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As Arch Linux user I am completely confused. Looks like there is no official comparison page like [1]. Web search first entries [2], [3] gives another picture — more stable, graphical installer, graphical package manager, hardware detection, prepackaged desktop environments — that I can relate to.

Nothing about "based on the AUR". Because it is liability. It is insecure, have to check PKGBUILD each install and update.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_compared_to_other_...

[2] https://linuxconfig.org/manjaro-linux-vs-arch-linux

[3] https://itsfoss.com/manjaro-vs-arch-linux/
I want to like Linux Mint but their Cinnamon DE still breaks stuff occasionally that expects either pure GNOME or Unity. Probably the devs' faults for hardcoding it to those two DEs, but still.
I agree that there was a big fall-off about that time, basically I attribute it to - Freud died in 1939, all the big writers that were into his ideas as the perfect key to "character" were no longer as important in the 80s, and so as often happen with intellectual ideas that do not have any proof behind them they began to get sort of tarnished.

I choose 2000 however as the point where the ideas become sort of ludicrous, there were still plenty of people who had been brought up believing these ideas were facts in the 80s alive and in positions of power, by 2000 they have begun to retire and die off and in various ways not exert any great intellectual power. In 1980 if your boy child wet the bed you might still end up having someone tell you seriously it's because he is entering in the phallic phase of personality development, in 2000 maybe one of your crazy old relatives at Thanksgiving will try that.

Some of Freud's ideas still seem to hold sway however, for example the general point of the Oedipus Complex idea which I think has stayed a bit more because of having made a firmer place for itself in literary criticism.

Of course the problem with theories that explain the world is they never really die out, hence flat-earthers and hence this article.
"in effect makes industrial policy for the entire United States."

(I did it in bold italic using YayText -- https://yaytext.com/ )
Until recently normal people in their 30s owned a housing unit and had a family of their own. That this seems difficult today says really bad things about our society and the public policy influencing society. I'd put housing policy at the top of the "bad public policy" list https://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-fut... but there are other reasonable candidates as well.
Think of it as a sales funnel. They don't all have to stick around. A percentage of them will, and they might never have come across cheers without this current popularity.
Baba+Ijebu+Lotto+-+Baba+Ijebu+Pay+Me+My+Dough+-+Premier+Lotto+World
I'd love to know what kind of false information you're enjoying sending them, and how!
That was a fun read. Thanks for sharing!
The other thing I ran into is even after you remove yourself you often still show up in lists of relations of family members and former roommates, you have to fill have their data removed also before your name drops off entirely.
> The company expects between 200,000 and 400,000 users to opt into the project, which will log what they see and how they behave on Facebook and Instagram.

> It will introduce targeted changes to some participants’ experiences, such as advertising or types of posts shown to them.

This doesn't seem to match the image posted here.
As a childless person, I believe that parents deserve all the time off, flexibility, and additional benefits for raising children. Good on them.

However, I deserve all the same benefits even though I don't have children.

My goal is to eventually have children. In that sense, even just the time and resources I spend dating, making myself more desirable to a life partner, and seeking a life partner is exactly as important as the time and resources you spend caring for your child, because in order to have a child like you I need time to prepare myself to have child.

Life is complicated. I have many family issues, as well as mental and physical health issues that require just as much time and resources to take care of as you need to take care of your children. My needs are not less important, less complicated, or less time consuming than your child-rearing related needs.

When I see parents implying that as a childless person I'm spending all of my non-work time relaxing at the pool, I can only say that I wish that were true. Not that there's anything wrong with spending all of my free time relaxing at the pool. If I could, I would. Even then, I would deserve all the same benefits as someone who didn't choose to or can't do that.

We should not discriminate against people with children. But we also should not discriminate against people without children.
Google Docs is OK, but it's still missing a lot of very useful features from Excel. Most important for me is being able to define tables.

Also, a lot of the keyboard shortcuts missing if you want to work fast. And if I'm in Excel then I do want to work fast, otherwise I'd fire up R or Python.
using suffixes and syntactic variations to distinguish concept also does not translate, in the literal sense of translating to other languages, especially those that have different rules for suffixes. Scanlon or whatever other name is much easier to translate to any other language than random unusual words
I completely agree.

Opening ONLYOFFICE and using it for one minute, to me it's immediately better than LibreOffice. This is the first FOSS Office I may actually desire to use when I have to do some document writing.

It has a better default font, a much nicer, comfortable-feeling and inviting-to-use interface, and it saves to a more useful format like DOCX by default.

LibreOffice puzzles me as to why they choose such bad-looking defaults when the options are there to make it better.

