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I’m not advocating for or defending cryptocurrency. I’m asking questions to clarify what it is you are asking. I don’t see why you think I am deflecting. Asking questions is as old as the Socratic method.

If you don’t think analogies to cash are a good answer to your questions, please restate your question. I’m not using cash as an analogy, I’m using it as a counter-example in the monetary marketplace that proves that different monetary instruments have different properties, some of which are inherent to the medium of exchange. I want to know why you think cash isn’t a good answer to your questions. I also am curious why you think cryptocurrency is a bad answer to your questions, if indeed you do.
That's not how the nvidia binary blob works in FreeBSD. Instead, there is some compiled-from-source-code OS portability glue, which is compiled against the target version of the FreeBSD kernel. Then the binary blob links the portability glue.

I believe something similar is done in Linux. The difference in experience may come from FreeBSD maintaining a stable KBI over a release version (e.g., stable/12), while Linux aggressively does not maintain any KBI stability; hence the need for DKMS/akmods.

This is unrelated to COMPAT_FREEBSD.
I know of a very senior family friend living in one of the flyover states.

She doesnt drive following a car wreck. She had walk half a mile to wait out in the bitter rocky mountain cold at a bus stop to go to the Dr. Shes on social security. She told me she didnt have the money to take a cab, that is if she could even get a hold of one.

Then uber came along.

She learn to use uber on her own before even whatsapp.

Yea, I'd call it downright essential.
The biggest magnet for this phenomenon on Hacker News is Amazon. Every Amazon article will undoubtedly have at least one comment complaining about counterfeits.
Like many here, I'm also a procrastinator (and my wife is much worse). My strategy, somewhat similar to Mr. Gassler's, was honed over decades of heartache and failure and occasional successes:

- write down a plan

- break plan into very detailed micro-steps

- do at least one of the micro-steps. Feel a sense of accomplishment. Now the rest of the steps seem less formidable.

- accept that my brain is often foggy and slow, so give it a few hours or overnight to mull a plan. Don't beat myself up for not getting it done today (and possibly screw it up).

- exercise a lot (I love running and get a high from it, so it's not hard to incorporate)

- lately I've been using a mantra "Don't think about it, just do it!" It's how I got myself to the gym 5 days a week, back before the virus anyway.

- To force myself to read a book, I'll assign myself to read one page (or Kindle screen), knowing that usually I can get sucked in and read several pages.

- fantasize a world in which I have already accomplished something. Visualize it being done. Realize that I'm perfectly capable of doing it.

They sound like somewhat childish tricks, I suppose, but it's what works for me.
>It single handedly moved getting enough sleep from a similar category to “I should probably eat less salt” to “this is the single most important thing for my health” for me.

>That said, I don't think it detracts from the main argument of the book, or the main revelation for me, which is that most people don't realise how damaging lack of sleep is.

I don't get this. You find that the book you believe provides the arguments for the damaging effects of sleep and based on which you dramatically changed your life is bullshit but somehow this fact doesn't detract from its main argument and you are still going to recommend it to your friends?
There's another 'howdoi' already, FYI: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
Did they do a "host only" free signup?

I left couchsurfing (which i used mostly for hosting) to warmshowers where I've hosted a dozen or two guests over the last few years. I've never traveled on a bike and don't have any plans to. The guests are great, since bike touring is a filter for a certain kind of person.

I don't know I would have signed up if it were $30 (though it has obviously been worth it).

One of my "things to do when im rich" daydreams was to visit my favorite guests/host from CS in a world tour. Most I didn't exchange numbers or emails with, but having their good reviews on my profile was a monument of what the kind of person I wanted to be. If it's true I can't message them now, I should've got rich sooner.
If you're using KDE, Qt is "native native".

You're fundamentally mistaken about where Qt sits in the stack - it effectively sits in the same place as USER32/WinForms in Windows or NS/Cocoa GUI widgets of OSX. It is reasonable to think of it as an alternative native GUI library in that sense. If it is slower, it's because an implementation of something is slower, not because of where it lives or an abstraction cost.

Qt pretty much draws using low-level drawing APIs on the respective platform. And although Qt itself is not written in the most performance sensitive C++, it is still orders of magnitude faster than most (and it's not like Chrome doesn't pay overhead) - people rag on vtable dispatch speed but jeez its still orders of magnitude faster than something like ObjC which served Apple quite well for years.

The performance of a Qt app is more likely a function of the app itself and how the app developers wrote it.

