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Every sentence you wrote is also true when you negate it.

The reason for that is the word "corporation" isn't some magical shield. A corporation is just a legal fiction, not some noble, untouchable entity as you attempted to depict them.

Frankly, if a corporation can't contribute to society by paying taxes, then it should be shut down. That's actually how it works in most of Asia - when a state auditor looks at your books and you're paying less than 10% of revenue in tax, you're given a bill and told to pay it or close by the end of the month. The assumption is that if you can't pay taxes, you're a failure and the next company will be more efficient.
Power user according to the OP seems to be having a bunch of shortcut keys.
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> plugins written in C, C++, ...

no, thank you
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Oh, it was another, far more vitriolic correspondent I had particularly in mind with that epithet, but thanks.
I think the three major OSes are now sufficiently different that calling any of them “better” than the others is meaningless. All three have issues but they are in different places. And many of the things people complain about are just different from what they are used to.
I never understood how someone can make a good-faith effort to document their Linux experiences and for people to label it "complaining".
They did heavy user research when building the Win95 UI. They experimented and then had real users come in and try to do stuff. When the users couldn't figure something out they went back and fixed it.

Originally what was the start menu was just a single icon button just like it is now. But people looking a fresh Windows desktop didn't know what to do. So that's why they put the word "start" on it and it became the start menu. Users looking at the desktop would then immediately click there and find all the applications. Just imagine that same process for everything.

These days I don't think nearly as much effort goes into it -- and maybe for good reason -- end users might just re-invent the Windows 95 UI!
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Nope. I only finally signed up because my friends are on it for gaming. Don’t give a shit about it otherwise.

Your use case of “putting a project” on it is a minority. Most users are there for gaming communities.
Morbig is another interesting shell parser project:

https://github.com/colis-anr/morbig
The equivalent would be "in Eglish you cannot use special marks for emphasis (as they do not exist) so they different variants of their alphabet".

The comment is premised by how in japanese there are "two" sets of "letters" with slightly different uses but differently from lowercase/uppercase the difference does not translate in emphasis.

Uppercase letters are linguistically related to emphasis independently form net-speak (proper names, I, beginning of sentences), so to me it reads as "the thing that naturally works here is impossible there, so they have a different solution to the problem".

It is fine to take the perspective of your own cultural situation.
PopOS! is really nice and I am thinking about installing it on my (non-System76) hardware, instead of Ubuntu.
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I've been working in this space for my own task manager (multi-parent + infinite depth), and here's a couple things I've landed on:

- My objective is being able to show a "todo" list that is _actually actionable_. So I think early on its important to build in notions of "availability" (i.e. "this is not waiting on something else, you can work on this now")

- The dual is you kind of need nodes that represent "blockers". Here you have the parenting mechnaism that could get you there, but also stuff like setting dates on nodes (in Omnifocus this looks like the "defer until" date)

- I tried making a UI that handled N-node depth, but ended up figuring out that just displaying at most 2 levels of depth and then having fast loading when zooming in/out saved me a lot of API design headache and gets me 95% of the way there

- Even if your data is a tree structure, a lot of times just showing a flat list (perhaps with "parent node is X" annotation) is going to work out nicer. Notably with search
That's what mining is for. It doesn't matter what the bitcoin address is if the source for the coins is out of thin air.
The ribbon get a lot of flack but personally I love the ribbon. I fell in love with it the first time I used it, so much better than navigating through classic menus. The implementation of it is excellent in Office. Other applications have tried implementing the same thing but they don't get it as right as Office does. Many seem to think the ribbon is how you control the program, but that's not really the point of the ribbon: the ribbon is dependent on the context, it supplies you with the tools that are available for whatever part of the work piece you have in front of you.
I don't think it will accept the command if it knows you learned it as anything other than C-S-M-¥.
I clarified now in the article that the "Linux Laptop" is a Dell XPS 13" Developer Edition, which is marketed indeed as a Linux laptop, and the Ubuntu is marketed as "Ubuntu Dell".
Apparently it was the reverse for the Ancient Egyptians when they marched into the Middle East, encountered the Euphrates and were shocked to find a river flowing South.
I clarified now in the article that the "Linux Laptop" is a Dell XPS 13" Developer Edition, which is marketed indeed as a Linux laptop, and the Ubuntu is marketed as "Ubuntu Dell".

