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The books are not being banned. You can still give money in exchange with anyone who has copy they're willing to sell. It's just that the Seuss estate and eBay have both decided they don't want to be involved in the transaction.

And "Politically Incorrect" is sure a gentle way of describing the content. Maybe you should quote the line from the article you linked which describes some of the "politically incorrect" bits? Or do you recognize that they're actually pretty offensive. I sure wouldn't want to use my printing equipment to print copies of that "Politically Incorrect" book either, and I'd have a problem with the suggestion that someone should be able to force me to.
See if you can find something intrinsically flawed with this (simplified) belief:

> Freedom of speech ... means you are not bound and limited by something external

https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-re...
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> studios might consider improving the PC gaming experience further with more native ports/testing directly on Linux?"

that does not match the historical experience of studios doing absolutely terrible ports of console exclusives to MS Windows, stuff like games where you can't rebind your keys and a qwerty layout is assumed, FPS is fixed at 30, etc etc
Most of these closed systems exist because of gaps in the open alternatives, and those gaps may be be difficult to close. For example, an open client for Google docs, which works fundamentally differently than say, a closed-source word processor that was written in the 90s.
That may be the point, but when you introduce something radical, it's naive to think that it's "one and done." I would guess that within 6 months, many issues will be raised internally about this policy. It's not that I disagree with the policy itself (though I probably do), but that the weight of a century or so of inertia and policy and expectation will sink it.

I want to point out that it's not that I oppose companies trying radical new things. Quite the opposite. It's just that, having tried it myself several times, I have experience with the practical side of it.
While it is definitely not streamlined and very expensive, I've had a wonderful experience running a Windows VM and passing one of my GPUs through to it.
Even VR works flawlessly, which is otherwise unusable on a linux desktop.
Proton definitely still has major issues. A lot of the well-rated games on protondb are barely playable. Still, I've played a lot of games using it I otherwise wouldn't be able to experience.
Even if you are using CPI as monetary "inflation", it's still far below the CPI target of every developed economy on Earth.

Do think M1 is the more accurate measure here because the amount of bitcoin in circulation is the equivalent of M1 as defined by everyone: "currency in supply".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_(money_supply_measure)
> we have here a company refusing to sell these items

What's funny is that it's the publishing house themselves that decided to stop selling the book. Shouldn't they have the freedom to decide that?
Even a 256GB ssd boots damn near instantly.

If you want a 2TB data drive, go on ahead. Both Linux and Windows handle multiple drives just fine.
This is why I wish github actually allowed automated compilation. That way we could all see exactly how binaries are compiled and don't need to setup a build environment for each open source project we want to build ourselves.
No my rebuttal is that if your solution is laughably extreme and unserious.

You can advocate for Soviet style collectivization and liquidating all businesses in the US if you want but no one outside of SF is ever getting elected on it in our lifetime.
SteamOS, Steam Machines, and Steam Link all occurred at about the same time and they were definitely a response to the perceived threat of Microsoft locking Windows down to only Windows Store applications.

Good news is that didn't happen and Valve continued to improve gaming on Linux for everyone for free anyways.
So the solution to a broken system is to break the system in an additional different way?
Well, there's also a mains tester screwdriver which is a legit tool that you stick into a socket and also participate in the electrict current loop for the light on it to light up.
In particular, this was an analogy used by Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck vs United States. The act which he compared to "shouting fire in a crowded theatre" was passing out leaflets opposing the draft, ie the government's power to force people to go to a war by which the American people were not threatened.
I was responding to someone else. No need to enter that conversation if you want to talk about something different.
> The ecosystem is still pretty barebones compared to Python

There's help: https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl

Works like a charm.
Sooo what’s to stop them from doing this anytime they want for any reason. I’m out.
>The link to Vit-D deficiency and worse covid outcomes is by now incredibly well-supported in the literature.

Twitter followers I consider "in-the-know", as well as a quick Google search, says this is nonsense. Where do you get that this assertion is well-supported?
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My wife has MS and believe me if there was treatment for myelin damage 1) I'd tell you right now and 2) MS wouldn't be nearly the awful disease it is

But no, if you can stop the thing that's destroying the myelin while it's happening, sure, but as far as I'm aware once the damage is done it's done

You'll heal naturally most of the way but not all the way, if the damage is anything like the damage done by RR MS
I sort of freaked out the first time I saw something like this.

