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Linux runs better on both new and older hardware. Better as in programs open faster, the file manager opens faster, the task manager opens faster. Everything uses less memory and less CPU cycles. Everything is snappier.

Linux users don't have to worry nearly as much about malware, trojans, viruses, exploits. It's more secure.

Linux distros generally don't annoy users with stealthy automatic forced updates.

Linux distros have a better app store experience than Windows, plus most of whatever there is free without much if any risk.

Linux doesn't have any phone home telemetry type "features" built into the OS.

Linux user experience is much more customizable. There are a much greater variety of tools at your disposal to customize how you want your desktop to look and operate.

Linux is free.
You’re right too. And ultimately it moves the business logic to the frontend, and likely causes that layer to accrue the separations of concern most of us associate with “backend”. It has to live somewhere.
2005 was over 15 years ago.
Windows ARM is not available to OEMs.

Parallels is trying emulation on M1 but who knows how well that will work. https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-apple-sili...
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and Sirius by Olaf Stapledon.
Sounds like there is an opportunity for someone to provide a way to display an icon in the window manager that saves a gigabyte of RAM. :D
I have been running Linux on all my personal machines for the last 8 years and I have to say that one thing windows has going for it is it’s graphics system. I have super sensitive eyes and I have to say that even wayland does not cut it when compared to windows. Everywhere else Linux on desktop is either far better or a bit behind but workable
Logically that’s not true.

However it would be easier to write the list of why Windows is better because it would be a much shorter list
I acknowledge that they don't make this easy, but at least there is a way to do it: by downloading a snap manually and then sideloading it from the local file, it won't ever automatically update: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...
GitHub has a number of features. One of them is called Labels. One of them is called Actions. Of the matrix of possible two-feature combinations, the first person to happen to combine the two doesn't get an automatic moral right to the name.

This other project doesn't even seem to be registered as a GitHub App. I think we must have extremely different definitions of the word "malice".

Jesus I'm going to be afraid to call anything straightforward from now on in fear of invoking the wrath of "the community".
Further tragedy: the two men accused of his murder admitted in 1956 that they'd done it but since they'd already been acquitted they were immune from further prosecution.
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If you reject my claim that US has many-times more remote places than the UK, that need additional logistical consideration, a further reason is that the US election has no particular hurry.

If your count in the UK doesn't finish for a week, the parliamentary session opens, and you don't have local representation in parliament. There's an immediate procedural consequence that disadvantages the local area and may result in concentrated unrest.

If your count in the US doesn't finish, the relevant [Congressional] term doesn't start until January 3rd, 2021. As such, there's no immediately comparable procedural consequence.

The Electoral College doesn't cast its votes until December 14th.

The Supreme Court won't get involved, to hurry you up, until December 8th.

Correctly postmarked ballots will (in some states) still be counted if they arrive late, up to November 23rd.

Today is still November 15th.
In theory, not all the votes have even arrived to be counted yet.
The solution is just not to use snaps. Snap is trash. Consider PPAs if you need the most recent version of a particular piece of software.
But yet again... you're talking about it relative to an alternative like punch machines... how about no machines.
We'll find out soon enough how things stand but just to point out that your first comment on small vs large cores really doesn't work - the benchmarks being quoted are absolute performance not performance per watt benchmarks. Small cores are more power efficient but they do less in a given period of time and hence benchmark lower.
Parallels is planning an ARM release[1]. This won’t run Intel arch Windows, but rather they hint that it will Windows for ARM64. They also mention Microsoft’s recent announcement that Windows for ARM will soon have the ability to run x64 (Intel arch) applications.

[1] https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-apple-sili...
I wonder how this is possible? I imagine its partly due to manufacturing improvements (14nm vs 5nm) I mean how can Intel fall so far behind in only a couple years? I know they were one of the earliest investors in ASML’s EUV. Why couldn’t they push for smaller nodes? Is it because they were milking their current nodes too far? I saw them marketing freaking TEC’s to cool down their 500W Cpu gaming rigs on LTT and derbauer recently.

What made TSMC so successful? Is it primarily thanks to their business strategy? Or did Intel do something so wrong they tumbled down this far?

I know that Intel’s 10nm is closer to 7nm TSMC but still their competition is coming up with interesting and relevant technologies while Intel is like a junkyard of half baked ideas. 5g modems? Arduino competitor? Vaporware GPU’s since Larrabee? Claims of dominance in NN accelerators with nothing solid? Nirvana? Optane 600 series garbage SSDs? Stupid desktop computing form factor ideas? I can go on...

I don’t hate Intel or root for any other company. I’m just trying to understand how incompetence like this happens in companies
> That would work out to 1.2kWH weighing what I guess to be about 40 pounds in batteries alone.

