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If the conversation is

> Software engineering does not put safety first

I'm 100% agreed.

If the conversation is

> The PinePhone has less quality control than Android/iOS

It's patently false

I would parse the article as the second, as it's referring to a specific phone throughout
Update on YouTube copyright dispute over guitar tutorials [video]
By Europe I meant continental Europe, no the UK. The UK is heavily US influenced so there it's more popular.

And by devs I mean all SW devs, not just Web Devs who seem to heavily favor Macs.

Conferences are not relevant as they mostly draw huge enthusiasts/geeks of various niches who are very self conscious about their perceived status there(since you go there to network) and don't want to be judged by their high-value peers for using the wrong machine(yes, some developers can be very superficial and judgmental; we're not saints). It's like saying Everyone in my area owns fancy cars because every time I go to the regional car show I only see exotics.

Also, the Macs or no Macs is a very regional/company thing varying greatly between country/city/company.

For example, in Germany I never saw Macs at big industry giants, just Windows/Linux machines as the bean counters couldn't justify to management the extra cost when the same work could be done on a Lenovo with Ubuntu.

Anyway, Europe as a whole is by no means like the Bay Area in terms of Mac adoption.
You basically described circumstances that applied to both women. They both wound up moving North due to the extreme negative pressure. I fail to see your point.

> It is not like Colvin and Parks were first blacks defiant in the bus. But Parks was using Colvins story for months and Colvin joined her group.

Citation requested.
I've actually started classifying my dog's barking since starting to work at home.

There's the "neighbor let the dog out" barking, unexpected car door, terrible music, that creepy neighbor guy, battlestations: generally unfamiliar dog or delivery person pulled up.

They can actually communicate quite a lot.
That Zoom icon is going to still be there on the desktop of all these computers and that’s one good thing to come out of this.
> I doubt pijul will make a dent in solving AAA game devs vcs issues though

Pijul has the potential to do that, since patches provide a very easy interface for doing partial checkouts:
- just pull patches related to a particular part of the repository.
- don't pull patches related to artwork frequently.

Since Pijul patches always commute, this could work.

Additionally, I hear the new (unreleased) Pijul can split patches between a "transform part" (e.g. "I inserted 2Tb in file f, and deleted 1") and a "contents part" (e.g., "here, have your 2+1Tb: …").
Any link to a demonstration
I do this as well and it works so well I sort of forget that's how I do it until I try to change something or someone brings it up.
Correct me if I'm wrong but unlike your point 2, doesn't WSL make the Linux kernel obsolete in the long run? That'd be the Extinguish part which is still far beyond the horizon but isn't it something worth thinking about?
Pricing is in GBP, is it available in the USA?
This sounds like the hype I mentioned earlier if I'm honest. I'd rather just use Hugo today and know most small sites I make are going to build in less than a second without having to pay extra.
Your perception of their portraits is just anchored by the content of the article. Be wary of being so easily manipulated.

Pretty boring pictures of two people.
In the 90s at least it was functional. No evidence of that yet.
You seem to have a beef with Apple but regardless of the difficulties of the company in the 90s, it was still a hugely influential company that popularized GUI interfaces and for sure was well known by engineers and designers of other operating systems.
There is virtually no batteries without ICs, and, that has nothing to do with whether the device runs without a battery. That’s just a design choice.
I think the evidence is that any Chinese company is under the umbrella of the omnipotent CCP who do as they please. Placing 100 million (and growing) US persons' location, likes, dislikes, contacts, and sms messages in the hands of the CCP on a silver platter is why this is happening.
I need to study more. This brings up interesting questions for me on ultrasound spectrum and others related to information loss. I hear bass more clearly over distances that are noisy but I hear high pitches over distances without noise. Speakers have filters on them to prevent transmission in particular frequencies. I’m unsure of what quality is related to on mics.

Cool stuff to understand. Thanks. Now I must learn more.

