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I was very impressed with Linux Lite. The name is terrible, but the distro has worked great. It uses the Ubuntu 18.04 standard apt repos. Since I replaced the kernel, my presumption is most of the benefit is just selecting a smaller subset of default packages to install.

https://www.linuxliteos.com/

Installation on a machine with 2Gb RAM resulted in a system that works just fine, for running scripts, compiling medium-sized projects, running web browsers, media playback, etc -- all on a credit-card sized machine.

The desktop is based on XFCE. The post-installation steps I took are listed below.

# emable swap to compressed RAM
sudo apt-get install zram-config

# log to RAM for speed, less wear on eMMC
echo "deb http://packages.azlux.fr/debian/ buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azlux.list
wget -qO - https://azlux.fr/repo.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
apt update
apt install log2ram

# remove icon generator that hogs machine
sudo apt remove --purge tumbler

# remove powerline garbage
sudo apt remove --purge powerline

# Liquorix kernel, see https://liquorix.net/
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:damentz/liquorix && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-image-liquorix-amd64 linux-headers-liquorix-amd64
## NEEDS linux-firmware from focal distro
## see https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/all/linux-firmware/download
## for latest link
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_1.187_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-firmware_1.187_all.deb
rm linux-firmware_1.187_all.deb

sudo apt install powertop iotop

# fix font rendering
cat <<'EOF' > ~/.fonts.conf
<!-- disable embedded bitmaps in fonts to fix Calibri, Cambria, etc. -->
<match target="font">
<edit mode="assign" name="embeddedbitmap"><bool>false</bool></edit>
</match>
EOF

# remove spectre mitigations, make computer fast again
sudo perl -pi.bk -e 's|splash"|splash mitigations=off"|' /etc/default/grub
sudo update-grub

# disable and completely remove AppArmor and snapd
# https://www.simplified.guide/ubuntu/remove-apparmor
sudo systemctl stop apparmor
sudo systemctl disable apparmor
sudo apt remove --purge apparmor snapd

# suppress this language related updates from apt-get
echo 'Acquire::Languages "none";' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00aptitude

# remove irqbalance
# see https://github.com/konkor/cpufreq/issues/48
sudo apt remove --purge irqbalance
How that would affect all the packages? My entire workflow depends of ruby, npm packages oriented to intel CPUs
So you think that stroke victims and retirees with dementia are just months from the grave? FWIW: I've personally been living with diagnosed atrial fibrilation for almost three decades. Diabetes is, literally, a lifelong illness for its sufferers.

In fact, please cite me any of those factors which will reasonable by expected to kill you in months. Even heart failure and cancer patients tend to live years to decades with treatment.
If the arm based Macs are anything like the iPad Pro they will be the opposite of sluggish. Apple will likely keep Intel based machines around for software compatibility reasons, but that has nothing to do with performance.
Stripe Issuing: Instantly create virtual and physical cards
That's not too high, considering CPU start to throttle at approx 95C, and MOFSETs can go up to 115C
That is a different issue. What The Next Web reported is when you scroll down a bit and Instagram shows the login/register form. Now, no matter what photo or video, even if it's the first one, it asks you to login.
> It taught me a valuable lesson not to build my entire business on someone else's platform.

This sounds eerily similar to what happened to a close friend of mine, and that's 100% the right takeaway from the situation.

> My wife runs a small business on Etsy and it's just as bad. They make random code changes, which bumps listings up or down and you suddenly have no orders for weeks at a time.

Same as above, different friend, but again Etsy.

> What's even scarier is if a handful of companies run everything we use online. Will I suddenly not be able to get a home loan for a decade because of an account closure?

And that's why I'm in favor of strong individual privacy laws, and corresponding enforcement of said laws. Because 'I've got nothing to hide' only works so long as your values/goals are in line with everyone else in the system you're operating in.

The second that changes, good luck and godspeed.

Thanks for the great read, and... I dunno just validating your view of things.
This has been my experience as well. I do a lot of work on a computer running 18.04 with an i5-5300U (2 core, 4 thread), and the change between having an SSD instead of an HDD was probably the single largest performance improvement I've had because of a component change.
My bad, I looked only at author dates. (But then I missed some commits anyway?!)

I guess you had this commit in mind:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=cd36ab...
this is not easy, as death rates are going down because people are not out and about.
Why wouldn't 7. be: a competitor easily enters the market because they can just make the good and charge a markup that's somewhere between what amazon is charging and 0 and still make a profit and get all the business?

