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> I read your comment. I just think that a large number of Linux sales is seen as a large 'pie'. I can't imagine that if there are 20-30% Linux sales that many will be thinking "Well most of those are Proton, we don't have to do anything to keep support up there!". They will be thinking "20-30% of our sales are Linux and we're beholden to the tech debt of one of Valve's vanity projects and the effort of one volunteer who has just burned out and put his project into maintenance mode? We need to take control! We need official Linux support".

But there isn't 20%-30% of the sales are Linux. It is a literally a 1%. It is very niche.

> Comments like yours make me angry. Your whole attitude makes me angry. You're extremely offhand and dismissive of all possible Linux paths.

I am sorry that basic facts make you angry, your feelings are your own responsibility. I've been using Linux now for about 20 years. There was Cedega before proton (remember them?) . While the desktop situation is now okay e.g. I can normally get something serviceable without the headaches of the past. Generally everything is still a mess. Jaron Lanier in his book "You are not a gadget" explains why this will always be the case. Open source anything is very much like herding cats.

> I would accept that a 1% market share isn't an attractive proposition at the current time, that's a fair comment. I would accept that for the time being if Proton is filling a gap that developers currently aren't interested in or can't justify, but I absolutely refuse to accept that a larger player base who are willing to pay for a Linux first platform are going to be blithely brushed aside as not the developer's problem.

There no evidence that there is a large player base for this Linux first platform. Many companies have tried. A lot of Linux users in the past used (look at older phpBB forums such as JustLinux and LinuxForums) that constantly to boast about "not paying for software".
Bing maps is a great 80%+ solution and last I checked a lot cheaper than Google Maps for API integration.
Computer graphics use floats for color values very often. It was indeed misleading of me to mention floats and then use a hex value to explain it, though. Just a brain fart from seeing it earlier in the thread. With floats it would simply be (1,0,1).
_not a doctor_

This seems to cover it [0], an "early estimation" gives a high R0 number indicating a higher transmission rate (more worrying than mortality rate).

Also worth noting, WHO initially suggesting a lower R0.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/China_Flu/comments/et8zs8/novel_cor...
Nothing is actually very decent alternative to facebook. I am using it for seven years now.
Facebook and Insta I can (and do!) live without. Whatsapp though, is the main method of communication, and particularly group communication for all of my friends. It's almost impossible to leave.
Scientists discover new species of walking shark near Australia
... but yet noone would be surprised at all if someone found a baby, mutilated animal, dead homeless, toxic wasted, etc. in a dumpster
What is the point of this? Its still the same amount of force applied to keep the object suspended in air, is it a sterilization thing?
Why even show ads? Perhaps, it would be easier to just have Alphabet spawning a company doing SEO that triggers the right strings of the Google page ranking algorithm, thus successfully putting stuff on top of search. Google still receives money, but no specific "this is an Ad" needed. At least, in that universe that would be no question on whether we can trust in "no-Ad" section of the results.
My personal view on this (take or leave it) is that unless you are being backed by some very rich investors, you don't have a hope of gaining any sort of traction here.

I do like the 'address book' concept, though, and have toyed with similar ideas previously - a place for everyone to have a single page 'profile' with links out to their real social accounts etc. But in this age of privacy and tracking awareness, I don't think the average internet user will want to put all their contact info in one place.

The real problem with Facebook is that for most people it's frictionless... it's really easy for people who use it to chat and share with other users. For them, there's no real compelling reason to switch platforms. Asking them to at this point is like trying to sell a mobile phone on a new network that can't dial other networks.
RAII solves lots of lifetime problems, but it's surprisingly easy to have refs outlive their targets (among other things). Static-analysis can spot a portion of these, but in general the lifetime of input and output values of functions/scopes needs to be explicitly stated by the user (part of the type) and can thus be verified by the compiler.

I think Rust captures the core lifetime concepts pretty well, but the notation can be cumbersome, and I think C++'s rich type-system could make for a less-tedious solution. TFA mentions doing some implicit lifetime-analysis based on signatures (e.g. inferring ownership based on type-traits), but ultimately it is 'just' low-hanging fruit. It would be nice to capture in signatures/types that "the input must outlive the output" and have more meaningful error diagnostics and less implicit magic ("did I follow the iterator traits correctly?").
It doesn't de-orbit at all.

For physical intuition, uh, the atmosphere is a hundred times further away than the graveyard orbit.
What We Get Wrong About Minimalism
You can remove some bias by using startpage.com but it won't eliminate SEO.