Then Wikipedia held my hand and said everything was OK and this even has a name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)
To the best of my knowledge Valve's container system has no relation to Flatpak.
Actually, the submission title is referencing the original title of the article, but the author edited it and left a note at the bottom:

>Update 5th March 2021: The original headline of this piece was “Open source projects should run office hours”. This was being misinterpreted as yet another demand for free labor from open source maintainers, so I changed it to “Open source projects: consider running office hours”—less pithy, but it better reflects my actual message here.
OK, so no strncpy, strncat etc, what are the alternatives used in git then? I'm a long-time C coder but I do not know what will be used to replace strncpy/strncat and all those gmtime/localtime/ctime/asctime.
"In 2020, I brought home more in a month than I earned in my first year at the newspaper, adjusted for inflation. I didn’t work particularly harder in 2020 than I did in say, 1997, and in so many ways the work I did—making there be a local newspaper, full of local news, every day, no matter what—was so much more important than the work I did to, uh, increase the velocity and quality of frontend development at <insert company here>."

This is so important, as we seem to have become a society engineered by technology, rather than a society that engineers technology
Since HLX has become increasingly required, I've seen that the lock-in doesn't mean diddly squat. Now we're not "locked in", but for my new vendor to drop-in means I have to pay an extra "API Fee" for them to whip up the API interface to pull everything from the old EMR and into the new EMR.

So either we get to the point where we are legislating perfect compatibility (and I can't imagine how good EMRs will get once the federal government has to outline every individual data field, and update them through, what, the rulemaking process?); or we'll always be paying up for this transition, and lock-in is beside the point.
Im not sure what the relevance is here? Trying to deflect with a whataboutism argument doesn’t undermine the position I espoused.
Been doing some version of agile for the last decade. I think it shows a complete lack of trust in developers. At most large organizations it's completely a micromanagement move mixed with cargo cult development.
In your world view, what rights does the copyright holder have and not have?

Did google “ban” reader when they discontinued it?
The problem with Proton is it is leading many game developers to actually drop Linux support. They basically say players seem to be able to get the game to work on Proton and that's that.

But with no official support there is no guarantee it will continue to work with updates. There is no promise to even try to make it work if it breaks. And that's the major stuff. Imagine spending 20, 30, or 60 dollars on a game that can break at any moment and know there will be zero support waiting for you. And that's hard breaks. Performance hiccups will be given zero attention by the developers.

There is all this talk that Proton will make people want to develop native Linux ports but I don't see any data or logic to back that up.
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I hope so too. What becomes taboo or morally repugnant in the future is hard to speculate, so I guess the better examples are yet to manifest. But to elaborate further, maybe eating meat might be verboten in entertainment for kids? Of course this would include re-runs/re-prints/etc. of old media.
Still it's easier to go with Wh than joules. We have a lot of intuition about watts and hours but not a lot abou joules.
I'm not sure "make a killing as the first mover" is the best choice of wording when the topic is self-driving cars.
I love stuff like this - reminds you that Science Rules Everything Around Me and will play tricks on me.
Because Proton creates a dangerous market pressure. The linux+proton user is the ideal customer for a game developer: someone paying full price but to whom you owe absolutely no obligations. Bug reports from Proton users can be safely ignored. They should feel lucky if the game even started under their not-supported hack of an operating system. But those who purchase a native linux client (KSP, Factorio, Prison Architect etc) have to be offered at least a modicum of support.

I like proton. I really like being able to play subnautica. But every time a game updates I cringe a little because I know any new linux-related bugs are more my problem than theirs. I would much rather have game developers treat linux users as full customers.
Do the Halting Problem next.
Wow, it gives me joy to hear about her relief! I know someone with whom I'm going to share your story right away.

I hope that this kind of chronic suffering (and the possibility for therapies) is the outcome of our discussions about long-covid, rather than pretending that this is a novel phenomenon in order to score political points.
Those office hours could be on the weekend if you wish, and nobody says that you have to have a longer time window to book than one or two hours a week. That's more than some lecturers.
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I understand, but look at from another POV: ROCm is an USP of the Linux platform. Windows has its own USPs (DirectX or Office, for example), MacOS the same (iOS development, for example).