It was stated in the previous article of the series but you are right that it was not evident in the text.
> Windows 10 is just a dumpster fire in every respect

Well it works great for me. What issues are you experiencing?
I think you're highlighting the difference in approach instead of pointing out a fatal flaw in Waymo's strategy.

Tesla is focusing on data because they believe they can machine learn through the problem.

Waymo has a lot of data, but is also focusing on better sensors, augmenting them with maps, and ML perception feeding into more traditional programing doing the actual control and decision making.

It's kind of like Tesla and Waymo are both learning basket ball. Tesla believes that if it just plays a lot of games of basket ball, that is the best strategy. Waymo think that playing some games is good, but it should also do things like practice free throws and weight train.

Also, a few misconceptions:

1. Waymo currently only has public service in Arizona, AFAIK. However they are testing in San Fran, Seattle area, and Michigan. Easiest first doesn't mean later is impossible.

2. pre-mapping is NOT a blocker of automated service. Consider how much effort goes into making each section of road. Driving a car by a few times is a trivial cost in comparison. This is further shown by the fact that Google has been doing street view for well over a decade. Also I'd like to see Tesla demonstrate they can drive with the road covered in snow and still know where they are without a map.

3. CEO departures can be a red flag. They can also be a completely benign changeover, or even green flag that the board identified others would perform better in the CEO position. The leaving announcements are always fluff about spending time with family, so it's really hard to tell what's going on from the outside. If this is followed by more leadership leaving Waymo, then I'd be concerned.
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Huh, I must be misremembering then. I thought it was CA too. Ah well, so much for that then.
I am also in the same boat. Always wanted to learn about it, but at the same time never really took the time to look into it. I bought some ETH couple of months back and now I’m continuously perusing and updating my knowledge about cryptocurrency.
On the Measure of Intelligence, Chollet [pdf]
Same here with regards to preferring the old Thinkpads for daily use. The trouble as I it is that the great ones are getting really old now, and the newer ones don't seem to be of the same ilk.
I use Rectangle [0] for the same purpose, it has a few more bells and whistles and is open source. It does have a bit of a debounce problem on multiple screens though (one tap might move the window two positions).

[0] https://rectangleapp.com
If only Egypt would realize that and cooperate with the upstream countries, or more specifically, Ethiopia. They could easily mitigate the issue with money, but they believe they have an ancient colonial right to command their neighboring countries.
> economic interdependence deserves the bulk of the credit for this relative peace.

That was the thesis of a book called The Great Illusion

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

The book argued a European war was very unlikely.

the economic interdependence between industrial countries would be "the real guarantor of the good behavior of one state to another", as it meant that war would be economically harmful to all the countries involved.

The book was published, to great acclaim, in... 1909.
If you're complaining about Linux drivers please do so after using a Laptop that supports Linux (Thinkpads for example).

So I Googled “laptops supported by Linux”. There is no official site. Ubuntu has a page. But it’s not on the first page of results. I only know about it because I’m familiar with it.

Supporters keeps arguing people should jump through hoops. I’m on Linux right now, but people have better things to do. Either provide a list so people know exactly what to buy, or all complaints are valid.

Apple sells you the whole package: take it or leave it. Windows supports everything and has their logo everywhere.
I've been using Magnet forever and believe I bought it on sale for a dollar or very cheap. One of my best purchases.
> Philosophy's basic main tenet is to critically engage with ideas.

