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Translucency is visual clutter.

Also, there are people who like macOS and do not like iOS.
Pretty light on specifics. The article has no details showing why FreeBSD is better than macOS for the author's workflow, except that there are a lot of processes running and setup apparently takes longer.

> This is where many people will tell me “Okay but not everything works outside the box”, true! but which OS works outside the box these days anyway? Windows is still a nightmare, setting up macOS took me 3 days the last time, Linux takes way more if you’re building it from scratch. Setting up FreeBSD took me 3 days, however this meant that I will NOT need to change it again for a very, very, VERY long time.

Why is Windows a nightmare? I use Windows 10 on a PC I built and it's fine. I also use it for dev using the Linux subsystem with WSL2 and Powershell.

Why did setting up macOS take 3 days? I don't even think it would take 1 day if I set up a new machine from scratch.

Why are you building Linux from scratch for comparison??? It took me two hours to set up Debian by hand yesterday.

And then they say FreeBSD also took 3 days of setup (?!), but that's alright because they won't have to change it going forward. Leaving aside my skepticism of that last part, the same probably applies to macOS.

EDIT: I think the author actually is better served by FreeBSD given the fact that they were hand-modifying persistent packet-filter rules. That is not a thing I would suggest someone do on a macOS machine. But the head scratcher I have is why they would try to do this on macOS (or Windows) in the first place, and why setup times took so long besides the breaking updates.
Yeah, WiFi is funny like that. I can go long long periods of time without it. But then when you don’t have it, it can really suck. But as long as it’s there in some capacity, nbd.
Same, the only drawback I see is if you make an app full size (not full screen) the app shell rounds corners but the topbar is flat so there's a small gap in the corner.
Overspray from something else on the plate would have been obvious. Maybe it was overspray from someone else's plate.

But after a few days in America I wasn't that surprised. It was just another thing with added sugar for no reason.
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> I prefer to have things clearly separated in functionality and easily upgradeable.

What is your thinking here? Are you talking about a use case where you have an application that uses a library and a bug fix is issued for that library, so you want to just get the new .so for the library and have the application use it? That feels like a niche use case to me. Maybe there is another benefit, or this use case is more common than I realize. I'd be interested in further opinions/info.
> people often use the term "deflationary" to refer to currencies that do not increase exponentially in supply

People use "deflationary" for hard-capped supplies,
"disinflationary" for uncapped supplies that have yearly inflation rate going down toward 0 (such as with a pure linear emission), and "inflationary" for emissions whose yearly inflation rate stay above some constant greater than 0.
you close your eyes and poof there go 8 hours

I wish I could say that about myself. Since a few months, I often lie awake for hours waiting for sleep to come along and poof the night away. More often than not, it takes until 3am for me to fall asleep, and I feel as broken as you might expect the next morning.

I don't really have a good handle on what changed, or how to get back into my old sleep cycle. I just know it's annoying as hell.
> It was even more fun when you focused on how fast you could go vs how well the ice was resurfaced.

What do you mean the figure skaters complained? I actually think skating on speed bumps is way more fun!

Okay boss, yes boss, I'll make sure to go slower boss.

I, too, have driven a Zamboni in a past life. It's pretty fun.
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> There is a reasonable middle ground: base system functionality that is utilized by most software (stdlib, cryptography, networking, gui, etc) should be dynamic and everything else should be static.

But isn't this the exact opposite of what Oasis provides?
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And just posted… pictures of the destroyed reflector dish: https://twitter.com/DeborahTiempo/status/1333806230125604867
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This thread disagrees with you. HN is slowly becoming like Reddit. Down-vote all you like, it doesn't change the facts.
> The real solution is to figure out how to love a larger percentage of your day. A lot of this has to do with cultivating the right attitude and not getting exploited by others. At work, don't allow your employer to work you to the bone; work at a steady and enjoyable pace, take lots of breaks to socialize with colleagues, get coffee, go for walks, eat a long lunch in the park, etc.

^ This people, THIS. Programmers are in massive demand right now, especially skilled ones. You dont have to work to the bone, there are thousands and thousands of jobs out there. You are harder to replace than you imagine. Those "must do" barriers are largely in your head, and if they are not (they really, really are) then MOVE.
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This one "Default Alive or Default Dead?" - didn't seem to work, it's just 2 mins vs the full text... OK it's an advert for the Listle app (dislike this trick/advert)
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Since most common applications have moved to the web, and the biggest Linux end user deployment by far, Android, was created from fresh beginnings, the idea of the user being concerned with minutia of binaries is already far along a long road to the grave.
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Congrats to you and everyone else! Really cool stuff here :)
So basically Pascal? :-)

I don't particularly like the syntax, I find it really hard to mentally "parse" the program and I wonder what's the takeaway from someone who can't already say "hey, they're trying to teach for-loops here". It's almost the opposite approach as the legendary SICP.

