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Ask HN: Pixel Perfect Fractional Scaling?
I want to jump on the Linux train but fractional scaling is holding me back. Here's the situation:

My current setup includes a 1440p monitor and 4K TV that are both connected to a GTX 1060. I want my 4K TV to scale at 200% while keeping my 1440p monitor at 100% scaling.

Fractional scaling supposed to be the solution for Ubuntu based distros but after many attempts I'm never getting the pixel perfect result.

with scaling set to 200% at 4K and 100% at 1440P my text is pixel perfect at 2x on the 4K screen. But the 1440p gets blurry because the fractional scaling doubles the resolution of my 1440p screen and scales the UI 2x as if it's at 100%.

How can it be that in 2020 this is still not under control? If it's possible in Windows why does Linux /Ubuntu suck this much?
Random UA can get you outright blocked for looking like a bot. So is faking Googlebot and such.
Tencent Cloud deploys Seagate dual magnetic arm hard drives
Around the Corner – How Differential Steering Works (1937)
your closing is absolutely true as the majority of all of us "fake it till we make it"
I've heard people compare the Roman Empire with the United States (implying an eventual, similar downfall).

What are your thoughts to such a comparison?
What's cleaner about this new approach? I can't see the point of it.

It's exactly the same as the User-Agent header we had, but worse.

UA was used for tracking? With this new standard, just ask the user agent to include all details in its Accept-CH header.

UA was used for feature detection? People will use this new standard to do feature detection.

And it's worse because there's legitimate uses of UA sniffing, and JS won't have access to it anymore - TFA wants to deprecate navigator.userAgent, so only the webserver would have access to user agent details? Why?
Building robots has really given me an appreciation of just how awesome my body is.
I have done all kinds of jobs too, and I will take a programming/middle management job (no matter how soulless) over a 14 h, or even 8, physical job, every single time. Most of the blue-collar workers will tell you the same. Your skin suffers, your knees suffer, your lower-back suffers, honestly I doubt you have done it for a long time, it is people in that category who naively fantasize about how cool is to work 14 h under the sun or in a plant/warehouse/construction site.
Yet rhyming poetry is a relatively modern form.

Who said that line?
Yeah, when we were taught (software) project management with GANTT, I smelled bullshit due to the lack of tolerance of uncertainty in the tool. Thankfully the exam "subverted our expectations" and strongly hinted that "no plan survives contact with the enemy".
The only improvement I see from Bass' design is United Way (gradients suck in the long run, though they were the bee's knees in 1972). If you cannot silk screen it easily onto a T shirt with spot colors, it's not a good logo.

Saul Bass also did some incredible movie titles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqM3McG4-LE

A great many experimented with his simple text and cutout animation, but I especially like the cinemagraphic ones in black and white -- (time index 29:26) -- Something Wild, Walk On The Wild Side
It changes the passive fingerprinting vector to an active one: https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget#passive-surfaces

So, while UA hints could potentially supply more information than the current UA string - each item needs to be explicitly requested by the site meaning the browser can make a choice on what to return. This may depend on user's preferences, level of trust in a site, the amount of identifying information already provided to the site, etc.
PDF: https://donald-ec25e.firebaseapp.com/index_f/menu_f/j_f/sysj...
Computer programming is more about people than it is about computers.
It should be given that chain of custody can be maintained just fine for random devices and pieces of evidence in crimes. A whole device would certainly qualify even if overkill for other contexts when random security camera footage from witnesses can be verified and a copy taken in.
I don't think it distracts, I think it's an intentional deflection and abuse of the phrase to make something pseudoscientific sound much more rational than it really is.
Tiny helpers – A collection of single-purpose online tools for web developers
A list of React hooks libraries and resources
An app called PhotoSync is fantastic - can backup to cloud services, WebDAV, SMB and others. They recently introduced auto backup when charging.

The app has really positive reviews...
Including the audio? I downloaded the transcripts from their bucket, but couldn’t find any information on how to obtain the corresponding recordings. At Interspeech 2019, the author basically told me that they couldn’t share it.
thinking about it again, that's possibly closer to the mark. I did let an employee go years back, and he then filed for unemployment and I had to answer some questions from the state - did I agree, or want to deny the claim or something like that. It was for poor performance, and I was probably at fault for the poor performance on his part (not as much as he was, but still partially).
I actually ordered "Systems thinking" after someone in the thread mentioned it, Milewskis series on category theory is on my todo!
How to C[RU].sh or how the Test lab 14 was hacked
Even if this _NSAKEY thing is not to do with an actual NSA backdoor(s) into Windows, does anyone here really believe the NSA hasn't leveraged their position to suggest Microsoft (and others) give them ways to access things (or else)? If not it suggests that through software defects they have complete access anyway?
Pushing Boundaries and Instilling Entrepreneurial Style
For any founder who thinks this list is comprehensive or worth paying for: It's laughably incomplete, even in major VC markets. From a cursory scan I'd guess at least 50% of VC firms I've done deals with in Boston, SF and LA are missing.
https://project-everest.github.io/
Music purpose is to express and modulate emotions. We use it to soothe, psych up, woo, enrage, sadden and cheer each other, or ourselves. Music is an especially important tool for bonding with and caring for infants. To avoid stress full mind listen Music or Watch Free Online Movies so that mind gets relax.
https://www.dealstoall.com/2019/10/WatchFreeOnlineMovies.htm...
Browser vendor/version is hugely important information for triaging issues and implementing progressive enhancement approaches on large scale websites.
"Locked up, they won't let me outtt."
If you adopt this article's three-category system (or any system with a finite number of ordered categories), then I think in the long run the number of positive and negative changes have to converge toward equality.

