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The wearing of them isn't, though. People were not hauling around their 70s hi-fi systems on roller carts to listen to music in their large headphones.

The original Walkman came with headphones [1], but they were light and fluffy. For a long time after, the trend was toward lighter, smaller. People wearing large headphones out and about are definitely a later wave.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2014/7/1/5861062/sony-walkman-at-35
I am somewhat disappointed that we associate weight with quality. I assume this came from early plastics that were brittle and started to replace metal parts. But the science of plastics have come so far, we have plastics that are incredibly durable while still being lightweight. However many manufacturers are sticking to metal and glass for that "premium look and feed" even if it is heavier and less durable.

Another issue might be the variety of plastic qualities that are hard to tell apart from a quick impression. Something that our launch followed by rush to quick reviews society can't adequately test. Glass and especially metals tend to have more predictable durability profiles.

I think the main problem that we haven't solved in plastics is hardness, so glass screens are here to stay, but I wish we could move away from this plastic == low quality perception. I think it would result in better products at then end of the day.
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Weight isn't too much of an issue if it's made up for with lots of padding. I had a corsair void pro and "upgraded" to the corsair virtuoso. The virtuoso is aluminum construction, looks far more professional, sounds a bit better, and has better battery life, but it's much heavier AND has LESS padding. It feels like it's trying to dig into my skull in no time. They would be much better if they sacrificed a little bit of sleekness to pack much more foam in the headband.
More like 40+ years
I'd love this in Firefox! Does anyone know if it's already planned? If not, I'll create a bugzilla bug for it later today.
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Happy people feel confident in themselves and are not too worried about what other people think about them
Am I allowed to come into your house and scream into your ear without limit? Can you expect to go into a synagogue and hang a nazi flag from the rafters without them being able to ban you from the premise?

I think that much of this kind of stupid discourse on HN is driven by thiel-worshipping reactionaries who believe weird theories about why their genes make them better than black people, but another huge part of it seems to be literally fourteen year old libertarians. Which are you?
> Most people prefer the conveniences of central management

To be fair, it's a pretty broad stretch to compare buying an xbox to "terrifying and violent failure modes of ubiquitous surveillance and censorship".

The console experience is easy to understand for non-technical folk, is vertically integrated (you buy a headset with the correct label and you can voice chat with your friends, you know you have the prerequisite account to play X game on your platform), is fully usable with a controller and designed from the ground up for a tv.

The gaming PC experience is... far worse. If you buy a $1000 gaming PC, you're going to need to install steam/epic/gog/xbox/origin/ea to play the top 5 games of the year, deal with awful audio issues, masses of account systems with varying levels of "party" support, hardware/driver incompatibilities, background software issues (antivirus, etc), varied levels of online play/party support, mixed support for controller/kbm, the list goes on. Networking issues? Hope you don't accidentally have a double NAT, or you might run into [0]. That's before touching on the actual open way of running proton on linux (You have an Nvidia card? tough. Have an AMD card? that's great, just compile your own mesa).

It's tempting to distill this down to "convenience", but it's much more than that. For many people (including myself, a professional programmer) that convenience is the difference between gaming being a way I want to spend my time or not. I'm not choosing between an open and closed device, I'm choosing between a closed device or no device.

[0] https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/connect...
(disclaimer: I work for Epic, we have skin in this, but this is my own personal experience, and I don't work on the store)
This is a little naive, you don't think private delivery services existed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Letter_Mail_Company
10s of megabytes? Where did you pull that number from? Since it is a system app, its true install size is hidden away from users. The comparable google maps app is 190 MB.
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Stealing goverment money under the premise of "we will rule the world comrade, so please allocate 100 million dollars to us ASAP" and pocketing it to buy London properties, obviously.

And of course, 50K out of 100M will be really allocated to buy some shitty FB ads to make screenshots and present it to higher-ups.
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No, the real world is affected by supply and demand, not dictated by it. The real world is dictated by a complex network of social and political pressures, each trying to achieve their own agenda, finding the balance in this environment in how to minimise damages while maximising benefits is the game that any government and, to a lesser extent, corporations try to play.

Believing that the world is dictated by a reductionist model of supply-and-demand is either myopic or ignorant, the world doesn't work like that, that is a model that works well for a diverse set of markets, not all and not at all if you start to include the social aspects into it.

You can't just start building anywhere and anything, that will kill cities, it's a shallow analysis of a broader scope of issues such as: maintaining livable conditions (as defined by the society and culture of that city, not by some metric of "available units per inhabitant"), maintaining harmony of urban planning, maintaining the cityscape, and so on. Devising the master plan for building is exactly the kind of aspect that a simplified worldview of pure supply-and-demand does not take into account, it's simplistic and unempathetic.

