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Jevon was working on fuel consumption. There has been plenty of government regulation that improved the (average) fuel efficiency of machines, even back then when they were steam powered.
See your "advanced"; raise you http://linuxfromscratch.org/

Which isn't a great idea for any business scenario, much less, personal productivity context.

However, if you want to level up in your Linux-fu, it cannot be recommend highly enough.
I've personally switched to using Ubuntu 20.04 on my desktop, and honestly the switch has been uninteresting - which is a good thing. Works perfectly as a software engineering environment.

I know it has been controversial in the Linux community and among long-term Ubuntu users, but Snaps are what made my switch relatively painless. Everything I need on my daily driver (Firefox, VSCode, Slack, Spotify...) is just there waiting for me. Don't need to fuss around with a package manager, third-party repositories etc.

I am not completely Linux however, I still maintain my MacBook Pro for on-the-go work and an iPad down-time/multimedia purposes.
Don't be thinking there's only 30 of em:

https://distrowatch.com/
I think beorg[1] solves a lot of your problems? It integrates with your calendar, shows you notifications and allows you to properly edit your entries.

I found out about it through HN, iirc, and it’s how I got started with using org-mode.

[1]: https://beorg.app
I don't know about Switzerland specifically, but it's up there with Norway as the most expensive places in Europe. I think they are somewhat equivalent.

For reference, in Norway, a lower-tier apartment would go for about >9000 NOK/month. You could find cheaper, but that'd be <20 square meters, or really kind landlords. (I've managed to secure two short-term contracts for a small urban apartment and a small rural house for 6000 NOK respectively, but that wasn't market rate in either case.)
> daily coffee ... (which is actually a poison)

[citation needed]
Quines: self-replicating programs (2005)
Not parent, but as a consumer I see zero to no reason I should pay money and get service that is less convenient than an existing 'solution'. In other words, if I pay, I have expectations.
now they just use pivot tables. Bloody pivot tables...
Thought:

- Companies that now realised that remote schemes works for them, will push for that scheme to remain, with the aim of reducing their fixed costs (office rent, utilities, insurance, etc).

- This eliminates a big chunk of fixed costs... as most are shifted to the employees.

- If authorities/employees start demanding that part of those costs are covered by the company, companies will push to get avoid work-from-home schemes, as they will want more control over those expenses...

I'm sure that there are other unintended consequences, such as higher rents, but who knows.
> a person is more likely than not to end up in cloudflares netflow log.

They are, but because this is all Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 service does, that log only tells you that the IP address used Cloudflare's service.

So whereas this Thai data more or less says e.g. You watched Netflix between 18:40 and 19:26 and then again 21:33 to 22:09 the Cloudflare data says you own a device that uses Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS service. Maybe you can try to do some kind of activity estimate e.g. me idly browsing random web sites probably causes more DNS queries versus a SmartTV just periodically doing auto-updates when I'm asleep, but the 2000:1 dilution would make that more unreliable.

It isn't strictly nothing but it's damn close.
Oh wait, is this "rent" in the sense of the company essentially renting part of the worker's home? I read it as as paying the worker's share of the rent to the landlord! If that's the case then that would make a lot more sense.
The only "default" I considered insensible with the latest Ubuntu is that it still overwrites the default system boot loader. I was able to recover through the BIOS boot menu though I can see this how it can deterring new users from trying this.
openSUSE "intermediate"? Huh? I've been using openSUSE for the past ~5 years. Sure enough, the repos are not as rich as the popular distros but everything always works out of the box, including proprietary software(which can be a nightmare even on mainstream distros).
For me the advantage is that I mostly use org-mode for other reasons, like note taking, but when it makes sense to integrate TODO functionality, which comes up frequently while taking notes, it is there and I don't need an additional app using some other database which I then need to synchronize with my note taking system.
IMHO a beginner has very few choicie. He should choose ubuntu. Fedora is about as good as ubuntu for beginners, but it is more difficult to find other users to get help. A beginner may choose fedora if he is using redhat at work and could get some directions from IT staff. The variants of ubuntu introduce some confusion and do not give much benefit in return. The other distributions do not fit beginners (either lack of polish or lack of users or both).
Yes, if you're self-employed.

Being allowed to deduct it from the taxes is a recognition that it is a 'work expense' rather than a profit (because you're charging it from you customer). It's the same idea w.r.t the reinbursement.
Sums up my experience pretty well. Here is an old joke about Linux which I remember every time I need to fix by Bluetooth or WiFi:

"In Linux, you can configure everything. And you will be configuring everything"

Despite all the "inconvenient" sides of Linux, it's really an awesome OS if you know what you are doing
This seems likely to have unpredictable downstream effects on the Swiss workforce as compared to other countries
Google has this functionality in knowledge cards (if you are signed in, you can even tell it what you subscribe to), or https://justwatch.com is a non-Google service that does the same thing.
This is a crude but relatively accurate way of summing up the author's (Ray Peat) stance I think.
But when will NYT finally implode and disappear?
> What can FreeBSD do about it?

