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I've tried out Linux as a Desktop OS pretty consistently every 2-3 years for about 20 years on various Desktop and Laptop computers. I use Linux on a daily basis as a Security analyst, so while I'm not as good as many, I am far better off than the average computer user (I was offered a gig as an intermediate Linux admin once but passed it up to remain in security).

Every time I try it, I end up fixing a bunch of minor and sometimes major problems that take an amount of effort significantly higher than it would to just get things working on MacOS or Windows.

I have seen notable progress every time I try it though. In fact, my latest attempt is mostly an exception to my experience of all of the other times I've tried it.

I have only been running Linux Mint for about 3 weeks, but so far I only have two issues. One of them is significant, and the other one isn't really that big of a deal.

The significant issue is that my Gigabit Ethernet seems much slower than it was on Window when I attempt to download large files. However, my Wireless AC seems to be fine so its not the end of the world.

The minor issue is that Steam refuses to launch most games on my primary monitor the first time I open them. Even after opening and configuring the games individually, some of them still refuse to run on the correct monitor unless I set the resolution to something lower than the Monitor's native resolution. This happens both for games that are native to Linux and games that are running with Proton.

I think this time around the downsides are outweighed by the benefits of running Linux as a primary OS, so I am planning on sticking with it for a long time, but either of these issues would be a valid deal breaker for any reasonable person.

Your post seems to imply that its a myth that Linux doesn't deliver a near perfect desktop experience. If you haven't had any problems that's great. I'm sure a ton of people have no issues or almost no issues. A great desktop OS should serve all common use cases with virtually no issues that require a non-layman's level of technical knowledge to fix. Based on my experience with MacOS, Windows, and Linux, none of them are perfect, but the latter has the most work to do to meet that standard.
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I purchased a souped-up Eluktronics MAG-15 recently to try out VR and I'm really amazed by how subpar Windows is compared to Linux and MacOS even with top of the line hardware.

I found out that I can update a lot of components of my early 2015 MBP, so I'm going to get a 512GB or 1TB hard drive and see if I can make a Linux partition.
Note: This has nothing at all to do with the 2006 movie Das Leben der Anderen.
Interesting... I've never seen the startup doing something like this, we were inspired by DIYPerks on youtube.
Has anyone tried to do a GDPR request yet to either see what data they actually hold, or to test the right to erasure?
Yes, great point! Even the best design principles can fall into 'trend' territory if they're not applied intentionally, to solve an actual problem. Exceptions definitely make the rule, and a site might find that extreme information density is what's called for. It really comes down to being intentional, being wary of trends for trends sake, and hammering on the constraints, and the problem one is trying to solve for the user.
Why is Firefox so slow on Linux then?
What's the baseline for similar predictions from credible sources? In retrospect, that's spot on, but we can't evaluate past prioritization without knowing how many other equally credible dire predictions were made that haven't panned out.
These widgets are also how facebook is able to fingerprint and track people who don't have facebook accounts.
Thanks for your feedback! I honestly did not expect Weylus to get that much attention. Unfortunately my time is limited and I am not too comfortable taking donations then.

> 1) From the video, latency would need to go way down.

On the encoding side the only thing I can think of to improve latency is to try hardware encoding if available. Something like NVENC might bring it down. That leaves optimization for the network protocol to use, something based on udp is likely better suited than websockets. And finally mobile apps probably leave more room for improving playback latency (and enable other protocols than using websockets).

> 2) Pressure support is important, if not critical.

It is pretty straightforward to add new input methods, I will add some instructions to the Readme, maybe someone will step forward and add support for macOS and Windows.

> 3) Packaging.

There already is a .deb, although I still need to fix some dependency issue [1].

> Next step would be to go from mirroring to second display.

Apparently this is almost possible right now (at least with X11), see [2].

> breadcrumbs

I think this is the way to go, I will add some more info on how to contribute soon.

[1]: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus/issues/6
[2]: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus/issues/5
As others posted, cursive is the same deal in most european countries.

Anecdotally this is why I can’t read most adult cursive writing, as I bailed very early to “print” like handwriting. I have no notion of how the letters flow and it just looks like messed up coils to me.
> It turned out not to be a feasible solution from a technical cost standpoint

The shuttle turned out not to be a feasible solution because it was loaded down with other requirements that had nothing to do with the killer feature you describe. A key one was the requirement from the US Air Force that the shuttle have enough cross range capability to be launched into a polar orbit and then return to the launch site after one orbit [1]. That was what drove costs up to the point where the shuttle wasn't feasible any more in terms of the killer feature.