My perspective is one that matters in FOSS. This is not just about advanced technical things with power users. It's about casual users too. It's about Linux having something actually comparable to MS Word. It's about the entire FOSS ecosystem.

If LibreOffice want their software to be used more, then they need to make it actually look and feel good - out of the box - and not just as a configurable option.

I mean this with the greatest respect. I'm a FOSS advocate. Part of furthering FOSS should be that it looks and feels nice, and not just that it's FOSS with a GPL license.
See also his post about the AK M4geries (a M4 lookalike with an AK action).

https://silahreport.com/2019/05/28/2663/
> However, the general argument that you can just keep using the system without using snaps "just fine" doesn't really hold if the snaps begin to replace rather than supplement software that used to be packaged without it.

Well, if you don't like it, you can always fork it. That's the beauty of open source. /sarcasm

Seriously though, all out replacing stuff with Snaps doesn't seem like the right move.
Essentially Pascal's wager.
Let's be honest, it's just dumb.
This is like THE network effect app that just does not get traction in my book, I built one just like it a few years ago.

Push a button, get people to hang out with you.

Problem is that people meet up using chat, that’s the core thing you have to be better than. Better, faster, simpler or easier than WhatsApp/Messenger/iMessage/SMS/FB Events/Instagram/Snapchat. Those things have extreme network effects and you probably will not dislodge them, I would aim somewhere else.

This exact app is detailed in one of NFX’s write ups as the “wrong” approach.

If you still want to try getting users, throw it on Product Hunt and see if it takes. The only momentarily successful version of this was Down to Lunch - and only because they harvested your entire contacts list and then messaged every single person at once to get them using the app. They’re gone now. It was simply easier to group chat your friends “yo movies?”.
> It would be difficult to call Wisconsin a democracy with a straight face at this point.

I think you don't understand how things are working. Senators are elected by the people, at the seat level. You can see what's happening here in this post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/04/several-l...

> [in 2018] They [Democrats] won 53 percent of the vote and only 36 percent of the seats. However, that can be explained in part by the fact that Democrats had far more seats in which they weren’t running against a Republican opponent. Nearly half of the votes the Democrats earned were in districts where their candidates didn’t face significant opposition. In contested races, Republicans won more votes than Democrats.

If you get 90% of votes for one seat where there is virtually no opposition, that has no bearing to the other seat where you lost 48% to 52%.

That's actual democracy, and even direct democracy. This is also confirmed by the 17th Amendment:

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-17/

> The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years
A version of the banker in the "real" world will continue to exist, and the sand you throw might also encode a virtual copy of the banker later.

If the sand flies just right, the copy might feel that it actually arose into it's tortorous existence because of your action of throwing the sand. In that case, the copy feels pain.

The original banker continues existing unaffected (and calls the cops).
Just to add another data point: I am currently working as a SWE at a large bay area software company and I recently moved home with my parents to a low COL area.

Not everybody is living with their parents due to economic hardship. I could pay rent pretty much anywhere but chose to move in with my parents because I saw an opportunity (from WFH) to spend time with them + my dad is sick. And it's also nice that I'll save about $20-30k a year in living expenses, live in a less dysfunctional region than the Bay Area (though with different problems for sure), and have way more living space. I am pretty happy to not be beholden to the racket that is renting in a hot metro area.

Yes, it's only possible because of Covid, but it's not forced or a negative like these articles can make it seem. Anecdotally I know many other bay area/large metro area software people who have done the same thing.
I've seen a few, including https://www.privacyduck.com/ , but I don't know how well they work.
You can’t sign up. They don’t have enough money to pay every willing volunteer, so they ask for volunteers only from a randomized sample to infer what would happen if everyone received this offer.
Oh even the parking lot + rain is one of those problems where the problem is not the lack of computational strength, it's the complete lack of viable ideas. There's a reason they test drive these things in Phoenix.

A crowded parking lot of a mall can be challenging for a beginner human driver, it's an absolute AI nightmare as there can be totally unexpectedly moving cars and pedestrians at any place and time. And then {rain,fog,snow} messes with LIDAR and you have a half blind (at best) system trying to navigate an extremely challenging environment.
Way too expensive for 5 pieces yearly. Especially for toggling couple pins and LEDs.
Indeed. It when you see 30 year olds tweeting "adulting is hard" when you see the impact.

A good analogy might be a programmer. It's a night and day difference between being on a team where someone else does the hard stuff and just pushes dumb tasks your way, versus striking out on your own and having to figure everything out.
If a 14 year old can consistently outsmart multiple professionals then it's not the 14 year old that's the problem.

