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> It's a bit unfortunate that pop os is branded as something basically for scrubs and new linux users

Is it though? https://pop.system76.com/

> Pop!_OS is an operating system for STEM and creative professionals who use their computer as a tool to discover and create.

Okay but who is STEM specifically? Further down it mentions "Deep Learning" "Engineering" (Mentioned apps are all for software dev) "Media Production" "Bioinformatics".

I don't know about you, but to me that gives the exact opposite impression of "something basically for scrubs and new linux users".
I'm using opensnitch[1] and it can block snap requests.
Pretty nifty software, but it brings my machine to its knees unless I ``` sudo service opensnitchd restart ``` once in a while.

[1] https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
That's actually untrue.

FYI -- use Debian almost exclusively, been doing so for 20+ years and love it. (Well mostly, the last 5-7 years have been rough though.)

What Debian provides, is security updates for 1 year after the next stable release. That's it.

'5 years' is via LTS is volunteer support, provided by corporate and private donations, via a corporation in France. Their goal is to extend Debian oldstable's lifespan. The entire process is absolutely not the same as updates when running Debian stable.

For example, due to its volunteer nature, companies get to decide where they 'put their money'. What packages are prioritized. Rare / unused packages may never be addressed, depending upon funding.

Use PHP? Apache? The Linux Kernel? Sure, you'll see updates! Use rare package $x, and that may not happen, even though Debian Security would handle it.

I can also tell you via experience, that QA is not quite as good as Debian proper.

Still, is it a good thing? Sure! Is it managed by the Debian security team, 100% embracing all of its methods, and so on? NO.

I felt it is important for you (and others) to know this.

It's not as stable as Debian, not managed by Debian, and should ONLY be used as a stop-gap. You want stable?

Stay on Debian managed security updates!
>> [Cost have not risen] nearly as much. If at all.

Your counterargument:

> Have you looked over their books?

> Landlords have to pay:

> 1. taxes 2. maintenance 3. insurance 4. mortgage costs (they're usually leveraged) 5. legal and lawyer fees for contracts and disputes 6. costs of unrented space 7. accounting costs 8. costs of just keeping track of all the changing laws 9. depreciation

I think your argument is "there are lots of costs", which is true and people don't appreciate that a landlord can have a hard time.

But it doesn't work as an argument about how much costs have risen or fallen.

Most of the costs you listed have either stayed the same or gone down in recent years, so it doesn't appear to support your side of that argument.

Mortgage costs in particular have gone down a lot in recent years. Mortgages are great if you can get them, because they are so cheap now.

6 has gone up but that one is cheating. It's like saying landlord's income is lower than the amount it "should" have gone up, which does not work as an argument that landlords actually have to pay out more. If 6 has gone up due to longer voids, those voids (until recently) are usually due to raising the rent, their own decision, so again do not constitute landlords paying out more.

9 is an interesting mixed bag, as depreciation is only relevant as a true outgoing cost if you're going to sell the property someday, in which case you should only be counting the interest component of the mortgage, which has gone down, as well as the change in property price, which has probably gone up by more than depreciation (until recently).
This particular issue is pretty partisan.
Honestly, I have never seen any serious debate on the issue, mostly because I don't know of anybody that from the late 70's up to 94 that even contested it was caused by the ever growing domestic debt.

But yes, now that you have cited it, there aren't many mainstream media articles in English that say it. I couldn't find any either.
The Oculus Quest is 400$, an amazing technology, and constantly out of stock. I'm pretty optimistic for VR.
> The infrastructure used to run our Salesforce instance probably costs somewhere on the order of $100 per month. Yet, they charge us tens of thousands of dollars per month… how?

Not really. Unless the subscription is in tens of hundreds, that benefit-of-volume is not possible. Even more so when the solution involves bleeding edge stuff (AI/ML/real-time analytics etc). Easy to say, very very very hard to even achieve decent margins on such infrastructural cost. It's always a tradeoff between { feature-richness, time-to-market } and cost-efficient SaaS. Only the players who got a solid customer base would ever get to enjoy that privilege.

> Though it’s far down in the acronym, the identified pain is really where you should start with the customer. You should be able to answer in great detail why their life is currently painful, and how they handle the problems you solve today.