Maybe Yandex?
Along the lines of your "no code" reference, I'm enamored of the potential for well-architected and -implemented design systems and their component libraries to virtually eliminate the need for non-experts to write CSS in constructing good, maintainable UI. That's a profoundly impactful change vs the status quo.
Right but what about Android? What's the point of setting up email at my own domain - which I already have - when Google can track everything through Android?
> Is it that you want the de-orbit to hit the atmosphere at a shallow angle instead of plunging to earth?

De-orbiting to hit the atmosphere at a shallow angle would actually take slightly less delta-v than de-orbiting to a straight plunge to Earth. But both are much larger than the delta-v required to get to a graveyard orbit.
Google got too polluted with adverts it became intolerable. More or less across the board.
It’s possible they have an A/B test running to see if limiting searches increases Premium subscription conversion. You’re probably in the control bucket.
Agreed. Which is generally what my comment is pointing out.

I'm delighted that my kid seems perfectly average. He's ahead in some ways, behind in others. I'm confident it will all be a wash by the time he's older. What matters is spending time with him. Not doing baby brain gymnastics.
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I credit much of my success in grade school and now as an adult to the fact that my mom consistently and constantly encouraged me to read.

She at first did this, when I was a toddler, by teaching me my ABCs and counting while she "did her bills"; I can't explain her accounting methods, but there were always dates and numbers and months and...well you get the idea. She would encourage me to tell her "what month comes next" or "what number is that"...

Then, as I got older, she started to read to me; first, from a set of "animal encyclopedia" books my parents got from the grocery store as a "give-away"...

(aside: they don't really do this much any more, but back then to get customers to come shop, grocery stores and supermarkets would run these giveaway things where, if you spent so much money, or collected so many "stamps", you could get "this month's book", or dishes, or utensils or whatever - so you'd build up a complete encyclopedia set over the course of a year or so)

...then later from similar encyclopedia books about science; she would read to me about "the brain" or "the lungs" or "the heart" - then other subjects, and I would "read along" with her - she'd ask me "what does this say" and I would read it.

One other thing I remember my mom encouraging me to do was recognizing car models and makes; I'm not sure why or if that even fits in here - but it was something I recall.

As I got older, both of my parents would buy me books on any subject I desired. I also had several magazine subscriptions (I once had three different computer magazines coming in - Family Computing, K-Power, and the Rainbow, plus Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and Omni). They purchased and I had access to two different sets of Encyclopedia Brittanica. I had my own library card by the time I was in the second grade for the city library system.

At one time I recall I had some problems with reading and spelling - and my parents got one of those "hooked on phonics" sets and worked with me on that. Ultimately I went from being an average student to doing much better work and having an easier time in school.

But all of that ultimately led to my life today; their encouragement of reading, and of "finding out the answers on my own" ("Dad, what's this and that?" I'd ask - my dad would reply "Let's look it up in the encyclopedia!") also encouraged me to become a self-learner, among other things. They were always encouraging my education, and helping me however they could (when they saw how much I liked computers, they bought me one, and upgrades - this was in the 1980s mind you, and none of it was cheap).

I wouldn't be the person or the software engineer I am today had it not been for their efforts and sacrifices. My parents weren't wealthy (my dad did road construction for the county, my mom was a "stay at home" mother who earned extra side-money by selling eggs from our chickens) - but they both knew the importance of an education, and were always involved in it for me.

But it all ultimately started with reading.
This may be true, but note that all the ASAT missle demonstrated to date are only capable of low-Earth orbit, just a couple thousand km from the Earth's surface. The GPS satellites operate at tens of thousands of kilometers higher altitude in medium Earth orbit.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-space-report/analys...
A lot of it won’t.

But the interop story between modern cpp and older cpp is much better than the interop story between rust and older cpp.
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It’s interesting because capitalism is all about choice and competition. But what if a player is so successful that it can pay to absorb any competitor that poses a serious threat? I don’t know how capitalism self heals from that.
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They are definitely trying to guess what you are searching for.
One thing that drives me crazy is that they assume all of your searches are geographically or linguistically "local", they don't have an international search mode where the most relevant result in the world shows up.
Defense paying for a lot of R&D that will be materially useful in a lot of areas.

Now we just need a ton of legislation to protect us from entities using this tech when they shouldn't.
Right, but -- if for example -- you're trying to raise VC money, you only need a couple of yeses.

There's definitely enough people that love to have their mind changed, that you could play specifically to this crowd, and do very well.

It would be dangerous if you needed a 50% nod of approval. But not so much if all you need is one yes. It's probably beneficial to optimize yourself for a small niche.
Gmail can forward to another account as you transition. Put it behind your own domain name so you can switch providers if needed.
Forwarding works. I mean, you can totally migrate out without much expenses, and that's the beauty of email. But GMail does offer good spam filter and okay-UI. It's hardly a bad software by itself.