If we hear more stories of negative changes, then maybe the negative ones are more memorable, or people are more likely to comment on them.
There are even torrent clients that export a FUSE VFS so you can use your standard tools.
World Logic Day
Will be a longer trip for the Barbarians.
That I am better than everyone. ;)
I'm pretty sure you have to pay income tax on any unemployment benefits. And the state/county doesn't withhold tax, so that next April 15th you might get an unpleasant bill.

Having 3-9 months of fixed expenses money in the bank is pretty liberating. You know it's there and available, so your attitude at work becomes less about "OMG how am I going to pay my bills if I lose this job" and more about actually accomplishing something.
Windows 7 has reached EOL
By IKEA I mean especially the idea of disposable fashion applied to home furnishings. That you would update your bedsheets, curtains, napkins, kitchen utensils for the new season every year.
I like to think that companies respond to my inquiries much quicker and more diligently since I started sending them out as LaTeX-formatted letters.
There's also a survivorship bias. We don't hear about any Brazilian catalog shops that opened in the 1980s or that didn't have an aunt and uncle who were already in the retail business backing them. (This is not to say she didn't work extremely hard, but there's also luck, good timing and family involved)
As someone who's constantly at somewhat of a crossroads on the subject, this book's intro leads me to believe it's exactly up my tree. However, I would prefer to read a physical book — is it possible to subscribe for updates so I know when it comes out?
when concatenating strings, stringbuffer can be orders of magnitude faster. one c# example from google search "stringbuilder vs string benchmark" from codinggame.com measures 2.5 minutes for string += and 99ms for stringbuilder.
The most important skill for a senior engineer (or, really, any job in a large organization) is... Political skills.

What projects / technologies / customers / designs are considered important? Who are the potential allies? Who are potential obstacles? What are their motivations? What is the best plan of action the benefits the group? How to get everyone's alignment?

Never hire anyone who's bad at communication. The bottleneck in a large organization is always politics. Whether you can attract skillful engineers to begin with is also a question of communications and politics.
Developers will still mostly target the most popular browser(s), particularly Chrome. It would be great if browsers like Firefox managed to implement a "feature detection spoof" that you can enable to still present yourself as Chrome (or other browsers) regardless of the actual features requested. More or less like changing the UA does now.
We were already done 4 days ago.
They probably decided to rename the variable to something unfamiliar and legit sounding like _winsysdg or _realtek2100m
We should of course default to feature detection whenever possible, but non-standard behavior like this in certain browsers is exactly why feature detection alone is never going to cover 100% of current use cases for UA detection.

To add to OP's point, this thing in Safari also comes to mind as an example of something that isn't easy to detect and address outside of UA detection: https://github.com/vitr/safari-cookie-in-iframe

Deprecating UA Strings and moving towards UA Client Hints seems like a move in the right direction though.
It works right up until it doesn't: see 737 Max, mortgage crisis...

Perhaps the best thing that can be said for pro-forma processes is that they usually put people on notice that they may be held accountable for their actions -- though, of course, that is not always the case.
Parsr Transforms Documents and Images into Enriched Structured Data
Conspiracy theories tend to hinge on the idea that the conspirators are simultaneously 5-dimensional chess playing lizard people from the future and, at the end of the day, dumb as a rock.
Perhaps, but it invalidates most of their stated reasons for doing this. Which makes the post a confusing read.
Life is definitely fleeting, but we (or most of us) have to work in order to live. The key is finding work to do which doesn't feel like work, but the difficult part to this (for many people but not all) is making enough of an income to live comfortably. In this case, I would say it is perfectly okay and probably a good thing if your identity and your work are one.

It is crazy to me to think that so many people spend such a large percentage of their lives doing something (usually just for money) and don't consider it to be who they are, especially if they hate the work that they do. Your work is a huge part of who you are. It affects everything about your life. It isn't something you should do just to do it or because you feel like you have to. It's a path that people should choose carefully.

