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The OP isn't talking about Linux users as consumers though, but about Linux developers. So:

> lack of commercial software like Adobe CS / MS Office

Usually inconsequential for developers

> problems with hardware video decoding

Same

> desktop environments like GNOME3 that like to remove features periodically

This is subjective.

1) You can choose not to use Gnome

2) Personally, I've been using Gnome for the past ~6 years and I haven't noticed any significant feature reduction. I'm sure there've been many, I just haven't noticed (hence subjective).

> that they even can't understand why someone would use a different platform.

I fully understand why people want to use Apple for their consuming needs. I really don't understand why my fellow developers choose to go with Apple as their work machine. I then frequently see they have to fire up VMs/containers to do work that I can do natively. No idea what's the upside for work (dev, coding-heavy).

PS: I'm writing this from my personal Apple computer. When I'm up for my hardware refresh at work, I'll 100% go with another Linux-compatible Lenovo/Dell.
> This is basically the last straw for me.

Now you're just out of straws, or pulled the trigger on some decision? What's the implication?
It doesn’t even matter if politicians aren’t making decisions based on social media—-their constituents are demanding action because of what they see on it. A video of one person in power choking another person to death got widely shared on Twitter and the result was massive and worldwide protests. Hell, in general social media has replaced pretty much every other form of it, we can’t keep pretending the internet is a niche place anymore.
20 years ago I wanted to try graphics programming. Friend of Mine suggested Linux because it came with free software. Gimp.
Six months of recompiling and reinstalling Linux lead to a career in server development.
Linux took My dreams of graphic development and turned them into a much higher paying career.

I still have mixed feelings about it.
> Section 5.1 of the PDF seems to imply that the "Initial Europe Doses" are to be manufactured within Europe [0] "following EU marketing authorization".

You are completely misreading it. That's not at all what section 5.1 implies. Section 5.1 says AstraZeneca should make its best effort to manufacture in the EU after market approval. That's in opposition to improving and relying on foreign production something expressly permitted by the contract. That has no bearing on where the dose should come now.

> Section 5.4 which you quote from

That's the section about where the dose can come and point that all AstraZeneca production capacity are part of agreement.

But the real sinker for AstraZeneca is section 13.1.e.

"[AstraZeneca represents, warrants and covenants to the
Commission and the Participating Member States that: ] it is not under any obligation, contractual or otherwise, to any Person or third
party in respect of the Initial Europe Doses or that conflicts with or is inconsistent
in any material respect with the terms of this Agreement or that would impede the
complete fulfillment
of its obligations under this Agreement;"

At this point, it is clear that AstraZeneca is trying to weasle out of its contractual obligation (unsurprisingly they are a pharma company after all). Short of an agreement being found and considering the EU doesn't have the time for a protractor trial, I think mandatory licensing or nationalisation of the production facilities are in order. But then again, this commission seems extremely weak so who knows.
What @throwaway525142 said and you can host your own repo.
Previous discussion (51 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25794659
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I've been visiting Albany, NY. Nestled betwixt the Catskill mountains, the Adirondacks and the Berkshires. I always went for the natural beauty: ziplines, hacker crafts on Lake George, skiing etc.

But its actually legacy home to industrial powerhouses: GE R&D, once the world's largest corporate research lab. IBM which used to boast having hundreds of PhD's there. And more recently a thriving indie video game scene. Vicarious Visions, recently acquired by Blizzard, employs 200+ downtown.

So while you may imagine your "non-tech" hamlet is devoid of any conspicuous tech scene. You may actually discover one. Lurking just below the surface ;)
I recently stumbled over a 3D maze game from 1982 on 8-bit Ataris which pretty much blew my mind because of how advanced it looked for the year 1982 running on an 8-bit home computer designed in the late 70's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmfNMo6kHpA

It might not be the first "3D" maze game, but I think it's the first one with free movement and camera rotation?
The issues with the 3D0 hardware were eclipsed by the back stabbing corporate culture of Electronic Arts. This was the height of the EA spouse era. It was bad.
Especially since any npm package can execute any code at install time in npm's default configuration.

