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This article is about Ubuntu Studio switching to KDE.

> For reference, Ubuntu Studio is created for more powerful computers, is not meant to run on low-powered or older hardware, and is not meant to give an old computer new life. For that reason, from our perspective, the RAM usage between the two desktops is nearly the same.
I look at family as its own type of relationship. Like friend or romantic or professional is a type of relationship.

It's often worthwhile to have family that you stick together with. Partly to maintain some connection to where you come from but also because sometimes life throws some real nasty stuff at you, and it's good if someone has your back. I think we humans are wired for this to some extent, and it can often be beneficial.

If so, then it's worth some effort to maintain that family relationship. So I think there's a third option, which is to call them not because you're best buds or because you're supposed to but because you've decided maintaining that family relationship is important to you.

Can you have both a friend relationship and a family relationship with one person? Yes. It's great when people have that. But it's not a given, and if you can't (or don't, or don't yet), that doesn't necessarily prevent the family relationship from being there.

Personally I think calling multiple times a week is probably only natural if you have the friends type of relationship with them. If you don't, I wouldn't feel bad about not forcing it that way.
Keep in mind testing has been increasing the whole time.
If you bought a budget computer do you really expect it to be able to handle running even minor taxing applications. In my experience most people who are buying a budget laptop need a great web browsing experience and maybe an office suite (if they aren't using a cloud one already).

My guess is running a browser with Spotify or YouTube, some social networking tabs, and maybe google docs or office 365 word will not pose any issues.
Out of all the ways that we are learning about cultural/personal differences in this thread, this is the one that surprised me the most.

If you're away from home on work, you only call your wife 2-4 times a week? Note I'm not saying this is "wrong" or something, I am just very curious about it. I can't imagine not calling at least once a day.

I noted that you referred to the idea of "what could have changed that much, that often," but for me the purpose of these calls is not to exchange information but instead to express affection, feel affection in return, and to simply be in the other's presence (if virtually) for a short time. Mainly I just plumb miss her. This also holds true for the reasons I call my parents, but I tend to only do that once per week.

Having typed out that mini-screed, maybe you were just making a point, in which case carry on.
Scribble documentation rendered as HTML is alright, but I wish there was better support for accessing that documentation in your editor. Racket Guide and Racket Reference are both very well written though.
Emacs Application Framework: embed any Qt application into Emacs
I once attended a fascinating presentation where the presenter had realized that since laws were written in a specialized legal language, that this could be used to write proofs and discover inconsistencies and errors in the law.
Exactly. I think that a lot of “lockdown skeptics” are totally cool with a targeted and phased restriction lift-up that involves clear metrics on how and when each stage should proceed. But it all gets drowned out by people instantly resorting to “they are advocating for an instant lift-up of all restrictions, what a bunch of morons who don’t care for human lives” sort of arguments, as soon as they hear anything but a unanimous agreement with an indefinite lockdown.
I don't believe Signal Desktop runs as a Chrome app anymore, can anyone confirm?
The whole phenomenone seems to be a large-scale manifestation of the Dunning-Kruger effect, where the most bullish people are often the ones who have only the most superficial knowledge of science.

Cargo Cult is the most apt description. It amazes me how blind and uncritical even highly "educated" people can be, outside their narrow areas of specialization.
Slackware. I use the Plasma5 packages maintained by Eric Hameleers, and it's a wonderful experience.
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> While 8G isn't .5G, it's still low enough that you'd quickly hit swap (a bloated modern browser + multimedia authoring tools)

High memory usage from a browser or multimedia authoring tools is not the fault or responsibility of the desktop environment?

Edit: Or was your point more that the desktop environment should use minimal memory so that the user can have a better experience with their applications? That makes sense, except in this case Ubuntu Studio explicitly states that it’s designed for powerful machines and not ones with more limited resources
Thanks for the interesting and relevant other projects. Will have a look.