If there no way to detect false positives then everyone is a false positive.
I don't mind paying. I tried WINE but that didn't work well enough for me. I will try codeweavers crossover
This is particularly ironic considering that Finegold talking shit specifically about one streamer (xqc) has been the biggest chess drama in the Twitch world since this all started. And, of course, that only served to bring more attention from the Chess-specific world to that one celebrity.

The other drama things I can remember have come mainly from the Chess world, too. Chess.com vs chess24 tournament drama. And Nakamura vs Carlsen drama.

The main types of drama coming from Twitch people has been things like sexism in the Chess world and elitism in the chess world.

Additionally, you complain that this only focuses on the few Twitch celebrities rather than talented players... except that if the Twitch world doesn't understand why those players are talented, how will they know they have talent? This was a main criticism of chess tournament streams before chess took off on Twitch; casual viewers didn't understand what the commentators were talking about. Twitch opening up commentary to new players and teaching them why a move is bad/good from a casual viewpoint is only a good thing for the chess world.

If you actually wanted those talented players to get more attention for the quality of their play, you'd welcome this sort of beginner commentary and content. Otherwise, fewer people will recognize their talent. Do note that this takes time; you can't convert beginner chess viewers into more competent viewers in the span of a few months.

If you actually wanted those talented players to get more attention for the quality of their play, you'd reject comments like Finegold's "negative talent" comment. That is so off-putting and toxic, and is one of the primary reasons why people don't get into chess in the first place. There is a shocking amount of elitism in the chess world. And it actually comes off that way in your comment. "No, Twitch viewers are watching the wrong players, they're watching not-as-talented personality players and not the ones I think they should watch instead."
That was the gift that kept on giving. Worth reading beyond the Solved! post. People came up with such interesting ideas of what it might be. And finding the artist's page is quite an unexpected twist.
I'd love a privacy union. So much that I could see letting it make decisions for me until I naturally worried about the privacy implications
His article claims "I’ve tech-led teams at Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter", which is technically accurate. But most people would expect more than 1-2 years at each company, which is his actual experience according to LinkedIn.
Anyone else think this is going to be grade-A fodder for the Trump machinery?

- Facebook has largely been the go-to social media platform for his supporter base

- They are paying users to deactivate their facebook accounts for the election period AND

- It is not disclosed at all who they are targeting & results won't be available way until mid next year
I think controlling human population is the only solution. Depopulation will happen anyways. When it does, we would still need resources and if we burn it up ..and we are a super apex predator..faster than it can renew, we are basically shooting our selves in the foot.

It’s like sitting on the top most branch and sawing the trunk of the tree. Daft! Slow burn of resources and working with burning renewables only will ensure humanity and species survival. Otherwise the planet will survive. We won’t. Because when we hit carrying capacity, there is a dearth of resources..we will start killing each other. Oh! Oops! Already happening!
To call the KKK anarchist is to ignore that they had the tacit approval of the state and contained within their ranks many state actors. It seems odd to me to ask how Anarchism would prevent the rise of the KKK when the state permitted the creation of the KKK.

One view is to see the KKK as basically raiders/marauders who left their own communities to terrorize other communities. Without a state to intervene on their behalf obviously the affected communities would have to rise up in self-defense. So, what really happened? The state didn't intervene on the behalf of black communities. The state would've brutally put down any attempt to resist the KKK with force, black communities were not permitted to use force. The KKK were a state sanctioned paramilitary group carrying out a mission of terror with the aim of preserving the racial hierarchy at the center of the south's the social order.

You might ask "How would this be better with Anarchism?" but I find myself asking "How could it be any worse?"
Yeah, arguably geometric algebra and algebraic geometry should switch labels. Algebraic geometry is geometric techniques for solving polynomials (algebra) so it should really be geometric algebra. OTOH, geometric algebra is an algebraic formulation of geometry -- so that should be algebraic geometry. shrugs
Pardon my ignorance,is this US specific (or mostly US)? Why is this stuff allowed?
I saw some tweets from some women AI researchers at MIT shortly after RMS was ousted. They all had vivid tellings of instances where RMS would make lewd comments about their bodies or look at them weird, and how a lot of the women researchers would actively avoid him.

Tbh I think some of the memes about him and his sexuality might be valid. If that's the case, then frankly he should have been cut loose a long time ago.
This was exactly my excuse when I built the same app.

Take a look at this; https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-manual
Agreed those are entirely different. Living on your own for a few years, then staying with parents because it makes sense (parents need help, your financials need help, Covid) can be a smart move.

It's the kids who are 25 and don't know how to open a bank account that are the worry.
If you're making a joke, it's in poor taste.
Oh hey! I'm from that area. If you guys have any queries. :). Also the quality isn't top notch, but for the price you are paying it's ok. You are much better off buying a Russian AK-47 for $1100 like i did than buying it from Khyber for $120.
Obviously your long term goal is to get an app on your users phone.

