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I really like no application being in control of other windows besides my compositor. As a side-effect to security improvements (clipboard, keylogger, screnshotter), you get:

- Apps cannot arbitrarily modeset (change screen resolution and "mess my desktop up") anymore.

- Under sway, apps are the size I want. I can somewhat resize them over/under their limits

- No more windows that grab the focus and force their way to the foreground

- Apps cannot move my mouse cursor anymore. I hate it when they do, I know some Cadence DKs that do so (position the mouse cursor on the OK button: nice touch, I hate it).

- Some apps/games might have crashed when changing workspaces, but I have never once been unable to "alt-tab" or change workspace, change the screen the app was on, etc.

Granted, under sway those are just different APIs and are not hardened, but they could be in the future. And I mean the above, I've had to restart the X server (or switch to a TTY and kill the app) due to a misbehaving app numerous times, but this is mostly a thing of the past now.

Also, bonus:

- easy multiseat under sway: in under 1 minute, given an extra mouse/keyboard, I can theoretically work with someone else on the same computer: I have a window focused, that I can type in, they too.

- Easily create headless displays, or nested sessions (sway can run as a wayland, X or DRI client). You can use that to leverage another computer as an external display: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25891464

- Under sway, the compositor handles configuring input and display. No more xorg.conf (cue https://xkcd.com/963/ though it's less true these days).

And on the technical side:

- From my understanding, apps should be able to pass GPU buffers around much more efficiently, even drawing directly on the final buffer thanks to dma-buf. This leads to lower-latency and higher performance, especially for high resolutions. In turn, it helps quite a bit with pipewire for screensharing and passing video around, as well as zero-copy hardware video acceleration.
Considering your use of euphemisms for white supremacy, such as "white advocacy," it sounds like people dismiss you as a Nazi because you are factually a Nazi. I encourage you to find the courage to advocate for your beliefs on your main account instead of registering throwaways to avoid negative consequences for your choices.
And lithium isn't needed for solar either. Lithium is used in one variety of storage, but there are thousands of different battery chemistries, and many different non-battery energy storage technologies. The "it can't do it" argument needs to show that they ALL fail, alone or in combination. That's a very tall order, especially when some storage technologies use cheap materials like steel and rocks.
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The core difference being that “put value X from system S into value Y in system V” is actually conceptually extremely simple, and is mostly encumbered by machinery around it and “incidental complexity”.

Dentistry _is_ all the complexity and the skill of , like, drilling into your mouth or whatever.
Why did the article repeatedly refer to the recent purchases as a "raise" or "round", especially after explaining up front that it was a private purchase of already issued shares and that they'd only raised a small amount long ago?

That kind of ignorance makes me doubt other things said in the article.
You should know that even UTC+8 is the official time, Uighurs tend to actually use UTC+6 because that's the closest mean time there.

> Even in the best case scenario, it is impossible to retroactively scrap time zones. The past will always exist, and the people who lived there will never adopt your new standard. Nor can all of past history be renumbered. The history of timekeeping will remain exactly as complicated as it always has been, and the zoneinfo database can never be abandoned.
You can see that on Mario himself in Super Mario 64 if you have him run far away from the camera (or fall off an edge).
Oh, yeah, and I forgot: negative display positions really mess XWayland up!
Not to mention the refactoring support!
Seems related to https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/incidents/qjxllgkywysj
I don't mind timezones at all, I'd rather have the International Fixed Calendar[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
> I think it's mostly the teachers and the administrators who advocate for the earlier times. Well, that and parents who drop off their kids before work.

So what if teachers have children they need to drop off before work? That leads to some kind of infinite recursion.
I love the sun cycle visualizations (and everything else) on timeanddate.com.

Almost the most northerly place I've been:

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/norway/tromso

The most equatorial place I've been:

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/singapore/singapore

The most southerly place I've been:

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/argentina/buenos-aires

The consequences of making the sun "rise" at "7 a.m." in each of these places would be pretty confusing! (But especially in Tromsø.)
I think there's a lot of extra interest in stocks and crypto and stocks right now, in no small part due to the likes of GME and BTC and the associated media coverage. The greater idiot theory genuinely applies here, as long as people keep believing they haven't 'missed the boat' and keep buying the market will continue to grow (bullish) and as others have said here there tends to be a cascading effect when people start to sell which reverses this (bearish).

