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> The "classic" american barbecue features harburgers and hotdog sausages in bread

This is definitely not classic American barbecue. This is associated with going to “a barbeque”, which is slang for a summer picnic type gathering with food (sometimes pot luck style), hot dogs and hamburgers being cheap and easy food fair. American barbecue, the food, is defined by regions, with different parts of the country being known for the animal used (beef, pork, chicken), the preparation and cooking method (dry or wet rubbed, smoked with various wood types, grilled), and serving (sans sauce or with mustard, vinegar, mayonnaise, or tomato based bbq sauce). I personally am partial to Texas beef brisket and Memphis dry rub ribs.

If someone was taking me to a backyard neighborhood barbeque, I would expect hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, and some weird jello based side dish someone’s aunt made. If someone was taking me to an “authentic barbeque joint”, I would be insulted if they were primarily serving hamburgers and hotdogs.
A cloud / web based radio playout system. It's a bit of a niche but it'll get rid of the desktop(s) running some web radio streams.

We operate as a "voice tracking" service but need to cater for presenters with limited hardware. First goal is to give them audio library access, then onto log editing and voice tracking. Even if the current system continues to play audio "on air" for now.

The weird bit is this is an itch I had 10-15 years ago! There's an ancient screenshot from some early cross-platform attempts I made over at https://www.dlineradio.co.uk/articles/radio-station-mobile-a... - spot the Java Swing with MSPaint icons! :P
That's not a Wayland problem. It's up to XFCE to implement it.
If "A Is almost certainly not a hoax, Therefore it is much more important than B."

"Why is B a hoax?" doesn't seem to me an unreasonable response.
This is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992664
I returned mine since the force was too much to bear for even 15 minutes.
I don't hate Wayland. But every time I use it random things stop working, so I'm sticking with x11 for the time being. I'm a firm believer in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Thank you! That's such great ideas, and I literally have "use nlp to create tags" as a todo too!

Haha, yes, I do like cooking, but I could definitely do a bit more of it and less programming.
> But that's not contract liberty.

You're misunderstanding what I'm saying.

"A company is not forced to use wage labor" does not mean "they can choose to employ workers under any kind of contract without push-back".

Competition goes both ways, not just top down. If you choose to compete with your workers on company resources (AKA wage labor) then you deal with the consequence that these workers use their leverage just as much as you use yours if they have to.
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https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat4771....
"How many decades have there been high-quality headphones "

I have a quarter of century old Beyerdynamic cans that still sound fantastic. I am not seeing their end-of-life any time soon, except the pads are probably going to need a change.
I'd love to see this succeed, but while Figma is pretty much free for most cases.... ?
Right? XFCE is definitely not what I would call a precious use-case.
have not they said that WebComponents are not gonna be supported?
Wayland improves:

- Multi-Monitor support (especially with multiple different resolutions)

- HiDPI support (even if some of your programs haven’t been updated for that yet)

Now why does wayland break xclip and vnc? Because "every program is a keylogger by default and can see any event, look at the contents of any window" is a major security issue, especially as it means the entire security model of screen lockers or containerized applications is useless.

Under X11, basically every application you run can trivially escalate itself to root. As even your Zoom client can just listen to your key events when you unlock your screen or use sudo in your terminal, save your password, and tada it can elevate itself. Under X11, there is no security whatsoever, and no separation of privileges.
I wonder where they're "towing" the party line to? Maybe it was parked in front of a hospital.
As someone who has had their default search engine set to DuckDuckGo for the past couple of years, I'm afraid I have to disagree (DDG is mostly Bing). Google search results are objectively much better to the extent that if it weren't for the !g trick to redirect a DDG search to Google I wouldn't use it at all. Sometimes I even find myself adding !g to a search before even seeing the DDG results at all because I have already developed an intuition that they will suck.

For better or worse, Google started with search and is still by far the best at it. Its competitors are sometimes acceptable in comparison, sometimes not. I can't think of any searches where they're actually better except in cases where I just don't trust Google to offer trustworthy results due to the political activism of their staff (which is why I now default to DDG despite having worked for Google for a long time).
Consider to what end?

The Moderna vaccine had been designed by January 13, 2020 [1] -- before a single case was confirmed in the US. It took only a weekend to finish. In contrast it took nearly a year to finish testing, and even this was an abbreviated schedule.

I haven't seen anything to suggest that the Russian or Chinese vaccines were safer or more effective, or that they could be more easily produced in large numbers. Indeed, according to the data here [2], neither Russia nor China has vaccinated as many of their citizens as has the US.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vac...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
Tried it on Arch with i3 a year (maybe more) ago. Wasn't really usable back then, switched back to X11. For embedded applications I'd probably start with Wayland, but yeah, for my host machine I'm not motivated enough to be more than a mere user.
Undisturbed home office, Music, TV
That non of these vaccines provided scientific data.