[1] https://history.nasa.gov/sts1/pages/scota.html
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Maybe also differences in wind? I'm guessing Miami gets a nice sea breeze much of the year. Things are likely very different in the urban geography of NYC, with wind tunnel effects in some places and stale air in others.
Just remove the antenna? Won't be connecting very far after that!
1) Partly. But in this case it’s also for very practical reasons, it makes teaching and learning much simpler, and it makes cursive writing possible. It wouldn’t be without strict stroke order.
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I completely agree that the rhetoric around “Science!” has gotten increasingly more toxic. I say this as a trained scientist, we really do at bad job of communicating. This is made worse by a media and a general public that isn’t used to thinking in scientific terms.

By that I mean we spend so much time as scientists living with and making decisions about which course of action to take in the context of uncertain data. Other fields obviously do too, but for a bench scientist, every day is is a constant tradeoff on which data you buy, what experiments will you run to confirm/exclude it, and what’s the downside of that decision. The best rarely speak in full certainty, they talk about probabilities.

Contrast to public messaging or journalism which is, “do this, not that.” This has led to people holding “science” as an identity, a talisman of righteousness. That’s not how science works, but people want to feel better by judging people so here we are.

I personally would have preferred a short, coherent statement on what we know for sure and what we don’t, how confident we are about the same, and to treat people as adults.
Sounds like something a $20ish active adapter should be able to fix. The box shouldn't care what's on the other end of the cable as long as whatever it is speaks the right version of the protocol.
Nice. I've been to the Baker resort, but didn't venture into the backcountry.

You gotta get on some volcanoes with the split next May!

I'd have to agree about Shuksan, a real stunner of a mountain!
While interesting I don’t think this old paper led to the popularization of the term. It only has 12 citations!
Except literally no one will care if you change the order of the strokes after you graduate from elementary.
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[4] http://www.linux-meson.com/ ?
There are some movements in this area with the inevitable and inexorable march of progress that drops the prices of high-speed low-rez cameras using mostly off-the-shelf components. If video can be lossy while key features from the feed are processed in-stream, one can get creative with high frame rates (>2000 fps, 256x256 monochrome).[1]

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
ThinkPads be like "Are we a joke to you?"
Nice work. I worked on a product that ended up tilted in this direction once. Meltwater was one of the earlier names in this space and did well out of it.

Enterprises are willing to pay for this type of information (specifically about their clients), but it’s hard to be 10x better than google alerts, other than offering “enterprise integration” which can get slow.

Best of luck!
You are in complete control of how you choose to interpret a statement..and choose you will.
Basically lorem ipsum, but JSON.
There are converters at coast lines that are reality and being tested/used.[0] There are plans to install converters at the bottom of the sea to collect wave energy, but if my memory serves correct, there were concerns that this would slow down processes in the ocean and might lead to problems in its ecosystem.

[0]: https://www.marinetechnologynews.com/blogs/wave-energy-resea...
In the same space we also find Fable, which hooks into Babel to compile F# to JS. We're using it in production and it's been surprisingly good. It's very nice to be able to share the definitions of data structures between the C# backend and JS (via F#) front-end.
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I started PC programming in about 1997 before I had an internet connection at home. I had to either research at school and make notes or get books from the library.

The fun result of that was for a few weeks I thought that I was going to get rich from having invented unit testing.

What we have today is far more efficient, I don't miss it but I definitely look back on those days with nostalgia.
No problem, you can send an email to me@buneme.com :)
I'm fluent in Japanese and I stand by what I said: "Memorizing the stroke order isn't as important as some instructors make it out to be, but it can matter [in some cases]."

Also keep in mind that even native Japanese speakers struggle with Kanji, and more so with every passing year. Some of my Japanese friends with college educations struggle to even read some jouyou kanji, let alone write. With the aid of technology, modern Japanese fluency de-emphasizes the need for stroke order substantially.
I have a "holistic" system approach. I believe that every system; whether software, hardware, design, written materials, whatever, needs to be treated as a "whole," and that "whole" often includes components that may not be considered relevant to implementors.

Take, for, example, end-user documentation. That's often considered "not mah job, man" by engineers; which is appropriate. It is not their job, –and, this is important– if some knucklehead manager makes it their job, they are gonna get a real turd sandwich for end-user documentation.

What needs to happen, is that the manager needs to hire a real tech writer (not a repurposed administrator -unless they get lucky), and then supply that writer with the tools and authority necessary to do a good job.

Stop me if you've heard this before.

A lot of startups don't have this luxury. Almost every person in the company is wearing half a dozen hats. The CTO may be the main (sometimes, only) engineer. For whatever reason, they don't have headcount money for a tech writer, so the CTO, who is, to be fair, an amazing and energetic engineer, writes the user docs.