Interestingly enough (and the reason I logged into ycombinator today) there seems to have been some attempt by unidentified parties to artificially create a bearish movement for GME, I was surprised no one has created a thread about the fact that Yahoo finance (Wallace Witkowski) had published the stock has 'plummeted' at 11:55 AM EST march 10th when the actual price drop didn't occur until 12:20 PM EST. There's definitely some dangerous house-of-cards going on in the US stock exchange. I don't envy those living there if this all falls down the way people are anticipating it will.
Three to six times worse, ouch.

Also, the article is full of baloney, like assuming rocket fuel will be made using renewable energy - it won't, because it's magnitudes cheaper to just extract it from fossil fuels, and if it was viable you could do the same for airplanes, but at an even lower cost.
Yeah I’m waiting for it too. It’ll be funny because otherwise people have had nothing but good things to say about my output.
Editors support for LSP is still uneven as it is still a very young "standard".
My understanding is that the designers explicitly do not want applications to be possible/practical over Gemini. The request format is intentionally not extensible, and consists exclusively of a URL.
I had mine restarted this morning in BHS. Only one of 3 servers...
Doctors and lawyers certainly have a much easier hiring process, from all the ones I know. And in both fields experience is respected, the opposite of software development.

Doctors in particular (with residency) and lawers to a lesser degree (bar exams) have a more difficult path into the profession. But they don't have to prep and go through the bar exam for every single interview after that.

It would be unthinkable to make an established surgeon balance chemical reaction equations or something obscure like that from their undergrad days as part of the interview! But that's what software engineers must deal with.
Or you could say $1.3m of a theoretical $5bn demand curve has been tested, at one point.
Counterpoint: some of the weird classes I took in high school / college ended up being useful, or at least more useful than some of my core CS classes.

I took a Psychology class in high school, and now I understand why people feel and react certain ways, because I can connect back to the concepts I learned. I took a music theory class in college, which is helping me make my own music as a hobby, and also appreciate some songs.

In contrast, I am researching programming languages in graduate school, I took an undergrad class on PL, and it barely taught me anything I didn't already know.

Bottom line is: we need a system to teach people more things that will probably end up useful and less obscure crap, but it isn't just "teach people whatever their job is and whatever they need to know as an adult, and ignore the social sciences and history because those will never be useful".
You might have some success using hand-coded routines for the last / hardest-working portion of the rasterizer, and just use SQLite to translate data from a format produced by the front-end to a format that matches the back-end.

I'm interested in relational programming for 3D meshes. For example what if we could use the form of a query to write a routine that splits a 3D mesh (creating new triangles at the boundary?)
This is a super interesting idea. We hadn't thought of this application, but definitely one that we'll consider!
I've been starting to think a dangerous thought - that maybe UI/UX designers aren't very good as a group. It seems like they SHOULD be, and hand-waving away an entire profession seems like a rookie mistake... but it's the only thing that makes sense at this point. Sure, there are some great designers, and they command a high price, and work for companies who's founders or leadership understand user needs instinctively (as Steve Jobs did), but I think most are just carrying forward things they learned in design school... bad ideas they learned and are repeating by rote.
Tesla was producing electric cars far before Musk got involved and then claimed to be a founder.
The issue is really actually landing rockets vertically without humans. NASA had the concept of reusable rockets that landed vertically, but didn't action it because landing without a human didn't seem feasible.

So pretty much, not before computers were good enough to autonomously land, so at best the 2000s.
Strangely enough, a lot of computer hardware websites are really horrible.

Ever gone to motherboard/RAM/etc manufacturer websites? Unmitigated disaster. Is this the same ram stick model? Why are there 3 million variations and no explanation of the distinction between them? How is it that there are 5 different filters and none of them seem to filter for the thing you’re looking for? Why does the marketing page take me to a different sub domain for this one product, but not for the other? On and on.
Most of Alaska is already an hour "further east" than it should be during standard time. This just makes it even worse. Mid day is between 1 and 2pm for much of the state during ST, and between 2pm and 3pm during DST.
Can you explain how I simplified life?
I simply presented a fact about refined foods.
Bell Labs. Many great ideas outta there. When they hired Jansky and he accidentally discovered radio astronomy. And nothing happened.