Is it possible to update the post and adjust the link?
When the original paper about planet 9 being a black hole came out a year ago, everybody thought it was a cool-sounding but just completely wild idea -- both physicists and pop science articles. Not impossible by any means, but not within the top 250 new physics ideas in plausibility. Then the discussion died down. I figured it would end up being one of those forgotten but cool gems.

Then the most authoritative string theorist in the world, who hasn't worked on anything relating to experiments in decades, suddenly writes a very short, simple, single-author paper to use this idea to promote Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg's space probes. Now it's the conjunction of two crazy ideas, and it's really taking off. I just don't know why this is happening, or what to make of it.
Like OP, I switched to a Dell XPS from Mac. First with the pre-installed Ubuntu, then Xfce + Debian and now Debian + i3. It comes with headaches. Ubuntu (16)'s window handling was sometimes buggy for me. Xfce was fast and worked very well, but I wanted something with better multi-monitor support and even more minimalistic. i3 fits that bill nicely. I would not want to go back to Windows, Mac or Ubuntu for that matter, because they all force their agenda on you. (Ads in my start menu? No thanks. iTunes / Garage Band / many other apps I really don't want / "Sign into your Apple account"? Also, no thanks.) Plus, like OP, the shell on Linux is best when the server OS is the same as on the dev machine. It's not perfect, but I really wouldn't want anything else anymore.
I actually bought a second graphics card for use with linux because I was sick of deciding between slow (nouveau) and crashy (nv proprietary). I have a WX2100 and it has been completely rock solid. I can't use X11 without some as-yet-to-be-discovered workaround because it won't give up on using my nvidia card, even though I have that card attached to vfio-pci. Wayland is solid though.
My recollection, which could be flawed, were that some experts projected millions of deaths even with lockdown. Moreover I recall the experts not disclaiming their predictions, which is a huge problem. The fact of the matter is that we don't know what would have happened, and experts and policymakers alike (IMO) are in desperate need to figuring out how to convey uncertainty with honesty, ahead of time, not retrospectively. Treat your information consumers with respect for their intelligence and they just might not act like idiots.
Here's a plan: when we get to X new cases per day, we will reopen. Here's a guideline: we'll reopen when we think it's safe. The former has concrete goals that you can measure against and take action on. The latter has no clarity whatsoever. If I presented a project plan the way California has presented its Covid reopening "plans" I would be fired.
Does anyone else find these sort of articles strange? "Windows on the Desktop as a Developer" feels like the unique/odd case to me.

Perhaps I'm just getting old, or I'm stuck in a specific social group?

I don't mean to belittle the author at all, Linux just feels like an absolute default to me nowadays for a developer, in the late 90s that may not have been the case, sure.
Why is it that the basic unit of distribution for anything Linux is a Distro? Want to serve web applications? Here’s a server distro. Want to work on penetration testing? Here’s a distro. Want to develop embedded systems? Another Distro. Creative arts? Distro again.

The OS level fragmentation of Linux is maddening, when you consider that what these actually all are is different operating systems. Why does the Ubuntu desktop operating system need to be re-engineered from the ground up in a to-the-bare-metal OS install just to make it compelling for creatives? What on Earth is wrong with the base Ubuntu desktop distro that makes this in any way a good idea?

Is it due to the way that application package repositories are selected and integrated into base desktop distro repositories? It seems like I should be able to install Ubuntu desktop distro with a KDE desktop package selected from the repo, then select all these creative apps and bingo - I’ve got Ubuntu Studio. Or at least start with Kubuntu. I’m sorry if I’m being negative or antagonistic, I genuinely don’t know - what is it about distro engineering, politics or organisation that leads to this situation?
This project seems promising. Good effort, I am really interested in seeing where this is going.
It’s very clear in the charts shown in the UK daily press conference. Positive tests in hospitals declining steadily, other tests (of which there has been a massive increase) making up the difference. What that says about what has actually been happening in the community is hard to say.
Just to be precise: 14 days is not the median. The median is far lower (4-6 days), and I think we need studies on how early during the asymptomatic period one can actually spread the virus, because last I heard (but I lack reliable evidence), it was 2 or 3 days before symptoms showed up.
There' no such thing as a "current desktop hardware" in 2020. Specs haven't been changing in like a decade.
> and disruption of supply chains, which by and large is not happening. (At least to no degree that would put you at risk of serious shortages in Europe)