That's a good question, and I don't have a clue. I know my comment sounds a bit entitled, because now that I think of it FreeBSD has provided that platform for vendors and the wider community to port drivers, or reverse engineer where possible. If i could do it I would do it myself, but I lack the skill and time. So i'll rephrase my statement: s/Very disappointed by BSDs and FreeBSD in particular/Very disappointed that vendors do not provide better hardware support for BSDs and FreeBSD in particular/. It really is a shame that such a great OS doesn't have wider support and adoption.
Maybe it's just your use case - but I've just switched someone over to Linux and it seems to be suiting them much better than Windows - granted they're running older hardware, but we would've had to throw that laptop away otherwise, as Windows 10 is absolute garbage when installed on an HDD.

The person in question was really quite attached to their Laptop and after a failed HDD, we just took another one we had lying around, tried to save Windows (but to no avail), and finally decided to put LinuxLite [1] on it.

People who mostly utilize a browser in their day-to-day computer usage don't have any advantage in using Windows whatsoever.

I haven't yet used Linux for that long, (only around two years as may daily driver) but I can't imagine ever going back to Windows, except for very few select games, which aren't yet supported natively or via Proton/Wine.

And I keep hearing about the touchpad driver issue, but I really can't find a single difference between my Windows and Linux boxes, maybe I'm not sensitive enough, or have much lower standards in that regard, I really can't tell.

Sure, Windows Office and some Adobe software isn't there yet when used via Wine, I'll give you that. I personally do just fine with Blender, Gimp and Inkscape on the graphics front. I can't speak for the usability of the Libre-office suite, but it's done the job for the few times I had to use it.

[1]https://www.linuxliteos.com/
I hooe my update from 18.04 LTS ro 20.04 LTS will be the opposite of eventful.
SQL DBs are not specialized.... they're incredibly general...

You are never starting from "I need to store some data" you're always going to start from "I need to store and read some data" otherwise /dev/null would work if you are not going to read the data back.

the problem with cassandra and riak is precisely the read aspect of the problem which quickly degrades the performance of those systems.

I've used both cassandra and postgresql at scales most companies never reach. cassandra I'd only touch for immutable time series data and only if that information was large enough to not fix on a single server and i didn't care about consistency. everything else is a SQL rdbms.
extra room to work on? But then companies will have less rent for office. Also employees no commute expenses
or MS Access, or Hypercard - we've had productivity boosters, just never anything remotely close to eliminating the inherently hard act of "building software".
You didn't negate OP's point though. Just stated it was a different motivation.

The net result is still that you

- disincentivize companies to let people work from home

- give people who can work from home, (and already are at an advantage to cashiers/tellers/etc...) more benefits.
Yeah, my first thought when I started reading your comment was “yeah, it’s a bit silly, but you can’t ‘grep’ Jira”.

I’ve been a long time org user and am slowly starting to move bits of my workflow out of it to ease collaboration with the staff I’m planning to hire in the next couple months. I absolutely love Org and am not particularly happy about moving away from it, but... it seems like trying to use it in a collaborative way is not going to go well. I’ll keep using it for myself though because it’s awesome :D
Come on. They asked for advice on which skills to improve. I know nothing about them except that they seem to struggle to piece together a sentence.
> did they take them down?

Iirc, it's planned by the end of the year. His podcast will be Spotify exclusive from then.
With HIPAA, PII, and other regulations I'm not so sure that no-code solutions are the future. There is a lot of nuance in what businesses want. Plugins to WordPress may be an intermediate example, though very quickly one is approaching programming by configuration, theming, or assortment of plugins. And Darwin help you if things go sideways.
Everytime I see "must pay", it scares me. Yes I know that employees get exploited etc but instead of making employers pay, why not let employees get a tax deduction or even a credit ? As an employer, I can tell you that the burden of employer paying for everything is not necessarily a good idea. It is not about the money only but also about the added overhead/red tape. In US, I am already sick of for example health insurance crap. I would gladly pay the same amount of money directly to the employee instead of dealing with insurance companies and their bullshit.
Trello will forever be the relatively slow, clunky, time-sucking platform that it is.

In org mode you get faster, more efficient and more powerful as you develop, which means you don't need to summon that willpower.
There is orgmode plugin also for Vim[1].

