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This is probably an unpopular opinion but.. there is a lot of value in having multiple competing kernels. In the same vein as browser engines, any monoculture is a bad idea. Not to mention there's been a lot of good work done on the NT kernel itself. Under the hood it's pretty advanced, even with all the user-space cruft on top.
If it ships with Windows, doesn't that mean Windows is GPL now?
You don't even need to deny anything, just make a nude photo of a person who wants to fire you.
To me, the statement reads more like several people having veto power, than several people having approval power.

Which seems sensible, even under a benevolent dictator: if the COO says the logistics are impossible, well, you'd better go back to the drawing board, even if the design is perfect.
You can't perfectly modulate your force. A long travel-distance keyboard gives you flexibility to make mistakes.
I'm in love with this analogy. Too many modern GUI applications are the software equivalents of 'unitasker' kitchen gadgets. However I must note that not all GUI applications have this problem; a few exceptional examples stand out as being knives, not unitaskers. Excel is a classic example. In fact, I consider Excel proof that when programmers of GUI applications don't sneer down their noses at users who aren't professional programmers, it is possible to create very powerful and flexible GUI applications that empower those non-programmer users to implement their own custom solutions to novel problems.

Sometimes I wonder if Excel could even be invented in recent years. Could you ever get an application like that past "UX experts" who think users should to be treated like idiot children?
so microsoft's open source linux kernel is going to cause everyone to stop using linux...?
Applied to microwaves in particular, modulating wave properties is how we transfer data. New ways to pack more bits per Hz are always useful.
This will make windows more linuxy than macos.

So for all that just want a local nix enviroment for dev (and to most these means linux), Microsoft has actually beat Apple at this.
Did they use a cronut as the intermediate stage?
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Thanks, fixed! This was actually due to an overzealous CSS optimizer, and the bug hit all browsers, not just Firefox. :)
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All the Linux with none of the freedom. Yaaaay?
We license engineers and many other similar professions.. perhaps we need an "executive" license, complete with certifications and standards and a long "journeyman's training" period before we trust you with the massive amount of power, both real and abstract, that can come with one of these positions.

We may never be able to hold them criminally liable with much success, but we could much more easily invalidate their license and prevent them from holding any similar position for a very long time. Which, for some reason, seems far more just than simply jailing and possibly fining them.
I sometimes wonder how many bugs are lurking in systems using GPS for navigation at 180th meridian (where longitude goes from 180 to -180).
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On the other hand, we take the refugees produced by US military and foreign politics. And our countries are the first to crumble into dust if there is another Dr. Strangelove.
One of the comments on the article proper makes me so sad. It basically says "What a monumental waste of effort. You should have spent your time improving Linux and not recreating DOS."

It's fine if you don't get the allure of this project. But to presume to tell someone how they should spend their own time is ridiculous to me. The creator of FreeDOS set out to do something, succeeded, and enjoyed their time doing it. And this person is telling them they're wrong.
Transversal waves can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_momentum_of_light
Good high-level mental mode, but it's not a clean separation like that.

Think Open Source Android vs. Google's Android, or Chromium vs. Chrome. It's not just dragging and dropping some UI libraries on top. There's a ton of glue, and sticking shims into non-obvious places that make a lot of the magic happen.
While I am not suggesting that Tim Cook is in imminent danger, the idea that an Apple CEO does not have to worry about the board yanking him if the numbers go bad is, given Apple's history, in need of some defending.

Again, I'm not saying Tim Cook's in danger. But, if Steve Jobs can get fired from Apple, and several CEOs have, I don't know why we would expect that he is immune if Apple stops being profitable. Which, granted, it shows no signs of.
Absolutely.
At this point, there isn't much value for Microsoft to hang on to the legacy of Windows - with most of their revenue coming from Azure/Cloud and developer products, it might be time to say goodbye to that legacy and make it subsystem on a modern Linux-based system.
That might also be a way for them to become more relevant in mobile devices and platforms.
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The article mentioned recent grads (working in Seattle for an India-based company) who wrote code on specifications, not “mechanical turk”-style employees. It was followed by a quote from a former Boeing software engineer affirming this.

Is your issue just with the amount ($9) being paid?
Unexpected or undesired behaviours are relative to who's expectations and desires are being considered while bugs are (or at least should be) universally recognisable as bugs.
> It felt old 10 years ago!

And it felt old 20 years ago when I started first using it! And I was on a college campus with networked Unix workstations in computer labs and departments. The model environment for this vaunted “network transparency” that never quite worked right, was never quite dependable enough to really put it into your collaboration workflow. Hell, I think only the CS department was able to get home directories fully implemented and useful.

