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Linux is not a single thing. There are many different distributions and combinations of software you can have on any of them. You get what you choose.

There are like 7+ different file managers that you can install and use. One of them probably has compress to zip. Some of them are much more powerful than finder in OS X. I use `mc` and I don't even need to click. I just select a folder <F2> <Enter>, and the folder is compressed. Two pane file managers are great. I love them ever since MS-DOS times.

The fact that I can use bitmap fonts is the major benefit of Linux to me, because I don't use hidpi screens. I can have small fonts that don't suck to look at, and are perfectly crisp. I like that I have that choice.

All of those automatic sync things are an anti-feature to me. I was given an iPhone for webdev testing, and was snapping an odd photo or two with it from time to time, including photos of my ID documents, without realizing that it by default uploaded everything into some stupid cloud. Great, now my state ID is with Apple.

A few times I had to use Mac OS for development had me running the other way since then. Why would I search online and download files to drag and drop them around to "install" them, and sometimes click through next next next finish dialogs, like on Windows, when I can just type a list of programs I want installed and they just get downloaded and installed for me with no fuss, and meanwhile I can do something more meaningful? I can install 10 different programs I need for some project in a single command, and it's such a time saver.

To some people Mac features may be great, to some they suck horribly.
Google doesn't work for me anyway because Google blocks VPNs (interferes with its spying I guess), but latest Firefox has a nice feature where you can conveniently select where your search goes to. So now 50% of my searches go directly to wikipedia without any middle-man, russian queries go to yandex, and the rest go to qwant, and if this doesn't work - to startpage, which feeds from google.
I’m having trouble seeing how a Constitutional Amendment is government overreach. All amendments are voted on by the citizens, not just Congress.
He probably just uses 'I' a lot because someone else is hogging all the best words.
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I've felt this way for a while, that we're just spinning our wheels. UIs/lipstick gets prettier, but there is little out there we couldn't of had 10-20 years ago. Ergonomics of software development have made great strides in some ways, terrible regressions in others. There isn't much of substance to discuss. We probably don't enter the "new world" until quantum becomes ubiquitous or some other massive breakthrough.
Anecodote- I was on OSX for ~9 years +/-1 or 2 years. Came from Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows for ~10 years before. I made a switch a year ago back to the same (Windows + Linux) and I've been nothing but happy. I know people tend to complain about Linux on the desktop, but I had great experiences a decade ago, and I do again.
I liked it, I found it thought provoking as well and I enjoyed the format, the “collage-y” presentation worked well with the subject matter. To me it presents as disillusionment or polemic rather than somebody losing their mind. Glad I found it on here
Penrose Diagrams
Module parameterization by type is a kind of a big deal. This enables reuse and composability opportunities that can become pretty impressive.

C++ templates can be used in a similar way, but it's not perfect. The closest match I can think of is a template class with static members.

D has one more mechanism that is conceptually very different, but could be used to express somewhat similar patterns: template mixins. These are best described as parameterized template sections of code worh one or more declarations that have to be reasonably well formed on their own and are virtually pasted into the code at the location where they are instantiated. They exist somewhere in the space between templates and C preprocessor macros.
> I still don’t like that it’s possible to run arbitary commands on a user’s system just by them pip installing a package.

Is there a build system out there that doesn't have this feature? Pip is both a package manager and build system since many packages are compiled at install time.
But this is happening with enpXsY! (Are you saying this was only happening with eth*?)

Whenever I remove a card from my first pci slot, the other two cards get renamed... Frustrates me a lot.
Love it. I'm reminded of a surgical truth passed on during my third year rotation: "Bleeding always stops."
I used this when I took differential equations while working on my math major (graduated in 2016). It's simply invaluable for the anxious, confused student.
There's an epistemological dilemma/equivocation inherent in the phrase "elite overproduction". Obviously, the number of true elites is limited by the actual amount of elite input taken by society's institutions (in the same way the number of rocks on top of a pile is limited by the surface area).