If what you said about amazon having less overhead prevents the above hypothetical from happening, then what's the problem? It's apparently more efficient for Amazon to supply this good and that's what an omnipotent benevolent economic dictator would choose anyways.
The high-dpi support really is a big deal. No other OS (Windows or Linux) comes close to handling it as seamlessly. I run Gnome in Ubuntu and have got it to a "serviceable" state by being able to set pixel density on a per-app basis by editing launcher files (depending on which display it's running on), but that's not something an average user would be able to figure out (or should have to).

Apple has done a great job with their window manager and support for varying DPI between displays. It's just a shame their OS is otherwise such a walled garden, and their hardware is a bad joke ($6k for an 8 core desktop with a years old GPU and no storage, come on.) It really boiled down to a "pick your poison" scenario for me and I sided with the OS (and hardware) that lets me tinker to my heart's content.
>So we need to start offering 300k/yr for middle level public servants just like programmers in California.

I agree with this, but you have to accompany that with making it just as easy to fire a public servant as it is to fire a programmer.
This isn't how the open web is supposed to work. (nor is IG's suppression of hyperlinks to a single link within the bio.)

Instagram is owned by Facebook. No one associated with those organisations is interested in an open web, whether they're shareholders, employees, or users.
> But it can be held down to a manageable level.

So I think the word manageable is doing a lot of work here.
Specifically, manageable to the hospitals, which is what I believe most people mean when they say this, does not do anything to manage consumer confidence. Which my entire question is about. How do I, as an individual consumer, feel confident enough in the systems set up to go back to some semblance of normal?
Learning that my chance of getting infected from going to the grocery store has dropped from 20%? to... 5%? 1%? Whatever the risk is, it needs to be multiplied by the average number of places a normal consumer went to over a week before this outbreak. Which means that I'm still gonna get it eventually, just I might not block somebody else from getting a hospital bed. Which is obviously better than nothing! But I really think people are missing the human aspect of precisely what this entails.

Consider user stories. As a single mother do you still feel confident going out to get groceries knowing there's an n% chance of getting it and bringing it home to your kids? If you die there's no one else to look after them.
First successful study to detect marine plastic pollution using satellites
Why do you feel its unethical?
The name field situation has never bothered me as a typical American with the standard name format, but as I've grown and met people from different cultures I've learned just how frustrating that part of forms can be. Even (or rather, especially?) government forms are terrible about this.
Disclaimer: no affiliation with IG

This sounds like a _very_ unusual experience. Clearly millions (billions?) of people create Instagram accounts with no issues. Why not just create a different account?

> If this is how they treat their prospective customers...

You certainly aren't a customer, which might explain the lack of priority. :)
You are not a customer. You are a money maker. You are a product.
I don't know what to make of that. I would expect people at work to have higher infection rate (not the least because many of these jobs involve contact with the population). It also filters out older and sick people. So intuitively I would expect to undershoot the actual rate.
Postgres has something similar called pgREST too. I think I would only adopt these kinds of interfaces if the consumer insists on accessing the data through a REST interface.

If you are building something from scratch, or your consumers don't have a hard requirement for going through REST, I would go directly to the database view.
While this is great information, a few facts will still confound attempts to speculate based on this number:

- The production of IgG antibodies is mostly delayed until after an infection is cleared.

- This is a random sample of people who were outside, it's not representative of the total population.

- Non-trivial numbers of people may never develop detectable antibodies for SARS-CoV-2:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.20061440v...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047365v...
> meandering

I know. Isn't that wonderful?
A long time ago (roughly 2012?) I owned a Macbook Pro for a brief time

I was running Windows 7 in Bootcamp and I wanted to set up Gentoo Linux in a virtual machine for some Linux work I needed to do

I left the machine on my desk to compile a kernel. Basic wooden desk, nothing underneath or around it. No problems there

Roughly 5 minutes later, the system had reached what Speccy reported to be a scorching 117 degrees celsius! (242.6F)

I immediately shut it down and left it to cool off, then asked around on an IRC full of various flavours of IT people (programmers etc)

The horrifying answers I got were that this was INTENTIONAL and that "the system acts as a giant heat sink" which is why it didn't power off after crossing a threshold

As far as I understand it, running it under Bootcamp also disabled any kind of thermal throttling and forced the more power hungry "Radeon" graphics chip to be used, further adding to the problem
That would be awful! \s
Uhm have you looked at some government salaries? It’s all posted online.

In San Francisco there are plenty of government workers making well over $300K/year for a safe secure job that you can coast in. That is part of the problem.
I feel like hardware problems on Macs are overblown, especially compared to the alternatives.

