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That's a stretch. I know you're enamoured by your synopsis, but realistically emergent systems aren't designed or thought about. They might be tweaked.
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.

This isn't true. People have been running `./configure && make && make install` since long before 2000 and long after 2000 as well.

Also, IIRC "alien" already existed in 2000, letting you install packages packaged for other distros (e.g. installing rpm on Debian).

Linux 2000: if your problem is not google-trivial, there's nothing you can do. Asking friends for assistance does not help, because they will just type your problem description into Google and read the first hit.

My recollection is that in 2000 people were less prone to just do a websearch and then give up when no relevant results are returned. People would ask in IRC or mailing lists.

Hell, in 2001 I had Linux on my home machine and I didn't have an internet connection at all. The only way to get things to work was to rely on friends and to figure stuff out for myself.

It was also more normal to spend days or weeks on a problem and not expect everything to be handed to you on a silver platter via Google or StackOverflow.
That was ~2008 imo, with 2.6 kernel, way before gtk3, pulseaudio, upstart, etc. although compiz was black magic already.
In many cases the things he claims are past linux behavior remains the same today. Perhaps he hasn't used Linux in recent years?

> External Monitors

Plugging in monitors in linux today frequently does not behave as you expect. The chances of errant behavior is significantly higher on linux than any other operating system. I can't speak to apple computers not working with projectors, but it seems like he's comparing apples to oranges here.

> Software Installation

The "One True Way" of installing software is still the case in linux. Installing outside of the native package manager's repositories is discouraged. Installing of any software on mac is 'discouraged' in that you need to authorize just about every installation you do on the app store. Homebrew does not require sudo to install applications, though GUI applications will generally still need an okay from the user to open and use. The outlier in software installation is Windows, where it is still encouraged to install executables downloaded on the internet.

> Hardware comaptibility

Linux and MacOS both bake hardware compatibility into the kernel. You will still run into weird cases where a display port out on your graphics card won't work with linux for some indiscernible reason. This is admittedly significantly better than it was in 2000, however.

> Laptop features

Linux didn't have dedicated laptops in 2000. The fact that they lacked USB ports has nothing to do with Linux.

Current macbook pros have 4 usb ports (other than entry level mbp 13). Retina macbook pros had 2. I'm certain he's talking about usb-a ports, however. This isn't unique to Apple laptops, however. Most PC laptops manufactured today lack more than 2 usb type a ports. It's very difficult to find.

> Advocate behavior

It's pretty remarkable how someone can be so condemning of condescending elitist behavior while simultaneously being a condescending elitist jerk.
I've had insomnia for as long as I can remember and wish there was another culture about sleep. I saw this documentary about the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) wherein a physicist was staying awake for 48 hours so he can focus on his work. The IAS is famous for hiring the best scientists and letting them work on whatever they want. I am not a genius like him but I wish I could use my restlessness to my advantage and work in long stretches of time and just sleep when my mind stops spinning.
Not to mention dragging apps manually from disk images and launching installer packages from disk images.
Godot, Doom, and Blender are all great but none have the level of approachability that Hypercard and Flash had for the amateur. They allow determined creators to soar, but they aren't enabling people who would not otherwise be creative to make interactive media in the same way. The 2d/3d gulf is a huge one to cross, and that may be the main issue. There was also something very wyswyg about both flash and hypercard-though Godot definitely approaches that. It's just hitting it's stride popularity-wise, so I guess where people take it remains to be seen.
It would not be clearer to use 1 instead of car when you were using a pair to represent a tree, rather than a list, and you were traversing the left and right branches using car and cdr.
There have been crashes as the result of the yaw damper being disconnected. That's why they're required equipment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_roll#Accidents
No, it's not. Most prominently Apple costs thousands, Linux is a community driven kernel and software distributions on top of it, which commonly are free of charge. From that perspective his comparisons are nil. Linux doesn't make computers that have problems. Apple has its own closed ecosystem of hardware and software, Linux is Open Source Software. To say that modern Apple systems are just as bad as Linux systems 20 years ago is making Linux look bad, it's an unfair comparison. Remember Apple 20 years ago? It was even worse than today!
If it can be automated, then obviously, yeah.

