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While I totally agree with the idea that we, as engineers, are responsible for the things we build, I think your exposition here ("we have seen violent protests + a group making apps to organize protests => we should be careful") can be a bit misleading or suggest links between this group and the violent actions, which wouldn't be well grounded based on what we know so far.

Without assuming that was your intent, but to add some context: this group (tsunami democratic) is explicitly advocating for nonviolence. At least ~2.4M people voted (2017) for parties that oppose the sentence that lead up to the current protests. We are seeing ~1000 violent protesters, which should be fairly compared to the ~0.5M people who are steadily mobilised on pacific protests.

Given the context, I believe that the terrorism charges that some politicians and judges are attempting to attribute to groups like this (this is the reason the websites have been shut down in Spain) are far more dangerous and can backslash in more violence than any of the apps or websites some activists can possibly create.
Oh no, that's sad to hear. I have T460p with completely replaceable battery and T470 with half-and-half. Didn't expect they would be go 100% baked in.
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I'm writing this from my recently bought Thinkpad X1C7 after moving from a 2015 MPB. Here are some notes about my experience so far:

The hardware is fantastic. Build quality is great, the keyboard is great, the screen is great, the selection of ports is great. It's not cheap though, price is very close to an MBP.

The software part is not so great. I tried Windows for a short while, but it's just a disaster. It's slow and inconsistent. I tried WSL, but it feels so alpha for now.

So quickly I decided to move Ubuntu. Overall Ubuntu feels so much better than Windows, but the caveat is hardware support. Thinkpads supposedly have very good Linux support, however, the microphone and the fingerprint reader didn't work. After googling a lot I found a way of making the mic work by manually compiling a kernel. No solution for the fingerprint reader yet. And the volume controls don't work properly, there are a few workarounds, but none fixes the issue 100%.

Another issue on Linux is that none of the stable web browsers (Firefox, Chrome) have hardware video decoding enabled, so watching YouTube drains your battery. I'm now using a Chromium Beta build which seems to be the only alternative for now.

Using Linux requires you to google and apply a ton of small fixes to make some things better. Things like installing TLP to have decent battery life, hacking grub fonts so that they don't appear tiny on the 4k screen and stuff like that.

The hardware issues are quite frustrating, but I know those will be resolved at some point. My Thinkpad model is fairly new. The lesson here is: if you want Linux to work out of the box on your hardware, don't get the latest model.

On the positive side, I'm really loving Ubuntu and Gnome. I don't have plans to move back to Mac, even if they fix their crappy new keyboards. The fact that you can make Linux work the way you want is very rewarding even if it takes some time to google and hack around. But I understand that not everyone likes to do that.
Ah, no worries - I’ll take a look on desktop in a minute. Better free image host? I guess github pages is a less-friendly alternative.
I bought an X1E also as a replacement for my MBP, mostly for the keyboard and due to all the praise of developers about Lenovo. Mine has the same specs as yours, including the dual SSD for Linux.

Overall it is pretty good, but nowhere near the finish of an Apple laptop. The X1E has terrible coil whine, and the fan is noisy. I have Windows 10 and Linux installed, both have it's problems. Windows has all sorts of power management issues out of the box, it still won't suspend reliably when you close the lid. Linux support for the dual GPU situation is also pretty bad, and the $400 Thunderbolt dock is a hit-and-mis on both Linux and Windows.

I'm quite happy with the X1E though, the screen and keyboard are gorgeous. The ability to play some games on the GPU is also nice. But the experience is just not as polished as I had with my MBP. My MBP lasted for 6 year (professional daily use) and for some reason I don't expect the X1E to last that long (though I bought it, like you did, with the assumption it would last me at least 5 years).

If only Apple were to offer decent support and a build a new laptop for true professional use...

> According to reviews, it's quieter than my old Macbook (which was extremely noisy)

FWIW, this only happens when dust gets in the fan of a MBP, they are normally super quiet. I've written about it before on HN, if you open the bottom lid and remove the dust your MBP should be quiet again :)
Swapping the integrated battery is a 5 minute job, so if you are not planning on hauling around multiple batteries, it's not a major issue. I haven't really used the hot swap capability my T440s has, even though I have multiple. Maybe if they had a separate charging dock for the batteries...
Anywhere where you can directly link to a image without the hoster doing any funky redirects.

Usually, the image hosts starts being like ^ while then slowly transitioning to more and more user-hostile patterns.

Only way I found to avoid this is to setup my own Hetzner box (unlimited traffic) running nginx to serve images. Use `scp` to upload them.
>> I myself would love to see sports separated into "pure" and "enhanced" sports. The former is pretty much what we have today, while the latter would be modified with as little regulation as possible.

We already tried that. Group B, for example.