But today you need to build a base of users and get a network effect going. That’s going to be extremely hard. Any barriers to getting someone using your platform should be torn down. Requiring an app is a barrier. Find a way to build a web version of this to show value and get people to choose to install the app.
That's my concern. Some of them seem very sketchy.
Sure, but for non rhotic accents you have outliers in the States such as New York or Boston or parts of the South.

There are youtube videos of attempted reconstructed Shakespearean accents. To my (american) ear it kind of sounds more like rhotic England.
Isn’t the main problem with the housing market that loans became so easy to obtain that prices increases 500% over 30 years?

My parents had a nice suburban house, that went from 300,000 Danish KR to a little over 3 million in the years they owned it. Which is about the maximum my generation can secure in loans on regular jobs. There is now way it’ll increase to 18million though.
From my experience as an English language student (non-native), I disagree to some extent. Taking (and learning) the SAT is quite a different experience than learning the language. It seems that people who are good at "taking tests" excel at it and this does not correlate completely with their ability to use the language. Of course often they ALSO learn the language (by other means), but I know people who successfully took the SAT in order to participate in student exchange programs and when they go to the USA they realize that they are quite poor at English and tend to stick to ethnic communities, because they are not comfortable to use the language at a higher level.

On the other hand, if you study for the SAT when you already know the language, it seems to indeed improve your English a lot.
The problem with this is that one can't simply submit work documents and these formatting issues are usually edge cases produced by people that are doing things they really shouldn't with Office.
You say you're more productive but are you producing the right things?

It's easy to note when you suddenly get more uninterrupted time for work, and also to note how that translates into e.g. more code produced.

But does it improve the bottom line in the longer run? I.e. is it good for business? I think the jury may still be out on this one.

Working remotely means less efficient communication with coworkers, and that might in the longer run result in people getting less efficient because they can't synch very well, so end up working on the wrong things, or prioritising badly. Then it's also the psychological effect of missing out on social interaction that may reduce happiness and, in the end, efficiency/productivity.

It's an interesting experiment for sure. Covid may be to remote working what Tesla is to the electrification of personal transport.
My plan if I start dating while living with my parents (just moved back) is to go to hotels/airbnbs or camp out. I've also moved into the basement rather than a bedroom right by my parents' so if I get serious with someone I could probably just have them over. That of course requires having a large enough house for that to be feasible
There were some Tweets by some women AI researchers at MIT about RMS's lewd behavior towards them. The kind of behavior that would have gotten a lesser man burned at the stake (metaphorically, of course).
I have 5 18-29 year olds living with me. Here's what we've learned.

Few companies will talk to you without a job history. Of those, ~0 will hire you, if you lack average-to-above-average interview talent.

For the vast bulk of entry level jobs, hiring is done via web portal. Once you've applied, you've applied. Try again a year later and they'll tell you that you've already applied[1].

In most of the US, you can't reliably get to work without a vehicle. You can't afford a vehicle (+ $300/mo insurance) without saving up months worth of income.

If you have any physical limitation of any kind, just keep multipling the above difficulties, until you reach your actual reality.

If you have a family member with limitations (eg: mental illness), you probably ought to multiply as well.

[1] This held solid from well before 2010 until a few years ago. I've heard some portals now allow reapplying, eventually. I haven't confirmed that tho.
Pretty much everyone that owns an RV (in the US) has an adapter that converts the 14-50P (50 amp!) plug on the RV to a 5-15P that can be plugged into common household sockets. You can't run the A/C without popping a breaker but it'll keep the fridge and lights on.

The breaker, not the connector, provides safety.
Stop bitching and moaning and compile it yourself. ./configure && make is pretty easy and pretty much the way it was done up until mid 2000s
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Is there really an issue with compatibility of documents between Libre Office and MS Office? I always thought that was just FUD.
Not Political but, Andrew Yang is working for privacy.
Writing has a function. Understand the function
I agree. At 18 I have left for Uni, living in a dorm. That was the first step of forced maturity. Had to do my own laundry, get food, take the bus etc. At 20 I've rented an apartment, the second step of forced maturity. That means all the house work of cleaning, cooking, paying rent, shopping for everything. Sure you could do some at home with your parents, though it is less likely you'll have to do all of it, as you have this net that will catch you. Looking forward to the next step, of owning my own place and being tied down to a loan :).
I fully agree with and respect everything you said. But for every life difficulty, time management issue, or resource problem that you have as a result of having a child, I can give you an equivalent and equally important and difficult issue in my own life, even though I don't have children (yet).