And humanities students no longer do this. If they did, the notion of suppressing the communication of ideas rather than refuting them would be repugnant. However, this instead the first tool reached for by students who find something uncomfortable. Title 9 inquisitions, etc.

It’s not necessarily brainwashing, but it’s awfully coincidental they have nearly uniform political opinions coming out of university and can’t defend them when critically challenged.
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I've had Windows installs (in a VM) go sideways because Cortana started listening DURING THE INSTALL and I was on a conference call.

Everything is wrong with that.
That's true, but it would be fun to look at the comments and always be one of those in the top with a bunch of human written replies. Almost a dadaist poem.
My guess:

It's a new virus or prion disease.

These 50 people probably all ate meat from the same cow in a hot dog 10 years ago. That hot dog or source cow will never be identified because humanity doesn't keep a sufficiently traceable record of such things, even though it would save lives to do so.

It probably isn't transmissible between people, so there will be a few hundred more cases of this over the next 20 years, and then it'll disappear.
Just out of curiosity, how does Hex compare to https://deepnote.com/?
> The more we remove supermajority protections, the closer we move to 50% of the people thinking it isn't used well

I assume you're talking -- primarily -- about the Senate and the filibuster? If so, you'll be pleased to hear the UK has managed OK for the last 400-500 years in having a parliament that can do _literally anything_ it wants with a majority of 1 person[0] including deciding to pick on a single person individually without trial and subject them to whatever it pleases[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder
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"brew upgrade" caused no end of troubles. Let's just upgrade everything to the next major version(MySQL 5.6 -> 5.7).

Tests failing.
To this day I have still never found any application on any device that is as simple and easy to add an arrow and some red text to an image for highlighting something as it is with preview. It is just unbelievable how janky and bad every single other application is at doing this simple task. Not even on phones is there anything easy.
World Wars have always taken place primarily in the Eastern Hemisphere. I assume WWIII will be the same.
Welcome to the Linux community where every year is the "year of the Linux desktop"
This is only a Unix vs Windows thing in terms of the application launcher and how it is implemented. File extensions are semantically meaningful for many unix tools, most notably gcc.
According to an involved dev the coin has no use case at all.
Its printed money to act as incentive/reward for doing something no one would actually pay for.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26238962
That's incredibly stupid. Do you really want to waste your budget on expensive disaster cleanup of a single nuclear power plant? If you decommission old nuclear power plants you save the 200 billion needed to clean them up in an accident (think of Fukushima). That money could have been used to build 5 modern power plants and do a non disaster cleanup of the old power plant.
> “While the website went down and we were losing money we chased down a number of loose ends until finally finding the root cause.”

And that's why you have a staging environment. Or you debug in production, whatever you prefer.
I found it much worse that installing anything STILL by defaults upgrades literally everything. You have to actually set an ENV variable to stop this behaviour. My stuff constantly broke because I'd forget about this and install something else and a couple days later I'd go "what happened??"
Few monts old kids cant go anywhere. 6 month old kids are starting to crawl and then they are unable to get where they want for some time.

And there is incredible amount of experimentation at that age. They dont learn things by observation alone for sure.
I like strict yaml but I have used it very little. Anyone who uses it more that can give more feedback?
That only worked well on Windows 7. Today the start menu search is unreliable.
You're getting downvoted but this is absolutely true.
Calmira was amazing! It, along with Win32s and the 16-bit version of Internet Explorer, brought a lot of second-hand 386's with 4 Mb RAM into the modern world, by providing working Internet access and32-bit app support and a modern UI.
“Mostly it seems to me that they want a 'moonshot' company that has the original profitability of search advertising, full stop.”

Well, when Larry page wrote “we also like that it means alpha-bet”[1], a lot of readers in tech probably mistook him at his word. When it comes to investing, “alpha” means winner. As in somebody else loses. As in what gets optimized is _the investor_, not necessarily the community. The analogy to investment return above benchmark is a trademark Googley delusion—- it’s rationalizing a position using math or science even when the position (applauding investing culture) is exclusionary or even toxic to a substantial segment of the population (e.g. the 99% who either don’t invest or who form the ETF benchmark). Larry isn’t talking about excellence, he’s talking about dominating, and slipping that through with a cute abc.xyz domain name.

