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> Though I'm a bit confused about whether Wayland (as an experimental option) in upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is even supported.

I've been using Wayland out of the box on 19.04 and 19.10 to get fractional scaling and independent DPIs on multiple monitors (Thinkpads of various ages with Intel GPUs). If it's experimental, they've certainly hid that well. It was just a login option on the display manager with no warnings about it during install or later.
Or being a founder / early employee of a company that ends up being successful. You'd invest your time / energy / knowledge in that case.
Likely blasting full power in every large building. (It's really pretty much the case in every hotel / conference room) Which helps the air to mix where people meet.
>As soon as somebody makes a mistake, they will add a little bit of process to ensure that never happens again.

To be fair, the other side of the medal is when it is simply not possible to get certain things done, because the need has not been anticipated when designing the processes. If you don't have the company political clout to get these processes amended, your only option is to wait until a customer is negatively affected, in order to drive the point home. Still, hustling (even if it is well-meaning) is of course not an acceptable solution.
> For example, in 1962 the Telstar satellite (the first satellite to transmit television pictures) and the Minuteman missile both used switching power supplies.

I thought switching power supplies were for converting high voltage AC to low voltage DC. I would have expected a satellite to run off solar panels and missile electronics to run off batteries, both of which already produce low voltage DC. What am I missing?
> I have no idea how to convince Amazon to do this

Funny enough, I do. I know and work with a lot of the people who would be involved in that. My org in Amazon is all about ensuring everything is ready to be used for customer orders. (We're hiring; Toronto, Seattle and Nashville).

We call this the "multiple scannable barcodes" problem. In terms of inventory tracking, we trust that there's only one barcode on the item that maps to a valid product because that's nearly always the case. It's also really hard to notice/catch when it happens.

I'm going to send this to a few friends today. I definitely know someone on the operations side who would know what to do about it (and would laugh at the absurdity).
In Unix these are shared object libraries.

In this context, I believe .so is the file extension for extensions that can be loaded by web servers during runtime.
I think the person in the story was trying to change the Apache2 configuration of all FE servers to load the wanted client library / .so file.

- https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_so.html
I've been using SSH certificates for a while with great success. The only downside, in relation to SSM, is to have to manage your keys an CA, but it worth to avoid vendor lock-in.
I think it's the shared library file that the person was trying to add to the frontend
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I’m a cyclist in London and I do agree this with this. A lot of cyclists forget that the rules of the road apply to them.

However what I fear the most isn’t cars or other cyclists but mopeds and motorcycles, especially ones with high acceleration. I’ve seen mopeds sneak up on cycle lanes, block up the cycle bay at the front of intersections (which is scary when you are on a bicycle in those bays because the mopeds don’t necessarily accelerate in a straight line) and worst of all, accelerate fast when the light turns from red to orange. The last is an issue because unlike cars the acceleration is much quicker - I’ve witnessed last-minute pedestrians crossing an intersection get startled or almost hit by mopeds accelerating too early.
There's only so much an OS can do about it. Every feature that can be used for tracking has also legitimate user-beneficial uses.
While the spirit of using a simple library for javascript sprinkles to enahnce your app is similar, stimulus.js and alpine.js are quite different:

Alpine.js has the x-data property, to keep state that you can manipulate, in stimulus all state is directly in the DOM. So for example to make a modal with stimulus, you would add a class to show a hidden overlay. In Alpine you would use a x-show property, that reacts to a change in the data of the component.

So the big difference is that alpine has a reactive data context as a first class citizen. In a way it is actually much more similar to AngularJS 1.x than to stimulus, with the idea that it is really intended only to be used to enhance existing html, not to build whole apps with it.
Would you go to a special browser to read not-web pages?

We know that the top Apple related podcasters charge between $5500-$6500 a spot for three to four ads per episode. How much do you think the top more general podcast like Stuff You Should Know charge?

Do you think they would stop publishing podcast that can be found not only when people click on the Podcast app that comes preinstalled with all iOS devices, but can also be found on other podcast apps that use Apple’s public API to its podcast directory?
MSVC’s STL (which I work on) is now open source, under the Apache+LLVM license: https://github.com/microsoft/STL . At this time, there are no plans to open source the MSVC compiler.
>whenever I drive on the german Autobahn at some point it happens to me that I'm in the left lane to take someone over and another car comes speeding towards me from seemingly kilometers away at the speed of a damn rocketship

It sounds like you're doing something wrong if this happens regularly. Either you're overtaking without paying attention to your surroundings or you're overtaking cars your vehicle isn't reasonably capable of overtaking.

Going slow on the fast lane is supposed to be uncomfortable.
>They pass the wealth down in dynastic manner perpetually.

