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I love how beautiful i3-gaps is. I worked awfully hard to get i3, Dunst, Polybar and many other tools to give me a WM only experience. And frankly, I hate that part of it.

Simple things like configuring bluetooth, or switching audio... or working with multiple displays are just painful. I expected this when I started using Linux in 1996ish. That was part of the hobbiest experience. These days, I just want to get my work done, and if I can do it with a pretty experience, I'd prefer that.

So if I do i3 again, it'll probably be with XFCE underneath unifying some of the experience. Gnome on the other hand, has its own set of issues that make it annoying.

So I'm with you, I would try this.
Yeah...this is why I switched to instant release instead of extended. More things to screw up but preferred the granular control for this exact reason. It works without issue as long as I don't take it too late. Dose is low enough to improve focus and attention without feeling like I'm on "speed" or anything, but it can still keep me from sleeping if I take it too late.
There are still plenty of 1-bit displays in the world. Consumer electronics with small OLEDs, and various low-power signage have low bit depth. Just because our modern phones and laptops have high bit depth doesn’t mean that dithering goes away.
It's not, some people are just a little dramatic about it.
This is evil.
> If you laid all the people I contacted end to end along the equator, they would die, and you would be arrested.

Possibly the best line in an article full of really fantastic lines.
Anyone have up to date data on the progress of Moore's law through today? All the stuff on google looks like it taps out in 2015

https://www.google.com/search?q=moore+law+&tbm=isch&ved=2ahU...
It being used by those who don't refuse to learn better tools is kind of a feature too. ;-)
This is good advice but it's more tightly expressed in The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick (my all purpose response to most SaaS sales blogs).
It depends on what you are doing, but when I have to manipulate gigantic grids of numbers, I use Pandas. When I am just doing normal mere mortal spreadsheety stuff, I use LibreOffice or Google Sheets.
Birthday party on ship may have led to oil spill in Mauritius
That’s the story of just about every one of our alphabet agencies coming out of this last 4 years, unfortunately.
I don't think this attitude is the reason why Microsoft won't port the Office suite to linux.
This article is definitely worth reading. However, I didn't follow the link for over 21 hours after it was published because, I didn't recognize Chuck Feeney's name, and I couldn't tell from the title what the article was about.

I think when an article is shared on HN some consideration needs to be given to ambiguous situations like this.
There have been plenty of laws. The two most famous ones are the DMCA and COPPA.

And then there are the ones that were only stopped because of massive protests like SOPA and PIPA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA

Not to mention regulations that killed the concept of net Neutrality.

There are also constant mumblings about passing laws against encryption that the government can’t decrypt.

The Snowden leaks should scare anyone about giving the government more power.

It was in 1996, but there is also the CDA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act
Christie's to offer T. Rex skeleton, estimated to bring $6-8m, at October sale
These viruses circulate between mammal species. I said it's nearest relative might not be in bats, not that it has no relatives in bats.
Some friends of mine did some tests with DMT entities. Apparently they can't solve math problems.

I never believed they were anything other than hallucinations, but they were still some of the most positive and meaningful events in my life. I hope one day we'll know enough about consciousness to understand why DMT causes the formation of these seemingly other selves.
Never encountered a being while using DMT. The closest thing I recall was looking at the moonlight through clouds and hallucinating that it was all made out of skulls watching over me.
Anyone who says something has "technical superiority" is living in a fantasy world. Everything has pros and cons, and it's impossible to account for every variable upfront. You may be 99.999% done with a project only to realize that another language/framework/OS/etc. would have been better.
Old fingerprint readers were reversed. Newer stuff is more tightly locked down. People have reversed the communication protocol, but various other bits are harder to get around due to signatures or other DRM like mechanisms.
Normal Plasma Cholesterol in an 88-Year-Old Man Who Eats 25 Eggs a Day
Also, it’s on the calendar year, not a rolling 12-month calendar. And it isn’t prorated. File your paperwork in early December? That’s $800 now and $800 in a few months.

Wait until January if you’re close to the end of the year and can afford to hold off.
https://archive.vn/0i4j5

>Stan, which carries an estimate between US$6 million and US$8 million, is considered one of the largest and most complete examples of a T. rex, with 188 original bones. The skull is also “one of the most complete T. rex examples known to science,” Christie’s said, with as many as 58 teeth and eyes the “size of baseballs.”

The Black Hills Institute has studied and displayed Stan for 20 years, and is offering it for sale now as part of a settlement agreement. Sue also was the subject of a dispute that in its case led to the return of the remains to the owner of the land where it was discovered, who then brought it to auction.

