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> That's a solved problem (except for the most exotic devices) in Windows and Ubuntu. Mac OS, obviously, doesn't even have that problem.

The problem is solved by simply installing the drivers and modules for everything.

> That's exactly what one expects from a desktop system. That the system just works out what you have and install whatever is needed to make it work.

That's what you expect, that has nothing to do with whether the system is “desktop” or not.

The fact that many desktop-only systems exist that are worthless for servers or phones that do not follow this philosophy makes it clear that this is not what everyone expects, especially when many of these drivers are proprietary, and many users have ideological objections to having them on their system altogether.

> You would be personally annoyed, but other people would be personally annoyed about not having a graphical interface ready after the install for their desktop system. On top of that, even when they try to install the graphical interface for that system, nothing works unless they understand (albeit not deeply) the inner workings of said system.

And they can use the systems they want.

I am merely pointing out that how FreeBSD does this is well thought out, and has it's reasons with respect to what it's users expect.

> I'm not saying you're wrong about not wanting that, but most people expect their desktop system to just work, not require googling around why xfce4 won't start. Remember, we are talking here about desktop computers, where the end goal is to run a browser, a video game, an IDE, a video editor, etc.

I would be surprised if those were the end goals of most FreeBSD desktop users.

NetworkManager does solve some of the problems for desktop users who don't want to understand any more of the system than absolutely necessary. Starting it as soon as possible will just help people.

N.M. has a reputation of being most undesirable software among many that not only very often leads to loss of internet, but also takes control of one's configuration and alters it without warning. — many avoid it as though it be the plague.

> I know that's not FreeBSD's goal nor am I saying that it ought be. I'm just stating the fact that it is not an easy to use system for the uninitiated and it will require at least a little bit of browsing the internet and trying things for all but the most experienced FreeBSD users, if they choose to adopt it as their desktop system.

What would any of that have to do with desktops?

I daresay that desktops are probably more likely to be manned by “initiated” users than laptop and phones are.

I fail to see what “desktop” has to do with “initiated”? are you suggesting that “initiated” users should rather use a phone or laptop?

It is a desktop system for what you call the “initiated”; these two are completely orthogonal axes.
I might be misunderstanding, but I think they're talking about productivity in the sense of work output / time worked. A big part of the productivity increase could be explained by Parkinson's Law of the same amount of work getting done in less time. I don't think they're saying that 40% more work was completed overall.
Thanks for the feedback! Really great to read the comparison with PO boxes :)

I am still working on it and in a couple of weeks you can change your handle, add random handles and change your email address. I am also thinking of adding basic statistics and improve the UX for people visiting the links/pages. Since that is also a big problem when using mailto-links. And some more UI sugar to make it look nice :)
Did you see when they tested it on Twitter users?
As an alternate anecdote, I spent hours trying to figure out how to compile some basic C code in VSCode - neck deep in configurations and hidden menus with special button combinations, etc - only to break down and install some random plugin.

The point is, any new environment is going to be jarring at first. You have to learn how to use your IDE - and once your do, productivity can go way up (this is why people do not switch IDE's very often, you must invest in your IDE to master it). Every IDE has different productivity-enhancing features (beyond basic code suggestions and auto-complete).

If you can master a brand new (to you) IDE in minutes, then it's frankly not a very powerful IDE. The basics, like refactor some code, move some source files around, create a new file, etc - sure, those should come easy. Things that don't come easy is how to create new file templates, enforce code styling, configure database connections (if you work that way, I don't), how to package your software, and the plethora of other things IDE's do for us these days.
Speaks like a true foot soldier. I'm very grateful for your service; we always need fresh meat :D
I do that, if it's over 60 seconds - it's not as straightforward since you also need to use PROMPT_COMMAND, a debug trap, and a variable to store the start time: https://jakemccrary.com/blog/2015/05/03/put-the-last-command...
"LN also requires a constant observation of the LN network or malicious actors can just take more from a channel than allowed."

Not true. Cite a source.
This of it more like this: It's a micro-aggression targeting the people who have never, ever considered their words in a larger context before.

It's totally useless, 100% agreed.

It's really fucking irritating to those people, as intend, so they come forward and self identify, so they can be removed.
I am curious about backend part - do ws is still ws on services? Why? For example, why to have thousands of connections instead of a single one (or a bunch) that simply forwards websocket packets with some "connection id" with them.

This way you could restart service without killing ws connection, move all overhead of handling millions of connections to the lb.
The core issue that Bitcoin resolves is transferring power from MBAs to nerds.
What do you mean? Art has always been a reflection of the time it was produced in. Conceptual Art and Media Art specifically reflect on the medium used. As such, an NFT is as valid as a ticket to a perfomance is. Of course the thing per se has no value, but it stands for something else that people can appreciate.
> I don't know why we'd want to keep everything the same.

