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I much prefer AppImage, just recently I created one that packaged an old windows game and included the required dependencies (wine, libopenal, etc). Starting the AppImage is as simple as "./game.AppImage" and in theory would work on any Linux distribution. I think it has good potential for preservation of old applications and video games.

AppImage is awesome.
It is not straightforward to switch distros and maintain your setup. You have to set aside at least a day for it.
Thank you for explaining! Makes a lot of sense
It's a tough one to categorize. (I say that as a dev on the project)

It's similar to IPFS in terms of the goal of distributed file storage. But it incentivizes users to store in non-blockchain way, sidestepping a lot of the size and throughput issues there.

Connections are indeed anonymized. But as you can work with and update data in a distributed fashion, there's a lot of scope for applications. (We've previously built a simple twitter clone, using RDF data on an older testnet: https://github.com/maidsafe/safe-patter-js)

Things are still very much in development. Still Alpha stage. But There are things available for users to try!

The Safe Primer (maintained by community members) may be a good place to start:

https://primer.safenetwork.org/

The dev hub is sadly out of date with current things. The forum is very friendly and open to new folk and answering any questions: https://safenetforum.org

The main network website has more generalised info: https://safenetwork.tech/

Hope that's helpful!
Fair enough. However the reason I mentioned house size is because housing on average "effectively" became more expensive in real dollar terms because the median home got bigger. So while it's the same price per square foot, it doesn't matter if you can only buy square feet in bulk.
There is a wide range of intentionally "bad" design in vogue, where "bad" may be one or more of:

- Opaque, confusing, vague or misleading

- Garish, over the top or ugly

- Ironically reminiscent of older design trends that were embraced in earnest at the time

In video games, "retro"/pixel art styles are wildly popular, sometimes because story and gameplay are more important to the creators, sometimes because it was seen as a nearly lost art.

In web design, there have been several recent waves of "retro" trends embracing the styles once found on Geocities/Angelfire or even the original Myspace. There have also been several variants of "brutalist" design with oversized and unusually placed design elements, clashing or exceedingly drab colors. Such brutalist design has been embraced even by mainstream sites like Bloomberg, and in a lot of ways the novelty has worn off and it's just part of a resurgence of design diversity across the web after a long period of uniformity.

In other GUI software, intensely oversaturated colors (like those found in iOS since its "flat" redesign) were mocked mercilessly when introduced but seem to have almost become commonplace.

Like anti-humor, anti-aesthetic is sort of an oxymoron (as TFA points out). It turns out a lot of things that seem like they would be unappealing are actually quite appealing to at least a subset of the population. I am quite fond of a lot of "brutalist" design and find intensely oversaturated colors (in balance) pleasing to look at.
> Package managers (including snapd) basically just "think" in semver. Semver is one-dimensional: releases are arranged on a big line, and they'll know to auto-update based on e.g. whether a given release is close to your current release on the line.

This is NOT how semver works, though... each section has, well, semantic meaning. Some updaters might linearize, sure, and many developers run fast and loose with versioning, but semver is a graph of varying major, minor, and patch version numbers which change with their own semantics which can describe more than just newness

Bump major -> y'all best be careful

Bump minor -> something you care about maybe changed, read the changelog

Bump patch -> we'll probably just fix some bugs

patch releases could and should be backportable to other minor releases under the same major release if people care about stability of a module. I think that the "work from master" mentality that npm and GitHub UX has lead people to is one of a handful of reasons that prople misunderstand versioning strings...

I agree that flagging criticality is useful, though. Linux packagers like YUM/DNF have had this for a while, even the ability to feed a CVE identifier or bug id in to the package manager to resolve them
How often do you actually do "dup, swap, roll" in a Forth program, though? The typical Forth program doesn't look like the samples you see on its Wikipedia page, just like the typical C program doesn't look like the samples you see on its Wikipedia page.

I could go the other way and say that dereferencing arbitrary pointers, maintaining a \0 at the end of every string, and declaring which variables should live in registers aren't part of my business logic, either. C sure sounds terrible! Just because a language allows low-level implementation details doesn't mean it requires them in every function.

I don't understand the logic of having a language which allows you to build your own abstractions, and deciding that it's a better use of one's time to drop it altogether and instead use a language whose only user abstractions are structs and functions.
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I don't see this as a direct bet against home values, but rather a bet against employment and on turmoil.

WF may be seeing tons of applications for home equity lines in order to backstop failing households. If they're not sure that they'll get paid back, then WF won't want to make the loan.

