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What do you run on now?

My worry is that while Apple is continually making their machines less and less useful for development (meaning macOS as an environment), that the Linux laptop story remains bad even on the Dell “Ubuntu Certified” machines or the Lenovo line of newer Thinkpads.

I think this means I’m resigned to “No, I would rather ssh to a Linux workstation” because I want to spend ~0 hours per year fighting with “WiFi doesn’t work, Audio doesn’t work, or Suspend sucks”. A recent set of threads here suggested buying a sufficiently old Thinkpad that the Linux community has worked out the bugs. Thoughts?

Edit: Thanks for the responses! (Sounds like a year or so back is plenty for solid support).
Perhaps you're thinking of QIRA (https://qira.me)?
The WHO still only recommends them if you're in close contact to people who likely have COVID-19.

> This wasn't deliberately calculated to kill tens of thousands of people

I haven't seen any data on how much more effective masks are (and which masks) than social distancing. As a sibling pointed out, they might give people a sense of immunity, they might cause people to touch their faces more, etc.

In the Bay Area, they became mandatory-ish after new cases peaked. The only reasons to mandate them at that point is to either get people used to wearing them early or because it makes you feel like you're doing something.
The problem here is not the lockdowns. It's that Trump administration failures have meant we are not making good use of the time the lockdowns bought us. In basically the same way that a failed federal response means we wasted the time when we knew a pandemic was coming.

The correct response is aggressive testing and tracing. As the data shows, this worked fine for S Korea: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest

Until our number of active cases gets within our test-and-trace capacity, shelter-in-place orders are the only option (aside from mass sickness and death, of course). Models suggest we're getting there, some states sooner than others: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/25/8440886...

You're right that another egregious failure was in financial support of workers and small business owners. Again, that was a giant federal mistake. There's no long-term need for most of these businesses to close; it's just that they don't individually have the capacity to weather this downturn. But systemically we have the capacity, and long term it will be way more effective to get existing businesses through this than to force a bunch of bankruptcies.
Well their lives are also essential to the employees of the store. Apart from the fact that that no customers would come in.
This was my experience. I called Barclays US about lowering the rate on a card because I was under-employed. I'm still employed full time but my card balances & interest rates are high (and I've not been late, been paying more than minimum.. aka i'm really trying)

their answer was "we are not offering any rate reductions at this time" followed by them slashing my credit limit 3 days later.

I'm disgusted at their behavior. It was something they didn't have to do but they did anyway because they simply could. When I can, that's the first card I'm going to cancel.
Love them always and still hosting with them. Will switch to paid one once I get some traffic. Excellent guys and hosting packages.
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A little copying is better than a little dependency.
Westerners somehow have this weird preconception that those masks are protecting the wearer. No, they are protecting bystanders by reducing the reproduction factor of the disease. With exponential growth even means with low effectiveness can have a huge impact.
Compiler beats novice assembly programmer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
no, quick napkin math: the US military budget is officially $700B, but more thorough accounting pegs is at $1T+. $800B is roughly $2400 for every american per year, but if only 10% need assistance in any given year, that's a safety net of $24K each. that's not nothing, and it still leaves $200B+ for the military (which is still more than every other country and roughly equivalent to that of the #2 country, china, which itself is 4x larger than #3).

and that excludes the knock-on effects of encouraging economic risk-taking resulting from a functioning safety net.
>The saying that "processors are optimizing for C" is totally correct.

I thought that the latest consensus on HN was that C is nowhere closer to the hardware.
i have been using debian since potato, and i have seen some damage :D
Of course - this issue isn't unique to create-react-app or React, most Javascript frameworks have a similar explosion of dependencies.

A quick check of angular-cli and vue-cli shows that an empty project uses 870 and 816 dependencies respectively.
> It's a DSL, not a general purpose programming language

Sorry, but I fear that ship has sailed ;-)

And I've heard JS was developed by someone who wanted to give us Scheme (you can't go more general purpose than that)
but had to resort to a more "friendly" java-syntax. IMHO javascript
would be a great general purpose language if the ecosystem wouldn't be
such a mess.
snapchat for sourdough starters exists?! what is it called?
This is definitely true, most cheaper discs degrade after a few years.

