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Sorry to hear that. If you ever get tired of worrying about untrustworthy firmware phoning home, DRM, etc., please consider us for the replacement purchase? ;)
I suggest we also feature a way for local solo games to work locally without a remote server.

I hear it's possible... : )
In my experience most hardware works flawlessly, although admittedly some hardware is better-supported. I've owned two (soon three) Dell XPS 13 laptops since 2013 and have always had a really smooth experience running Ubuntu. The worst of my Linux woes were the usual suspend/hibernate issues running Ubuntu on company-provided Thinkpads.

I've also had to use various Macs for work in the past and have had terrible issues with wireless networking and bluetooth.
Coming from someone who probably is your average HN reader (programmer, power user, technically oriented), I've been enjoying Windows 10 more and more. They have put a huge effort into creating a better experience for developers. WSL was a great start, and I'm excited to see what a full Linux kernel will bring. Windows Terminal is in preview and is the terminal emulator that I would want on Windows. I already use VSCode on mac as well.
I've been using stock Ubuntu 18 on my laptop (zenbook) for a year and have had pretty much 0 issues. I consider myself a bit lucky in that though. The driver experience is actually better then on windows, on windows I had some random crashes which I have never had since switching.

I just love the feeling that its my computer again, I haven't felt that for 10 years prior. I actually like customizing the interface and stuff like that, like I used to do in the win2k days. And having a real package manager integrated in the OS is just glorious. My only problem is not being able to run Photoshop, I can't live with Gimp. So I use photopea as a poor substitute.

I grew up on Windows but have been using mac extensively as well. I can never understand window management on mac, but with some gnome extensions (cover flow alt tab, dash-to-panel, arc menu) its just really really solid, I'm so happy to have my own computer again.

If windows and mac continues on the road they are on, I expect linux desktop to get a real boost. I cant stand not being able to shut off annoying stuff like automatic reboots and some photoanalysisd process, I just want to scream.
I've always specifically selected and researched my hardware before buying. Typically Thinkpads are a good bet - I've used several different generations of The X1 and T series with no problems. I'm currently using an X1 carbon that has great battery life, suspends properly, handles external displays, etc.
I was actually thinking from the employee perspective. If your employer allows you to work 4 days for the same comp, refusing is choosing to work an additional day for free.

It's strange to me that some people don't know how to fill their day when they are not at work. My personal todo list is always full!
That's not even my device, its one of many screenshots from google. I would have to add to that the GDPR prompt , and most likely "you have exceeded your monthly limit or whatever". And those damn huge page headers don't ever go away
It s a PROBABILITY of being at the same position and not a position per say.
Those are all advanced C++ features. Lifetimes smack you in the face 5 minutes into "Hello world".
True but if you have two alternates that are of equal predictive power then the choice between them can be totally arbitrary.
This is almost certainly the direction we're heading, for better or worse. "Safety" equipment has been driving a reduction in viability (along with many other factors) for awhile, and integrating more cameras around the car seems to be a simple/easy step forward.

Ideally they'll do this in a logical manner, which doesn't try to replace mirrors (at first anyway) and instead just integrates into them, to provide a more complete field of view. The current trend of "blind spot" monitoring systems seems to be following this kind of idea, and so far I haven't seen much to complain about there.
that's a rather specific example that i personally don't think is relevant to the discussion. for one, fungi are not even animals. and it's a very specific disease tied to a certain class of species. humans have affected a greater number of species across all categories and are doing so at an increasing rate. there is no other event in history like this that was caused by a single animal species, that i know of.

although, i suppose if people want to make the comparison that humanity is as mindless as a fungus that causes disease, then by all means.
I learned just this morning that cartilage is one of the first human "organs" that should be practical to 3d print.

A quick google gave this optimistic link: https://aabme.asme.org/posts/3d-bioprinting-grows-bone-carti...
> AMD GPUs require AtomBIOS which contains bytecode (that is: blobs) to initialize the GPU. If you look at the Linux drivers, they come with an AtomBIOS bytecode interpreter for that purpose.

I'm failing to see how this is any worse than the current situation with Nvidia drivers, especially if System76 is preinstalling them. You'll need blobs either way. You'll arguably need far more of them for an Nvidia GPU than an AMD GPU.
Apple’s relationship with China is turning into a liability
> They are literally going extinct

Has immigration raised the birth-rate of the native population in other countries? I can find no examples of that anywhere in the modern-day West.

Besides, there are significantly more Japanese people now than at any other time in history, the last decade being the sole exception [1,2]. They have a long way to go before having to worry of extinction, and the environment will be very grateful in the mean-time.