To actually find out whether a 4-day week is better than a 5-day week.
If you read these 13 stories of failed software products that I collected you'll see that they have quite a lot in common:
https://successfulsoftware.net/2010/05/27/learning-lessons-f...

Also, hanging out on forums for software entrepreneurs, I see people making the same standard mistakes again and again.
My definition of learning is "Increasing the likelihood of success" My definition of success is "Having Expectations met" => learning is increasing the likelihood of having expectations met. My definition of failure is "Having expectations not met"
People don't learn to fly a plane by crashing it but by flying it with more control. The aviation industry was the product of people's success at improving the control of the plane. People who claim they can learn from failure never seem to care to explain how they do it, they only rage and scream: IT SHOULD BE THAT WAY. That would be nice...But it isn't that way. That's wishful thinking.

They only way to learn is to carefully examine how to prevent failure, and that's how eventually, people succeed and learn and succeed and learn and succeed and so on.
I know, it was a joke on His dismissiveness. I'm only half as clever as I try to be
For real, I've been seeing "working less increases productivity" articles and headlines for over a decade now. Are these articles wrong, and, if not, why hasn't our efficient capitalist machine moved in to get it done?

Looks like it took about 30 years to get the five day workweek from testing to full deployment, with some industries getting it done in 20. But my understanding was that that was a moral crusade. Leaving money on the table while making people's lives worse feels like the kind of thing that should correct more quickly.
Oracle's product is good,shame they sell it using the legal team instead of the sales department. Do agree about Accenture though.
> Please explain to me how scaling is solved in bitcoin. The lighting network requires an on-chain transaction to create and close a channel both times.

Channel factories solve this issue by being able to create and close many channels at once.

> LN also requires a constant observation of the LN network or malicious actors can just take more from a channel than allowed.

These are called watchtowers, they never have control of your funds, they are simply watching the blockchain for counterparty actions, which if they tried to steal your money, they would end up losing all theirs, so just knowing that you might be using a watchtower is a very strong deterrent to not cheat you.
The ban was precipitated by a case that happened to be a Spanish language channel, but not all channel 37s would have been in Spanish. The result was that a channel was barred across the entire country. It's a big leap to say that the official rationale is bogus and go to "FCC is racist against Latinos and decided to bar the channel for everyone".
Ugh. FOSSHub. That enormous VPN downloader at the top.

It took me some time to remember to avoid it.

I do luvs me Audacity, though.

Good show!
> I believe Google & Apple should not be allowed to take a percentage at all. It should be a tiered system of fees, like a subscription or something. Sure, their systems help distribute and promote discovery of our apps, so let us pay for that. It should be a yearly fee appropriate for this service.

We should be able to pay for it, but we should also be able to choose not to use it, and bypass the Apple/Google duopoly on mobile app distribution for more competitive options, which we currently can't do. Apple bans all mobile app distribution competitors, and Google makes sure that competitors cannot compete with the Play Store on feature parity, either.
No, they're using SQLite3 as the repository.
in their attempt to stop something that isn't even racist to begin with they actually became racists.

No, they were racists all along. They merely over-played their hands and revealed it. But actually they reveal it in other ways if you care to look: the hair and the pronouns in bio are giveaway clues. They "colonised" our industry and now it's time they got decolonised themselves.
Is Sergey Brin really building the world's biggest aircraft?
Who's recommending it? It's up to the user to decide whether to stick with -release/-stable, with the understanding that packages won't see significant updates or new features until they upgrade to the next release in 6 months. But they have the option of following -current and testing the same snapshots developers are running on their laptops, and they can even help contribute so that the next release has even more tested and up-to-date packages.
True. Our algorithm decides which ones are the best shoutouts you can use and we suggest it to you.
Seen plenty of such articles, but still waiting for a single one saying productivity doesn't drop back after a few months.

(This is coming from someone who's been working remotely and free hours for quite a while.)
> both things that can disappear overnight

I understand what you mean and it's true in theory, but could never happen in reality. Even if a lot of the world stops believing in Bitcoin and the price tanks, there will always be at least two people interested in trading it with each other. If those two people run one node each, they can make it happen.

Bitcoin can no longer disappear overnight. It was true in the beginning, but the network and mind-share is too big now.

> which is not exactly high praise

The market seems to value a independent and censorship proof currency differently than you, as those are two of the main features of Bitcoin and Bitcoin is seemingly receiving a lot of high praise, at least at the moment and past 7 years.
I'd say it's more transfer of power from politicians to the the people, but we can always disagree.
Network Solutions Still Suffering a Multi-Hour DNS Outage
Are they equitable? I think not.
The paradigm is iPhone as an "App Console"
I don't see anyone here decrying Nintendo or Playstation for their walled gardens are steep developer fees.
I'm saying negative or neutral to absolute growth, not to opportunity.