The issue you're forgetting to mention is the fact that physical DVD drives won't be around for more than a few more years, you then need to make sure you have one in working order on a system that can use it
It's like a lemon being squeezed harder and harder. As long as people have some money they can spend - no matter where the money is actually coming from - our economy will try to incentivize it and lure consumers into consuming.

That's why I find the idea of this system collapsing frankly quite amusing. Actually I hope for a complete break down of our economy. It's a perverted monster which deserves to go down.
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Some plugins that saved me lots of typing with zsh:

https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/master/plugins/histo... looks through your history and only shows entries that started with the same characters that you already typed. Similar to Ctrl-R with fzf, but still similar enough that I use both.

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions also looks through your history for commands with the same start, but it will automatically suggest them for you to use. If you often use the same commands, this saves quite some typing. For bonus points, I hooked it up so that Ctrl-Return will execute the suggestion.

https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/master/plugins/per-d... To make the first two even more powerful, I split my history based on the directory I'm in. This means that it's only suggesting me commands I entered before in this directory.
> How do you propose to enforce this?

Don't legally recognize gambling debts. If people lose a bet they can pay it if they want to, but the law wouldn't recognize or enforce the debt.

This appears to be basically what happened in this case anyway.
Carbon X1 (6th gen ), I can get 8-9 hours light stuff and solid 6 doing work. That is pretty much equivalent to the macbook 13.

I have a macbook 15 for work and am extremely disappointed in its battery life, so I think the Lenovo matches up well.
Yes - is there one for Windows by any chance?

Edit: This is the tool by George Hotz that I was referring to. I doubt it's really production ready given he likes to start and stop projects.
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Wearing masks and going places are two different thing. Wearing masks should be encouraged early and it could have saved many lives here in US. It's kind of surreal now to think about ppl in crowded cafeteria or pubs back in early Feb where the community spread started. It's a fact that wearing masks is slowing down the spread by as much as 80%. It's not exact immunity but it could have saved many ppl from getting the virus into their system
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I got a lot of problems with you people, and now you’re gonna hear about it.
That's an edge case on a particular drug caused by doctors assuming "white as default", which is it's own issue that often does affect Asians, black people, and other minorities too.

The problem I was talking about was more about how doctors are less likely to prescribe things like pain medicine or ADHD meds to black people because of presumed criminality and stereotypes. A good portion of doctors legitimately claim that they believe the myth that black people have higher pain tolerance than people of other races: https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/how-we-fail-black-patient...

Black people can also have a problem where doctors assume they are lying about symptoms or being non-compliant with their treatment plan, so if they complain of it not working or of side effects, doctors often don't listen and update the plan of care accordingly. Even in something as straightforward as sharing symptoms of heart disease, doctors were less likely to take their concerns seriously and recommend the necessary diagnostic follow up: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?journal=N+Engl+J+M...

In your example, it's a wash. But in my examples, being Asian is still an advantage over being black.
Personally, I have no problem with people wearing masks, scarves, bandanas, or whatever when they're in relatively crowded areas like stores. It seems uncontroversial to say that it doesn't hurt (and may help)--leaving aside some of the supply issues for actual medical masks. But, yes, people should assume that the benefit is probably marginal and not treat masks as a superpower.
Yes, that's largely my point. I'm not sure why it is surprising to see an ecosystem, twenty-five or so years younger than the one I compared it to, have the same problems as that one did twenty-five years or so ago.
Pretty clever trick using the padding to get the boot info there for compatibility.
A surprising amount of stimulus actually went to places that need it less. The median household in the Bay Area makes too much to qualify (NYC is in a somewhat better situation), and most of the small business loans went to more rural businesses.
People are talking about "moving goal posts" because the goalposts have been moved. In my area, 3 weeks has become 6 weeks, and now that it's close to 6 weeks people I see a lot of comments like yours about whether we really need to go out at all. It's become increasingly clear that some activists think everyone should stay at home forever, and are attempting to trick the rest of us into going along with it by endlessly redefining when it's safe to leave.

I'm fully in support of your individual right to isolate as long as you'd like, of course.
Nearly 1/3 of Americans believe a Covid-19 vaccine exists and is being withheld
I like Schiele's work becuase I find his grimy, corpse-like figures to be very aesthetically pleasing. I do not find it 'beautiful' in the sense that an old Venetian painting of a cherub is beautiful, I simply find the deliberate ugliness pleasing to the eye. I do not find his work shocking and I do not see why I should care about the level of technical skill that went into it.
The ruling seems to have a lot of ambiguity. At what point does a game of skill become a game of chance? What amount of money is considered “excessive?”

