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I fully support this effort and the Linux port for the eventual time when Apple does eventually stop supporting this hardware. But at that point in time, I won't be relying on it for work anymore, it will be a hobby/ project, much like my G4 iMac.

In the mean time, it's very fun seeing how quickly people are making progress on this.
https://archive.is/fSOMH
I have only a French passport so far, and I can settle in 31 countries without any issues.

Sometimes you just get the right one ;-)
I so appreciate you answering questions here!

I've experienced how Git's lack of file rename makes it hard to follow changes through directory and file reorganization. This made me reluctant to reorganize, as I learned the problem space. The general, long-term impact may be increased ossification pressure.

OTOH linus's content addressable system is absurdly, compellingly simple, and does 90%. It's disproportionately simple. A dilemma!

BTW I think many companies get killed that way. Refusing revenue to profit must be pollyanna - except for github. OTOH keeping customers is how great companies get killed, according to Christensen (the innovator's dilemma).
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Very cool, thanks!

One little request: please list Ireland as Ireland like it's done everywhere else. Couldn't find it until I tried another country and saw it in the list as "the Republic of Ireland"
Pre-pandemic.
That's great if the entire river system is continually receiving decent amounts of rain. In most real world scenarios there's a rain-rich area in the top of the watershed, then a less rain-rich but flood-prone area, then a bit more rain closer to the seashore, then the river delta.

In Australia for example there's a practise of "flood water harvesting" where you build large earth walls along your property boundary, and collect all the water that falls on your land. Combined with irrigation downstream this means the river dries up in the space of a hundred kilometres.

There's very little water released back into the river, since that's basically wasting water as far as the agriculture industry is concerned.
The Canadians citizenship ceremony to me was fascinating, because it begins with an aboriginal land acknowledgement.

Since when?

I grew up in Canada and obtained citizenship there in 1990. (After the USA decided that they were sick and tired of losing dual citizenship cases in the Supreme Court and stopped pursuing them.) There was no such acknowledgement of the ceremony that I took part in.

Incidentally my children get to be Canadian. But my grandchildren do not unless they are born in Canada. That seems reasonable.
I absolutely expect Asahi to get all of those things working in due course. Lots of smart people are working on it.
> Maybe this is what people mean when they tell us to "find our passion", but that phrase seems pretty abstract to me. Maybe instead we should encourage people to find the hard problems they like to work on. Which problems do you want to keep working on, even when they turn out to be harder than you expected? Which kinds of frustration do you enjoy, or at least are willing to endure while you figure things out? Answers to these very practical questions might help you find a place where you can build an interesting and rewarding life.

I think this mode of thinking is useful for helping people identify passions... but as advice, I think it ultimately falls short in the same way that "follow your passion" does.

It just assumes that everyone has a passion- an economically viable one at that. What if you don't? What about simple people who don't want to focus on solving problems? This might be hard for most HN readers to sympathize with. People with technical backgrounds tend to be driven problem solvers. But I don't think most people are really like that.

"Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life." Making a living doing what you love sounds great, but I frankly don't think it's a realistic expectation for everyone to have and I worry that we're just setting people up for disappointment by encouraging it so strongly.
This is a bit of a tangent. The issue at hand is the use of psilocybin, MDMA, and LSD, among others, by adults -- especially for healing and self-betterment. I'm not sure if you have seen the incredible research results that have been piling up. These substances are capable of relieving immense suffering and greatly improving people's lives. Of course, they are quite powerful and should be used with great care.
> On the other hand, virtualization _already_ lets you run whatever arm64 BSD, Linux, or Windows that you want. The trackpad and everything else will work flawlessly thanks to guest additions. Yes, you make some tradeoffs -- you sacrifice a core, a few GB of RAM, some disk space for an OS you don't _really_ want to be running. But I'm skeptical that these are not better tradeoffs than constantly using a hacked-together and half-broken OS.

True in theory, but at least with Linux I've found that desktop environments exhibit a slight but maddening level of sluggishness in VMs, no matter if it's GNOME, KDE, XFCE, or MATE. If all you need is a commandline Linux VMs are great but I'd go insane trying to use one as a graphical desktop for an extended period.
I appreciate the desire to move towards a lower memory footprint, but it seems they are still many months behind the Electron team and what they are doing.

I am a bit bias, I am the author of a security-focused Electron template.
i don't normally log in, or comment, on hackernews--and i normally don't ever comment negatively on things i see on the internet--but how is this news?

i am sick of seeing people fawn over people striving, and succeeding, at being capitalists.
That does seem like it would be a sensible way of going about things if I could manage to find a package of modest complexity that is important to me, but under-maintained.
I've worked with people who would scatter literals throughout a codebase because they were too lazy to type out the names of variables and constants. I feel your pain.
I've been aware of Bob for quite a while during is career. His TDD discussions are good, and useful in some contexts. One of the very best craftsman programmers I know won't program any other way.

