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> Does the hardware limitations of the pi mess with download or upload speeds at all?

Not at all (at least for me on a 100mbit connection with the Pi 3B+). I've read you could even use a pizero if you don't care about the Web interface being all that snappy.

> Any weird sites that don’t work with it running?

You set your own blocklists so you can choose how permissive you want to be. I have something like 1MM blacklisted URLs and rarely find sites to be completely broken. It's easy to temporarily pause the blocker, or add a single domain to the whitelist.

> How much better is it than something like ublock origin?

uBlock origin has the advantage of hiding content directly from the page, whereas pihole tends to leave a greyed out box where the ad used to be. I tend to use both at the same time anyway.
"... I mean I believe I understand why it’s required". if you do understand why it is required, then you must understand the game theory incentives underpinning modern economics and the disaster in wasted productivity, wasted savings, livelihoods bought on by centralised monetary systems. You can think proof of work as the cost paid to eliminate all that and save money. If you think you can solve that problem (Decentralised trust) non-trivially without proof-of-work you are welcome to try.
It’s really odd that Windows is reboot during working hours. It knows when I’m working, it can detect my habits.

Also; Windows reboots so much probably because of legacy. It was never designed to live reload important components. Why Word needs a reboot, I’ll never know.
Registered! BTW, awesome panel title.
The real projects are being built in the background. You cannot find them right now but they will rise to the surface eventually and they will help to drive Bitcoin's value as a reserve cryptocurrency.
I don't think the fact that there were children there materially changes the nature of the crime. The adults were innocent as well. Growing older should not mean your life is automatically worth less.

Anyway, holding the soldiers accountable won't actually fix the problem. I think what happened here is the natural outcome of conditions created well before that group of soldiers arrived in the scene.
Yep, if you're a home user, get bent. Your wishes don't matter to Microsoft.
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UEFI & Linux mostly 'just works' nowadays. It is not a problem nor a barrier anymore, except for exotic situations maybe.
If you want to know something, wouldn't you spend the time to ask a question about the content?

It is exceptionally difficult to tell someone something; it's often counterproductive. If someone is curious, they will look themselves, and ask a question that belies they have read the material.

If you cant spare the time to read hot mic words or listen to someone who was a NSA technical director, why would you want to hear what _I_ think about it?
>Don't use Windows if you can't deal with the reboots. Use Mac or Linux.

Are you the person in charge of this at msft or something? Because frankly I can't see a way to say that with a straight face. "let your computer tell you what to do or use an OS that is inferior because the competition paid literally millions of dollars and abused extreme nepotism to make it that way"

Trust me, I'd love to use Linux. But it sucks, because billg and the other founding Microsoft members went out of their way to make it that way.

E: I don't know why I'm getting down voted for this, it's a documented thing that really happened. Here's one example of one (of the many) times that it happed: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/how-bill-gates-mother-influe...

Another example would be the fake error messages they put out on computers that ran DRDos instead of their own DOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS#DR_DOS_6.0_/_Competitio...

>In December 1991, a pre-release version of Windows 3.1 was found to return a non-fatal error message if it detected a non-Microsoft DOS.[7] ... It was a simple matter for Digital Research to patch DR DOS 6.0 to circumvent the AARD code 'authenticity check' in the Windows 3.1 beta by rearranging the order of two internal tables in memory (with no changes in functionality) ... With the detection code disabled, Windows ran perfectly under DR DOS and its successor Novell DOS. The code was present but disabled in the released version of Windows 3.1.[23]

You might not remember it if you weren't alive 20 years ago but microsoft played dirty to get to the market position they are in today. FOSS had no hope, and acting like people should just forget this and use crippled software instead is unfair.
Nah it's a big unicorn startup down in Irvine, so the codebase is still relatively new. They use C++17 so pretty modern as well.
Everything would be the same except it's not recorded. A transcript can provide transparency but would be much harder to sensationalize.
Not OP, but I'm using NextDNS -- the managed version of a PiHole. I have uBlock Origin and uMatrix in all my desktop browsers, and I'm seeing around 15% blocked queries on NextDNS. Most of the blocked traffic seem to come from my mobile devices.
Well, this is how it goes. Google/MS/Apple/Facebook/etc. are huge companies with extremely high costs (i.e. paying their expensive developers). They need to make a lot of money in one way or another. So, you can choose your poison, depending on your preferences, financial status, etc.