[1] https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode
Cgroups are more about resource allocation than access control, but they may still be of some use under the hood (as they are for eg. docker). They certainly aren't the abstraction the end-user needs in order to enforce separation between application sandboxes.
Tried NetBSD and OpenBSD in the past, and had worse issues in terms of compatibility. However, I had to rephrase my comment based on someone else's comment, and based on the realization that it's not FreeBSD and BSDs at fault:
s/Very disappointed by BSDs and FreeBSD in particular/Very disappointed that vendors do not provide better hardware support for BSDs and FreeBSD in particular/
Me and a coworker found that uBO blocks it. Also from my tests without uBO enabled it didn't scan every time (seemed to only scan when logged out, but that could have been a coincidence)
You're fearmongering. I've been torrenting for the better part of 20 years and still haven't received one of these nastygrams.
Probably, but that still doesn't make the NYT the independent alternative edgy medium it would like to be.
And YAST makes system administration easier than any other distro. I would certainly set it as beginner.
Someone just told me on Diaspora that their Tuxedo-badged, Clevo-made laptops were horrible, fragile, with poor linux compatibility :)
One could argue that you don't need a separate room in your house, if you don't work from home. Something you might need if you have a family with multiple people working/studying from home. Also CHF150 is not really a lot for Switzerland, so this probably won't pay for a whole room on its own. But definitely an interesting decision from the court.
That's exactly where I'm coming from.
> The important question is that whether this relationship is disruptive, neutral or positive (like being addicted to training). Drinking isn't inherently bad, but the author thinks so. My impression is that there are equal number of studies on pro/contra moderate alcohol consumption.

Not sure if it's part of the 'official' definition of addiction and forgot what the source of it was, but I always liked the explanation that if there's no negative (emotional) feedback loop, it's not really an addiction, but just a habit.
I didn’t say not to listen. I’m actually quite fond of the points brought up here. I’m just saying it’s taken to an extreme, which is likely justified by the level of addiction that the author is guarding against.

Coffee and orgasming is arguably not bad (there are health benefits to both). No one would dispute that the author’s kleptomania _is_ deviant behavior though. So I disagree that the goal should be to purge _all_ addictions, the goal should be to live a good life and eliminate addictions that obstruct this. The article still has good advice when viewed through this lens.
Went the same route with WSL2 as nearly everything i need for my daily programming tasks just works and having windows just an alt+tab away for games / office etc. makes it more pleasant to use.

Maybe i`m just getting old and dual booting etc. isn`t my thing anymore but i don`t see myself setting up another distro anytime soon after 20 years.

WSL2 for me is the arrival of the Linux desktop.
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It’s advantageous for companies to pay for anything that can be construed as a business expense for employees, since that means they can transfer money to the employee tax free. Businesses in the US do this for health insurance, and remote companies can do it for a few more expenses. It makes sense to pay for whatever expenses the company can, as long as the administrative costs don’t outweigh the tax advantage.
> In short: org mode is software that sits on top of the markup language, and lets you interact in sophisticated, semantic ways with the information in a file.

As one example of this, org mode makes it easy to collapse/expand the content of a task.
I'm not sure why they insist on installing GRUB when UEFI allows the firmware itself to act as a boot manager (remembering boot options and their order) and the kernel itself can be booted directly as an EFI application.
This might be an example of the cart leading the horse.

Adding a lockable door is a reasonable requisite imo, if you're working from home full time and you're reducing the tax then the tax authority would prefer that you can't/won't use that space for personal use.

The Tax authority not being able to enter your home to ensure that does not remove the requisite of at least having a physically separated room, obviously there is give & take here. If you are given a bonus under the table from work that is also tax fraud.
That's really twisting things beyond recognition. In the US, we deduct business costs period, but pay taxes on profits. So as long as your business or your employer's is making profits, the taxes on profits are replacing it, not your fellow citizens. And if profits aren't being made, well obviously the situation isn't going to last too long.

The idea that the taxes of people who don't work from home are somehow subsidizing those who do is... just not how it works.
Since the portscan happens clientside on 127.0.0.1 I doubt your firewall will be able to notice the portscan.
Whatever media outlet he's on is the new mainstream media
He's just another Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh etc. We've had personality talk show hosts for decades and will continue to have them in the decades to come. The media landscape is not fundamentally changing.

And how much Spotify paid him is not a reflection of his mainstream popularity. It's a reflection of how much the LTV of his audience is worth. Two very different things.
I keep seeing Joe Rogan's name on Reddit and sometimes on HN. Why does he seem to strike a chord with the demographic that hang out on Reddit and HN? Why is his podcast good? Is he really a good moderator? Does he provide good insights to the listeners about people he interviews or topics he discuss in his podcast?
Dappy, ultra secure decentralized web browser – no DNS, no CAs, blockchain based
Coming to mind:
Electricity, AC, Heating, internet (more bandwidth & data cap), desk & chair, you may need an extra room if you are always working from home...
Thanks to MPAA taking out popcorn in the last couple of days, I discovered in the HN post the next big and marvellous torrent thing : https://www.stremio.com/

Its like PT on steroids with add-ons.