Prices will continue to increase if building new units doesn't take place. AirBnB and greedy landlords shouldn't have the power to increase this damage for short-term profits. And worse: doing that in a rent-seeking way, with little to no benefit to the society of that city apart from some tourism money and "digital nomads" income passing by, rent-seeking behaviour is disgusting, it's pure extraction by virtue of you accumulating enough capital to be able to own a piece of land, that's all, there's no productivity increase for society through this form of extractivism.
Hurt has acquired multiple meanings. The phrase you hate refers to "hurt" of the bone-breaking variety. To me, that makes it clear. But maybe it's confusing.
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Advertisers pay for clicks, noise or not. See the Facebook scandal for example.
> Just a reminder that 256kbit is A LOT when using modern codecs.

Seriously. Opus is close to transparent already at 128kbps.
I've spent the last decade exclusively on lower-end and more obscure linux laptops. Haven't had a single issue. I'm probably the exception that proves the rule though. I've found that most of the time it's not a linux / kernel issue, it's a udev or config issue. If you write 'mem' to the right file in /proc or /sys (I forget which) they just go to sleep. Any acpi event will wake them back up. I've done this with all sorts of custom kernel configurations on older chromebooks and cheap chinese laptops. Never had an issue. Sleeping to memory works great. Sleeping to disk or 'hybernate' is another story though. You need swap properly configured for that and it's finicky.
This ...

If the OP does some internet research into this topic they will find articles detailing how almost all [1] non-apple laptop makers build to a single target: ms-windows. They also test against a single target: ms-windows. If it works there, they are done. Linux compatibility is not even an afterthought.

And as each makers various models all seem to also have slightly different ways to perform sleep/hibernate and subsequent wakeup, the result is that Linux kernel dev's are playing a continuous game of catch-up. One thing I've found is that upgrading the kernel to a later release sometimes fixes the issues (assuming patches were supplied by someone in the interim to fix them).

[1] Very few makers have any laptops that ship, from the maker, with Linux preinstalled, the few that do (one or two Dell models, the aftermarket "Linux Laptop" vendors, maybe a sliver of others) will more than likely work properly for sleep/wake. The reason why these work better is because the maker should, in theory, test for Linux compatibility and help fix any bugs (or simply build with compatible chipsets from the outset) since they are selling these with "Linux pre-loaded".
AMD is delivering. Not at the same power and performance levels as the M1, but at least competitive unlike Intel's latest.

I expect to see a whole raft of design wins for AMD from the major OEMs this year.
Sleep/wake/hibernate isn't a feature servers, home routers, or a whole host of other Linux powered commercial devices use. That means it doesn't get much attention from Linux kernel developers.

In turn, the implementation is rather poor. For example, it is impossible to suspend any machine while any ssh directory is mounted. It's been a bug for 10+ years. The bug is architectural and pretty much impossible to fix (Any file or directory read hangs on the SSH connection, and a process can't be paused for hibernation while a non-restartable syscall is running.)

While this kind of architectural bug exists, Linux hibernation will never be good. Fixing that bug properly is probably $500k worth of developer resources. Nobody wants to pay.
on-ear != over-ear

People have worn on-ear headphones since the early days of Sony Walkmans. Y'know, this kind: https://retrospekt.com/products/retro-orange-headphones

Wearing over-ear headphones in public wasn't really a thing until Beats and such came into fashion in the last 15 years or so.
Ah COBOL, oddly enough I started my first dev job in COBOL in the banking industry(I'm in my 30s and started my professional coding career in my 20s), I have mixed feelings about it...it's a weird language but it has it's place, I wouldn't advise anyone to jump into a COBOL career path unless you are doing it for a job and a job alone.
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> I wonder why facebook usage isn't "sowing discord" in Netherlands

But it is? Antivaxxers are at an all time high here, the Pietendiscussie is inflamed on both sides primarily through social media. My plumber-neighbour is an excellent source for learning what the latest conspiracy theory is on his Facebook feed.

If you don't see it, you probably meet people from a narrow slice of society. I certainly see that these kinds of experiences are vastly different between my friends-circle, all former fellow university students, or my villages neighbours, a tiny place far from the urban centres of the Netherlands. My family is a bit in between, again correlating with age.

I absolutely think Facebook is making this country worse. It's the main method of how corona-disbelievers are keeping rates up by encouraging each other to ignore 'rules'.
> I never really understood the combination of noise cancellation and home use only.