The dimensions:
- privacy
- sneaky practices like what the article expains
- one-off price of e.g. hardware
- recurring price of e.g. services
- freedom
- stability of services
- control over your devices
- control over your data
- seamless integrations

Apple: high integration, high stability, high privacy, high price of hw and services, low freedom, low control over devices, high control over data, low amount of sneaky practices
MS: low integration, medium privacy, high amount of sneaky practices, low price of hw, medium price of services, high freedom (odd thing to say), high stability, medium/high control over devices, medium control over your data
Google: low privacy, medium sneaky practices, low price of hw, low price of services, high/medium freedom, low stability, high/medium control over devices, low control over data, medium integration

You can't get all the good things at once, unfortunately.
Looks like Canada has an id requirement to vote - if this is "voter suppression", whose votes are being suppressed? Or is there a racist assumption at work here that people of color are less likely to be able to follow simple instructions like bringing an id with them?
»The evidence is very clear: controlling community spread of COVID-19 is the best way to protect our societies and economies until safe and effective vaccines and therapeutics arrive within the coming months. We cannot afford distractions that undermine an effective response; it is essential that we act urgently based on the evidence.«[1]

[1] from article
Why can't you version them? Do they all use binary formats?
So we're still pretty far !
As I imagine an order of magnitude smaller requires an order of magnitude more money and complex equipments.
Bitcoin fork (maintaining BTC balances) onto Algorand consensus, call it algoBTC, would solve 2/3 of these issues. Scalable as money and environmentally friendly pure proof of stake. The greed/scam aspect is human nature and the appeal of a 'trustless' store of value. Clear regulation would go a long way here and more opportunities for [high risk]-reward yield for retail investors would drive people away from scams (current accredited investor and private share-holder restrictions; us govt. intends to change definitions as of this year)
What was it about Alteryx you didn't like?
Windows with PCIE pass through for gaming is so nice. I get nearly bare metal performance passing through a GPU, a USB controller, and an NVMe drive for boot
'Normal' is a state of duplicity where politicians present a veneer of respectability but actually betray their constituents by pursuing their own financial agendas behind the scenes. Trump at least somewhere wears his heart on his sleeve.
> Why do people still use Microsoft(MS)?

for me, Steam for video games and Visual Studio
> Rebooting during working hours, not great at all. Also rebooting without saving the state of the applications opened while the user is working away, not great either. There are reason why security is taking a back seat, business needs are greater than the risk incurred by user bad behaviour.

If you have a company in mind, then whatever they do is their problem. This is called risk management. Security takes a back seat until it does not when there are 400 GB of sensitive data that were stolen and are at sale for 10 M€.

If that company's computers then participate to criminal activities the company should be successfully sued for that. Together with the grandma and families that did not reboot when asked.

> BTW how is it that Windows 10 still needs more reboot to update any parts of itself, than a regular Linux distro? The update cycle on my Windows 10 machine is maddening compared to my Linux workstation.

That's another point. A good point. Every OS has its crapiness, even my beloved Linux that I extensively use since 1994 and still hope, one day, to have on desktop at the quality level of Windows 10.
Bbbut Apple is greedy. And iPhone can't be self-repaired!
I want the government to do something!
Useful for some email filing systems.
It's far from ideal, but my solution is a Mac (obviously MacOS has its own problems, but they're problems that don't bother me as much personally, and it could of course also be replaced by Linux, some sort of *nix, etc) with a Windows VM. The VM has the bare minimum amount of software I need, access to a few folders from the host OS, other than that it's stripped to the bare minimum. It doesn't "fix" Windows, but the issues are much less annoying when Windows is just a launcher for the handful of things that I need it for.
Yes. People choose Windows and it brings its share of pleasure and hate. One of these are security updates.

Since rebooting is good for me as a potential victim of these systems - I am happy someone if forcing them to reboot, and should also completely disable the ability to refuse security updates
Skype in not installed on my Surface Book, so not sure about everyone.

edit: I have some fairly strict settings on my laptop, so maybe that stopped it. I also have Office365 so that could be related too.
Replace "UEFI setttings" with "boot menu" in parent's comment -- they are talking about the very first steps required to install an alternative/second operating system to the machine, which definitely is a barrier to new users.
To be fair, even now, in 2020, even with something user friendly like Ubuntu, on desktop, the win10 experience is way smoother and less liable to crash.
100 years is a long time in technology. A safer bet would be to say "Assembler will be around in a 100 years". High level languages tend to get replaced after a while.
My Windows machine lets me defer updates for up to 30 days. I do that. But then I have to go through a whole dance of updating, rebooting, deferring for 30 days, then putting all of my workspaces back together.
Makes this tweet by Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) on “Re-Thinking the Desktop OS” even more relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24783387
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/28/macos-ignore-software-u...

It's not quite forced, but you can't explicitly ignore. In practice I'm one accidental click away from an unwanted update now. (Each time need to remember to go one menu level deeper before updating)
I meant perception from outside. Person who is wrong and changes his mind is smart, brave.

