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On the one hand, I agree. It is not good practice to blindly download and install through curlbash. On the other hand, that particular method of installation is ubiquitous nowadays. Hell even Rust presents it as the suggested method of installation[0]. Would you suggest Rust is a low-quality project? I don't think you can completely disregard something based on whether it suggests bashcurl for downloading and installing it.

Of course, in the ideal world, that's not the way it should be, but such is the reality we live in.

0: https://rustup.rs/
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Yep, most things were ported in the first wave of linux arm enthusiasm around the netwinder/ipaq craze 20 years ago.
There are absolutely Ruby jobs out there that will pay your bills, and it's absolutely a successful ecosystem with which you can build effective modern products.

That said, in 2020 if you're picking a language, I don't think it has the most jobs available (probably JS), or the best paid jobs available (something ML, maybe Python), or the most interesting jobs available (up to you). For similar reasons, I'm not sure it's the best language to pick for a new product - it doesn't have the largest community or most momentum nowadays, it's neither the forefront of powerful tech nor the backbone of rock-solid boring tech.

If you already know Ruby, or you just want to learn it anyway, it's definitely not a bad choice. If you're choosing afresh though with no specific reason to pick Ruby, it's probably not the right choice.
I had to look it up:

opsimath == a person who started learning late in life

since late 19th century: from Greek opsimathēs, from opse ‘late’ and math- ‘learn’.
Exactly. Unfortunately GDPR failed to realize that most data companies hold about us is inferred. Data takeouts usually provide you with all data you willingly provided (uploads, reviews, likes, playlists, etc). But most interesting information is missing. How often did I watch each video? When did I open each e-mail? There's so much data that companies collect about your behaviour that is never given back to us.
When you are contracting, e1000/day doesn't tranlate into ((552) - 25) 1000 * 0.6 net income in the way a salaried position does. If you only just started contracting, beware of thinking that it does...
> I don't "appear" to plug it, I plug it

If you had something to contribute to the discussion and then plug your project, then I'd say you're just plugging it. But you're not. You're just "appearing" in threads to plug you project. It's not a side-effect of your comment, it's the entirety of your comment. Hence "appear > plug" instead of just "plug".

And no, I'm not in charge of what's OK, just telling you that people are starting to see your constant, unrelated plugging as spam.

And yes, it is (currently) vaporware, no matter how long time it takes to build it. Why is it vaporware? You're advertising something that currently no one can use and their is no concrete information about it. When someone asks what it is, you ask them what they want. You don't even seem to know what the project you're building is yet.
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When the uk brought in student fees, part of the justification was that it was unfair that other workers subsidised those of us who needed a degree. Now the boot is on the other foot, I think it would be unfair to expect me to subsidise others.
Read the article. "Markets for lemons" contain both "peaches" and "lemons". There are just forces acting on the market to keep the "lemons" there.
Ans to the qn in title : carrier-class network eqpt .
> keeping 20k songs around in mp3 format. Google killed the service because no one really uses it

that's why they proposed to (and i did) move my 35k songs to ytmusic?

in any case, this all downgraded my experience so significantly (due to no background playing, shitty interface etc) that i even considered starting paying for it. maybe that was actually their point.

but thanks, google, not today - since i work from home due to covid anyway, i have no need for it anymore
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I don't think that scoring high in the single core area is Apple's primary goal.

Doing it while not burning lots of Watts and being energy efficient is what Apple aims for.

And I doubt that AMD and especially Intel will offer an alternative here soon. Desktop yes, but not on mobile.
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Email started "dying" long before GMail even was a thing. AOL and ICQ startet it, Twitter and Facebook continued it and now it ends with Whatsapp, Slack and Discord. And I doubt that Whatsapp/Facebook/Discord are significant faster than Gmail or Slack, so this can't be the reason.

E-Mail is just a transport-protocol, poor in ability compared do other solutions and rather complicated, especially when it should be made safe.
Oops, fixed. Thanks!

Make money: hosting the service, yeah. Though also from our user facing apps.

Production ready: yeah. We use it for EteSync (our user facing apps), and through that it's been integrated to GNOME, KDE, Tasks.org and more.
> Is YouTube profitable yet?

Google doesn't disclose that. Only that Youtube have revenues of $15 billion last year.
I see my significant other using it on a nearly daily basis. She started a uiversity course in her 30ies and due to Corona is in her second semester from home.

The university has a MS365 license free for all students, but for video lectures nobody uses it. Why? Because it is really, really cumbersome to use compared to zoom. Teachers and students alike love the functionality, the quality of video/sound and esp. the ease of use.

Compared to all other solutions available to students and teachers - in terms of what they all want to use Zoom just blows the competition out of the water.