On Linux this is extra juicy since you cannot globally install any package without root unless you explicitly changed the directory's permissions and/or location.
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Indeed that is what I meant. Thanks for trying to understand even if I wasn't perfectly clear in my wording.

Indeed, maximum efficiency is achieved after 12 days in Pfizer data (and similarly in the Israeli data). That's the reason some countries consider giving just one - they suspect it won't be as-long-lasting without the booster, but that's from prior experience, not anything specific for this vaccine.

I'm incredibly frustrated at the amount of people parroting "yes, two weeks after the first vaccine it's 50%, two weeks after the 2nd it's 95%". Yes, that's what Pfizer said, and I think I managed to reproduce their calculation - and if I did, it is intentionally misleading.

It seems a lot of people are religiously believing the headlines without looking at the publicly available data. I thank you for looking at it.
Gish Gallop: When People Try to Win Debates by Using Overwhelming Nonsense
Deploying DUO RDP through GPO can leave your Secret key exposed
The main hurdle is that (without rooting) there doesn't seem to be a way for alternative app stores to silently update software.

Does this actually matter? On the desktop it's normal for apps to update themselves. Is there some fundamental reason an Android app cannot do this too?
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That doesn't debunk "ad hominem" as a fallacy, it just says that sometimes people accuse others of ad hominem when it doesn't apply.
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/l8a5ae/deploying_du...
So you've overcome the issues macOS threw at you. What's the upside? What does it give you?
> Nearly no one runs antivirus software on a Mac

There are companies which put antivirus software (e.g. mcaffee) on the macs they provide do employees.

From what I've heard, they're even more detrimental there than on windows.
About two years ago.

I read all of these posts and think: I'm so glad that I dropped OSX support. A lot less entitlement and a lot less work :)
I've been using Linux regularly for 20+ years at this point, since Debian Slink. I've used it on gigantic servers, workstations, laptops, and embedded devices – it's wonderful.

But my day-to-day development machine is a Mac, and has been for a long time. This was originally because I was both a graphic designer and a developer, and needed access to tools like Photoshop and InDesign while still having a UNIX development environment, and the Mac was great at both of these. This basically still applies – I have access to lots of really well-designed native applications that I use all the time, and a full UNIX development environment that I use every day.

I really haven't encountered the issues you talk about in a serious way – the most frequent thing is forgetting that I don't have the GNU version of some CLI tools and need to use different flags. Certainly no encounters with a "weird security system". I have a working development environment, running on nice hardware, that gives me access to everything I want – it's hard to find a reason to make a change to this.

I do sometimes come back to working with Linux in a desktop capacity – most recently Ubuntu on a NUC when I shipped my MacBook back for repair. It is broadly fine, but it's still just a bit more irritating. Multiple monitor support was buggy, as was high-DPI support and Bluetooth. No doubt a different distribution and/or some tweaking could resolve these issues and leave me with a development environment that was equivalent to what I already have – but I'd still be missing other tools that I like, not to mention all the niceties of the wider ecosystem.

Honestly it's more likely to be the hardware that makes me change. I don't have the same complaints as others do about recent product lines, but I'm definitely one of those people in Apple's market gap in the "high-end-non-workstation-non-integrated-desktop" area. I'd fork quite a lot of money for something like a 16-core desktop machine, but probably not the £8k Apple wants for the Mac Pro. We'll see what happens over the next few years though.
One minute people are judicially applying the Slippery Slope fallacy, and before you know it we’re using it recklessly to dismiss very plausible outcomes.

