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Does anyone find this whole situation very anti-consumer?

Two billion dollar tech companies have started a slap fight, both have claimed its for the benefit of their customers/users but in reality its about their own personal bottom line.

The gaming forums filling up with pre-teen twits willing to cheer lead for their respective megacorp is thoroughly depressing to look at.
It doesn't necessarily have to, though : look at plan9. IIRC GUIs respected UNIX's " everything is a file" philosophy, and thus were introspectible, modifiable and scriptable from other programs.

Looking at modern desktop Linux, I wish it had retained more of this. Unfortunately, d-bus, GObject and Wayland aren't really file-based.
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Please stop. Your self pity is annoying. You have an engineering degree. There’s no way you’re not in the top quintile of intelligence and you’re probably in the top decile. Enough of the pity party. If you hate yourself go join a boxing club or start running marathons or something else that will put the petty bullshit of work life in perspective besides the fact that you’re young and you have a beautiful, working body.
Not a pure shell, but Makefiles do rely on whitespace.
I never understood why so many people care about that (not to mention that python uses the curly braces as a useful syntax element for dicts & sets)
2026. Six years to go.
Agree. Unity has rather verbose graphs to describe GUIs, so it is more like XAML, which I guess works, but isn't exactly elegant. And no, Unity doesn't have any accessibility by default. Plus it tends to have a few ms of mouse cursor lag, which can be pretty infuriating to power users.
What is really distorting research are all those moralistic jerks off
So why can't Epic (or any other company) provide you that option with a 42% premium (to cover Apple's 30% cut) and allow users to buy direct from them? Then if you wish to trust Apple more with your card details, you can pay more for the privelege. Or you can save some money, but potentially increase your risk by going direct.

I've always hated that Apple seem to think they know better than anyone else; you can't do as you wish on their platforms because you might be stupid.
Your argument comes down to "why don't we just let them die?"

You broke your arm? Sorry, no insurance. Figure out yourself how you're going to fix that. You might not be able to ever use it again, but that's your choice.

Cancer breaking down your stomach, leaving you in agonizing pain every hour of every day? Sorry, no insurance. Please be quiet, your neigbors didn't sign up to hear your screams.

Truck plowed into your car, leaving you maimed beyond recognition? Sorry, no insurance. We can't help you get home either, but there's a nice big hole outside the exit you could crawl into instead. Also here's the bill for cleaning the bloodstains you left on our floor.

We don't just leave people to die because it's both an ethical problem, and because it causes problems for everyone else.
Yes. GNOME has its bundled screenshot tool, and Zoom supports screen recording on GNOME/Wayland. Sway has grim + slurp for screenshots, and wf-recorder or wlrobs for screen recording.

However, one difference between X11 and Wayland, is that the role of the compositor (window manager) is much larger in Wayland. Thus, I believe it is up to the compositor to offer an API for features like this in Wayland, and the API may differ between compositors. In practice, GNOME has done their own thing; KDE and Sway collaborate on protocols, and are partly compatible; nearly every other compositor is based on Sway's wlroots, and should be compatible with Sway.

[1]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki
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You forgot european lives fighting american wars in ME.
Hey that's cool you're trying to bring back the "homepage". Don't go overboard with the vision and just execute on what we all know already makes sense.
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I don't know. I know there is a pine that does that, but I'm in rough shape and trying to stay out of trouble, which is challenging for me under the best of circumstances.

I remember the pine cone of I think a yellow pine species opens up at 170 degrees, so it typically opens in response to fire. A quick google suggests it is called a Jack Pine.

Hurricanes are also thought to be responsible for bringing fly species to islands and new islands end up having bird poo on them with seeds the birds ingested. Plants do this intentionally to let birds spread their seeds because birds lack teeth, so the seeds don't get chewed up in the process.

Hot peppers are intended to be eaten by birds but not other species. They are hot as a form of chemical warfare against things they don't want eating them. Chocolate and maybe also coffee is bitter like it is to kill ants and if you have sufficiently dark chocolate (in, say, a tent), it doesn't attract ants. Milk chocolate attracts ants because of the sugar, but the cocoa itself is ant poison.

Anyway, little islands form from volcanos and they start sticking up out of the ocean a little and they become resting places for birds and the bird poo is the first soil and fertilizer on these barren volcanic rocks and then coconut trees are typically the first trees because the coconut will float across the ocean without being killed by the salt water and land on some newly formed little island with a bit of bird poo and a few plants and it will take root. I think no other tree does that.

