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This is misinformation for people who are trying.
This is correct and I edited the post to avoid this sort of criticism.
Ask a Red Hat employee which Lenovos are currently being handed out to employees. Those usually work pretty well.
I have Fedora on my small-and-light laptop (100% boring low-end Intel stuff) and it works perfectly. My daughter is using it now for homeschooling right now. I'd even go as far as arguing it's easier to keep happy than my Ubuntu one.
I have two ThinkPads. One is a T510 from 2010 -- so yes, it literally has a 10-year lifespan. It was my daily driver up until 2018, now it is a NetBSD box.

The other is a T450s from about 2014. It is very light, but not an X1 Carbon so it is still pretty "thicc" and modular.

Neither machine will probably compare to the IBM days. They're tricky to disassemble and their components are not as modular as back then. But they are a lot more IBM-like than, say, the MacBook Pros of their respective eras -- even though the 2014 one comes from the era when Lenovo switched to chiclet keyboards.
The discussion about Agile(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22969533) brought this article to my mind.
Mine has eyes and is called Anatole. Also has pads stuck all around, because it used to make marks on walls by bumping them repeatedly.
I wrote about this as well on the 11 April: https://theexceptioncatcher.com/blog/2020/04/games-that-you-...

There are more games there that you can play.
uMatrix takes care of this paywall too.
UV light can go through the corners, and walls, if you make it strong enough. It could easily get into the smallest of aveoli. You may not have much of a lung left after that, though.
Sounds like you're doing a lot of the right stuff.

I started as a frontend engineer at Google, 11+ years ago, and you're right that there's a lot of Javascript/DOM/HTML trivia to understand. Google was also one of the few companies that insisted you know vanilla JS cold and don't use frameworks in the interview. It's worth studying up on MDN to make sure you really know JS corner cases. You need to know the leetcode-style problems too - when I applied (and I think this is still true), it was 2 interviews for algorithms & data structures, 2 for frontend, and 1 system design.

It also may not be the right time to apply, since many FAANGs are dramatically slowing down hiring. Your odds get much better in boom times than bust times.
Agile is the worst form of Software Development Methodoloy, except for all the others.

Which is to say: To all the people jeering for Agile's demise, please provide a superior alternative. I came from a world dominated by Waterfall, and I never want to go back to that. A lot of companies get Agile wrong, and it isn't a panacea, but it is much closer to what developers are naturally inclined towards (e.g. rapid incremental improvements) than Waterfall ever was.

So I challenge anyone who wants to replace Agile, please lean into how developers work rather than trying to mold their work onto your rigid front loaded methodology. Trying to bring in ideas of other industries, like engineering or architecture, that build physical goods and only have one shot at is a folly.
Perhaps better: Ironically, one of the safest places to be right now is a workplace. If you work in a cleanroom.
You can think that RHEL/CentOS is Fedora LTS
Ground-Zero Empiricism
I'm speaking collectively to all the people saying that Trump shouldn't have discussed the topic at all. I.E. censorship.
The point being made is how bugs invoke an automatic admission of guilt in developers, and absence of which shouldn't be seen as not taking responsibility, especially when tranches and layers in the system (built over the years, say) could have made the entire debugging and development process cumbersome, uneasy, unconventional, unyielding, dense, exhausting, and frustrating.

Taking responsibility might involve any among:

- documenting the behaviour for future maintainers.

- writing tests.

- identifying and pushing the management to fix technical debts.

- digging up the root-cause to fix deeper flaws, if any.

- advocating for saner development and deployment practices.

- ...
> and you better believe that’s going to be from scratch

Unless you're doing it for the education, this sounds like a form of self-harm.
Just got a Lenovo laptop. It's pretty nice! I had never heard of them before
Why would a WD "BLACK" that is supposed to be high performance ever use SMR? Of course if the product placement of high/low performance makes no sense, how are people supposed to know what to buy?
you probably need to return the laptop. seems specific to your case. on thinkpad ubuntu works out of the box, like everything. I have a t490 currently but have had t460s n other models I have given to family members with no issues.
Mostly the biters, but also I got to a point where I was getting frustrated with the spaghetti I was creating.
I still stand by the idea of uv-lightmasks though. With a severe shortage of PPE, especially in poorer countrys, the idea to filter air - by piping it through a stainless coated plastictube with uv-light is way better then a glorified rag and face shields for protection.
You don't actually have to listen to this person if the things they say are reliably without merit. Our nuclear weapons have nothing to do with the situation, and I don't imagine there is any risk of that situation changing.

He also won, with fewer votes than his competition, while only half of eligible voters cast ballots.

You're allowed to view this person as illegitimate. Sometimes the situation necessitates that we do that.
> How much slower is rust as opposed to C or C++ for production sized builds?