Kidding aside, the point of the Slippery Slope argument isn’t that a chain of events can’t happen or won’t happen - it’s that we can’t assume they will happen.
the terminal eats us all in the end
Relaxation of the South African Exchange Control Rules Is Finally Happening
AMD had a good Visual Studio plugin for OpenCL, complete with debugging support, although I believe it's since been discontinued.
> make a business

Well here's your problem
Traditionally, Apple does not guarantee total ABI stability. They push betas instead to allow people to fix the issues, and then support older releases for multiple years.

Yes, unmaintained software might or might not stay fully functional on macOS for long, but that's not an Apple priority.
Columbia University students are holding a tuition strike
Yeah. Especially since a great number of faculty chose to turn down jobs that pay 3-4x what they receive from universities. My friends from grad school who ended up in R1 positions were the most consistently brilliant of my cohort.
Agreed, it's an excuse and they should have been banned sooner if their language constitutes a rule violation. But I'm not really concerned about free speech when a group gets banned from a web service after violating its rules, even if the violation was just used as an excuse.
You're falling into a common trap of misassociating logic with truth. They are related, but not 1:1. A logical fallacy does not price something is false, it just demonstrates that an argument is not logically airtight.

A statement based on a logical fallacy can turn out to be true. A prediction based on nothing at all can turn out to be true as well. All a logical fallacy means is that the statement will not NECESSARILY turn out to be true.
Standards aside, returning EINTR on a write to local file is extremely rare in POSIX.

Almost any syscall can return EINTR, but in practice, for all previous OSes, it has been reserved for those that can hang for an undetermined amount of time -- that is, anything from the network. Local I/O should complete in a bounded amount of time, so that kind of sleep is usually implemented as uninterruptable.

There's one highly relevant edge case: NFS. NFS looks like local I/O, but if the NFS server goes away, what do you do? Traditionally, the process just hangs in the hope that the server will come back, which leads to the dreaded issue of processes being stuck and unkillable. On Linux, can add the “intr” flag to the mount (possibly via a remount) to allow signals to interrupt the syscall and break the deadlock -- but then you break a ton of software, because, again, EINTR on local file I/O is unheard of.
What a mess that would be. A user has to keep in their mind which servers they can and can’t talk to while also remembering which servers their friends are on to begin with.
> A private organisation run by non-doctors and non-nurses allowed to administer vaccines? WTF?

Agreed, in part, but if you only knew what a clusterfuck the underlying system is even with incredibly expensive employer based medical insurance was you'd probably be more open to seeing things like this take palce. And before you start with 'but in my country...' just know I've lived in countries with socialized medicine, where having to wait months for appointments to see a specialist is the norm, years for a surgery is nearly guaranteed and even needing a Dr's RX for aspirin (Germany!) is needed which is equally absurd to me as I got injured and ended up just drinking vodka to endure the pain instead of just having something available that is OTC in most countries.

None of these systems are what I would call 'good,' and are all in need of massive reform. And while this does have a lot of sensationalism behind it that makes it look bad, I say just look at my earlier post and just focus at the results and what comparable rollout efforts look like before condemning them entirely.

The US is an experiment, and one that has been failing most people at large for several decades now because of entrenched bureaucratic power deterring or outright denying these kind of accelerated forms of disruption to their monopolies and business models. I now see COVID as an opportunity as much as I see it as catastrophic shock to the system now.
CNCF_cloud-native-security-whitepaper-Nov2020.pdf
Obviously yes, consult a lawyer. When you exercise the options they convert to shares, at which point you’re likely bound by a different set of obligations around right of first refusal by the company. At that point those shares are collateral for the loan with your friend. As far as I’m aware you can’t sell or otherwise trade options due to them being ISO’s instead of NSO’s.
How very convinient for Google that "security" means competitors can't have feature parity. But then why are you saying there aren't any hurdles?
A plain reading of the five sentences in which airlines are discussed, in response to Sorkin's previous comparison of GameStop with Delta, makes clear that the flaw you see is an imagined one. Your dredging up of decade-old complaints proves rather than undermines the observations above of your mysterious animus for Taibbi. NYC seems never to have sold off its parking meters at all, since everything on that topic comes from 2012. [0] That being the case, one could believe the claims of Bloomberg apologists that "it wouldn't have been like Chicago", but that isn't obviously true.