One thing that I see as counterproductive is his very strong opinions. One of his books calls out Java as not being object oriented or extensible due to the way that exceptions propagate.

The other thing to be aware of is that some problems cannot be solved by the incremental approach. The most famous one that I am aware of is an adherent to TDD tried to develop a program to solve sudoku. Bob complimented him on his honesty at trying publically, but didn't admit that the TDD approach didn't work.

TDD is probably a good approach for certain classes of problems, but whether or not those are interesting is my question.

Perhaps in his journey he will discover languages where variables don't have type, but values stored there do.
I would imagine that this is a recent thing introduced by the Liberal government under Justin Trudeau.
The relationship between dubiously certified imported radios (e.g. Baofeng) and US radio services is a complex one. Baofeng products are radios which are not exactly any "type" of radio, and are technically illegal for most applications, but are dubiously legal in some cases for amateur radio use (this relates to an odd detail of FCC regulations with regards to type certification of devices, some Baofeng models are legal but others are not). The bottom line is that it's complicated, but they are capable of receiving and transmitting on amateur bands and they are very cheap, so they are often used for that purpose. This requires some caution as Baofeng models are more properly intended for business-band use (but are usually not certifiable for that purpose in the US) and so do things like default to wideband.

A lengthier explanation is that, put somewhat simply and as a result somewhat incorrectly, in the amateur radio service the certification belongs to the operator, while in most other services the certification belongs to the radio. This means that any radio may be used in the amateur service if it is operated by a licensed individual, which is useful since amateur radio operators will often make use of hand-built radios or radios manufactured for other services and modified. From this perspective, it is legal for a licensed amateur operator to use any arbitrary radio. However, it is generally not legal to sell any radio which is not certified under some part of the FCC regulations. Most Baofeng models have never been certified under any part of the FCC regulations and cannot be for various reasons (e.g. face programmability which is prohibited for most land mobile services). This results in a bit of a "fruit of a poison tree" situation: while it is not necessarily illegal for a licensed amateur operator to use a UV-5R, that UV-5R was mostly likely sold in violation of the regulations. FCC enforcement on this issue has been very lax, but the action taken recently against Rugged Radios (a reseller of Baofengs) suggests to some that the FCC may be intending to clamp down. There is some practical implication as some independent labs and amateurs have concluded that Baofeng models do not meet FCC regulations with regards to spurious emissions and harmonics and therefore may interfere with licensed use of bands.

Aviation radio is wideband AM for historic reasons, most cheap handhelds like Baofeng models are FM only. Fortunately dedicated aviation handhelds are fairly inexpensive and can be found with useful features like aviation dual plugs for your headset and even VOR display.
> The author might simply be pointing out the fact that no matter how nice the things that you'd leave behind you would be, you won't be around to experience them. Therefore, it would be in your interest to actually... you know, not die.

And that is exactly what I meant.
> Running an alternative OS "natively" on a Mac doesn't seem very appealing to me. It's almost guaranteed you will never fully get Wi-Fi, audio, graphics acceleration, the trackpad, etc. working flawlessly, especially on the M1 where almost every component is Apple proprietary and it's not a matter of loading, say, the right Intel graphics driver.

It's not appealing to me now. In 9 or 10 years when Apple has stopped shipping new versions of MacOS for the platform, it will be much more interesting for me. Of course by then it's just a curiosity or fun project, not something I need for day to day. And by then, much of the wifi/ graphics/ audio issues will be solved.
I wonder what the officially diagnosed number for adhd is and it it is rising over the decades; literally all my kids of my friends and acquaintances 'have adhd'. Most are not diagnosed by a medical professional but self diagnosed. A lot of people I talk with (people over 35-40) have self diagnosed themselves as having adhd to explain their issues in life.

Did the actual number increase? Did the definition broaden? Why does it seem like a plague now?
Is the effort to build a scaffold squandered since it is used to build something but is not the thing being built? I'd rather see economically sustainable off-Earth enterprises built without a scaffold but I'm not so loss averse to take nothing over something.
The difference is they will be using the same substances but potentially much more harmful and you will have more people needlessly in prison. I don't see the positive to your argument.
Didn't expect to see this here. Anyway, if anyone has any questions...

Also I gotta find a better CMS for that blog. And ditch Disqus because it was bought by an ad company.
> Given the reach of "the media" and "mainstream silicon valley websites"

Their reach isn't the point, it's their source. Another name for the group/phenoma they're referring to is "coastal elites", who use the derogatory term "flyover states" to refer to where OP is from.
More interesting to me is, given that people (I'm not sure who) say that in principle a thermonuclear bomb can have unlimited stages and size, would it be practical to build a "regular" bomb several orders of magnitude bigger than Tsar Bomba that would essentially blow up the whole planet. Let's say > 10x the dinosaur killing projectile.
Yes thats true. You don’t need a degree to work in a field - one of the amazing perks of being a software developer
Throughout my personal life I use Portfolio SAFe to align strategy with execution and organize my solution development around the flow of value through one or more value streams.
One problem with this is it forms a regressive structure where poor people are priced out while rich people get to keep consuming at whatever rate they can stomach.

