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> makes me think the future of Qt for non-commercial projects is rather bleak

No reason for that. Qt is available under LGPL and GPL. This cannot be changed retroactively and even today a large fraction of the commits comes from the community. There is no reason to believe that this will change.

Qt is used by so many projects that there will always be someone to provide the necessary patches. But it doesn't need that many patches because the code is already so mature and proven. I have several projects that are still based on Qt 4.4 or 4.8, for which there have been no patches for a long time. If something doesn't work well, I usually find a workaround without changing Qt.
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Docking to the side and charging magnetically doesn't just require magnetic charging hardware, it requires a redesign of the iPad to not have curved sides. So far that's only the 2018 iPad Pro.

I had figured this would spread to the other iPads ASAP because of the Pencil 2, but they seem happy to drag it out for a couple of years.
Nukes may shorten an otherwise prolonged war. "Better off" is obviously very subjective, but I don't see how nukes aren't better off if they end up saving lives. Let's also consider all the direct wars avoided in the last ~75 years, an outcome of nuclear MAD.

The reality of our situation if that we will keep fighting each other, that's a given. Best to test our nukes to make sure they work. Nukes that won't work can't save lives.
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> We've spoken with several dozen developers inside Apple, obviously not authorized to speak on behalf of the company, who feel that support for Nvidia's higher-end cards would be welcome, but disallowed quietly at higher levels of the company.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/18/apples-management...
Figure 4 in the images from this tweet[1] (taken from the same paper above, page 8) show the effect of a 99% reduction in travel, over 65% of people in cities across China will become infected.

[1] https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1220919589623803905
Probably yes, and probably safely once in space, but the difficulty is that it has to travel from the ground through the atmosphere to get to space, and sometimes rockets fail on the way up, creating a bigger problem when they fall back down.
That is helpful to know, thanks.
It basically boils down to the fact that the bussiness around assistive technologies is pretty small. However, I am baffled by this fact as well. I really would love to own a Optacon, but cant buy one because nobody is manufacturing them since more then 25 years :-(
The most charitable option is that PF had some sort of tooling to allow folks other than engineers to create new CDS alerts, and that system already had all the info it needed to render these new alerts. If they had such a system, and if they were just using pain related diagnoses or something, it's possible no engineering effort was required (such a system would certainly already be able to consider the pt's diagnoses).

In my experience (working with similar systems at a different EHR), these things are complicated, and you pretty much never get away with zero engineering effort. That effort might have been limited to "Expose the patients last three reported pain levels to the CDS system", or it could have been much more involved.
This idea intrigues me, but I'm not sure I follow all the way. Why is the death of one who has more merit a blessing?
The tablet form-factor, battery-life, screen display, and wifi connectivity make it a potentially incredible tool -- yes, between a phone and a laptop, but also able to instantly convert between protrait and landscape modes, be tossed in a bag, propped up on a lap.

With the addition of a folio-type keyboard and self-supporting tip-up mode, there's little the device cannot do from a set of basic laptop functionality. And yet it's still a fully-capable touch device.

Where failure enters is in the accessories and peripherals (especially keyboards), and of course, the OS and apps.

At which point I think I'm going to end up re-writing the rant I'd composed nearly three years ago, so I'll just link it:

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lqgtwy_rhsfbdh5cdxb1rq

TL;DR:

1. Standardise form factors so keyboards Just Freaking Fit.

2. Offer a true and robust shell and Linux userland, with filesystem access.

3. Provide real apps with full keyboard support.

4. Uncripple the OS.

I'm looking at PineTab and Purism's tablet offerings with interest.

2-in-1 laptop designs ... might work, though the additional hardware and fragility strike me as large liabilities.
Places where there is no opioid crisis == Places with socialized medicine.
Performance is another pain point, at least for jupyter
I used to think this as well, but my family and I decided to try one out and we explored way more than we normally do on holiday - due to the fact that you're in a different port each day, you end up visiting way more different places than a traditional holiday, where everywhere you explore has to be centred around your hotel. Cruises especially allowed us to explore a lot of cities and towns, which we normally wouldn't have gone to due to the lack of "chill out" time on city break holidays.

