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I feel like the author didn’t run Linux in the 90s or early 2000s. Until you’ve had to manually write a monitor’s mode lines in your X11 config with the warning it could blow up your monitor to do it incorrectly - you didn’t really fight with Linux.

Anyone remember winmodems?

Apple is nothing like this.

I’m sorry the reserved space thing happened. I’ve not used a Mac daily in at least over a year now. I can’t stand the laptop keyboards and windows 10 is (so strangely to me) enough now.

All computer systems are complex now and designers struggle with balancing overwhelming users with detail and not providing enough visibility into details that are important. I know this because I’ve had to make the calls on what is shown to users vs what we document for support engineers.

Simple is worth striving for and incredibly difficult to get right.
I think it goes both ways, it will be little to stop foreign company from stealing absolutely all the technical know-how of a chinese company.
>Where is the fascism?

It's the part where they jail people for "sedition" instead of misuse of funds. One of these is absolutely defensible while the other simply isn't.
They are not the only way to transfer chunks of data.

They are the most successful and versatile mass way to transfer chunks of data and define ownership in the history of computing.

I’m sure an RDBMS or a graph DB can do those things as well. But no one has succeeded in doing it even close to as effectively as files managed to. And many have tried. In fact, probably the greatest computer software failure of all time, Windows Longhorn, was largely a failure in trying to replace a file based system with a graph DB based system.

People very much can imagine alternatives. There are no shortage of imaginable alternatives. There is a huge shortage of successful in use alternatives that are as versatile or effective as files.
Just trying to understand the nuances of terminology here, but does increasing thrust count as a 'disturbance' in defining the stability regime?

Meaning if the plane is under increased power and continues to pitch up to the point of stalling, is that an indicator of a negative stability regime?
> per kWH. Nuclear is very, very safe

Then again, per land area wasted , nuclear is 23 Km2 per year vs ... something tiny? Plus the comparison with coal only is unfair.

> 4. Focus on "nuclear vs CO2". If you're serious about global warming, nuclear is the only viable technology.

Here the question is how to remove excess CO2 without destroying the rest of the planet.
I addressed this in another comment more fully as the discussion evolved away from the use of the terms stable Vs unstable.
A combination of unconcentrated PV with a heat pump is stellar though, gives you upwards of 3 kWh of heat for every kWh of energy you put in.

Google's Malta is doing that, iirc
The title might indeed be flamebait, but I can relate to parts of the rant:

- after 2 years, my LG Ultrafine 5K still won't turn on at least once a week. During the first year, it was even freezing the MBP (monitor is up to date).

- after 2 years using it, touch bar still feels like a miss, a toy gadget, now I need to carry an external keyboard (together with many dongles). And touch bar is still buggy, I have to switch apps to unlock it at least once a week. Not really "Pro" AFAIC.

- kernel_task runs at 50% CPU now and then for no reason (cannot reproduce, no logs)

- I need to reboot my MBP once a week for no reason (cannot reproduce, no logs), I don't care for the few minutes lost, it's just I can't debug it easily

- restriction on Safari Extensions requires to publish through App Store only, which killed uBlock Origin (at least for now)
Manhattan Federal Court Arrests 18 Hackers for ATM Skimming Attack
In the US Southwest there is the Salton Sea which is an already artificial saline reservoir. Just pipe more ocean into it and use that as the salt water source.
Sweet. Lovely side project. But. Is this is the HN equivalent of kitten makes friends with a Panda "human interest" story? I've been reading a lot of stories where the headline really says it all recently...
Nothing at all until you work somewhere that only buys 128GB models and the drives are soldered to the main board.
There's nothing I hate more than a viewthrough - media agency telling me they're responsible for hundreds of conversions when all they've done is put a banner on a webpage (usually combined with retargeting) that's in the viewport for a second.

Basically saying a non-guaranteed second of eyeball time in a banner-blind spot from someone they're retargeting who's already visited our site who converted 60 days later is their acquisition. [0]

I'm a marketer and I despise some of the crap these ad companies are selling.