It would work better and much more fairly if the floating rate was scaled by the net worth of the customer.
> There's nothing indicating that this initiative is any more serious.

I think Artemis 1 and 2 are very likely to happen. The hardware for Artemis 1 is fully constructed, they are just in the final testing/bugfixing phases; hardware for Artemis 2 is currently under construction. Probably going to take longer than they plan, but they'll get there. They are politically very difficult to kill because of how much money has been invested in it, the lobbying power of the contractors on them, the international cooperation with the Europeans (who contribute Orion's service module). That is just sending people in orbit around the moon (as in Apollo 8), not landing on it.

I think it is also very likely that something like SpaceX DearMoon is going to happen (probably even that specific mission, but if not that one, some other). The market exists – billionaires – it isn't a huge market, but it is enough to make a successful business out of it. But that is still in the Apollo 8 rather than Apollo 11 category.

Moving ahead, I think some kind of human landing on the moon is very likely eventually – whether or not the current NASA Human Landing System procurement leads to it. If a government space agency doesn't eventually do it, probably sooner or later private space tourism will.

NASA's current goal of 2024 is unrealistic, but I think it is very likely people will return to the Moon's surface within the next 20 years.
Really, that goes for any guest OS other than maybe Windows, and Windows is different only because VM developers have poured an enormous amount of time and money into it.

You can get rid of the sluggishness with GPU passthrough... but then the guest OS would still need GPU drivers.
> It still is if you acquire US citizenship by naturalization.

No. Notwithstanding the strong language, US law does not require you to relinquish your old citizenship when you naturalize. https://www.usa.gov/become-us-citizen
You're just too dense to understand what was said, you shouldn't have replied in the first place.

Person implies somehow Africa, the continent, is somehow unsuitable for Google maps vehicles (despite the fact Google has mapped hundreds of tens of thousands of miles in multiple countries in the continent)

This comes from treating all of Africa like it's one giant country with the same infrastructure everywhere.

I facetiously (a word you do NOT understand apparently) show a picture of Haiti, a North American country and say, since their roads are terrible all North American roads are terrible, and refer to an entire continent as if it were a single country that includes the US.

From here your subpar English skills fail you, to the point I'm forced to use a word somewhat similar to facetious but not quite as accurate (sarcasm) because the proper word is above your understanding.

Sometimes being imprecise allows a person with a challenged vocabulary such as yourself to catch up, but of course the Dunning-Kruger effect is in full force here, so you use it as an assertation that you're not the one failing to understand basic vocabulary.

It's a shame English is your only language and yet mastery of it escapes you.
Perhaps we can focus on quantum teleportation instead?

Solve that first, and then we can easily quantum teleport ourselves to anywhere in the solar system. Then reconstitute ourselves at the destination point. And hopefully your device didn’t make a quantum error during the rematerialization process.

You’d have to send the complement quantum teleportation receiver device to Mars, and set it up there first.

Then the device would have to rematerialize you back into fleshy form from pure quantum information residing in your quantum storage buffer.

Oh and make sure that a fly doesn’t enter the quantum teleportation device with you, as you initially get quantum scanned and dematerialized from Earth.

And you must enter the quantum teleportation device without any extra external clothing on. Since version 1 of the device has difficulty differentiating between organic and inorganic materials.
I was going to say, the current oath doesn’t have that in there at all.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/co...
I fed your addiction by giving you an upvote. I hope you enjoy that number next to your username, representing Karma go up. You should try to get the high score.
> I'll stop ranting now.

If you can just rant for a little longer, I'll be eternally grateful. Rant Topic: how to get KDE to run under Wayland on Debian Bullseye.

KDE on Wayland is shipping in Bullseye now. But Debian's old system of choosing a window manager, /etc/alternatives, only appears to work for X. No clues under /usr/share/doc, no one on IRC #debian has a clue either, and I'm right out of ideas.

