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Well given that the biggest looser of 2008 crash were the poorest slice of society that almost could afford a house.

They were tricked into loans they couldn't afford. And with all blue-collar jobs being exported at alarming rate to Asia, i would say that the recovery after that recession doesn't ring true to me.

Sure economy and gdp are higher up, but its not because poor recovered. They were left behind.

Trump won presidency mainly because he turned to those people and promised them the good old time, where the town had its steelworks and everyone had quite life.
You don’t need to stream video to run AI in the cloud for a game. Strangely given the existence of server infrastructure based games for decades we’ve never seen it. Maybe the idea isn’t that amazing after all?
> okay, but what if I don't like gnome ?

Under X11, the screen capture and recording doesn't work when one of my screen is scaled and rotated. The capture will turn entirely black, even when capturing on my other screens. If I want to capture something, I need to unplug that monitor (or change my xrandr settings to put it back to horizontal).

Works just fine under Wayland with Sway.

Improvements in X11 break software all the time too. It's not a wayland thing.
> [...] reducing technical debt, improving security practices, etc

Reducing technical debt by rewriting everything from scratch (almost?) never works. It's the baby and the bathwater. It's the sort of thing that seems attractive to junior developers, but more seasoned folks know that the legacy system contains years of embedded knowledge and workarounds for "real world" issues. The new, conceptually beautiful system always fails to capture that embedded knowledge, and ends up breaking many things in many ways for many people.

Perhaps we did need a new display server, perhaps Wayland is conceptually better than Xorg, but it'll be many years before it reaches feature parity, if it ever does.
As others have said - the primary reason is that you need 1+ nukes to take out the other side's launch sites, and the other side knows this so they spread the siloses across their whole territory - so now you need 1+ nukes for every silo they have (or suspect they have), and they need 1+ nukes for every silo you have (or suspect you have), and this is a positive feedback loop.
https://secretlink.org/ - A simple way to send encrypted one time data to people.

It's a no signup way to send encrypted messages to people (think usernames and passwords etc) that includes the time limited decryption key in the email we send to the target user and when the target user views the email, the message is deleted from our system.

This way if the target email gets hacked in the future, the link is useless.

Much better than emailing passwords around the place.

Could turn it into a service, but just haven't gotten around to it.
This is cool I have a similar thought in mind as well as far as having specific meals/ingredients to buy and suggest at random with cost for next grocery run.

Looked at the repo, any screenshots of the UI/interface?
Heresy, what you suggest could lead to web-pages which work without JavaScript; then how could we implement non-consensual tracking and monetisation.
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I don't use Slack for that, but it works on Zoom, Teams, and Meet. So I suspect it works.

I have set up fractional scaling of different fractions on all three of my screens. No issues on Wayland.
> There was no way of rigorously testing whether individual customers propensity to purchase a good from a given business was actually tied to any of the brand awareness ads that were being purchased

This isn't right. Of course there was - statistics, sampling and A/B testing was invented way before computers or the Internet existed.

Advertising is just applied sociology, and sociology is just statistics when done right.
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No I haven't yet, just a Tour of C++, I guess that should be my next stop.
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True. I think there are categories where I take their word for gospel, like electric tooth brushes, mixers and other electric household items, food, cosmetics, etc.

But for some products they had/have really weird metrics. E.g. an early smartphone would be punished because the battery was not replaceable, so a shitty feature phone took the crone (a little exaggerated). But still, they are focused on customers.

And a lot of the non-test editorial focuses on updating the consumer about warnings of faulty products, new regulations, test candidate updates, etc.
> soon

That's been the sentiment for the past 12 years and X11 still works great and wayland implementations are a buggy, slow, featureless mess.
Most theories' predictions are not open ended. It's possible to exhaustively search the prediction space to falsify them (up to an experimental standard that you need to agree on). I'm by far not an expert on super-symmetry but from what I've seen the prediction space of the most common SUSY models is getting continuously boxed in.
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I get constant crashes with HDR10 video, is improving the support for HDR10 video also on the roadmap?
You need to look at per capita GDP, not GDP.