With Christie’s unable to accommodate crowds to see the massive skeleton, the auction house has blown out walls in its New York Rockefeller Center showroom so that Stan—at 13-feet-high and 40-feet-long including his outstretched tail—can be seen from the sidewalk on 49th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues in New York City beginning on Wednesday. It will be on view until Oct. 21.
Tarpits aren't really a defense mechanism. They're meant to waste attackers' time and study their techniques, making attacks more expensive.

It's sort of like those YouTube channels where they waste phone scammers' time in an entertaining way. [0] Obviously, the easiest thing for the callee to do is hang up the phone, but their goal is to make phone scams less profitable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Browning_(YouTuber)
Birds 'falling out of the sky' in mass die-off in south-western US
My problem with the places is the regressive conservatives that live there and the abhorrent cultural beliefs in place.

Not going to move there until there's a seismic shift away from racism, conservatism, hypocrisy etc.
Maybe Qt is better than GTK. Does anybody claim Qt is better than the native widgets on any platform that has native widgets?

With Rust you can write safe and fast programs but you will spend a lot of time and mental energy fighting with the compiler. Go ahead and write C/C++ but remember that your life insurance doesn't pay out if you get killed playing Russian Roulette. For many cases people are happy with managed languages such as Java, C#, Python, etc.

F# is a similar story. It has benefits, but they really aren't enough to displace other languages.

MacOS? I like APFS. On MacOS they always reserve enough space for the text on a button in the UI. Send in a ticket for a problem like that to RHAT and you will get verbal abuse before they close it. (e.g. the 'Linux Desktop' is a Potempkin village) Windows sometimes gets confused when you have a large number of monitors with different dpi plugged in but it is nothing a reboot won't fix.)

Inside the dirty secret is that there is not a big difference in how modern OS really work. They all divide interrupt handlers into a top and a bottom, they all support POSIX system calls or something that is a POSIX rip-of (e.g. look at the MS-DOS syscalls) "Microkernels" are usually huge and wracked with optimizations, in real-life Unix has become "Plan 9 in Userspace".

A really superior OS would have to remove bloat, maybe the die-area eating space heaters such as the MMU and TLB. It would probably have a different viewpoint about synchronous vs asynchronous. If it was different enough to be "superior" than old code wouldn't run, you'd have to write the whole userspace -- so you'll stick to a POSIX API.

IBM knew how to make a universal instruction set architecture in 1965, but had no vision of a general-purpose mainframe OS until academic researchers invented "VM" which let them run three or five different OS on the machine so they didn't have to pick just one.

By 1995 the POSIX API is established and it is about as universal as the 360 instruction set. It is used in my car stereo, home theater receiver, TV set, tablet, internet router, PC, server, etc.

Even the "real time" or "reliable" OS used in a spacecraft or automotive application is likely to present itself as POSIX.

MacOS uses mach to emulate POSIX and mach lets you do a bit more than POSIX, but Linux has been subdividing the 'process' concept for a long time as has Windows NT. FUSE descends into microkernel insansity ("Plan999999999999999999999 from userspace")
How is the tiling with multiple monitors?
If you draw with a pencil, 120Hz is worth any money. The lack of input delay is a dealbreaker.
Are you looking to share random aws content or follow a course walk through content?
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Perhaps you’re just used to dealing with an industry that has little physical risks where the thought of people dying in a normal functioning system seems hard to believe?

Hundreds to thousands of people die everyday in vehicles and the NTSB doesn’t even open investigations. It’s regarded as a well-functioning system. Are Democrats fine with thousands of deaths every year?
I like the definition of anticompetitive behaviour that revolves around using power in one market to squash competitors in another.

Example: back in the 90s when Microsoft found itself at the pointy end of an antitrust effort, they did things like:

- Restricting OEMs from installing non-Windows OSs

- When they didn't restrict it, they effectively did by having more favourable pricing per license if Windows was the only OS you shipped

- They did similar things with Office but it was less egregious

- Restrictions on preinstalling Netscape

- Restrictions on default browser

- Using Windows to hinder competitors by breaking existing applications, giving a head start to MS software or moving core functionality into the OS (as they tried with IE)

Here are some theoretical examples of what anticompetitive behaviour might look like:

- Making AdWords usage exclusive (ie you couldn't also use Bing's version)

- Making Doubleclick exclusive

- Making either effectively exclusive by providing preferential pricing for exclusive use

- Making use of one ad platform require use of another

Antitrust doesn't exist to protect competitors from competition. People forget that. There are (many) competing display ad platforms. There's less competition in search (and thus search ads). But you can create your own search engine as Bing and DDG are witness to (plus all the dead ones).

It's just that all the other search engines suck. Or, perhaps more accurately, Google is seriously good at search in a way that's hard to replicate.