Android is just simply unreplaceable, but it's FOSS at least.
Garbage collectors have always existed. That's not true for shocking videos. Youtube and other social networks need to be held accountable for creating the incentive to produce such content in the first place. The impact on their own employees is only the first sliver of harm they are enabling.
I would assume that while they don't tie your search with your username (when you turn it off), they would still store it anonymously to your location, IP address, browser, etc. to 'improve their results using Machine Learning'.

Theoretically, this could be used to identify you if all those parameters were unique to you
But the mob gets things done so...
I think it actually is nurses physically moving the device around the room—the photo looks like it's just on casters, not motorized wheels.
But, due to the labor organization, they have the healthcare guarantee to have their traumas addressed.

Do the YouTube moderators have the same?
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> There is a philosophical conundrum at the root of all this: morality requires we maintain a safety net at the bottom that catches everyone—the alternative is simply inhumane—but we also need an aspirational target at the top, so as to inspire us to excellence, creativity and accomplishment. In other words, we need worth to come for free, and we also need it to be acquirable. And no philosopher—not Kant, not Aristotle, not Nietzsche, not I—has yet figured out how to construct a moral theory that allows us to say both of those things.

Maybe it's true that no philosopher has adequately solved this problem. But that doesn't seem to matter. Most of us live in societies that provide a safety net while also providing hierarchies to climb. The fact that there's no clear philosophical grounding for this doesn't seem to bother us.
> It's a fallacy to believe we will require less energy in the long run

It's hard to say without knowing your definition of long run so would you care to explain why you believe that less energy is required in your long run?

I see it as exactly the opposite, in the short/medium term we will use more energy but it will eventually go into reverse.

Maybe Jevons Paradox will intervene and you are correct, I don't know

For the record, my long run is 150+ years, if only to make sure that we are all dead.
I think google has stayed the same for the most part. But because they want to crack down on misinformation, and things of that nature they have said recently that when it comes to political topics/news they want to stick to "trusted" sources. That's why if you search for a political topic on google/youtube, you're probably not going to get many non mainstream sources
People do startups for similar reasons to mountain climbing. They enjoy the thrill of being in control of a chaotic situation.

They like being the underdog. They are at their best when the odds are against them. They love taking responsibility.

A lot of people like that would suffer in a large, stable company.
Thank you for your service to the community as a paramedic. I have no idea how you people do it.

As someone who has exposure to that world, how do you do deal with it? Is there some kind of training or protocol or therapy that's built in to your job that's different than that of the moderators? Does any of the mitigation even work?

For every one of those beheading videos, someone has to actually go collect the head. I would think that must be orders of magnitude more traumatizing than skipping through the video of it happening enough to flag it.
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In practice, there is a stable and standard ABI in C++. On Windows systems, you use the (undocumented, but mostly reverse-engineered) MSVC ABI. On everybody else, you use the confusingly-named Itanium ABI, except for exception handling on ARM, which uses a slightly different ABI.

Standard library implementations do not necessarily share the same ABI, but it is possible to interoperate between libc++ and libstdc++, and libstdc++ maintains ABI compatibility across different versions.

And, to be pedantic, C does not provide a stable, standard ABI. It is the platforms themselves that provide this ABI standard, and these platforms equally provide a C++ ABI standard. So C++ ABI compatibility is no more or less a problem than C ABI compatibility.
There is little money in creating a piece of artwork that lasts 300yrs, like a church or an exquisite painting for the producer. Companies can't survive on that, all the money goes to magic pop art and maybe some heroic efforts. After that you're outside the system. To quote a fading movie, you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain (dead genius).

You probably know it and it feels worth saying anyway. I yearn for the enduring masterpiece that transcends simply 'changing the game' and is instead appreciated for its own being for hundreds of years.
Yes I also use DuckDuckGo, just a pity that it's not as well known
I empathize. It's the same situation in reverse for many people. The social networks I'm on is where my friends and/or fam are at. It becomes very hard to leave once you've imprinted your social network onto a social network platform. A very common situation.
You said it:

> It is new and unknown

Better be safe than sorry.
Can you imagine what we sould say if the virus ended up spreading and killing a fair amount of people just because we couldn't be bothered taking a few precautions?

The reasoning is simply that there is no good reason not to do it.
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I trust them for dev stuff, error codes, obscure technical whatever, but not for news or political content, and I’m wary about certain scientific/medical topics.
"The only countries refusing to do so are rogue or third world countries."