For way too long I latched onto the first opportunity or idea that came along. I'm 32 now and find myself constantly wondering how much different (maybe better, maybe worse) things could have been if I had taken a step back and considered more possibilities for the future. Now multiple times per day I try to consider where each decision might lead, no matter how big or small of a decision, ranging from hours from now to years from now to thousands of years from now. This mindset is less stressful/neurotic than it sounds, and I would suggest more people try this approach. Good, well thought-out decisions lead to a better future (for everyone). Imagine that.

That doesn't mean that you shouldn't take risks. Sometimes a risky path is the best possible path to take. The potential rewards should always be worth the risk, so that is something to always be considered. You usually learn a lot more in a shorter period of time this way.

Family is the most important thing in life. Material things don't matter. Sure, nice things are certainly nice to have and it can make life more enjoyable, but if you have no one you love to use these things with and spend your time with, life feels pretty empty.

Spend your time wisely, and try to do things that, when you look back on your life on your deathbed, you think to yourself, "I am so glad I made that decision."
> It clearly works.

Clearly it doesn't and when it does, it's despite this, not because of it.

The economic crisis of 2008/9 could have easily been prevented.

Misinformation about WMDs led to useless wars.

The war on drugs is a huge waste of resources because why?

Ticking checkboxes is a big cause of our problems.
It's not really open ended. The client can stop any time they decide the legal fees are no longer worth the benefits. And even traditional law firms do often work on a fixed fee or contingency fee basis for certain types of cases.
It’s also just factually incorrect.

Her problems were created by the detailed investigative reporting of an establishment media outlet.

The issue raised by the reporting spoke directly to her abilities as a manager. It wasn’t a scandal about her dating life or standup comedy routines she did in college.

That kind of thing is precisely what the business press is supposed to do, and there’s absolutely nothing at all new about this dynamic.
so show this as a hint in the UI :) people can still solve problems better than machines often
Equinix is acquiring Packet
sry i meant stringbuilder, not stringbuffer.
JavaScript vs. Java – Differences, Similarities, and History
But won't removing just the baggage parts of the UA ("like Gecko", "KHTML" etc) break those sites anyway?
Ping, Power and Processors
How to import Python classes into R
We should support Bitcoin and quit using Fiat
The whole banking system is corrupted, we need to start thinking about our children future, is this the world we want them to live in? chasing money like rabbits for the rest of their lives like us?
We need decentralize CASH they cannot control!

short term chart analysis i made, i can post large timeframe also tomorrow.

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BTCUSD/w7QBsR9k-Do-you-really-need-anymore-reasons-to-long-this-Bitcoin/
This can be an advantage when your level is just a bit higher.

Since you hear the words and see a similar way of saying it at the same time. This (in my experience) is usually enough context to parse the audio.

The net result is then that your brain gained 2 pieces of input at rate of 1.
My SO and I recently bought a house with a garden and some trees (pine, spruce, poplar, beech, one apple tree), at the outskirts of a village, close to the woods.

Working on the house has so far given me a lot of satisfaction (also some stress and shorter days). Any work we do on the house is work done for us. We can't do everything ourselves. We hired an electrician (a friend) to do some electrical work and got a company to do floor grinding in one of the rooms. Her father helped us oiling the floor, my father helped us when we redid the insulation in a part of the house (still ongoing). We planted some garlic and some raspberries. We're going to plant some strawberries soon (not really the right season, but we got them for free).

Working on your own house and garden could be an alternative to a career change if you feel the need to work with your hands.
For many of us, there's no real reason to work full-time, cutting your expenses and working less is great. Also: it's economically irrational how little time we spend optimizing our investments vs. our salary/work-skills (i'm still a sinner).
Ten Problems for Agriculture in the 2020s
When they feel like, most of the time however they hold back vunerablities so they can exploit them for their own purposes.

Modern NSA is more Black Hat than white Hat sadly
It's not the case anymore.

There was a major devaluation in 1998. This is the reason why people were still suspicious about rubles in the early 2000s.
> Python's benefits as programming language are meaningless.

Being the most flexible and user-friendly interface to the most powerful libraries written in other languages isn't meaningless.
Is it not by creating whatever software you want and signing it as Microsoft software.
You could essentially replace core windows components and the OS would run them without warning.
IMO it’s explained better in the Client Hints specification.
You can see this design pattern in many places. A supermarket chain I once worked at has the managers office elevated above the store with a one way mirror, so they can see out and no one can see in. It works. You never know if the manager is watching. I'm sure it deterred thieves as well as prevented staff from slacking on the job.

The same concept for years here was used in traffic light cameras, although they're really commonplace nowadays, in the past the traffic authority only had a relatively small number of actual cameras, but the camera boxes at intersections were fixed in place. You would never know if the camera at any particular time was in there, so everyone slowed down, took their time, and behaved at those intersections regardless.