Also, weird: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_array

How do I reason about the range of frequencies that air itself has a threshold of vibration? There’s a particular range within that type of matter itself I’d imagine. Sound is only a human description of a waveform perturbation within the air... I’d imagine if the air vibrates too much it could explode or some other effects.
Fascinating! You'd have to do a bit more calculation though, as the distances were measured on a specific date:

https://nccr-planets.ch/blog/2017/12/07/astronomy-in-your-wa...
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Whenever I look at staff that is not doing a good job, rightly or wrongly, I tend to focus first on the ones whom I feel are overpaid.

In short, there is some value in not squeezing every last dollar out of your employer. Don't be underpaid, but don't make the other size of the negotiation feel like he/she got a bad deal.
But the market for those good engineers is extremely hot. So other companies will be offering them better compensation.

Good engineers are never looking for a job. They are in their job when new better opportunities arise and they decide to move.
Not if you subscribe to the Dark Forest theory ;)
Not why instead of dual boot but why wsl for me.

After more than an year trying to get my laptop (very high dpi) and my monitor (high dpi) to have decent fractional scaling on Linux so that I could use both screens while working comfortably.
I decided to try wsl and it is pretty much as fast (with my computer/use case), OS just delivers the problem above, so I am sticking with it...

Main cons for me right now are:

* windows updates been too aggressively

* not able to easily create/edit hot keys
I doubt this. I’ve worked on and off remotely and with distributed teams for most of my career. For many of us, there is something severely missing when remote-only. It’s only been a few months. I don’t believe we’ve had a paradigm-shifting breakthrough in the nature or office life. I think what’s going on is 1) tech companies are taking a good opportunity to diversify out of the long overpriced SV labor and real estate markets, and 2) companies trying to keep a stiff upper lip and show how adaptive they are by appearing to embrace the “new normal.”
Does it have a forced lose? It might be more fun to play tic tac toe but the win condition is flipped.
737 Max is very efficient per seat. Doubly important if you’re going to under fill each plane.
What other mouthpiece/personal data sink is on 100 million American devices? You start with the 800lb gorilla not the 10 spider monkeys who are there for support and logistics.
"Electroencephalograms (EEG) use electrodes, small metal discs that communicate with brain cells when placed on the scalp, paving a path to several kinds of information. When used in lab environments, the electrodes interact with stress hormones to create a measure of a person’s stress level. The brain also sends out electromagnetic waves of various types that correlate with attention and alertness, picked up by EEG."

Journalism. Sigh.
In space all mass is valuable. At least if your planning a expansionary timeline in orbit. Flying stuff up from the gravity well is expensive. Using in situ materials, especially if your not in a big hurry to fly them there, should be cheaper once the technology is developed.
Yes - You can select the currency you want once you’ve logged in. Currently we support USD, EUR and GBP payments but can theoretically support any currency that stripe does. I just haven’t gotten around to adding the rest yet
Seems like a perfectly fine use case to me when a camera or a sensor wants to drop some files on the local network. The protocol is cheap to implement on microcontrollers unlike secure versions. So while FTP will still live long without a support for it in the Google browser(s), I don't understand why they would discontinue it and I don't understand why would it be harmful for the ad business.
European Commission will appeal ruling that favored Apple in 15B tax case
Companies will never overpay in my experience. The weight of the "budget", the HR limits and the CEO policy is just impossible to skip. These all set the upper salary range.
I do this in reverse. I run Windoes in a VM in the ever shrinking chance I need it. Proton/wine made the games work and nothing else is of value.

I dont need an OS to track my every move. If they want that data, they can pay for it.
> I do that because linux is inferior for gaming/entertainment.

It really isn't any more. I play a lot of games and only one so far has refused to work well on Linux, and that's one which is emulated on Windows so I can't blame Linux too much for it. And that's on a laptop with nvidia's power-saving shit thrown into the mix. As for entertainment, aside from Firefox having issues with hardware acceleration, most of which have either been fixed or are being fixed, I haven't faced any in Linux that I haven't on Windows. That said, I don't use HDR, so I can't vouch for that.