It's starting in the US.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/16/meat-proc...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/26/business/tyson-foods-nyt-ad/i...
As we learn more about all of the factors that affect shelter-in-place, those goalposts are going to change. There’s nothing disturbing about it.
The states where the coronavirus is spreading fastest
this is ridiculous, of course testing has gone up.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/corona...

pay attention to hospitalizations. that metric is disconnected from the new cases and expanded testing relationship.
Yeah. This is a single person capsule so Mercury would be a better comparison. 1090 kg.
The ScyllaDB developers wrote up their take here:
https://www.scylladb.com/2020/05/05/how-io_uring-and-ebpf-wi...
Ah, that's where it all went wrong, moving beyond Netscape 4!
https://thelounge.chat/ open source
You have an object the mass of a gas giant. Planets by definition sweep their local neighbourhood clear of objects. So the black hole is going to carve out an area that is largely devoid of other bodies, and particularly in the context of a gaseous planetary nebula, it’s going to swallow stuff. This will lead to a roughly spherical void around it, and a gravitational bias towards the centre of mass of the planetary nebula (i.e. radially inwards towards the sun).
I had a similar relationship with my mother. Political opposites, plus mental illness, yada yada yada. When I came home from college she told me she was done with me and I haven’t seen her in over a decade. It was incredibly hard for me at the time, I was a teenager, but in retrospect it was the best thing she could have done. We were only capable of hurting each other. I don’t believe you owe someone your time because you’re related. I know it’s not a popular opinion, and it wouldn’t have been my choice, but it worked out well long term for my mental health.
I read "inappropriately borrowed scientific trappings" as being similar to what the Austrian School economists discuss when they explain how hard science techniques are being adopted in the social sciences when they really cannot serve the same purpose.

Whereas under pseudo-science I considered Eugenics, a belief system finding that mankind would go extinct due to inferior breeding.
But at least in C/C++ you can fix it. That is, I can control how my data lines up with the cache in C/C++, with sufficient care and effort. Doing the same thing in Haskell or OCaml would be considerably harder.
Monopoly and anti-competitive go hand in hand, though I don’t think Office has anything to worry about currently.

Alternatives to google search exist but they’ve still been declared a monopoly by the EU, with something like a 90% share of searches.

In the US we’ve blocked cell phone company mergers that would take them over 40% share for comparison.

Of the office suite front Gsuite has ~57% share and MSOffice ~43%
I'm Indian living in the USA and my parents and I talk everyday. It could be a quick 2-5 min chat for the most part, or a 30 min - 1 hour long conversation at times. Does not hurt either way. Never really understood the American detachment.
Just placed an order
Ron Levy's thesis, as you mentioned, has a pretty complete description of LCR, as well as a related atomic register protocol (analog of ABD). The canonical reference for LCR, I think, is "Throughput Optimal Total Order Broadcast
for Cluster Environments" (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.177...). If nothing else, LCR contains probably the most elegant and surprising application of vector clocks I've seen (they are used to establish a total order on messages, rather than the usual partial order, with no sequencer required!).