If not fully automated, many CI platforms allow you to pause the pipeline by requiring manual confirmation from an authorized user. I know Jenkins and CircleCI support this off the top of my head. You could have the CI perform any relevant searches or diffs, then display that to the user to get manual confirmation. It’s still not “perfect”, but it does allow you to reliably get someone to look at the data and say “yes” or “no.”
Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples' Day?
"iPhone 11 Max Pro SEA Sports, It's a Phone" - jackfilms - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnnK6CIzPzU&feature=youtu.be...
How I Spend My Day as a Product Builder and Consultant
Right. Because external monitors and installing software are things no longer relevant in 2019.
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Google pulls Hong Kong protest game for violating Play Store rules
A concrete example would be developing facial recognition algorithms. There are now several examples of them not working with black faces. It's definitely a lack of diversity of thought to not think about whole segments of society when designing such things. At the very least diversity of physical characteristics on the development team would help remind them they exist.

More usually its that physical characteristics represent lives that are inaccessible to people without them. So people with different skin color, disabilities, sex, gender and background are all reasonable proxies for diversity of thought by the fact that these people all have very different lived experiences.
I have run into the storage problem a number of times, yeah. Once there was a `.Trash` file in some hard-to-access place that needed deleting. And if your Time Machine backups are failing, they can create a big cache somewhere mysterious in the file system. I have told Time Machine to ignore docker files as well, not sure if it helped in every case. In one case I deleted all my node_modules folders, and Time Machine backup succeeded and macOS deleted it's prepared backup files, freeing up tonnes of space.

We'll see if it occurs again with Catalina.

All the other stuff is almost entirely wrong, in my experience.
Why do you assume that counterfeiters won’t also have RFID stickers? This is like RFC 3514 all over again.
Interview with an Algorithmic Trader
How are inputs entered into these systems. Consider for example Trump's decision to withdraw US from Syria. I assume there is a human somewhere that needs to tweak a variable "Conflict risks in the Middle East" or something as soon as possible after this news breaks? That can not be automated... or?
Don't send an embarrassing company-wide email about how someone ate your lunch. I'm still working there after 6 years, but I get reminded about it now and then.

But seriously, focus on learning from your peers as much as possible. Don't worry about what others think of you or your code. You shouldn't take code reviews personally. Seek objectively simple solutions to problems.

Good luck and may you find fulfillment in your new job!
Developers can say that. What we need is a reliable way to know if they're lying.
Don't forget to have fun! You probably like being a programmer, so don't let this job change that. Treat yourself well. Personalize your work tools to your liking as much as possible. Bring a cup you like to the office and use that. Be alert in case your chair is uncomfortable.
Yuzu author answer about CLA concerns
Mine was flickering on a Dell external monitor. It didn't happen so much if you had it as the main monitor (i.e. the one the tab-application switcher appeared on). Other wise it would constantly go into power saving mode and then come back on - works fine with Debian!
> This isn't true. People have been running `./configure && make && make install` since long before 2000 and long after 2000 as well.

And you can still do this on macOS too!
Quite clearly, very underprepared ?
What a dressed up and superfluous way to say you think another is being elitist and you think they're wrong.
It does not taste like chicken, but does resemble and have a texture similar to boneless skinless chicken breast.
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Except when you have more than one external monitors and MacOS decides to rearrange them arbitrarily after reconnecting them.
Chinese social media giant flouting Canadian election law Social Sharing
Like almost all web developers of today, you think one should use javascript "just because" and not for any technical need.
Is IVF Allowed in Delhi?
Indeed it was cool.

Would love to get a link to a screenshot of your system's resource monitoring. The description of each panel & eache metric was quite useful!
> This is widely seen as an unlikely scenario because of the serious consequences.

Which are what exactly?
> a lack of informed political discussion

Was TikTok was an appropriate place for informed political discussion?
I maintain that communication is not interactivity. Especially when everyone writes and nobody reads.
> These are two different things, and taken together only implies a positive feedback loop.

If it's a positive feedback loop, then why hasn't there been a runaway greenhouse effect in the past? Something must have stopped it. What was that?

> Concretely, there are farmers at the edge of the Sahara, who are adapted to a semi-arid conditions, and when the Sahara moves south, then they have to deal with desert conditions.

Yes, they will. They'll have to move. The Sahara didn't use to be a desert for all of human history, it used to be fertile at one point. Now it isn't anymore, so we don't have agriculture there. So what?

> Similar, when the Great Barrier Reef moves south, then there are dive centers without a reef north of the new location.

First-world problems...

> So we will have to adapt to a warmer climate anyhow, but not cutting down emissions is an entirely unforced error, it makes global warming worse, without any concrete benefit.

No concrete benefit? You mean, besides the fact that our entire standard of living rests on the fact that we can emit CO2 more or less undisturbed?

> Cutting down emissions is precisely the "smaller fallout of manmade climate change" you are arguing for.

Not if you take into account the standard of living of the people calling the shots, right here and now.
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Will YC China still continue to exist?
Ads can have positive effects for society too. Say your hotel is empty and you advertise half price rooms - everyone one wins compared with that being banned.
Coal/gas was cheaper than solar/wind (in certain areas) until it wasn't.

