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>Unfortunately, that forbids general-purpose screenshotting and key-rebinding programs - but there is no sensible middle ground... In order to actually break into a mass desktop market, there has to be consideration of the ways people who do not currently use Linux behave.

Oddly, the actual mass market desktops have (and have had for a long time) solutions for the 'general-purpose screenshotting and key-rebinding programs'.

I know how bad was X11 technically, and sympathize with replacing it - but that by itself does not make Wayland a success. It took Wayland over a decade to almost get basic capabilities, and it's going to take another decade until all the compositor-based protocols are standardized (probably by eventually only having a single compositor implementation). By the time Linux finishes reimplementing its desktop, Windows and MacOS will be in an entirely different place.

Maybe this can't be helped - Open Source desktop development was always extremely underfunded and undersupported.
It likely won't ever be a drop-in replacement because a lot of X operations don't really make sense in Wayland. (Even in X, xdotool isn't perfect and a lot of its commands won't work if your window manager doesn't support the right hints) Unless you feel like volunteering to make a standard for this, you'll get the best mileage out of using an API specific to your compositor rather than waiting for someone else to come up with a standard. I know GNOME exports its internals with a javascript interface, and Sway has a way to run various commands using a JSON interface too.
I wonder if there was a tin whisker lurking there.
I agree. I lived in San Fran for two years for the job, mostly.
The primary failsafe mode for an NTR would be to insert control rods to stop fission. Without the hydrogen the core wouldn't be able to cool itself and would melt down. There are however NTR core designs with closed circuit cooling. The core would be kept at a low critical state (hot but not melting) and circulate a coolant through the core and into a generator and from there to radiator panels. When the NTR wasn't providing thrust it would provide electrical power. When thrust is needed the coolant loop would cut off and hydrogen would be pumped through the core. Provided no mechanical breakdown in the coolant/generator loop an NTR could provide power for years.
A growing number of places are realizing that sending a militarized police force for mental health crises is not a good idea and turning to actual qualified people instead.
Correct. Both of those cities are larger than SF. Less walkable due to lower density, though.

If it weren’t for SF’s high concentration of my industry (tech), I’d likely move to NYC, London, or Paris.
This is the 2008 election result county map in NY:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Ne...

This is it in 2016:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Ne...

Long Island is really red there. It’s really hard to say how a democratic stronghold like NYC and something literally a 45 min train ride next to it could vote so differently. Long Islanders are not separate from NYCers, they commute to and work in the city.

To your question, could experiments work in similar situations like this across the country for either side? I think so in the next 50 years as demographics shift (and I don’t think it’s as simple as urban liberals taking over, people do become more conservative as they get older). God knows the dynamic at work between NYC and Long Island in 2016, but it’s obvious things are in flux.

I’ll make a bold prediction here. If Long Island is that red again, yeah, you better believe the typical rust belt states are staying red.
> But the majority of it I re-researched for making this page in the last week or so.

I'd love to know what terms you use or where you find these. I'd assumed that a list like this comes from posts in various communities that then get buried and are eventually very hard to find again.

Stuff like the city-generator I've seen in game dev circles, but things like tooll.io don't seem to have been advertised much the authors. Googling it led to some youtube videos and some posts on places like reddit/hn with little traction. It's stuff like this that I would have no idea on how to find it.

I'd love to see the other list of all the projects you have even if they're just links in a txt file.

Keeping curated lists like this seems to be growing more important given how search isn't what it used to be 10 or 5 years ago - things seem to get deleted, or buried under so much more new information.
A nuclear thermal rocket works just fine in atmosphere. It has a similar profile to chemical rockets, in that you can tune the reaction or the bell nozzle to work well in atmosphere or in vacuum. The biggest problem with using this as a first stage is dealing with the legal and social logistics of running a nuclear reactor that isn't yet on an escape trajectory.
Wow. What model GPU/mobo was it?
Is it not possible to domesticate other bee species? Surely a x200 increase in efficiency would be a major reason to domesticate orchard bees, right?
I tried that (using Windows Remote Desktop) but the latency was just high enough to be annoying. What do you use?
The lines get blurry when there is a revolving door between Silicon Valley tech companies and DC.

Recent example from the banning of Bret Weinstein from Facebook: https://twitter.com/Liz_Shepherd/status/1319451084859953154?...

This is a Facebook communications person responding with an official reply to this incident. She describes herself as "Facebook comms, formerly @TheDemocrats and @SpeakerPelosi".

This is an example of power leakage. These institutions do in fact (i.e. de facto, not de jure) have elements of sovereign power given their relationship with the political/ruling class, it's just that they are not directly accountable in the same way that a government is. They engage in censorship for the benefit of the ruling/political class and use political formulae as a mask (TOS violations, "community standards" violations, exhortations to the first amendment, section 230 protections, etc) in the same way governments do.
We can’t even get it applied to ISP’s, I don’t know how we could stretch it to social media.

