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You're going to get a lot of replies because this is an easy thing to have an opinion about. But the reason it is so is because it's incredibly subjective.

you mention that your father is the polar opposite of you politically. Well, so is my mum and she is my best friend for sure. She's ardently pro-brexit and I think it's stupid, we've even argued about it heatedly. (although often it can be quite "nice" to get an outside opinion, I am very aware of my own bubble and how the world has become this horrible polarising assortment of echo-chambers)

you mention that you have no shared hobbies, but that's not a dealbreaker either, I also don't have any hobbies shared with my mum.

The major difference might be that I have always had a "I trust you more than I trust myself" mentality, and I feel like I can tell her anything and not be judged. She doesn't have to give me solutions to every little problem but she will listen.

The other thing is I generally enjoy being in her presence, yes, she's overly tightly wound, she yells and gets aggravated to an unusually high degree, but she's a decent person and wants everyone to be happy, and that goes a long way.

What I'm trying to convey is that those things you mentioned don't matter as much as you might think they do, what matters is the kind of trust and enjoyment you both get out of each other generally.

I'm very bad at keeping in touch with people so I'm the wrong person to say that society expects you to call your parents. I don't think anyone outside cares if you do or not- it's about you and how much you want them in your life.
Possible that it’s simply due to increased testing capacity. Before, many cases did not show up in the figures because there weren’t many tests carried out.
Ring Video Doorbell (#first Gen) – HD video, motion activated alerts
Author is creator of Pinafore https://pinafore.social/. An amazing fast and accessible pwa client for Mastodon.
I haven’t yet, but have heard good things about it. I’m also really looking forward to trying the new windows console.
IMHO swear words are strong words capable of causing impact, and which are strengthened through reserving them for when you really need them. If you swear all the time, you dilute that power. If you keep it in reserve, it retains its power to surprise. And so, somewhat ironically, the people who can swear best are those who swear least. People who swear all the time acquire a kind of linguistic impotence.
I’ve been using Linux (Debian) on my work laptops for over a decade now but corporate IT is finally forcing me to switch to Mac for bullshit policy reasons. It doesn’t help that Zoom is buggy and the VPN client we are forced to use is Mac/Windows only. :(

I wouldn’t go back to Windows for any reason short of a massive salary increase.
Windows 7 update installation was easy to bypass, however, and still get a clean shutdown. You could use the command/line shutdown command to restart or shutdown w/o installing updates. In Windows 8 and following they put that idiocy into logonUI.exe (which runs outside your logon session) to force update installation.
Would be interesting with more details on how this works. Like how the URL works and how the pages are styled. Is there any services needed beside google docs, etc.
Seconding this question. Setting a Cron job to email daily and weekly stock changes would be fascinating.
And tabs. And drag-dropping things by accident doesn't simply move/copy files but asks you what you want to do.
In Ubuntu Studio's context, one would expect the typical user to have decent RAM as it caters for multimedia which needs a lot of RAM.

Ubuntu's minimum requirements for desktop users is 4GB RAM. I presume that an extra 50MB is acceptable.
What kinds of bugs are you talking about? I think part of the problem with KDE is that it's large enough that two users might be using completely different parts of it---I find that it's far more stable than GNOME, for instance. I'm not a fan of how its compositor makes scrolling look (I much prefer how Sway or even Windows does it) or how the compositor interacts with SDL applications, but that's not exactly a "bug".
Gnome 3.36 is one of the best releases of Gnome. Just switched back from XFCE. It looks polished, has better usability and performs way better than previous releases. Much of the HiDPI related problems (4k resolution) I had went away too.

Softmaker Office/FreeOffice is an excellent and free replacement for MS Office. Has a ribbon interface just like MS Office, is fast, and does everything you would expect it to do just fine.

For development, if you don't want to go through the learning curve of vi or emacs, the JetBrains family of products is excellent. Otherwise you may want to try spacemacs, a "distro" of emacs.

Zeal is a good alternative for Dash.

Steam allows you to install a wide range of games, even Windows games, via Proton. You can see the list of supported games here: https://www.protondb.com/

Now, if you are not as hardcore as the person from this post, use Tilix (similar to iTerm2) rather than plain tmux.

Now... why Linux? because it's an OS where developers can do whatever they want. There's no limit. You can mess with whatever you want, not only with the surfaces exposed to you (APIs).
No ,you are wrong. First of all we would still have vacuum tubes. Secondly, FETs (their physics is simple, and does not even need that much of quantum mechanics) were invented much earlier than BJTs (the quantum ones) and very possibly we would have been no more than 10-20 years behind from where we are now.
> that protein structure isn't as sexy for the public as the search for beyond the standard model physics.