Person who is making obviously unbelievable arguments still is wrong but also dishonest. It is fine for fun or trolls but if it meant to be honest discussion it gains nothing but distrust.
More and more appealing compared to today’s Web.
Unless you're using something like LivePatch, it's a misnomer that Linux (especially Linux on the desktop) doesn't need to reboot--or need to restart so many components that the system might as well reboot--for updates to take effect.

Linux can install most updates without rebooting but updated components won't be used until they are restarted. E.g. if Firefox is updated while it is running, Firefox will need to be restarted (indeed, FF will force you to restart it) for the new version to come into effect. When low-level components (e.g. kernel, libc) are updated, the system must be restarted for these updates to take effect.

Running Linux without periodically rebooting after installing updates is little different from never installing updates at all.
They make great pets, they do their own thing until they want to spent time with you, I work from home and they keep me company, I generally have one asleep snoring on the chair behind my desk and the other either asleep on my lap or asleep under the monitor.
Microsoft also has Azure Devops, which essentially competes with Jira + Teamcity in one. Confluence is covered by either Azure Devops wikis or SharePoint.
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> They have to accept their role as central planner.

That's the whole argument. Since everything that central bankers were doing is not working and falling apart, we need to take the dial to 11, and introduce a full central planing. A proper enlightened communism, for the people, by our omniscient leaders, who by precise control of asset prices and such will make sure everybody has exactly as much money as they should, according to their position in The Party, and prices of everything are "fair".
Can you install Linux on a Windows PC without leaving Windows nowadays? I think the maximum you can expect from a casual user is to click a link to download an installer, and then to go through a wizard. But I would wager to guess even a lot of users over 30 would need a friend or relative who is "good with computers" to attempt even this.
It's likely that the author is running Windows 10 Home edition, which is probably more aggressive than the Pro version about annoying users.
> it takes only two synapses for information to travel from the air, through your nose, and to the core cortex

I was expecting it would be just a low level feature detector since smell is like like a bag-of-words format (unordered) while vision is at least 2D (space) and hearing 1D (time).
He captured perfectly my feelings:

>I don't even know where one site ends and one site begins anymore. Were they all created by the same person? Are all our sites wearing the same uniform like in some distopian novel?
See. You've got answers to something that you haven't asked a single question about. But in your judgement the company should have had the right developer on staff.

That's what's frustrating about these anti-Excel discussions.

Ok. What happens when I say that the company bought another company and it had a product line that the new company wanted to pay sales people commissions on? And the compensation plan around it was complex.

For whatever reasons, that's not a report the DBA was up for developing from scratch (or, someone decided his time wasn't to be used that way). That's just the reality.

We can talk about what should have been or what ought to have been, but that doesn't change the reality.

The reality is that I ended up doing most of it ACCURATELY in Excel.
I think part of the problem is people being raised to believe that love, in the biochemical sense, is the most important part of a relationship. Hence when they start feeling similar feelings for others, their relationship can weaken. But a relationship can be about so much more than just the biochemical side: two people, with similar goals and values, working together to build a better life for themselves and their children, and to help each-other achieve their dreams.

In that sense, the time spent building a relationship, time invested in growing trust, understanding and shared experiences, looks like building a business. And abandoning it just for biochemical experience with another looks like somebody with a successful five year old startup abandoning it to start another one because the code was written in Go and they've discovered they really love writing Elixir.
Generally, forced reboots caused by applications are due to a need to replace shared components that are in use by background processes.
And they still don't ship internationally.

Someone needs to start an international shipping startup that forward ships McMaster stuff, or they need to open an international shipping team.
Correction: would-be perfectly viable, if it weren't for Electron apps and JavaScript-ladden websites.
I'm on Mac, and I am not going back. I only use Windows to play a single video game, and that alone is an infuriating experience.
I do professional electronics design and some mechanical design. I use 100% FLOSS tools. KiCAD nightly is currently slightly less buggy than the closed crap, and about as capable. The major difference is that bugs I report get fixed within days, which I've never experienced with any of the commercial offerings. I use stable KiCAD for most projects, and nightly for things that need advanced functionality. It's absolutely excellent. The mechanical design story is not as great, but FreeCAD is improving at a decent pace and now that Fusion is crippleware a lot of people are looking into FreeCAD, and complaining about how it works, and some are contributing and improving it. KiCAD went through this cycle due to a large influx of Eagle users when Eagle got eaten by the beast, and came out dramatically, shockingly improved. If the same thing happens to FreeCAD in the next few years I doubt we'll have any excuse to go back. So I don't feel "hard pressed to get by" - I feel more productive than before I switched to FLOSS tools.
look, I don't condone Microsoft for doing this to home users, but all these people should just stop using window home for work if they value their tool ownership, instead of cheapening out.

you get what you pay for, I guess.
> Both C and C++ follow the same philosopy: "Trust the programmer"

I disagree. I think ever since it’s inception from C, C++ has tried to increase type safety and continuously move more of the work to the compiler (latest example is concepts). It does empower the programmer to do what they want: OOP, FP, GP...