Unfortunately, she is also intimately familiar with the system, and has a very advanced baseline. She does not approach the documentation with an eye towards new users, coming in hot and two engines shot to hell. She assumes that they are engineers of her caliber, and that they "of course" know the basics that she glosses over.

So we have this marvelous system, that was produced by marvelous people, and is presented to the user, wrapped in a turd sandwich.
Changing the dialogue maybe, but thats not what your (now removed) comment did. It targeted a specific group of people and shifted the blame onto them. I've been involved in various climate and environmental related protests, blockades, open source projects and acts of (peaceful) civil disobedience and I've seen people from all age groups and walks of life getting involved. Alienating, blame shifting and generalising helps nobody. Instead point your frustration and energy at the system that they're a product of.
Yes, seemed both an interesting idea and actually useful.
It got picked up on Four Short Links today too
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http://www.linux-meson.com/ ?
I personally don't understand the hangup on the existence of an IDE.

Don't get me wrong - IDEs are great, especially for beginners. But "one-editor-per-language" is an increasingly outdated mode of thinking. The culture shock of having to download a whole new IDE for a new language is a distinct negative. Beginners benefit from new languages slotting neatly into existing tools, which is exactly what the language server efforts in Haskell have yielded.

A (perhaps) valid criticism would be "the Haskell community has not done enough to make sure the language server is easy usable" - and I wouldn't even say that that was the case.
If you object to the word "pathological," then substitute "behavior with some negative impact on others."
Seconding - my X1 Carbon 7 runs Ubuntu with no tinkering whatsoever.
> in the grand scheme of dangerous fuel and oxidisers combinations, Kerosene and Hydrogen Peroxide are significantly safer to handle than traditionally used hypergolic mixtures:

Are they? AFAIU the propensity for HTP to exothermically decompose was the main reason why it was abandoned in favor of IRFNA/NTO. I mean, if you're switching to something as nasty as NTO or IRFNA for safety reasons, whatever you're switching from has to be pretty bad!

See also the Kursk submarine disaster.

> Hydrogen Peroxide at sub-90%, and especially at sub 70%, purities is reasonably safe to store and handle, especially if you store it in an inhibited state and you're willing to have a suboptimal hypergolic reaction in return for a safer handling procedure.

IIRC in Clark's Ignition the opposite was mentioned, namely that higher concentrations have better resistance to decomposition, presumably due to lower amounts of impurities which can get the decomposition reaction started.
>> So you're kind of left to figure out all the little idioms and best practices for stack management all on your own.

That was my experience learning Forth in the 80's. Initially I tried to add compositional features I was familiar with from APL and Lisp. I raged against the limitations of the cell and schemed to use a typed stack. Eventually I became one with PAD and was able to ALLOT peace to my code. At some point I ranted on how the idiom of counted strings could be generalized to all sorts of useful sin and had an epiphany. 2ROT on!
This is a very nice write up, maybe worthy of becoming a blog post!
The Duck Duck Bot crawls the web in some fashion but it is my understanding most of what's in their search result comes from their Bing indices. Correct me if I'm wrong.
When I was first starting out it was, "can we make it edgier?"

The IDEO philosophy – which has really influenced a lot of Silicon Valley's best teams – is all about what you're saying. Design Thinking is really about making everyone on the team a designer. Everyone has their speciality, but the Designer's role is to bring everyone together with a process that involves everyone.

This was the approach used by Apple when they first launched their Apple Stores, twenty years ago. Rather than impose a design created in a vacuum, they brought together a diverse team that included someone representing the retail employee perspective.
I remember I was taught a quite rigid way to write the alphabet when I went to elementary school in Austria and the quality of my writing being part of the grade. (And don't get me started on cursive) Thankfully that was mostly over sometime around middle school (although I was still required to write in cursive).

Side note: The A's in the first example both look wrong to me since you're supposed to write the first two lines in one go without raising the pen. Having a discontinuity in the top corner is IMO a worse stylistic error than the placement of the middle line.
you also assume they're traveling AT or NEAR light speed, they could be traveling many times that OR not traveling via speed at all, but warping space and literally folding it over on itself and going THROUGH space like basically creating a controlled wormhole.
So you're saying we should just ignore the facts? The fact is: the government is mostly controlled by one particular demographic, and they are the ones who got us to this point. They want to maintain the status quo because it's the system that got them where they are, and they want to continue to benefit from it.

You are naive if you think you can change the world without first acknowledging where the problems came from to begin with. The reason why nothing changes is because there's a revolving door of the same people being in charge year after year.
I would have thought that the type of person compelled to use DDG, would disable autocomplete.
Sweden cooperates with the US on all that surveillance, so you can’t really argue that they’re better relative to the US or South Korea. Arguably worse, because South Korea actually saved lives with it while Sweden got no pandemic-fighting benefit in return.

