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Congratulations to the Debian team on their new release! I will certainly be upgrading to it soon enough. Just for fun, I downloaded the ISO shortly after it went up and recorded my first impressions of using it on the happy path with the default GNOME environment. I would consider myself a technical user, but I use GNOME rarely and am not familiar with it personally.

* I didn't notice anything out of place with the Wayland switch. I haven't tested suspend/resume/hibernate/external monitors yet though. Personally, I won't be using Wayland on my main machine once I update that as I'm a CWM user, and Wayland support probably isn't every going to happen for that.

* My user account wasn't added to the sudo group by default, and using `su` broke something with PATH (/sbin wasn't in PATH after running `su`).

* GNOME apparently does not support configuring multiple wifi adapters, which was a problem since I had intended to use a USB adapter to download the nonfree drivers for my internal adapter, but GNOME did not have a menu to configure them separately.

* The problems that GNOME 3.X has always had continue to be present -- chiefly the UI scale is too large on low-res screens (the machine I was testing with has a 1366x768 display), and graphics performance continues to disappoint (animations stutter very noticeably on the "search" screen for example, this was on a 2nd gen mobile i7).

* The much-touted software center seemed to have several polish issues. The first time I launched it it threw a bunch of inscrutable errors and didn't work until I re-booted the machine. It still threw inscrutable errors, but worked after this. Lists of software would take 60s+ to download (render? not sure what part was slowing it down).

From the perspective of a technical user, I don't care about any of these. They either affect software I don't use, or could be fixed easily enough. However, if the objective is to support non-technical users who don't have the knowledge/time/interest to troubleshoot, I feel that this release falls short.

For reference, the hardware used to test was a ThinkPad X220 with a 2nd gen i7, 12GB RAM, and an SSD.
Previous discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20301352
My dad stated that one of the key influence to him seeking an engineering career was The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne, where a bunch of people, including an engineer, get stranded on an island after escaping a situation on a balloon and caught in a storm.

The engineers, thanks to one of the character's on-time watch, and some solar observations, which are described in the book, calculates their latitude and longitude so that they can send messages and guess at their chances if they build a boat (one of the character was a navigator).

Many characters have useful skills, but the engineer really shines. At one moment he leads the people into a geological expedition to find interesting chemicals and ends up doing explosives so that they can dig a good stone shelter.

That was written in the 19th century with the specific purpose of getting kids interested into acquiring knowledge and it was a blast.

A bit sad it states wrong things that were considered true at the time (namely, that land masses form from the accretion of coral) but that's actually an excellent lesson in the process through which science states hypothesis that are sometimes wrong in order to find the truth.
"I'll trade you this missing piece, but get 10% of all the rent you collect when someone lands on them AND I don't need to pay you rent if I land in them... AND if you land on free parking the next 2 times, that cash goes to me"
W.E.B. DuBois wrote about this same exact scenario a hundred years ago as well, though writing about the reconstruction period in the South after the war
So I've got an ornamental plum that doesn't really fruit. I've read it can still be used just fine for grafts.

Does anyone have good resources on how to get started grafting to do this? I have access to peach, apricot, cherry, apple and nectarine trees as the donor grafts.
Thank you human :)
So instead of getting spied, blocked, tampered, etc. by your ISP you are getting spied by Cloudflare? We didn’t solve the problem, just shifted it..
As a long time Debian user, I think you're doing Debian a disservice giving that advice. Debian testing is stable... except when it's not. Tell people that it's relatively stable, not that it's stable. And please don't tell them to run their daily driver on it unless they know what they're potentially getting into.

My own experience is that things can be broken for months in testing and of course good luck finding any help when that happens. For example, since the freeze for Buster I had broken sound drivers for a couple of months until someone else found that it wasn't actually the drivers but another broken package that as of a month or so ago still wasn't fixed (but the problem had been reported)

That's been my experience with testing for the last 3-4 Debian releases: it works great... except for a handful of annoying bugs that seem to linger almost until release. And assuming you know exactly which package is broken (which can be difficult to narrow down for driver/system level issues), you may or may not get the problem addressed in a timely manner. Then there's also the case of the occasional package that you depend on that disappears from testing for a month or two for any number of reasons.
Hey, we all need more high resolution ads damn it! They must stream and be accessible as quickly as possible! Without higher speeds and higher bandwidth, how are companies supposed to tell us what we need?
To be fair, a "lifehack" is that once the kids are old enough (~1? 2? Depends on the kid and the couple) at least one night a week should be a solo night for a parent, while the other one gets the night off. Bonus points for having a weekly babysitter (or grandparent) for date night.
You're here in Raleigh. Do you sell at all our seasonal area art festivals (Peak Fest, Lazy Daze, Spring Daze, etc)? There's so many talented crafts people I'm amazed you can make a living at this anywhere near a programmer's salary.