Is such ambiguity normal for court rulings? (Genuine question - I’m not super familiar with legal stuff)
What's the difference between a utility file and a package? That seems like a distinction without a difference to me.

If you use the same one liners in more than one project and you copy that utility file over, the line gets even fuzzier.
I have had a couple friends who are in their 30s get really sick from the virus. Knocked out for 4 weeks. I've seen reports that there is permanent damage to the lunges, but who knows. There are so many "facts" out there and all contradicting.

Still, the point I'm trying to make is even if you're lucky to get mild to no symptoms, you don't know if that will be you. What if you are one of the unlucky ones who gets severely wiped out?

For every restaurant with a waiter who gets dangerously sick, would that restaurant close down? Would people not eat there anyway, even if the owner kept it open?

Even if there's no lockdown, there is still going to be lots of wreckage from this. All this "shelter-in-place" is doing is exposing how bad our safety net is, and how unprepared our governments are in managing widespread panic.
Yes, beer would be acceptable in moderation by the Puritans and their Protestant descendants. Early Americans advocated temperance rather than complete abstinence. Much of this was a result of seeking a better/perfect society after the American Revolution. Evangelical Protestants spread religion and reform through the USA in what is known as the "Second Great Awakening" from 1790 to 1840. During this time, the temperance movement gained support. This led to a gain in popularity of complete abstinence from alcohol and the formation of various groups advocating for teetotalism. Through the late 1800's and early 1900's prohibitionist movements gained traction including the Anti-Saloon League which was driven by evangelical Protestantism. It was this organization that ultimately led to the Eighteenth Amendment of the United States constitution being ratified and prohibiting sale and manufacture of alcohol.

It has been a battle ever since. The area I live in only recently allowed the sale of liquor in restaurants and bars and still does not sell liquor by the bottle. There were many movements that had influence so perhaps it isn't fair to lay the blame solely on the Puritans, but they did have great influence in regards to alcohol in the USA and the parent isn't wrong, but has certainly omitted details.
> running code straight from wherever on the Internet it happens to live today.

This, exactly this. Young me thought this was a point of the whole thingy we call Internet.

And exactly that is what I like about QML from Qt. Just point to a file and that's it.
Vim... does not have a zero learning curve.

For me, the huge downside of emacs is the not-very-fast single-threaded virtual machine with dynamic scope and one huge global namespace. It does an incredible number of cool things, some of them you can't find anywhere else, but I always end up bailing for an editor where I can reliably type and have characters show up instantly.
Oh definitely East German history makes it much easier to consume such information. But if conservative-run governments of the U.S. commit inhumane activities on their own people to neuter left movements seeking a more equitable society it's not such a bad result right?
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/3004841001
The exit cretiera is pretty clear to me, which is no new infections for 14 days.
I am just saying if I can afford a hotel it's usually better quality in my experience than any Airbnb I've had... depends what you like though. I prefer hotels and I don't like the increases in rental costs that Airbnb is reported to have caused.
“Indeed, the most economically destructive responses like the lockdowns were put into place weeks before less economically destructive responses like widespread mask use. In fact, when the lockdowns started they were even telling people there was no use for most people to use masks. Responses across the board seem to be random and haphazard.“

I’m going to make this statement my fb profile picture.
Sure, a more sensible approach would be all shops need strong social distancing measures and the state subsidizes essential shops in implementing. Moreover, the state "freezes" the status of shops that can't open under these conditions and guarantees they'll be able to open in reasonable circumstances after this is done or once things reach a more stable circumstance.

But remember, the lockdowns didn't appear as a "good", a sensible approach, they simply became a last-ditch, necessary approach when the Federal entities and institutions in charge of dealing with stuff basically failed.

And that's the thing, the pandemic prevention team was fired to save money - think of it. But overall, anything devoted to emergency conditions has been fair game 'cause it wasn't paying it's way.

So when the desperate measures went into place, there weren't resources to do them sanely and sensibly. There wasn't time to think about it. The influence of the larger corporate entities intent on profits remained huge.