We have to build these plants to get the experience to make them cheaper.

And just comparing cost v fossil fuels is kind of missing the point. We have to move off carbon sooner rather than later. Fine, compare it the various battery technologies and nuclear, but comparing it to the thing we're moving away from, for good reason seems overly dismissive, and not particularly helpful.
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>Lastly, what's even the big issue with changes in global temperatures? Even without humans, this planet would go in and out of ice ages on semi-regular intervals. We can't really control that. Life adapts. In the interest of our descendants, we had better develop technology to deal with a tougher climate, rather than cut down on emissions so that maybe ten or twenty generations can live with a somewhat smaller fallout of manmade climate change.

False dichotomy. Why not do both?
> It was also more normal to spend days or weeks on a problem and not expect everything to be handed to you on a silver platter via Google or StackOverflow.

Excuse me but that is definitely not what someone should be doing unless they don't have any actual work to do and instead can use all their time to play with Linux distro configurations. It is unacceptable to have to resort to spending days or weeks on a problem. That is an absolute show stopper for almost everyone.

You can "defend" Linux with the fact that it is a open source project that is maintained and improved by people in their free time, and that is absolutely okay and acceptable. But you can't then complain why hasn't Linux taken over the desktop. Why? Because, unlike on servers where the only person responsible for it is a "guru", everyone uses a PC and expects it to work and let them use it to accomplish work or entertain themselves. If Linux cannot do that, people won't use it, no matter the [whether subjective or objective] freedom-restrictions, dark patterns, privacy violations and outright illegal activity of Microsoft, or the [subjectively?] overpriced Apple ecosystem.

edit: Also, I'd like to add that I use Ubuntu exclusively at home and have a super-paranoid-level network firewall setup that blocks and monitors all traffic, and use AOSP on my phone with only blobs for GPU, SoC initialization and the magic black box that is the baseband processor. I use Ubuntu because it works for me better and more often than Windows, but I am a geek and I know things that my parents don't.

Okay bad example they also use Linux that I forced on them to be able to remotely administer it. But in any case people use what works for them best. I cannot afford an update that gets stuck on Getting things ready... and risk shutting down the PC and having it do a mandatory recovery or rollback procedure. Linux breaks less often for me because I pick my hardware and software and set it up. But nobody can expect that of people and they shouldn't have to. Death by a thousand paper cuts and rough edges and all.
And there are algorithms that where/are used by Humans to manage investments
I think the biggest problem with hardware implants is that you loose plausible deniability with it. For a state actor that seems a big risk. Especially China would have to lose big time as no one would trust their electronics any longer. You can have almost the same gain with a software implant. It's easier to pull off and you get plausible deniability as a bonus.
No, it's the one who hire the graduates. It's literally what I wrote.
You can still use your VPN, just submit private keys and responsible person's info first.
But isn't TikTok specifically talking about paid ads in this article?

Our parent wrote that paid political advertising is favoring those with the greatest amount of money to spend and therefore (as far as I understood) reducing the quality of political conversation. (Which sounds plausible to me, since money is a factor largely unrelated to quality.)

You seem to imply that paid political advertising is increasing the quality of the discourse. Is that right? If yes, I'd love to know why!
Looks somewhat like Vietnamese.
> It consisted of running tmutil from the command line and giving it a bunch of command line arguments that did not seem to make sense or have any correlation to the thing that I wanted to do.

It’s not completely obvious, but when you delete something it doesn’t disappear immediately because your Mac will keep it around on a local Time Machine snapshot so that it can keep decent history even if you’re away from your backup drive for a bit. And even if this wasn’t the case, with APFS copy-on-write deleting a file won’t necessarily free up space on your filesystem if there’s another copy hanging around.
I added it as a comment here, will consider including it in the /subscribe page on nordschool. Thanks for the feedback!
Good post on hiw to annoy two large groups of hacker news readers, Linux advocates and Apple enthusiasts.
China: At least they are up-front about it.
West: NSA...
Ideas Beyond Borders
Almost 7 years in since my first job as a developer and I did a 7k£ worth of damage at my current company after merging an enormous PR which among others, messed with the production DB. It was so huge none approved it but I got written confirmation from my manager to merge and "see what happens in production". :P Shit happens. It's never your fault, well, unless when it actually is.
/me gets popcorn out

Apple people will be outraged about this post, even if it's mostly a joke.

My conclusion from it is that there are difficult topics, and, apparently, changing standards fast is not helping at all. (DisplayPort was finally more or less working, but sure, swap to another display outlet... and the same for a lot of things).