Then there are satellites orbiting overhead. Maybe not a concern for you and I, but real-time, high resolution footage of basically any location on the planet is at the fingertips of many countries' agencies. You don't know if anyone's looking at you at any time, but just knowing that up there in the sky could be hidden eyes watching is a massive deterrent if you're trying to, I dunno, secretly mobilise an army, or move piles of drugs to a secret warehouse.

The US government invested a lot of time and money designing blimps that would be equipped with sensitive radio receivers and gigapixel cameras, that can float at high altitude virtually invisible to the naked eye while powerful onboard computers use image recognition to classify and track every moving object within a city (oddly called ISIS - Integrated Sensor is Structure).

The best part is you don't need to actually build and deploy these things, or if you do you don't need total coverage, just the very shadow of a threat of being observed secretly from afar is an really economical approach to getting large masses of people to fall into line. Knowing that it's possible is enough to raise the question of whether or not it's already been done.

From a supermarket to space, the panopticon pattern is nested and stacked under, over and around us in ways that we sometimes barely even recognise or know exist. Probably not a big issue for the most part if you're not up to anything nefarious, undoubtedly in many instances it's of benefit to productivity and society at large. But sometimes governments can turn nefarious, or you get an asshole boss, and then it becomes a problem for people.

So yeah I don't think you're weird thinking that open plan offices resemble a panopticon, though to make it work the boss needs his own side entry and a way of looking out while no one can look in. Add a loudspeaker so they can yell at people on the floor if they think they're being slack, and you have a warehouse I once worked in.

I do seriously doubt many of these workplaces made a conscious decision to build a panopticon, but it's apparently a natural product of a distrusting, cunning intellect.
My work in open source and many different-sized companies (in finance sector and outside) has taught me that there are two categories of people. Those who create value and those who capture value.
Most people are on a spectrum but will lean more towards one group or the other but there are people who are more on the extreme ends of the spectrum.

- People who are fully focused on capturing value have a tendency to take everything very seriously; they are often pessimistic and will find problems in the smallest things (even trivial aspects of their daily lives) and blow them out of proportion. They don't tolerate external criticism well. They are more likely to have fits of anger. They may have narcisistic tendencies and may lack empathy and are prone to hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance. They tend to focus exclusively on social politics for self-enrichment and don't spend any time thinking about the well-being of society. They believe that personal interest is the only force which drives value creation in society. They see value creators as sheep who need a shepherd to guide them to the right path. They are unable to distinguish value capturing from value creation; to them, they are the same concept.

- People who are fully focused on creating value have a tendency to not take anything too seriously; they tend to be optimistic and may shrug off problems altogether, they rarely get angry and they appreciate criticism. They are calm, altruistic and highly self-aware. They believe that altruism is the main force driving value creation in society. They may see value capturers as parasites on the system which exploit value creators to force them towards arbitrary directions which allow value capturers to claim credit and amass profits for themselves. Value creators see a very big difference between value creation and value capturing and their ability to see the difference means less cognitive dissonance, less hypocrisy and more emotional stability.

The other thing I learned is that our fiat monetary system benefits value capturers at the expense of value producers. Since fiat was introduced, through natural selection, humans have been getting worse at creating value and better at capturing it. Value capturers are better at figuring out where to place themselves in order to capture all the new fiat money that is constantly entering the system. This is why there are so many monopolies now.

We used to have a system which benefited balanced individuals, but the current system benefits extremist value capturers.
Show HN: Whize (Alpha) – Discovery focused search engine
https://alpha.whize.co

Hi there, so this is an early version of Whize, a discovery focused search engine. Currently, as a proof of concept / concept demo we've crawled all (as of a few weeks ago) of public github and given you a search engine that returns repo results based on relevancy and our notion of novelty and recency.

We are privacy focused and want to provide a search experience that doesn't follow you across the internet.

We would love feedback and generally, we are trying to figure out if we should expand on this and are trying to gauge people's interest.

You can read in-depth about what we are trying to do here:
https://medium.com/@iantbutler01/existing-search-engines-fail-independent-and-small-businesses-enter-whize-404958949534
I wouldn't claim that it's dead - it just fails to deliver on its main promise and the developer experience is still quite poor.
I have a fairly limited understanding of copyright laws but if this stands won’t it open the courts up to even more frivolous copyright trolls?
You will have a harder time because half the value in a degree is the easy HR filtering.
HR isn't willing to spend a lot of time to find the needle in the haystack. They are always on the lookout for heuristics that have no false positives and a degree from a top school is a pretty good heuristic.
https://alpha.whize.co

https://medium.com/@iantbutler01/existing-search-engines-fai...
Polkadot’s Messaging Scheme
> it invalidates most of their stated reasons

The "main advantages" section for client hints all seem to apply there.