"relative ones" :-)
If you consider that science advances, what did Agile improve on, and where has Agile been been improved upon?
The big problem with Sweden's approach, is that the duration of immunity is entirely unknown when it comes to SARS-CoV-2. We don't yet know what antibody level is required to generate that hypothetical immunity, including whether asymptomatic and mild-case persons (which will be the vast majority of Sweden's herd) are going to have the required level of antibodies.

They're taking a swing in the dark, with the potential risk of a very high per capita mortality rate. If the duration of immunity is short, they could kill a lot of people for little gain. They're currently running at seven times the per capita mortality rate of Finland.
They're just bartenders afterall.
Seriously. I sometimes cringe when I think what I could be making if I moved back to California (I'm even _from_ norcal...) but I just can't handle US workaholism (most of it performative) and the idea that even if I manage to pull off 5+ weeks of PTO a year, my spouse certainly won't, and I like living somewhere everyone gets a month off a year and even people under the median wage can afford a decent holiday.
Product Manager > Everyone vote on the story points for this task. Hold up fingers two or three. You there.. why did you put up three?

Me > Well um.. because I just thought ticket B is a three and this is comparable complexity.

Lead Dev > Yea... this is a two. I mean ticket B.. that can be a two too.

Me > Ok

Product Manager > Next ticket. Let's say a five? Or a four. Everyone hold up your fingers, is this a five or four

Me > (Looks around to see the popular choice. Holds up the same number of fingers)
Because Europeans don't buy the latest MacBook every year.

A laptop lasting 4 years is perfectly reasonable in Europe.

I agree with you about the population, but that is not the whole picture.
Resurrect Antitrust
I disagree with your disagreement about the barriers, namely:

It is false that the US is the ideal place to live in (or to temporarily migrate to if you're in tech). It is false that, all other things being equal, one should prefer to live in the US. The US is not the default place people should aspire to live in, not even people in tech. Even within the US, SV is not the best place to live in. Living in some place means much more than just working in trendy tech companies.

For a lot of us -- I'd say the vast majority, outside the HN bubble -- the US is not a particularly interesting place to live in, even if there were no immigration barriers. Which there are, anyway.
Does anyone remember RoboComms to get mail off FidoNet?
No, you're not dumb. Telling someone precisely how to work and then tracking every bit of it is called micro-management.
Ever thought that perhaps presidents get a quick rundown of what potential cures the US government is looking at? And this is fairly standard practice, and as mentioned below there might be some legitimate ideas to use UV.

The fact that he went off script and talked about things that aren’t confirmed and are speculation is not good, but he did say it was speculation.

Yes he should be more responsible in his comms as president, but your attitude of automatic dismissal and thinking he’s an idiot is exactly why he managed to get elected under the radar.
Why should I trust their Linux installation any more than their Windows installations, which have been preloaded with backdoors, malware and all kinds of phone-home nasties at least several times over the years? It'll be nice if it ends up being cheaper than the Windows version, but I'll still be wiping it.
Maybe as a Canadian we've eroded the stigma with apologizing. Saying you're sorry is not about taking blame or responsibility; this attitude is what stops an overly litigious society from saying "sorry".

It's an empathetic response that says "I am putting myself in a different context and trying to understand how it feels". This makes it perfectly appropriate to say "I am sorry" a lot more than we do: when learning about a friend's bad-luck circumstances, a customer's poor experience or adding a bug to your code.
Good publicity?

Are there so many people buying laptops with Linux as a “requirement” that this is a thing?

Iirc, Sputh Korea dumped government use of Windows, so I could see a reason for a mfg to support Linux like that but in terms of just “publicity”?
One example is they disallow for of loops because they are hard to transpile to es5, but that makes no sense for NodeJS.
I agree with the title but find the reasoning hard to follow. It seems like the author keeps changing playing fields and tries to stitch a single narrative.
Thanks :) - you are, in fact, pretty cool

> DO NOT MENTION, OR INSINUATE, YOU WERE FIRED. And don't lie.

It's unfortunate that openness is punished so harshly, but I get it. You're not the first person to caution strongly against letting anyone learn about the termination, so I'll try to move forward accordingly :)

> I try to avoid saying negative stuff about my last job

Definitely agree. It's one of those things that's more likely to harm than to help.

> herniated disc / sciatica

my sincere sympathies. I herniated some (cervical) discs a few years back, it's an extremely frustrating condition. In my case it's gotten better with time to the point I can do almost everything I could before, but I don't see myself getting back into MMA or other full contact sports.
I love hacker news. Thank you for that
Don't get me started when they try to push all clients into one jira, each one of them with their own complexities, release cycles etc.
Or when they try to measure team effectiveness using Jira un some way or another, every team is capable of doing more Jiras in the same time by just splitting them more!
Honestly. Maybe I should've put the line in there that I deleted calling him an idiot. Because apparently I need to be clear, I think this is complete idiocy. But there are always 2 sides to every coin.
After he lost the popular vote. Other elected representatives selected him.
People that corrupt a process are often the ones it’s designed to stop. It’s not even done with ill intent more often than not.