Also, by the love of god, disable that freaking popup. IT. LOADS. ON. EVERY. PAGE. 100,000th visitor? Seriously? Is this time-travel spam from 2002?
I've got to wonder: I've used FreeBSD and OpenBSD in the distant past and I can't see a good reason for using a Unix for a desktop system. I know it works, but many Linux distros provide a much less painful experience, especially if you're coming from MacOS.
Seriously? Solyndra was being hailed as the pinnacle of American technology, during Obama’s era.

When it closed up shop, people were blaming China, again, for stealing American technology, and putting another good American company out of business.

But from your description, it sounds like Solyndra was a scam to part investors and the American government, with their money.
(minor): please dont ask for my email on every page. deters from me trying the language!
Yep. I just migrated from a mishmash of windows and Linux to macOS and it took less than a day to sort it out including loading 50 gig of photos and videos into Photos app, migrating a couple of medium size spreadsheets to Numbers, getting set up on AWS, migrating credentials over, everything.
I’ve thought about BSD before but can never decide between OpenBSD and FreeBSD
Mostly interesting because of the reference of support for the as of yet unannounced volume type gp3.

Update: gp3 was just announced
> Most importantly, it’s Free and Open Source.

This is it.

If you are ideologically opposed to using macOS, then it's never going to satisfy you. This is fine! Figure out what matters to you, and select for that.
He is getting faster speeds from wifi than we ever got with 10base2 back in the day. (I wonder how many of you will even know what that is...)
My experience is that people of any level who say "can you teach me to code" will not learn by brute force. I try to start with the most basic of basics - but there's just WAY too many concepts there. No one even makes it to functions. Even most programmers take a long time to realize that the syntax they learned was as abstraction over the hardware... there's so so much to learn.

This idea of "gradual changes" is surely worth a test. Yeah, the rules might change - but at that level, the "rules" are just meaningless symbols anyway. If the ideas stick - and you truly understand them, not just memorize them - adapting will be a lot easier than recalling "oh yeah, for some reason there needs to be a semi-colon here".

I think it's really clever - I'm going to test-drive it on some unsuspecting nephews and neices.
So the amount of value getting lost must be equal or greater the electricity bill for mining.

I see your point but doesn’t sound like a great pitch.
a company who needed them only a handful of days a year for some reason I can’t immediately think of

Perhaps it's good for render farms. Instead of building a giant render farm that sits idle between productions, you spin up a render farm only when you need one.
1 in 3 of a very large earthquake hitting in the next 50 years: https://today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2010/may/odds-huge-qu...

That could cause a large to very large tsunami.

The place we selected is proof against any Tsunami, and massively over-built to handle large earthquakes.
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The first tip a "sleep doctor" will give you is to cut caffeine. Have you tried that?
Well it is enforced by the protocol on which all node agree and there needs to be a mechanism for syncing clocks across nodes (also defined by the protocol) but they exist, e.g. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8946264

Not 100% sure what ETH is using here but there is a mechanism.

If someone would want to fake timestamps, they would need to deviate from the protocol and would thus not be on chain.
Yet another macOS privacy protections bypass
This says a lot:

> Most importantly, it’s Free and Open Source.

"Most importantly" ?
Doesn't that essentially just route the audio stream from your phone to the HomePod? You can do the same thing from an AppleTV. That's nice, but not the integration I'm looking for.

Spotify support would mean you can ask Siri to play a song from Spotify and it works directly, without using a Spotify app on a second device.
Perfect. I have been looking for something like this for months. Since I stopped using a Firefox browser.
Only problem I have is working out what some of the icons are for, otherwise it's a positive change.
> Has she figured out ..

I wouldn't dare call it "she", "knows", "exactly", in the strict sense, but the less-than-conscious parts of a human should have a pretty good though fuzzy experience of what foods are beneficial in which circumstances.
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Macminicolo appears to have been Brian Stucki's company (as he said in his original post) and it was acquired by MacStadium: https://blog.macstadium.com/blog/macstadium-and-macminicolo
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I've recently moved away from Linux (to Windows) because of bad hardware support (with Ubuntu, bluetooth audio was PITA, graphics was buggy... and the whole lot of things I know and expect from 20 years of using Linux on the Desktop for most of the time).

I started using Windows only because I was putting off installing Linux on the laptop... and I wanted give WSL a shot. With WSL 2.0 and Docker Desktop working so well with it, I don't miss Ubuntu at all.

When I did boot Ubuntu from a live disk to try something out, I found it felt much faster than my Windows install... but I still don't see myself switching back anytime soon.
Perhaps Lockheed should make a telescope that’s so big, it spans 45 States?
I am getting to that point too - except for iOS / MacOS development will use a MB Air. After Catalina upgrade my scanner was disallowed by MacOS. "HPScanner.app will damage your computer" .. Report malware to Apple ... so I said let me try my old MBP running Ubuntu .. boom DocumentScanner could recognize the scanner and off I went !
Highly volatile, absolutely.

Yet it's nothing compared to hyperinflation. In May 2019 prices in Venezuela doubled in only two days... every day.

While Bitcoin is volatile it's relatively stable compared to what Venezuela and Lebanon are going through today.
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