If you get rid of all "disasters" entirely, you kill off a lot of stuff. Mother Nature or "mother earth" has fascinating and complex ways of letting life find a way and fire laying waste to some portion of the forest and leaving in its wake fertile soil and opening the cones of some pine species is just one of the fascinating ways she does that.

Anyway, I have big plans to shut up on HN and attempt to go behave now by being elsewhere. Ciao.
Question, because I wasn't a developer 20 years ago yet; were the GUI tools of "back when" wrappers around CLI tools? I get that impression with most IDE's I've worked with.
Not sure how they determine that though? At that level, drive failures or single host failures (for which they have plenty of data available) won't cause issues. The risk remaining are botched deployments or config changes that bring down whole data centers or services. They are very unlikely, but can you really quantify their likelihood and expected downtime?

5 9's to me sounds mostly like marketing. In the end you still have to have disaster recovery plans if the service fails and you also need to test your DR plans regularly. That extra 9 won't really save any money here.
It has "users" and they "rent" space on their servers and you don't own your data and it is censored and your activity can be mined - I think these are the main factors the article is interested in.
> Not even Epic Games gives away its products for free...

Do... do they not?

The point being made in that paragraph seems valid regardless, but that's a strange comparison to end with - is Fortnite not free-to-play on Apple devices? It certainly is on all other platforms I've seen it on.
Exactly my experience. That's when bugs from 5 years ago hit and block your release.
And that's your choice, but forcing that onto everyone is anti-competitive.
Job ads are universally filled with jargon-y HR copy-pasta bullshit, so I’m sure most people never read them on purpose.

Instead of being clever, you’ve simply overestimated the importance of your ad in people’s lives while simultaneously optimizing for inexperienced people who’ve never read a job ad before and don’t know they are BS.
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So he failed a project, an idea and a huge one at that with every possibility to fail.

There are so many ways to get money, I fail to see this route as a cash-grabbing attempt.

I, for one, like his ideas and attempts at building something with meaning. Even if he fails at every single project, the ideas are here and that's good, I guess.

At least we're talking about it around something, not just words.
Then why use the word "here"? Your point is that this is something that is still nascent -- maybe we will see results in a few years. It is not "here" yet.
Pretty certain they did that, even though you can in theory challenge it in court.
As an older person, I remember similar articles written about the dangers of such a hurricane hitting New Orleans and the disaster that would result due to the vulnerable levy system. Like this piece, those articles were lightly regarded and ignored. Unfortunately its not a matter of if, but when.
Nothing I see allows Helm to "do Maven". They have a Maven plugin that allows Maven to package Helm charts.

But that's assuming you use Kubernetes.

Helm is not a replacement for Artifactory, I don't know what you're going on about. They have a bit of overlap but the main use case of Artifactory is as a binary artifact repository for any environment, including non-Kubernetes ones. And there are a lot of non-Kubernetes environments out there. I'd argue that Kubernetes environments are a drop in the ocean compared to everything else.
That's one awesome PR-trick!

From my own experience: when I comment on something that I haven't read it's usually because I'm more interested in the conversation around the subject than the subject itself. So, in that case, I have usually read the comments, and if half of them just randomly included the word "bananas" in them, I'm pretty sure that the convesation whould change to be: "wtf are ppl saying bananas all the time?"
Ages ago I ran a small local community forum, very much small web and way before FAANG, and one 'user' was very upset having the tag 'user'.

They requested their account deleted. I deleted it.

The article is entirely confusing. The web is intrinsically 'small' - anyone can register a domain name and run a server. And link to Github, arguably more 'big' than 'Big Web' as defined in the article. iOS apps? Centralising around site.js?

Makes no sense.

As an independent owner of a few web properties, this provides a solution, and not much of a solution, to a problem that's entirely self-prescribed.

I also noted, as there's nothing like a needle in a haystack, small-tech.org is registered via 1api.net, never heard of them before despite

> 1API GmbH is one of Europe's s leading domain name registrars and is recognized as a preeminent developer of world-class domain name platforms. 1API currently manages more than 3,000,000 Domains.

Yet Terms of Service notes

> Prices. The prices charged to you for the Services are published on the Website (“Pricing Schedule”) and are subject to modifications at 1API’s sole discretion. Unless otherwise specified, all amounts are stated herein are in Canadian Dollars.