Which creates a selection bias.
Additionally indirectly EU billionaires that get their wealth from EU sourced labour tend to pay more in taxes albeit indirectly.
Meanwhile their governments end up being more charitable. (if you try to compare this do not make the common flaw of not excluding the US gov "donations" which generally come down to. "We give you money and you buy our military equipment" or similar.

Also in the US giving away to charity = not paying it in taxes to a greater extent than in most of Europe which makes this more apparent.
How do you think Gates so vastly increased his wealth during the timeframe where he pledged to give away so much (was it half?) of it?

>including the numerous large billionaires in Russia

There's some of your xyz stories of wealth from nothing. Upheaval after the soviet union. People there to catch the wave and boom. Some oligarchs out of nowhere. Tho i think most of em had connections during soviet times.

You'll find such rich from nowhere stories in China's ultra rich of today too.

Similarly Carnegie and Rockefeller arose during a time of upheaval and big changes as the US advanced and caught up to Europe. Buffet I wouldn't call such a story as he pulled himself from super rich and privileged to ultra rich tho note how he at least publicly decried paying much less taxes than his employees speaking of a class warfare they're winning.

>There is no European Giving Pledge.

...The giving pledge is an american org which had a mostly american focus and exposure tho the signees include asians, Africans and Europeans just the same.

>Bernard Arnault has $100 billion, existing in an economy less than 1/7th the size of the US (ie he towers over France in a way that even Gates and Bezos don't in the US). Why isn't he giving it all away right now? He's 71 years old, why doesn't he have a foundation with $50 billion in it? France has a lot of poverty and homelessness, among other problems that would obviously benefit from the money.

Because some people are just greedy. It's hard to attribute such individual actions to a cultural distinction with some exceptions where we can look at for example the (British) royalty still exists (which with all it's ultra rich dukes and the like is much bigger than you think) after centuries. Such long term wealth being more of a subcultural/intra-familial thing where mentality and entitlement is passed on.
Also note how the US has more than 10 times as many billionaires per capita than for example my country (Belgium).

Such cultural distinction also falls flat if you'd try to attribute it to some kind of character difference that pulls trough among non hereditary ultra-wealthy on either side of the pond as practically all of them that i can think of achieved that status using anticompetitive practices in some way or another.
As such every billionaire hereditary or not tends to show a flaw in the surrounding systems.
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`find /usr -name '*.so'` that's enough for you ;)
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Technical details can be found here (in Hebrew) [0]

The gist is that, amazingly, the url "/get-admin-users" would return a list of all admin users with their plaintext passwords... And that this url appeared in the html source of the site's landing page.

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it's a shared object file. Basically a pre-compiled set of functions.

For example libc is a .so file. In windows, think .DLL.
I was working with Nokia phones 2007-2009, and then later with Meego/Windows Phone/Android and there are few turning points I remember.

* Nokia App-Store stopped working.
- I had published my own stuff there, which I could not buy. The store was simply broken, and it seemed no one cared.
- There was no business in Nokia store to be done = no interested developers

* We got an Apple device as soon as it was possible.
- It was obvious that it was very simple to compared to what we were building in Nokia.
- That was the first turning point for me understanding the user experience vs number of features competition.
- Probably something people felt holding clam shell phones at the time, but much more powerful.
- The huge 'magical' difference was the capacitive screen.
- Everything was like 'yeah we have this already', but it's just so much cooler with this magical interface where you actually don't even have to touch

* 'Tube' was announced Nokia-internally
- There was auditorium full of people in the session I was in
- Only question asked was by the 2000 people or so was: 'is it resistant or capacitive?'
- Everyone who knew the difference realized we lost at least another year

* Still, there was a momentum of excitement
- I was thinking it the way like 'lets rework the UI, we will be ahead in stuff like phone call quality, and having stuff like GPS'
- They probably have the capacitive in the next model after Tube or so?
- I saw lot of great stuff been built, and talented people worked with stuff that would become Meego

* Sinking the Symbian
- I was no longer working with Nokia, instead doing own stuff.
- This was like 'WTF', instead of existing code base living for next five years, we would have to abandon it immediately
- This was the second time abandoning developers

* Announcing Windows Phone
- This was like 'ok, I can work with this'
- The problem was, it took too long to come to market
- Only options were in this time window to work with iPhone or Android
- This was no longer 'abandoning developers', it was simply no longer possible
- There were other early Windows Phones, but for reason or another, no serious commitment at any point