And who is to blame them? These are regular folks. They wouldn't even care, if the lectures were tranmitted in the clear, without any encryption. Most regular students fresh out of school I talked to don't even know the difference between https/http, why it is important to have encryption or what end-to-end means.

It has no meaning to nearly all of them.
People seem to assume that, just because youtube-dl got a single takedown request from a prospective plaintiff, it’s now as illegal as cocaine. The reality is that youtube-dl is a perfectly legal tool, and it will continue to be so at least until a judge rules otherwise — and even then, only in a specific jurisdiction.

Should you be considered a child-molester just because I accuse you to be one?
That's also what I think. For keeping on planes, and keeping the past version alive as a local copy. But honestly I didn't create it for that reason I think. I can't remember exactly now without using my power to think about it more...but basically I think I created it to just see if it was possible. I was doing lots of work in Chrome DevTools at the time and the idea suddenly came to me, and I wanted to see if it would actually work. This project has constantly surprised me by how much "legs" it has. People just love it. And the first version took me very little time to do. It's weird, other things that take a lot of time are not so popular. Utility or popularity with others has nothing to do with hard work, nor the amount of work, I think.
> When you are leading anti-government march, like actually leading

Sure, if he did actually lead anti-government marches, we could admit that he did lead anti-government marches. But since he didn't, we shouldn't admit to something that never happened.
The question is which professional software for video editing is available for this new platform? Probably not much at the moment. So these machines will be perfect for those who do their work with browser, email and not much more.

I'm using Tableau Desktop in my daily work and until it is available on this new platform - these Macs are not an option for me even if they are 10x more performant. I guess there are a lot of professionals that are constrained in a similar manner. So we will see if M1 is adopted in such scenarios at all.
That makes sense, AMD is selling to OEMs for a profit (over cost) while Apple is its own OEM, if any charging is done it's purely internal and for accounting purposes.

This comparison looks at different segments of the fab<>manufacturer<>OEM relationship. Add the user in there and you might say that you can buy an AMD CPU for $100 but an Apple CPU will cost you $1000. Not very meaningful as a comparison.
I suppose that’s one way to lose a little weight.
Well there's all the companies that were built around 2006-2015 with Ruby, when Rails was hot stuff. Many of them can't afford migrating to a new stack, or want to.
But generally I kinda agree - more is being created with other stack nowadays. A byproduct of that is way more people learn Python / Java as a first language, so you also perhaps need to think if being a Python guy gives you any edge when you turn 45-50 as hordes of young people learn it as we speak. Outsourcing a Python project is gonna be way easier 10 years from now than doing the same with Ruby.
I don't have clear answers btw, there's just pros and cons.
`curl | sudo bash` is for the non-technical people who may have just sshed into a server for the first time. If you don't put it front and center, they will be lost.

The experienced sysadmins such as you and I can skip the paragraph and find an alternative we like.
When you've heard your kid tell the same "knock knock" joke 50 times, you'll realize that repetition alone isn't enough. Repetition is an important part of humour and communication in general, but context, surprise, originality, irony, and wit matter too.
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Haha, thanks! <3

I don't think we are really direct competitors, we are targeting a different niche. It's just that you are the best example of a backend-as-a-service and thus the best way to explain what we do. :)
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But then you need to pay for hardware to run those checks! (Unless of course you let players run their own servers, but then you loose control and might have your old game that refuses to die compete with your newer ones.)
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We're currently in the paradigm shift of the applications world. DApps will become more and more of a thing over time as people come to grips with the meaning of decentralization.
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I think I've got just a slight more and I can't count how many times it crashed within a week. It's abandonware.
If we're doing analogies, let's do them right :) Therefore I'd argue it is more like supercharger overheating on a car. As a supercharger gets hotter from prolonged load it gets hot and warms the air entering the engine which reduces cold-air intake thus reducing horse power compared to a cooler supercharger. There is a way to solve this: by fitting a chargecooler - which is basically a cooling system for the supercharger.
Discussed a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24796797
What they don't tell you is that it's the same guy falling in love over and over again :p He just happens to have the attention span of a goldfish :)
You must be fun at parties. Tell me if you don't mind how many web applications did you get released with the "proper" way to install again?

Yeah, I don't like curl > bash either, but it's a distributed application that may run into many different platforms. It makes sense for them to not worry about the packaging specifics of each and let the community pick up the slack.

If all you can do is criticize an open source project that does not worship your sacred cows, the only bad impression I am left with is your project management skills.
We actually produce hardware locally and employees in production cannot just stay at home. Same is true for a lot of other industries, so it is unfair to a degree.