Absolutely not. Sony VTC4s are early 2010s cells that do 30 amps continuous with 2000 mAh capacity[1]. 172 cells weigh in at 17 lbs, 1.2 kWh, and a whopping 16.5 kW continuous rated output.

For lower power applications, higher-capacity cells like the NCR18650G[2] weigh below 10 lbs per kWh.

[1]: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0674/3651/files/Sony_VTC4....

[2]: https://www.imrbatteries.com/content/panasonic_ncr18650g.pdf
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> population "balance" maintained through periodic overpopulation and starvation (How do people think it happens? Forest fairies tell the deer how many babies to have?)

Thinking about this, I just realized a simple thing: balance in animal population via starvation might not be as grim as we expect (i.e. it happens completely because the weakest/least fit individuals cannot compete for food and literally starve).

The sexual reproductive system is apparently one of the things that stops working earliest when you're affected by disease or malnutrition. This means that malnourished deers will just start having fewer/no babies while they're being famished.

Still grim, because lots of animals would starve, and still very uncomfortable for the deers which, even if they might survive to "old age", will fail to breed due to starvation... but still better than the alternative in which every baby deer gets born in the world as usual, only to then starve to death while they're still very young.
Hol up im channeling my inner steve jobs
Specifically, using a variational autoencoder.

It's great to see that models from the deep learning literature are being adopted in fields such as weather forecasting!
It's not a matter of what we believe, but it's a matter of facts.

Humans comes from nature, and the building blocks of a human are the same as everything else in the universe (as far as we know).

Recent studies have shown that "choice" is made before we are even conscious of it (so byebye free will?), and no studies have shown that we are the only living creature able to make "choices".

"Humans are special", "Humans are different", "Humans are smarter" is the perfect example of arrogance and ignorance of humans.
Researchers: Coronavirus has been circulating in Italy since September last year
I saw an interview with the designers of ARM and they explained how their design was ridiculously more efficient than competitors. Don’t have a link.

Another good source of info is the article over at anandtech. Apple is doing a lot of stuff they Intel can’t because of x86. And also a bunch of stuff that neither Intel nor AMD want to do.

Also don’t forget that Apple is on TSMC 5nm while Intel is for the most part on Intel 14nm which is more or less equivalent to TSMC 10nm.
So this is article refers to the app developed by a company called Simula which is government owned and does various research in to communications tech and data research.

You can find an interesting self Q and A https://www.simula.no/news/digital-contact-tracing-qa

One of the few smell tests that I wonder if it was a catalyst for the ban is how they explained away not open sourcing the code and using aggregated data to track the spread of the virus.

It all lacked technical details which also is a bad smell test for me
I drive every day and have never crashed my car. Therefore, car crashes are not real and cannot affect me.
> Astronomically lower probability of catching a virus.

Yes because nobody uses consumer desktop Linux. With higher market share the malware will come.

> No bullshit forced updates when the OS feels like it.

True, but that also means you're going to end up with a lot more botnet nodes out there because people will never update. Or they'll never update and still complain things are not working.

> No phoning home with you being unable to launch an app when your manufacturer's server is slow.

I hear you, but this doesn't happen enough for anybody to care. People would be more fet up by Facebook downtime.

> No shuffling about trying to install drivers for a thousand components before your computer is usable.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Linux drivers still can require endless faffing about. The biggie is that distros won't distribute nonfree drivers by default, for ideological reasons. The average person doesn't understand that they need to go enable some repo in their package manager, only that their machine isn't working.
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> You’re close to restating why Apple Silicon exists in the first place: they didn’t want to delay upgrades but

Maybe. Apple was never very good at updating the chips in their laptops and desktops. Often way behind intels latest. Let’s hope theyve changed , but I doubt it.
Let it be a black hole.
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Yes, my first thought when watching the video was "oh, they're porting the Android UI to desktop" (and not in a bad way).
I can agree that system case sensitivity is the wrong choice for probably the vast majority of users, but at the same time it's the right choice for me.
I imagine it won't take long for something as widely used as the JVM to be compiled directly for the M1 instead of relying on Rosetta. :)
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Especially when they used it correctly and you erroneously tried to look smart on the internet being passive-aggressive about it
If we could ensure that restrictions would be no greater and no longer than reasonably proportional to the risk, I think people would be more willing to give the government temporary power beyond what the Constitution protects.

Given that the government has such a terrible track record on giving up power and a decidedly mixed track record of delivery of promised/hoped for benefits, plenty of people could reasonably prefer to protect a century of liberty.
In Brazil (which has a sizeable Romani population, and had two Romani presidents), the direct translation of this, "Cigano", is still the one officially used.
I have a globe and it does not do as good a job as this site or other visual tools that the OP was referring to. These new tools are way better at showing the difference in actual sizes.
Same here in Australia regarding the "gypped" expression. I don't think there are any Roma communities here but the expression travelled down.
Many of whom have been appointed by and with the support of people who have that very agenda.