[0] Conversely, this makes my personal KPIs look amazing, since I can take credit for other people's work and attribute it as my own. Obviously not doing that has caused me twice as much work to get proper attribution set up. If you want an easy life, push the BS metrics they give you.
UX: no, you have to take the bad and non-intuitive UI.

the three buttons no longer work as before - e.g. long press no longer does split-screen.
Furthermore, the UX before was cards one on top of each other, the open app is the topmost. The current "logic" is with cards sideways. Which is ugly, non-intuitive and copied from iOS. If you move left to take another card, suddenly your previous card does not remain on the right side. How is this intuitive? Even from business perspective this does not make sense, because once I got used to the new non-intuitive and less efficient UI, the switching costs to iOS for me will be lower.
Are you saying it might only mean figuratively crushed?

The quote from the article ("...perish, with their bodies smashed and bones ground to powder") has three separate allusions to death. Are all three of them being misinterpreted?
Apple redid font smoothing with Mojave, and now it looks like garbage on non-retina displays. Most 4K displays seem to be bigger, rather than denser, so you can't do much to fix it.
I blame federal law for not prosecuting Amazon for selling so many counterfeit products. Amazon is the one selling them. They are responsible for ensuring they deliver the product that the buyer is paying for, and not some cheap knock-off
I'm thinking "exaggeration" was what he was looking for.
Houses with pools should use the waste heat from their air conditioning system to heat their pool.

Unfortunately, the system requires an HVAV technician, an electrician, and a plumber to install.

I’m also not sure how many HVAC techs are familiar with installing something like that.

Seems like a great energy saver though.

Here’sa video from This Old House on installing one of the systems. https://youtu.be/J7fB8ul9dZw
Anybody else always think of Robert Anton Wilson when you see RAW capitalized?
Companies Are Hiring the Most Software Engineers
Do you have any evidence that macOS spies on users?
Good example of a skeuomorph.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
Yes, but you could create the path just as you plant the grass and amuse yourself to no end on how sheep-like people really are.
Just because there's a path there, it doesn't mean its optimal or good for the public at large.
Cloud coverage impact on global temperature is one of the last unknowns hard for us to predict. Hence it is the last defense any serious scientist for denial
Many libraries lend books in electronic formats, you'll need a non-kindle to read them though since they don't support DRMed books.

If you read English, and to some degree other languages as well, you can find books in the same place you find pirated movies (actually in more places since the file size is small)
> I really find it very hard to mess things up.

In my experience the difference between my trouble-free use of git and inexperienced users' troubles with git amount to: I avoid doing the wrong thing in the first place, inexperienced users do the wrong thing, then try to fix it.

For example, I just never commit a gigabyte binary file to the repo. But if an inexperienced user does by mistake, and that makes .git/objects/pack big and everyone's checkouts become slow? And then they notice a few days later, after other developers have pulled and pushed other changes? And they try to fix it? Disaster zone.
Do you have any recommended reading on how to do this? Or even just a name for it?
It seems like SoftBank has money in so many places and I was surprised when I read [1] how many 1+ billion dollar investments they have and have made.

1 - https://www.businessinsider.com/running-list-softbank-invest...
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A computer can do in a few nanoseconds calculations that would take a human days.
Cloud coverage is in fact left out of most climatological models (too hard to predict, and they would dominate all other factors).

https://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/role.html#COMP_MODS
Because it is a humourous interpretation of the problems of the latest MacOS update and general imperfections of the platform. Humour is not a lost art, and please accept the fact that the update wasn't smooth sailing for many people. Maybe not the majority, but many.
With the timelines editor theoretically yes, although there's no good easy way to export in a single shareable file (some technical hurdles). Definitely something it's lacking right now.
Google AFAICT does not share your data. They use it to target ads on behalf of others, which leaks some of it. But they hold it pretty close.
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Linux 2000: writing a post summarizing Linux's issues will compel a point by point response in which a fanboy will either tell you "works for me" or "you're holding it wrong".