Sadly my HDMI port works only on Wayland, not X. So unless I can get KDE working, it's Gnome3 for me. Gnome3's titlebar and I aren't compatible.
Nice race bait/comic book. My favorite grower is owned/operated by an east Asian couple btw. If you know anything about California, the idea of an all-white cannabis cabal is absurd. But that may be hard to recognize from Berlin, I don't know. Okay, that's enough HN for a bit.
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By "settle", do you mean "visa not required", or permanent residency?
One thousand and one ways to copy your shellcode to memory (VBA Macros)
literally just installed OpenBSD on my iMac G4 last week, haha (oh yeah, everything works flawlessly btw, including graphics acceleration)
He became a landlord for Airbnb's. Good for him.
We are running out of land. I don't disagree with your point that landfill space isn't "a problem." But if you zoom out and look at inefficient land use more generally (like fields for feed corn), you find that there is for all intents and purposes no nature left in many of the places we occupy.
Of course, but saving 100 MB in 5 apps would probably let you leave a few extra tabs open...or run emacs.
It's CNBC, if you don't want to read this kind of garbage - and I agree with you, it's junk - don't read it. Pick your sources.

A better question might be why is it on HN? TBH, I'm actually more surprised that this is a billion dollar business, as far as I can tell, built on top of AirBnB. Why this one business over all the other companies that are managing multiple units on AirBnB?
I am a dual citizen of the United States and Croatia (European Union citizen). I am culturally American, and I have spent the vast majority of my life in the US.

I left the US about a month before the lockdowns started. I have been living in Croatia for the past year. I can technically live/work/retire in any EU/EFTA country (minus Lichtenstein--has an immigration quota), due to having Freedom of Movement rights. In a lot of ways the world is my oyster.

Being a dual citizen has some unique advantages: I can also work a US based job, remotely in the EU, completely legally. I have pretty severe health problems, so being able to work remotely in the EU for a US based company is a huge deal. I just have to get the US based employer to agree to use a payroll company as an intermediary to deal with payroll taxes. Obviously I forfeit EU workers' rights.

But, it is way, way, less stressful living here, just in general. Americans have no idea. The taxes are worth the peace of mind along with the stability it gives society.

I naturalized as Croatian only for the right to healthcare: I have 2 rare immune-mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system, which is in remission. I require many unusual treatments and medications, which are difficult to access in the US, for a variety of reasons. Some of these interventions are life-and-death.
This. I personally know of multiple instances of Canadians being able to retain their Canadian citizenship after becoming a naturalized US citizen.
http://archive.is/8nwnK
Are we really supposed to be thinking of all currently available land as being flexibly provisioned for landfills.
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Interesting comments on the post....
I agree. The point I was hoping to get at is that most people misconstrue Spacex being the first “private” rocket company as the first non governmental manufacturer. ULA is public in the sense you can buy stock, not that it is run by federal servants.
...which is why i like video games and not gambling :)
> No offence to anyone who’s in support of it, but Gnome has never been the “quick and responsive” choice.

I always used other desktop environments like LXDE / LXQT. The speed difference you mention was one of the reasons. But now my HDMI port only works under Wayland. So now I use Gnome3 (under sufferance).

The difference between speed difference between Wayland and X11 is so big, it blows away the speed improvement LXQT gets you, so Gnome3 is actually faster than the rest now. I presume that will change when more Desktop environments move to Wayland, but for now that's the reality.
The incompetence and ignorance of literally everybody above me makes me sick. I worked for multi-million/billion dollar companies with extremely stupid C-level people who are not even capable of plugging a cable into a laptop, but make IT decisions that don't make any sense, and then I have to build it. Oh, you "need" a company expansion to Asia ? By next week? With a tech team of ... one? On your 15 year old PHP4 codebase on an un-updatable Linux version from the late 90ies? Sure.

Everywhere I go literally everything is beyond repair, but nobody gives budget for improvements, it's always just pure pressure to deliver insane results within unrealistic deadlines. I'm about to leave the industry, but have no backup plan yet. Just coming in every morning to pay the rent.
If you’re not a fan of capitalism you may want to find another website for your news rather than one started by a VC firm!
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Wow, this is some serious narrative invention.

They struggled with their business for a long time, time to rent out student flats for the summer.

They eventually pivoted for a while and took on money to be the 'corporate' AirBnB, i.e. pro managed residences, with th e promise to investors of lower operating costs than the Marriott etc..

However, it remains to be seen if there is any reality to this.

The Uber strategy of 'run at a loss until you take over the world' has some merit, because there are critical mass and market dominance aspects.

But with hotels, not really, there are always substitutes, one player is tiny in the grand scheme.

So either it can operate more efficienty and book the rooms or not.

But in the meantime, it's not hard to actually generate revenue by leasing and renting out properties, however well or poorly you do it - which makes it look like something big 'on paper' if you don't look at all the fine print!

You can 'show growth' by just operating and write off the losses by pointing to 'market dominance strategy'.

This story will play out on their ability to turn it into something efficient or not.
I don't have any specialist knowledge here, but that seems to make sense. If you're under V1 then you can still abort takeoff. Having that be the minimum for single-engine takeoff essentially sets up the rule that if you lose an engine while you can safely abort, then you must.