German-Canadian registrar. Interesting.
> Under the efficient market hypothesis… (assuming all buyers are perfectly rational)

textbook vs reality… having a rational for buying something is not the same as an objectively rational choice.
I think most of his fans would be willing to say that he's more than good enough at both, but that's looking at a career 35+ years in the making.
That would be in contrast to the common knowledge that 15 min in the sun are enough for a good Vitamin D level, especially 15 min in the African sun. I simply can't imagine that you can live in Africa without getting enough sun. That would mean that you basically have to stay underground all the time. I believe there is a second factor (often overlooked) that causes low Vitamin D level in the blood: Magnesium deficiency: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30541089/
I had this idea as well. It only solves the low quality comment problem if that is something the site owners want. In some cases they may benefit from low quality comments.

Before the web, the HTTP POST equivalent was an envelope and stamp and maybe some moderation at the receiving side. People should look into ways to limit comments / filter noise now that it is in abundance.
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I'd note that Tru64 unix kept its rc.d in /sbin instead of /etc.

I'd also note that the first time I had to debug a Tru64 networking problem it took me quite some time to find the bloody things.

I mean, once I did my first thought was "honestly if anything that makes more sense than /etc would".

But argh.

Then in the end it turned out the network configuration had been fine all along and one of the developers had stolen the switch port it was using for something else.

(being a sysadmin at a software house tends to involve the developers getting to do wtf they want since their work is revenue critical and yours isn't perceived to be so much, though I still mostly enjoyed the job because my director was understanding and let me yell at developers for doing stupid shit so long as he didn't get too many complaints ;)
Brilliant article. gov.uk (and their adjacents) do amazing work.
side question , but do you happen to have any resources explaining what could be the limit to unlimited QE and what precise series of event will be triggered when that limit is reached ( knowing that everyone is doing the same at the moment, from us to eu to cn).
And the world would give a collective shrug.

Texas gave us 2 George Bushs, a Jeb, and Ted Cruz (right-wing extremist tech billionaires Scott Bannister and his trophy wife Cyantist helped a lot with that one).

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Over the past few years, I've been hoping to run into an 80s soviet movie with heavily armed evil american antagonists. The soviet ideological indoctrination and censorship game must've been strong, because so far everything I've seen either has pirates/hooligans/etc. as antagonists or fails to even have a "man vs. man" plot at all.
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Ok, to make my answer a little bit less flippant. I didn't say that people need to host their own sites, just that a "social network without all the engagement" is no different a personal site or a blog.
Magnesium status and supplementation influence Vitamin D status and metabolism
I think that we just don't have a standard for it.
I know people use AutoHotkey to automate a lot of workflows involving GUI applications.

Recently there was a thread about Factorio (the game), which is all about automating. And once you have standard-ish inputs & outputs, you can achieve a lot of automations, in a different way.

It also highlights that the shell has limitations: it's hard to give multiple inputs, and handle outputs and create a complex pipeline. (I guess that's why we have things like Airflow)
> That anytime you are provided with a service, like Facebook, for free, you are in fact the product being sold. That social media companies are basically giant behavior-modification systems that use algorithms to relentlessly increase “engagement,” largely by evoking bad feelings in the people who use them.

Fascinating. Twitter is a public health hazard
I think a better exercise is to ignore (it's hard, I know) those who haven't obviously read the paper/article: it's not like they'll read your reply either.

And sometimes (usually?), people will truly not understand what a paper is about, and that makes it even harder to figure out which comment is which.
still, who the fuck is buying these houses?
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Try to find anything about any project he has done inbetween, somehow all those have disappeared off the internet too. Combine that with him at best ignoring, at worst publicly disparaging any other already existing project doing what he claims to do (over tiny perceived "faults", but at least those projects actually have working stuff), and it would be nice if he stuck to ideas and not even pretended to try anything. (His conference talks are surprisingly well-regarded, so if he gets people to think about this things - good)
That would be fun to implement in election voting worldwide. I still don't get why you have to pass a test before driving, healing and working at your profession, but not before changing how your society works.
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if i may share my personal experience with twitter: like any social media platform, it might be beneficial to actively avoid content that the platform is known for i.e. mainstream content.

i'm on twitter because i think there are some pretty funny people on there. so i only follow people i think are funny, and i actively block any type of content at first sight that kind of annoy me. worked out pretty well for me so far.
Good luck with that.

For the record, I did read the article, but my life is not significantly richer (or poorer) for having done so.