You mean, looking for a cure for cancer isn’t as sexy for the public as some arcane things with strange particles nobody understands?
A previous boss of mine used a vertical mouse for years, and he swore by it.
Where does this data come from?
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I mean you linked the meme? That pretty well sums things up. Like I said in my original comment, workstation graphics cards tend to do great, as do older graphics cards.
> Been trying to install WSL2 for a month+ now.

WSL2 was/is not available yet for the stable branch of Windows, you need to use Windows Preview to access it. Try again in 1 - 2 months.
To elaborate on this, we (we as in other developers in KDE, not me personally) have created KDE Neon (https://neon.kde.org/) which is Ubuntu LTS + the latest KDE software. It's great for using the up-to-date KDE Plasma & application versions while having a stable base in Ubuntu LTS.

I've personally used it for nearly 3 years now, and never had any problems with KDE Neon. It probably isn't a good option if you'd like to have the newest versions everywhere, since the base system is only thoroughly upgraded on every Ubuntu LTS release.

If you have any questions regarding KDE software or KDE Neon, I'd be happy to answer them on #kde:kde.org (Matrix) which is also bridged to #kde on freenode.
USSR was capable of doing it in 1980s.
The strategy tax (2016)
For an unrelated product demo some years ago I modded Orbital Eunuchs Sniper¹ to play on the environment outside the site we were demoing in using a few images from Google Maps. The split on whether it was fun or utterly wrong was probably 90/10, but I'm sure it would've been a different story with a tabloid paper reporting on it.

Now imagine you're publishing a game where drifting on roundabouts outside real elementary schools is a mini-game. Probably good for publicity though, iff you're willing to take the heat :/

1. http://www.icculus.org/oes/ - Still an awesome game
It's such an unimaginable thing. 5cm across, yet "super" massive (not SMBH).
Are you sure testing capacity went up? I don't recall reading about that.
There's also ones that aren't in active development like SimpleDb. It's not that it doesn't work, but you probably don't want to build anything new with it.
>really need now is a new mechanic that rewards dispationate analytic content and substance over partisanship meetoo content.

I strongly (if sometimes hypocritically?) agree. A critical mass of people who acted to preserve that culture was helpful in the past.

What can be done going forward? Do you have any ideas for how to create this mechanic?
Unity is dead (and has been). Ubuntu just uses GNOME now.
If an average person lives with two other people, it’s safe to assume that something between half and two thirds of all infections will be from people staying indoors, because people getting out will easily infect other people in their household.
You could have wedged a couple of a Klingon swear words in there to give us something to start with. The only Klingon I know is q'pla (sp?).
They’re probably referring to png compression level. All levels are lossless it’s just about how long it takes to encode/decode and resulting file size. Actual image quality is identical (which can be verified via hashing the decoded images)
Great mvp. Good Luck.

"All these employments and hourly works are means to make some money, but it doesn't worth much when you want to take a trip for a few days/weeks but your "boss" says no."

When success hits you might have less time for travel compared to scheduling a vacation at work. The more important you are the more important your business is can create longer hours.
Nima-Arkani Hamed likes to point out that particle colliders aren't getting more expensive at all, in relative terms. The price tags are going up for just the same reason that you can't buy a loaf of bread for a nickel anymore, but as a fraction of GDP, the next big collider has always been about 0.01%.

In fact, if there's any identifiable trend at all, it's that this fraction has been falling. The LHC, for instance, was slapped together after the last would-be supercollider was defunded, and reuses the LEP tunnel (built in the 1980s). If you're wondering why we took so long to find the Higgs boson, it's because the field has already been shrinking under the pressure of declining funding for 40 years.
Hah fortunately those secrets were never actually in use. I just did the unspeakable and quickly rebased master to update that though so thanks for that!

I wasn't planning on sharing the code at first so I probably didn't give it as critical an eye as I should have. This was also a learning project for me to try out Kotlin so I'm sure there are a million things others would do far better.
I use LXDE at the moment, primarily because it gets out of your way. I'm going to give regolith a try - it looks pretty cool (and by that, I mean functional). Thanks for sharing!
Feeling like I accomplished nothing (or at least not what I could have accomplished) in a given day when I go to sleep due to procrastination is enough of a whip already. We all have our favorite distractions that feel like carrots at the time but are unfulfilling.

My emotions are untrustworthy. If I follow them blindly I will end up addicted to dopamine and simultaneously depressed.

There's nothing wrong with manufacturing your own carrots and whips to help you get somewhere you want to be.
I'm probably the last person who still uses Unity and it's for this exact reason. I set the launch bar to auto hide and use the compiz Expose clone hot corners to switch windows.

It all just gets out of the way.

I don't know why Gnome didn't adopt the Unity menu bar integration, instead you get to waste space on the taskbar on the bottom AND that useless status bar on the top.
It's disturbing how the goalposts have been changing around the shelter-in-place orders.