That said, Germany isn't exactly a tax haven and I wouldn't agree to a tax increase if it isn't for directly supporting business currently affected by the pandemic (it will be a very large invoice...)

Businesses not affected by the pandemic:
Deutsche Bank

Get the financial transaction tax and it would end a lot of useless transactions immediately and would maybe end some parasitic industries. It is also unlikely to hit people in precarious positions.
Notion have a big performance problem in mobile especially with Android, the app takes more than 10s to start its just killing the user experience.

The app design and functionality are really good, but the performance issues are killing the product.

And I just can't keep up with the poor file uploading system, every time I move a file position in a document I just end up loosing the file.

Any suggestions for a good note taking app other than notion?
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This is called "Sakura" in Japan, and it's a huge business.
This is the wrong answer.

Right answer: You can go to [1] and [2] and [3] and ask them to delete your information. It's important to retain a copy in writing that they have removed your information. If a copy is ever found online (in a data breach or otherwise) you would be able to enact legal rights as a result of their GDPR breach. I would encourage people who upload data to leave "fingerprints" in their accounts, such as certain photos, emails, and other data that you have ONLY created on this service (for example, email your own gmail account a unique email, if it's ever leaked, you know where it came from).

It's the same way Spotify's GDPR tool does NOT give you all the information they store, yet if you ask via their DPO (usually privacy@) you get a lot more data, rather sneaky way of hiding their true data collection.

ALWAYS use email or a physical letter, ALWAYS get a reply by the organization when enacting your GDPR rights, your lawyer/legal authority will be very thankful ;)

AND NEVER EVER USE AUTOMATED TOOLS! The chances are, there is data that isn't included within them. For example, go ahead right this second and submit a SAR for "technical log information" to Google, this data is NOT included in their official tools and you will be amazed how much they're storing!!

[1]: https://support.google.com/policies/answer/9581826?hl=en

[2]: https://support.google.com/policies/contact/sar

[3]: https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905?p=pr...
Feral Interactive has also contributed to the OSS AMD drivers.
Fixing issues in OSS is easier than you think
They get paid from whatever service you bought your music from - be it from CDs, MP3 sites like Amazon or Google Play (RIP), etc.

Scary thought, being able to purchase music these days rather than a streaming service lease, I know...
I agree, and discussed this a little.

There is one key difference with the theorem provers- many of them share this lofty goal of building a library, akin to a 'library of Alexandria' (The article discusses this vision, and the research project I linked to at Cambridge is called 'Alexandria').

It's a grand vision - to formalise all mathematical knowledge in a library.

This vision doesn't exist in the world of regular software.

Nobody to my mind has claimed they're building a library of Alexandria. You could make the claim for npm, but I might shed a tear if you did that.
That's a great initiative. A wiki-like website for maintaining a specific range of products would probably work really well, although not everyone is keen to figure out how to contribute.

Alternatively, you can simply have a comments section where people can share results, improvements and additional details. This works well for recipe websites.

> I don’t suppose right to repair is an issue with personal
road vehicles?

It is! Cars also require more and more proprietary tech, and it's getting harder to repair them yourself without specialised tools. Car manufacturers are also inching towards DLC and even subscription-based hardware features for cars.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bmw-subscription-model-for-f...
groove shark, now theres a name I have not heard for a long time...
> Why would anyone (who is not forced) buy an Intel PC laptop when these are available and priced as competitive as they are?

- locked bootloader - no bootcamp - can't install or boot linux or windows

- virtualization limited to arm64 machines - no windows x86 or linux x86 virtual machines

- only 2 thunderbolt ports

- limited to 16GB RAM

- no external gpu support/drivers - can't use nvidia or amd cards

- no AAA gaming

- can't run x86 containers without finding/building for arm64 or taking huge performance hit with qemu-static

- uncertain future of macos as it continues to be locked down
I love the wording and the concept, thank you for the chuckle
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Yeah, really sad to see this. When Aspyr released Farenheit and KotOR 2 I was really excited for getting more older games ported but it seems they dropped that.
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It is a pain, in my very powerful Android device it literally takes more than 10s for the app to start, very poor performance.

Nothing beats the writing experience of iAWriter for macOS users.
Maestral is very interesting.

The Linux Dropbox client is essentially abandoned (it's broken both functionally and aesthetically). On this platform, it definitely does not even acceptably do what it is supposed to do, so an alternative is good for the company.

I wonder though, why Dropbox limits the syncing functionality at the API level (by not offering partial file sync).
Yes, it definitely can be. LiveView will create real problems when the user is many hops from the server. I say this as someone who has gone all in, but currently we're UK based and only serving the UK market. Multi-region scaling for liveview will certainly be 'interesting'.
From experience with a major brands shopify sites

Might be better to work as a consultant on speeding up sites and implementing structured data properly - the day rate will be better.

