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Playstation, Mac OS and many others are based on BSD for that reason (and probably other reasons as well).

I cannot imagine a BSD-based MS Windows but it would be cool!

This would probably solve slow filesystem I/O (which is one of the major pain points for me when working under Windows, especially if you have a large number of small files).

However, it's important for Windows to keep backward compatibility for applications using old APIs. I think that's a major selling point vs. other platforms.
Maybe it's your GTK theme? I would certainly call its UI tight and professional-looking in Kubuntu (even a bit too "nice-looking", as there's not much colour with which to identify icons at a glance; Blender looks like it has the same problem). The default theme on Windows does look kind of clunky, but it's never bothered me.
It's sad that today advertising represents the cutting edge of technology. Compare that to the days when the cutting edge of technology was rocket science, or steam engines, or book printing.
The layers of the os are a lot more tightly coupled than meets the eye. This would be a HUGE effort with the result of keeping the status quo. Not a smart investment. It would be far easier to port the various subsystems and grow communities around them, as they have been doing in recent years. Eventually, you'll be able to develop any Microsoft tech in Linux or windows, and then windows will slowly fade into the sunset, as the desktop isn't important anymore.
Never gonna happen
You fail to realize that there are plenty of relationships between younger and older people where no one is taking advantage of anyone. In fact, you assume that, just because of the age difference, someone is being exploited.

Your assumption is completely wrong.
I think given the lack of precision in this article it is better to replace the sensational news article with the actual arxiv paper.
> What I want is one smart device: a robot that can operate all my non-smart devices. The robot can set the thermostat, unlock the door, flip the light switches, do the laundry and the dishes, monitor the house while I'm away, etc.

Sounds like what you need is a https://www.deviantart.com/plank-69/art/Mr-Handy-Advert-Fall...

https://ilyanazarov.com/projects/X21AL
Seems like a good strategy for getting comments on HN
> Verify Your Identity to buy/sell

Are there any ways to acquire HNS without sending a photo ID to a centralized party?
The only parties who could provide this evidence are govt agencies who are clearly not pleased with Snowden. Seems kind of silly to expect them to provide evidence to substantiate his claim.

In the absence of contrary evidence, we should take Snowden at his word because none of his releases have been discredited as fabrications and thats the only account we have of the situation.
From Sand to Silicon: The Making of a Chip (2012)
You are sidetracking the conversation with a troll attitude.

I was replying to

> However, as you start pushing beyond "scale" Go is designed for

Go is designed for Google scale, I don't know anybody pushing beyond Google scale right now.

Anyway, I'm a nice person, you'll find your answer below

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most of those projects are legacy software

did you expect search to be written in a language invented 10 years in the future?

Go is slowly replacing C++ to write the tooling.

C++ is simply not scalable enough for day by day use, Linus knew that 15 years ago.

Even Firefox is replacing it for its engine, it must mean something.

It can be done in C++ doesn't mean it should anymore.

Java is there because it runs in ads systems, you don't replace your core product overnight, just like in some banks you still find Cobol.

Java is the new Cobol.

Fuchsia is written mainly in C and Dart.

You wanna write an Haiku style microkernel?

C++ is fine, it's just a few thousands line of code.

Wanna write millions lines of code in a maintainable way at Google scale?

You don't start the project in C++ today, unless you're a crazy person.

Even ES5 Javascript is more maintainable than C++.
I don't remember that quote at all, who said it in the book?
Sounds like a lot of work, how do you know that it is a net time saver?
I would discuss with him. If he can't give a good reason for the 3x salary bump, I would already leave him with the company, as this seems very cheesy and will likely continue and get worse. He would have to grow the company by himself or find another tech person which would likely be hard.

What you would do though, it's up to you.
I have a similar "partition" but it's forced on me by laws of physics: I live on a tropical island a bit less than half-way around the world. By force of everyone else's schedule in the US, my "business time" goes from about 5 am (about as early as I can bear to take a meeting) to about 9 am when everyone on the west coast is wrapping up their day. Then I attend to my work in the lab where I can sit down to the first "maker" part of my day, diagnosing cancer under the microscope. After dinner I usually have a second "maker period", reading papers, working through a computer science text (I never got a formal computing education but was lucky that physics proved to be "close enough"), planning experiments, and writing long-form business documents.
Honestly, running out of memory isn't the best example for vertical integration of the OS. While it can behave reasonably on Windows, OOM is still the one thing that that can still sometimes bring down every OS to an unusable state, including Windows. But barring that, best of luck trying to bring down the GUI on Windows. Whereas with Linux, you always gotta be ready to drop out of your GUI and into a terminal to rescue stuff.
The fact you had to use the word 'running' to describe the thing you claim is 'not running' makes me skeptical about your claim.
On the flip side, Watts developed his engine using financing from a coal industrialist, John Roebuck. Would he have secured that financing in the absence of a potential monopoly profit on his engine?