In any case, congratulations. I know how satisfying it is forging something in the real world. It's much easier to explain to someone who asks what you do when you can just show them your work, not to mention the satisfaction of having a physical piece. I wish you the best.
This question belongs to Randall Schwarz, author of Learning Perl and presenter of Floss Weekly. His default answer to this question, Perl, has changed a bit recently, and might surprise.
Google Photos put a weird health conspiracy video in my feed
https://streamable.com/bd2y1

Google photos generates animations, collages and summaries of photos you've taken. Usually works well enough, but this hyper weird video showed up today in the Assistant tab. What kind of a bug is this?
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That formula is just a Mathematica dump. If you read the paper, which is unfortunately paywalled, you'll see the result is the solution to a complex system of equations, which are far easier to digest than the result you see there.
Really? What about the "Download Debian 10.0" link in the top right of the home page? Or "The latest stable release of Debian is 10.0" down near the fold? There's also the "Getting Debian" link at the head of one of the columns right in the middle of the page.
For me it's simply that I'd much rather not give up my photographs to Google.
What DNS provider is actually trustworthy and how can you prove it?
Remember the black hole from interstellar? Some gravitational simulations were used for the imagery. It was changed for artistic purposes, but you can see the back side of the accretion disc from the front.
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Visual debuggers are really nice. PyCharm's is mostly trivial to set up. One thing I've learned in debugging the framework I'm currently using (https://ckan.org/) is that even if I can trace code execution, legacy code might make no sense at all if the reasoning for a block isn't explained.
At least it wasn't as juvenile as the (possible actual) juvenile "hack"[0] of Gentoo's repos that had insertions of "rm -rf /" at the wrong places (where they wouldn't even execute) and insertions of racial slurs into readmes.

[0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Incident...
Going out on a ledge, 100 years is a really long time technologically speaking...

As such, I don't think we'll literally program computers in 100 years so much as think about problems whilst connected to some sort of cybernetic system. The now obsolete act of programming itself will be abstracted away in the same way a language like Python abstracts way assembler, cache, and memory management today. 50 years ago code was still being submitted with punch cards. In 1971, my father got a 110 baud model 33-ASR teletype that drastically simplified coding and provided paper tape for offline storage. Compare and contrast with today.

In such a system your wetware and the hardware will collaborate in the same way that groups of people brainstorm ideas, resulting in code that just seems to write itself driven by one's thoughts. What AI will have become by then will be more then capable of running such a program through bajillions of chaos monkey simulated scenarios instead of a hand-crafted set of unit tests.

As to what that language actually is, just what kris-s said: easy parallelism, easy networking, and easy access to storage in a way that the HW itself does all the management implicitly and emergently. But I doubt humans will write this code, I think the compiler guys will finally win this by building something like the above, where hand-coding such a widget would be insanely tedious for mostly meager performance gains (unless you're an infinitely patient machine that can go arbitrarily parallel). The current DL ASIC war combined with the framework compiler arms race just beginning now ought to give us an early preview of what's to come.
> * My user account wasn't added to the sudo group by default, and using `su` broke something with PATH (/sbin wasn't in PATH after running `su`).

The default profile for users (/etc/profile) hasn't included sbin paths for the entire time that I've used Debian, which always seemed a little weird to me, since there are definitely binaries in there that normal users can still use (e.g. lsmod).
It’s still not ready, especially the KDE and GNOME situations. Things just aren’t very reliable. Mouse events are dropped and things like menus respond inconsistently. The XWayland layer doesn’t work smoothly, so X11 games and browsers aren’t very performant. Without that, there’s no transition layer, so it’s a cold-turkey jump to Wayland applications, of which there aren’t many.

I think starting fresh from a Weston or wlroots base is the only way we’re going to get decent desktop environments. GNOME and KDE are “translating” the X11 stuff over to Wayland methodology, but that’s not going very quickly.

It’s great that Debian is leaving the old X11 within arms reach. This is a very pragmatic way of pushing Wayland a bit while not screwing over the users.
How exactly is Perl 5 obsolete?

Perl 5.30 just came out in May. So it is still actively being maintained and improved.