The only caveat is taking 5 additional minutes to install add-ons (TPB+ can be your first choice to get you going)

There is one that list IMDB TOP 250, in order, ready to stream

I have Netflix and Disney+ just to buy moral credit; but since ~1y torrent at will again. Thank you MPAA for enlightening me
Yes on the healthcare thing. Decouple insurance from employers completely.
I think OmniFocus can export in a wide variety of formats, including plain text formats, so you can always take backups of plain text files.

I agree that a FOSS solution is preferable to a proprietary one, however, an easy to use software with a GUI is also preferable to one with a good amount of learning curve. I don't have any issue with the GUI.

I also don't have any issue with costing money. Quality software can cost money, since it costs money to create it. The alternative is software which spies on you and serves you ads. I don't know any other model by which a note taking app can make money.

What's wrong with costing money anyways. A vast majority of HN earns fat salaries writing software. Either those salaries have to come from selling software or from tracking users. I much more prefer software being charged for.
The windows equivalent would probably be declaring it a feature.
Until you upgrade the kernel and your wifi stops working. Or the desktop stops loading and you have to spend time going through logs and googling what's broken this time. Or when you plug it to a secondary screen and it freezes. This happened when I was a desktop Linux user and this still happens (less frequently nowadays though). I'm mainly talking about Ubuntu which is supposed to be beginner-friendly and not some obscure distro.

When I was younger I was very happy to deal with these issues because I learned a lot and probably made me the professional I am nowadays. Over time however I realized much of this knowledge doesn't contribute to my day-to-day work anymore and it's just an annoyance - I now want to turn on my laptop and work right away.
If https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/national-average-m... is reasonably accurate, most people aren't going to be itemizing deductions, they will take the standard deduction.
That is not the native format, therefore it doesn't really matter.

You _can_ export Excel documents as CSV too.
Would you be interested in purchasing a tiger-repellent rock from me? I can guarantee that if you purchase one of my rocks, no tigers will eat you. They're real rocks, I assure you.
Health insurance is a great example - a single payer system has much more bargaining power than everyone trying to negotiate for medical care at a moment when they'll die without it.

Of course, such a system is less efficient at extracting value from consumers, so I suppose your question requires an assumption as to whom a system is efficient for.
In addition it's a pamphlet written by Juan Branco of all people, a nutcase conspiracy theorist who is more interested in self-promotion than any real social justice
I suppose this is for the same reason that people structure databases. There are often non-trivial relationships between different types of information that are useful to keep track of. Citations and links are useful features for note taking.
If forms are essentially terminal apps, is FB much different from a teletype news service, with hyper-filtered content and an infinite set of data sources?

I see massive sea change in connectivity and immersiveness of today, but not really in what we're trying to achieve.
That depends on the supply/demand curves. Almost certainly, there will be some amount of deadweight loss: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadweight-loss-of-taxa...
It's unlikely in bigger companies that have pay bands per job level. It's probably cheaper to pay the additional token amount than figure out how to adjust those pay bands down to cover only the people impacted.
Not being cheeky, but "just works" except when it doesn't.

Then off to the command line to try to make it work.

And I think the way Linux was built, (ok this will sound naive but) focusing on the "command line" first makes everything second class.

Maybe every cmdline app should also include a binary api to be able to be used in an automated fashion (yes, you can call "system" but that is finicky)
> I'm sure that there are other unintended consequences, such as higher rents, but who knows.

For Amazon's reputation for internal cost-cutting (such as displaying the pricing on computer peripherals in vending-machines in their SLU offices), Amazon makes me scratch my head for building-up their HQ in one of the most expensive cities to buy land in the world - ditto Facebook in Menlo Park. Why didn't Amazon choose Kent or Auburn instead - or Facebook building in the north-east of the Bay rather than the hyper-expensive south-west? Given Facebook's propensity to attract and hire young twentysomethings then surely their exact location in the Bay Area is immaterial (similarly, Amazon attracts a lot of ex-MSFT folk from the Seattle Eastside).

It is a mystery.

But that explains the higher-rents!
Great.

That won't be hard - cut 5-10% or local workforce, outsource their jobs to abroad and you won't feel it
Should I be forced by the courts to pay for the tools of my plumber in addition to the agreed wage?

Anyway, it would make more sense to pay for a percentage of the transportation/time spent travelling of the workers rather than for housing costs - not only it would incentivise companies to enforce work from home but it would also be more fair to the employees. After all the employees would have a home regardless but have to pay for transportation only if they have to attend the company.
overall good write-up yet I get a strong sensation of black VS white and there is no gray.

either you're addicted or you're free, no middle ground, no gray areas, no better days in which is easy to overcome one's compulsions and no worse days in which it's much harder.

simplistic "all or nothing" ideas which diminish nunace are also dopamine inducing, this is why memes are so popular. they are the refined sugar of information and understanding.
wont this just push rents up?
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