The examples you mention illustrate the importance of patent rights to securing financing that bankrolls R&D. Bell had investors who pressed him to patent the telephone. Edison’s research was bankrolled by a series of contractual arrangements with companies like Western Union—where patent rights protected technology that he was demonstrating and trying to sell to Western Union. He also sold patent rights to Jay Gould. His Menlo Park R&D lab tested 3,000 lightbulb designs before filing the first patent. The same month as that patent filing, Edison founded what would become General Electric using financing from JP Morgan and others. Although you didn’t mention flight—the famous Wright-Curtis lawsuit actually involved two patent holders. Curtis was bankrolled by, among other people, Bell, and had its own aircraft patents. See here’s for more of the history: https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=4980020990931060...

Patents almost certainly delay the widespread adoption of a new technology. That’s the whole point. But the counter-factual scenario is not, as you suggest, what would have happened had the invention not been patented, but what would have happened if patents had not been available. Would the alternative means that exist to finance R&D (government spending, mostly) have produced the invention in the same time frame?

Also, there is the problematic fact that monopolies are, for a time anyway, good for innovation. Someone else might have invented the telephone. But Bell’s monopoly ended up inventing the transistor, C, and UNIX. Someone else might have invented the copier. But Xerox’s monopoly ended up investing the GUI, email, and networking. GE, IBM, AT&T, Microsoft, Xerox, HP, Google-these are all companies that added way more to the state of the art during their quasi monopoly periods than at inception.
Funny you should say that.

But the actual numbers don't lie, Europeans on average pay less for healthcare (combined taxes + paid procedures), than Americans, yet we have an access to public healthcare and Americans need to buy priv insurance.

I'd rather pay my taxes, then hear stories of people who are afraid to call an ambulance in case they are actually not going through a heart attack.
Musk testified he worried Thai cave rescuer might be ‘another Jeffrey Epstein’
Ambient Lighting Market to Hit USD 103.82B by 2024
https://www.reuters.com/brandfeatures/venture-capital/article?id=149787
It isn't so much the paid contributors (though they help) as it is that Blender Foundation was making commercial quality projects for years using Blender with artists and programmers at the same place so they were able to provide immediate feedback to each other.

The closest other projects have to this are vague forum/bugtracker posts that more often than not give little (or misleading) idea to the programmers what is needed.

Having an artist sit next to you and giving them the mouse and keyboard to show you directly in the software what they are doing, how they are doing it and what they want to do is much faster and gives you way more information and you can bounce forth and back alternative ideas, perhaps make minor quick modifications on the spot as a prototype or lead to an idea, etc.

(the next best thing is you being both the artist and the programmer - which is how many of FLOSS art oriented programs are made really - but there is a great danger of you getting used to your software's drawbacks and being unwilling to address them)
Yes, it's not at all clear. If you switch away from "Web app" by clicking on an OS, you don't get that (or any) pricing info. Going to the stores themselves, Windows and Mac seem to have a one-time payment, and Chrome and Snap don't seem to have a price.
Yeah I had a manager that was quite good at throwing out functionality. Didn't like it at the time, but they were mostly right - of course they were just trying to save money.
Looks like Factorio-level FTL. I like it!
> Out of the box, Windows is orders of magnitude easier to use for non-technical users.

It's actually orders of magnitude easier for technical users who don't also happen to be Linux experts. I'm using Linux f/t right now, because the ways in which I like it are of high priority enough to me to put up with the negatives. But, damn, the negatives are legion. A couple of weeks in to this particlar OS iteration, and my installation has far more missing than a typical half-day old Windows 10 one. I have written up several github issues and half a dozen forum posts. There are so many little things that don't work, or that I haven't had time to tackle, or which blew up so badly I'm going to have to screw up courage to try them again, or which I'm reconciled to living with.

Which isn't to say that Windows is better overall (I've chosen Linux over it, after all), and there are definitely more desktop-ready distros out there than the one I happen to be using, but I'd be truly loathe to recommend Linux to any non-technical user who wants to do more than browse the web.
All gone by summer 2020 is their latest statement.