How do you create a paradigm or process that can be amended adapt to a persistent threat without that amendment process itself being used as a tool to corrupt it?
Linux users does not equal people able/willing to order overpriced high-end laptops. Most of the EU is significantly more poor than the US, and you have to consider spending power when thinking about market size.

To quote a previous comment on this topic in a recent thread, though with a country not presently in the EU (but still the country with the second-highest GDP in Europe):

One example: The UK is a reasonably wealthy country. Median household income in the UK is 29,400 GBP (36,000 USD). The poorest state in the US (Mississippi) has a median household income around 43,000 USD
Read Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius.

There are some things that are in your control, while others that are not. Concentrate on the former. How can you improve your skills, learn new ones.

Lower your expenses, stay healthy, avoid debt.

It might take longer, because of all the dead ends you have encountered, but eventually you'll get there. But more importantly, don't let those things make you bitter.
The simplest way to make something not Turing-complete is to put a bound on the resources it can use. Like giving it limited time and/or memory.

So you can have a practical, useful, non-Turing-complete language by forcing every function to have a limit on the number of steps it can take. It can be implicit if you want. In practice, most embedded scripting systems use this route, which is why you don't really need a separate language just for non-Turing-completeness.
Which is just smoke and mirrors. I bet you they will push back hard.

If they were here to help they would have done so already. It’s just a distraction.
In other words, it is possible to tell the difference between cheap and expensive wines, but only if you’re so far along the hedonism treadmill that you’ve literally spent thousands of hours training for a career in it.
Etsy Collections
The main issue my teams have been facing with Agile methodologies is the number of the workflow interruptions built in. The only team members happy with those interruptions were Scrum Masters and PO's but that's because those were parts of their flows, so they had to have them in order to have their job done.

The only long term solution for us was to have days dedicated to Agile ceremonies and days where no team member can be interrupted based on an agile ceremony need (there were few exceptions, like critical bug discovery, etc.). In weekly sprints, we had at least 3.5 days of uninterrupted time and in two-week sprints we had 7-7.5.

That changed a lot the pace of those sprints as people had a lot of time to do their job and everyone was happy.
Wow that's a very kind way of putting it I appreciate the warmth of your sentiment @themodelplumber
That estimate is exclusively for Stockholm which is ahead of the rest of Sweden. Stockholm has ~2 million inhabitants, so that’s 25%+. That said, the key aspect is of course whether the intensive care units can keep up with the needs. So far, that has been true for Stockholm, which ptobably means that the measures are adequate for Swedish circumstances. Notably, the number of cases for Stockholm is projected to have peaked around April 10th.
Your link is a video of anti-sugar crusader Robert Lustig's talk at UCSF. It was posted on July 30, 2009, right around the time that the revelations about the contamination of HFCS with mercury started to become known. Mercury exposure is associated with diabetes and metabolic syndrome [2].

While I think Lustig is genuine, he was not aware in 2009 that Fructose is also manufactured/metabolized by the brain [0] [1].

I think the stealth calories in HFCS (as starch), above and beyond the label, is an additional as-yet unappreciated factor in presentations of insulin resistance and obesity.

The HFCS problem is multi-faceted.

[0] The human brain makes fructose, researchers discover – here’s why that might be a big deal (2017) - https://theconversation.com/the-human-brain-makes-fructose-r...

[1] Specific regions of the brain are capable of fructose metabolism (2017) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28034722 - "Furthermore, rates of fructose oxidation in these brain regions are 15-150 times that of liver slices, confirming the bioinformatics prediction and in situ hybridization data. This suggests that previously unappreciated regions across the brain can use fructose, in addition to glucose, for energy production."

[2] Is mercury exposure causing diabetes, metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance? A systematic review of the literature (2017) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28482296
A lot of the jobs that were lost won't come back for years. It's not like we can flip a switch and all the businesses that closed will be open again. The small business economy has been destroyed.
C++ type casting with example for C developers
But he didn't say that. He had a scientist up to announce promising results, and he suggested some avenues for further research or invention. At no point did he turn to the camera and say "so you see folks, if you're worried about the coronavirus, just reach into your kitchen cupboard and pour yourself a nice glass of bleach." I don't know why you're pretending otherwise.
Is this Etsy pulling a Netflix ... a step toward them becoming creators?
Same stigmatization happened for people from Fukushima. People were treated like pariah even when radiation is not infectious.
It made it easier for people to find me online. Not sure if that's a good thing though.