>> If it's a car race, something like "don't intentionally hurt other participants" and "your car should touch the floor" would certainly boost creativity.

What it boosted was the risk taking by the drivers, also it motivated to put gas tanks right underneath the passengers so when they ended up in accident they most surely were dead.
The question is really why this person got to be an admin in the Perl 6 Facebook group in the first place, as he did not have anything to do with Perl 6 other than claiming he was working on integrating Perl 5 and Perl 6 into Perl 11 (which he has been for many, many years).

His unwanted change caused all deeplinking that I have done in the Perl 6 Weekly, to all become invalid. To add to this clusterfuque, Facebook policies prohibit changing the name of the Perl 6 group back for another MONTH.

Please check the post of the founder of the group about this: https://www.facebook.com/groups/raku.perl6/permalink/2453539...
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Thanks for the response. I figured this would be much too complicated for direct advice on HN. However, I posted here because the company has been talked about a lot on HN before and I wasn't sure if any lawyers were here with experience in tech/data who would reach out. Frankly, I'm not even sure what kind of lawyer to contact.
Maybe there is a potential revenue model lurking here - pay extra to get the lighter version of a page? (half joking)
I should’ve mentioned I’m using a tablet. Although there’s a convoluted method involving long-hold and the Photos app, it still only save the low-res thumbnail.
>How would you expect investors to know that?

An investor should research the company they are investing in. If it's a public company there is a wealth of current and historical data. It takes time, but it's not hard.

This is basic stuff, right?

In the specific case of WeWork, even though it was a private company, there was a massive amount of information questioning its business model, the founder, and its corporate structure.

I have no stake in WeWork, and I barely care about them, but even I knew what they were about.

>Wouldn't it be better to just live under a system of laws that prevents insanity like this? And then you could spend your time learning and being productive instead of poring over the details of how you're being duped in any given situation?

NO!!! I'm flabbergasted someone would make such a statement. You have to take responsibility for your life. You can't just offload that responsibility on someone else. Just because a law is made, doesn't mean it's followed, doesn't mean there aren't loopholes, doesn't mean you're protected. Ask Bernie Madoff investors who lost their life savings even though there were laws and regulations that 'protected' them. You still have to do your own diligence. It's like crossing the street and getting hit by a car - does it matter if you had the right of way and the car broke the law if you're now disabled for life? You look both ways even when the light green before crossing the street.

I'm also not sure what a law to prohibit the children of founders from taking an active role in the operations of said company would even look like. How do you even begin to craft such a law?

And do you even want to? If a child of a founder was around a company from a young age learning how it is run, the culture, and the business - is it that bad if the board and shareholders decide this person, with a wealth of experience, would be chosen to run it? Maybe, or maybe not. This is why laws are a blunt instrument. A law could be made to prohibit this, but it would then prohibit all the cases where it would have been beneficial to the company.
Maybe try copy&pasting the URL instead of clicking it (so that no Referer is sent)?
A trusted certificate is nice and all but if you have to rely on DNS to find the CNAME-record that translates to an A-record and so forth, it becomes complicated and simpler for malicious parties to MITM you. A self signed certificate is actually better in that sense that nothing trusts it and with the assumption that you can add permanent exceptions and pinning, you'll know immediately if something is wrong.
I was getting insecure that my side-projects/hoped-for-businesses are things like a social news app and a podcast discovery app while Uber, SpaceX etc are changing the world but now that the software-is-eating-the-world companies are getting massacred in the stock market I feel at least some slight relief about my choices. Near-zero-marginal-cost is a magic that only pure-software (and other IP-based?) businesses have...

(Of course I'm overlooking that most new software biz that is doing well is B2B unlike my projects... but still.)
I second a ThinkPad with XFCE (such as Xubuntu) as the best combination.

A few things which, although obvious in retrospect, I had to learn the hard way:

• Get a ThinkPad with physical buttons under the touchpad, if you like to track with your index finger and click with the thumb. I made the mistake of getting the kind where you push the entire touchpad, and it's very hard to use. Apple's was at least useable, this is not.

• Get a ThinkPad with a physical Ethernet port. USB dongles are finicky and unstable on Linux, and there are places / desks / offices where the WiFi is flaky.

• Choose the stable release of a well-supported OS (Ubuntu, Mint... whatever) because the beta / newest / testing version will make you lose time on bugs and freezes.
Sum types indeed, thanks. That's why I shouldn't post before breakfast.
I think you're right in the first part. Image hosts have been relying on ad-revenue to survive, but it destroys the user experience of a image host, so then the revenue quickly disappears and the host goes down. This is the life-cycle of a traditional image host.

I could see two different models solving the problem. One is a donation model where the image host is collectively paid for by contributors who'd like the host to remain free and independent.