But that led to the adventures of Grote Reber[0] (an inspiring figure). In 1937 the 26-year-old built a radio telescope dish in his backyard. A ham radio operator with a EE degree, he completed the first VHF survey of the sky - in his spare time. In 1939 he discovers Cygnus A. But his work 'fell between fields'. [1]

During WW2 he works with John 'Big Ear' Kraus. In 1954 Reber moves to Tasmania (less radio interference, less Big Bang). Inspired by his results, in the 50s Ryle and Hewitt get busy at Cambridge. In 1974 they win a Nobel Prize. Down under, Reber just kept doing what he loved.

P.S. Interesting coincidence: his mother had been a schoolteacher; one of her students: Edwin Hubble.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grote%20Reber

[1] https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1611360 2003 Physics Today bio
I want to abolish time zones. The author's approach is absurd though.

Let's return to putting the sun overhead every day at noon. The current time zone nonsense is a side effect of steam trains. This is a much more humane system.

The computers (phones) can handle all the mechanics and can tell us at a glance what time it is anywhere else.
Man, I completely feel the other way. I've played with Fire Sticks and Rokus and other devices, and they all seem like UX nightmares compared to the AppleTV platform.
At this point you Whistleblow to Airbus, they'll find a way to make it known, and make it stop.
Wait, what? You mean, you're claiming that browsers are aggressively written to minimize memory usage for a given unit of functionality? Because that would be a hard case to make.

I just opened example.com (a tiny, static site) in Chrome. Chrome's task manager says that tab is using 16 MB. You're saying that the minimal overhead that a new process would add is significant compared to that? Because I see numerous processes in the OS task manager right now with a significantly smaller memory footprint.

If you just dropped the /s, and I didn't get the joke, consider me whooshed :-p
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I tried to give a hint about the basic reason of trying to get out from under the weight of a huge code base that had become old and crufty while the very architecture it was designed around was becoming moot since things were shifting to client side rendering already.

Couldn't find a good article on short notice, but there's a decent video from back in 2013 about it.

https://youtu.be/cQoQE_HDG8g
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Sounds good. You can always switch as well ;)
> You don't get to say you robbed a bank because you were able to walk into the lobby after hours.

This was absolutely a breach of a device on their corporate network and should be treated as such. Just because the network wasn't interesting, doesn't mean the breach didn't happen.

I have sympathy for their IR team because this would just be a random Tuesday had it not made it to the press.
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> Things often make sense at an very broken down individual level

This is how humans process new information. Big ideas often cannot be grasped entire on first encounter, c.f. the parable of the blind men and the elephant.

> I’m just not good at many of said essential things

You're not good yet.

I've been building products & services for forty years. I look back on my ideas and level of understanding from the first decade or two, and I judge myself super naive, often overreaching for "big picture" enlightenment before I was even connected to the details.

You may have

* unrealistic expectations of yourself;
* imposter syndrome;
* an attentional difference;
* all four.

What you probably need is a mentor. Where you might find one depends on many factors, mostly not technical.

> this is incredibly difficult field where a mostly immutable attribute (high intelligence) is required

Moderate intelligence is required, but it is tenacity we correlate to outcomes. There are elements of the technology sector where four-sigma intellect moves the needle, but only a few.

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race" — Calvin Coolidge
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Easier may not have quite been the correct word. There is pretty much an equal number of steps and ease of steps with PWAs and apps.

The average person has no clue PWA even exist. If you say install app x everybody can do that. If you say install the PWA most people would be at a complete loss of how to do it. Even people who know what PWAs are would quite possibly have to look up how to install it. With more and more people not having an internet connected device other than a phone they can't easily read directions on how to get the PWA while trying to do it. It is possible to include directions on the web site, but then when you open up the share menu (on iOS) you would no longer be able to read the directions to know to click add to home page.

The company would likely receive phone calls and have to walk people through how to install the PWA. You would also have people thinking the company is just being cheap and not paying people to develop the app forcing the end user to do more work (since they had to read directions to install it).

Don't get me wrong. I am very much in favor of people not creating apps when it is not actually needed, but the average user is going to have issues with it since they are so used to apps.
My favorite statement of this idea is that, "life is that which reverses entropy."
Cats wouldn't have made IE the bane of my existence for a dozen somewhat years, or driven Netscape or Be Inc out of existence.
Ok fine I'll add a watermark too.