Apple 2019: writing a post summarizing Apple products' issues will compel a point by point response in which a fanboy will either tell you "works for me" or "you're holding it wrong".
It's mostly maintenance. Best concentrating mirror systems are Fresnel reflectors and they need meticulous cleaning, then there's a problem with heat dissipation for PV solar.
Dubai's DEWA receives world record low bid to build solar power plant
And yet I'd bet the laptop was still cheaper tham a comparable one from Apple, where the built-in upcharges are for thinness, macOS, and extortionate non-upgradeable RAM that you'd better buy up front because you don't want to be stuck with not enough RAM in a year or two.
"Linux 2000: There is only One True Way of installing software: using distro packages. If you do anything else you are bad and you should feel bad."

That is absolutely correct and if one is installing software in any other way than packaging it into an OS package, one is hacking in the worst possible, amateurish way, with the added bonus that every experienced UNIX system administrator will hate one's guts come time to automate the installation of one's software. It's enough to make my blood boil and suddenly get violent and I don't even work as a system administrator. This is not an issue specific to Linux, it's one quarter laziness, one quarter ignorance, one quarter incompetence and one quarter amateurism: if, as a programmer, one considers a programming tool like OS packaging too hard or too complicated, one is truly in the wrong profession.
> 5. If you resort to calling groups of people "condescending elitist hipster latte drinkers" then pretty sure you've lost the argument.

They concluded with it. Resorting to it would mean that they had no other arguments to make.
A quick aside - don't buy an android TV unless you want to run a tv with very quickly outdated software.

I think I got 2 years of updates on my TV, and it's not like I'm going to want to throw it out and get a new one, so I have to put up with outdated software.
I wonder how the comments would look if this were about China and Hong Kong instead of Spain and Catalonia.
As explained by Guo Qiquan, the chief cheerleader for the plan, the main goal of the new system is to provide “full coverage”. As explained by Guo, “It will cover every district, every ministry, every business and other institution, basically covering the whole society.

Sauron is envious.
Vietnam Pulls Abominable Film over South China Sea Map
You could've used the screen name "dale_4_damager" instead ;)
I had a different problem the last time I wanted to buy something from Amazon.

I knew what I wanted, so I didn't care about search. In fact, the item was only available on Amazon.

But the seller looked sketchy, so I had to convince myself to buy it from them on Amazon. After looking some more to see if there was anywhere else to buy, including on the manufacturer website, I resigned myself to buy it.

But then the total price started increasing while I was trying to check out, so I went away mad.

As far as reviews, I believe I have a reasonably foolproof system. I simply look at the worst reviews and see what kind of theme they have. If that is a clear pattern that is a design flaw, then I expect that is a warning I should pay attention to. Good reviews are basically irrelevant except if they describe the product to some extent. Unfortunately, with many consumer product categories on Amazon, I give up because all of the items have dealbreakers in the bad reviews, and sometimes it seems the products may not really be meaningfully different.
Some kind of scale on those scan images would be helpful...
Currency and debt.

Currency is a lot like electricity. It's a very portable form of power, easy to store, easy to convert to something else.

Like you can have a lot of political power, you can have charisma, skills, or military power. But you can't convert that easily into the other, the way you can't convert a river into lighting your house.

But the thing with electricity is that it still follows nature. You can't convert 1 MW of electricity into kinetic power, then convert it back to 1.1 MW. You can't lend it to someone with less, expect them to give you more, and have this system run forever. You can't just print as much of it as you think you can get away with.

Banking is a kind of arms race. If nobody used banks and usurious debt, everyone would be better off. But the people who do it have an unfair advantage, forcing others to as well. Except now we're pushing it as far as the concept can go, with every country taking well near their GDP in foreign debt.