The second model is to have funding per image. When a image is first uploaded, it gets 1 week of free hosting, and if people want the image to be available for longer, people can donate for that specific image to stay online for X days, depending on funds donated.

Basically crowdfunded media hosting.
I think you'll need some major UX work done. It looks like a product made by engineers so far..
It was not just about procedural matters. It was about being insensitive. For a lot of people, and that includes me (the originator of the renaming request), having the rename being accepted, still feels about having been told there is no room in the house you've grown up in, and that it is better for you to leave. To have someone else help start packing up your stuff without being asked, to speed up your removal from the place you've called home for a long time, can only be construed as being evicted, rather than being asked to leave because it is better for everybody involved.

Please read: https://www.facebook.com/groups/raku.perl6/permalink/2453539...
I also use Consolas, but from time to time I have to read code on another machine or some environment without Consolas or rendering problems, and the things is: if the other font is good at first it's a bit hard, but after a couple of minutes I don't feel like it's a problem reading it. Then going back to Consolas I have almost the same experience. So my anecdotal, personal idea about this is: as long as the font doesn't suck, it just doesn't matter. Same with books: I read everyday, different fonts, not once did I think 'wow this font should be banished, it hurts my eyes' or 'wow every book should use this font'. Of course on a subconcious level there might be fonts which measurably perform better (i.e. need less cognitive processing by the brain) so: show me the evidence before claiming your font is much better than mine :)
> The decision being made before that result is perceived is certainly not the way to prove the decision doesn't come from consciousness and perception (biases and heuristics aside, thanks to millions of years of animal brains).

Why not? Surely if consciousness and perception are creating the decision, they should be the first which contain information about it.

> And it might be that, for most decisions, perceptions and heuristics do play a part.

Certainly. It seems highly unlikely to me that perceptions and heuristic do not play a part: as an additional input into the decision-making system, derived from physical sensory input and memory.

> That again doesn't mean all decisions are pure automatons.

How does it not? I presume the distinction lies in the exact definition of "pure automaton", but it sounds to me like the term's intent is to try to divorce human decision-making from pure, causal (or, in the worst case, random) reaction to input.

I don't see how this would be possible. How would the non-"pure automaton" part look like?
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For which there exist a slew of higher order graph traversal algorithms.
General advice for a general question:
The story often goes, if you're depressed, you need to shape up, grit your teeth and take it in strides, just brush it off. This is of course nonsense as a solitary advice.

What people often neglect is that circumstances in your life, sometimes beyond your control, can in fact trap you into "a life you don't want" or the sort of life where you're just existing, not really living. And if circumstances are that powerful, the problems can both seem invisible and insurmountable. Sometimes, we sort of get trained into living in a box! And then keep on living like that even though circumstances may change!

So I believe it's important to reflect on what you really want, what interests you, and pursue that. If that is a big fear to do in practice, no wonder. Everybody would feel stuck if living on false premises, according to others' specifications or avoidance of such. Ultimately, people need to feel in control in their lives, even if just an illusion, when we do what we can we at least feel better about trying. Failing is then part of learning.

Watching movies, playing games, gaming social media, don't really count, as those activities become just a proxy for life if you don't pursue and utilize yourself in some other way that truly count in your heart. And it's a life-long road, where we often don't see the small steps we take into a bold new direction leads.
Use enterprise authentication with PKI instead of PSK (you'll have to give each device a certificate)

Everything else is trivial to compromise if a sufficiently motivated person wants to access it.
This was a fantastic read. Thanks for sharing it!
Well, I'm not sure if there's a way of doing that on iOS, but I'm on desktop now anyway, so if anyone else just wants a direct link to the full-size image, here it is:

https://i.imgur.com/LdzBmpx.png

(edit: although, nope, even opening the direct URL to the image reroutes it to the low-res thumbnail version. I just don't think it's viewable on mobile — never mind!)
I'm using a Microsoft surface laptop and I love it! The 3:2 screen ratio makes my 13" screen feel like a 15" laptop without extra bulkiness (the 3:2 screen ratio adds an extra inch of height compared to the 16:9 ratio). Everything else about the laptop is so far amazing

It doesn't have a great graphics card, but I don't do much of that anyway
Nit / friendly amendment: mise en place

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_place
Lenovo lets you buy up to 5 years of onsite support for less than the cost of applecare. I am in my 4th year on my T460p. Had to use it once, a few months ago when the SSD died. I found out then that whether someone actually comes out the next business day depends on the technician assigned and the region. In my case they sent me a replacement drive (arrived next business day) and expected me to install it myself. Not a problem, T series thinkpads are designed to be easy to get into, but still slightly disappointing. Still, I got the cost of the onsite back with just that one incident, so I was satisfied with the service.