Training is their current excuse for the delay: "“They are in Yorkshire for one simple reason – that is that our train crew here can drive them now, can operate them now. If we introduced them elsewhere where they don’t operate them now, we would introduce a training need that could not be coped with."

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/pacer-trains-...
Upholding the constitution is absolutely the job of public servants, which is why our country makes them take an oath. Not sure why you think otherwise.

CIA, NSA, Senators, all take this oath: “I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3331
Interestingly, deflation can also cause wars and lead to an economic downward spiral where everyone is worse off. Retaining the Gold Standard was a major contributor to both WW1 and the Great Depression. Japan’s deflation lost it a decade of economic growth more recently.
>As it prepares Windows 11, Microsoft has been laying the groundwork for such a radical release.

Can I read about this anywhere? I didn't realise there will be a Windows 11
Out of curiosity for the jargon, is your ankle facing the wrong direction still referred to simply as a "severe sprain"? That sounds like it would involve multiple fractures, a dislocation, and several ligament tears (not just one like in what I consider a "normal" sprain).

Isn't there some term that comes with the weight of increased severity for that, which would make paternalistic jerks, at the very least, think twice? Compound fracture? Multiple sprain? I have heard what you suffered described as an "open ankle sprain" which at least calls for something to be google'd before commenting on how slight it is. I was agreeing with gp until you described the injury further.

I agree that reliance on the American (informed guess here) medical system is not a smart move, but for good reason the global medical consensus is that self diagnosing and prescribing is very dangerous. The problem is a medical system here that is not tuned to respecting patient's opinions and prioritizing their correct treatment and well being over being another profitable capitalist entity that doesn't break regulatory law.
This is the oath that all public servants take: CIA, NSA, military, senators, etc.

“I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3331
Running is more about the gait that the speed.
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Egypt’S 1.8 Gigawatt Benban Solar Park Nears Completion
We are increasingly encouraged to take showers for environmental reasons (less water and less heating) but I don't find them at all relaxing like a bath. This leads me to ponder environmental alternatives. I don't know which has the greater energy cost, purifying bath water and piping it to and from my house, or heating it, but on the financial front I was surprised to calculate that the water itself costs more than the heating.

Hot tubs have the advantage of not continuously requiring more water, but disadvantage of needing continuous heat. It seems pretty daft to me given the upfront cost of a tub that the default is to heat them electrically, surely heat pumps would be a better option, or even just plumbing them into the house radiator system? Either way, though nice to have, still they're likely to be even less eco friendly then a bath. (I'm excluding wood fired options here for lack of convenience plus the fact that they are usually refilled each use).

Saunas, with little water to heat, are presumably much more efficient, and even have some medically proven health benefits. For me they don't quite beat soaking in water but they're a close second.
I almost never restart Firefox, and having a pop-up nagging me to update sucks a lot. Sometimes I have to look at it for many weeks straight before Firefox eventually eats all the RAM and I have to restart it.
This sort of thing reminds me of one of my favorite Microsoft UserVoices, which is asking for a Linux version of Visual Studio - hundreds and hundreds of comments from people who are presumably software developers, who seem to think that it would be trivial to port that behemoth of C/C++/.NET/whatever code, with its decades of accumulated cruft, over to run natively on another operating system.

devenv.exe isn't even 64-bit yet...
US DOJ wants to seize profits from Ed Snowden’s new book because violated NDA
If they'd stop producing so much cheap, ephemeral crap I'd really like that. Stop wasting the planet's resources guys and just build stuff that works properly.

As seen on amazon.co.uk: "1-48 of over 70,000 results for "iphone case""
Yes, the registry is terrible and Windows applications basically do whatever they want. Once you install a few applications and then try removing them you'll end up with a ton of junk left over. Dot files and standard /etc config files are a blessing. Linux package managers are orders of magnitude faster than chocolatey, which isn't part of the OS. Windows Updates are notoriously bad.
The managers bear ultimate responsibility for continuing the actions which investors dislike.
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There was heaps of community interest in Xara, but the company kept the key rendering engine component proprietary, which killed it.
We're so remote the sun never sets on our group, so the definition of "workday" is pretty fluid, so yes, "when they're not busy" is a good partition. Otherwise, as the other child comment says, there is a pride in supporting effort. I don't necessarily benefit directly from the projects they may work on. Like others have said, I can't coerce them to do write open source code. But I definitely benefit from their improved or sustained skills. You have to find differentiators to make such decisions. Are you arguing that I should ignore signal or that open source contributions are an invalid signal, or the use of the signal itself is immoral, by some definition of "immoral"?
I currently have the opposite problem. Staring a system with zero frameworks where every time the developer wanted to do something they didn't reuse an existing solution, they simply wrote a new one. So there's 10 different ways to create a customer and now there is a requirement to change some validation. It's a major high-risk overhaul of the system to change the validation on a single field of a single entity.