Perl 5 is included by default in most Linux distros and there are Perl distributions available for all major operating systems and platforms. (See http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html for the comprehensive list.)

Obsolete != Trendy / popular
Python. You can do pretty much anything with it, yet it's easy to grok and become quickly productive in.
Just look at maps of this time, the use different projections, different techniques, gather incomplete testimonies, often from a single expedition.

If you were an explorer, it was essential at the time to understand how the maps were made and what their weaknesses were. And instruments failures and bad weather could combine to prevent you from knowing your position for days. You needed to hack a measurements from 4 stars visible in a hole in the clouds.

If you were military, it was possibly even more crucial. Being able to quickly move from one point to the other, to avoid critical reefs or better: navigate through them, guess where a given ship will end up at which time, etc... were crucial skills.
My ISP knows my real-world identity: name, address, phone number and credit card information. Cloudflare knows none of these things about me, so there's much less they can do with my browsing information.
You defeated your own argument.

If it's not superior or not needed, why does it matter? That's literally the joke from the movie Canadian Bacon: "Why are the Canadians so advanced in zamboni technology?" That being part of the public reason to invade Canada.

You're also making a "keeping up with the Joneses" argument.

"Oh my God, they have it! I need it to! Or I might be left behind!"

"What is it?"

"I don't know, but I know I have to have it!"

Japan is pretty advanced in toilet tech too. That's WAY more useful at this point. Slap some AI into that with your phone so they track what you eat and can predict when you're going to take a shit. Then, it'll pre-warm the toilet seat for you.

Compared to 4G, I'm not going to die waiting an extra few seconds to watch a youtube video while bored at the DMV because I forgot to bring a book. It would be nice for telecom and municipalities to maintain current infrastructure better so they can reduce costs. A savings that should go to users. Instead of always buying new shit when they just paid off the old equipment.
Yet it still happens - just right out of my head: Ukraine, at least according to some parties, has changed its borders recently and not exactly in a peaceful way; Yugoslavia doesn't exist anymore and neither does the Serbia and Montenegro. And, of course, it's way more messy if you go outside of Europe.
> You can't really raise short term rates while increasing money supply.

You can't create the money through making new loans, obviously, because at a higher interest rate people will borrow less. Instead the government does it, analogous to how it mints coins, but by changing number in a computer rather than necessarily physically minting new currency.

It could be that new money would cause consumer interest rates to stay low even if the Fed raises the rate the banks pay to borrow money, because they could lend out some of the new money instead of borrowing from the Fed, but if that happens it can be counteracted by increasing their reserve requirements.
Set up your own server then?
Would you say that the concept of 'subjectivity' may be also a meaningless phrase?

No, ad hoc and without having thought too much about it, I would say subjectivity is a form of relativity. The temperature on a sunny day being 25 °C is an objective fact, depending on where you usually live that might be a subjectively cold or subjectively hot day to you.

Maybe the people who talks about qualia means that the subject has some characteristic which is not objective or measurable.

If you cut your finger, you will detect that, you will see the wound and nerves in your skin will sense the wound in it. That are objective things. There will also be objective reactions, blood clotting and other low-level biological reactions starting, you might take actions like looking for a plaster or saying that this hurts. Up to this point, I would argue, most people would agree that a sophisticated robot could behave identical to you.

But then you might claim that there is a qualia to this event of cutting your finger, it is painful for you. You feel pain and this is more than you simply detecting the wound and saying it hurts. And we all know what this is supposed to mean, we all know what pain feels like. But now try to nail this down, what is that you claim to have or experience? What is it, that a robot is missing when its cameras see a cut in its skin and some kind of sensors in the skin signal damage, flipping some damage bit in turn starting repair processes and maybe even saying »I cut my finger, it hurts!« What do we have to add to make the robot feel pain?

For a long time I was convinced that the robot is missing something, I just could not say what exactly it is. Now I am pretty seriously considering that nothing is missing, that me feeling pain is not much more than flipping the pain and the set of reaction triggered or influenced by that.
What in the world is a "network install" and what is "amd64"? Sounds geeky, I don't know what this is.
Human shoulder muscles/tendons evolved so they can store more elasticity than our ancestors making us better at throwing.

Our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, is stronger than a human but can throw a spear at about 20 mph. A human athlete can throw a spear at 90 mph.