But no, you're not noticing any micro-seconds differences in C++ overhead for Qt over "native native" - and you're basically comparing the GUI code of the platform - since Qt does it's own rendering. Win32 is mostly pretty good, NS is a mixed bag, and Gtk+ is basically a slug. In all cases there is some kind of dynamic dispatch going on, because that is a fundamental pattern of most GUI libraries. But dynamic dispatch is almost never a factor in GUI render performance. Things like recalculating sizes for 1 million items in a table on every repaint are the things that get people into trouble, and that is regardless of GUI library.
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(googler, opinions are my own).

Looks like the appeal was accepted[0]. As well, Google's SVP of Android/Chrome/ChromeOS/PlayStore apologized to the Podcast Addict team[1].

[0] https://twitter.com/PodcastAddict/status/1262541050817605632

[1] https://twitter.com/PodcastAddict/status/1262562502417641473
Your complaints aren't relevant either, though: Music.app is terrible because it doesn't follow the guidelines, and Electron apps are no better than native apps from a privacy angle.
Yeah, I definitely like IIT and think its on to something important. But it doesn't strike me as a sufficient condition for consciousness. I have a lot of sympathy for GWT. One of its theoretical virtues is that it coheres with theoretical properties of consciousness with independent justification like integrated information, recurrence, self-modelling, etc. But it still lacks any direct theory of phenomenology, i.e. qualia. Although I can see why scientists would avoid attempting such arguments if at all possible. This would be a good place for philosophers to bridge the gap, but I guess it is easier to make a career out of promoting panpsychism these days than to come up with something insightful to say about mechanistic consciousness.

But to move the discussion forward, I think one obvious property of qualia is that it is representational. That is to say, it is structurally related to the thing being indicated such that it can inform about the thing. For example, the red quale tells you something about red substances in the context of the space of possible colors, the external world full of beneficial and harmful substances, and the bearer of the quale with drives, dispositions, preferred states, etc. This complex millieu of properties, states, dispositions, etc, all serve to inform the properties of a quale. Its representational power is one that gives the bearer certain competencies in the actual world, e.g. pain gives one the competency to avoid damaging states. But this representational power must be intrinsic to the structure that constitutes a quale. If this were not the case, then its power to confer competency would be contextual. Pain would only confer competency in the right environment (like a reflex that has meaning only in the right environment, e.g. the grasping reflex of an infant). But this isn't the case with qualia; the experience of pain is intrinsically representative and provides its bearer with competence universally. The same can be said for emotions and our senses. This suggests to me that some kind of recurrent structure is a necessary condition for a quale: to simultaneously be the producer and the consumer of a representative state, and consume in such a way that necessarily confers competent behavior. But this discussion sounds like a different level of description of coordination between different subsystems. Information from different subsystems bear on this central coordinator, and this information confers competent behavior on downstream subsystems, i.e. contextually relevant causal powers. I see the beginnings of the details required for mechanistic qualia in theories like GWT and others based on principled analysis of brain networks.
I watched a really helpful video on what the creator called "The Toolbox Fallacy".

I can't start a project until I have every tool I need in my toolbox...but it seems every time I buy a tool I discover another one I need.

I think of that every time I put something off - "Am I making up a reason not to do this? Can I really just do it all now?"
I see it more as scaling problems that make it look like people aren't actually busy.

As the userbase scales, infrastructure scales, and what was once a simple "ALTER TABLE" is now a system with a team managing it because a single Postgres instance didn't scale.

As the engineering headcount scales, code changes, builds, even understanding the system become slower. You overcome that with better engineering, but mostly more engineers.

As the product matures, there's still a drive for growth, but the low-hanging product fruit has been picked, so you get lots of product teams trying to either optimize their little part because, at scale, it makes a big difference, or product teams working on new, crazy ideas--the startup within a unicorn-startup--that will most likely fail.
The only native music streaming app I've tried is Apple Music, which is worse than Spotify, Idagio and Tidal in many ways. It's certainly slower and less responsive. This might be for legacy reasons but if even Apple with limitless resources can't be bothered to build a new native client on their own stack why should we expect companies a small fraction of their size to do it?
There are lots of human subcultures that don't enjoy having insults hurled at them, however. Should we really have a corporation drawing these lines in the sand? And should it be doing so with a basic word filter, rather than the "report" function? All context is lost in situations like this, and it is anathema to the design of the internet.
How was / is your overall experience at Oculus?
Actual amount of time.
I know it sounds crazy. Maybe it is. Maybe I am crazy. I probably am. Nah, I definitely am. I can't prove the story I give.

But no one can prove the official narratives either. We just need to think for ourselves. I'm glad I've given you something fresh.