Basically, what would you have said prior to knowing about this experiment if I asked you: "What do you think will happen if we do this experiment to productivity?"

I think a lot of people would have said probably you'll see a decrease. But instead we saw a 40% increase.

Now I'm assuming Microsoft has YoY data, so I don't know if 40% yearly increase is the norm, above the norm or below and that be interesting to know.

But still, this 40% increase is surprising to what I think I would have guessed and assume a lot others would have too, that you'd see a decrease or maybe neutral.

So I'm not saying it tells us 4 day work week is better then 5 or 6 or 7. But it seems like a viable model that still allows for quite a bit of productive growth. And that's already a good start for it, one I'm a little surprised about.

Cause it means that possibly time worked has minimal impact on productivity, at least within a 1 day margin. It seems other factors might be more important, maybe simply strategic decisions, cutting out of time wastes like useless meetings or discussions, etc.
We finally know how bad for the environment your Netflix habit is
Fantastic. Audacity keeps it simple and does it well, if there was ever a hall of fame of applications, Audacity deserves a spot. Heck, if I were to distribute any kind of "creative suite", I would always include Audacity, no matter what operating system I was targeting. It is a near essential tool for working with audio, daily, or every now and then.

The genius of the application is that it does not try to be more than a waveform editor. Oftentimes, no matter if you are new to audio production or a veteran audio technician, you just need to edit some sound, and Audacity lets you get it done in a easy enough way for newbies, and in a complex enough way for veterans.

Maintainers of projects like these should carry themselves with pride. Projects that stand the test of time and continue to deliver exactly what you needed is what makes the IT-world go around.
There are two problems here: The first is that a lot of ethereum talk is just that; hot air with little substance.

The second is that PoS has significantly worse security properties than PoW.

The core reason is that "changing your mind" (rolling back the blockchain) is free with PoS, except for possible loss of value of the cryptocurrency, whereas it's extremely expensive with PoW. There are all sorts of band-aids you can slap on like ignoring block reorgs of a certain depth, but then you lose properties like network partition tolerance.
Teleport 6 – OSS Identity-Aware Database Access
> This means Bitcoin's value is based on completely ephemeral feelings, and the size of its network -- both things that can disappear overnight.

Yet here we are in 2021. The ephemeral feelings to me are the memes that keep things like culture going as well as Bitcoin, and thanks to the Lindy Effect [1], everyday Bitcoin doesn't die, it grows stronger. If ever there was a time for Bitcoin to die, it would've been in its infancy days in 2009 -- yet here we are in 2021.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
1) Title is somewhat misleading ... They are trying to help wallet to convert to fiat to pay in fiat.
2) I think Visa is terrified of the competitive nature of crypto (not only bitcoin but any stablecoin). By essence, a trustless network for digital payment is a direct competitor to Visa.

Full disclosure. I am the CEO of carbon payment, a global payment solution leveraging stablecoins for global payments.
Software people with philosophy backgrounds (there are a lot of us!) will be quick to note that Grice did not intend these to be understood as rules of thumb for regular people. But if it gets ordinary citizens interested in philosophy of language, theories of rationality, or game theoretic ideas about convention (cf. David Lewis), then I don't mind some innocent misappropriation.
Turns out that the productivity gain came from the fact that they wrote less code. Call me cynical.
>Widevine is not installed / enabled by default on Raspberry Pi OS though

it looks like the raspbian team got it right this time as opposed to secretly loading a GPG key and repository into everyone's OS to deliver a feature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_OS#Microsoft_Repo...
Can confirm. I’ve detected no racism on GitHub since master was renamed main.

Clearly the problem must be solved now.
Light.

Optics specifically.

Well, maybe I understand it. I'm pretty good with photons in the near-visible range. Muller matrices, point spread functions, the wave-particle duality, fluorescence, what have you.

Though gamma rays and AM radio still confuse me.

Ok, I guess I'm still learning then...
I don't understand how this viewpoint can persist now that we have quite a few PoS chains humming along in production: Cosmos, Tezos, Polkadot, Mina, Solana, Avalanche, Cardano, Eth2.

Edit: I suppose what you said is a fair statement; PoS security is different in that it relies on weak subjectivity. In particular, users can maintain security by syncing every X days, where X is based on the staker bonding period, and not accepting long forks beyond X. It's not equivalent to PoS security, but there's nothing really problematic about it IMO. Several years ago, one could make the case that this security model was untested, but not so much today.
It sort of was a thing, but it was never new. Geisel spent decades in discourse with people regarding racism and sexism in his works. He earnestly made many changes over the years, for example changing the look of the Chinese character in Mulberry St. Outside the Dr. Suess books, he even sometimes flipped some of his earlier racist tropes to make progressive, anti-racist statements. But he adamantly refused to make some other changes, such using more gender neutral pronouns beyond the substitutions he already made. This latest round of changes and exclusions were the ones he adamantly refused to make. Much worse, he's now portrayed in the media as being blithely or even stubbornly ignorant of his own prejudices, when nothing could be further from the truth. Whether you agree or disagree with him, he engaged with these issues and admitted to many faults.
Well, all right, it will pay for 1% of next year's government. That's not nothing, but it's also not revolutionary.