My guess is that any legislation attempting to make social media common carriers would eventually be found to unconstitutionally abridge the first amendment.
Thanks for the tips! I’m wondering where to sync to, though. It doesn’t look like rclone syncs to other photo services, and it’s not clear which one would be best to use.

I’m not particularly interested in running my own server for this.
Interesting. That’s the first I’m seeing of it.
The specific impulse does not take the engine (or reactor) mass into account, but it's (approximately, if you neglect pressure effects) proportional to the exit velocity of the gas flying out of the nozzle. The exit velocity in turn is proportional to the square root of (temperature divided by molar mass of the exhaust gas).

Thus, if you use cooler hydrogen gas rather than hotter water+hydrogen, you can still make it a lot more efficient given that water has 9 times the mass of hydrogen per molecule.
> The sound insulation between flats on a converted office building must be nil.

A lot of the older buildings in SF just have 2x4 walls separating the apartments, with fiberglass insulation. It's not very good at insulating sound either.

If the office conversions are done properly they will be better at sound insulation than much of the existing housing stock in SF.

The real question is, why bother renting in SF when any of the surrounding cities are cheaper? Most of the reasons to live in SF (restaurants, nightlife, cultural events) are shut down indefinitely, and commute distance isn't relevant if you are working from home. Renters can get a lot more for their money in the East Bay or the Peninsula.
I'm convinced that a corporation could usurp the government and most people would accept having it throwing away the constitution if it billed itself as a "private company".
> Applying editorial standards (finally) to some of the more outrageous content posted on social media platforms is no more controversial than that of print media's choice to do so

This is both true, and fine. However, they must give up their section 230 safe harbour protections.
The Fed as in the Federal Reserve you mean? Do you have a source? I think you may be confusing things.
You Have No Right to Preach About Politics If You Do Not Vote
There's a Heinlein quote I'm not finding, to the effect that you should never write the eulogy of a great writer and risk the conclusion that it would have been better if you had died and the great writer had written your eulogy.

James Boswell beat that rap. In this magnificent book review Alvaro de Menard convinces me that he almost does too.
NERVA was targeting thrust to weight ratios of <5, though - which isn't high enough to lift off of the ground with. Makes a fantastic upper stage engine, but a rather useless first one.
> The Democratic Party proved it was not as progressive as they thought as Sanders lost the primary.

The FiveThirtyEight forecast for the Democratic primary [1] gave Biden the highest chance of winning for most of the process. He did have a steep drop in the month before Super Tuesday (followed by an equally steep rebound), but still, I wouldn't say the forecast was especially bad. That said, polling is always worse for primaries than general elections, since there are more candidates and fewer voters.

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/
No, prior restraint is a form of censorship where you are prevented from publishing on your own platform. "Content moderation" is a euphemism for censorship that you agree with. "Content moderation" is to platform censorship as "prevention of material support for terrorism" and "the maintenance of the public order" is to prior restraint.
I once turned on my crt monitor and smoke started coming out so I freaked out and immediately unplugged it. My uncle, an electronist, was passing by and told him I screwed my monitor and wanted him to take a look. He plugged in, turned it on it worked just fine. I don’t remember ever having problems with that EGA monitor again. I could never explain that white smoke
Full compliance with Windows 10 Enterprise certification requires ability to enter Setup Mode, where all certificates are deleted and owner has to reload the whole certificate database from scratch.

The requirements mentioned by grandparent are for setup where without any extra configuration you can approach a computer with Windows 10 install media and it will install properly.
Different Feds do different things. St Louis Fed I believe is strong in data analysis and forecasting.
<curmudgeon>

Parking and traffic tickets are a way to increase revenue while still being able to say "We didn't raise taxes."

</curmudgeon>
The math never works out, by a long stretch. Electricity is just too cheap and humans too weak.

“One kWh” sounds like a tiny amount, but it is 3,600,000 joules. If you want to store that as potential energy, you must (taking g=10m/s²) lift a mass of 360,000 kilograms by a meter.

Another way to see how large a kWh is: a human body, ballpark, needs 3kWh per day (125W an hour)

⇒ If you want to produce 3kWh a day, you’d have to eat twice what you normally eat.

And that, even ignoring heating and airconditioning, doesn’t power an average household in the western world.
Cool. I do everything really cheap - foundationless, treatment-free, no excluders, etc.
Tech was not an existentially-huge fraction of SF's economy back then.

The peninsula, where it always has been, got hammered.

At the time I was commuting from SF to the mid-peninsula. I recall meeting with one of my clients in a field-house sized cubicle farm which must've had at least 300 desks, probably more. We were the only two people in there in the middle of the day on a weekday.