The economy has been constructed as a machine without an off-switch over the last twenty years. And this isn't a matter of production processes but a matter of finance. Machines can be stopped and restarted, it may cost some resources but very technically achievable. Things are most working even now.

The specific structures driving the situation are the integration of large capital structures and government. The ideal situation of a bond holder is government that have no way to suspend payments, no mechanism or will stop the machine because stopped machine will stop fixed payments.

And that's the thing, we're clinging desperately to this final, ill-conceived "STOP!" because there is a strong urge in various circles to get things going no matter the cost and it's clear the cost would be high.
>The businesses are not what's essential. The people are.

Yes, the people, who are sustained by their businesses. We can go back and forth on this, but it's not a mutually exclusive "only X is essential, not Y."
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The Omega2 is pretty nice, but they do need to improve the ecosystem.
Two things are both true.

1. Processors no longer look all that much like C's idea of what a processor is.

2. Processors are optimized to be able to execute C code very well. But an optimizing compiler can make it much better.

There's a fair amount of magic in compilers to make this work.
Did you add Microsoft's Pyright[0] extension as well?

It works hand-in-hand with the Python extension and makes VS Code a fantastic Python editor IMO. You may want to set pyright.disableLanguageServices in settings since there is some overlap in the Pyright and Python extensions that can result in duplicate results. (I'm not sure if you lose any Pyright features when you do this though...)

[0] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-pyrig...
I think your points are important, but it's likely we won't reach an agreement on this issue. Appreciate you raising the points though!
The US actually has a social anti-security system of a debt treadmill. People are economically discouraged from owning things outright, and instead are pushed into mortgaging them and paying monthly rents.

From first principles, why should the small furniture business be worried about collapse? Little work is getting done, so no employees need to get paid. They don't need to be purchasing more inventory. The remaining true expenses are insurance (catastrophes can still occur), heating, maintenance of the building structure, and the portion of the property tax that goes to infrastructure maintenance.

But under our current system, they've been incentivized to rent the business space from either a landlord or a bank for a hefty payment every month. When cash flows are predictable, this is merely extractive. But now that cash flows have slowed down, it's catastrophic.

The appropriate short-term policy answer is bail outs for small businesses (as well as individuals, as the employees out of work are in the same boat). But the government is outright corrupt, so big businesses received immediate bailouts while small businesses are left scraping for peanuts from a funding structure that was also designed to benefit banks.

The long term policy answer is to raise interest rates to discourage frivolous use of debt. This ranges from merely politically unpalatable (eg when Bush was trying to sell two wars), to downright painful (the payments on existing debt go up). Which then makes for a debt spiral.
So you would exchange security for stability, if you use package pinning then you will end up with fosilized packages in your product, which will have all maner of security issues that have alresdy been fixed.
Unless the packages you're adding are trivial I seriously doubt you're looking that close. Are you really going to code review 20000 lines of someone elses code every time you're adding something? 100,000? Also their dependencies? Those are very reasonable numbers by the way.
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No country that went on lockdown has an exit plan either. Italy is still on lockdown for example.
Do you mean Endpoint Ready (ERDY)? That is only available for non-isochronous endpoints.
Deno was always Typescript-first fwiw
If that was true, vaccines would be useless and lockdowns would be futile. There is no reason to believe this virus us somehow different from every other viruswe have ever seen and magically cannot be immunized against.
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Slight error, yes vim has a learning curve.
All of the packages you mentioned are maintained by the same guy.
> In an attempt to operate a machine the person has itself to act mechanical and to comply with the interface of the machine rather than the other way around.

I remember an article a while back where archaeologists examined the bones of pre-Columbian women in America. The bones showed the signs of long term debilitating, repetitive work from kneeling and grinding, by hand, corn into flour.

Just last night I watched an American Experience episode on the guy who revolutionized wheat farming. He spent his youth on a farm, harvesting corn by hand, estimating that he'd harvested 1 million ears per season by himself. He was amazed at how wonderful it was to get a machine that mechanized corn harvesting.

I'd much rather mow my lawn with a mower than a pair of scissors.

In the 1960s, my dad was writing a book. My mom would type up the drafts for him. Every new draft meant my mom would spend hours banging it out on the typewriter. Think how much easier that is today with our "dehumanizing" computers. Can you imagine today typing the whole thing over again because you made a misteak?

Machines have largely free'd us from dehumanizing labor, not caused it.