There's a slippery slope. Any "solution" won't help, in the era of "disruptive solutions". During the initial stages of industrial revolution, cities were scared of all the horseshit they thought they'd have to deal with. A 'con'sultant would've typically come up with an efficient way to dispose off all that manure into the sea. Only a mad scientist working on an automobile somewhere ended up solving that poop of a problem really. And in hindsight, every mildly lucky person would consider themselves "disruptive" without actually having to be one though. Such is our world! :D

[edit] just noticed that all comments in this thread that are critical of the narrative are voted down. one is fine, all of them?
You might try the PowerToys. With FancyZones you can either use one of the presets or freely define your window snap zones:

> https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
Not sure whats the point of using snaps in a stable OS release, but they are fairly easy to remove: https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-...

ie: I thought they were more useful for installing a random app that is not supported by your OS... Is it easier to include a snap then it is to create a regular package? or are there any other advantages?
The CTO should start every program or problem by thinking "how does this generate more revenue for the business?" And that means thinking through a sales lens. I would want to work with a CTO that DOESNT think about sales.
It’s much more challenging to make software for the IRS, healthcare, and civilian agencies that operate within the United States with direct impact on the lives of US Citizens.
How much of this is market forces in general, and how much of it is market forces combined with Wells Fargo's balance sheet limits that it has because of past misdeeds.
Management != monitoring presence of butt in the seat.

You bring up very good points and that’s exactly what management is supposed to be about. Enable everyone to perform at their best as best as possible. It’s just that it’s hard and people resort to indirect markers. “Does she come to office on time?” “Does she spend enough time at work?“

Not many managers try to find out - “is she doing the best she can?” “What’s preventing her from that?” “How can I help her?”

How many managers have a real good relationship with their team that the team shares their real issues preventing them? How many team members feel judged or not heard?

All these have nothing to do with working from home or remote btw.
Why would the government need to order that?
Dude, Half Life just came out on VR. It's not a niche anymore.
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I think "vast majority of sales" is too cynical, though there's undoubtedly some merit to your sentiment in certain cases.

I manage a high-output team, and we _love_ Mode. Could we write our own connectors to our BI warehouse to extract tables into pandas and jerry-rig streamlit to make our own Mode? Eh, maybe. We actually did dumber versions of this in the past. But we can stay lean by not having to worry about all the stuff Mode worries about for us, like credentials, auto-updating, pushing to slack, setting up a python environment? Absolutely, as long as it makes financial sense.

Again, maybe we're just disagreeing about software being shitty 99% of the time vs just 80% of the time. But I think my point would be that it doesn't have to be a sophisticated tool to be a pain point.
I don't use Ubuntu on servers but I imagine snaps would cause monitors like Munin and Logwatch to freak out.
A week or two ago there was a discussion here about how genius this supposedly is, or how you shouldn't waste time to fix what isn't broken, etc.

I will take this moment to repeat that it would take less than a second to make those links blue instead of purple and the design would already be infinitely more usable.

Sometimes bad ux is bad.
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We don't have a moderation yet.
Oh what, you expected to find a well-argued piece at thefinancialoligarchs.com?

This is super-trashy even by lowered standards for some of the financial content that pops up here. Hard flag.
to me pixel art revival ticks a few boxes:

- it's toyish, games got an adult tag since ps2/ps3 but to me games are games.

- it's abstract, the run for photorealism can jump over the shark too. I like to play with representations and not absolute recreation of a thing. When playing honestly, I don't even have the time to enjoy the specular reflections or whatever BDR shader you cooked. It's mostly impressive on still images.

- it makes people seek other ways to surprise you instead of relying on the usual ultra capable 3d engines that often do the same thing but different skins.
Logo was a hard pill to swallow in the 1980's. It had some neat features 'on paper' but it was hard to appreciate them because it was agonizingly slow on the computers of the day.

It was the first programming experience I ever had where I'd type in my function, and then had to wait a while for the computer to do something to it (it never used the word "compiler"), and then it could run. I remember thinking: this makes programming not-fun. I could write it in assembler faster than I'm waiting for the "...." to dance across the screen.
One could say "A world where US was run by decent government would be a great improvement" as well, but the collapse that you now seem to be in front of, does not give me any joy, even though I enjoy the thought of a future US that doesn't wage wars.
No. The bank should maximize shareholder value and not do that, which is what is happening. But we should let anyone write a check and invest in a startup, or buy certain products considered unsavory by the masses.
There are some downsides (footprint, forced updates, speed, etc.), though depending on what you're installing those may not be deal-breakers. I'm using plain Ubuntu 20.04 and I tend to install stuff via apt and not snap in general (but I am fine with installing non-essential things via snap). The software store has a subtle toggle in the upper right for choosing to install a package as a snap or via apt when both are available.
I tried it years ago, and I thought it was a cute tech demo with zero replay value.
I think VR is for everyone, like any medium, it's just that you haven't found a game/app that makes you come back.