Of course, this is my experience of cruises around Europe, where there's a lot of interesting ports clustered closely together. The experience is probably pretty different otherwise.
> enough secure depot's

...like a Post Office?
That's not correct. Me and many other Qt developers known to me still use older versions like Qt 4.8 or 5.4 without any need to upgrade. Upgrading causes a lot of effort and risks. If you don't depend on the new new feature (e.g. all of my projects would still work with Qt 4.4) why should you spend that effort?
There’s a gesture for it now, too... but I have no idea what it is. Something like swiping three or four fingers down or across or diagonally. Definitely not discoverable.
> Practice Fusion has agreed to pay $145 million to resolve the DOJ’s criminal and civil investigations, including a $26 million criminal fine and a $118.6 million civil settlement that “also resolves allegations of kickbacks relating to thirteen other CDS arrangements where Practice Fusion agreed with pharmaceutical companies to implement CDS alerts intended to increase sales of their products.”

So, nothing was taken from the personal bank accounts of the people who made these decisions, and nobody went to jail. That is to say, nothing was done about this.

The takeaway here is that you can murder people for money and as long as you do it behind the paperwork of a large corporation, you can get away with it.
> What when allocation fails or disk full etc?

It is a common misconception that such errors can be easily handled. Most of software is too complex to be able to do something reliable with hard OS issues. Stack unwiding with exceptions is the most quick way to disaster with ENOMEM as root cause.
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I'd assume the effort is similar between bats and snakes being sold in an open air market in a Chinese village and chicken, pigs and cows being sold in an open air market in a Chinese village.
True, but if just one side's nuclear weapons are actually duds, and the other side figures that out, that's not such a great situation.
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Wii had online play, and friendcodes. You could play Mario Kart Wii online, and share your time trial ghosts with your friends. (if you exchanged friend codes)
Just joining the basic editing keystrokes using macros (F3 to record, F4 to finish and play back) adds plenty of power.
Then we don’t have anything at all. Hard drives are only acceptable at long term storage if they’re unplugged, and even then there is a significant risk that the data won’t be accessible in 50 years. If 5 years is considered long term, then SSDs are acceptable. If 20 years is considered long term, well, make sure you have a robust RAID.
Actually, all the piezzo-alternatives I know flopped. Piezzo seems the only workable technology for refreshable braille, especially if you want acceptable refresh times. Piezzo does up to 20 Hz, which is really nice when scrolling along indented code for instance. The proposed alternatives I know of all were in the range of 1-2Hz, which is totally unusable in practice. But they were marketed like a revolution, everytime one came out. It is easy to promote something as the "new big thing" if you manage to prevent actual users telling what they think :-)
Those colds that you’re seeing represent common symptoms of many viruses (metapneumovirus, paraflu, influenza, rhinovirus, RSV, etc, etc ... and many of these have multiple subtypes which can be concurrently circulating). In other words, you’re noticing common symptoms not necessarily the same virus.
So what's the problem with Adobe exactly? Is there any fix on the horizon?
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Not only KDE. Qt is available under LGPL and GPL, so everyone has that right.
On an unrelated note, I highly recommend this episode about nuclear weapons from Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-...
Oh no, who will think of the poor journal editors' profit margins?

Sarcasm aside, that title is waaaay loaded. It sort of insinuates sci-hub users are the burden and not the journals.
Last time I did that, when all was said and done, it turns out Linux was a better choice.
Ten years ago this was a good reminder that what I want is not necessarily what the majority want. Make that "definitely not what the majority want". I thought the iPad was a stupid idea that I had no use for. I still feel mostly that way (though I think it could be handy for easy page turns in music).

Obviously I was wrong about it being a stupid idea, and I'm happy to own that. I've built several apps specific to iPad over the years, and I'm going to start another one today.

I _do_ also think that iOS has fallen behind Android in several important ways in the last 2 or 3 years. Not in every way, but things like the Keyboard on iOS drive me crazy. Can't speak for iPad OS. Today will be my first experience with that.
The code that is easiest to revisit is decomposed into separate functions that are each trivial to understand. They are used to compose similarly trivial functions, and so on. Ideally every point of your program from input to output can be understood clearly and immediately.
Different species of bats have different degrees of similarity between human cell receptors. The edible bat soup may be a very different species that can’t transmit disease to humans.
>but the most confusing experience possible for actual users

What do you mean? I think KDE is not confusing at all, you have the bottom taskbar, you have the start menu you alt+tab betwen applications. The only complaints similar to yours are from people that dislike the Settings section, there is a reason that section is complex and that is the Linux desktop is complex, there are many parts like(Qt,GTK, window manager, shell etc) but you could always have a distribution hide the settings by default and provide a KDE for newbs with almost no options and rename Settings to KDE Tweaks and you install the features from internet or hack plasmoids to add or remove paddings and features.
you are only prolonging their foul empire, lol...