There is no time to build systems (hw or sw, or god forbid, the two together) that are _mainly_ bug free with common hardware. Windows XP in it's final days was close to this. The most stable desktop linux distribution I used was a short lived Linux Mint release, 10 (Julia), which doesn't make any sense.

Maybe if standards we slowed down a bit and we'd give more time to sand the rough edges tech history wouldn't constantly run in circles.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"[Tokyo Shimbun, a metropolitan daily,] also said people shouldn't make the V-sign with their hand, which Japanese often do in photos, because fingerprints could be stolen."
Moving Beyond ‘Zuck Sucks’
I have a debt to http://jbr.me.uk/futurese.html for kick-starting (ironically enough for an article speculating on the future of English) an armchair interest in historical linguistics.
Trying to write a non-serious article doesn't give you a free pass to say things like "[linux] fanboys are condescending elitist computer nerds" or that "[Apple] fanboys are condescending elitist hipster latte web site designers".

Not that it's illegal, but he shouldn't be surprised if people just dismiss him whatever message he's trying to send just because he seems insufferable.
So, Apple products should not be used in countries without an Apple Store. Sounds about right.
That's rather the issue. According to the sociopolitical left, everybody should have an equal voice. That's the entire point. The problem is that in practice, some voice are louder while others are often ignored. And that's something to be aware of when your voice is one of those that does get heard: try to be aware of those that tend to get ignored.
It would definitely help if you tell me which rule I broke that made you ban this throw away account in the first place. Without that I think it's more convenient for me to create a new account instead of sending an email as you suggest.
I was looking through some old Amazon orders last night. A pair of MPow bluetooth headphones I bought in 2013 now appear as an MPow fitness tracker.

It seems like sellers recycle old listings to keep their reviews.
Too many of the issues the author cites about Linux are still problems today. They're not nearly as bad as they were in 2000, but they still exist.
The chief editor of the first films was Lucas's first wife, who had a considerable contribution to their success and won a BAFTA for the editing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Lucas
Biologically-inspired artificial skin improves sensory ability of robots
>ability to share without worry that their idea would be stolen by other businesses.

Presumably so because consumers stealing the final products was already prohibited / a crime. The final product was generally physical, and consumers would have to physically break into stores to get their copy of whatever was produced and it was already illegal. And even if the consumers obtained their copy by legitimate means, them sharing with other would mean they would lose their own copy. For consumable-ish items (things you only need to experience once to get the value out of the product) this is still a problem of course but there is no easy way of preventing it - but the idea is still there and the limits can be enforced. With digital information, the barrier for entry for such theft is greatly reduced. You don't lose your copy when you share, and stealing is a lot easier too. Doesn't mean it is right or it is in line with the spirit of what we thought ownership meant back in the day.

>Copyright as it is goes against the very purpose of creation preventing any new works from ever being created.

Again, I don't get this. EVERYONE has the OPTION to create works for public domain. Why is this not enough for you? Everything you want is already there. It's just that there is another option for others that don't want to create works for public domain. Why does that bother you?

My guess is that if you were entirely happy with what people create without a motive for profit, you wouldn't care that other people had a copyright option. But you are not happy with what that economic model (free, copyleft etc.) produces by itself. You are aware that that economic model doesn't work. You want free access to information that people with economic incentives create with a price tag attached to it, because you know information generated with profit in mind tends to be more valuable.
Violent flaring revealed at the heart of a black hole system
> Our computers are so much better for them to be reduced to a green phosphor VT-100 terminal.

So much this. Every time someone harps about this or that great terminal application that looks worse than even MS-DOS applications from the late-80s (when most users had moved on from MDA cards) i die a little inside.
The law is called MPLS 2.0, also see the follow-up blog post.
UK cybersecurity firm Sophos agrees £3.1bn takeover
Researchers use game theory to successfully identify antibiotic resistance
Robotic inspectors developed to fix wind farms
> 4. MacBook Pro has 4 USB-C ports.

Only if you get one with a Touch Bar - which are the more expensive end of the MBP range.

However many users don’t like the Touch Bar. For myself, I used escape and the F-keys a lot and the idea of remapping caps lock is really more of a kludge than a proper fix (not least of all because I do frequently hope between USB keyboards and Linux laptops as well - so pressing caps lock isn’t a habit I particularly want ingrained into muscle memory).

Given the premium you pay for Apple and the form factor of USB-C, having more than 2 ports shouldn’t be a feature reserved for the upper tiers of MacBook Pro’s. In fact it never used to be back before MBPs took on the design stylings of their “Air” counterparts.