The original argument was to "flatten the curve" to prevent hospitals from becoming overwhelmed. By that logic, areas where the hospitals have not been overwhelmed (which is most of the United States) should be gradually reducing restrictions, and only maintaining the restrictions necessary to prevent hospitals from becoming overwhelmed.

Lately, the prevailing argument seems to be that we need to shelter in place because virus cases will increase if we don't. That was not the original justification. Of course cases will increase! The question ought to be, will they increase to the extent that they overwhelm hospital capacity?

Most of the people quoted in the article agreed with shelter-in-place orders in the first place, and now they are being labeled as "skeptics" for sticking with the original rationale.
Ask HN: What should you be interviewed about?
It's likely that people are too rarely asked to be interviewed. What should you be interviewed about and why?
Real Life ‘Lord of the Flies’ Story Is Different from the Book
I am not sure the author is being entirely consistent here. For example, in #3, identifying and rooting out pseudo-science is listed as a sign of scientism, yet in #2, we are told that the signs of scientisim incude "inappropriately borrowed scientific trappings." This looks to me to be a pretty good definition of pseudo-science, in which case the author is performing, in section 2, an analysis that she deprecates in section 3.

On second reading, I think the author is objecting to the practice of denigrating respectable modes of inquiry as "pseudo-science" merely because they cannot match some idealistic standard of rigor.
Relative size of nozzles to attached tank. The sides are much much larger in proportion to their tanks.

SLBMs (ie SRBs)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/SLBM_Com...

Atlas missile (liquid fuel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atlas_2E_Ballistic_Missil...
I'm not a fan of DNF as a package manager (it's fast enough for bulk operations but takes a long time to do very simple interactive things, compared to pacman or apt), but I wholeheartedly second this recommendation for people who want to avoid installing hundreds of PPAs and third-party repositories to get their work done. Fedora also has a lot of niche packages (like the Zola static site generator) that are only in the AUR or third-party repositories for other distributions. The defaults are good from a security and usability standpoint as well.
Nolan has done a lot of work on PouchDB.js too. That is a pretty great bit of software.
I don't have a podcast, but when I was consulting I helped some clients with marketing and traffic. The answer is yes, SEO is important to acquire users searching for topics, but if your listeners are only getting to the podcast because they are clients (and that is your only audience) then the value of SEO is important but not as critical as if you are trying to grow your audience through organic search.

To be fair, I know nothing of Simplecast's default website so am useless there. What we had done for multiple clients was to build tooling which would create landing pages for each episode with solid SEO. Each landing page could/should also be tailored for the ads they would run etc. It wasn't rare to have 4-5 unique landing pages for a single episode, marketing it differently to different audiences. That doesn't include the A/B testing on each landing page as well which would happen. If you are trying to grow your audience organically or even through marketing you need solid episode landing pages with good SEO so you rank appropriately.

Full disclosure it has been a few years since I did that work so there maybe some other things to take advantage of now in reference to the SEO and specifically the metadata you can use to rank better.
How the plot to invade Venezuela fell apart
So well said!
And you don’t need every desktop environment to handle every use case. If you have limited resources, run something like XFCE.
A good user interface is one you don't realize you're using. KDE is flexible enough to fit many workflows and doesn't (try to) constantly get in your way.
The ocean is made of drops.
How exactly are you supposed to make the argument that somebody else's argument is valid without explaining that argument?

What you're asking for here is a basically a Tweet: “I mean, maybe they're not wrong.”
Show HN: I've analyzed NYT front pages to show how pandemic took over the news
Ever since I was a kid, I wished someone would do it for an FPS or an action RPG. They often feature locations representing real-world ones, but it would be cool to play a game in a real-world area, particularly one you've been to or live in.
Feser is actually wrong on a handful of points.

Science-qua-epistemic-method does not require "that this world is governed by causal regularities." In such a case, the method would still work, it would just figure out that all claims of causal regularity were false. Comprehensibility likewise shows his theistic bias: whether or not we can understand the rules of the universe are irrelevant to whether or not we can use science to reject our incorrect/limited interpretations.

What science does require is that the scientist not be actively deceived, (e.g. if our senses were telling us there is a world external to our mind but there wasn't, that would be a form of deception that would defeat science.)
I worked on Windows for two decades and tried WSL1. Windows is not super annoying but as a developer all my tools were actually Linux native or cross platform so one day I just cut the middle man and switched to Linux. It wasn't such a big leap but my productivity definitely increased.

WSL is nice when you don't have choice. Linux is actually the optimum choice for most developers.
> Denunciations of that sort cast the lockdown debate as a straightforward battle between a pro-human and a pro-economy camp. But the actual trade-offs are not straightforward.