Suburban office space gets spooky during recessions, due to its sheer bigness...
What is normal? If companies can be as productive (or close ) without the expensive office space - would they all go back to what had been considered “normal”? I doubt it.
That's still, at best, Kremlinology (Redmondology?).

Microsoft has enough clients that require custom keying that for them, locking it down would be a financial downside without Linux being in the scope.
Ease of use - how is that not on the list. Zoom persists / pops up / works for everyone.

Signal? Are folks serious here? This is ease of use to onboard a 50 person call with a click? When I last checked they didn't even have group video calling AT ALL.

You realize why zoom is crushing it - people care a lot more about convenience then anything, and signal didn't even have group video calling.
Ceiling Height Matters
> What worries me as much as the end of general-purpose computing for the masses is that so few seem to understand that it is ending.

I think the author would have better phrased his comment: "What worries me as much as the end of general-purpose computing for hobbyists and hackers is that so few seem to understand that it is ending."
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> Correction: Has Ended.

I guess I have a different definition of "General Purpose Computing" than you or the author, because personally I see the iPhone and iPad as the beginning of general purpose computing for the masses. The traditional PC was computing for the elite/ computer experts.

This romanticism of 80s computing as the golden age completely mystifies me. The 80s/ 90s were a phenomenally fun time for geeks like me/ us. For everyone else, a PC was a thing you had to learn a bunch of esoteric bullshit to use.

"For the masses", the iPhone, Android, and the iPad are far more interesting and useful.

Even if you look at more specific PC style computing, most people don't care about whether their bios is locked or not.
So should I pick StandardML or OCaml?
Real work happens here at my desk. The same boring static location with a controlled enviroment with little input from the outside world.

Laptops are for shallow work, not much else.
It is incredibly obvious that most US media is biased. This includes suppression on both sides of the political spectrum. It includes both mainstream media and social networks. It isn’t just here and there. It is endemic.

It pushes mindsets and frames discussions. It precludes discussion. It is coordinated and pushed relentlessly.

You can tell when opinions suddenly shift amongst influence makers. Suddenly others get in line. Welcome to a modernized version of 1984.

Now you know that Twitter and Facebook are party to it as well. So are Fox News, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, public broadcasting, etc...

I realized that even supposedly unbiased news was irredeemably compromised when public broadcasting barely reported on the Snowden disclosures. This was after realizing all
mainstream media did not fact check the calls for the second Iraq War.

The real news just serves as a skeleton upon which the powers that be drape a
narrative to further their causes.

If you can’t tell yet, both Biden and Trump are lying through their teeth.
This is what strongtowns should be doing, instead of their elon-twitter-style hot take blogging.
_"VSCode is a great operating system, lacking only a decent code editor"_
I can second that, I use M-Discs for long term backups. They're supposed to last 1000 years and you can get 100GB ones.
Graduated property tax.
No kidding - blocking participant screen sharing, there is always someone who can't figure out how to un screen share.

Space to speak works great as well
Without parking tickets, it would not be possible to park at many local businesses in cities. The parking enforcement is crucial to make sure the spots turn over.
I just want C(native performance) + Java(memory garbage collection) + Python(quick expression & battery include) + Erlang(massive concurrency), yes all in one, so take Go for simple!!!
>> pretty much everything that works on interaction between X clients fails hard

It's supposed to fail hard. That isnt just a security hole in X, it's a total lack of security. The notion that any app should be able to monitor or manipulate any other app is archaic and wrong from a security perspective.
Yep, soft wood prices are up 20-25% right now.
I don't want any of these things
Because the worst case scenario looks a lot like the '08 crash. These developers are highly leveraged, because property values were skyrocketing in major cities. It was a "you can't lose" situation. And now major banks are stuck holding the loans again, and these guys simply won't be able to make their payments.
ff-works is pretty fantastic in my experience. A decent GUI with tons of the options exposed plus a place to add additional terminal commands if needed. But as simple as permute if you don’t wanna dig.
If it was flagged, and then became unflagged, it may have been flagged by the users of HN and then may have been unflagged by mods.

Is it then mods enhancing the freedom of expression by unflagging something, or censoring the community self-moderation? You decide!
Usually fire code mandates a 2 hour fire rating for each unit, so you end up with two parallel air gapped 2×4 walls that have sufficient sheetrock on the one side facing the unit the wall was built for to get that 2 hour fire rating.
If they wanted to lock it down they could have just used coreboot and didn't build a big honking framework deliberately designed to allow running different systems that have no pre-existing knowledge about the machine.

Just like many other closed platforms of yore, or how in practice Macs of today work (their UEFI is, plainly, not to spec - a lot of hackintosh work is figuring out "what Apple did wrong this time")
Nothing wrong with your question, the thing you're missing is that many of the commercial buildings are not owned outright. What is happening is similar to what happened in 2008 with residential housing, all be it the reasons for the occurrence are very different.