I mean I get you (pity and understand) if you are stuck in Logic or Final Cut Pro land with no painless way out, welcome to the state/reality of proprietary media production workstation software lockin, which is arguably nearly as tight of a lockin as obscure scientific instrumentation and machine control driver lockin etc... "yeah, you'll need a working install of NT4.0"
My guess is it's the "in pain" part that would require some engineering effort to expose as an option inside the CDS dashboard (assuming such a dashboard existed).

Obviously none of us know how this was implemented, and it's possible PF had a slick CDS design tool that was super powerful and made these sorts of things easy. That's never been my experience though...
I know people who have been web developers for a decade, that double click hyperlinks.

If something works when you do it... you just get a habit of it.
That's a great point. I think technical users underestimate how much of what they 'understand' is really intuition from years of struggling through computers.
The options then are

-send it to your workplace if it is allowed

-send it to an amazon locker and pick it up on the way home.

If you have it sent to your house and you're not in, a lot of the time it gets dropped off at a neighbours house. I've taken in a few parcels when I've been working from home.
The German Minister of Health (Jens Spahn) just gave a live interview. The German government made it mandatory for airlines to keep seating charts for 30 days and ask every traveler from China for a contact address where the person can be reached the next month. The Airlines will be mandated tomorrow, but it will take 3-5 days till the new regulation for hospitals to take effect, which makes reporting "Begründete Verdachtsfälle" "justified suspected-cases" mandatory, ie if you have the symptoms AND have been in China or had contact with someone infected. The minister also took the opportunity to criticizes all this panic and conspiracy theories in the internet.

Everything is fine, nothing to do, nothing to see. What a shitshow its like the events from this morning hadnt happened yet.
I know. I know. But imagine the comedy of epic proportions that would ensue if WW3 consisted of all sides desperately pushing the big red button and nothing happens!
Disclaimer: context is king, we don't know your business so you'll get an "average" answer.

Google and read about the Modern Testing Principles [1], it's a set of principles and a community around it (join the Slack channel through the same link) that tries to bring change to the " test reports inspire developer confidence" state of mind. There's not a lot of tangibles around it yet but it's a good start.

As for coverage percentage, there are multiple papers showing that (usually) anything above 80%-85% does not contribute to the quality of the product. Also remember that unit test are not great at finding "good" regression bugs, especially those subtle bugs related to timing, concurrency or external resources (e.g. your DB).

I can throw dome ideas but you'll need to be more specific for them to be useful-

- Use Data, from CI tests through just-before-big-release tests to production bugs having more Data and better ways to utilize it will help you find problems earlier and solve them faster.

- Don't be afraid of some level of manual testing, sometimes it's the most cost effective solution especially for start ups. Mobiles are the best example, it's very costly and difficult to build a stable test environment especially if you want to have good phone models coverage.

- Cover bottom up (aka "The Test Pyramid"), have more unit tests, a bit less integration tests (contract tests, sub sets of modules where the rest is mocked), have good but less API tests and finally have only a handful of E2E tests and even less UI tests.

- None of the above is set in stone though if it works for you, for example if your UI is simple and stable enough go ahead and use it as your main interface.

Finally remember that testing is hard and knowing that you have good results is even harder than for your actual product, so iterate and learn as you go.

[1] https://www.angryweasel.com/ABTesting/modern-testing-princip...
> This does confer some benefits with respect to safety net, etc.

Sure, it does, but we are talking here about highly paid Amazon's tech employees, not about lowly paid warehouse workers:

> More than 340 tech workers at Amazon used the hashtag #AMZNSpeakOut in public statements that condemn the company for not taking sufficient action on the climate crisis.
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Times change. Sometimes laws -even once good laws- can end up becoming obviously absurd. When that happens in a democracy, the laws can be changed.

With all the people using Sci-Hub, I wonder if it is becoming possible to make legislation to either or both

* Declare Sci-Hub and its practices legal outright, and make it the new normal.

* Carve out extra protections for open access to science in general.
Do you also know how to use the install-dev iso to install the development tools?
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Developers need to pay bills somehow.
This sums it up better than the official tagline. We're using Mural for remote sprint retros: creating notes, moving them around and voting
”but that was years ago and they keep releasing new pencil 1 only devices”

Apple doesn’t really release new budget devices; the case may change, but once technology has advanced enough to release an improved top-end device and parts prices for the existing product have fallen enough, they package the parts of the former top-end device in a new lower-priced device.
Agree with you on native bash and general fit and polish of the OS. However, when it comes to keyboard shortcuts, I strongly disagree. I used windows for about ten years, then moved over to Mac for the past ten. I still am not as comfortable with the keyboard under macOS as I was windows. Main culprits are tabbing between controls (many just don’t seem accessible) and different interpretations, across apps, of things like home, page up, etc.