I'll also take a copy along with me just in case.
Is this clever use of SLAM or something even more interesting?
People only suggest those things because they think they are not going to be the ones awake at night
Thompson and Pike are both Bell Labs, the origin of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better#New_Jersey_sty... - so that's by design.
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Everyone spends so much effort chasing the ideal of the "10x engineer," but nobody ever stops and thinks about whether there's an even more powerful engineer archetype. Well you might be surprised to learn that there's a level _beyond_ 10x engineer, a literal order of magnitude more engineering power. That's right, I'm talking about the 100X ENGINEER.

It is often said that a 10x engineer is as productive as an entire team of engineers, but for the 100x engineer, 10x is only a small fraction of their full power. These freakishly productive individuals are more powerful than an entire _army_ of engineers. Think one coder, one Macbook, and more engineering capability than the entire staffs of Google, Facebook, and Amazon combined. Much, much more.

Now, you might be thinking "What--100x?! There's no way that can be right! Can it?" but you would be wrong. I have seen the power and capability of these 100x engineers. I have trained alongside them in the Hyperbolic Engineering Chamber, where an hour of engineering work is squeezed into every second that passes. Those who survive this mentally taxing and severely dangerous process transcend all known levels of engineering to attain the fabled Super Engineer Level 3 Ultimate.

If you work for Google, Amazon, or Facebook you should be very afraid. Because the 100x engineers are coming for your jerbs!
You're right, it is social conditioning; like a warm December in Australia.
> Twitch.tv is something that amazed me that it became so big. I don't really play video games. Who would spend hours watching people play video games?

Heh. I grew playing games with friends. When I got tired, I'd spend hours just watching them play and having fun hanging out that way. It was no surprise to me they got so big so fast. It really is all about empathy, and I thought this little anecdote would help strengthen your point! :)
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Is that a measured amount, or a guess based upon the heating element?

Asking because if it's a guess, then the electronics + stepper motors need to be factored in too. :)
Or perhaps we are stricter when raising girls, so they become more compliant.

"don't be so loud, that's not lady-like"
"don't play in the dirt, you'll ruin your dress"
"it's uncomfortable, I know, but you have to look pretty"
"girls don't like sports, here, sit down and play with your dolls"

It's subtle things, but a million of them may make a difference. There's a lot more rules for girls than boys, they are used to spend their time in quieter activities, etc.
A sponsorship / bounty program is an interesting train-of-thought. It certainly 'fits' into an open source ethos and might give the company the added benefit of positive marketing.

I just looked at the Github sponsors program and AFAICT, they only offer a recurring monthly plan which is probably not what either myself or the company are looking for. I'd be curious about more options though.
Wasn’t this the exact problem with the 787? Particularly in Boeing’s factory in the carolinas which is the only plant producing the 787?

I’m definitely not flying the 737MAX, and this seriously makes me question the 787 as well as 737NG or in fact Boeing as a whole.
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Some people just love a certain legacy system (in the old days of more experimentation it was legacy hardware too) and want to be able to stay with it as long as possible.

This doesn't prevent them from keeping up with the latest stuff either BTW.
The new Ryzen ones are 4000 series and based on reviews are pretty quiet and pretty powerful. I'm prob gonna pick up a 4800U variant in Taiwan.
> Yet when wind collapsed during the deep freeze, suddenly even its biggest fans admit that nobody ever thought it could do the same job as natural gas.

Or just was not designed to do so in this case?
It was the first time I looked at my prior tickets to determine if I had ever flown on one. But nope, all Boeing Dreamliners which are phenomenal and fantastic!
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And they decided not to use 'hacker' as shorthand for 'criminal'...

and I like that :-)
The title of the article implies Wind Power is a disaster.
But the actual article contains little to support this headline. There are a lot of numbers and graphs in this article... and some strange analysis about power generation amounts at different points in time (lots of potential for cherry picking here). But the money quote is this:

"And so we see what people mean when they say the Texas blackouts are the fault of natural gas, rather than wind: since no serious official ever expected wind to be any help during a crisis, it can hardly be blamed for not showing up when disaster struck. In effect, Krugman is arguing that wind power is the Ted Cruz of electricity."

Windy is temperamental. When it is there, it is very cheap.. and the Texas Energy Market loves cheap. When it isn't, we should plan for that and have some more stable sources. Even if we have to gasp regulate some of that stability.

Also: Check out the articles on the right for a understanding of the bias of this think tank.