When you measure an "elite overproduction", what must be happening is that one noisy signal (metric) of eliteness (e.g. Harvard degrees) is showing a much higher false positive rate than true positive rate, as determined by comparison with a more sensitive (but often useless) metric, in this case "actually being elite" (working for USG or The Atlantic). When you have this problem in any other field, you switch to a different metric!

In other words, when Turchin says "elite overproduction", he is implicitly trusting the very metric he is criticizing. Of course trusting academia as a kingmaker is not a surprising stance for... an academic, but we are not and plow on. If you reframe the question, you instead see "inability to identify elites", that is, a decrease in the signal-to-noise ratio of the metrics used to identify people who are trustworthy.

In this framing, it is less surprising that this "elite overproduction" viz. "qualification debasement" is happening at the same time as a general decline in the public trust of institutions! After all, isn't it rational to stop trusting a noisy metric? We could of course spend many paragraphs picking over the nitty-gritty mechanisms by which these increasingly noisy signals eventually produce mistrust, but what we want is the crow's perspective [1]. There is also the question of whether "trustworthy" should have anything to do with "elite", but it does usually have some connection to social achievements.

What bothers me is that I personally can't really recommend my own method of trust-but-verify to most people: I have a pretty good command of mathematics, and I determine who to trust, in many cases, by checking their math. This is an odd privilege: for example, a brief glance at Trump supporters sharing graphical claims of voter fraud is enough for me to immediately detect lying-with-statistics, but for someone without a graduate degree in a mathematical science it may not be so easy.

1: http://chaosbook.org/FieldTheory/01-Intro.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%2...
This is my point exactly. What the judge in each case has to determine is how best to define the market. Whether "smartphone owners" or "devices that play videogames" or "App Store users" or "iOS devices" or "computers" or "phones" or any number of other ways. Do you determine it in the US only, or world-wide? (US courts have jurisdiction only here, but can determine a market based on any parameters) Do you determine the majority player based on units, or gross revenue, or profits? Is your primary concern when it comes to damages companies (like Epic) or end users? And so on.

People are blithely making cases here like all of these things are simple, but they're the key to this and all other similar cases, and it's not as clear as people seem to assume. Different judges might decide different things on different days, and none are necessarily wrong... or right!
So, much like humans, mushrooms produce vitamin D from sunlight?
I completely agree with this. However, I also feel that there is something out there that I don't even know about, but somehow I need it.
There are many reasons to choose Linux over the alternatives that have nothing to do with one's ability to customize it.

One example is the simplicity of system management. Desktop oriented Linux distributions tend to take care of everything from application installation to updates with a single interface with minimal interruption to my work flow. This is only sometimes the case with macOS and Windows. Android, iOS, and ChromeOS are not realistic contenders in the application space for some users.

Cost of ownership is another factor. Linux may not make sense for some businesses if they have to hire someone to manage their systems, but an end user who can handle often trivial tasks can usually support their own system and benefit from less downtime. While paying for software is a good thing, it frequently adds many constraints on what can be done while modern business models can make licenses prohibitively expensive (e.g. subscription models or various forms of forced obsolescence).

Other reasons include: sometimes the desired software just works better under Linux since it was designed for Linux, a desire for privacy or a need to ensure confidentiality, compatibility with older hardware that is no longer supported by the vendor (but may be supported by open source developers).

Working with what's presented simply means that you are unlikely to modify what is shipped by the vendor. You can still add to it or benefit in other areas.
Depends. My commute was all city streets - max 30mph. much less dangerous. (or course I walked to took the bus, but this would be an option if I needed to avoid the disadvantages of those)
> They are listed with numbers about payload to (quite low) LEO.

Then one should include the mass of Shuttle Orbiter. That the orbiter is used as a second stage... Saturn-V lists mass of third stage alright.

> The Saturn V could have launched 140 tons to LEO, it just never did.

No, it never could. It's a popular illusion. The only way to reach 140 was to count parts of Saturn V reaching orbit as payload. When you count payload only, that number falls. It's like counting the mass of Sputnik 1 adding the weight of the second stage of R-7. Or, in other words, a satellite with mass 140 tons couldn't be brought to LEO by Saturn V.