I personally don't think we should go down this road of dismantling companies just because their competitors suck. That's the Yelp business model. Yelp hasn't changed in 10 years. They have so many missed opportunities. But no, "Google is stealing our content".

Microsoft has the financial muscle to fund a search engine. They do of course. But Google is much better. Just because Microsoft sucks it doesn't (necessarily) mean that Google is a problem.
You could also do a combined approach with the tarpit + fail2ban parser that could just ban people stuck for longer than x amount of seconds.
I assume that the project approved by the UK government specifies some requirements about environment protection and the fate of the material.
Sure, right now I'm using a nodejs WebRTC datachannels implementation but there's an up and coming rust implementation which I'm quite excited to try:

- NodeJS DataChannels: https://github.com/node-webrtc/node-webrtc

- Rust DataChannels: https://github.com/lerouxrgd/datachannel-rs
The study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02698811209161...
https://bugs.debian.org/746715

> For the record, the TC expects maintainers to continue to support the multiple available init systems in Debian. That includes merging reasonable contributions, and not reverting existing support without a compelling reason.
Nothing wrong with using a shovel to dig in your backyard for planting. But that experience does not extrapolate to using an excavator to build a skyscraper.
It's a class-segregated sport in the US (not sure about elsewhere). This is called out in the tongue-in-cheek-but-mostly-accurate Official Preppy Handbook. For some reason it is "higher class" than racquetball, and, sure enough, racquetball courts are much easier to find in non-rich areas. Perhaps this is a case where the general principal from the same book holds true: the smaller the ball, the more Prep the sport (squash balls are smaller than those for racquetball).
This is one of the reasons I actively avoid buying Nvidia hardware - their Linux support is borderline criminal.
Well you might have a point in that our (global?) culture is becoming less and less prepared for looking reality in the eye.

Yet would one consider mandatory seatbelts and stricter laws on driving under influence and so forth "paralyzing regulation"? You are talking about the other extreme with its polar opposite of not having any rules. But there evidently is a huge middle-ground where we can have regulation and not having people killed in large numbers.

Consequently, if we look at history most of these "freak outs" have in fact resulted in regulation that has saved lives. Eg the gun laws in UK. We as humans are very short-sighted in general and I think it's more of a rule rather than the exception, that we need these kinds of accidents to improve the regulation and the laws in place. Sometimes maybe to the extreme, but I think it's better to be too strict than too lax.
When you're a very small business losing money the first few years of operating and California sticks you with an $800 bill on top of local taxes that are also levied regardless of income (business personal property), it's a giant slap in the face that makes you want to move your business to pretty much any other state.
> For example, my experience has been that the cryptocurrency/blockchain 'culture' reached its zenith at a point later than the more general 'startup/app culture'.

I'd argue that it was the same thing; startup culture was running out of gas and then a new, spicy tech showed up that revived the field and spawned a whole new galaxy of statups.
I never did SSL from telnet for sure, in fact I didn't know IRC supported encryption back then. There was also the ident response that was needed - can't recall the particulars as it's been 20+ years.
> ccv has a simple autoconf based feature detection / configuration system.

Hahaha, there is nothing simple with autoconf :D

I supposed if you don't feel like you need to understand all the moving parts it's not horrific.

To be fair, autotools evolved in a different era, and to solve differnet problems than bazel.
What ad money do you think Google is forgoing in this example?

There is an example at the end of the comment you are replying to, flights. Two other examples that took me only a couple of minutes to find: google 'smart thermostat' or 'corporate email providers'
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It's not FUD. It's the Microsoft's never-changing strategy. I don't know how many times people need to experience it to remember this.
I haven't used Visio in almost a decade. I have used draw.io a lot in that time, and it is more than sufficient. Plus, it easily embeds into Confluence which is something I use daily.
> I personally recommend blacking out (add a black rectangle) instead of blurring

I've seen people use image editors on mobile and they'll "scribble" out sensitive information, but one of the problems is that if you pick the wrong pen it'll blend your strokes so it's not 100% opacity (but on a casual glance it's close enough). You can zoom in and change the contrast of a photo that has been redacted this way and recover information.
I don't know of any court cases or other precedent, no. I am working with the definitions of "software" and "program" as I am familiar with them being used in various software licenses. But that doesn't really matter because the only assumptions I'm basing this argument on are contained in the MIT/Expat and what connectFree has done with Zen.