Probably the worst consequence from a failed commercial real estate market will be the collapse of the economy that services and depends on these spaces. Restaurants, trasport, maintenance workers and so on will inevitably fail. This will lead to loan defaults, bankruptcies and eventually this trickles down to every citizen in the community if not the country.

For a historical view of this type of collapse, look into any resource based boom to bust city or town. The sad part is those that can leave, get out long before the SHTF and it's only the middle class to poor left holding the bag. Then when the Fed steps up with a bailout the parasitic rich start showing up again to ride the recovery, lining their pockets once again.
"user flagged" and "mod removed" might be clarifying, on stories.

For comments that may be overly verbose.

The distinction really isn't transparent.
Do you use tts, or have your eyes on your phone?
"Power leakage" is inevitable. Everyone has political opinions. Most cops are Republicans. That alone doesn't mean that they're incapable of doing their job competently.

What you're doing amounts to an ad hominem attack: you're criticizing the person delivering the message, rather than the message itself.
That will be great. Org’s greatest power it’s also a weakness – coupling with Emacs. I mean it’s great in all aspects except getting other people to use it.

Pandocs makes it possible/bearable to interact with rest of the world (I’m in the process of moving more things to org).

Being able to export directly to pandoc’s AST Json will probably allow to avoid using other programs to edit content at all! I’ll wait for this day to come; perhaps I’ll even learn enough Elisp to contribute untill then. ;)
Ocaml's optimization is very good, but not perfect. For example, if you need 32-bit integers instead of 31-bit integers, your performance is going to tank due to boxing.

MLton is a whole program optimizer (rather than function at a time like Ocaml) and wrings out a ton of performance though compile times are quite a bit longer.
A story that contains the claim “someone who didn’t leave their name dropped a random laptop off at a store and we’re going to pretend it was Hunter Biden without evidence” can’t ‘turn out to be false’ because there’s no assertion there to begin with. It’s like claiming that an unsigned int set to zero hasn’t gotten any smaller.
How the waters off Catalina became a DDT dumping ground
If your fans are noisy buy better fans. We had some corsair fans that came with the AIO at work, replaced them with noctuas and the computer went from mildly annoying to dead silent.

Though with water cooling you might also have a lot of pump noise, especially if the radiator is mounted incorrectly.
Uhh space itself is about 2.7K. Seems like cooling shouldn’t be a problem. There’s probably all sorts of ways to avoid a problem. Even just using a different element altogether.
Spalling/scatter. In certain radiation environments, shielding makes things worse, as an energetic particle can cause a knock-on flood of even more damaging particles to be emitted if strikes an atom in the shield. Ultimately more mass does help, but we're talking meters-thick, not just another few cm.

The details are a lot more complicated than that. It's just worth keeping in mind that for any given radiation environment, there may be times when either more or less shielding would be a better choice, as counterintuitive as that may seem.
Or maybe xxHash would work for duplicate finding? https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash
There is a big difference between what an "executive" does at a 5,000-person company versus a 500-person company, and the latter (or even smaller, frankly) is where fractional leadership really makes the most sense. There are so many early-growth startups that could really use experienced leaders but don't have the funding and/or the track record to attract the kind of people they need on a full-time basis.

Disclaimer: this is a big part of what I do for a living so I do have some intrinsic bias toward it.
They really need to go where the developers are...
> 1) the old, mostly working thing is being abandoned in favor of

Except that X11 is NOT "mostly working" for a significant amount of modern usages.

Yes, if you happen to want to run your Terminal, Emacs, etc. remotely over a network connection, X11 is your huckleberry--but only because anything more complicated than a bitmap makes that a very difficult problem.

If you want HiDPI, subpixel anti-aliasing, color calibration, multiple resolutions on multiple displays, smooth video, no tearing, etc. X11 only works to a certain degree, some days, for some people, for some video cards. And it's not even clear how those should work over a network connection.

This is not new. After all, X11 critiques came in for a full chapter in the Unix Haters Handbook and that's 25 years old. Wayland is simply revisiting the same problems as X Server Extensions 30 years later (they aren't ubiquitous so nobody uses them so they aren't ubiquitous).

The problem is that people who use obscure features are VERY vocal about it while people who simply abandon your operating system because accelerated video doesn't work reliably are very quiet.

Maybe Wayland isn't the way forward, but X11 certainly hasn't been the way forward for decades.

The only advantage I can see is that if Wayland manages to tear out the X11-isms in everybody, what comes after Wayland will have a lot easier time of it.
Inrupt is a startup co-founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee
> I can build what I want with parts from newegg.

You can, until Apple integrates all the suppliers into their supply chain.
A bit of a problem however is that what's fine for RMS, is not necessarily fine for anyone else.

Including approaching the booting of a computer as if it was still KA-10 and you were using RIM10B bootstrap loader.
To be fair, triple monitors barely work on my macbook