For me it's the multiplayer games that I like, more of my friends are getting VR headsets right now and I suspect that as more of them get into it the more we'll end up playing VR together.
A fan of "The Portal" but didn't know about "Dark Horse". I listened to a couple Q&A episodes, and they, two professional biologists, concluded that covid-19 is most likely a gain-of-function, chimera virus created in a lab.

This viewpoint seems to be largely censored, but I think it deserves to be front and center of our covid discourse right now. Sad that marginal youtube channels are doing the work that our main institutions of journalism should.
Was there something in particular you wanted to share?
any ‘bad UX’ is a 'good UX' if people actually can use it.
That doesn't convince me, I use to run windows with bootcamp on a macbook pro and play there. It worked.
And is that so bad?
So often i did stuff like that, then finding I actually need the result of x.calculate_weight() inside the condition, or to debug it or log it in some way. Then it has to be extracted anyway.
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It's not that they do not understand what is good for them, they are simply rejecting your new features.
I work for one of the largest developers in the world - the career prospects and attractiveness of work are both not an issue. I'm surrounded by people who have worked here 15, 20, even 25 years, we pretty much never let people go unless they want to leave and try something else, and generally the company tries to bend over to accomodate any wishes towards your dream career path(I personally know several people who changed their speciality within company just because they wanted to, and the company did everything it could to accomodate such changes) - you can also move to any of our 40+ studios across the world if you so desire(there is a process, but no one is going to stop you from transferring if you want to do it). Pretty much everyone here has worked on at least one title that sold 10+ million copies - it's a pretty good place to work all things considered.

No, the main and only problem is pay, and it all stems from the fact that there are hundreds of applicants willing to apply for junior positions, some of which I am certain would literally chop their own leg off for the opportunity to work in video games - if it was legal they would literally agree to work for free. So they all start on some extremely low salary(especially considering that actually, our standard for hiring programmers seems extremely high and I have no doubts that those people could find much better paid jobs elsewhere), but obviously that leads to problems further down the line.

But, just because we have thousands of applicants for junior positions, that doesn't mean we have as many for say Senior roles - those see barely anyone applying, and yes, I'm 100% convinced it's purely because of pay. And the pay is what it is, because HR considers it unacceptable to pay new hires more than what we pay people who have advanced through the ranks naturally(which obviously cannot be a lot, seeing as your starting salary as a junior was so low, even if you somehow through some miracle managed 10% increase every year that's still not a lot by the time you get promoted to senior).
I don't blame you, the author miss uses the term short sellers in the beginning then uses it correctly later on. Which is confusing, initially they use the term to mean "any investor selling their shares of stock" which is annoying.

Then later they use it correctly WRT a firm needing to buy the shares they sold back to give them back to the original lender, which I assume in this case is Charles Schwab.

All in all, this article seems like a rough draft and needs to be proof read. I was REALLY critical and had to really focus to squeeze meaning out.
That depends on what you are doing. Which test did you run?

Around 10 years ago I rewrote markdown.pl in awk and it was almost 20 times faster. The speedup came from both a much faster startup time and a much faster (albeit simpler) regexp implementation.
Food prices in general are pretty high here in Canada, a big mac combo down the street costs $9.69.

Also, as someone who lives ~4 blocks from the restaurant in question (Wolf Down in Ottawa) I can confirm that the Doner is completely unparalleled. You can tell that they use top quality ingredients and all of the portions are super generous.

tl;dr, while $11 may be expensive for a different doner in a different city, its pretty reasonable for Wolf Down in Ottawa.
Basically all RP systems do have player-choosen character details and progression with gameplay consequences, be it a points system, a skill tree, just attributes that cause the game world to react... RP games that aren't strictly multi-player also typically have some sort of story line and pre-designed role for the player, because the world should reflect the role being played in some way, and unless there is a human GM it can't do that for anything random the player came up with.