I also don’t understand the idea that MacOS has been regressing, it seems like a weird hivemind take around here lately.
What you're saying makes sense, but I think you're underestimating two huge factors:

1. Brand loyalty of Apple users (especially developers)

2. Willingness to "make it work"

It would take an outright explicit declaration of pure hostility from APple to damage that loyalty, and even then I don't know if it would (and of course Apple won't do that). There are also a lot of very clever people that will hack on the system until they get it working, and as long as something works, even with horrendous under-the-hood complexity and terrible performance, that will be enough to keep those people on the platform.

There will be some people (like me) who don't put up with that, but all of those people that I know left for Linux (or WSL on Windows) a long time ago.
Take the risk of bricking my one and only dev machine by disabling the kernel_task process altogether, no thanks

It has PID 0 and is part of the kernel. AFAIK you can't disable it (unless you build your own kernel).
But are they?

Apple isn't under legal obligation to expose equivalent functionality to userspace. Time will tell if they're moving kexts or blocknig them. My money's on blocking them.
I'm being mean I guess - I had a PC at home and it could do so so so much more.
My dad runs Ubuntu at home. He's completely computer-illiterate. When I need to help him install something over the phone, it's really nice to be able to have him download a .deb, double-click on it, and it just works. I've done this numerous times over the phone with him... it would take me an hour just to get him to type apt install properly.
> Huge demand in the West and Northeast Asia allowed a raft of previously insignificant or morally reprehensible leaders and societal situations to effectively print dollars out of the ground and count the industrialized world as a hungry customer. Not anymore.

Well, one morally reprehensible leader in the middle east is still coming out of this okay.
The authority of the state to impose broad quarantines has a history in our jurisprudence going all the way back to John Marshall. See, for instance, Gibbons v Ogden.
Thinner fits the general use case better probably, e.g. there's way more students who care about a laptop that can fit between textbooks than IT professionals who must have an Ethernet port on hand at all times.

Also, sweet money from selling all sorts of adapters (I think by now I spent at least 1/3rd of what I paid my 2017 MBP on dongles, docks.. this one correctly turns on the display on resume, this one doesn't but passes 4k without hiccups, etc)
"have had" and "works reliably" are very different things.

Every Windows and Linux machine I've used has had issues with individual apps, and most of the time I've plugged them into things that cross multiple scaling factors simultaneously, they've have had rather significant issues (when it isn't just "issues with everything except device-native"). I haven't had an issue with that at all in a few years now on my Mac, and I plug it into literally 10x more screens and configurations.
What about those funny shaped cars? [video]
There is currently a big push to scapegoat the WHO as the cause of the pandemic.
And in userspace, you can only do what the APIs allow. Unless there is an API for directly manipulating the CPU Turbo Boost system, you're S.O.L. when kextload is dead
Whether he's simplifying or restating seems orthogonal to my point, which is that people who are worried that things are going to change and if they'd like to "just go to a private hospital instead," well - if Bernie is to be believed - in his vision of America, those may not be allowed to exist.
Human dimensions are closer to a normal distribution. (Not quite normal, but let's pretend.) In that distribution then 46% of subjects should be in the middle 30% of 3 dimensions. [0]

[0] With 4000 subjects they presumably have all sizes within ~3.5 stddevs represented. The middle ~1.2 stddevs should hold ~77% of the population. 0.77^3 = ~46%
stow is pretty great http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to...
Streaming Wars: HBO Max will launch on May 27th
Ubuntu's default install is massive. Lubuntu has a significantly smaller default install, both storage-wise and performance-wise.

It also has zram configured by default, if I remember right.

I've never used it, but unlike most spins of distributions, it seems to have some interesting changes to the base.
Apple is willing to trade die space (i.e. manufacturing cost) for performance in a way that their competitors are not.

Anandtech architecture reviews are helpful, as always. Worth reading for a page or two from the linked page:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...

The short of it is: massively wide execution units, massive amounts of SRAM, massive amounts of cache at all levels. There's no real "secret sauce", they're just willing to pay to make an incredibly fat core and Qualcomm and company are not.

They have 16 MB of system cache on A13 for 2 high-performance and 4 low-performance cores, which is as much as a 9900K gets for 8 cores and as much as Zen2 gets for 4 cores. Plus another 8MB per big core on top of that (so up to 24MB per core in single-threaded mode), and 4 MB per small core.

It helps that they're a vertically-integrated company, they don't have to sell their processors on the open market at competitive prices such that an OEM can also make a profit selling a finished product at competitive prices, they just sell the finished product.
I can't wait for there to be affordable MMU-equipped RISC-V dev boards.
If I follow, your first and third points would indicate the number may actually be higher?