Any sources on the "our long history of medical product problems with China and Russia"?
> In the case of Wayland, the “vague authority” are a bunch of volunteers who have devoted tens of thousands of hours of their free time towards making free shit for you.

That does not mean anyone is under an obligation to like it.

> Maybe Wayland doesn’t work for your precious use-case. More likely, it does work, and you swallowed some propaganda based on an assumption which might have been correct 7 years ago.

If you insist on disregarding people's use cases, don't be surprised they don't like your software. I've been down this road a lot with FOSS software: "I don't use it because it doesn't do what I need", "sure it does!", "no, it really doesn't", "well you don't need that anyway!"...

On the whole however, I can certainly understand the frustration at having to deal with a community that gets annoyed at anything that changes simply because they're already so used to the garbage pile they have that they now hold the delusion that it's actually not garbage.

In my admittedly somewhat distanced opinion, Wayland's biggest mistakes were not launching with a coherent strategy for replicating functionality like screen sharing, screenshots, and to a lesser extent remote desktop/applications. They just punted and said "that's a compositor problem!" as though that was supposed to make it ok. People have thus harbored some inherent resentment ever since.
> Clearly faith is just a trust in a certain kind of evidence that is used to justify religious claims, be it testimonial or experiential

I wonder if it is fair to say conspiracy theorists "trust in a certain kind of claim"
That's nothing compared to Starbucks coffee cup waste precovid.

And besides if you're arguing that we need to reduce landfill you shouldn't be advocating for any sort of anti-virus measures as any sort of population reduction will do more to reduce landfill than any sort of reusable mask could ever hope to accomplish.
Ohh yes. We had built a small tool that business people had to use, in form of a questionnaire, that went through about 20 topics. Depending on the question/answer it was an immediate "nope, must-have, don't sign a contract".

Ironically this (nope-case) was always the case if the provider ran on AWS.
Isn't the Occam's razor answer here just down to logistics?

1. Theyre just publishing phase 3 results now, so they were slower than the mRNA shots

2. The Chinese and Russians will probably use their supply for themselves first (understandably), and so by the time they would have any to give us, we'll be almost done anyway.

Just seems like there's mostly no point.

Moderna and Pfizer are both American companies, and AstraZeneca is swedish/british with R&D in the US. These companies also have experience dealing with the FDA and EMA, which can't be underrated.
Good. 'Presstitutes' on one side versus sociopaths on the other. Mutual destruction would be a wonderful thing.
Google is a company large enough that you can always find fringes that contradict their main philosophies a business model within the same company. They do not contribute proportionally to their revenue nearly as much as the other FAANG companies.

Yes, they do some OSS work; some of it is even good quality; most of it is not, and is open sourced only to increase market grab (looking at you, Android). They are just a mess. We can all cherry pick counter examples, because of how messy they are.
> Why wouldn't they reject a ID/passport with some details blacked out?

A better question is why would they? Sending an unredacted copy of my ID to some foreign company just to buy some hosting would seem crazy to me.

Here's a quote from their authentication email when I signed up a few years ago:

> As a new customer, we kindly request that you provide us with a copy (scan/photo) of your passport or ID card for authentication purposes. You can blur or block out information that is not necessary for authentication.

I sent in a picture of my driver's license with everything except my photo, name, and address blacked out, and they approved it. (In hindsight I'm not even sure why I didn't black out the photo part.)
The iPhone doesn't report it's "real" resolution, though.
Not sure why you are getting down-voted. I use a window manager that has no Wayland support, so I am not switching anytime soon either. Perhaps I will when and if it ever gets Wayland support, but for now, everything works on my end with Arch Linux. I also have "~/.xinitrc", "~/.Xdefaults", and I use "startx" to start my window manager. I have absolutely no clue how to have the equivalent of those in Wayland, including "xsetroot", "xset", and "setxkbmap", among a lot of other stuff, but that is due to my ignorance, so if anyone knows, lead the way please. :)
Thanks, that's a useful map.
100% agree. The kneejerk reaction of "well HN is so simple, of course it has a simple design" has the causation backwards. You only realize how simple HN is because they stick to a simple design!