In any case, the US has very high levels of per capita social welfare spending.
Holy sh... I've been battling this for YEARS now on X11. I'll try Wayland and see if it's better
I can no longer use Linux on desktop due to Xorg's lousy DPI scaling support and tearing. Let's face the fact that most laptops are currently HiDPI, modern external displays are too, and neither 1x nor 2x scaling is tolerable with most of them. Unfortunately my video card does not really work with Wayland.

I have never had this serious hardware issues with Linux since 2002. Xorg got outdated but the replacements are not here yet.
> Colour temperature changing works.

And so it on X11.
Or maybe it's just a big I/O & power box, with a bunch of slots on top that accept a Mac mini.
Like a more stylish SNES.
It was!!! Personally, I have no aversion towards GMO. But in the end, it's the customers. It's already so hard to convince that food grown in clean and sterilized nutrient medium is far better than the romantic soil everyone is clinging to; GMO would take way more convincing. However, there are tastes that are indeed only found in the 'old' seeds, so there is do see the aversion non-GMO from customer side.

In terms of optimization, here are some:

1. What is the optimal time for getting a lettuce plant until harvest without juicing it up with nitrates?

2. What parameters could double the functional components of my mint (think about essential oils) and basil plants just by proper timing in stress and nutrition. These are already questions that botany departments have worked on- I want to bring them out in commercial setting (and may be a bit better).

3. Does back-radiation i.e. reflected light from plant leaves help in measuring plant well-being?

4. What's the right grow medium

5. In general, I BELIEVE, that there is a sub-optimal application (as in wastage) of light (which is roughly 20-30% of indoor farm expense), sub-optimal production in terms of the harvest we get. An improvement in harvest timing by a day would still be a very big volume once you scale it to bigger grow area; more importantly, I believe plant experts are good (even though very rare and expensive), but a DeepFarmer might be able to do better (and this is my main bet), both in terms of scaling and expertise.
>If VideoLAN were a startup, it'd be a unicorn.

If it were a startup it would have been run in to the ground by VCs in the name of growth-or-die.
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> Because software engineers working for companies will know the struggle of trying to justify reducing technical debt, improving security practices, etc. but fail to see why these things are useful to them personally when the tables turn.

Problem is, ever so often what should reduce technical debt ends up also reducing "technical assets" even more.

Firefox is a perfect example of this, they reduced technical debt by selling of so many features that it was sometimes hard to see a single unique selling point except not being owned by what I think is the worlds largest data miner (and quitter)!

For someone who used to use and advocate Firefox this hurts.

What is left is certainly better than Chrome on a number of points (except being bug compatible with Chrome) but the differences are now so small on every point except "not being owned by Google" that they are hardly visible to non tech folks.

Edits: a bunch above, mostly to soften and clarify. Also:

IMO the current management at Mozilla inherited a fortune of goodwill, a best in class web browser and significant tech debt.

They supposedly traded goodwill and features for reduction in tech debt but a few years later I suspect they squandered most of it on coolness because if there was less tech debt now, some of the old features should now be trivial to add back.
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I don't know why people say that Sweden's strategy is effective. Sweden's death rate is 1,144 deaths per million population. That's a bit less than Spain's, which is 1,263. But nobody is saying we should follow Spain's strategy.

By comparison, Germany, with eight times Sweden's population, has a death rate of under 700 per million. Canada is 531. Denmark is 370. Sweden's other neighbours, who closed their border to Sweden because they trusted Sweden's approach so much, have death rates of 122 (Finland) and 104 (Norway).

Regarding the economic side: 2020 Q3 growth in Germany was 8.5% vs 4.9% in Sweden. In Q1 and Q2 the slump was 1.7% worse than in Sweden.
This is a tad disingenuous IMO. We can't "literally see the big bang happening". That's is like saying we can see the explosion of a stick of dynamite that exploded inside a mine because we see a dust-cloud and hear a boom a split second later at the mine entrance. We are standing outside the mine, talking about the effect of the dynamite. We see the effect (electromagnetic radiation or "the dust-wave"), not the cause or the event itself.
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The concept is interesting and I can absolutely see the appeal for those without the use of their arms/hands or otherwise impaired.