I don't want to believe any of them. I wish the would was very different. But it seems it's not right now...
And yet Slack and Spotify are some of the most used apps. I wonder if most end users just don’t care about resource usage, as long as they can comfortably run all their apps, why should they?
Yeah it's generally a tradeoff of pci lanes to clock speed between the two. I would go for the clock speeds.
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I assure you "Electron is slow" is not FUD. Electron is slow and has been measured to be slow many, many times. Perhaps "Electron is eating into our desktop app market" is a problem, but it is also possible that the real complaint is that "something slow is eating into the desktop app market".
And I suppose that the art has its audience.
I mean, even Python has references to variables. You can't escape references (as opposed to values).

The difference is one of model. Pointers are an exposure of the underlying computer architecture. Whereas references are more of a property of common language design. In theory, you could not have pointers but still have references.
I’d certainly watch it if you made a video by giving the talk again, if you still have your notes :)
Tomorrow if termux like app oes an execs something else and roots the device you will shill on HN against Google. They can't win here even when the decision makes perfect sense.
This is kind of funny to me because I wish more frameworks went this route then I can just override as necessary with my own classes and ids instead we end up with people creating new classes when they shouldnt need to or hacking together different classes and writing scope creep type of CSS.

I have often thought about a CSS "framework" that did this but never bothered to look it up never thought of the name classless since it seems most popular frameworks use classes and other things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMIDaomx0GA

It's in here somewhere. It's also extensively covered in the hour breakout session by the folks who implemented it, which is uploaded somewhere though I can't find the link atm.
I wish we would take a hard look at corporate culture from a systems perspective, as self-professed systems professionals intent on "solving hard problems" and see how we ourselves contribute to the culture of disenfranchisement through our cumulative individual actions which we often attribute to "that's just how it is" rather than taking extreme ownership and fixing things in our own favour
It'll show up everywhere. Apple articles will get something about MacBook keyboards (perhaps a bit less now that they've "fixed" it), Microsoft doing anything with open source will get "EEE", Google will be "Google needs better support", Facebook is "why would you ever use this privacy-violating democracy-destroying nightmare". I haven't even gotten into non-company topics yet.
For traditional ICE cars, the amount of gas you burn is largely correlated to the RPM's of the engine when acceleration isn't happening.

Since ICE cars have gears, you'll have worse MPG efficiency while idling in 1st gear going 3 MPH, when compared to idling in a higher gear at a faster MPH. Most ICE cars can almost (but not quite) idle in a high gear at around 40MPH.
So yes, going too slow can hurt gas mileage.

Its a different matter for hybrids and EVs though...
This feels off topic. I agree with these suggestions and appreciate the suggestion for Xournal, will look into that.

But TFA focused on fundamental command line tools and shells, not office productivity apps.
If your goal is carbon reduction, then allowing people to immigrate is almost as bad as people reproducing. Someone coming from Mexico or Vietnam or Nigeria coming here will likely produce way more CO2 than if they remain in their country of origin. Reducing the total western world population should be the goal.
I am King Procrastinator. I've been off work since October 2019 and have done essentially nothing. I planned on doing a lot like getting my CCNA, practice programming, overall practice of an IT stuff.

But I deflate into a blob on a chair and argue with people on social media. It used to be gaming but now it's social media that fills hours of my day. I don't even like it.

My task to study networking to keep up my skills resulted in a single side of a page with basic subnetting practice.

I turn on all the lights to make me feel alert and it does but I always work better in the dark.

When I do start some task my head feels like it's going to explode and the only relief is a mindless task. I don't know if you call it procrastination or depression but it's resulting in zero results.

I see some common habits in the comments here only I do the opposite. Laundry? I'm going on two months wearing the same thing. Underwear? There's two sides to that coin. Exercise? Non-existent.

Procrastination seems to be the result of something that's much deeper. I don't think mopping the floor is the solution to the hole in the roof.
XJ is XinJiang

But yeah about the rest, you're probably right. I can't prove any of what I say to you, and one reason is I don't think you'd take, "just trust me, I'm right", as proof.

I hope you don't believe me. It is sort of an awful thing to believe in.

What can I say? I guess I'm a bit of a nutter. Maybe more than a bit. Definitely more than a bit. Conspiracy theorist whackjob if you will.