Why should Linux platform give up its competitive advantages against others? It would only diminish the reasons for running it. The other platforms won't do the same -- and nobody is bothered by that. In fact, it is generally considered to be an advantage of platform and reasons for getting it.

And it's not like getting Linux to run could be a significant expense (like purchasing an Apple computer is for many) or you need to get a license (like getting Windows). You can do it for free, and you will only learn something from it.

I've got my nix chops in the early '90 exactly this way: I wanted 32-bit flat-memory C compiler, didn't have the money for Watcom and associated DOS-extenders and djgpp wasn't a thing yet (or I didn't know about it yet). So I've got Slackware at home, as well as access to DG-UX at uni. It was different, I had to learn something, but ultimately, I'm glad I did.
The issue is these games stop being entertaining. Pulling the lever on a slot machine might be fun the first few pulls, but after that it’s simply waiting for a dopamine rush.

MMO’s basic gameplay without leveling, item drops, or any form of progression have some fun aspects. But, they need to tell players to collect 50 rat tails because otherwise players wouldn’t.

Mobile games have distilled this down even further, with the minimum possible amount of actual gameplay possible.
Did your doctors have you try blood thinners? I read a theory that prolonged symptoms are the result of persistent blood clots in various organs.
Latitude / Longitude coordinate as floating point.

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/211796/if-degrees-is...

I made the above post due to a bug in the GPS on our routers. We had a customer close to the meridian in England.

http://www.thegreenwichmeridian.org/tgm/articles.php?article...

Western hemisphere is negative longitude, eastern hemisphere is positive. If your degrees are 0 (within ~100km? I can't remember exactly), then you still need to know if you're east or west of the meridian.
Even if devs don't make native ports they would still work on improving compatibility with Proton as long as there are fresh Linux players
Except this isn't the government 'banning' anything. And there's never been more access to information. You're just whining.
They're patronising, micro-management that might work on juniors, but are offensive to anyone else. I can't stand them, and have only seen them cause harm. Monotonous, tedious, theatrical speed bumps.
GitLab? Xfce?
In which chapter was this again? And which edition?
Could you cite some examples? I know of games that have dropped Linux support (RUST, Rocket League) but those are all to do with Anti-cheat rather than citing Proton as a feasible alternative to a native port.
For the sake of the people living in India we probably all hope that such norms fade over time.

I've read about an experiment where increasing the noise level of carhorns on the inside of the car reduced horn usage significantly. Maybe there's some smart way to use tweaks like that in future regulation.
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> We need to teach people statistical reasoning in school

We don't teach most high school graduates to fluency the math that would be needed for this reasoning to work fluidly.
Not from the UK, but I grew up watching the British sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances". Reading this reminded me a lot of the main character on the show who was constantly doing things like that to try to signal her class. I always wondered how true that was in the UK.
Godot has support for many programming languages [0] through 'GDNative' which generally lets you access the API through any programming language that can bind to C++. I see that there is D support [1] but I have no idea how robust it is.

[0] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/scripting/g...

[1] https://github.com/godot-d/godot-d
I was really hoping this was about how to make a patsy take a fall for an egregious crime I committed.
VAC doesn't work fine. For the last 18 months, TF2 has been infested with aimbots that make the game unplayable on any public server.

That doesn't mean it should be more invasive, but it doesn't work fine.
its vile?
omg. get a grip.
Systemd needs (or could use) a linter for unit files
I am a real developer who likes agile, nice to meet you :)
Super insightful list.

What will be the alternative for strncpy/strncat? I thought they're a safer strcpy/strcat but now I need something to replace them.

I assume snprintf for sprintf, vsnprintf for vsprintf.

No idea what to do with gmtime/localtime/ctime/ctime_r/asctime/asctime_r, any alternatives for them too?
There is still the problem of FTL information transfer violating causality, but I have wondered if sub-light warp drive might not be physically possible.

It wouldn’t be FTL but it would be a kind of “massless” drive in that it would get around the propellant mass issues with accelerating to near light speed. It would “cheat” by warping space instead of accelerating at all in the conventional sense.

