools. I'm terrible at picking colors myself.
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Bots wouldn't exist if they didn't generate engagement, and engagement is the currency of Facebook.

So if the bot-detection algorithm works by lifetime customer value, it would cull real accounts and leave the bots alone.
> If you try and map tasks to strategic goal then you just up window-dressing everything

If you don't understand how your daily work is related to management's priorities then probability is high that you are going to do a lot of work that isn't valuable to the organization.

So, either it should be a trivial exercise to rationalize how a task is related to the objective, in which case this is nothing more than a small overhead of working in an organization. Or if you find you have to make leaps of faith to make the connection to the objective then that's a signal that you need to consider why the task needs to be done at all.
A lot of it is a matter of perspective.

"As intended" is a suggestion, not reality. Physical reality doesn't have XML tags attached to things, saying "this is a hammer, you shall use it to drive small nails, and small nails only". The same thing applies to software. There are tools more and less convenient for a task, but ultimately it's the task that matters.

Consider invoices: before computers, they were done on the ultimate universal medium - paper. Even today, they exist as documents primarily meant to be read by humans. They have some required information and vague shape they're supposed to resemble, but that's it. It's much faster to make one with Excel than with InDesign, doubly so if you already know Excel. The part that Excel doesn't support - invoice life-cycle management - can be done elsewhere (file system is damn good at it), and often isn't even a part of the task - that aspect is handled by the accountants you CC when sending out an invoice.

Excel is really a kind of smart virtual paper with affinity for grids. People use it for a lot of weird things because it usually works damn well for those.
Cool. In some places it is common to only capitalize acronyms if they are pronounced as individual letters.
And "Master the Mainframe" is even open to non-students (look for "Learning System"). Comes with material and tasks to work through to get acquainted with the mainframe.

Very much recommended for anyone who is curious.
I think you missed the nuance of my point. I wasn't saying we should get rid of sports or athleticism or creative en devours that result in entertainment value or inspire emotion. I was saying that the accomplishments in those fields are relative. If Michael Jordan had instead dunked from a foot closer, but that was still better than had been previously seen, would the world have derived less enjoyment? If Phelps or Bolt had broken slightly less impressive records than they had broken would that really matter at all? I'd argue that since the history of humanity has been breaking those records and moving the line forwards again and again and the people where entertained long before the folks you mentioned were born, the answer is pretty obviously "not really". But a medical breakthrough that impacts millions of lives, not abstractly but in measurable improvements to health and longevity? It's a whole different kind of thing. Reducing the cost of clean energy and pushing back the grasp of climate change? Stuff like that vs an impressive slam dunk and I just don't see why it's vitally important to ever force-feed a child a sport in the hopes that they'll break that kind of record.
That was my point, most of them aren't even trying.

And the posted link seems to be one of those.

Just wanted to note that its not really comparable to what g-fu is doing.
Is there any opinion here about Apple’s routers (airport express, airport extreme)?

They have discontinued the product line but software updates have continued and they say they will be supported for a while.

Are they safe to use, in the context of this blog post?
I’m on Zen Internet in the UK and was supplied a Fritz router with the connection. WiFi was great but didn’t reach throughout the house (old, lots of brick internal walls).

I noticed they claimed they could do mesh WiFi so I tried to buy their extenders. They are built to plug directly into European power sockets, though, and when I asked AVM they advised against using an adapter for the UK and instead buying some second hand routers.

I bought two the same as my original (2nd hand on eBay, cheaper than the extenders would have been) and set them up.

It was trickier to set them up than the extenders would have been but it’s all working and pretty solid so far. I was very happy with their support.
I guess I will have to gracefully admit I was wrong in saying that she gracefully admitted that she was wrong.
Ask HN: How do you do market research for a software business?
What tools, sites, companies, etc. does the HN crowd use to do market research when starting a new software business or looking to launch a new software product? Is it typical to pay for research or do you only use resources that are freely available? Any books or other resources you'd recommend on learning more about how to conduct proper market research?
One of ESR's relatively recent rants about protocol design is optimizing the right thing vs scaling a protocol for use over long time, so he's a big fan of using JSON in the next generation of NTP.

One quote summarizes a couple thousand words "We should be designing to minimize the cost of human attention."

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8254

when you can run all the world's stratum 1 traffic on a raspberry pi, you shouldn't be optimizing for bw and speed, but for bug-free-ness and security and ease of use. Likewise back when a minimal computer system was a multicard S100 Z80 system minimal midi made sense, but now a days it should be like adhoc wifi with a REST API or something similar.
I think you are highlighting a more fundamental issue with social media: it's impossible to separate signal from noise.

On one hand, OP is almost certainly right about attention seeking, and I'd go as far as to expect that many of the stories are outright fabricated. There is a well known
(and growing) phenomena of military imposters that falsely claim service [1], and the secondhand stories here are even harder to verify and present a clear motivation for falsehood.

On the other hand, there is also plenty of evidence that growing PTSD rates [2], and overall worse outcomes [3] for service members, is a real phenomenon. The true stories here that deserve analysis will have to compete with other stories that angle towards particular or personal ends.

End result: every viewer sees plenty in this thread to confirm their own expectations.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/aug/21/usa.internatio...
[2] https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwij...
[3]
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwic...
"He did make a million times more risky bet than the typical minimum wage worker"

What a ridiculous statement! A bet one million times riskier than the average person makes would be one where there's a 1% chance of achieving great wealth and a 99% chance of everybody you love dying immediately.