I once was involved with corporate loan negotiations where the lender could have easily taken the borrower up on a proffered deal, but the fate of the borrower's company would have been sealed on the day the loan was signed. The terms were such that the borrower's odds of being able to repay the loan were <10% and the collateral requirements were at least twice the loan amount. The lender would have roughly doubled their money at the expense of a headache, but chose to walk away instead. The borrower would have taken the deal at almost any price. In the lender's words, "We're in the loan business, we want to make loans where people can pay interest."

My thank-you letter to the lender for walking away was one of the first they'd ever received.
Having experience in other domains would be great. But it is by no means the only way to build successful companies.

You only need to have passion for a particular domain to then engage with people who share your passion and also have more experience in that field.
This reminds me of the recommendation by, wouldn't you know it, the same people, that masks should only be worn by the visibly sick, and medical personnel.

This disease has killed hundreds of thousands of people, and is on track to kill millions, quite aside from the terrible economic havoc which is just beginning.

ramp up production of the fucking vaccine. We can afford to be wrong about this.
iOS Typesafe and automatic font,color,image,localization(+Interpolation) manager
This library will manage different Color/Font schemes and Device font managements and Localization (including String-Interpolation) to be managed automatically (with device or custom controls) and in a type-safe way. SwiftUI uses the same technique, but if you're limited to support iOS versions prior to 13.0, I'm pretty sure this library can boost your application.
Indeed. It’s like rubber gloves during this pandemic. People think once they’re on they’re protected - you only gain increased protection if you know what you’re doing.
Those are necessary.

Engineer: "Can't you see we are all very smart and working harmoniously to your goal? Just leave us alone already!"

Manager: "Well Fred is bullying Steve about this aspect of the product, because he doesn't like his way of doing it and thinks he can do it better. This puts way too much pressure on Fred who will crack trying to do two jobs, and resentment from Steve, who is actually doing a fine job. I need to talk to Fred about this."

"Also Mike is slacking, working on his side hustle while only contributing the bare minimum to the project. People are noticing and are getting mad at him, cutting him out of the loop more and more."

I don't think management as a role is appreciated much, but it can be vital. It can also be very bad, but the abuse doesn't abolish the use.
Simply 3x-ing COGS might 'work', but you're leaving a lot of money on the table.

> And if you want to know the biggest "free profit" in a restaraunt - it's postmix soft drinks and tea/coffee.

No, soft drinks lose you money because it's often a replacement for more expensive alcoholic drinks. The typical soft drink here is $3, even a $6 beer will net me more gross profit than the total price of the soft drink. That's why craft sodas, kombuchas, home-made mocktails and the like are de rigueur nowadays...

Tea/coffee is 'free profit' in the sense it's usually an addition at the end of the meal and not everyone will order a digestif.
Can't you just wrap your service? Something along the lines of

> ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/foo > /var/foo/bar 2>&1"

As for networking, it's not like you have to buy in to systemd-networkd, systemd-resolved et al - or am I missing something?

What I've definitely had issues with is the way networking services are configured in recent releases of Debian, but that's mostly from several of the network subsystems being in different degrees of weird limbo with "the new way" and "the old" interfering with each other. For example how resolv.conf is managed. And the whole back-and-forth with network names. Come to think of it, it's a bit reminiscent of snap/deb in Ubuntu 20.04 ;)
In 2008 everyone called in lines. This is the first step.

I had some credit cards go from 50k credit line to 5k.

My credit was unchanged. They just didn't want 45k of empty credit on their books.
Haha I almost linked to Dino's site in my comment. Their window art is also silly and self deprecating ("the longest bar in Seattle" etc).
What I hate is not that it logs to a journal log, it is that the binary db used by journald is non-standard and undocumented.

This means that a dead system can potentially not be read by a live system, as the journal can have undocumented breaking changes.
Is this an issue if we upgrade to 20.04 on our GCP machines? Is all this nonsense there for server releases?
This reminds me of a story of a guy who wrote a whole company internal debit system like this (coffee, meals out, etc) and it turned into a currency. I feel like I either saw it here, or a similar forum. Anyone have a link? My searches have not found it...
The perfect is the enemy of the good.

This could likely be "good enough" for those that have no other options if open sourced.
If anyone has been doing Covid-19 simulations for the United States. I'm crowdsourcing forecasts on this site: https://www.unitarity.com/app/challenges/us-coronavirus-outb...
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The default Debian installer asks what desktop environment you want to use. XFCE is one of the options available.
Productivity in construction is actually trending downwards, not up.

The big advancements in tech happened in the mid-20th century with suburban developments that made construction into something of a factory, on site.