The South Korean and Swedish responses began at about the same time, so again, this seems like special pleading. South Korea has more direct exchange with China as well.

If your argument is that Europe overall hasn’t done a great job, and Sweden isn’t that far of a deviation from that performance, ok. But again, that’s not an accomplishment relative to the actually successful countries like Taiwan and South Korea. I don’t understand how having many times more deaths be considered “effective” relative to these countries? Again, they didn’t have any of the economic damage caused by lockdowns either.
Downvoted.

Because it's easy to blame other things.

It's hard to find workable solutions and you are not contributing any value. HN is not Reddit.
I don't know to be truthful. The TV remote has loads of buttons bottom the only ones I use are on/off, source to find the HDMI and volume sometimes.
I'd love just to have a dumb monitor of the same size but they're not available. A bonus then would be no need to have a tv licence.
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If you're referring to where it appears to hit his head, he actually has on a "helmet" of sorts that's made out of rows of thin wire, so the arc is actually hitting that. The suit is not just for show - my understanding is it would be very dangerous to stand that close to those coils otherwise.

I don't know all the ins and outs of the safety of interacting with these things, but I do think one concern if you were to get hit by one of the arcs is skin burns.
I'd love to read a post-mortem.
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I'm describing the role of a manager, versus a contractor/leaf-resource.

A vacation is valuable, I agree, but your position within a company is a reflection of our position within it's operation -- the higher you are within it, the more people you screw over when you say "it's 5pm goodbye" and don't have things setup to handle it. Your power, and pay, is a reflection of that: you have less and less leeway, as you have greater impact, to screw around.

It would be a very poorly run company that allows everything to shutdown because a VP (key: not founder) went on vacation -- the same is true of a department head, and his department, and a team lead, and his team. But it's also the CEO's job to make sure he picks VP's who ensure this not the case within his domain, and the VP must pick the department heads, and the department heads their team leads -- if you are willing to allow, or unable to prevent, such scenarios to bust forth, you really shouldn't be managing that particular domain.

The more important you are, the less freedom you have, because the greater the impact your choices will have.

And to be clear I'm not using duty as an implication of loyalty or whatever -- I mean that a manager, or manager of manager's job really boils down to one thing:

Ensure productivity within your domain

Not letting your team implode in two weeks of your absence is part of that
Sorry for not being clear. I don’t disagree. An open source tool for designers would probably attract designers’ contributions. Very few open source projects are tools for designers. Most projects looking for free design contributions are not for designers. The ideas of giving back or what comes around goes around don’t apply because the the interests of most projects do not include benefits for designers.
Would the sound frequencies really scale that way though? I feel like when you speed up or slow down audio it doesn't sound right.
> "Retrospectively you can justify anything. But the coronavirus outbreak happening now is not proof of the idea that the optimal thing to do in 2010 was to invest in coronavirus research..."

you know what we can justify prospectively? any and all scientific research, including corona research and every past and future ig nobel nominee, over funneling billions of dollars into the pockets of the already wealthy, as our politicoeconomic system is currently set up to do.

that's not to belittle your point that you can't a priori know what research will "pay off", but rather to buttress the idea that we should be pouring many magnitudes more money into research so we're that much less likely to miss potentially valuable science in the face of the vast unknown.
I wonder if "Abolish the police" is one of these ideas.
Interesting. It seems to me that the two consecutive primes, modulo 7, are more likely to be an odd and even pair (i.e. the total of the 2 modulo is more likely to be odd) than an odd odd or even even pair.
I find it very difficult to pay attention to video content or audio content without getting distracted or just wanting to turn it off. I wonder if anyone has tips for how to improve my concentration.

Funnily, I don't have this issue with music or with movies/TV. It's just lecture formats and podcasts that don't work for me.

I much prefer to read articles, guides, transcripts, etc.
Why options and not equities?
I see they used the photo from before the addition of "= Defund the Police"
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This is so stereotyped an opinion that it's almost a joke -- although admittedly it's a hard opinion to refute, because there's arguments both ways. I won't downvote out of respect and that's not what downvoting is supposed to be for -- and in fact merits a response.

But I will say that for all of the US's desire to have creative kids, we pretty badly fail on bringing up basic education standards to anything close to what Japan (or other similar countries) have.

I'll offer my own caricatured view on modern US public K-6 education on the other extreme -- let's have the kids discover the most rudimentary rules of math on their own because our average teacher isn't able to handle a rigorous curiculum, and muddle through the basics because it "makes them feel good"!
29, whatever. When you've been doing this as long as I have the years run together.