Some of us have kids banging around the house all day.
I spent two hours with a mobile video genius and learned 26 useful things (2017)
Cypress not following the Web Driver spec is a huge turn off.

https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/
What critical thinking is involved in believing the virus is real? Apart from those who made some independent study I would say there is little critical thinking at all... Just faith in the institution of government and press.
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What a creative application of Occam's Razor!
Being a wheelchair is also something you can't hide anyway and a prospective employer may need to know it before an in-person interview to make sure it's conducted in an accessible place.
I'm really happy that Tesla's price is so high. Decreasing price of batteries is the most important step in decreasing air pollution and CO2 emissions.

I wish EU would stop subsidizing hybrids, and focus on electric cars, as hybrid subsidies are misused extremely.
USB 2.0 itself was once at the free tier (after installing some extra stuff).

But I do agree it has become more stable and faster.
It may well be harmful, but your reasoning seems spurious. It would imply that "marijuana can be so harmful that is made illegal almost everywhere in the world".
I do travel a lot, hence why I know how little iPhones are seen around the planet.

I guess Bangkok holds 28% of Thailand population then.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/thailand

Also the issue being discussed here are Apple computers with M1, even less than those 28%, in case you also want numbers.
You're probably putting another DAC in the signal path with this, but you can plug in a 3.5mm audio source to the AirPods Max: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MR2C2AM/A/lightning-to-35...
> The fact that this plugs one hole in the sinking ship and not two is hardly evidence that it's crap.

This is a much more eloquent explanation, and I am saving this for the future. This is exactly what I meant.
I've always found it to be a software problem. There's a lot of software that inhibits the computer from sleeping.

I use Synergy to use a single keyboard/mouse across multiple computers. It also seems to completely inhibit sleep in whatever computer is running a client.

Then there's shit like Discord or Firefox or Steam. Any time you run a full screen app or play music, the OS seems to think "oh hey you're playing a game" and then inhibits sleep.
noone wants to take credit, I see.
My HP laptop with windows and other desktop with windows both have BIG troubles with waking up. Typically after I accidentally put them to sleep, I have to somehow restart them, otherwise they wake up to black screen. For me, sleeping in windows never worked right, I'm always disabling it on new installs.
Have you tried the Homepod in a stereo pair? To me it makes a huge difference to the point that I assume that they have completely different profiles for them when running in stereo mode. Assuming a different audience than a single Homepod.
Military have been doing the belly flop for years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9vljzfywJI
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I don't think much true human connection is happening here -- in the sense of connections that are emotionally fulfilling and improve psychological well-being. It may work for some people but I guess for most people the monkey brain is too far from what we're doing right now.
> It doesn't work for non-programmers.

It wasn't designed to work, it was designed to please senior management.

Grace Hopper: “I used to be a mathematics professor. At that time I found there were a certain number of students who could not learn mathematics. I then was charged with the job of making it easy for businessmen to use our computers. I found it was not a question of whether they could learn mathematics or not, but whether they would. […] They said, ‘Throw those symbols out — I do not know what they mean, I have not time to learn symbols.’ I suggest a reply to those who would like data processing people to use mathematical symbols that they make the first attempt to teach those symbols to vice-presidents or a colonel or admiral. I assure you that I tried it.”
Sick of lockdown lifestyle restrictions and although we have a vaccine it will be 9-12 months until places go back to pre-Covid levels of activity (concerts, etc)

The conditions to go back to pre-Covid life are almost impossible to meet in some counties and states due to mandatory testing for schools, businesses, and travel.

No end in sight.
Back in the days before associated types you could implement `Deref` multiple times for the same type. That was fun.
Try living in a commie block in some Central European city. The walls are incredibly thin.
Mainly driver issues.

I have once solved AMDGPU not waking up from hibernation just by compiling the driver into the kernel.

The AMDGPU modules weren't loading somehow and even after spending some time, I couldn't fully debug the issue, as I'm missing an USB debug cable, the hardware didn't had Intel AMT serial over LAN and it lacked a real serial port.
Sure. But what about the M1 is not to gush about?
Which laptops get this right then? Any of them?
Totally agree with this! cypress seems like a good unit/integration testing tool.
This Pepe shit is crazy to me. Pepe was and still is used as a generic meme in so many contexts it just makes no sense that people declare it a hate symbol. I was watching a keyboard review by a Korean guy the other day and it had pepe meme in the video. He has hundreds of thousands of subscribers. English isn't his first language. You really think he's dog whistling to thousands of racists, or people just like stupid memes? Do you think whoever made this (extremely popular) short is a racist? https://youtube.com/watch?v=gAbi2_n8_Mw

It really feels like some CNN broadcaster said something like "Trump bad, and Trump Pepe!" And suddenly there's this small subset of the population who dropped everything they were doing, faces flushed, veins popping, and started vehemently writing about why this crude depiction of a frog used by teenagers for laughs should be #cancelled. It's absurd. It's like progressives are parodying themselves.
There are bits here and there that apply.