* Nokia Windows Phone entering the market
- Market had already been split by Android and iPhone
- It was already a challenger at that point
- I think everyone who tried it saw the potential, but it lost because of app stores in Android and iPhone already were full of stuff - and it was clear at this point already
- I was surprised that Microsoft bought Nokia phones, because it was so obvious what would happen, maybe it was something like 'were sorry about Elop, here's money for the doctor'
According to amazon.ca, the granola costs $63 and the box of boxes only costs $29. I really hope the granola company is buying as many boxes of boxes from Amazon as they can! Free money!
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I know a handful of them in Galicia, but they look small-ish. Mondragon had a tech consultancy company but I can't find them.
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@FDSGSG: That's why I said "from seemingly kilometers away". Like, I base my decision on if I have enough space to take over by assuming reasonable[0] speed levels and suddenly someone comes along going 250 km/h

[0] I guess reasonable in this case means what I'm used to from driving on other countries' highways

EDIT: Sorry, I changed my response while you were actively responding it seems! You can call me a bad driver all you want. The fact is that the rules should be made to accommodate bad drivers also. Survival of the fittest is not a good rule when it comes to traffic law!
I realize that HN frowns on +1 types of comments. But I nevertheless feel obliged to add that I laughed my ass off watching that video. The woman that did the video has a great sense of humor.
The answer is a simple web search away. Are you just trolling?
You don’t need to run a large mobile network to observe that being cut out of the loop results in fewer profits. Carriers were in position to get a cut of all “app” and ringtone sales and whatnot. Being a gatekeeper offered tremendous profit potential that Apple took away.

Nobody wants to be a dumb commoditized data pipe.
Gemischtes Hack, for another example. In fact, the only podcasts that came to mind for me here were German!

I support a few English-language podcasts on Patreon and that model seems to work quite well for them. Meanwhile, I rely on fan-supplied RSS feeds to keep up with F&F and GH :)
Nokia decided to never adopt Android ever and that decision started the whole collapse, I think.

They chose to maximize diversity of investment, while opposing widespread use of free beer software, that is Android as perhaps they perceived. That combined with Microsoft’s chronic inability to launch and stabilize new platform led to burnt ash of Microsoft Mobile.

Had Nokia adopted Android and had Google allowed them to maintain MeeGo, a MeeGo/Android/S60/Series40 train of platforms could have worked at least for a while.
That's fair! I guess a side-effect of being locked up in one ecosystem is that you only rarely notice what's happening in others.

I feel like that only furthers my original point though. I didn't want to argue that Apple does it best, only that you can enjoy their devices without being fully bought into the ecosystem.
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Yeah, but you know very well that many people drive 250km/h on the autobahn. If you decide to assume "reasonable speed levels" and try to overtake someone in a corner that's just you being a bad driver.

But sure, maybe the rules should better account for bad drivers.

E: > The fact is that the rules should be made to accommodate bad drivers also. Survival of the fittest is not a good rule when it comes to traffic law!

Of course, but people also need to take personal responsibility for their actions. Statistically the autobahn is quite safe, it's not clear that adding global speed limits would make it much better. It's very difficult to balance this possible minor safety increase with the fact that many (perhaps even most?) people find it vastly more comfortable to drive on the autobahn as is.

There are places where I refuse to drive because I'm not comfortable with the environment, there's no way you'll find me driving in a city like Barcelona or London. Perhaps you should do everyone (especially yourself!) a favour and consider the same in regards to the Autobahn?
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In Japan there are taxi services that will drive you home in your own car (and they have a follow car to pick the driver up). They are reasonably priced.
Ehm giving shares to employees is exactly that: sharing the profits.
They look small-ish though. I wonder if there's any big coop software company out there.
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It's not just that. The problem is similar to one known in tech companies. There's lots of operations knowledge that exists only in internal e-mail archives (or God forbid, Slack archives), random scripts on someone's work machine, or that's passed around verbally from employee to employee. People don't have enough time or sense to document this and then maintain the documentation (and like with backups, you don't know if a process is truly documented until you try to recreate it just from that documentation).

Then somebody leaves and suddenly work grinds down to a halt for a week, because people try to recreate a small but crucial piece of lost tribal knowledge.

Now imagine that, but across more serious domains like metallurgy or jet engine design, and imagine trying to recover that knowledge after the company no longer exists and most employees are either retired or dead.

In this there's a sense that "unused muscles atrophy" applies to technology. As a human race, we currently do not have the capability to put a man on the moon. We had it once, but it's gone now.
Clickable link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/ci...
FORTRAN got a new version in 2018! Is that it new enough for you :-)?
As mentioned, if you like Kerberos. It's not the nicest way to do anything. Kerberos is also only supported if you (can) use NFSv4, NFSv3 doesn't support Kerberos on all clients.
Slippery slope fallacy. We're talking about temporary measures to get things done. If you don't pay back the technical debt, then sure. It always comes back to haunt you.
Session manager doesn't require inbound access iirc. An agent on the machine handles the request via a connection to the SSM service. Your request for a session goes to the SSM service and a websocket connection is established from the machine you need to remote into. A cool solution.
What do you find the obvious conclusion?
Alpine.js really was created for javascript sprinkles, where even vue.js might be overkill. For example, if you have an app, but you need to have dropdowns and modals. Then something like alpine.js can be nice.