I've seen big enterprise systems that had solid architecture and I quite enjoyed working with them and I've seen the trash-fire variety too.

Abstraction can be wonderful. Abstraction can be ghastly. It's how you wield it. Well designed systems are just that. Well designed. They have solutions that fit their current problems well and make just enough room for the problems of tomorrow, but not for the unanticipatable problems beyond that.

Poorly designed systems don't have solutions that fit their current problems well (or at all), and/or don't have solutions that are amenable to tomorrows problems or have solutions well suited to tomorrows problems, but not todays, or have solutions that fit imaginary problems they will never have.

I think that's what the article fundamentally hints at.
Taking the time to look at the problem and taking the time to derive and refine a well fitting solution. If you can do that, you've won.
When homework is busywork (2009)
Goal setting, Are you doing it right?
Really the problem here is taking the rules of a free market economy as immutable and not seeking a political solution that could outright ban misbehaviour, rather than trying to defund it piecemeal.

The correct solution to ecocide is a criminal charge and seizure of assets.
It is designed for a simpler age and has not caught up. Lots of overhead for multitasking and multithreading (esp. creation), bad handling of NUMA, no actual handling of asymmetric processors (big LITTLE, per unit clock scaling). No way to enforce CPU limits per task. Expensive locking primitives with no handling of priority inversion.

And more...
I moved all home computers to Linux a while ago and family members do not complain more that they were with Windows. It's more a thing of habit, I believe, as many are grown up with Windows.

Both have their quirks and I had a bunch of randomly occurring bugs under Windows as well. I vividly remember the update process claiming 100% CPU which required extensive research to fix. The worst thing I had with Linux so far was a Kernel update which prevented the Ethernet card from coming up after sleep. Switching back the Kernel fixed that immediately. A bug report later (that's definitely out of layman territory) I got a kernel parameter to add and after a while a proposed fix. That was more support than I ever got for Windows which I paid for.

Windows really shines in games and in corporate (AD/group policies). Not worth the spying for Windows Home.
Yet koreans pay just a half of what europeans pay for a much better healthcare than europeans.

Oh the wonders of different systems and economies.
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That article makes no sense. Even if we take it as given that the "Desktop Windows has had so many problems", none of those problems have anything to do with the NT kernel. Swapping one kernel for another thus have no effect on the desktop or any its "problems".
> Problems I'm having are display scaling and multi monitor support for different display resolutions

Endemic, I'm afraid (though before long someone's bound to chime in to inform us that these problems don't exist, you just need to read a half dozen Arch wiki pages and spend 4 days compiling things and .. voila!).

Anyway on the different monitor resolutions issue, does Kubuntu support Wayland? It does a better job than X11 for this in my experience.
Glad to hear that there are some authors who can make a living of their writing. Unfortunately, this mostly only applies to the English book market. I'm writing in German, where it is estimated that only a couple of hundred authors can make a living from writing novels. Moreover, science fiction is pretty much dead in Germany. People are reading English novels or translations thereof, which means less risk for the publishers and access to many great and professional authors.
I guess that tells you all you would ever want to know about the independence of chinese media if the chief editor deletes his personal tweet complaining about the internet access.
None of which has anything to do with the kernel.
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Microsoft has repeatedly said that there won't be.
As a contractor in Poland I pay 19% income tax + about €320 fixed pension fund and health insurance, which are both partly tax-deductible.

There's of course VAT, but Americans have sales tax, which is lower, but significant.

All in all taking into account average VAT paid per month my tax rate is 32%.

This is lightly taxed.
Being devils advocate here.

> it should be literally impossible to assault someone that is not actually a threat.

The swatting person usually claims that there is armed person with intent to kill. The SWAT guys come in quick and into potentially very serious situation with no time for 'surveillance'.

But that's not really all that strong of argument.
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Inexplicable/randomly occurring?

You are talking about one of the most observable operating systems ever made. Those claims are very hard to take seriously.

I haven't experienced any of the problems you describe. But if I ran into a problem, I have have debugging symbols, source code, a debugger, profiling tools... whatever is happening would have an explanation.
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