Orangutans can learn how to throw faster but they cannot change their anatomy, although a spear thrower could help.
When I was in the US Army (1968-1971), I was stationed for a while at an Army airfield just outside a small town in Germany named Langendiebach. The post was surrounded by forest, but what an odd forest. All of the trees grew in straight rows, and among the trees, there were hundreds of bomb craters.
It's about 1000 times more abundant in Earth's crust than gold.
From our investigation so far, they do not appear to be, No.
The big company will be able to bury founders whose cash is tied up in the company that is in the M&A process.
Philosophically, I actually like the RPi approach (ie. a simple image with device tree) a lot more than ACPI/UEFI. ACPI involves a whole super privileged virtual machine with byte code from god knows where, whereas device tree gives more or less complete control over to the kernel image (sure PSCI is a thing, but that's a lot more defined WRT boundaries to me than ACPI).

Basically an ACPI system is a lot easier to bootstrap because you don't need to support all of the little subcomponents of the board explicitly, but once you supprt devoce tree, you support the board in a much more complete and meaningful way, and it's truly your kernel running the show.
So I think that in reality with interests rates so low there is very little wiggle room to stimulate Western economies. So job cuts etc are gonna happen on a big level and the social safety net will feel massive pressure. Also I think that there is massive underlying disillusionment with lower and middle classes since 2008. In many cases this has led to the rise of far Left/Right parties. Many of whom have authoritarian instincts. I think the pain of another recession will see this trend happen again.
Reading through the Wikipedia page on the Toyota pedal issue it claims it was a physical problem.
For the same kind of reason solar panels only access about 15-20% of the energy that hits them.
Yet even Haskell has Template Haskell, and it is widely used (with the convenience syntax of Lens as an example). Haskellers seem to have conceded that, in spite of their language's power, multi-stage programming -- where higher-staged functions don't exist at runtime! -- has an established place in the ecosystem.
Firefox could provide an opt-out flag.
Would you please provide a link to Randall's response?

I know he has taken a liking to Dart / Flutter, but I have not seen / heard what he said.
PSA Firefox Nightly is very stable (with occasional breakage on some websites). It has the latest features, including a convenient checkbox for DoH:

https://i.imgur.com/NhifLq5.png
You obviously downscale the economy with a population that doesn't sustain or require growth.
I don't think you'll have much luck with Weston, it's not really designed to be used as a base (libweston is tacked on and the devs acknowledge that it's not great).
Who said he was using cloudflare as his upstream DNS? There are far more choices than cloudflare, google, or your ISP.
I believe Debian Burster (released just today) uses stubby (https://dnsprivacy.org/wiki/m/mobile.action#page/1277989) as system level DNS cache instead dnsmasq. Stubby support sending DNS-over-TLS query to upstream DNS.
> But I wouldn't say it is a good thing we reject more than half the energy we create.

The meaning of "Rejected Energy" in that graphic is obscure but it certainly doesn't relate to energy which has been created and rejected. It may relate to excess capacity of fossil fuel plants (how much more they could produce if ordered to burn more fuel).

The US is thankfully not "rejecting" twice as much energy as it is producing as those figures of 68.5 vs 32.7 lead you to believe. Curtailment of wind and solar generation in the US is recently around 2-4%

[1] https://blog.ucsusa.org/mark-specht/renewable-energy-curtail...
I am aware that the normal user account does not include /sbin, but `su` not adding it to PATH is different from previous releases to my knowledge.

I am unsure of why this is the default behavior, however.
Use `su -` to get the path you want.
While they do have a large real estate business, transportation is still their largest source of both revenue and income
Great job Debian team, personally I can't wait for the Devuan fork based on this release.
Why can’t we do both that and this for even more gains?
It's both!

https://www.amazon.com/Ferrero-Nutella-Hazelnut-Spread-26-5/...
Yes, Monopoly more or less is (there are ways to gain and lose money without taking the other players' money, but they almost do not depend on players' choices). I think the parent's point is that trade in monopoly, however, is not. By making an exchange that allows both traders to complete a color set, they end up both much richer than before the trade.
And I'm just going off of Wikipedia here on the Boring Company's page but apparently they modified a commercial borer to be 3x as fast as the original and are currently trying to manufacture a borer of their own design which they claim will be 10x faster.
Running Debian, and in my case Devuan never leaves me hanging. Ubuntu and similar distro's often break everything with a regular update. Thanks for your hard work, a huge fan for 20 years+!!!
Lisp is like 50 years old and it’s only really been this last decade that a lot of its features have made it into the mainstream. Plus I doubt thought is really precise enough. Most people need to write their thoughts down or speak them out loud to really clarify their own thinking.
Diatoms make 20% of Earth's oxygen and can double in population every 24 hours
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