(I do believe that corporations should pay their taxes. Rather than raise rates, though, I'd rather close loopholes. At least start there...)
I"m pretty sure Coinbase's S-1 proves otherwise :)
I can also imagine less meetings cause less bureaucracy, less mental fatigue from playing social theatrics, more satisfaction in actually doing things for people who hate meetings, etc. A meeting rarely if ever is "just" a meeting, and those that are "just" a meeting tend to be superfluous for the majority of participators (no preparation needed, no reflection afterwards).
> Image in mapped colors from the light emitted by an ionized elements, hydrogen = green, sulfur = red and oxygen = blue.

Is there a relationship between those colors and those elements, or just an arbitrary mapping?
inb4 you get called a "no-coiner" which always makes me think people who are "coiners" are immature children.
Is there a use case for Eclipse that VS/VSC doesn’t outperform it at?
There's no amount of shuffling the deck chairs that gets out of the stark fact that black developers are a lower percentage of the developer population than black people are of the American population. I'd be surprised if the former broke 5%, but let's say 5% for the sake of argument.

I know a few black developers. They have no problem staying employed. Big surprise! They're developers, we're blessed to have a chronic shortage of labor. There isn't an untapped labor pool of chronically underemployed black developers, because they aren't incompetent at greater rates than their non-white peers.

So with extraordinary effort, a company can get up to the ~13% ratio which would represent parity. Or a black startup founder from an HBCU could draw on her peers and get a much higher percentage.

But, relentlessly, that means other companies will have even fewer than 5%. If having 13% of American-born developers be black is a worthwhile goal (and I don't see why not), hiring harder can't reach it. It just can't.
Related, Claus Wilke's Data Visualization book has a fantastic section on common pitfalls of color use:

https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/color-basics.html
https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/color-pitfalls.html
Yeah the cost of decentralization is so high that you really need to be gaining something from it. I’ve long said that if drugs were legal it would remove most of bitcoins usage.

Money is ultimately a reflection of power, and decentralization is merely a tool for when those power structures limit the market.
>I guess there's a sort of cultural pressure not to be the first one out of the office (which I can actually sort of understand; I feel weird leaving early).

AFAIK, the big cultural pressure in Japan is specifically leaving before your boss does.
Accidenture, because it's always a complete train wreck.
Oddly, it looks like it's also in their path since the command isn't prefixed with "./"
A bit of short fiction (not mine) from 2007, on recreating experiences for those who are stuck at home: https://everything2.com/title/We+control+the+algorithms+for+....
> The paths are established and have been for awhile

I'd rather say that old paths keep getting rediscovered. Such is the cyclic way of tech. There are always new "hipsters" that are freshly paving old paths, putting their unique spin on it.
I completely understand that people find the UI offputting. But the UI is effective. Or maybe I should say the UX is effective? Either way, an effective UI/UX is more than what a lot of "newer and fancier" UIs have going for them. And since the application is meant as a tool for creators, and not a product facing consumers (as a website might be), personally I can completely forgive a "clunky ui", as long as it is logically laid out and with normal workflows.
Imagine world, where a man would be free to start a family, without the need to be dependent on a woman to exercise his reproductive rights. Without the fear that a woman will use the so called “justice system” as a weapon to take his kids and possessions away anytime she find suitable
My hunch is most of society wants trusted and unbiased reviews rather than filtering or manipulation.

I doubt there is more money in that direction though
A decent imitation can be had at Half Time Rec in St. Paul, Minnesota. Just ask any of the older bartenders about the Saints/Cats brawl after the 2006 American Association baseball championship. https://www.abqjournal.com/sports/apbrawl09-12-06.htm
There's even a name for this: Hawthorne Effect
From Wikipedia: "The Hawthorne effect refers to a type of reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

(Yes, the Hawthorne Effect is more general than the specific case here where people want to influence the outcome in a particular way, but it's still cool that this is known to be a thing)
The first sentence of the article links to that.
I don't know. It's probably comparable to something from not too long ago though.
I will bet that the 'little man' gets hit harder than the 'elites' with increased taxes.

SOP, no matter who is sitting in the White House.
No, I want to work 4 days/week with only a 12.5% reduction in salary to reflect the improved output per-hour my employer would anticipate due to improved conditions, and I want to keep all benefits, or no deal. I don't want the 4-day workweek to gradually morph into "people as a service", as I have my suspicions it may be intended to lead to.