You can forego all that and role play in Minecraft, but that's primarily because it is a sandbox which you can use for whatever. And most RPG mods/maps/servers do add some of the mechanisms above.
What's wrong with saying that is that the research itself is probably less dangerous than the alternative, which would be to stop trying to understand the nature of the evolution of these diseases. The point of the research is to be better informed about such infectious diseases so we can formulate an effective response, or maybe even come up with a permanent solution to neutralize the threat. The perceived short term dangers do not outweigh the long term benefits. I feel like a compelling parallel to nuclear power could be drawn here.
I recommend this article to people all the time and often come back to it myself. I don't use awk as much these days but when I worked in bioinformatics I was fluent and loved it.
j_z_reeves 9 hours ago [-]

> cat logfile | awk '/ERROR:/ {counts[$1] = counts[$1] + 1}; END { for (day in counts) print day " : " counts[day]}' | sort

Great first program! a bit less verbose could be

> awk '/ERROR:/ {counts[$1]++}END{...}' logfile

there are also ways of sorting the output but within (g)awk (asort & asorti) but sorting externally as you have is more flexible and engages another core which can be faster on large input
You’ve got it backwards. One must make a strong argument for spending hundreds on something with uncertain value, not make an argument against spending the money. Basic prudence says that items of uncertain value should be weighted less strongly, and receive fewer resources.
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What are the advantages of this instead of using a CI/CD pipeline?
My usual approach: find any recent academic book on the topic, read the introduction/preface and maybe first chapter, and it’ll name-drop all the most important books and papers on the subject.

Usually the Web, including Wikipedia, and outside of perhaps Library Genesis, is shockingly shallow and out-of-date. It’s usually not even capable of providing a basic list of major works like this, let alone the contents, unless you stumble on some academic’s page that happens to provide it, which is increasingly hard to do through search.
> The example in the article has many, many things wrong with it.

Agreed. The author of the article seems to lack some basic business skills. I realize that if you're making an artisan sandwich at home you might want to use the best possible ingredients (the artisan sourdough she talks about, etc), but you can't expect to build a viable restaurant business where you are spending so much on raw materials.

If I was making myself the ultimate burger I might use wagyu beef that cost over $10 a pound and some artisan cheese, pasture-raised bacon, etc, but I wouldn't try to create a fast casual restaurant and expect to make a profit using those ingredients.
> by being the largest Home Mortgage provider in the US (by dollar value), with $126B in home loans

May I mention how absolutely insane is the richest person has more wealth than that?
While this seems drastic, consider JP Morgan did this in April [1]. I couldnt find statistics on the number of loans oustanding or the number that have drawn lines of credit. Let me know if you can.

[1] https://www.americanbanker.com/news/jpmorgan-halts-home-equi...
IIRC the three options at this place are Beef, Chicken and Tofu, so calling it meat would just be incorrect.
they didn't say it was ubuntu server, it might just as well be ubuntu desktop, and used as a home server (i.e. a box used mostly for server software, but no necessarily without desktop environment).
Minus the stock market idea, this is good advice. If your parents took the second mortgage out in 2013 (7 years ago) and then rode one of the largest housing booms we have ever seen, and are STILL underwater, then there's something really wrong. Either the house is not sellable, or something.

If instead, OC means that they can't keep up with the payments on the home, then that would mean the solution is simply to downsize to something that they can afford. Sell the house, pay off the mortgages, and move into a rental that is within their means.

The only reason that I say that the stock market is a bad idea is that if their parents can't manage the personal finances of a simple mortgage, then making intelligent decisions in the stock market is probably not a good option for them. I am not calling them stupid, but I am just saying that investing in the stock market intelligently is multiple magnitudes more complicated than managing your mortgage. Countless studies have shown that when laymen invest in the stock market, they usually underperform the index funds.

Yes, the stock market is down right now, which is the time to buy. But just throwing money at it, simply because it is down is far from a good decision either. Some stocks right now will likely not recover for a decade or longer and many will file bankruptcy. Some will profit wildly. The stock market is going to be very volatile, which means POTENTIAL for huge gains. But unless you are making these decision with absolute care and awareness to hide possible losses, you are essentially treating it like a lottery.
Please do the proof-read, it contains typos and code errors which fails flutter app.
There's flat out wrong stuff in this post. First off snap packages don't waste a lot of disk space because they avoid duplication of shared dependencies by using file hashes. Snap packages that need the same dependencies won't duplicate them.

Secondly, snap works on pretty much all major distributions just like flatpak (for a list go here https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

One big advantage that snap has over flatpak is the "--classic" option to allow non-sandboxed applications given that some applications are hard to ship completely sandboxed without getting into some serious usability issues.
FedEx Express and FedEx Ground are entirely two different companies
I find easier to do awk /GET/{blah-blah}