Ring Paxos uses similar ideas (ring overlay for the acceptors), but requires IP-multicast (to minimize bandwidth for broadcasting values to the acceptors and learners), and hence isn't practical in most public cloud environments. (The variant of Ring Paxos that doesn't use IP-multicast doesn't seem to me to have any significant advantages over LCR, while being less symmetric and more complicated.) I do think that Ring Paxos is probably the best approach I've seen to improving the throughput of Paxos while preserving its latency advantages (but it still has issues with tail latency and transient faults because the acceptors communicate via a ring rather than quorums).
How Will the Coronavirus Change Us?
He must be a kid faking it, he looks ridiculous. W98 on a Pentium II was so low level that scrolling was several times faster than any composite based OS from today, even faster under NT4.
My first encounter with a docs -> website was the now-defunct joelewis' hexopress.com. The code; however, is opensource [0].

There's a dated, unmaintained Google Docs to Markdown converter [1] which can be used as a source for a static site generator like Hugo [2]. This is particular interesting since folks can style content as they normally would from within Google Docs and have it show up with the same styling on a webpage, rather than write HTML themselves.

[0] https://github.com/joelewis/hexopress

[1] https://github.com/mangini/gdocs2md

[2] https://gohugo.io/content-management/formats/
Yeah, that's why I call bullshit on Curry-Howard. It's really not that important or noteworthy. Writing down a program is not like writing down a proof. It is like writing down a specification.
KDE is actually one of the lightest in terms of memory usage of all the DE's.
Daily tests have increased over the last several weeks:
https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily
Where we are now at the end of chapter 1?
1. Practice a lot. Just get as many words on paper as possible.

2. While reading writing books can be helpful, critical feedback will help far more. Either get someone in your organization to give feedback on your professional writing, or get a friend to critique your side project writing, or go on a subreddit like https://www.reddit.com/r/KeepWriting/ and get feedback on writing you are comfortable releasing to the public.

Remember, you don't have to take everyone's feedback. But listen to it, and use it to learn how to critique your own writing.
Can you elaborate? My understanding is your security posture determines how well you mitigate, identify, contain, and repel attacks.
Just my 2c: I've been happily developing web apps and gaming on Linux (via windows VM) for the past 4-5 years and dread the thought of switching to Windows or Mac. I'm fortunate in that I run my own business so I get to choose all of my tools and tech. Haven't come across any workflow show-stoppers but I'm not working with legacy apps or systems so YMMV.

I like using as little resources for the base system as possible so I'm using Arch with awesome (WM).

For all my gaming needs I use vfio passthrough to reserve my GPU for my windows VM and get 90-95% native performance in the latest titles.
I guess one thing to point out is that the cost of social care (circa £20 billion) in the UK is not borne by the NHS, but by a mixture of local councils (70%) and private individuals (30%). Nursing home deaths will not really significantly affect the NHS budget (circa £150 billion, 10% of which is spent on people aged over 85).

The wants and needs of nursing home residents create a demand, and we fulfil that demand using some of our productivity. In fact without that demand there would be no need for that sector, and our productivity would fall to match. Perhaps the savings in tax and private wealth would be directed to other sectors, but maybe not.

The case for mere retirees is even more clear cut. They are spending accumulated wealth (or accumulated entitlements) and they account for a massive amount of aggregate demand because of a mixture of hard work and luck. They are not a loss to the economy just because they don’t need to work anymore; retirees are a massive component of the modern economy.
Quit acting like a religious fundamentalist. Goodbye.
An interesting part of my kids playing CSGO is that they can now swear in at least 3 languages. I don't think you can play for more than a couple of days before you learn to swear in Russian (cyka blyat), it's practically synonymous with the game, a couple of weeks and you should know a Polish (kurwa) and a French swear (putain/merde).

And of course "fuck[ing]" and "shit" are used prolifically.
Thanks a lot for your feedback. It seriously means a lot to me that people take their time to check out something I built and say what they think about it.

The landing page is literally 5 days old. I am constantly tweaking it with new ideas and I will definitely apply your feedback. I was thinking of a speed-up video to show various pages.