For the sake of the argument, let's grant you the premise that each file is its own "software" (as the word is used in the MIT/Expat). The only requirement of the license is this: "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." So even if connectFree removed all the copyright notices in the source code files, they still meet that condition because the original Zig license is included in their modified copy of Zig. It doesn't matter what the definition of "software" is here, because they meet the conditions regardless of what that definition is.
You dont need that much tooling. A static site generator will do. Build your site with vanilla HTML or markdown. Use web micro-services for widgets like search, comments, contact-form, etc.
Besides the licensing confusion 7thaccount mentions, the GPS IDE is only free for "open source GPL software"[1]. Otherwise its everybody's favorite "Request Pricing - Help us understand your development needs and get your pricing information or an evaluation".

This sucked for Smalltalk, and it sucks for Ada. I stand by my statement there was no equivalent to the Turbo family for Ada. The Ada space isn't very different than the Smalltalk although I think the Ada story might be worse. Damn shame for such a nice programming language.

1) https://www.adacore.com/community >> https://www.adacore.com/gnatpro/comparison
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Fine if humanity will never have to tackle anything complex for it's own survival, e.g. deflecting an asteroid on a collision course with earth (or evacuating the planet before it does), dealing with global warming, or some other planetary change (natural or otherwise), dealing with overpopulation / resources etc.

It would also require every other nation on earth to agree with the restriction, which isn't really compatible with the premise in the first place; if the regulations are self-imposed, people will stop following them.
As a Kubuntu use (and I appreciate this isn't strictly a Linux problem), I've found most of the window managers quite buggy on Linux - system clock freezes, menus crash, settings occasionally reset themselves randomly.
You allude to driver issues which certainly can happen on Windows, but I've had quite a few in Linux - particularly with network adapters.
Let's not even get into gaming on Linux... I do it, but it certainly doesn't 'just work' for many things.

I think there's something to be said for the consistent experience that Apple and Microsoft achieve by being the arbiter of their entire stack.
making friends is not unlike finding love. its the same four hormones that are involved. serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins. whatever makes you happy, gives you pleasure, creates trust and removes 'pain' creates relationships that bond. this is true for parents-children, lovers, friends and even the relationship between people and their pets.

how do you hack it? adrenaline. thats why high risk sports or watching games together(win/lose..picking teams), going through a traumatic experience together(in these days, this includes maybe a nail biting office coup because we dont go charging into battlefields with swords drawn out).

ziplining, sky diving, bicycling, long and hard hikes are outdoor activities that will get the adrenaline high enough to get the flood of brain hormones triggered. you just need to find indoor ways to achieve the same.

alcohol is the worst way to bond and make friends. its hormones. its always hormones that create relationships.

re: being child free and not being able to make friends. that is a real problem. but it will become the more prevailing trend. perhaps people need to advertise themselves as child free and create friendship circles.
"The biggest challenges to direct sales is finding the right prospects and knowing how to show them value as quickly as possible."

Industry segmentation then targeting sales resources to segments. Those resources are your salespeople, ad materials, trade-shows, etc. The industry segmentation is prioritized for segments that benefit the most from the product and have money to spend. You don't focus on the markets or company sizes you want. You focus on who really needs your product because it really makes a difference in their bottom line.

There have never been more brick and mortar, grey haired experts available for hire to SAAS providers. These folks have the domain expertise to look at your product and provide the message, network and outreach to grow your user base.

I cringe mightily reading SAAS job postings looking for someone with business development (or marketing) experience but without industry expertise. Is it agism? Not sure, but I had this experience interviewing for a Marketing Director role with a major Valley SAAS firm who opted for a generalist and who I understand hasn't seen more than 10% growth since. Sometimes the hard way is the right way.

This was a bit ranty, but it's been on my mind for some time.
Lawyers are already miserable: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-lawyers-are-unhappy-at-w...
Wooden Language
My challenge was to your hyperbolic claim that he "still has everything" and an insinuation that that makes giving away $8 billion (with a B) over his lifetime not as impressive because he didn't give away the last 0.025% of his wealth.

That he's getting payments from Social Security after a lifetime of contributions to Social Security is also of no concern to me (I view it as the overwhelming default and entirely proper).
Related fiction: "Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person" [0]

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-th...
Venom from Honeybees Found to Kill Aggressive Breast Cancer Cells
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The invention of the "JAM stack" is one of the greatest marketing stunts I know of. Kudos to Netlify for rebranding HTML+AJAX
I wonder if this is determined by skill of the person
>but it's understandable why the UK might choose not to treat them as a privileged observer.

Sounds more like a justifiable way of minimizing the legal support available to the defendant, and control the flow of information to the public.
No citation needed. The onus is on the court to prove that the trial is fair. The mechanism for that is allowing the public to observe the proceedings. Otherwise an adverse inference may be drawn.
Reminds me of the 10/GUI ("contenuum") http://10gui.com/

A user interface mockup where everything is grouped, spatially oriented, and scrollable.

https://vimeo.com/6712657