Additionally, does your third point also indicate that they will never be immune, or just that we won't be able to test for it?
I still have the problem that my 16" MacBook runs really hot with a external display plugged in. There is a pretty good thread on the issue on the mac rumors forum [1]. It seems to particularly be a problem at 2560 x 1440 @ 60hz.

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16-is-hot-noisy-with-an...
I should have added that it's definitely very different from how it was four years ago.
There is absolutely no veil between the hypervisor and the guest virtual machines. Not in the EBS either.

If they say they won't read your data, better trust them. If you don't, stay away from their datacenters.

EDIT: fix typo.
If you want something incredible, try terminology. It has a few nice commands baked in starting with 'ty' - like tyls and tycat. I'm not going to spoil them for you by telling what they do. Just try it, you are going to love it.
Genomic sequencing shows Covid-19 spread patterns
Title rewrite:

Instagram Influencers Now Have Even Less Influence Over RDiddly
I check San Francisco City worker salaries on occasion (all public) and there are plenty of people making $300K+ a year for a secure job with a pension and not super stressful.
I stopped using Quora when I kept getting interrupted to sign in/up when not logged in. I did the same for Pinterest. I had deleted and wiped my LinkedIn account for a long time but recently re-activated it for a job search. I'll delete it again when I land a job.

Reddit is getting there but not so annoying that I will stop using it. I get the most value out of Reddit but there are so many ways to get information and/or waste time that something else, digital or otherwise, will replace it.

I imagine people like me are a vanishingly small portion of users or potential users or the increased data/tracking from forcing accounts and logins is worth the lost users but it makes me sad.

But then I see counter examples like Youtube. You can browse all day long without logging in, click through to a video without getting prompted to login etc. Is it just different philosophies (hard to imagine given how much Google is reliant on data and ads) or is it different business practices?
The Governor's press conference was covered by the major media. The slides are there, also.
I used to think apple was obsessed with thinness, but I think that's actually the byproduct of what they're actually obsessed with: weight. While they might seem like the same thing, and they are obviously related... I don't care so much about the change in thickness from an aesthetic standpoint, but I do appreciate that the latest generation of macbook pros are noticeably lighter in my hand and on my back. So, I can see one practical reason for doing it.
I feel like I've been pushing my use case plenty already, so please take this as an answer to your question rather than one more push ;-)

I'd like to be able to create plugin-style cdylibs that get loaded into a host program. For instance, PostgreSQL extensions are shared libraries (typically written in C) that need to be loaded into a running instance of postgres for integration testing. I am trying to make it reasonable to write such extensions in rust (https://github.com/jeff-davis/postgres-extension.rs).

The environment variable to find the shared library would solve one problem, but there are still a couple more right behind it:

* Running "cargo test" tries to build a binary that links to the library to run the unit tests, but this will fail because there are unresolved symbols in the .so file (symbols that call APIs in the host program, in this case PostgreSQL functions like palloc()). In other words, the test binary is useless because it can't load the plugin.

* Linux seems fine creating a .so with unresolved symbols, but Mac and Windows need special linker flags. I can document that the linker flags are needed by consumers of my crate, but it would be nice if there was a better/supported way to create plugin-style shared libraries. I tried filing a bug with PR (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/66204) it was determined that it needed to go through the RFC process.

The simplest way to see the problem is to look at this crate: https://github.com/jeff-davis/unresolved

My problems don't end there, unfortunately. For my crate to really work, I also need to solve the problem of setjmp/longjmp at the edges between C and Rust (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2625).
> But he said he still feels like a chump for not observing the golden rule: If someone calls saying they’re from your bank, just hang up and call them back — ideally using a phone number that came from the bank’s Web site or from the back of your payment card. As it happened, Mitch only followed half of that advice.

Banks could normalize this behavior by having their customer service reps ask customers to do this at the beginning of every call.

"Hi, this is <csr> calling from <bank>. We'd like to talk to you about <subject>. To ensure to you that this is not a fraudulent call, please look up the phone number for this bank and call us back. Thank you."
Lots of people run video cards up to 95C. Maybe not something I want sitting on my lap though.
I would like to use Instagram because all my friends are on it, but I have a low bullshit tolerance and stuff like this reminds me why I shouldn't sign up.
I read it as people shopping, not people that work there. So folks who are out-and-about, but are not in the more likely to have it groups (healthcare workers or people working at the grocery store). You're right about older and sick people.
I think Facebook was asking you take a picture of your state issued ID at one point to prove you are you, if you had run into account issues. I’m not sure if they do that anymore.