So it is actually not intended for things more complex than basic interactivity. And what you build with it, should be simple enough you don't need any type system.

For people interested, there is a good episode on FullStackRadio on the topic http://www.fullstackradio.com/132
Does proximity sensors not help for this?
Spotify "caches" episodes so it's clout tends to not be actively reflected in such numbers.[1] I don't know how much but I can assure you it's way higher than 10%

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Well it's Catholic doctrine after all.

Edit: Downvoters should read about distributism.
Imho her blog is a valuable resource. Can be used to point out "here's what could happen if you do X" in specific cases and in general as "here are a lot of examples for why things should be done in a non-messy way".
Moreover, in this industry, a checklist is usually a reinvention of 18th century manufacturing process. A lot of the "needs checklist" can be transformed and automated into "do the integration tests pass?" Several orders of magnitude faster, as it doesn't need couriers on horseback to carry documents to and fro, or a live human imprimatur. Talk about repeating history...
I always see the same faces in all the Eroskis in my city, are you sure most of them are temp workers?
I'm feeding the troll here...

German, sure, but "Indian tech support representative" just isn't a good look no matter how you slice it.

That is discriminatory to suggest that one country's accent is more acceptable than another's.

Deaf people could work with some accommodation, but why bother?

Because in the US that is literally what the Americans with Disabilities Act requires:
https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/Accommodations.htm
"revolutionary" doesn't mean what people think it means. There's always someone paying a price for change; and literally no-one is willing to be at the receiving end of the stick.

What people also tend to forget is that a healthy, functional democratic state doesn't protect individual interests, it protects the collective by majority vote, for better or worst. As an individual, the state will protect you in so far that your protection benefits the collective.

The main difference with other forms of governance, such as a technocracy, is that you, as an individual, at least have a vote every so often and the chance to participate in an open public debate.

If the majority of people are pro-cars, then a democratic society will spawn politicians and politics that are largely pro-car. That's just par for the course. The prerogative of the minority is the freedom to voice their dissent.

The main reason why pro-car politics lead to half-baked policies, is because no car driving individual likes to see how their peers run over their close friends and family members. Crosswalks or bicycle lanes don't just exist to keep pedestrians and cyclists safe, they also exist because a high number of traffic deaths is comes with political consequences on their part.

As such, the quality of public transport, pedestrian or cyclist infrastructure, or how the justice system deals with traffic incidents, is a reflection of how important the majority deems to the safety of those who aren't in a car when they are behind the wheel.

At the end of the day, I feel there's a ton of cognitive dissonance involved when you are used to driving a ton of steel hurtling 20, 30 or 40 miles an hour down the road. Car constructors have made cars so much safer... for drivers and their passengers. Sadly, it often takes an accident before one starts to realize the impact and the consequences of their behavior in reality. That doesn't mean this isn't true for pedestrians and cyclists as well: you can't reasonably expect that every driver is going to yield every single time.

The crux is to approach a workable balance in that shared responsibility through sensible policies. And that's an ever-lasting exercise. Throwing your arms up and giving up fundamental freedoms in order for a technocratic regime to make sweeping policy changes, that's just throwing the good away with the bad parts.
What we are in danger of witnessing, is a priority inversion - when we should just have two measures of 'global panic'.

The priority is, of course, to stop a 21st century plague from happening. When/if such an event occurs, it will have a vast effect on the daily life of millions and millions of people, whether they are infected or in danger, or not.

Social fallout from mass panic is almost as dangerous as an actual viral plague could be. They've happened in the past, because people weren't prepared - so sure, we should not be lying about it.

There is responsibility to have a survivable world, after such events occur - governments plan for recovery too, not just prevention and control - so the panic of the global populace, at scale, is one thing that can have a massive effect on whether there is a society to rebuild 'after the cure is found'.

The point is that folks should be observant that there are two massively dangerous potential events occurring here: 1. Coronavirus, and 2. Agitprop/Counterprop being used to re-shuffle the world economic scene, prematurely as it seems in some cases, but preparedly in other cases, too.
Well, seeing that Apple Music doesn’t host podcasts and there is a separate podcast app with all your other podcast, how does Apple Music play into it?

Would you take your website off the web and host your content exclusively as a Facebook page?