In recent years, there have been a few startups trying to make a factories for multi family housing. The idea is to construct modules in a remote factory where you can drive economies of scale, and workers have consistent schedules with steady employment. Then ship modules to the site and stack the blocks in a tiny amount of time to minimize disruption.

Traditional construction management is some absolutely hellish logistics, involving all sorts of waiting for just the right contractor, and everybody carrying risk in weird ways. It's amazing that anything even gets built.

And then the planning stage is even more hellish, especially in places with high cost of construction like California. Only single-family-home builds have any sort of guarantee that if you meet code and zoning, you will be allowed to build. For any thing that is more affordable, like townhomes or apartments, the political process takes priority over the planning department. California cities are also completely cash strapped because of insane unfair property tax breaks for old wealth, meaning that impact and permit fees can easily eat of 10%-25% of the entire project cost. And that's after huge expense of re-planning many times according to community and politician whim, and it only takes a tiny number of housing opponents to force builders into a game of multi-year delays to try to stop all development, by running out the clock on financing that was secured to begin the whole process.

All this is to say is that our housing problems are, at the moment, a political problem much akin the US's healthcare problems. Intractable conflicts between entrenched interests prevent common sense wins for everybody. Technology can seem like a solution (e.g. EHRs) but seldom have any impact, either positive or negative.
We both know how disingenuous your argument is: No one actually thinks "I was actually a liberal until you made fun of Trump's physical fitness; now, I must vote for him" or "I am totally not a right-winger but now that you critized a major alt-right figure, I must become a follower of his".

The above is not a "copypasta". A person doesn't become suddenly interesting & someone to follow because they are subject to valid critcisim.

It is more likely you find him interesting, because you agree that "blacks are less intelligent" and women are to be blamed for being abused single mothers (or you are willing to overlook that, which is equally abhorrent).

Most normal people would probably take a look at SPLC's report and not blindly subscribe. But we both know you were already an avid fan long before your comment.
It would make the ip address information useless. What they probably want to do is figure out how many comments came from the same network blocks that were allocated to organizations (to detect large numbers of fake comments). If you hash the ip addresses you can't figure out which ones came from the same network allocation, the most you could do is figure out which comments came from identical ip addresses.
Considering that a few seconds in delay of loading a website has an impact on visitors staying, what do you think happens when they are required to jump through registration hoops to get to the content? The thumbnails are also blurred. Why? These are tactics to censor content in a subtle way without outright deleting or hiding it, which would be too obvious.
Because there's no place like home.
This is a scary dystopian prospect with the sole purpose of separation of classes and limiting undesirables.

I think the author hasn't traveled much and doesn't understand the yellow card. Countries which require you to have one, it's only required if you've come from a country that's listed as having yellow fever. When you look at how they're used in practice it's countries using it to lock out other countries. They are a black market commodity. Yellow fever is far more worrisome than covid19. Yet having traveled to several African countries that require it I was never asked once. Upon return to the US again no one cares even though I was clearly in yellow fever areas.

The WHO does not recommend travel bans for disease spread prevention. It also doesn't recommend this kind of immunity passport. So why are you trying to compare a yellow card to this?
Just a note that initial peer-review of this paper has been very negative.
Anyone have any recs for a pulse oximeter you can hack on? I’ve been looking for one that wouldn’t be too difficult to connect to. I could barely find any of the old ones let a lone something that looks like it can be borderline portable.
Well what is this outage caused by?

Not understanding how k8s work, or actual provider screwing up?

if the former - I try to read carefully and test my workloads in a test cluster before I do it in prod.

if the latter, I think google has excellent operational excellence.

This is like saying you wouldn't take driving advice from me until I total a few cars. Perhaps I didn't total a few cars because I make good driving decisions?
You are the one who brought up “disruption”. In this particular case, someone created a free/affordable solution for the hospital. I am not sure how you can read “make a few more dollars”
As the article itself points out

>NOTE: The simulations that inform policy are way, way more sophisticated than this! But the SIR Model can still explain the same general findings, even if missing the nuances.

This is a much simplified model for the purpose of education. So not including everything the real models include isn't really a flaw in my eyes.
> Well functioning high output teams (in any sector of business) almost never need a new tool/service to provide value

High output teams benefit as much, if not more, from new tools/services than anyone else.

- Accounting is much more effective with an ERP

- Sales is much more effective with a CRM

- Engineering is much more effective with CI/CD

None of these things are necessary, but they make good people even better.
Yes, children do
>No — a bubble is "a situation in which asset prices appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future."

"AirBNB or something like it will exist in 2 years."

"Monetary policy will not begin to dry up the glut of cash which has objectively ballooned asset prices since 2008."