Those who don't see TARP as v1.0 and CARES as v2.0 of a giant transfer of wealth from those who can't afford lobbyists to those who can, simply aren't paying attention. One shudders to contemplate the calamity scheduled to justify v3.0.

[0] https://reason.org/commentary/new-york-parking-privatization...
Boris Johnoson is an educated man and I don't doubt his intelligence. What I was referring to was his decision to back Brexit and go against David Cameron during the 2016 referendum, which to my mind is what put him in line for the premiership. The way I see it -it's entierly an interpretation from what I've read in the news- Johnson had wanted to be Prime Minister in the place of the Prime Minister ever since he joined the Tory party. When David Cameron proclaimed a referendum, Boris Johnson spent some time on the fence, trying to decide whether he should back Brexit, or back Cameron. His criterion must have obviously been the chances of becoming Prime Minister in the place of the Prime Minister, depending on the choice. Eventually he decided to go against David Cameron and back Brexit, which from my recollection was seen as a big bail on Cameron. I believe, neither Johnson nor anyone else could predict the outcome of the referendum at the time, so Johnson basically gambled. He would very likely be sidelined for a long time if he chose wrong. He happened to choose right, fell on the side of the penalty kick and positioned himself in the line to the throne.

But none of this happened thanks to his careful planning. Johnson was lucky to be associated with the Euroskeptic Tory right as an attack journalist writing defamatory pieces for EU institutions, before he joined the party. Then he struck gold when David Cameron put his head in the mouth of the wolf with the 2016 referendum.

He's an opportunist who got lucky.
It's not a choice between live in Palo Alto or live in some far-flung Midwestern suburb. I think that sort of dichotomy gets set in place because it is pretty hard to get to cheap real estate close enough for a daily commute from most of Silicon Valley.

But throw out daily commuting (or even, really, just accept a reasonable driving commute) and many possibilities open up in many coastal cities, especially given that many jobs aren't in the cities anyway. Yes, if you want to live in the city, many of the coastal cities will be more expensive but, e.g. Chicago is not especially cheap either.
Problem is you end up with a 'community' that only likes low taxes and doesn't give af about anyone else.
Interestingly, I was going to blame my inadequacies at Mario on having grown up only playing PC games and therefore relatively little in the way of platformers. I'm not sure there was a big-name platformer for PC was released in my entire formative years, and if it was, I certainly didn't play it.

Link to the Past was also quite hard, but I cheated at that (abusing the saving/loading from the Switch emulator version) so I can't compare. But I blamed it's difficulty on its old-fashioned controls: you can't attack in a direction unless you move in that direction. I find this extremely frustrating and limited after playing more modern top-down action games like Hotline Miami.
How about a social login and storing preferred version and some sane defaults without login?
I work remotely and live in a seaside town in Florida. No state income tax, reasonable housing prices and cost of living, biking, boating fishing, golfing, 12 months a year. Many great options in Florida such as St Augustine, Sarasota, Jupiter, Pensacola.
Of Linux *kernel* to userspace ABI development.

The user-space ABIs are widely unstable. Try to run software compiled on Ubuntu 20.04 on 18.04 for example. On macOS, it's just the matter of using -mmacosx-version-min= to make sure that newer functions don't get used.

Or for that matter, even in the reverse case, things break.
Last summer I stopped using MacOS (and the MBP) as my primary development machine. My development happens on a Thinkpad X1 with an Arch inspired distro + XFCE desktop combine. I still use Mac OS and Macbook Pro for meetings, presentations etc.

The development experience on Linux is sublime. I feel so much more productive. On the flip side, it took me two or three weeks to customize and setup the way I like it.