The irony here is that these sentences are correct, but the author comes to exactly the wrong conclusion from them. There is no battle between a pro-human and pro-economy camp, because if we just threw the doors open and let the virus rage out of control, everyone would end up staying home out of fear anyway and there'd be no difference, in terms of economic damange, from a state-mandated shutdowns now. Note that there is nothing preventing you from flying right now, but the planes are still empty. Or how the government is ordering meat processing plants to reopen but they are still running way below capacity because workers are just staying home so they don't get sick.

It is not a choice between economic damage and lives lost, it's a choice between an orderly lockdown now and a chaotic de facto lockdown later, except the latter has a lot more people dying - the economic damage is inevitable either way.

Do not take shutdown skeptics seriously, they don't deserve it.
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Yeah but I hope it's not the same kind of resources - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HarfBuzz...

Gnome developers have their head buried deep and firm in sands at this point.
WHO will launch a Covid-19 app for countries that don't make their own
tldr: A little bit more than 400 million billion billion standard 2x4 bricks, roughly.

Given my calculated radius of 9.39E6 m (47% larger than earth), the volume of Lego Planet is 1.95313E21 m^3.

Brickepdia[0] (of course that's a thing) shows that a standard 1x1 block of standard height is 8 mm x 8 mm x 9.6 mm, or 6.14E-7 m^3. A 2x4 brick would be 8 times that, or 4.92E-06. Simple division then gives us that Lego Planet is made of 3.97E26 standard 2x4 bricks.

[0]https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Brick#Sizes
I think it was just a natural consequence of early CGA graphics cards which only allowed combinations of on/off red green and blue components with light and dark variations giving a total of only 16 colors available to work with. If you wanted a colorful enough UI you pretty much had to use all 16
Takeout doesn't work for users with substantial data.
The integrated terminal behaves badly with zsh/oh-my-zsh (random memory being printed to screen, extra space on the prompt whenever you switch folders), and sometimes fails to track folders. Should I report these issues?
The U.S. doesn't have to choose between total shutdown and total opening. Targeted opening is feasible.

The U.S. also doesn't have to choose between individual destitution and death of the vulnerable. Some combination of financial support covered by bonds with freezing debt collection of various categories would provide significant relief.

As in all macroeconomic challenges a combination of approaches is necessary.
> " …here’s the method I am using at the moment with great success. You need a random-number generator to work it."

http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2014/1/22/random-tim...
I realize not everyone will agree, but I like to think of this as more of a symbolic thing; it doesn't need to be a biological, adoptive, step, foster mother, it can just be someone who you've really just appreciate as being warm and supportive over the years.

Sorry to hear that you've had that kind of experience!
I'm pretty sure that anyone who reads HN regularly is quite well aware of the issue of housing costs in cities. It doesn't need to be inserted into an article about particle accelerators for us to be able to remember that there's problems in housing.
Google's shareholders don't hold substantial voting power. Accountability practically ends at CEO.
Clever way to hide content in long URLs with zero width chars
I don't think the cost of losing things is as high as you imagine. You can use X until it fails and then you can use Y.

I also don't think your doomsday scenario makes much sense either. What do you mean "lifted their hands" and why would it happen out of the blue with zero warning? Though I'll repeat: so what?

I don't think a decentralized system is much better in this regard. It just means things rot at a more staggered pace. Service A shuts down on year 0, service B shuts down on year 10, etc. It's just a different trade-off, not the panacea we like to pretend it is.
Well, Norton Commander[1] had a split view and an integrated terminal in 1984. Shipping a power-user file manager has simply never been a priority for Microsoft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander
Good luck from me as well. Although I am not looking for a quotation solution, there would be 2 things which would concern me (if I were):

- There is no example how a 'beautiful quotation' looks.
- Pricing would be a concern. You say it is free, so why should it be of concern: if I change my business process now to use your interface and then I am locked in, I would really like to know how much I have to pay next year.
Why does choice of desktop environment impact choice of distro? I ask as a question out of my own ignorance.

I started with arch and I just bolt on whatever desktop environment or window manager I want.
Of course! The answer to your question is always yes. This is very helpful to OSS developers.
AT&T reformed as regional monopolies in far less time than it took the government to break up the national monopoly.
The last time I worked for a company with a draconian corporate IT policy the entire technical team in our division had a Windows laptop for email/intranet and a machine of their choosing for actual work.

Windows isn't _that_ bad but having to raise a ticket for someone to allow you to install software or read from a USB thumb drive was infuriating.
Thanks for the explanation. Is there a good more general resource to learn this and other graphical concepts?
Well, WSL2 already fulfils this and allows me to use the same Windows standard defaults and using Linux in a VM with access to its file system in a single click install without rebooting back and forth with a Ubuntu install.
Can you expand on what's not working for you? I use KDE via Kubuntu and have found it very stable. The only quirks are desktop environment things that I don't think XFCE even does OOTB, like sometimes it fails to auto-connect bluetooth speakers. The graphics stuff seems totally solid.