On the other hand, I've had significant performance issues with WSL, especially on disk use, and I don't really care for windows update bugging me all the time and the telemetry. I jumped on board Linux with Pop!_OS and it's been a delight. I used to be just as negative on Linux, but I have been so, so happy I've been proven wrong.
Is this a free form poem?
I think some politicians will care but it depends on the specifics of their voter bases. The mob and anti-mob groups tend to split across political lines so for many politicians one or the other are already lost causes. So it's a question of how your expected voter base thinks about the issue and that's likely to be a lot more skewed than the overall population. So even if 50% of the population is anti-mob, if 90% of your political party local voters are pro-mob then you have a reason to listen.
Well, for one, you’ll be able to run Office in the browser on Linux. Which means one big hurdle for getting off of Windows or Mac if you prefer Linux.

Yes, you still are tied Office (cloud), but one step at a time.
New Zealand often complain they are left off maps of the world (it happens more than you think). I do wonder if NZ maps leave off other countries (say the UK) in response.
I can't recommend anything beyond ACF (and that I'm somewhat hesitant, it has a few annoyances) and maybe Autoptimize (feels stable, but haven't worked with a lot). I work with Yoast a lot because clients like it and editors know it, but I wouldn't recommend it. I hate all Permalink-Plugins I've ever seen. I don't do any caching in WP, I use varnish.

Otherwise I experienced exactly what you mentioned. Install a plugin, write code to dequeue its resources from all pages it's not running on. Of course, there are plugins that help you do that, but it's yet another plugin!

> I think part of the problem is WordPress plugins compete with each on features and need even more features on top to charge for the premium version, so page speed and robustness via simplicity get lost in the noise.

I agree, that looks like part of the reason for bloat, but most have also evolved over years. Most successful plugins have been around for a decade or so, and few people talked about web performance in 2010. That many authors initially just solved their own problem while learning php and shared their solution plays a part as well (not to mention that they often started writing them on php4).
For RC cars/aircraft etc those are usually incredibly high current LiPo chemistry and wired in series to deliver much higher voltage. The LiIon chemistry used in electronics on the other hand is quite pedestrian and packs are constructed with lower peak current and voltage output.

Despite similarity in name they are very different beasts. I'm not all that afraid of a LiIon pack unless it's been sorely mistreated or is a huge EV pack or something. On the other hand I treat LiPos with the utmost respect and get them far away from anything at the first sign of bloating or accidental shorting.
I think that’s more a question of taste/what one is used to. I find that dollar sign a bit heavy, visually, but one could also argue that’s a plus.

Using backslash has the advantage that there’s only one ‘special’ character in strings, but of course, also has the problem can escape any character with a backsplash, except for opening parentheses.
> There will be major new areas of innovation

I’m really curious what you mean by that, and how you see the world evolving such that Emacs, as is, won’t be able to come along with it.
Excellent question! This project is indeed mathematically possible, but did require two separate innovations:

- an "engineering" one, called Sanakirja, which is a fast, forkable, transactionnal, on-disk key-value store. Although it might not be as super-fast as other database engines, it's forkable (allowing to make fast branches in Pijul).

- a few "mathematical" innovations:

- a good understanding of why Darcs is linearly slow in the normal case, and exponentially slow in the worst case.
- some category theory to give a hint of relevant datastructures.
- a few graph algorithms with just the right algorithmic complexity.
- a good enough data representation for patches and repositories.