A classic technique for reading scientific papers, is to read the abstract, then the conclusion. If they motivate us to read the rest, then we do so.

What I often do here, is first check the comments, and see if I want to go and read the OP. If I do that, I’ll generally read it all; unless it’s really painful.

As a prolix author[0] (and commenter[1]), I’m fairly familiar with low reader engagement, and I’ve learned to do good abstracts/intro sentences that hook the reader.

I’ve also learned not to lose too much sleep over whether or not people read my stuff (spoiler: they don’t).

I write for my own satisfaction. It would be nice if others enjoyed it, but I won’t live or die by the opinions of others.

Don’t get me wrong; I do care what others think of me, but it isn’t a principal driver of my life.

I have great respect for good tech writers. The world needs more of them.

A lot of what I write is basic information. It needs to be complete, clear and concise; not great literature. A simple ToC is useful in these cases, and good information architecture is important.

If I really want others to read my stuff, it’s incumbent upon me to write short, brutally-edited, articles, with clear, succinct, paragraphs, “hooky” abstracts, and conclusions that encourage people to go back, and read what they missed.

Basically, my experience is that it’s my job to write stuff in a way that encourages reader engagement, and to lead them to the important components of the document.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ChrisMarshallNY
It’s a thing, but it’s not being done on a large enough scale. It’s and incredibly difficult, decade long process to get plans approved on public lands. Private lands are much easier but still need extensive permitting through fire and air quality officials. We’re just starting to acknowledge the former extent of cultural burning in California, and the current need for fire on the landscape. It’s gotten easier to get the general public on board over the last couple years, and hopefully that trend continues!
Dai (2018): Magnesium status and supplementation influence vitamin D status and metabolism: results from a randomized trial

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30541089/

"Our findings suggest that optimal magnesium status may be important for optimizing 25(OH)D status. "
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this is something I often hear about both configuration and validation languages - but why? You evidently are ok with loading programs that may or many not crash your computer? So crashing problems happen at the configuration step first.
1. > We have no idea when AGI might appear.

We do know when it might not appear. This isn't a movie where AI is created by a single person in an afteroon because they had a creative thought. It's an effort by many people over a prolonged period of time. Everything that we know from decades of AI research tells us that it certainly doesn't exist and that we aren't close to discovering it. Also your common sense should tell you that if Google had AGI, they wouldn't currently get most of their revenue from ads and they wouldn't have a smaller market cap than a company that makes phones.

2. Your statement is non-falsifiable. It's similar to claiming that I wouldn't be surprised if humans have already been to Mars. It's an outrageous claim that no one can accurately disprove. Non-falsifiability is also a way some conspiracy theories spread. Because when someone says "No way" to such a claim (like the sibling comment), you can always respond with "How do you know?". Falsifiability separates science from non-science - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
Just a few months ago I caught a glimpse of DOS in a multi-national home improvement store. Turns out all of their computers are fairly recent ThinkCentre machines, all running Windows 7 that is locked down to 3 programs: calc.exe, Internet Explorer 10 and some proprietary DOS emulator they pay something like 50k€ annually for, running a TUI client for their inventory and order system.

I don't even know how to sort those by level of stupidity...
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A lot of these sorts of accidents can be avoided with proper intersection design. Just tossing a cyclist onto an intersection is asking for trouble. Cyclists are easy to overlook. ensuring that they only meet cars at 90 degree angles improves their visibility greatly. http://www.protectedintersection.com/ has more info on what a safe intersection looks like.
The 90s were a long time ago. Possibly in the intervening years support has grown for evidence-based policy.
When you're just a tourist, you'll often be limited to tourist traps or other locations that are aimed specifically at people who are just superficially passing through.

How can anyone expect to see the real "soul" of a place just... by driving by?
Yeah I'm gonna go subscribe to the journal for €100 a year before I comment... Right.
That's the thing, nobody knows. QE is just the end state for Keynesian economics, at least as far as I can tell.

I'd be amazed if it ends well, we haven't invented a perpetuum mobile yet...
> On a fresh install of BSD/Linux I'd love to see an empty /etc directory sans any necessary overrides to make it boot.

And I rather have a full set of configuration files that specifies the defaults at the time of the installation so my system even boots after an update in which some program changed its hardcoded defaults.

> Makes backing up that directory a lot easier too.

I don't really understand what the problem with backing up 0.1 or 1.0MB is.