Best example is finder: windows explorer, I could basically navigate by keyboard alone. Finder pretty much requires the mouse.
At first I confused it with Temple OS. That was also very interesting but maybe less useful
Maybe the "free market" isn't such a good idea after all...
I'm running a hackintosh with a Ryzen 9 3900X. The OS itself runs great. The only thing to be aware of is whether your software will play nicely with a non-Intel CPU. Adobe software requires patching for example, and VMware / Parallels explicitly require VT-x and won't work with SVM.
I thought you could only run Mac VMs on a Mac host. Has that changed, or did you hack VMware somehow?

Our automation group has a couple of maxed out trash cans just for Mac VMs. The IT department probably can't wait to replace them with the new rackmounts.
Aren't keyboards (finally) replacable on iOS, though?
>D-Bus is now mandatory system level software on Linux thanks to systemd

Oh, it was mandatory before that, if you wanted a graphical desktop, or the ability to print, or Network Manager to work. Quite a lot of "magic" that doesn't obviously happen through files or sockets, happens over D-Bus.
discussion was here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22048427
Every non-empty set of numbers has a mean.

Perhaps you mean that, in a multimodal distribution, the mean might not resemble any individual member of the population?
> The mean is misleading. The median is misleading. The mode is misleading. Any reduction of a range of data to a single representative datum is misleading.

For anyone who hasn't seen it before, Anscombe's Quartet is a nice visual of this (and actually goes a bit further, showing reduction in general can be misleading, not just to a single point).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
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> but does it really bring any information about what exactly am I doing by generating keys, creating users?

The keys are used by ShellHub as "ssh host keys" that ensures you are connecting to the right server.

The users that are created by 'add-user' script are used to login in the Web UI running on port 80.

> How is it really an improvement over let's say VPN

The improvement is that you don't need to run your own VPN server and setup the client on every host :)

> Maybe a simple image/scheme would help to understand all the hierarchy and what exactly is happening where?

I fully agree with you
Even less reasons to use Hackintoshs then.
$140 Million dollar settlement on a $1M dollar kickback...finally a monetary penalty against a tech company that may actually deter future bad behavior rather than reward it.
Havent dived into this yet.. has anyone?
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In a real context, nuclear weapons will be detonated above ground, and you can't test heat damage and overpressure as a function of distance from the blast, with underground tests.
I've done a beginners' course with a tutor but had forgotten most of it without regular practice. Duolingo is really useful for ingraining the language into my long-term memory. I would probably enrol in an intermediate course in the future when I can pass the test. I live in the UK where there is a big Spanish community and can easily go on holiday to Spain.

I can make grammatically correct sentences in the Duolingo domains and can understand the gist of unknown [written] sentences using contextual clues and words similar to English. There is a Flag question icon on the app where you can read the community's comments for an explanation on the grammar.
> I figured out that renting a car 4-5 days a month was still cheaper than owning an inexpensive car.

This is what I tell people now when they ask how I get around without a car. Renting 1-2x/month for a road trip is still cheaper than parking, insurance and maintenance even on a fully owned car
They match speed here... that speed is stopped.
Using HoloLens, people who are blind are able to find familiar faces in a room
Maybe to reduce the burden of the open source maintainers that have to keep old versions of the app working?
It’s changed. With the last iOS update, the gestures changed slightly - they used to start with a slide over that could be docked, and moved to a split and/or dock based on the position on the screen.

Individual app’s capabilities also vary based on whether they are windowed or not. For example, you can’t airplay out of YouTube unless the app is full screen (even though once you’ve moved it to your Apple TV, you can switch away freely).

Discoverability is also crap. You have to dig into the manual (which you have to “buy” for free) to get the full details of the feature.
Last weekend, I thought I recognized a London exterior in a 10-year-old movie I was watching and added the filming location to IMDb after confirming with Street View. It's been 20 years since I worked there and the shot only lasted a few seconds, so I have no idea how I remembered it. Perhaps from taking the bus up Great Eastern St to City Road? Anyway, the photos on Street View looked pretty similar to the clip in the movie, though I could see other areas I frequented had changed quite a bit. It was fun to cruise around memory lane, and in the end, I spent way more time playing with Street View than I did watching the movie.

Street View is an amazing resource. Google, please don't cock it up. :)
Is methane not already useful? I know that methane ("natural gas") is already used for heating and in vehicle engines. This article fails to explain the benefits of conversion to syngas.
Yes, that would be hilarious. Instead of half of the worlds population being wiped out by nukes, we'd be wiped out by chemical weapons, airstrikes, and ground warfare.
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