Good riddance!
a lot of what people wouldn't consider an outliner like Dynalist to be a replacement but i used to be a chronic Evernote user and somehow I am using only Dynalist now and nothing else.

it wasn't easy at first switching to something that didn't let you add images like Evernote does but the speed the at which you can jot down ideas in Dynalist made me forget about that problem
No more than running Linux in a VM makes the hypervisor GPL. They are distributing it via their store.
Or if we want to keep guessing instead of doing thorough long-term research, a more likely answer is that it's a mixture of many things.
I tried doing this last year, but I missed the first week due to spam filter.

I still feel bad about taking a spot
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I was like you when I read that. I remember when Ballmer called Linux cancer:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_...
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Docker's not a VM.
Disclosure: I work at Microsoft but not on Windows (and my work machine is a MacBook Pro FWIW)

WSL 2 is a lot like that -- it's a VM in the sense that it uses Hyper-V, but it's super lightweight. And in fact, when WSL 2 is enabled, both Windows AND Linux are running in the same type of VM (separate, obviously), so it's near-native performance in a lot of ways. There are still some I/O issues that the team is actively working on, but early benchmarks are quite promising.
Software is an integral part of modern flight. Somewhere up the chain, there’s a highly-paid software engineer/manager who helped design and signed off on the spec.
> The problem with OpenstreetMap based map is that there are no good reversed geocoding to search locations.

Yes, this problem does exist. Ultimately, probably Google is the best entity in the world that can map search queries to the stuff you want, but qwant maps adopting mimirsbrunn seems like an improvement from my testing.
Deep in the twitter replies:

> Now, is this a corner case, an edge case or a boundary case? And does the answer depend on whether you are a flat-earther or not?

That was too funny.
It can be pretty easily applied to GPLv2 in commercial agreement. "You get the source under GPL and all the rights, but if you publish anything, you're dead to us and you need our product". This is what grsecurity does with Linux kernel, but the extinguish part is not in their interest.
Do you not think that the highly competent researchers didn't account for this very well know the rise in the data. Their findings here are novel, critically important and are related to a host of other works revealing the intricate links between the gut biome and neurobiology previously unknown. Parkinsons is another disease that recently has been shown to potentially be related to changes in the gut biome.
Less than one (source: I did it trying to find parking because the BJs next door was full)
On a global scale, not at all.

Locally, given that some of them had already met each-other without knowing they were half-siblings. Maybe a little.
Cook doesn't (and recognizes that he doesn't) have the necessary design eye.

I think I agree with @UIZealot that there's a need for a design approval that isn't directly involved in the design process, e.g. the SJ world would presumably have SJ saying yes/no to Jony, but in the post-SJ world it was Jony saying yes/no to essentially just Jony. I assume those decisions would be fairly one sided :D
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That controversial new English subs seemed much more accurate to me than the old baseline, though I can’t speak for Italian dub.

After all it’s about a language that up until the last century “being rather unhateful” meant a girl’s stuck to a guy like a magnet, so...
... except that (a) WSLv2's kernel will be running in a VM, and (b) macOS's kernel is much more like Linux's -- fork/exec, networking, filesystem, memory, TTY.

I see WSLv2 as more of a concession that a *nix-style interface is what developers want, and that the NT kernel can't deliver that.
Way to miss the forest for all the trees, hombre.

Let me guess: you are American, and you are trying to defend the indefensible?

We are locked in an existential battle for the soul of our nation, founded as it was in the ideals expressed in this essay.

I do believe you are trying to justify the unjustifiable.

Shall we begin your remedial history lessons with the Monroe Doctrine, or perhaps start with United Fruit in Guatemala, or perhaps discuss Kissingers role in overthrowing the democratically elected Salvador Allende and assisting a certain General Pinochets rise?
Our crimes in Latin America are numerous and our neighbors were not plopped next door to us yesterday.
We are actively involved in their continued instability and impoverishment (See Guatemala, see Honduras, oh and LOOKEE HERE Venezuela and 30+ years of sanctions, or shall we mention the drug war and it's biggest client?)

What is missing from any discussion of our bad attitude ("Keep out" says a nation of immigrants!) is HUMANITY.

Where is your humanity? Do you have no sense of right and wrong?
Is a Mexican not your brother?

What is being proposed here is not what you suggest is being proposed, although I will remind you that all nations and all borders are fictatious entities.

What is being proposed here is the radical idea that border-crossing human movements need not result in the deaths of human beings, seeing as how our entire species has always migrated.

Are you 100% Native American? No? Then you are a descendant of migrants!

"OH but they did it LEGALLY" yeah and slavery was legal and so are American cops shooting black people with impunity.

Your point?

The nation state system will not likely survive the 21st century. Mark my words.