API sounds so good. I was thinking of Zapier integration but why not both, right?
The dollar has already plummeted compared to assets. Real estate is ridiculously expensive when measured in dollar, same for stocks too.
You might also be interested in Glide, helps build mobile-apps with Google Sheets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163081
I’m pretty sure this also includes stock trades on behalf of senators, so also includes those carried out by a trust, not under the control of the senators themselves. I feel the data isn’t useful unless it’s clear which senators are making their own trading decisions, and which aren’t
Considering that x-ray lithography still isn't a thing, I'd say that we have a lot more to do with x-ray research.

Also, according to CERN[0]

>As of 2017, more than 17 500 people from around the world work together to push the limits of knowledge. CERN’s staff members, numbering around 2500...comprising over 12 200 scientists of 110 nationalities, from institutes in more than 70 countries.

[0] https://home.cern/about/who-we-are/our-people
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Its probably selection bias.

I liked KDE but it was too complicated for my use case. In general I have found that the fewer features a desktop environment has the more I enjoy using it.

I’m surprised that the logical minded folk of HN aren’t more geared to minimalist environments like simple window managers. If you’re an engineer why do you need or want a fully fledged desktop environment? I stopped using KDE after I discovered all I needed was a window manager and application launcher.
Wanting to ignore America's long history of sexism and racism is a political position. Wanting to ignore the effects of those is a political position. Your contributions here are political activism.

If you want to be a reactionary, fine. But please own it.
You're going to have deltaV problems with that approach. It's kind of like asking why can't we use a 737 to fly some rovers on the Moon.

Check out the rocket equation and see what kind of mass fraction you'll need to get hundreds of km/s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
I believe the original of this type of quote is "A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library." This saying is referred to as Westheimer's Discovery.
Yeah, I don't get it either.
I don't wish my mom on mother's day. (almost stubbornly so, she knows I don't buy into it).

It is kind of sad that I get to see her maybe once a year, due to my visa situation. But, I talk to her almost everyday. We don't talk about much, mostly small talk, and I do try to make her birthday special.

But, yeah, mother's day seems to be more like a threat than a celebration. Like, " Wish your mom and buy our gifts, because we have artificially raised expectations about a completely arbitrary day, and set her up for disappointment in case you don't."

I totally agree. Just talk to them regularly. If anything, just sending a card and calling on their special days is kind of insulting. Like, "the only time I can bear to talk to you, is when society shames me into it."
What about normal torrents?
This feels like such a weirdly specific block... You have a blog that you want people to read, but not people who come from a specific source
That's just your victorian judgementalness coming out. It has nothing to do with vocabulary. And it certainly has nothing to do with how many languages your kid knows.

Anyone who grew up with conservative parents rolled their eyes at your post. "Ok dad".

Btw, she just learned to swear when you're not around. And when you eventually find this out, rest assured it's not that you failed her vocabulary, it's just because she met some friends that swear.
Hey all, keep in mind that this is an experiment and the OP is therefore looking for input from users. Don't look at it from a finished product point of view but as a starting point and give your ideas.
I think this is a great solution a quick in office CMS for in house projects.
I actually find that GNOME is worse on laptops. My X1C6 is running at effectively 1600x900 and the amount of vertical space wasted by the height and padding of GNOME/GTK titlebars and widgets drives me crazy.

With KDE on a laptop I just set up the dock vertically on the righthand side and I'm good to go.

GNOME's workspace switcher/overview thing is better than anything KDE has though. It's much closer in function and polish to macOS than KDE is.
Thanks for that link. I have not had an opportunity to read the detail on this (only that it _was_ anonymized). I hope this becomes a model for all conferences.
As a fan of both mechanical keyboards and fonts, I appreciated the comparison with typography. I nearly burst out laughing at the mention of Lobster; it's about as different from Helvetica as you can get.

I have a very old mechanical keyboard, and I'm certain my typing is better with it. Unfortunately I haven't been able to use it in years, because the noise drives my wife crazy in our small shared office.