The Centauri system is a little under 5 years away with such a drive.
>Do you educate people about the complexity of the physics and bureaucracy involved with defining the current time every time someone asks you "what time is it?"

Maybe you're (inadvertently) making a caricature by using a simple "what time is it?" question but many user questions are under-specified.

Because of that, Stackoverflow answerers in particular do go into the extra complexities because it's part of its editorial DNA to restate the q&a so it's a high-quality community knowledgebase instead of just answering the direct question as stated. I tried to explain this hard-to-grasp nuance previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21115438

But sometimes, this X-Y problem editorializing mechanism gets so enthusiastic that it can detract from a correct answer. Here's a famous example of a string bytes extraction question with smart people arguing with the correct answers from user541686 (was Mehrdad) and Michael Buen:

+ correct answer has lots of X-Y pushback in the comments: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/472906/how-do-i-get-a-co...

+ another correct answer from Buen that emphasizes user541686/Mehrdad works for broken unpaired surrogates: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/472906/how-do-i-get-a-co...

The meta layer issue is that the question is underspecified which causes 2 sides with very intelligent people arguing whether or not it's an X-Y problem!
This is the blue wart in the green sea.

The system gives you more power and you'll kill yourself. Similar situations with horse-drawn are not as lethal. As far as I remember, Volvo denied to use horseless carriages years ago, which is the only grown-up and responsible answer to this problem.
Read a little up on the history of the medical community underdiagnosing or ignoring autoimmune diseases because they are harder to confirm. Those autoimmune diseases are very real and given the history of underdiagnosing diseases that are harder to track, we should take seriously the reports of symptoms by people as more than hypochondria.
I would like something like this but for banking logs. I got an alert from the bank about suspicious activity yesterday. The customer support rep couldn’t give me much information about it. I had to stop myself from asking if I could see the logs to determine myself whether it was a bug in their code or a real risk... I wondered if it was a bug because they had a similar buggy incident in the past.
> If it does what they say it does, they should be able to make a killing as the first mover

Of course, if it _doesn't_ do what they say it does, they will, ah, also make a killing. Or many killings. You can understand the caution.
>Framing is a tool - it can be used for bad or good.

Propaganda is a tool - it can be used for bad or good. The problem is that "bad" and "good" are subjective value judgements. Simultaneously, the mindset of manipulation is going to have certain predictable effects on communication and society, no matter what the manipulation is used for.

If you haven't caught on, the website uses the techniques it promotes.
I recall there being an issue with double.GetHashCode() in the early versions of .Net, where it would return different hash values for 0.0 and -0.0.

That got fixed, but it seems a variation with signed NaN recently got fixed[1] in .Net Core (taking care to handle all the possible NaN values).

Floats are deceptively easy to use. Which is nice but kinda sucks too, given all the footguns they bring to the party.

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/6307
How the term "autopilot" is used by professionals in the aviation and marine industries isn't the main point here. What matters is what non-professionals think when they hear the term "autopilot". If you market something as "autopilot" don't be surprised that general consumers don't have the same nuanced understanding of the term as professional pilots.
Exactly. This is something which will most likely be lost by adoption of canvas webapps :( It will solely be on the webapp developer to implement/allow any kind of scaling. And generally such creators don't care. Webapps today are already pretty hostile - for example their embedded video players are often terrible but it is difficult or even impossible to play in an external dedicated players because of various chunk/blob/mediaSourceExtension/DRM stufof.
"...The optical phenomenon occurs because rays of light are bent when they pass through air layers of different temperatures in a steep thermal inversion where an atmospheric duct has formed..."

To me that's the most Men In Black explanation I've ever heard.

Definitely confirms this is aliens.
Oof the title.
>Estonia and the other Baltic states have Russian speaking populations.

There's a good chance that this point specifically would be why the Baltic states would oppose Russia joining the EU. Take a look at this table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Estonia#Ethnic...
I was taught that you’re supposed to read $y = \inf$ as:

y = lim_{x->\inf} x

Basically, $y$ isn’t necessarily infinity, but just a number larger than you could ever write. The number at the end of the number line if it existed.