The Bitcoin boom didn't come out of nothing. Some people lost faith in fiat and wanted to give alternative currency a shot. The bubble only happened when crypto attracted the attention of those who broke fiat in the first place.
Blaming "people in general" is exactly the kind of cop-out that leads these governments to dig their heels in on these overreaching policies. We can do better.
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Yes, I suppose that's something I've never grown quite used to with lisp - that it's lists (as a special form of "leaning" trees) and trees - not arrays and matrices.

I suppose even proper lists are incidental - it's really all about trees (and also parse trees).
That is presuming you want to heat the pool rather than evaporative cooling the building to save on electricity.
>Why do we spend so many trillions of dollars in wars and pointless witch-hunts..

Because there exist many bad people in this world who want society to control other people more than the absolute minimum needed for society to function. If you phrased the question differently and picked a different issue you'd find many here in support of it. All the other parties (cops, politicians, etc) are just making a buck while helping implement the utopia the first group wants.
I've never liked how much Crossover costs to stay on the latest version. I only pay for an upgrade when if it breaks. (You can use the last version you payed for indefinitely.) They also will occasionally have discounts.

Prior to having CrossOver, I used PlayOnLinux. When I last used it, Office 2010 worked, but had some issues such as fonts not being embedded in exported PDF files.

It may also be possible to install Office through Steam, which has the Proton compatibility layer based on Crossover. There is some information on using Proton for non-steam games here: https://streamable.com/pukwz

Of course, Crossover is just an enterprise supported version of Wine, so you could probably get Office working in plain Wine, but the automated setup support a tool like Crossover or PlayOnLinux provides makes it significantly easier to get things working without unusual and difficult to troubleshoot issues.
Nice project. Not being a hardware person, I personally look at open source and different data formats. I try to buy books directly from publishers who provide Kindle, ePub, and PDF formats with purchases. The thought is awful of losing my Amazon account and losing access to hundreds of audible book purchases and I don’t know how many Kindle purchases. I try to spread my closed platform purchases also to Google Play Books and iBooks to spread out the risks but Amazon gets most of my business. I do like that my family gets access to my Google Play books.

Really off topic and a little bit self serving to mention this: as an author, I stopped publishing physical books because I like to be able to easily update material and my eBooks are released under a Creative Commons license in three file formats with no DRM. I encourage my readers to share my books.
Overthrow the government whose constitution allows it.
(As a clarification, that's "global warming causing climate change".)

When you write "deal with", do you mean to include mass migrations, loss of populated areas, and civil unrest? Because that's how we dealt with, for example, the Dust Bowl.

One example is that there does not seem any way to save Miami in its current form, using today's technology or any realistic technology we could develop.

Quoting https://www.businessinsider.com/miami-floods-sea-level-rise-... :

> “Miami as we know it today — there’s virtually no scenario under which you can imagine it existing at the end of the century,” Goodell said. “It may be some smaller version of Miami that incorporates platform houses and floating structures.” ...

> And while there is much that Florida can learn from these other places, no one has answers to looming threats like water rising through the ground underneath. “The solutions that are going to be used to save cities like Miami Beach probably haven’t been developed yet,” Mowry said.

Or from https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170403-miamis-fight-aga... :

> But the question isn’t whether this work will save every community: it won’t. Even those tasked with making their cities resilient admit that, at some point in the future, certain areas here will no longer be “viable” places to live. Rather, the challenge is to do enough to ensure that the economy as a whole continues to thrive and that tourists still come to enjoy the sun, sand – and swelling sea.

We can "deal with" that by mass migration to move. Or letting them die. But I don't think that's what you mean?
Meh. I bailed out of the Mac ecosystem last year, as my mid-2012 retina Macbook was finally getting too creaky, and the latest Mac hardware was a regression in many respects, while simultaneously utterly unaffordable. I'm now dual-booting Ubuntu/Windows 10 on a Dell XPS 15".