As for reducing sexism, diversity is no guarantee, and can easily go the other way: https://www.france24.com/en/video/20161219-france-battle-aga...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Japan_b...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Historic...
If you don't mind me asking, why do you prefer halal meat (I understand it it's not for religious reasons)? Does killing an animal by cutting its throat and letting it bleed out improve the taste? Is it just an easy way to avoid pork?
And your gadget is safe from being stolen? And you can't be forced to give the pin, password, fingerprint, whatever? I don't know where you are, but from the place where i am this whole paypal thing made no sense because we already had the possibility to 'wire' money relatively fast and cheap.

So you wire money to every random merchant? And what's the difference between wiring money and mobile payments? If your gadget is stolen they still need to get your authentication information. The money is not stored on your gadget. They just pick up another $10 phone and log into their account. This isn't a new thing. Developing countries have been doing this for a decade.

installed in branch offices of members of Cash Group. If not there are others, and i maybe have to pay EUR 1 for drawing EUR 100

And if you're talking about euros, you're not in a "developing country". You know the whole topic of the conversation?

The "upstart online banking infrastructure" has literally been in place for a decade in some developing countries.

What do you think happens if the credit card infrastructure goes down? Of course you can still get paper currency.

Not to forget: credit cards! I know i'm sounding old and cranky, but most of that new stuff made NO REAL SENSE WHATSOEVER for most people in my region. That is why they are slow to adopt, because they don't need to!(

To use credit cards you have to have credit. To have credit, you have to have a "credit history". To have a credit history, you have to have a reliable infrastructure to record your history of payments....

There is no need for something like 'payday loan checks' around here. And no need to plug in some upstarts which are trying to circumvent established infrastructure by going exclusively mobile, while in reality using established credit card companies also.*

Payday loans have nothing to do with mobile payments. Neither are they using the (non existent) credit card companies to facilitate mobile banking.

I do have a banking account.

So you have a central authority to hold your money and then you can transfer your money to pay your goods. Exactly how mobile banking works.

They are just one additional man in the middle, snorkeling up data, and adding fees. What do you think Apple Pay is?

Apple Pay is no different than any other "merchant account" that's been around forever. Every merchant goes through a middle man to get on the credit card network. They have forever.
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I think I agree with everything here. I'm not saying no useful information can be derived. However the risk of the placebo effect or just general healing are hard to rule out on the limited information here. (Maybe OP's brain injury was slowly healing for a year but cognition gains didn't manifest until year two. I don't study brain health and we don't really have any information to make a judgement.)
Would you mind sharing how much you take or would it be clear if I research Linus?
I strongly feel that at this point the intuitive solution would be a broad boycott/protest of Apple’s products until they elect to allow sideloading of applications on iOS. They shouldn’t even _want_ to negotiate moral issues like this and I feel it’s just really ugly for them to be in a position to arbitrate matters of such gravity when they don’t have to be. Enough people will continue to use the App Store for convenience that I doubt it would have any substantial consequence for revenue, and even if it did, this is such an intuitively ugly thing that I would argue whatever the cost is it is worth it. Even dependent as I am on Apple products for my work, it may pain me too much to buy another if this is still going on come the time.
Yes. 20% less comp. 50% more free time. (Plus if I needed the money, freelancing pays a lot better)
The unspoke problem with psychiatry is- that the biggest knowledgebase on psychiatry today, are privately owned databases - owned by google and facebook. And the new lords do not really share there knowledge on zero-day exploits of the human condition.
Makes little sense, with this knowledge, to visit a university to then gain a degree in asking your fellow students for theire views on the world.
Made ENTIRELY in Africa except SoC, memory modules, display and pretty much any other component...

Only continent where they make ENTIRELY phones is Asia.
Tim Cook is a crook and a moral coward. Single signature signing authorities for software will always be inevitably used for evil, and here it directly has been.

Apple does have a choice here. An easy one. It could remove the requirement that all iOS apps have to be signed to run on Apple devices. Simple. And at that point the Chinese government have no further way to blackmail them.

But Apple has decided it's future ability to behave in an anti-competitive fashion is more important than democracy for the people of Hong Kong.
abacus?
> The bullies from my childhood, on the other hand, have successful, normal lives.

There's a book called Ginger Kid which does a good job at highlighting this phenomena. The author discusses at length how the kids who made his life hell as a child went on to be respected professionals. For example, a guy who pulled a razor on him in school is now a famous rapper.

I'm sure it had some lasting effects on him, as now he's a comedian who's notable for his humiliation of audience members who heckle or distract him.
USB-A had the same growing pains. I recall buying a USB hub around 2000ish that used to crash randomly. It wasn't until the mid 2000s til you could get hubs that were reliable.

There was also a myriad of charging options around the launch of the iPad. It was a hit or miss gamble with chargers, cables and devices. Maybe you'll get 1A? Maybe not?

USB-C is a complex standard, but the chipsets and processes are improving and this pain will be a distant memory - just like all those USB-A pains we had.
How did you jump to the conclusion that I wanted to blame only southern states? I made a remark on how "one immoral act" so egregiously downplays slavery.