(disclaimer: I'm the lead author on most of this).
The don’t overpay because they are going to a FAANG anyway is a very good point. I am way to old to care about prestige (ie. the 74), but my company of 50 people in GA could never have offered me the $75K difference between what they were paying me pre-Covid pay cut and what BigTech offered me for my current remote role. Why try?
It's like hacking. Most hackers won't be able to hack a specific target. But with a wide enough net they will get some hits. And the hits are usually due to the victim doing something really stupid rather than the hacker's ability. So you'd expect you'll mostly see nobodies get hacked.
And it's largely random. Someone's ill-considered tweet or even post on an internal company email list or political donations or etc. ends up going viral, they get fired, and the whatever will be at the top of Google searches for possibly the rest of their life.
My theory is someone needed to write tests for the theming system, and they had some fun.
Logging in from DC here: also not 95% macbooks. This is a common trope that really bothers me. You'll see it in tech meetups where someone will have their turn to talk/present in the group and will apologize for running Windows.
Eh, FTP protocol is a mess, especially in a NAT based world.
I really have to agree on the scaling issue. I spent an entire afternoon getting my two displays - one 4k, one 1080p - to scale at different values without having stupid issues, but I just couldn't get them to work. This is on X because I had issues getting Wayland to work (might have been my laptop nVidia 1060's fault, tbh). I can't wait for my issues with Wayland to get fixed, because I've heard the fractional scaling support is much, much better.
I'm sorry, I don't understand the point that you're trying to make?
Since we’re dealing in SciFi books here, I recommend His Master’s Voice by Stanislaw Lem as an exploration of the question: if we were pretty sure we were receiving intelligent messages from space, what would they be and how would we respond?

The book takes place in the context of the Cold War, when it was written. But it’s still amazing today, and holds a lot of water.

Questions addressed: how would we know a signal was intelligent? How many ways could we attempt to interpret it? Is it meant to be interpreted? Why would somebody emit such a thing? Where did it come from? What do we do with what we’ve learned?
Not having had COVID before, and with the news blowing up the fear factor, it is a scary thing.

Now i've had it. I survived. It is a known entity. I am no longer afraid as I know that even being immuno compromised I came out on top of it.
What was wrong with it, assuming it's factually correct?
Not journalism... Vice.
Everybody who ever claims something is EEE should be required by law to explain what the "extinguish" portion will involve.
Reflecting on (2): instead of getting off the bicycle and taking a moment to salute Dear Leader on my daily commute, instead youtube intermittently makes[1] me wait a few seconds until I am allowed to click the "skip" button?

[1] yes, yes, I know about youtube-dl, but I've been lazy lately.

Edit: https://joshuaspodek.com/north-korea-strategy-half-baked-hel... sounds good to me, but then I'm someone who has witnessed that paying troublesome tenants to move out is much less hassle than evicting them.

Edit2: On further reflection, the troublesome tenant will remain a troublesome tenant, where this proposal suggests a former national cadre would become a relatively powerless exile.

History seems to say most who grab for the brass ring view the utility of being "top, or nearly top, dog" as far outweighing the disutility of the sword of damocles.
Show HN: Wyre, a hardware definition language that compiles to Verilog
> It's also unsettling to know that you're in their hands.

I wonder how dangerous would it be to visit there after posting practically any statement about NK on a public forum. Upon arrival, if they did their homework on every visitor, it's possible there might be some uncomfortable questions.
Website admins pointed IE users to Firefox because it worked better, supported APIs and features which made their site better.

Chrome was the same too. Yes Google does have unfair advantage because they own lot of properties people interact with every day, they are a significant player for user mind space, but they are not so large that people spend 50-60% time on google products only .
Porting Keyboard to Kaleidoscope
This is more of "embrace" so the other steps are made obsolete. i.e. anyone running windows who ever considered trying linux will no longer be tempted since he would probably be able to do anything he wanted in windows either way.
It depends: the main issue is the diff algorithm. Pijul's diff is not line-based, but rather "byte block"-based (which at the moment happen to be lines).

This means that we could totally imagine more clever diff algorithms for specific use cases. I don't know anything about PCB design files, but an example application of this is to treat indentation and spaces as their own blocks.
At least one command line tool in my toolbox uses webkit. (wkhtmltopdf)
Actually right now, since the Schrems II ruling, it doesn't matter where the servers are. The ruling identified that legislation in the US (Cloud Act) is incompatible with the principles that would allow data to be transferred absent the "privacy shield" agreement (standard contractual clauses, or binding corporate rules being the 2 main ones).