What this experience has taught me is that computing in 2019 basically sucks. The problems with 2000-era Linux, as described in the article, are very similar to the problems with 2019-era Linux. External monitors are a particular pain point for me. I've got an HDPI laptop and I want to plug into an old non-HDPI era monitor. Doesn't work. Spend the next 10 hours poking around forums, trying weird XWindows options, installing Wayland, etc. Still doesn't work. Eventually, give up.

Windows 10 works marginally better. Both remain vastly inferior to MacOs.

I'm not saying that the grass isn't greener on the other side. Macs are regressing, but the grass isn't greener on either side. Let's stop pretending otherwise.
Most of the time, you mean. Find me the American that doesn't have a Chinese-made TV, a Chinese-made phone, a Chinese-made laptop...
My dude - whatever China does in its own borders is it’s own business. If it starts invading other nations or threatens them with war unless they do as they are told then I’ll care. But no thanks I won’t be told when to be morally outraged by pretending western nations are somehow morally superior because “free speech” yet 5 min later let’s sell arms to Saudi Arabia. But cool story on the vpn
So fascism is to have ‘sedition’ tipified as a crime? To enforce a law? Something that was badly done during the trial? Or another thing?

Edit: I think you meant to ask this in another thread, so I link it for other reader’s sake: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247767
>Anyone have experience surveying project teams anonymously?

There is an interesting way to do this anonymously in a larger organization where people don't trust the anonymity of their votes: you can ask everyone to flip a coin and report it in answer to:

"Consider whether the project will be successful (yes/no.) We will survey responses anonymously/statistically. In this way no individual reporting will be known. A single time (don't repeat this for this question), flip a coin. Consider whether the project will be successful (yes/no), then choose one of the two options:

[1] You both think the project will be successful (yes) AND you flipped heads.

[2] You either don't think the project will be successful, or you flipped tails (or both).

In other words, anyone flipping tails must pick 2. So on an individual level, you have plausible deniability, since you can say you support the project but flipped tails.

Statistically, we will measure what percentage below 50 flipped heads, to see how many people think our project will fail."

Due to this methodology, people can voice dissent. In toxic despotic environments, you will have 100% heads. (Which should not be possible, since you can only go below 50% for heads at a statistically significant level, not above.)

I'm not sure what size organization this can work at statistically but it's an interesting method.
Of course, you pay for it with Apple, too.
Is that even an argument? HN is obsessed with Japan just because the search returns more results?

Maybe that's because Japan is more relevant when it comes to technology compared to African countries?
You'd be surprised how many people out there can live without strong principles and will not lose sleep over that kind of stuff.
Because if it did not stop it would imply the Chinese government accepts and approves of the criminal acts
ctrl+shift+p feels more natural to me as Forefox calls it "Private Browsing" whereas Incognito doesn't even start with a n
I am using "Sleep Cycle" without problems. Poco F1 custom AOSP 10 Rom .
Apparently no atrocity is evil enough for it not being "worth it" to work with these guys...
If it would continually increase pitch without bound, that would be described as negatively stable (a ball sitting on top of an upside down capital U. If it "didn't care", that would be neutrally stable (a ball sitting on a horizontal plane). If it tended to reach stability (even if at a different pitch than originally), that's positive stability (a ball sitting in an upright U).

The 737-Max does pitch up with increased thrust (as does any jet airplane with a low center of thrust), but it still reaches a stable pitch.

The problem in hand flight is that the controls on the Max don't get "progressively stiffer" in a linear fashion with increasing pitch. They still require positive force, but the force required to pull 2.0 G is less than double the force required to pull 1.5 G (as an example; I don't know the particulars of the Max stick force gradient curve).

I have not read anything to suggest that a normally trimmed, MCAS-disabled Max would pitch itself into a stall from thrust application. That would be bad, but is also almost surely far from the actual situation.
I received a counterfeit copy of a college textbook.

Amazon support didn't care at all.
They have to be bringing know-how, first. Right now it's mostly a one-way transfer. This may change in the future, though.