In the end, it was worth it.
Wikipedia:

Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, emphasizing free association, freedom of choice, individualism and voluntary association. Libertarians share a skepticism of authority and state power, but some of them diverge on the scope of their opposition to existing economic and political systems.

If you want to get specific on the economic front I diverge a bit and fall somewhere along the mutualism line of things where I'm more interested in a pragmatic free market socialism. Basically just do what you feel like but don't be a prick about it, and yes, we'll organise some free healthcare and education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory)
Google isn’t repeating as us from memory where it could loose information/context, it’s quoting verbatim.

Also, Google can be annoying when it tries to be smart and the item you really need isn’t shown due to past behavior (the bubble it creates)

Maybe that should be shown as prominent/original rank to the query done. But whatever.
Here is the PDF version linked on the Wikipedia page: http://neglectedbooks.com/Straight_and_Crooked_Thinking.pdf
There are a lot of answers to questions that authoritative sources don’t make the best job of explaining. Also, the more ways of explaining something the better in my opinion. We don’t all think on the same frequency and the more answers the more likely to find one on your own understanding. SO helped me many times when I got stuck on something. When learning something new I wouldn’t go directly there, Id use a tutorial or some authotitative reference
Does it actually work? I tried a couple of times and the downloads never finished.
I'm baffled that any developer uses a Mac. I know, I know... BSD, 3-finger swipe, but-they-wrote-the-ux-guide. But I've been running Debian Testing for 15 years now with nary a problem (on thinkpads, latitudes and desktops) I guess I'm weird in that I think gnome 3 is swell.

CI handles xCode. Otherwise, my 2x 42" 4k monitors, Gnome and works-here-same-as-the-cloud self reads these articles on puzzlement.

I can't count the times I've helped developers deal with oh-yeah-brew-is-weird-about-libpq. Now this? It's the avocado-toast of developer workstations...
ESE: The server-grade, embedded DB ships with Windows
I deal with FB mods in Athens, Greece. This job is subcontracted to tech support company that usually handles phones. Low skilled, unqualified work, done mostly by students for a year after school. Working conditions and pay are ok for Greece. There is no trauma, worst stuff is soft core p#rn. Most of them work from home, as mandated by Greek gov.
Google shouldn't be doing what they're doing, no question. BUT, this reaction to the idea of people downloading apps is over the top. The world is full of people who made lots of money on the back of people downloading and installing their apps, even with far worse UXs than what Android provides.

Minecraft.

Steam.

Heck, every video game ever.

Skype.

Microsoft Office. Made billions when people had to physically go to a store and get it.

Google Earth. Chrome itself.

IntelliJ, any developer tool.

Zoom. WebEx. Most video conf tools, actually.

Any pro tool whatsoever.

You get the picture. No, ticking a box and tapping is not the end of the world and never has been. The UX for app installation on macOS and Windows is totally atrocious in both cases and people figure it out.

If you live in the Valley bubble world where every single app that exists is VC funded and desperately racing to get to a 100M daily actives first, then it might seem like one extra click is literally the end of the world. But FFS the vast majority of all businesses and products require more effort to get than that, and they work just fine.
Yep. I’m bagging what you’re raking.
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Logical fallacies should be part of a conversation, and shouldn't shut down anything. They are thinking tools, not debate weapons, although they can be used as such.
I prefer going straight to Github issues if documentation fails me. But yes, the more familiar I get with the stack, the lesser I have come to rely on Stackoverflow.
Stack overflow is very useful if someone already asked your question back when it was still accepting new questions.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/whats-really-going-o...

Less inflammatory piece.
I am going trough the same stage and started developing the game that I wanted to develop as a kid on my first home computer: a Commodore 16. At the time I learnt to program in 7501 ASM ( a 6502 derived CPU ) but the endeavour was too much for a kid given the tools of the time.
Nowadays is way easier: I have a sort of IDE built over emacs, can easily design ( and rip ) sprites and charsets, can mix code in macro ASM and a C-like language and can easily debug on an emulator. It's really a joy!