To get Saturn V realistic number for LEO in similar sense to Shuttle's 27 tons (did Shuttle ever got 27 tons to orbit? Could it even be launched safely with 27 tons payload, given that it could only land with about 15 tons in the bay?), you should look at ~77 tons of Skylab. There is at least a hint that LEO payload is not all which gets to LEO.
29 hours a week for Uber, 29 hours a week for Lyft, and 29 hours a week for the next ride-sharing company.

Have to be careful not to accidentally burn your hours by being logged into both apps at once.

I'm not sure that's actually better for drivers; it just makes for more paperwork and regulations to track.
How does Firefox win in privacy? Maybe through certain extensions but Safari has the edge in things like private mode tabs not sharing cookies etc. between each other.

It sure doesn’t feel faster.

As for Chrome I read this just now:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-patches-two-more-chrome...
They want to Immanentize the Eschaton? Luckily we fnord know how to deal with that. Hail Eris.
This really seems to be a common trend on these Uber discussions. Americans bringing up cracks in the terribly terribly faulty infrastructure/systems (such as the legal system or the healthcare system) and try to find a way to blame it on Uber/gigwork. It's quite incredible really.
> I don’t see why the package manager should prevent using it with another library that depends on a different version.

I do. The main reason for Linux distributions to exists is to provide a development and running environment where:

- API/ABIs do not change for the whole lifetime of the distribution. No new features, no new bugs, no new vulnerabilities, so that your production code can run reliably for 5+ years.

- Vulnerabilities are fixed with minimally invasive patches.

- Vulnerabilities are fixed in reasonable times even if the upstream development stopped. Patches are well tested against the set of packages in the distribution.

You simply cannot have these 3 features together if a distribution ships 10 different version of each library.

It's already a ton of work to maintain packages in stable distributions.
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With all due respect, threads like this are why, despite the philosophical appeal of giving owners control of their machines, putting some hurdles in their way makes sense in practice...
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I'm sad to see people buying things only because the look comfortable and nice. Here happens finally what was predicted a long time ago and it shows why everyone should use free and open-source operating-systems and applications.

I tried to attach the notarization to every Mac App Bundle in the past but with MacOS 11 this doesn't help either?
>Perhaps most troubling of all, our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of crisis—a crisis rooted in a fundamental contest between two opposing visions of what America is and what it should be; a crisis that has left the body politic divided, angry, and mistrustful,

Put your finger on the Median republican line starting in 1994: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charts-americas-political-d...

In 2004 the median republican moved left of 1994. However, in 2017 only 1 line has really changed position. Now place your finger on 1994 Democrat. Their line has only moved left.

Political divide is occurring almost entirely on the Democrat spectrum. The divide started between 2004 and 2011 according to the graphs.

The explanation is quite simple. Obama's presidency in 2009. That makes this article quite interesting as it was written by the source of the divide.

>This contest is not new, of course. In many ways, it has defined the American experience. It’s embedded in founding documents that could simultaneously proclaim all men equal and yet count a slave as three-fifths of a man.

The "first black president" was going to have identity politics problem. Yet here he is a sentence after asserting race.

The left-wing then is very quick to call Trump a white supremacist and racist. Put Trump aside, he's done.

>I don’t know. What I can say for certain is that I’m not yet ready to abandon the possibility of America—not just for the sake of future generations of Americans but for all of humankind.

Now put that in the above concern. It's the democrats who are dividing the USA. It's the identity politics of Obama that caused the schism.

To heal the divide you have to identify the above problem and find the fix. However, one thing is for sure. During a political divide like this, the 2 sides refuse to talk to each other and often make decisions that will only exacerbate the problem.
I could see that. My run-of-the-mill state university had such a large block of publicly addressable IP4 addresses, that every device on the network (both wired and wireless) were directly issued their own internet-facing IP address, rather dealing with internal IPs and firewalls and NAT and whatnot.