99% of websites are (could be) just static text and images. Facebook, Reddit, CNN etc could look like HN. Amazon could look like craigs list. The amount of sites that actually need and are enhanced by JS bloat is very low.
I got a motion sensor that plays audio files on Amazon and put a waterfall type noise on loop. Only had to charge it every couple months. I think it was like $50. I hate random music in my life but maybe more people would prefer a variety of music
I have been using my DT-770s every single day for hours and hours for about 5 years now and they are still in perfect condition. I expect them to last an extremely long time.

Meanwhile, I'm on my third replacement airpods (thankfully all covered by warranty, but not much longer!)
Reminder that civilian masks are not to protect the wearer. They are to reduce the dispersion of a cough or sneeze.
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I have no beef with Wayland specifically and I agree that if you are harassing maintainers of any project you're probably an asshole. However,

>Maybe Wayland doesn’t work for your precious use-case. More likely, it does work, and you swallowed some propaganda based on an assumption which might have been correct 7 years ago.

I'm a game developer. None of the software I use works reliably or at all on Wayland. None of it. And I'm completely fine with that, I'll keep using Xorg and you can give me a call when my "precious use-case" is handled.
I’ve definitely seen missing products in the list. I usually don’t mind.
Cue the typical "Nature is Healing" especially because pollinators are under massive pressure due to pesticides and herbicides.

Having said that, I'm glad they called a good beekeper who was able to rescue the hive.

Also, I've heard that if you have a bee infestation in your attic for example, not to call an exterminator, but to call a beekeeper. Often these new hives are valuable to hobbyists and they are happy to come take care of it for free. There are apparently directories of local beekeepers all over the world that are fairly easy to find on a search engine.
That's because PCs aren't phones and the software run on PCs does not attack the user. This is different from phones where the user is the product to be sold and almost all software is antagonistic but it doesn't apply to the linux desktop, yet.

edit: I completely agree about "electron applications". Those are not native applications on linux, those are badly made backdoors using browser runtimes. I do not run them and I strongly recommend to my family, friends, and peers not to run them.
I always found systemd to be fine (I'm not a sysadmin, just prefer Linux on my PCs).

PulseAudio did have some growing pains, though. I don't remember them exactly, but I remember having to tinker way too much to get apps to work together/correctly between ALSA and PulseAudio, etc. I still have a finicky laptop that REFUSES to do audio over HDMI unless I boot the machine with the HDMI cable plugged in already.

No real point, here. Just rambling.
The funny thing about your funny remark is that the inverse is used as primary anti-wayland argument.

Oh no, a single thing doesn't work yet, the entire system must be fundamentally broke for everyone. Definitely not just a bug or feature someone hasn't gotten to yet, no no.

If anyone wants to keep using X, they're free to step up and maintain it. So far no one has been willing.
This should be fixed soon: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...
Yeah, the bet and judgment are both unreasonably favorable to Sale, to an absurd degree.

He predicted society's "collapse", that by now we'd be living in small bands. Global warming steadily making the worse a crappier place is an awful thing, to be sure, but we're nowhere near collapse, at least not at the moment.

The first part of the bet is a good one: the dollar -- the world's reserve currency -- becoming worthless is something that makes sense as a part of society collapsing, and more importantly, it's fairly objective to judge. The other two are far more ambiguous.
What would you ask GPT-3?
How do they know it's your screen which is vertical, not just a window?
Besides the content, I find the way this article is written, with the two perspectives and the comments on the side, is really interesting and cool.
Been using Wayland since 20.04, without problems. Thank you for building it.
AZ also has manufacturing issues. Did the leaders successfully anticipated Russian and Chinese manufacturing but failed on the AZ?
That seems like an unnecessary complication of the words “belief” and “knowledge”.

Belief = assumption + ego. I prefer to use the word assumption, it’s much cleaner and means the same thing as belief, without invoking emotions.

Therefore I don’t see any difference in assuming or not assuming the existence of god(s), and knowledge of the existence of god(s), which are still assumptions anyway.

I’m only seeing the utility of defining the following 3 groups:

1) assumes existence of god(s)

2) assumes lack of existence of god(s)

3) assumes nothing regarding the existence of god(s)
The superconductor patent (I have not read the other ones) reads like a science fiction writer's extrapolation from real published papers on room temperature superconductors. If one wanted to create disinformation, to smoke out spies or whatever reason, about US secret capabilities this seems like a plausible approach.
I could go point by point on the first part of your reply, but there is something underlying your view that makes me feel we come from places that work a little different. I don't know where you're from, I'm from Italy so let me put down some points:

- here almost every single company is incredibly small (average is 4 employees)

- we have lots of companies (66 every 1000 adult citizen)

- IT panorama here is like 15 years behind the US

- after university or technical school you know almost nothing, just some basic abstract notions

So you have to learn every single thing by yourself, and if you want to work with today technology you will not learn it at $WORKPLACE because your boss probably is a 60 years old guy who wrote COBOL programs but want you to build "something like Facebook in the next two weeks".