> To assume that just because those states attempted secession over slavery that they'd also be sympathetic to the Axis powers is to deny them any sort of nuance. It also ignores that by that logic, all of the countries I mentioned earlier should also have been Axis powers.

Hitler admired America, the Reich took great inspiration from it. The British pioneered industrialized concentration camps. Belgium is on the hook for extraordinarily cruel amounts of genocide on top of slavery.

It makes you think that maybe history isn't the result of some Manichean battle of good and evil.

There should be a rule that anyone who says "by that logic" is about to put stupid words in your mouth.
The problem with entrapped air content in PCC is initial mix and distresses - faulting, cracking and spalling. The main concern of cracking, over the years the porous bits that held air will all likely micro crack and equalize with the atmosphere, as well as things like freeze/thaw and salting severely affecting trapped air
Sounds like you want the MIT license
Primes that don't look like primes
I’m not surprised by that line. Honestly I think many employees would say the same of their employers if they could.
> it always seems to be “another five years away”.

I'm old enough that maybe I can supply some hope.

For about 15-20 years, the same thing was said about flat screen monitors. They were "always 5 years away".

And then, quite suddenly as I remember it, they were everywhere!
Isn't it a bit cumbersome working in Go for this kind of stuff? Not judging, just asking.
no need to go to country level, they days it's ENTIRELY made in Africa, I think we can all agree they can make entirely phones only in (Eastern) Asia
> So no more `cd /htdocs` on my laptop.

If you use zsh I recommend using hashed directories. So this in your .zshrc:

hash -d htdocs=~/path/to/htdocs

Lets you `cd ~htdocs`.

Alternatively, use 'fasd' or 'z' and you can just `z htd` without preconfiguring anything or caring where htdocs is.

Or, of course, you could just create the symlinks in your $HOME instead of in root.
I agree that's a good change, but I want to be able to control my computer. It started to feel like it was Microsofts computer, not mine.
The reality is that now that computing is really mass market, and computers are incredibly complex (tens of gigabytes in an OS!), open-ended power-usage is no longer a profitable addressable market. Our needs are too niche to make it work the effort to support our needs. (Dis-)economy of (non-s)scale and the complexity of modern software implies that we'd have to pay a lot of $ to get our use cases handled.

So we have to put up with the hassles, or invest in the extra machines for experimentation and testing, or pay people to clean up our dev environments for us.
Why would it necessarily be uniform?
Sun Tzu’s Art of War is one of the most overrated pieces of military advice. The writing is beautiful, the analogies are nice, and it is easily comprehensible to an outsider, but the advice is so generic as to be useless while sounding profound.
What is going to replace launchd???
> Windows 10 is still a total clusterfuck when it comes to switching between a high dpi internal monitor and an external monitor

I really think this must depend on the hardware; Windows 10 switches between monitors fine for me, on multiple laptops. Indeed, I only actually have a problem with this on MacOS, where my MBP even crashes on occasion when switching to external displays.
So, one of the countries which has increased Nazi/Ultra-nationalist votes in the recent years? pick any :D literally. Europe with the very small percentage of refugees taken in, per capita, has already went full on ultra nationalist, even in places like Sweden.

So, we should be more fair to Turkey handling literally, not metaphorically, millions of refugees. It is easy to talk about humanitarian values, when you're outsourcing Turkey to do it for you.
That's throughput you're citing, they still have 4-8 clock cycles of latency, according to https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide...
I understand. I also know this happened to no one else, and it was a pathological case in a support system that has since been completely overhauled. This is one reason why we started the self-serve RMA process -- to show that yes, we are committed to replacing defective hardware in a timely fashion. If the machine is defective, and we can't help via our online troubleshooting guide and Email / phone support, send it right back for replacement.

That being said, the assembled systems products are checked with a significant burn-in test etc. before they ship. We have never had an assembled system arrive defective anywhere, except if it was damaged in shipping (i.e. crushed box etc.).
is it possible to replace coreboot by the fully free libreboot (without blobs)? what will stop working if you do that?
This has been a thing for longer than that.
It's REALLY important to distinguish between Xscreensaver and GNOME screensaver.

Warning: copy-paste this link, if jwz sees an HN referrer, you won't be happy.

www.jwz.org/blog/2015/04/i-told-you-so-again/
I'd like to try it out when you're ready to launch.
I think the issue is that China wants to be #1 while America doesn't want to be #2. No one wants to be #2.
>But who advocates for those who can't or won't?

The answer is literal leftist "SJWs" which is a slur to all but those who agree with the policies. Radical liberation, equality, and compassion for the weak.