I'm sure other universities have similarly large IP4 blocks, and are similarly cavalier with assigning them.
Related to this, I found this article [1] interesting, from Arstechnica in September: Charlie Bolden [former NASA administrator] says the quiet part out loud: SLS rocket will go away

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/former-nasa-administ...
I mostly mean that they are lower income in comparison to those who can WFH. But yes, income and fertility also tend to have a negative correlation;
I see this sentiment a lot and I don't understand it. Why would you involve yet another human in your food purchase? I've never been a huge fan of delivery services like this anyway, but even if I had ever considered them before, now just seems like it's not the time to do so.
Perhaps the problem was deciding that the U.S. needed to have a super-heavy lift capability in the first place. A lot of the U.S. space program seems to be rather aimless, doing things because they seem cool rather than practical. We shouldn't really be surprised when situations like this occur.
Do we know what their Net versus Gross Revenue Retention looks like?
This looks awesome great job!
This assumes IBM had the institutional competencies and structure to make that division work as well as Lenovo has. It's quite possible, and IMO likely, that IBM's former laptop and small server/workstation business is doing so well because IBM sold these lines to a company that has the correct core competencies.

It's a common problem with companies like IBM and GE that try to go or stay too broad. It's hard to stay top-tier in several verticals at once without decentralizing the company to the point that each vertical is defectively an independent company anyway. Google has tried this with the Alphabet reorganization. GE partially did that with its quasi-independent business units, many of which it ended up selling anyway. IBM seems, from the outside, to be too monolithic to effectively divest a subsidiary. I think it will be telling what it does with Red Hat.
I always make sure to fill my bathtub before a hurricane in case our power goes out.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Somehow I had never heard of it - https://datatransferproject.dev/updates

There does seem to be some activity, although it also seems to be slowing a bit... https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/graphs/code-...
The principle strength of history is in providing a set of extant examples. There's the risk of overfitting, but models can be tested.

Present-day models are at least exogenous to the past, if not its present interpretation.
Some of this may be valid, but you don't have to go very far to disprove your first point. A picture critical of Chinese investment in Reddit is in the Top 10 posts of all time on one of the biggest subreddits, r/pics [1]

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/aohpmo/given_that_red...
It's hard to say, and second guessing yourself is never useful. There are competent and incompetent tall people, and competent and incompetent short people. I'm a shorter guy, and I've gotten job offers where I've failed (by some standard) 6/6 interview questions. Just work your hardest and try your best to be objective and make your workplace more equitable, which is all anyone should do anyway.
It used to be people were blaming the crypto miners for GPU shortages but that doesn’t seem to be the case now.
The overall point is that utopian ideals in computer science simply haven't worked out. Spoiler: all utopias fail.

Underlying that is something more interesting. Technologists keep trying to create a cooperative environment where data is freely shared—Unix, OOP, Semantic Web. However, it never sticks.

The reason is that the economic imperative drives competition, not cooperation. Ultimately this is a byproduct of capitalism, not computer science.

Software works as well as our society does, which, you know... it's complicated.
Mac is offering one thing that I can't find elsewhere: an amazing TouchPad.

I'm sure I could break away, but, right now, I'm hugely dependent on my touchpad for my workflows.

* For some reason, windows cannot get scrolling working correctly on touchpads.
* OSX gestures work incredibly well. I have them tied into many different actions.
> My problem isn't so much that there are tradeoffs, or even that those tradeoffs are not ones I want to make,

That's fine, and I agree that advocates sometimes detract from progress.
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That's good, I wish they could do some sort of data transmissions audit as well like iodé does with android!
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Plesae name two desktop applications (native or web) that in your judgement have the best and wrost ui design.

If you prefer, please describe the reasons for answers.
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Beautiful, and funny, and beautiful. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter, but there is no RSS feed. Can you write some more software for that?
Well, going to the takeout place can expose you to more human beings. At least with delivery, you get just one person and a brief contact.

And of course this plague is not carried in food.
My thinkpad works very well with linux, I recommend Zorin or Arch