The only debate among conservatives is over whether they should be overtly racist, like Trump, or covertly racist, like his predecessors.

If they get enough power, the velvet glove will slip from the iron fist.
What mainstream user software is distributed as a container? Last time I checked it's all just endless deb files.
Ironically Microsoft just released a beta arm version of the JVM for Mac.
And when there is no driver available the only option you have is to buy a new device. None of my 4(4!) Sound devices work with a current linux distribution. Not the Realtek Chip on my x570 board, not my logitech webcam, not the speakers in my monitor via hdmi and not my USB Sound Card from Creative.

Not even the onboard Realtek Lan controller works, i had to buy a usb one.

Oh and, i had to plug the cord from all sound devices after a reboot into Windows, because none worked anymore.

This situation is even worse than in the late nineties/early 2000 ish.
That's where Google and Apple dropped the ball by not making tracing built into OS itself. Making it optional made it pointless. We've developed actual vaccine than a dinky student grade app. Despicable.
> Astronomically lower probability of catching a virus.

Correct, but when was the last time you got a virus on Windows? (Obviously it's different for Regular Joe User, I'm talking about the HN audience).

> No bullshit forced updates when the OS feels like it.

In practice, my Windows install always updates in the middle of the night when I'm not using it. It closes all of my apps and only reopens the web browser. But, it's not so bad. It doesn't bother me. I can however see how it might annoy some people. But I think the effects of this are exaggerated.

> No phoning home with you being unable to launch an app when your manufacturer's server is slow.

Windows phones home, but to be fair, this post is about Linux vs Windows, and being unable to launch an app is a MacOS problem, not Windows.

> No shuffling about trying to install drivers for a thousand components before your computer is usable.

This is true in some situations. For instance, if you install Windows from scratch you'll have to wait while it downloads drivers. More of an automated process, no shuffling about. The alternative on Linux is to roll the dice and hope your drivers are baked into the kernel, if not you're back to (very manual) shuffling about.
These programs existed for decades before the pandemic. They never caught on for a very simple reason: CoL is literally the only advantage. $10K is nothing compared to the uphill climb of career progression that inevitably comes with remote work. Hell, $10K literally less than my first relocation package and I was moving a single bedroom. TL;DR: no one moves to SFBA because it's the best CoL vs salary choice, and there are some great sweet spots for tech before places like Tulsa (eg Portland, KC, even Seattle)

CoL is the real attraction, but if you don't care about the dearth of cultural amenities, why choose a mid-sized city in a state that doesn't have any non-Catholic private schools worth paying for and couldn't even keep all of its public schools open 5 days a week in pre-pandemic times?

If you don't need good schools or cultural institutions, why not instead choose New Hampshire? Or rural Oregon? Or, as you pointed out, the Ozarks? Heck, IMO, Branson and Springfield have better public schools than Tulsa suburbs, and Branson even has more theater than Tulsa if you're ok with genuinely 100% world-class performers doing kitsch on faux river boats.
It was a continent-sized jail ; you keep your baddest of asses as far from you as possible
I really do hope you're right about that. My understanding is that the squad came up with without the consent of the party establishment by running an exceptional ground game during their primaries, in districts that were safe blue, and had politicians who'd become too comfortable where they were at.

They were an unknown threat before.

Caruso-Cabrera did raise quite a bit of money to unseat AOC, but most of the endorsements I can find seem to be from conservative organizations looking to score some kind of moral victory against the Justice Dems. My estimate is that a political novice with (some) name recognition tried to take her down of her own accord, and AOC's pissed off enough corporations and conservatives that she incidentally (or deliberately) walked into a money pit in doing so.

I may have missed it, but I haven't seen anything to indicate that the DNC has spun up its machinery to truly run a full-throated opposition opp against her.

I'd have to do more research on the rest of them, but I don't believe the squad's faced the kind of push-back that the party's capable of yet.
You can kind of do this with Chrome for any website. More tools->create shortcut in the menu.
In the article, I don’t see mention of Windows x64 running as a guest. They do hint at Windows for ARM, though.
> Linux is now the least secure desktop OS available,

... less secure than Haiku, the OS that runs everything as root?

> with limited sandboxing

With limited default sandboxing (snaps, flatpaks), and assorted add-on options (firejail, bubblewrap), in which respect it's... exactly like NT (sandboxie) and Darwin?

> and no provision for checking binary signatures

I am aware of no package manager which fails to check signatures before installing. They may exist, but at least the major players do.
> a third party [...] cannot know whether Alice really sent that message, or it was a forgery from Bob

But realistically, how often does Bob create and store forgeries of all of Alice's messages to protect her just in case his device gets hacked? This seems even less likely than the blackmail scenario proposed in a sibling thread and your second paragraph.