"Covid will not permanently change certain habits which would otherwise cause a devaluation of property in major cities."

"Some major economic entity will not collapse in the next 2 years."

>it is in part due to long-standing government priority of individual home ownership

This strikes me as a commonly-bandied, well-debunked talking point.
That was very different: conventional rockets for ground-to-orbit, but landing with folding helicopter-like rotors. I think the original concept was to use the helicopter rotors to get to high altitude before throttling up, which was supposed to save a lot of fuel, but that was dropped pretty early.
Clickable link: https://safenetwork.tech
ah yeah onenote suffers the same problem as notion. Too many ways of doing things.

I've learned to take less notes over the years. If I need image or gif support I just use slack to shoot myself the information, slack's been my new temporary dumping grounds
The above might come across as flip, but I think it's actually spot on. Why would a mission critical or metered-connection-only machine be running the latest Ubuntu desktop anyway? Match the tool to the job.
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Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus - Global subsampling:

https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global?animate=2019-12-08,2020-0...
I have never found anything faster then mawk. GNU awk (gawk) is orders of magnitude slower. For a proper comparison you would have to note which implementation of awk you are using.
(project dev here) There are several levels of consensus. Parsec is a strict order (CP) algorithm. There are also AP (strongly eventually consistent) algorithms in play here. These are more concurrent consensus (think CRDT and causal order). Now if we back out a wee bit there are some places where strict order is an easy answer, but I personally feel these are all likely to become much more AP like in the future.

Then malice, it's a different module/behavior and requires we either prove the code (SGX etc. which currently is a bit too early) or we add malice detection across the board. This means nodes must not only be on-line or accepting messages, they must not create invalid messages etc. and this is not to difficult to deect. Then add to that the hard detection which is did the node process and forward/reply correctly? This is hard and requires a syncronicity assumption. I belive many projects focus on async everything meaning a node can reply at any time in the future and this is a bit tricky if you have memebrship changes (look at swim etc. for gossip). So for us we make the sync assumtion and have moved to allow a period (of events) that nodes must message (vote etc.) correctly. Then we apply the message malice detection. So malice detection is system wide and a very large area of decentralised networks at this level.
Yep. Let's leave 'em there.

We need to decarbonize as quickly as possible.
Well, they would die. Venturing on the edge of civilization or extending that edge is always fraught with dangers, and also surrounded by wonders nobody else will see for years or decades.

As long as those risk takers understand what risks they're accepting, I say all the power to them.

I'd even consider it.
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Their pizza may be good, but if their website exhibits all the worst features of GeoCities from way back when, they are certainly never getting any business from me.

You wouldn’t buy a vehicle made yesterday that had all the worst features of the original Ford Model T, would you?
Depends on how the language you use works. Golang is not made for repl usage so of course you don't really get the full power. Compare with something like Clojure where redefining a function in a repl, makes every function using that function also use the new definition. Start treating functions as just functions without any implicit state, and you can start to overwrite things in the program on the fly. Super valuable when debugging and otherwise also when creating code as you can much easier test ideas.

I don't know if it has a different word, but a repl for Clojure using a repl-workflow is very different from a repl for Golang with the normal "save -> compile -> run" workflow you have with Go.

For example, using a repl-workflow in Clojure doesn't mean you don't write code in your editor. I use vim + vim-fireplace to write my code, then highlight the parts I want to evaluate. So I get both in one. The repl is running in the background, and vim-fireplace communicates with it. Combine this with a SPA and I can have something like `(.alert js/window @username)`, highlight it and evaluate, then have an alert prompt in my browser window, which is next to my editor. Saves me a ton of time.
Generally speaking, in game, but with mods (such as WorldEdit[0]) that provide tools for copy/paste, quickly filling large areas, etc.

[0]: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/worldedit
As one of the devs, i'd say:

It solves ownership of data, and removes the need for large data centers by securely, anonymously letting users share storage space.

I'd caveat that we're still in alpha, but things are coming together very nicely.

The Safe Network (will) incentive user storage and uptime through cryptocurrency, though non-blockchain based, so avoiding a lot of throughput pitfalls there. So it can also act as a storage backed currency in some fashion.

It allows users to truly own and manage the permissions of their data without relying on any third party. And it provides enough flexibility for this to let folk make applications as well as store files.

I hope that helps some? I'm trying to avoid buzzwords :) I know that site has any. It's also worth noting that the dev hub is a bit out of date (things are still moving pretty fast.) But the community (https://safenetforum.org/) is very friendly!

Let me know if I can get more specific, I'll be about for a little longer.

(Oh, also there's some other links in another top level post I made that may be helpful)
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