However I also see these wearing out very quickly, due to the elastic band stretching and the flexible part of the sole falling apart due to wear. I also wonder how it will deal with dirt, grit and small debris falling between the soles.
I'm not German but I live in German. I didn't notice racism. Maybe some don't like immigrants (especially from eastern Europe, same in UK). And what the hell is causal racism? Give me examples please.
I don’t agree that what we need is better Xorg. Xorg was a client-server based display server design from back when bitmapped displays and their respective UIs were in their infancy. And although it was certainly good for a time, I really think the idea of client-server UI has aged about as well as Polio. Even at the time it was computationally expensive (especially compared to say, Windows basically just jamming the UI into the kernel) but now it’s just crufty, inefficient, and weird. I don’t think there are many design decisions from X11 that you really want to keep anymore. Seriously, dig into the X11 protocol, what would you want to keep? If you want it to be feature compatible, a lot of cruft is going to need to come along for the ride.

There are some aspects of X11 that aren’t so bad, especially more recent bits. Personally, I think XI2 is relatively nicely designed. But on the whole, I just don’t think what we want is better Xorg.
"By the year 2025, 63% of the world’s population will be living in cities" I wonder if Covid will revise those trends. Where I live (rural), there's plenty of unused land that needs a lot let contortions to farm (cheaper) but is indeed further away from the mouths to be fed in cities. How is the math behind urban farms vs simply shipping food into the city?
Not the author, but regularly also get asked this question, and I usually recommend Digital Design and Computer Architecture, 2nd Ed [1]; supplemented with practical work on an FPGA.

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I'm using an OBS branch (there's an open pull request). I'm not a fan of how it expects me to guess the resolution of the canvas (and in GNOME you can't find out the size of a window), but that's not really the fault of Wayland.
There are also cases where the embedded knowledge and workarounds collected over years are a problem and can be solved in better ways by nuking the whole section. It's a 36 years old project after all. But it takes deep understanding of the Xorg system to tell which case it is... which I expect most people on HN do not have.
I found this months ago, lost my pinned tabs and spent _hours_ looking for this. This will teach me to not bookmark interesting stuff. Thank you!
That's huge! It just might get me to try out Wayland again.
I'm very intrigued by these "wallwart arm systems" that you mentioned. Where can I read up on this?
I think it's mostly buggy when using an external monitor with a different DPI (internal 4k with an external 1080p, in my case).

With the environment flag, it works pretty well.

On Gnome, plugins can cause issues. hidetopbar, for example, had an issue with Firefox when the screens are stacked vertically.
I will check them out, the prices doesn't seem bad at all. Will try for a small projects, and if everything goes well maybe migrate bigger ones.
I wasn't happy using Microsoft To Do for groceries so I made a shared grocery list app: https://bakalist.app

It's a pwa with offline functionality. It can suggest when you might need to buy something again and can also try to give an estimate on how much the current list will cost at the store.

I've been pretty happy using it for the last few weeks, so I don't really mind if the user base never grows.

I'm also writing a WIP blog entry about some of the technology that it uses: https://kylepoole.me/blog/20210201_Bakalist/
Dead-simple GIF screen recorder for Windows - https://gist.github.com/apankrat/14b28656236d78407b28aef3102...

Real-time disk IO graphing thingy - https://bvckup2.com/wip/10042018

Both can be developed into proper products, but that'd be beyond what I actually need from these two for myself.
One advantage is that you need to worry less about versions; if I build a dynamic library that uses a feature from GNU libc 2.30, and someone tries to run it with GNU libc 2.23 then they will get an error.

These versions are not chosen at random: I ran in to this issue with people trying to run my binary on Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS release), which was solved by linking it statically.