The philosophy of the language is mostly about abstractions. Abstracting objects, types, resource management etc And using modern C++ features and a recent compiler makes it harder to make mistakes. Using some generally accepted guidelines and static analysis tools helps even further.

Though the syntax is at times ugly due to the age of the language and it has a lot of inertia that makes it hard to get rid of some bad design decisions like some of the defaults, unless someone recreates c++ with the same flexibility and power, and the same powerful compilers/tools but with better syntax and defaults I don’t see the language going anywhere. And I am not holding my breath for another language to quickly be able to reproduce the C++ echo system that have taken decades to develop.
No. it's not the only alternative. it's the only thing you and many other accept. Python+Jupyter is a real alternative.
Not surprised. There was a time when they supported various java servers .. jetty, jboss, tomcat, others. That ended due to way too much support requirements.

This is a step in the same direction.

I wonder what institutions with a security restriction will do though.

Market opportunity for some rival?
If she has real sociopathic tendencies, even grokking empathy on a purely intellectual level would be very real progress for her. (Perhaps the clearest feasible progress for someone with that condition - sociopaths tend to intuitively assume that everyone they meet is just as selfish and self-serving as they are, which makes them very poor negotiators.)

I'm not sure that she has those tendencies, though. She talks about having flat affect and about her sensation seeking in youth, but plenty of youths engage in mildly antisocial behavior (the brain doesn't fully develop until the mid-20s or so), and many sociopaths don't display flat affect - in fact, they may show rather volatile emotions, including angry jealousy triggered by perceived slights, which she apparently lacks.
In The Netherlands people tend to do the same with products based on Nijntje (known as Miffy internationally).
Do you have to use Google’s DNS?

I’m currently trying to phase off my dependence on them.

Gotta wonder what kind of ad tracking/targeting they do based on DNS lookups you send them
There's a standard tool for that:

https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
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PoW is not like leaving the tap on. It's a deliberate use of energy with incentives that attempt to provide a benefit. That is a censorship resistant monetary base and payment network.

When you say you find it a waste, you are either saying:

a) There is a less resource intensive way of doing bitcoin

b) That the claimed benefits are not true or you don't value it

(a) has had plenty of tries without success.

In case of (b), you don't have to participate, it's an entirely voluntary system. There are plenty of energy use cases around the world which don't benefit everyone.
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Macs reboot pretty often to install updates though.

They force it on you too. I'm not sure if they ever go ahead and automatically restart / update. But the OS constantly nags you to update.
What about the skyscrapers that finance companies build and the workers that burn fossil fuels to commute to them every day to spend their time doing basically nothing? Is that a waste of energy too?
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Real life doesn't always provide ideal solutions. In your case, using Excel is probably the easiest or even only way to do what's needed. That doesn't mean it's the best, or even a good solution. If it causes organization-wide problems, whoever runs your organization should make sure better processes are instilled. The only thing you can do is make it clear to the person above you and hope things improve.
Same thing Mozilla does with Firefox - when it updates, it refuses to load new pages or reload existing ones, instead the tab shows a message saying that they require me to restart firefox (promising to re-open all my tabs, but some config on my version must be prevending that because it doesn't work).

When it does restart, it's often accompanied by flashing up some Mozilla property in the UI like pocket or lockwise that I really don't want.
I guess it depends what you mean by "smoother". The thing I appreciate about Ubuntu as compared to windows is how quiet it is. The only things I see are the things I put there. With win10 there is so much noise on the desktop, in the start menu, and in system notifications. After switching it feels relatively stressful to use Windows.

Also I can't remember the last time Ubuntu crashed on me.
> But in your judgement the company should have had the right developer on staff.

Yes, like a janitor for example.

> The reality is that I ended up doing most of it ACCURATELY in Excel.

Yes it's the hammer for all your nails. You could also use Python+Jupyter. There are selfhosted and managed versions.

Because of guys like you, municipial installations run their sewage system with an excel sheet because some guy implemented a vba macro to talk to the sewage api endpoint.

let it go.
I just moved from MacOS to Windows for development last month to try it out. Software migration was seamless, but driver issues and this reboot problem is nuts.

For the last week, every morning I wake up, all my editors, terminals, servers, etc... are closed because it rebooted.

There is an entire stackoverflow thread on hacks to avoid it because there is no official way to prevent it.

I thought my Macbook Pro was bad usb-c issues were bad, this thing is worse!