"Someone on this job has to know WTF is going on. And that person needs to be you."

It was construction management, but yeah. It applies to Project management as well.
Being originally from Russia, I know how things work there.

I mean, government contractors aren't saints in every country, it's a well known fact, but in Russia they are on a whole different level.
Lost Connections is a fantastic book on this.

While it's definitely worth a read, the author's core argument is eroding community structures have led to an explosion in mental illness.

He has a very interesting tale of a man in a small village who is essentially supported by everyone else there and with that is helped

Compared to the typical Western solution assuming your poor or homeless neighbor is the responsibility of some outside entity.

Online interactions also have a tendency to be very impersonal , and very mean. I don't really use any social media aside from this ( although that will change when I start promoting my side project game, I'll never speak outside of just promoting the game or asking for community feedback).

I'm very much looking forward to a post-corona world, my hope would be that more people embrace this beautiful world of ours instead of arguing about which movie casted who on Reddit all day.
My first job, after graduating, was for Control Data Corporation. I was called a Systems Analyst, but what I did was write a lot of Cobol code. Many years later, I wrote a paper about a novel data structure that could be used for what is called "The Balance Line Algorithm". I illustrated the use of this data structure with some Cobol. That was the last time I even thought about Cobol until I came across a citation to my paper. In excitement at being cited, I looked at the reference in the citing paper. Imagine my disappointment when I read the citation: "[X]showed that this can even be done in Cobol".
ok fine but in 2020 63% of Germany electricity production is carbon neutral (renewable + nuclear), and this is increasing every year.
https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&...
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> manufacturers don't care about Linux support

This is why I have been using System76 personally for the last 5 years, since I first found out about them when given one by an employer. The first linux box I have had that didn't have little problems like that.

Disclaimer: not affiliated in any way, just a happy customer for work and play.
Recently? No, services have always been at risk for out groups. It was only a few decades ago that minority and lgbtq folks could lose access to services.

Except now it's not normal people, it's hate groups that are being pushed out. This seems like a material change for the better.

If you think this is a recent phenomena or if you think it's somehow only being aimed one way, I suggest you read a bit more American history.
Reminds me of the crazy lightweight Richard Mille watches that are absurdly expensive but undeniably high-quality.
> I get it. If spatial audio needs hardware support on the playback

Does it? If you assume that 99% of the time I am looking at the screen and just do that doesn't it provide basically perfect audio? Until very wide-FOV screens become common place it doesn't seem like you need to know where I am looking, it is within a couple of degrees from the center of the screen.
But Facebook is affecting Germany, the Netherlands and here in Sweden where I live. Most of the voters for SD (Sverigedemokraterna) follow the same pattern as Trumpists in the US: regurgitating bullshit spread through Facebook (and to a lesser extent YouTube) which became a firehose of lies, impossible to keep up with to be disproven. People fall into that hole more often than I imagined and I'm glad that the education system here is decent enough to allow the majority of the population to see through this farce.

It still affects society, it still sows discord and I'm not sure how you are unaware of this if you are making such claims...
People have done this (even so far as completely replicating the Cypress Dashboard features):

https://github.com/sorry-cypress/sorry-cypress
> While you're right that government accountability isn't perfect, at least there's an attempt at it.

But see, with the ultrawealthy, there's someone we can hold accountable. For instance, if Jeff Bezos isn't doing his part, we could just...

...hmm.

Oh, right! We could tax him more.

Wait, not that!
So how exactly do you write laws differentiating them?
OP might have been sarcasm about VW's dieselgate...
Yup, and it's interesting to ponder why this narrative gains ground. Especially if we take at face value the claims that undue influence has been exerted for the past few years to ruin free society.
I'm totally with you on needing quiet when working from home. My much more economical solution is a pair of industrial earmuffs with earbuds inside if I want sound. In particular mine are the 3M Peltor X5A: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/3M-...

I've had mine 7 years and swear by them.
Had no issues with my current thinkpad (t480) and previous thinkpads (x240, x220, edge 11)
Have you ever used heroin (don’t).. this is an unfair comparison for people who have struggled with a heroin addiction.
> the Brave browser fetches directly from the source of the content, so publishers maintain their relationships with readers on their own sites, instead of being forced through a redirect [...], compelled to publish through Google’s AMP proxy[...] or another such proprietary proxy.

As a screen reader user, I want a newsreader that does the exact opposite, actually. Nothing but article contents should be let through, no "related stories", no GDPR pop ups, and no "we don't seve European users here" error pages. I would be happy if I could force my browser to display everything as AMP, whenever there was an AMP version available. Kind of like the default reader view in Safari.
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