So, I can't think of other nations where border crossing result in deaths, legal or otherwise.
I can't think of a single other nation in which such a double-standard of borders exists:

Americans can go party in Mexico for the weekend, so it's not like we are at war with Mexico, but then this border is militarized like Gaza or the Korean DMZ... hmmmm kinda odd buddy.
Scott Forstall was the guy super invested in the old skeuomorphic designs that everyone hated :D
The difference being that professionals don't generally buy $250 3d printers - and when they do, i expect they do factor those costs in.

The difference is that professionals get paid and they know the value of their time. If you cannot rely on free labour, factoring in associated costs is important.
Depends on the state/country, but most have rule that you can't go around more than once. In fact, most places I've seen in the US you can't even go more than 3/4s around (although I'm not sure if that's a law or just a posted suggestion).
> That's extremely misleading.

You're right - I should have said: "potentially a lot of water."

Sandstone (silicon oxides) seems unlikely given the reducing nature of the atmosphere. I'm no expert, but when liquid hydrocarbons rain down, there's not a lot of free oxygen on the surface at least. Ditto for basalt, which is about 40-50% silicon oxide. Still there could have been some process by which the interior sequestered most of the planet's oxygen, leaving what remained on the surface as water.

In contrast, liquid hydrocarbons seem plausible given the stuff rains down from the atmosphere and its density (methane ~0.5 g/mL, -162 C).

Titan's orbit provides some evidence consistent with a body that's more dense at the surface than at the core. One explanation is large amounts of subsurface liquid, but there are others:

https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-04/titan-could-h...

There's been some discussion about the apparent massive block of ice in Titan's surface, so the idea that Titan's putative subsurface ocean could contain water isn't too wild a speculation:

https://www.space.com/titan-saturn-moon-weird-ice-formation....

A subsurface ocean composed of water and liquid hydrocarbons would be consistent with everything I've been able to find so far.
Exactly.

This is what it comes down to: I still use Firefox confidently despite being aware of these issues, as I'm aware they're still very minor compared to running Chrome, or even any other Google-engine-based project.

It's still however worthwhile probing these issues. They're still far from ideal, even if they're preferable as a "least worst" option.
It's used by America only because America made the rules. That's not a great justification for the system as it stands.

Are there any examples of longstanding institutions that are _not_ beholden to the will of the many? All things fall if you can get enough people to revolt.
This is interesting. Any recommended project links so I can read more?
In Ben Rich's book about the Skunkworks, one of the aircraft (U2? SR71?) was encountering high-altitude insect impacts on their windshields. Turns out they'd been lofted up there by nuclear tests.
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With Microsoft, this part is almost inevitable.

Same with Google/Microsoft and privacy...
$250 for the 1 TB version and $450 for the 2 TB model, Corsai accidentally put the listings up early on Amazon a few days ago and then took them down
It's the only way to fly.
There is no hard dependency between composition and vsync. You can disable composition with vsync enabled, or you can have composition with novsync. (in practice they tend to be highly correlated)

However, Wayland supports neither disabling vsync nor disabling composition. Moreover, it was architected this way; there's not really any hope of disabling the compositor. Freesync looks kinda sorta like vsync if you squint at it right, so maybe there's hope for freesync in the distant future. But right now, Wayland does not support freesync, nor are there plans to implement it. Gaming on Wayland is 'lol nope' at this point, and will remain that way for the forseeable future.

This news is deeply troubling.
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Edit: ops grand parent mentioned Mars and it’s atmosphere is extremely thin. For comparison at 35,000 feet on earth it’s 3.4 psi. On mars at ground level it’s 0.088 psi. Add in being 53% further from the sun and would take quite a bit to make Mars habitable.

Venus has the opposite problem sitting much closer to the sun and with much higher atmospheric pressure.
It’s incredible that Apple have pushed so hard on a misguided design aesthetic at the expense of practicality in recent years. I’m temporarily using shiny slim new MacBook...with a third party Franken-dongle-appendage hanging off the side so I can actually plug it in to anything. Not to mention the insanely loud and clumsy keyboard. Definitely looking forward to my old MacBook getting back from the apple repair shop.
well, comparing an active force, mecanized, a large part of it being airborne or seaborne to a whole country, which includes children, retirees, unemployed etc. it's not even that bad.
Looks like this could improve bandwidth of free space connections, like satellite or directed beams.
> It is Google now that does the extinguishing...

Although, to be fair, they are really only extinguishing their own products.
My company uses Google docs.

Anything destined for for that pit of despair I write in vi and excel, and copy/paste or import. Docs is not quite awful, but nowhere close to nice to use.

And "just search" as an organizing principle for docs from lots of people who aren't information nerds ends up leading to a bucket of ass. Newhires end up doing broken things because they found an outdated doc, you have to pick through multiple versions of other people's crap that never goes away, etc.