While it’s very interesting to hear these stories about Google, perhaps the lesson learned is just how blind people are to Google’s greed when technical adventures are dangled in front of them.

[1] https://blog.google/alphabet/google-alphabet/
That's a fascinating idea. Where would you place Japanese and Chinese?
>neuroatypical

It feels wrong to me to squeeze this tiny little "a" in between the words 'neuro' and 'typical' that flips the combined word's meaning around. The "a" usually goes at the front of a word so that you can tell immediately that it is being negated. I know that "a" is at the front of 'typical' but that's precisely the rub since it is actually in hiding instead of at the front of the combined word.
I was helping out a friend of mine in the risk department of a Big 4; he was parsing CSV data from a client's portfolio. Once he started parsing it, he was getting random NaNs (pandas' nan type, to be more accurate).

I couldn't get access to the original dataset but the column gave it away. Namibia's 2-letter ISO country code is NA—which happens to be in pandas' default list of NaN equivalent strings.

It was a headache and a half...
Everybody has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough enough to have a totally separate environment to run production in.

https://mobile.twitter.com/stahnma/status/634849376343429120
Wow, that’s incredibly naive. It is absolutely not a requirement. Critical thinking and logical reasoning are relatively basic skills. Once you learn them, reading about other people doing it just doesn’t matter for improving them.

Einstein did not read about Kierkegaard to form theories on relativity.

You’re confusing studying philosophy with critical thinking. You can think critically with a few basic logic rules and zero knowledge on existentialism.
I can't speak for GP, but I'd pay for Path Finder even if all it did was give me cmd-x to cut, and enter key to mean open instead of rename. It does a ton more, but those two are the killer features for me (Tabs used to be one too, but Finder finally got those a while ago).
I own Thinkpad X1 extreme, that I bought with my own money, and chose as working laptop Thinkpad Carbon. Both are not working well with linux.

1. Carbon, due to it's intel chip, can not drive 4K and 2K external monitors via thunderbolt adapter.

2. I need to authorize dock (Lenovo's thunderbolt dock) after every reboot.

3. The screen tearing sucks.

4. I need to have pulse audio volume control window opened all the time, otherwise the laptop loses my external sound card after first call via browser, and I need to turn it off/on.

On my own laptop, where I installed Ubuntu, I can boot only into 5.8.0.43 kernel (the one which I initially installed). All others, that I've got via apt-get update stuck with blinking cursor at last step of boot, and it's well known problem.

The longer I'm trying to love linux for work os, the more I realize that only tool that I truly want from linux is i3. For the rest I'm happily using WSL2 on my home, and don't have choice with work.

So on next hardware refresh date I think I'll choose Mac. The supplied by job laptop config is also more performant than carbon. So, hope, I'll be able to use my monitors in native res, and not put 2K into 1920x1020 mode
Verbatim from the docs, on read-csv:

na_valuesscalar, str, list-like, or dict, default None

Additional strings to recognize as NA/NaN. If dict passed, specific per-column NA values. By default the following values are interpreted as NaN: ‘’, ‘#N/A’, ‘#N/A N/A’, ‘#NA’, ‘-1.#IND’, ‘-1.#QNAN’, ‘-NaN’, ‘-nan’, ‘1.#IND’, ‘1.#QNAN’, ‘<NA>’, ‘N/A’, ‘NA’, ‘NULL’, ‘NaN’, ‘n/a’, ‘nan’, ‘null’.