When I'm interviewing, it helps showcase my writing skills and previous work. A lot of potential employers will ask if for writing samples and if I have experience in SEO/blog platforms. I usually direct them to my website/blog.

I also cover my interests and activities outside of work. I think it gives them a better picture of who I am - activist, researcher, and taco enthusiast.

I didn't even start as a content writer and now, I write content for Startpage's blog: https://www.startpage.com/blog/
Covid-19 – Research show evidence between pollution and transmission [pdf]
I don't know about many but I do something similar. I make all links open in the same tab. Then if I want another tab I can middle click. This way I can decide where links open, not the website owner.
If you peel back all of the propaganda, no, there's no legitimate reason to produce ethanol. It's just a way to continue to feed money into the farming-industrial complex (farmers, chemical companies, implement companies, seed companies, ethanol manufacturers, etc.) Even if the crop that was grown to make ethanol was less stupid (sugar beets for example), it still wouldn't make much sense.
They use right-left in political science departments, so I'm not sure it's "useless". It just requires context. We don't look at US and EU politics on the same scale, or at the very least, EU politics are just further to the left on the universal scale.

But you know that...
Sure, but being in the middle 10 percentile in height(or some other dimension) would serve to "normalize" the sample; so 400 people are close to the center of the larger range. Despite being close to the middle of the range, some dimension is far from the center of it's range.

Yes, the correlation is not as strong as I would assuming -- that was really the point of my comment. You are a sample size of one, so your anecdote doesn't mean much. However, based on this work, apparently almost everyone has a similar anecdote: after normalizing for height, there is another common dimension which is "unusually" large or small.
As the head of the executive branch, that's exactly how it works.

Edit: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. Public statements in the official capacity as president are absolutely policy statements for the executive when they aren't affecting independent bodies like the Department of Justice. The Department of Health and Human Services isn't an independent body, and so the president's statements in a damn press briefing are policy positions.

This is like saying that a CEO's press statements somehow aren't policy positions of the company.
Do you actually know he has dementia, or are you just speculating?
I disagree. These drives are not fit for installation into a RAID, and even being transparent about that doesn't fix the technical issues with SMR drives in that setting. And yet, WD is still explicitly advertising them for that purpose. From their site:

"Reliable

Designed to operate in the always-on environment of a NAS or RAID configuration"

So right now, today, they are steering people to buy these drives for an application that they are 100% not fit for. To me, that's still a disaster.
Who to buy? Seagate did the same thing.
Amazon May Have Misled Congress, House Judiciary Chair Says
This is philosophical gold!
This 100%. One of the reasons people hate Agile is because they miss this point and keep micro-managing.
apologising as you promote is a forward-looking, positive construct; it acknowledges a sub-optimal situation and implies you are now going to correct it.

maybe git-blame s/b renamed git-sorry
Having watched the unedited press conference, there's zero evidence that he was talking about the Healight. If he were, they have had nearly 24 hours to clarify that he was referring to that. It's not the media's role to search out and bolster rational explanations for the President's seemingly irrational claims.

The Healight also offers no explanation for his "injecting disinfectant" claims, which were separate from the UV light claims. The term "disinfectant" among the public is most commonly used to indicate household disinfectant chemicals. So when the President muses about "injecting disinfectant", why would it be the media's role to then go and hunt for explanations that actually make sense from a medical perspective?
The site has blocked Hong Kong (and possibly other) IP addresses for some reason.

Here's an archive link https://archive.is/wip/OFF0F
"You're doing it wrong"

First words of an agile consultant.
Same here - except 220k. Still running great, but looking for a new-to-me car because i'm tired of driving it.
Neat. I've already been running Fedora on my ThinkPad for a few years and it works great. All devices are working, BIOS updates from boot USB. One issue was with that Intel security thing that needed updates and it was impossible to do on Linux.
If someone is worried about backdoors or malware, you can easily wipe whole drive and install fresh from trusted source.
I had a hard time getting Fedora to run reliably on the P53 models we recently bought. Of course, NVIDIA turned out to be the culprit once more. Things improved after installing the proprietary drivers, but it sure would be nice if things would Just Work out of the box.
I just tried it out and it was really hard to get started. I couldn't figure out how to edit a game board and there was really little guidance around what to do, like a step 1, step 2, step 3. I had no idea what an "Encounter" sized board was, for example.

And the icon buttons were hard to use. I had to hover over them to see what they did and it wasn't easy. Maybe use a tooltip library for those (like tippy.js) or just have the text next to the icons — this would be much more usable.

Also, a quick getting started video overview would be awesome. I wasn't sure how to edit a board or see it in perspective.

I really like the general interface and feel of it thought. Felt old school and like it's own little world. I was also impressed that you have video and audio chat built in — really, really cool. I hope it gets easier to use, because I think I'd want to try it more!