A lot of shopify themes have terrible speed issues and some of the older ones just don't implement structured data properly.

Another area is Integration with Google analytics.
I have opinions about Rust, but I already get downvoted enough as it is. :)

But Rust doing it doesn't make it a good practice, and as you say yourself, it's not the way it should be. I'm just resisting the move towards an inferior standard.

EDIT: I triggered HN rate limiting with my lukewarm takes, so to the post above suggesting I'm not fun at parties: At the parties I go to, we do not talk about software packaging best practices for Linux. Thankfully.
Sons of Satoshi
I read the coolest story in a long time. Here is the link:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2019/01/09/this-hermitic-engineer-is-plotting-the-death-of-blockchain

The story of Daniel Hughes, the core head behind radix, a DLT blockchain platform able to scale with the highest throughput, where (opposite to Bitcoin ot Ethereum) increasing the number of nodes improves the performance using a
lightweight Byzantine Consensus, sharding the adress space, parallelizing unrelated transactions and protecting against Sybil by means of PoS.

It goes like an isolated engineer spent 6 years working 16 hours a day 7 days a week on the prototype for a new blockchain platform.

The article describes how he would just live for the project in an energetic flow of inspiration powering the design and the code.

I cheer up for him because I found someone that has done what I am doing right now, this is my 4th year of isolation building Plebble, my take on blockchain platforms.

http://plebble.io

The design of Daniel Hughes is so close to mine that I think they come from the same kind of inspirational flow towards a vision.

We both are sons of satoshi. : )

Thanks for reading.
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The square root of minus one obtained its name for a similar reason.
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Length 2 seems quite short - I'd expect this to happen more often, surely.
Linking is a big thing in knowledge-managment. There is a new hype weaving around ATM to rediscover functionality which exists in old tools for decades already. Graph-View pokes in that area. Similar reasoning for the tag-view and search.

But Obsidian has more points speaking for it. It works on local files/folders with well known types. No special formats involved which lock you in. Recently it started development of it's plugin-API which already started gaining some useful plugins from the community. And overall it's quite polished and userfriendly, not many quirks and corners which stay in the users way.
Jim also lead the team behind the Apple A4 and A5 SOCs - Apple's first venture into designing their own Silicon.

Edit: hadn't clicked through to your article. my comment is redundant
The most interesting thing about the YouTube outage for me was that attempting to play a video would result in my cooling fans spinning up to max while the loading spinner looped in the background. Closing the tab they spun down to normal levels.

There wasn’t anything unusual about my CPU behavior when this happened, I can only assume it was GPU or some other part of the system (unfortunately I was too busy to do more than basic troubleshooting at the time.)
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Nico’s solo work spawned a range of goth music from Siouxsie and the Banshees to Sisters of Mercy. Still heard in acts like Chelsea Wolfe and ADULt. No doubt it’s dour and atonal but it was distinctive.
But can it run Crysis?!
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I don’t think so, it was linux on ARM running an http server if I’m not mistaken
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- Starts at $999 for the base laptop version. You can get much cheaper still good Windows laptops.
I get bored with this kind of argument because it always ignores magnitude and nuance.

Yes there other factors but height tends to be a prerequisite before they apply. Odds goes exponentially down based on how far from the mean you are. 5'9" vs. 5'5" is a world of difference.

'Success' is also not Boolean. I know very successful short guys who have had zero success with women.

Talking in blasé terms 'oh it is just one of many factors' is like saying possessing functioning legs is just one of many factors a footballer requires. Or having enough petrol is one of many factors in a car functioning properly. It's true but kind of missing the point.

The really interesting point is why people are so in denial about this fact that is so blatantly obvious.

I suspect it is a mix of those without this issue wanting to think their success was all attributable to their own skills, people not liking the idea that something uncontrollable could screw you so bad, women feeling it is an attack (it isn't at all), those who are shorter but not significantly below the mean having success (though reduced) and thinking it must apply to those shorter than them, etc.

Another interesting thing I have noticed is that short men is one of the few remaining immutable characteristics society allows people to mock openly. "What is she doing with that little squirt" is something I heard from a friend recently without a hint of self-awareness.
Paying for dating makes complete sense. Women want to receive less spam. Men want there to be less competition from spammers. By adjusting the price that men have to pay you can solve both of these problems.

I used okcupid back in 2010 when this was written. It was a great website for taking quizzes and personality tests but far too noisy to effective for meeting people without becoming a spammer.
That's interesting take on it. I guess with 5G around the corner we will see MacBooks with 5G integrated and Remote Desktop won't be a pain in the ass. May be that's another reason Apple made this move.
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