I'm not saying "let's not add features that are not absolutely essential" (I'm one of the people in favor of client-side hashing, which other security people seem to reject for having too small a benefit), but rather that I've seen the amount of complexity it adds and I just really can't think of scenarios that are plausible enough to be worth the potential false sense of security and added complexity in an already complex protocol. TLS is simpler and we see how many ways that got hacked. (Come to think of it, it is curious that I can name various old TLS/SSL flaws but not any in previous versions of OTR, Axolotl/Signal/Wire, etc. Protocol versions, that is; not implementations. But perhaps they're just publicized less.)

> unlike non-deniable encryption, this is not retroactive (a government cannot order a ISP to setup a tap in the past)

There are much simpler solutions to prevent retroactive proving. Barring just throwing away the chat log, the receiving client could discard the signature after verification. That maintains plausible deniability for the messages because there is no signature of Alice's and adds literally zero complexity to the protocol. That's just an idea I randomly came up with on the spot so perhaps it's really stupid for some reason, but why don't we just do that?

> if padding is used, not even that

This is about minor details now but, padding is at most as large as the block size and modern modes like GCM don't use padding at all. The protocol would need to mix in random garbage and limit the rate at which you can send bytes to prevent time and size correlation, which can otherwise both be independently matched against the chat log. Unless specifically thwarted with a sizeable amount of noise, traffic correlation is going to be possible. Correct me if I'm wrong but I would not expect any general purpose chat protocol in 2020 to consider this to be within its scope.
As wtallis said [0]:

> The chart compares M1 against an Ice Lake MacBook Pro and Comet Lake iMac. Comet Lake is current in Intel's desktop product line, and Ice Lake's successor started shipping last month. This isn't comparing against outdated Intel parts.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25106054
I used to feel this way, not for things like "validation on assignment" which is a terrible idea for so many reasons, but because it allows you to build things like dependency graphs and change watchers at runtime (think mobx, or Adobe Flex's bindables system)... But these days, I think we'd be much better suited to moving most of this work to build-time tooling.
Ding-dong, Trump is gone. But read this before you sing the Hallelujah Chorus
The aged scorpion asked the frog for one final ride across the river

What he's asking for here is for Democrats to accept his lack of opposition to social liberalism, and bend themselves even further towards his fiscal conservatism.
Inovelli (Z-Wave) supports this - https://inovelli.com/

They have a competitor whose name I can't remember that does the same thing.

If you never program the switch, it behaves just like a regular switch. If you program the switch, you can specify if it will trigger the relay, or just send z-wave commands. There's even a physical override switch you can pull out to cut power in case you have it programmed in "soft" mode.

The "red" product line doesn't require a neutral, either.

Works great for smart bulbs as long as you can set the hub up to do the control.

If you have z-wave bulbs (harder to find than zigbee, due to licensing), you can set up the z-wave pairing so that the switch controls the bulbs directly, so theoretically no hub required.
The US has 21 counties that are larger than Wales. 50 counties larger than Northern Ireland. Not states, counties. And Alaska doesn’t have counties so it’s not dominating the results.

The US is vast. The political geography is different because the physical geography is different.
How is that result with Windows on ARM laptops?
The surprise to me was that DRC is bigger than Greenland. Greenland is way overblown.
Africa is massive. I realized it when I flew from Europe to Johannesburg it was same as flying to Los Angeles.
> > Astronomically lower probability of catching a virus.

> Yes because nobody uses consumer desktop Linux. With higher market share the malware will come.

Linux has a higher server market share already, and its virus problem there is still not as bad as Windows'.

> > No bullshit forced updates when the OS feels like it.

> True, but that also means you're going to end up with a lot more botnet nodes out there because people will never update. Or they'll never update and still complain things are not working.

Today, Windows has forced updates and Linux doesn't, and Windows hosts are more likely to be part of a botnet than Linux hosts.

> distros won't distribute nonfree drivers by default, for ideological reasons.

True but misleading. For example, Ubuntu doesn't install nonfree drivers by default, but all you have to do to install them is check the checkbox when the installer asks you. Way easier than dealing with drivers on Windows.
Honestly I'd suggest they just use Qt then. Our company is writing a portable replacement to our Electron client right now. The electron option was absolute garbage, very limited, and caused us untold pain. We got tired of telling customers "we can't really do that". The Qt version is already working on Linux and Windows, and on whatever CPUs we compile it for. There's no excuse for Electron, because there are good, portable GUI frameworks and libraries to use instead. Hell, don't like Qt? Use GTK+! I use GTK+ for my own portable personal projects, I like the API better and it integrates better with XFCE.