Also, people may use musl libc, and while it has some compatibility with GNU libc this is far from complete.

So in short, linking it statically means it will work for the largest amount of people with a minimal of fuss for both the person building the binaries, and the people running them.

As people have mentioned, these issues are less present on non-Linux systems.
You are assuming a great deal.
I am much more intrigued about using this method to quickly detect land mines at very low cost in a field. So many countries are littered with land mines and they continue to harm people long after the conflict is over.

But the idea of a farm crop, say potatoes or corn emailing the farmer saying turn on the water I am thirsty almost sounds like science fiction to this old agronomist.
This isn't just "gee, technology sure comes with tradeoffs." It was literally claiming the dollar to be worthless, a global class war, and for most of the continent of Africa to be uninhabitable. It was claiming all three would happen.

I feel like people come into these questions wanting to treat them like trick questions, and wanting to show off that they can't be tricked. And so, if a bet like this has an obvious answer, well, maybe that's a trick! And you aren't fooled because, hey, technology has tradeoffs, and global warming is real. Therefore the guy predicting Africa would be uninhabitable was right!

There's a satisfying quality of switcheroo. But it's also nuts because it's not a trick question, and those observations are true but irrelevant to assessing the terms of the bet.
I'd go even further and recommend GrapheneOS [0] on a Pixel.

It has some extra security improvements on top of AOSP and most importantly, the builds are signed and the device can be locked after you install the ROM.

[0]: https://grapheneos.org/
Sway exists (an almost identical i3 clone) and wlroots makes it easy for anyone to make a WM
> The author obviously hasn’t tried plugging a high dpi monitor in to a laptop if they don’t understand what’s wrong with X

This is the only actual, honest, problem that I've ever seen about X. Still, it does not seem a really fundamental problem, it must surely be solvable from within X? Do we really need a full-rewrite of X, unstable, with new bugs and less functionalities? (many of us don't use "desktop" applications and it will break screen capture tools, and other things that are dear to us like xwit, xdotool and the like). Just for that silly mixed-resolution screen problem? I have observed this problem, but to me is a minor, mostly irrelevant nuisance. Losing xwit would be a major problem.
This is an interesting perspective. Our current monitoring system charges by the amount of data ingested / stored so there is a perverse incentive to observe less men if we have detailed debug level logs available.
Thanks for building this!

I'm especially excited about the "file format" part! Hope others can implement extra clients around this. I could imagine an android app with nextcloud/dropbox integration to sync time tracking entries between devises, e.g.

I once started (but never released) an eventful timetracker; where hooks and wrappers would (retrospectively) send events to the timetracker repo (basically just drop json files in a folder) on "events". Such as `git checkout feature/x`, git commit. Or `cd projects/foobar` or from some ical feed. Walking through these events once your manager "really really need those hours today" is always easier than retrospectively manually going through git commits, google-calendar, release-logs etc.

Seeing your project makes me want to pick that project up and make e.g. "klog.txt" files from a list of such events. Great work, and congrats on actually releasing ;)
She ran one of the studios and wasn't in charge of Stadia as a whole.
SSD $/GB/mo was almost half what it is on AWS last time I checked. Run a clustered replicated storage system or ephemeral workload and you are fine.
> Perhaps we did need a new display server, perhaps Wayland is conceptually better than Xorg, but it'll be many years before it reaches feature parity, if it ever does.

I haven't followed the development at all but, Xorg is 16 years old and Wayland is 12. It seems counterintuitive that feature parity could not be attained in this time unless it's for philosophical reasons.

Edit: Thanks for pointing out that Xorg is actually much older. My argument indeed doesn't hold.
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The industry has spoken. X as an architecture is broken and should be abandoned.
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I mean moving away from something that has like a decade of polish to something freshly minted was always going to involve significant pain.
Interesting , are you working on this idea? It seems promising to say the least, considering that most companies already benefit from open-source, that is a B2B transaction if they are sponsoring the project. It can be great to have it outside of open source!