I am very satisfied with that thinkpad. Excellent linux support, good performance, quiet under sustained load, best laptop keyboard I’ve ever used, and extremely durable.
> ... just like how most good candidates aren't on offer.

I know this is a minor statement (and not really important to the advice otherwise), but I liked this discussion that there can be various reasons why good candidates would struggle to find a job:
https://danluu.com/hiring-lemons/
Did you try to register an alternate appearance to handle with/without glasses? I’m wondering if that would help or if it’s a deeper issue.
I suspect that such a format would quickly devolve into who spends the most money wins.

The obvious fix is to group teams into budget categories. Maybe throw in some sort of obligation to onsell parts on demand for their declared price, which is used in some amature racing formats.
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I've replaced the fans on that old MBP and that didn't help, so I think it's really just that noisy.

I was hoping the X1E would be quieter, but your experience is clearly different. My impression from reviews is that coil whine seems to be a fairly random issue that can affect any model, but usually doesn't. I wonder if Lenovo should fix it under the warranty. Seems to me there's no good excuse for coil whine.

I've had the same problem with a laptop not going to sleep when you close the lid with a Dell laptop from work running Windows 10. I fixed it by having it hibernate instead, which does work reliably, but wakes up much slower.

All of these things sound like they should have been solved problems by now. Why are laptops still plagued by these things?
So that’s just not true because times haven’t dropped 4% have they?
I like 3270font, inspired on 3270 mainframe terminals: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
I would argue that the most salient point is that without technological spinoffs, sport is not very useful in the long term. If we create the conditions to encourage technology transfers to society, humanity benefits in the long run from a short term spectacle.
I wonder how long it will take for conspiracy comments like these to pass.

Anyone know how long it took for people to trust Lets Encrypt? Or did we all forget (myself included) of the times when people talked about the issue of trusting some random 3rd party handing out free certificates?
You would still need rules meant for spectator safety. And then a degree of driver safety. And then the rules meant to control costs. And and and. The number of rules meant to slow the cars down is relatively small.

Remember too that racing rules are not the product of some nanny state government trying to keep everyone safe. They come from associations made up of the people and organizations participating in the sport. They come from racers to regulate racers.
This rarely gets a mention but totally deserves one: Iosevka[0], a programming font with great ligatures, multiple weights, and customizable character variants to tune it to your preferences. It’s more slender than most blocky monotypes which makes it stand apart especially from more traditional choices like Monaco and Consolas.

[0]: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
Notes kinda bloat the repository with additional objects, and they can be removed independent from the commits, so I'm a bit iffy on using them for this.
I wonder if the runner's gait/style is adapted to/trained for the shoes?

Getting the same runner to run with different shoes might not be quite so easy to do.
I would argue the opposite: the trajectory of being a programmer
has been really good for the past 10 years or so, but we've pretty clearly reached Peak IPO and a correction is on the way. And if/when it does hit, the person with the skillset "can increase revenue or reduce costs" will be in much better shape than "can program mumbo-jumbo".
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How is the keyboard on your system76? I've been leaning towards System76 for my next laptop, but its hard to pull the trigger without testing the keyboard. I really need cushier and longer travel keys these days or I get really bad muscle fatigue in my arms and wrists, while working on a laptop keyboard.

My 2014 MBP causes me issues only after an hour or two. And their newer keyboards... well, I'm just not even going to go there. The old ibm/lenovo thinkpad keyboards (before chick-lets) were the best.

Lenovo is an option too, but I'd rather support a Linux oriented company with Linux-first laptops (I also find it a hard pill to swallow to ever buy a Lenovo again, after all the spyware shenanigans).
Incredibly readable, thanks for sharing. I like your color scheme, too.
This has little to nothing to do with overengineering, its because Imgur.com revenue depends 100% in you clicking the small thumbnails on the side bar or one of the ads placed there (and make sure that if you do click a thumbnail the next image and its comments do load really fast to get you hooked to those dopamine shots), because _that_ is where the money is, meaning when you waste your time there because the longer you spend the more likely you are going to click their ads (and download their app and sign up and everything else that may help that goal)
I found fonts to be not all that important so I switched to Andale Mono or it's free variant (not sure) .

It is a very old one from the ie4 Era. Looks a bit more retro but mostly like all the other typical programming fonts.

I switched to it because I own a watch using this font and liked the idea of matching it to my system.
Why doesn't Paragard (non-hormonal copper IUD) not come up in these threads? It doesn't have any hormones, and is usually a better experience - and is far more effective. For some reason, at least in the US however it seems like almost no one has heard of it?

Pushing the pill with all it's side-effects and low efficacy frankly seems borderline malpractice?
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