The only window we have on today technology is on the internet, many tools that come cheap somewhere else are quite expensive for us and you must be lucky to know that one guy that can give you some hints.

In my case I've studied in technical school and then did IT engineering at the local university, which I dropped with a couple of exams to go after I had to argue with a professor that solved it's own exercise in a broken way and couldn't understand why my solution worked. In the last 15 years working, until now, I didn't know anyone here in my hometown who can work with anything outside some legacy ASP stuff, basic PHP on CMSs like Wordpress or some basic Java applications (mostly Android), DBs are always MySQL. Just a friend of mine who uses QT, which he learnt by himself and after changing three jobs now he is finally in a dev team, but on the previous three he was the only dev in the company. (I know other people that work with "today's" tech but they are not from my province)

I don't know if I can communicate my point, but reading that $PERSON who works at $COMPANY says that $PRODUCT is shit because he had problems scaling to 100mln users is a totally useless point for all the people outside the few tech bubbles around the world.

It's not about "everything is good", I never said that everything is good, but in the real world™ people built great things using almost any tech, maybe even "uncool" tech: it worked, they made money, they were successful, their company served customers for years and years, and maybe the chosen tech had a positive role in the process. My point is about people that say "Never", "Always", "This is broken", "You'll get burned", "It doesn't work"... that's the part that is not constructive: it didn't work for you, for your case, maybe you did some mistakes, but $PERSON must stick to his/her own reality, not try to extend their experience to everyone else.
comp.unix.programmer Unix programming, mostly C AND Unix related.

comp.unix.shell Unix utils, awk, shell scripting.

comp.lang.c C programming help

comp.lang.c.moderated Ditto, but with less nuts

alt.os.linux.slackware Slackware users.

rec.arts.int-fiction (text adventure game creating)

rec.games.int-fiction (text adventure game announces/discussions)

rec.games.roguelike.nethack Nethack (and Slashem by extension).
I don't know that it does - the author has, as far as I can tell, three small commits in Wayland:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/commits/mas...
God forbid we use the scroll bar.
Same here. I would daily drive it except my laptop has Nvidia/I use Steam.

My other machines mostly use KDE or Sway on Wayland though.
> I remember reading one of the story about HomePod team asking Jimmy Iovine's opinion on its audio quality. His reply was his usual " You need more Bass".

The fact that the author thinks the HomePods have great sound rather makes me doubt his audiophile qualifications. I consistently have to listen to music at a much lower volume than I want because even at a moderate volume, the bass hurts my ears. Listening to classical is even more annoying, as everything is fine until some poor instrument wanders in to the HomePod's "BOOST THAT BASS" range and suddenly the balance is all wrong.
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Apple audio engineering teams consist of many engineers from Bowers & Wilkins

Tom Holman is there as well.
Worse, we seem to be stuck on the idea that being “outside” is the safe thing, so restaurants are now beginning to build “outside” seating with plywood walls and plexiglass windows. Which is to say that they’re building half-assed temporary buildings with no ventilation.

We would’ve been far better off as a society if we’d kept inside dining and improved our HVAC regulations for large gathering areas. It probably would permanently suppress common cold & flu numbers too, since those are also respiratory in nature.
Yes, when I saw "I threw my most demanding tracks at them" I stifled a yawn but could not help but roll my eyes.
We didn't find other jobs for horses to do because horses were capital goods. That's like saying we haven't found new jobs for spinning jennies or steamboats.

As to the other bit I'm not sure if that's "OMG machines will ruin us" or "OMG robots will ruin us", but the former is multiple centuries old, while the latter just turned 100.

I get that you have personal fears here, but people have had personal fears about insufficient replacement work because machines since the Industrial Revolution. If you want people to take those fears seriously, you'll have to do better than "animals are people, probably".

If you'd like to see it differently, try naming problems in people's lives and in the broader society. How many of those could be improved with the application of human time and attention? Lots, I say. It'll be a long time before we run out of things for people to do.
Not really though.

XFCE works fine under X11. Stay with X11 in that case, but it's incredibly arrogant and dismissive of the Wayland folks to say "your use case will work under Wayland, you have no excuses" and then also say "well, actually, it will work if you force your upstream to port your DE to it".
In these examples, you seem to know whether these stances are right or wrong.

How will I get a chance to figure that out too, unless both sides are presented? Surely, I'm not just supposed to trust you, right?