I wish people consult at least wikipedia when making claim. In this particular area "good" US looks worse than "bad" Russia which at least criminally charged the offender once he had been sent back to Russia.

The US does stand up for its citizens which is a nice quality but on the other hand it goes overboard in many cases.
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>It's not fair to the public that FB bought up Insta/Whatsapp.

The public probably is not able or willing to pay for extremely valuable instant global communications service that handles audio, video, photo, text, and other data. Regardless of who owns it, I know that my network of people across 4 continents derives great value from the free service.
That's OK - and I very much appreciate the apology. I also have ADHD and one of the most important people in my life suffers from a combination of complex mental health disorders which are sometimes absolutely crippling (and was also misdiagnosed for years), so my intent was absolutely not to say that these things don't exist.
Last time I tried any of the OSM apps for search for random thing + navigate there flow, the results were a joke compared to the Google experience. Has it improved by an order of magnitude over the past couple years? I think this might be one of the cases where Google just has way more data for their algorithms.
Hey, we're exploring the problem of monetization too! That's one of the things we're discussing right now in VC3 (https://vc3.club)- if you're interested, we'd love to have you join the conversation!
Previously this may have been met with a shrug, but the very popular Car2go (ShareNow) car sharing service is shutting down so those users might try out Uber/Lyft instead of the other active local car sharing service, Evo.
There was also this education computer in NZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly-1
> I would think the police and prosecutors that follow up would have to see and document that stuff in way more detail, and nobody's talking about their PTSD.

Sure they are.

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/police-officers-risk-ptsd-when...

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-06-police-officers-ptsd-...
So I need a 1m long C7-C8 extension cord. Not a 30cm, not a 50cm, not a 1.8m, I need 1m long. Let's search:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=c7+c8+extension+cord+%221m%22&t=h_...

let's force the titles:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=intitle%3Ac7+intitle%3Ac8+extensio...

That's completely broken, the titles contain none of the three things asked for.

yeah, I am not hopeful with duckduckgo either. I mean, Google is just as bad but I am pretty dismayed by the results these days.
Trade is the opposite of a zero-sum status game: it creates gains and shares them among participants. (Gains from trade exist whenever Alice and Bob have different rates of exchange between good X and good Y.) Success in trade doesn't come from being better than others and making them less successful, it comes from trading with others and making them more successful.
For me as a noob working on a SaaS product that gets pretty highly customized I usually try to tease out as much as possible what will need to be modular / customer customizable.

I never get it 100% right but I want to avoid as much customer one off code in the product as possible so I don't have to go out and dig it out and make it modular later. When I get it right it really reduces the amount of time setting up a new customer.
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>Thinking briefly on it, the main thing I leverage Google for is phonebook like information or getting a quick definition/spellcheck.

That is exactly right! I use it as a reference material, calculator, or map. There is no other use for google search due to optimization nonsense.

For anything in-depth, I use technical resources and databases available through my local public library.
> Recode’s Peter Kafka recently interviewed Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti, and Peretti said something really insightful: what if Google’s ads really aren’t that good? What if Google is just taking credit for clicks on ads just because people would have been searching for that stuff anyway? I’ve been thinking about it all day: what if Google ads actually aren’t that effective and the only reason they make so much is billions of people use Google?

Key paragraph of the article. You don't have to be good at ads when you have a firehose of most of the world's population coming directly to you, telling you exactly what they want to buy/find/learn/read/do in their native language combined with their geolocation and search history. It would be hard not to serve up relevant ads in that case.
> Theresa May voted for remain

Allegedly. It was more of a 'agreeing with the government in place at the time'
The FDA recently approved a drug for this scenario: https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/home/topics/adhd/jornay-pm...

It’s an extended release methylphenidate that you take at night time, and 12ish hours later it actually takes effect.
Most plans have clearly stated out of pocket maximums. That is the most you are going to pay in a given year.
Then there is no point in open source C compiler, either? The language stays the same...
I think it's about detachment. I consume a lot of dissection, postmortem, surgical, etc content.

As long as I can surpress thinking it was a real person, I can watch it without any problem.
After many videos, it becomes automatic. Desensitisation is a real problem with watching things from a screen.

But key factor is control, I know what I am going to watch and I can control whether if I want to. Those people on moderation team may not have such situation.

OP is grossly misunderstanding about the long term cost, though. Short term reactions differ from person to person. Some people can quickly associate real things from a video while others don't. It's akin how people can become too mean and insult others online without feeling bad about it.

But things still float around in your head even if you didn't have an immediate reaction. You would remember it some time later or have dreams about it. It will be horrible.
I mean Cameron did put it to a binding referendum with a simple majority. At least part of him was in support of leaving for him to do that.