An already affluent person starting a business is not that risky.
If you are familiar with the Iliad, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that every man in the Trojan War probably had PTSD. It's one of the most unrelentingly brutal books I've ever read
Why are external drives and NFS shares considered trusted to begin with?
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Which may also lead to a greater since of community and reduced loneliness which contributes to longer life.
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Ask HN: What books that changed your life about money
Anything from personal finance, research, economy, etc
> it doesn’t say there shouldn’t be distros with custom theming.

Reading carefully between the lines, I think they actually do hint at that:

> Please don’t theme our apps

> This is why we ask respectfully that our applications not be themed.

> On a platform level, we believe GTK should stop forcing a single stylesheet on all apps by default.

> If you are a distribution who changes the system stylesheet and icons, please reconsider this decision.

> If you do, we ask that you please stop theming our apps.
Well said, I’ll refer back to this.

Also, the U.S. underpins the existing economic system. That costs
A bunch of markdown/text files in a git repo, hosted on github/gitlab/gitea (github in my case).

This way I can edit the files online on github.com, on my desktop and push/pull the changes. On my iOS device I use http://workingcopyapp.com - I can edit and create files as well as push and pull changes.

On my Desktop I can use any tool I want to search and edit the files, on github I have full text search and working copy also features full text search.

Most importantly: I own my data and they don't up in some database I need to worry about.
Can be revoked at any time as well as request all the data they've aquired about you and it's deletion.
This is just flat wrong advice in every jurisdiction I’ve worked in and further wouldn’t fly at any employer. The bank statement may provide the WHO in the transaction, but the invoice / receipt / similar provides the most important part, the WHAT that was paid for.
> But I find all hell breaks loose when you want to get a slightly different formatting than what's offered. Then suddenly the entire system becomes something you need to fight against.

That's why for anything custom, I prefer to use plain TeX, which is totally fine.

The TeXBook is a great tutorial on TeX, it's up there as one of the great comp sci books, in the same league as: "The C Programming Language".

I think people seem to scared of plain TeX, it's totally approachable and easy to use.
But doesn't FB use the existence of said profiles as a lure for advertisers? (eg. Your ad could reach any of our 1B members...)

Seems like a class-action lawsuit in the making.
I read it as about Hephaestus, not achilles. What happens when a god has seen too much
It's not just for protection but also for control, which gdpr excels at. I am able to retain full control over where my data goes, who is allowed to have it, I can make sure it's deleted when I don't want it there, and I can actually request to have it.
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All I want in life (as far as web authoring goes) is a wysiwyg editor for static html that creates fairly clean code and can provide responsive templates.

I just want to type text and drop images in and see it in real time, and then I would like to be able to define one or more areas on a page that contain dynamic content.

That dynamic content can be served up when visitors reach the site, or can be compiled by the static site generator periodically, I really don’t care about that step.

I don’t want to abstract “templates” from content. I don’t want to abstract anything. I just want to type and drop in other media without extra steps.

Why does this not exist? Am I supposed to be using Dreamweaver? I just don’t get why all these other solutions are so disjointed.

Edit:
Maybe I want to be using blocs
I like the philosophy behind GDPR.

I just think it misunderstands how people actually behave.

Human behavior is always a challenge for any regulation. These are early days for digital age regulations, even the best efforts will be hit or miss at best I think.
I served, Air Force. My experience was neutral, I'd weight it around 70% positive, 30% negative, and I'll probably never take the time to go into the details. It would take me a year+ to string my service-related experience journal entries together and I've honestly already exhausted myself bitching about the USAF/VA/DoD/Pentagon and the way they treat enlisted folks, especially our Reserve units during OEF/OIF, and our veterans.

My Uncle served, Marine Corps and then Army and he retired CW4. He died young of horrible cancers, we contend, most likely, though no one can prove it now that he's dead and forgotten, due to exposure to Agent Orange in-country in Vietnam. He spent the last ~10 years of his life fighting the VA.

My father served, Navy, he's a disabled veteran who has had the majority of his insane health complications linked to Agent Orange exposure in-country in Vietnam. I had to take 2 years off of my life to, among other things, help him fight the VA to get disability status and to get his disability / health complications service linked. The VA is still jacking him around today. He, and his cohort, have a mantra that they operate on. "Delay, deny, and hope that we die." That's how Vietnam veterans have been impacted by serving.

My brother served, Army, 10th Mountain. He had an equipment malfunction in Haiti _destroy_ his left ankle and, many surgeries later, still cannot walk properly. As a civilian, he was a line cook, then a sous chef, then a chef. He then fell in with a group of serial restaurateurs. He has spent his life on his feet in pain. He's also had to spend a ludicrous amount of time fighting with the VA.

This is a small sampling of the men in my life who have been impacted by serving. I'd say, overall, no, my family has not been impacted well by serving. And we've overwhelmingly not been served well by the US Government and VA upon separation or retirement.
..Amazon not doing due diligence ain't a GDPR problem. The only problem is that those two values are way too low:

* €55,955,871 in fines

* €50 million of which was a single fine on Google

Those are a joke. Considering what's going on, those values should be orders of magnitude higher.