You fix it by using `keep_default_na=False`, by the way.
What's the simplest plugin I can use on Firefox that prevents me from seeing posts from chosen domains such as this on HN? It is clear that the risk of my losing out on a good post from domains such as this is minimal. I got excellent results from blocking comments on YouTube, as there is statistically negative benefit in reading them, and I am now hoping for similar results on HN.
Essentially the article boils down to "I am used to a Mac and anything that doesn't behave like a Mac is incorrect, and I'm unwilling to invest time into figuring it out". It's fair enough stance, but unless you are willing to invest time into becoming a Linux 'power user', you're going to remain locked into whatever hardware Apple happens to be peddling at the time.

The M1 seems great today, but Apple will slump again in the future and there will be yet another blog about how a Mac user tried Linux and found out it's different. With Linux I'm pretty free to move about different hardware platforms and pick whatever is out there that suites my needs. This ranges from desktops, to laptops, to tablets, and now even phones. The Linux 'ecosystem' looks more compelling every day, especially for power users.

For those looking to transition, I would recommend doing so by running something like Ubuntu in a VM on your Mac and slowly transition your workflow. You'll find that in some areas your workflow will be significantly better and after some experimenting you'll find the right tools for you.
I think there's a point where it's reasonable to say that the goal they have is too far from where America exists now and they should give up and leave. Someone who wants to introduce a monarchy, for a random example that I expect is uncontroversial. And arguably, a society without taxes is also beyond that line.
So they can actually support raw strings! Nice
> Screen tearing with the intel driver. Come on. This was solved on xorg and now with Wayland it's back.

Since you mentioned Dell XPS, I'm thinking they'd have sold it to you with Ubuntu 20.04. But why did you choose Wayland - which IIRC is not the default in 20.04? These are the trickiest pieces of the distro, and will take years to stabilize. Especially considering that Linux aims to work across the entire set of PCs in existence.
I don't think you understand the comment parent made.
Windows 10 comes with a feature called Fast Boot and it is usually enabled by default depending on RAM, driver support etc.
What used to be a "proper shutdown" is now a hybrid hybernate. Parts of the OS in particular related to bootup are stored in a hybernation file which is loaded at boot time resulting in faster boots.
This is because Windows can now skip driver init and load state from previous boots.
Total pollution is the only factor that matters. Intermittency is irrelevant for reducing CO2 in the atmosphere and fighting climate change.

Intermittency is mostly relevant for 100% zero carbon energy which is a goal that is incredibly far away. At least another 10 years before we even think about it and then another 10 years to do it.
Ubuntu literally does not have an easy way to configure what happens when you close a laptop. I want it to hibernate instead of sleep. Someone else didn't want it to go to sleep at all. None of the settings options allow this. While Googling it for a friend the only result was running a few commands and changing some stuff in some config file. You cannot possibly expect a business analyst who hasn't even opened the terminal once in their life to not be immediately put off and scared by this. This is the advantage of Macs. They literally do just work
> Finder is unbelievably bad compared to Nautilus

Whats so bad about finder?
I'm going to shock you here but every platform has longstanding bugs with hundreds of people complaining about them.
Agree with your point on muscle memory, although I find a shell alias to be a sustainable workaround.
I’m not sure it is necessarily the drives. My hexacore desktop spends more time in POST (or how it is called these days in uefi) than in windows boot. It takes 3s from loading the boot partition to when I can enter my password and about 20-30s before it actually decides to boot the windows EFI rom.
Could probably just use a lower grit sandpaper to rough up the tip.
Didn't know them, thanks for the link!
Of course, only with reflection can we make progress. It's good to have some kind of automation mechanism to assist this process.

I believe that every software engineer who has introspective practice will have such an idea, which is not surprising.
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> The US is an oil exporting nation now.

That is irrelevant. Oil is fungible. Block oil exports from the Middle East and the price of oil skyrockets worldwide including in the US.
I did not suggest a biography. When you read Meditations, you are ‘Reading about the “best thinkers” developing “a purpose in life”’. It’s still just someone else’s blueprint for “purpose”, even if it is a good one. That doesn’t teach you how to be a great thinker.