I keep all my docs to myself and render-to-Google when something needs to be shared. Reminds me a bit of blogging, really, with crappier tools.
Maybe on bare metal, but I imagine it will definitely add to the Linux userbase.
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What about the laser technology NASA is developing? That should be a lot faster than current radio based technology?
Exploits around hardware implementation of bitstream deciding is more of a constrained problem than arbitrary and legacy file formats that vlc needs to decode.

Would like it if OS’s ran binaries in micro-vms by default. At least with a very much de-privileged container.
No need to duel boot. Not sure if I'll need to use virtual machines as often for testing.
Wonder why he didn’t use the Core ML image analysis tools built in to Xcode?
Thanks.

I basically posit that the question of sex that hangs in the air is a huge stumbling block for women. Most men know that if they are being friendly and establishing trust, this is a platonic relationship. When men and women try to be friendly and establish trust, it is easily confused for romantic behavior.

And it complicates the hell out of things. Men are very reticent to give women meaty constructive feedback. When they do, women feel attacked instead of aided.

Etc.

Women have much less opportunity to get casual nudges for their idea over drinks or whatever and women seem to much more often get feedback too late in the process, causing the need for very expensive major pivots instead of smaller tweaks at an earlier stage adequately changing the vector, or they get nothing but positive feedback and pats on the head like they are emotionally fragile and can't handle the truth. The result is that they have enormous difficulty doing anything worthwhile.

Sometimes women will marry the right guy and he will make a good business partner or sometimes they seem to do well starting businesses with their adult sons. But if you are a woman and not lucky enough to have one of those two scenarios, you face this huge uphill battle because so much of what is known about business is known by men and they mostly don't seem to share it with women.

I get tired of the same points being endlessly rehashed. People debate if women just lack interest or spend too much time raising children or on and on.

I actually want to get things done, including make adequate money. I can't find the answers I need and no one wants to engage those questions. I've tried. For years. I mostly get feedback that indicates I bother people and should stop being so annoying with my stupid girly questions.
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Is this torque in the same sense of the word as “ability to move objects”?

Is StarTrek happening?
Bigger question:
person writes heartstring-tugging essay, you react with zero aknowledgement of the opening paragraph of said essay.

It's almost as if you wish to shout out "I have no humanity and celebrate wanton cruelty"

Please DO address the ship full of Jewish refugees turned away at our doorstep.
Ah true sorry I forgot
That's just the igon value.
Have you read Bad Blood? It's quite reasonably arguable that she had such a state of mind, based on the evidence.
That's why I never drive anywhere. In case my car breaks down.
Sure, but they already know this. You or anyone else on Hacker News is not clarifying this for them.

Meanwhile, telling users who to blame does nothing for them. They don’t care. To them, the best entity to blame is the distribution, that’s pretty much their job.

But while blame doesn’t fix problems, neither does doing nothing. What I’m suggesting is, the move to Wayland needs to be pushed harder if anything is going to be fixed. Nvidia can’t hold it back, that’s not sustainable.

But again, users can’t do that. Distributions can do that. Distributions can tell people, sorry, we can’t support Nvidia, contact Nvidia, they already promised to work towards this, and what they produced is incomplete. If they continue to support X11, there's no urgency to fixing the issues with Wayland.

This isn’t really about blame though, it’s about responsibility. Somebody has to fix the problem. Open source projects like Nouveau can help, but Nvidia has blocked progress by requiring signed blobs and continually not providing access to important information (like technical bits for reclocking.) I think that is pretty much reason enough to suggest Nvidia should be shouldering the pressure and responsibility to deliver a good Linux experience, and we should absolutely hold them to it, until or if they stop blocking open source efforts on purpose.

Establishing blame would tell you who’s fault it is that something is broken. Answer is nearly useless imo. Only thing that matters is how do we fix it and possibly what can be done to prevent it from happening again. Saying Nvidia should fix it is different from worrying about who is to blame; if you frame it that way, they could fire back about how kernel licensing restrictions make their life harder, and nobody cares about that issue either.
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Quadratic splines are useful too
I wonder if this will affect how we understand things about light, like the two-slit experiment.
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I am so tired of software engineers that, patch that software, etc etc. Ultimately it all comes down to $, $ that executives thought they could save for the company AND make that yearend bonus.

It's not engineer that or this. It is MBA this and MBA that.
Well that is pretty nice. WSL gets that much more exactly like Linux.

What I really appreciate about WSL is that you get the accessibility of a bunch of OSS projects and a machine which has legit drivers for all of its component bits. What this means to me is that searching for a "linux laptop" won't be a chore, if it runs the latest Windows it will run Linux. And I can do development on the Linux side while communicating with senior management in power point on the Windows side :-). If they come up with a better/credible USB allocation scheme it will be icing on the cake.

I also think they should buy one of the X server vendors and bundle it (comments about X.org from Redhat not withstanding) I use Xwin32 on my laptop with WSL and its pretty seamless in terms of things that want to pop up a GUI.
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