Since the Cloud Act grants access to data hosted overseas, the problem with complying with GDPR is actually now the US legal entity having access or control of the data.

Most commentary has focused on the location of the data as key, but in light of the Cloud Act and FISA 702, it comes down to whether or not the data is subject to such laws.

On a similar note, many commenters are suggesting if the data is encrypted, that makes it OK. This is true only in limited circumstances (like S3, where you decrypt the data without the US entity seeing the keys). It isn't true where the data is processed by the US entity (absent homomorphic encryption).

A lot of misunderstanding around the ruling, but indeed this is the EU saying to the US government, "we are not satisfied your jurisdiction offers protections legally compliant to let your services into our market."
I listend to the interview as a podcast. It could have gone on for another hour if you ask me.
I really like the long form interviews. It allows the guest to not just make there point but to tell the story how they came to that conclusion. That way its easier, at least for me, to internalise that knowledge.

There is a podcast run by the german newspaper "Die Zeit" [1] where the concept is that the interview goes on until the guest thinks everything is said. The episodes usually last between 4 and 8 hours. The longest taking 9h 40 minutes.

There is one episode with Ian McEwan that is recoded in english if someone that doesn't speak german is interested. That one just takes 2h so its not really a good example.

[1]https://www.zeit.de/serie/alles-gesagt
[2]https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2019-12/ian-mcewan-intervie...
Sure thing. It takes only half the fuel to fly between two destinations. And it doesn't require the overhead of crew at the arrival airport
How can I get in touch with you? Tried emailing the domain.
You’ll want to airgap it if you do... :)
This may be true in WSL 1, but WSL 2 uses actual Linux kernel, it won't be a problem. Instead, what will be affected is Linux Desktop.
Certainly not. That is what the PMIC is for. It’s up to the developers to responsibly configure the PMIC and that is a real hazard. However, the safety situation might not be as bad the author makes it out to be. I don’t know any better though, and it is always a good idea to know when it comes to safety. It’s an important topic to shine the light on.
Market share is often measured in both units and sales (or 'dollars'). Both of these are important to a company's future but when markets are segmented then the smaller number of units can be worth pursuing.
> The worst thing Microsoft can do is bring more people to Linux.

They're doing exactly the opposite. Just wait for the day some new killer Linux apps encourages, or even requires, WSL rather than native Linux to run properly, or to run at all.

Imagine a window-manager/desktop-environment using the same exact windows primitives and behaviour but integrated into the WSL Linux OS. That thing would be the killer app a lot of Linux users would dream of, it would for obvious reasons run only under WSL, and would take away a huge number of non-hardcore Linux users. "Why learn a new user interface when you can keep the same you're used to, and more importantly write Linux software that will make full use of it?".

I desperately want to be proved wrong, but I'm really pessimistic about WSL: it is to Linux exactly what WINE is to Windows, and will kill Linux pretty much everywhere except servers and embedded systems, just as WINE has killed Windows on many desktops where the real thing wasn't necessary.
I’m guessing that means that the half hour I spent getting vcxsrv to work with wsl was pretty much lost time.

Oh well, still a nice feature
Is there a difference between doing "apt upgrade" followed by "apt dist-upgrade" vs only doing "apt dist-upgrade"?
Seth Godin often makes the distinction between having a brand and a logo with interesting examples. The one I like is that if you can put your logo on a competitor's product and nobody would know the difference, you don't have a brand, you have a logo. The example he uses are hotel chains.

http://www.youarefired.com/do-you-have-a-brand-or-a-logo/
In 100 years we probably will have the means to move it
What are your favourites?
> I mean, people use it to run newspapers [...]

I wouldn't use that as an argument.

For me many maybe even most newspaper sites are just plain out bad designed.

They tend to be overloaded, slow to load, easy to overlook things easy to get accidental lost and hard to find things from lets say a week ago.
Vitamin D at least 30 ng/mL reduced risk for Covid-19 adverse outcomes