Negative Utilitarian ethics about reducing suffering above all else is frequently the implicit ethical decision calculus used by: Communists, Socialists, Liberals, Harm-reduction activists, Intactivists, Feminists, Disability Rights Activists, Humanists, among others.

If you are in the role of a bullied individual, your best friend is the one advocating for a more systemically equal and just system.
AFAIK, the problem with rice is methane not CO2.
I had the pleasure of trying new all electric Q3 or something. It had cameras instead of windows and I did not like them at all

I felt that first the screen location was wrong. Outside the car is more where I am supposed to look anyway, instead of akward down from windows. I will have to concentrate more when looking at the screen, for my brain to register what is happening, instead of glance at the mirrow. Maybe it's to do with focal points, maybe it's still a screen. My eyes work better registering movement in the corner of my eyes on mirrows than on screens.
Not for lack of trying http://ix.io/1YgI
Q-CTRL Software to power Bleximo Quantum Accelerators for Business Computing
The second is inevitable to the third.

This isn't new. Apple has always bowed to state actors in order to damage minorities, literally ever since the app store launched with it's censorship targeting sex workers and sexual minorities on behest of the US government.

This one is just more obvious, but not new.
In 2001, they offered Osama Bin Laden to be trialled in a third country for the thousands of deaths he caused with 9/11. The US administration refused.

Just typical warmongering by a country who is economically dependant on war, death and misery. Such a shameless people entirely out of step with the rest of the developed world.
This. Culture is one of the only things that every employee can change by themselves, just by going out of their way to find and talk to people. It takes work, but also takes absolutely zero permission or red tape, and it makes a huge difference. Talk to a new stranger at work every day, and in a month, you'll be solving problems nobody knew about.
(disclosure: i work for qalocate.com)

At QA Locate we've been working on a solution to this that we call GeohashPhrase. It encodes a geohash as a sentence.

There are some light docs you can reference here: https://www.qalocate.com/resources/

And we have a video on the tech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlscJ8MOPjM

I'm working on some better preliminary docs, but working code takes priority ;-)

Btw, the GeohashPhrase will be open source and free to use.
Oh, yeah, good catch
This is not a defense of the low capital gains tax rate but comprehensively it needs to be included that for a C corp each dollar of income is already taxed at the corp level before being distributed as capital gains or dividends. On a per dollar of income basis the gap between ordinary income and capital income is collapsed due to that double taxation.
Your description of self treatment is very similar to what I did for a herniated disc. I found that if I got myself into some silence and worked with breathing I could hear my body intuitively telling me what to do.
True, but in practice, throughput is what you should be thinking about as a low level performance programmer.

CPUs can execute many, many, many instructions in parallel. If all your data fits inside of L1 cache (4-clocks of latency), its actually pretty easy to achieve 2-instructions per clock or more !

Furthermore, modern CPUs are out-of-order processors. So the processor will automatically execute independent instructions to "fill up your latency", at least to some extent.

CPUs have enough space to even handle main memory fetches (over 200+ reorder buffers on Skylake, to handle the 200+ clocks of latency on a DDR4 memory read or write). As long as you have "enough independent work to do," its not too bad. Compilers usually figure out independent chunks of work as they unroll loops for example.

In my experience, the loop accounting (for int i=0; i<100; i++) will all execute inside of that latency in parallel to the work inside of the loop. So there's almost always work to do, at least at the ~5 clocks to 10-clocks worth of "misc" functions in any bit of code.

The hard part is coming up with work to do for ~50ns of latency (ex: DDR4 Reads or Writes).
Finally someone said it. I thought it was just me.
Not to mention that software may disable your hardware's USB ports if it thinks they're dirty - a feature in Android 10, if I read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20868164 right
Eh... I've been on Ubuntu 18.04 for about 1.5 years now on my Dell Precision 5510. Zero problems, all hardware works out of the box. Suspend and hibernate still works flawlessly.
People in Kosovo are quite upset at the Nobel committee for awarding the prize to Peter Handke, since he has always been an unabashed supporter and sympathizer of Slobodan Milosevic, who holds great responsibility for the Yugoslav wars in the 90s and the numerous war crimes perpetrated in them.

https://balkaninsight.com/2019/10/10/slobodan-milosevic-symp...
Hard to evaluate without being able to read the full article, but Freud has very little to do with modern psychological/psychiatric research.
My ASUS Zenbook (like 3 years old) works absolutely flawlessly. I actually had full crashes on windows, but none on linux. I never thought it would be this good.

The only issues I have had is that the sound output sometimes does not automatically switch to/from HDMI when I unplug a TV, and that gnome gets slightly laggy after a really long uptime (its a really weak laptop performance wise). And I'm a person who gets very annoyed with small issues, I'm just super happy. I have a real native terminal with package management, and a window system that I like, and all software except photoshop.
> some they can lie to you but you can't lie to them

Isn't lying to a federal agent a criminal offense in the US?