I like your ellipsis "XJ secret master plan". Nice quote style. Very funny. Perfect for nutty comments :)
I guess for modern vehicles though you want to be in top gear. Otherwise it’s more revolutions of the engine for a given distance. So the minimum speed to get into top gear.
Hell I have ran a Go and Python web server that my phone can access and even my laptop. That is impressive.
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Just found it interesting and hope this benefits our community.
Android is not actual Linux?
I'd assume most of Chinese speakers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia etc. would not be triggered by "communist bandits".
Also FWIW, Messages.app is poorly maintained almost certainly next in line to be converted to Catalyst. (Web views are used in other parts of the OS as well; all the "services" panes for example, as well as Safari's web inspector.)
Best you can do is wait for GitHubs cloud development environments to open up for more users.
Latency of the typing is not the same thing as general UI responsiveness.
I feel this quote of his sums up the initial draw:

"Despite not having actually used it, I have always been fond of the idea of OpenBSD — a relatively minimal and opinionated system with a cohesive vision and an emphasis on quality and craftsmanship. Linux is a lot of things, but cohesive isn’t one of them."
I like Strava... wanna see them succeed, don’t mind paying for it. That said, I see a bunch of 60 day trial messages... I’m not too clear on what it costs after that?
Most of the "small" designs and frameworks I've seen are quite large, in my mind. I just finished building a minimalist html/css template for some of my own projects. I'm starting to feel like this is some lost art form.

https://neat.joeldare.com
Speaking of meta-issues, this article seems to have just dropped to the second page, and is sitting below older articles with 10-15x fewer votes. Perhaps worth checking whether any jiggery-pokery is going on.
Apple Music on desktop is a poor web view wrapper with mildly-offensive "native" UI.
PSA: One of my favorite firefox features, you can type an asterisk (*) in the address bar and continue typing to quickly search your firefox bookmarks.

Granted, it might not scale to a huge number of bookmarks as well as some other methods mentioned here.
To me segments and leaderboards are largely what have made Strava stand out. Take those away and I might not have much reason to prefer Strava to Garmin Connect or any number of similar apps.
Slack and Spotify tend to have a fair amount of lock-in.
> Windows is not as user-stupid as something like macOS, iOS, Android, etc...

Even linux distros go down this path from time to time. For example, with systemd linger, or when ubuntu got rid of the root account. I don't like thinking of it as user-stupid. For example when I type sudo, I tend to automatically think a little harder about what I am about to do.
https://www.cnet.com/news/just-as-critics-feared-fortnite-fo...
Ask HN: What are some interesting links in your bookmarks folder?
I found myself going through my old bookmarks and found some interesting links that I wanted to read but never got to. Here's a link I uncovered recently that I found to be informative. https://github.com/fpereiro/backendlore.
Reminds me of people I’ve encountered who think they’re better at X while on $DRUG. Almost for sure, in my experience with these people, it’s definitely not true, though they’re convinced of it.

People driving while high are especially frustrating, because they’ve convinced themselves that there better drivers.
I typically use “resource-year” so as to dehumanize everyone equally.
XFree86 wasn't x86 only, but the name does hint at how it did target PCs starting in a time when the norm for X would have been to run commercial Unix on non-PC hardware.

Xorg forked from XFree86 circa 2003.
But take-home tests are some of the least robust to pinch hitting.
I would think it depends on the city. Portland Oregon is about 3 hours (at highway speeds) from Seattle, 7 hours from Boise, and about 9 hours from Sacramento (the next cities to the North, West and South). There is no demand spillover for cities that are as isolated as Portland.
I've seen engineering orgs cut in half and become a lot stronger as a result. Fat is trimmed across the stack. Processes are automated. Runbooks and documentation is written. Applications are 'operationalized' to be easily maintained. You'd be surprised how constraining resources makes it really clear what is important and what is not.
I have a strong suspicion that this is going to be related to an announcement of some kind from Microsoft tomorrow during Build. I anticipate further definition of their cross platform Blazor/Electron roadmap.
Great, then Google is not removing hate speech because 共匪 is not an immutable characteristic. Instead they're censoring US citizens on a US property to appease a foreign authoritarian nation which would never let its own people have such freedom.
My guess is it's partly that but also mixed in with aligning to their mass market consumer ambitions.

I've given my Quest to countless people to try out and while every single person is blown away, many / most of them are challenged to use the controllers as anything more than simple pointing devices without significant training. With hand tracking that all goes away. You just use your hands how you normally use them and it "just works". It's similar to how the original iPhone captured everybody's imaginations because it offered such intuitive gestures to control its UI.

If you see the Quest as their "mass market" device and then you consider that their top priority is to knock over every barrier that stops it spreading like wildfire, then it's a no brainer to eliminate the controllers.
Agreed, you'll lose access to all that server-side stuff after not too long. Just do something dead simple: single page of vanilla html/css. You'll have to move it at some point, the hosting server will need updating or shut down, and a single file is way easier to move around.
Oh no.. you're right! I will rename mine.

Edit: Though that looks for programming related questions and mine is for more general linux related questions.
Some people care about any of that stuff, but it's perfectly reasonable to make a site/page/app that just does something without trying to grow a community or engage or anything.
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You can get vim shortcuts as well.

zsh: bindkey -v

bash: set -o vi