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Except, I've seen this same exact song and dance routine played out already with systemd. Some RedHat developers make a thing no one wants to use, so they tightly couple many orthogonal concerns into one giant hairball, and they go on a road show to get a few crucial players (like GNOME and ConsoleKit, which was deprecated by the systemd devs) to hard-depend on it so distros have to choose between using the hairball or losing something that was entirely unrelated. It's a great play by RedHat, because now things are so interdependent that you need full-salaried developers working full-time on it, since the cognitive overhead required to understand how everything interacts now precludes a loosely-connected network of part-time volunteers from maintaining it themselves.

Oh, and this whole affair has the obnoxious side-effect of stirring up all the /r/linuxmasterrace dipshits into a feeding frenzy that spills over onto HN, where they scramble over themselves to spam everyone who dares disagree with the same half-assed links and excuses.
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Exactly. The absolute fastest I can get without Starlink is a flakey WISP with ~20 down (they advertise more, but well, it's a lie). That's why I bought Starlink as soon as I could.
I think your first point answers your second point. It's only human nature for people to worry about their jobs.
Kin coin’s reward engine is paying some apps more than $100k per week
DevOps isn't about doing the jobs of two persons (software engineer + infra engineer) it's about automating away 1 and being WAY more efficient.

Take a look at how GitHub does DevOps:
Make your team’s deploys as boring as hell and stop stressing about it:
https://zachholman.com/posts/deploying-software

Take a look at this funny video from Launch Darkly about different approach to DevOps:
https://fast.wistia.net/embed/channel/mli3h9o3nh?wchannelid=...

Take a look at how AWS does DevOps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngnMj1zbMPY

Take a look at how Microsoft does DevOps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4uziBlC728

Engineering has to build that REPEATABLE DevOps automation @ scale.

The informed definition of DevOps is =
"DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to your end users."
From Microsoft's Donovan Brown - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW6x0jIPpr0
I can't compare but I think one of the selling points is going to be the satellite coverage for Starlink versus T-Mobile's cell towers.

I do like T-Mobile's offering as an alternative to these crappy cable companies.
I use Powershell in Windows and am a big fan. It is a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig download on Linux, making it pretty impractical managing many different Linux machines.
Just because it's not physically present doesn't mean it's not real. Patent represents compensation for time spent researching and developing it.

Without it, you would resort to greater degrees of secrecy.
Nobody’s disputing that. But if Apple wasn’t anywhere near blocking these clever tricks, they wouldn’t be screaming bloody murder.

Again, Apple knows these fingerprinting parts exist, has acknowledged they exist, has stated they are going to block them and has blocked them. And no, they aren’t done, they might never be done. But also they have stated no intention of stopping.
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1. Would love to see some some data from legitimate news or science source for your thinking on this. They were wrong.

Texas was at less than 15% vaccination a few weeks ago..and Abbot opened the state up fully. No hospital overflow. Did they reach natural herd immunity? No. Not a single word about hospital overflow.

2. They absolutely did predict that and they were wrong. Here's a science article about it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7447267/

3. 'dumb complaint' I disagree. If this was a serious disease like the black plague this would kill people. If Covid was serious you would have just sentenced people to their death. But you're fine with it either because you like killing people or Corona virus is not serious.

Peoe are digging their heels in on this narrative because if it turns out not to be true then they look like fools. Science doesn't even matter anymore.
Chrome desktop, I don't see any colored snow. Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/MovaQ1t

Clicking on the little boxes with the word "snow." does nothing.
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I'm not an expert, but there is for example a comment in the Wiki about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell's_equations...

"Heaviside's equations, which are taught in textbooks and universities as Maxwell's equations are not exactly the same as the ones due to Maxwell, and, in fact, the latter are more easily forced into the mold of quantum physics"

This paper goes into more detail - essentially the Heaviside equations are designed to be easy for electrical engineers to use, through an appropriate choice of gauge (Lorenz), which limits their true scope. Maxwell's magnetic scalar equation has also been ignored:

http://electricspacecraft.org/uploads/3/5/4/1/35412744/new_e...
Slight issue with privacy is that any persistent source with sufficient entropy is going to be a unique identifier, and even low entropy sources when used together create an n^n^n... sized field of identifiers. Same goes for browser fingerprinting, it's the same set of techniques.

> Through apps, CAID collects user device data, such as the device start-up time, model, time zone, country, language and IP address.

Any business whose gross margin per unit is as low as P&G's is effectively an advertising company with a smelly water supplier in the back. We can probably expect the same surveillance techniques from the other CPG manufacturers as well.

The browser itself has become parasitic, and the only viable way to mitigate this predatory advertiser and surveillance problem is to recognize and delineate the difference between what can only be described as the hegemonic internet (hegemonet?) and private channels like matrix/element, or previously irc and other ways of connecting.
So if, say, black males 16-26 are statistically more likely to get into car crash than any other group, it's perfectly legal to make them pay the highest insurance premium, right?
Yeah, remote-first is important, but it's not only it.

Another very relevant factor is that people can just clone stuff, create new projects, and everything moves independently. So the open source development model has a pile of solutions for dependency management that team based development doesn't adopt.

But the one thing I don't get is why team based development doesn't adopt those solution. They are not expensive. Yet, even when I was able to dictate into everybody's requirements, I wasn't able to force teams into adopting them. Instead they insisted on synchronizing themselves by much more expensive and less reliable means. My guess is that most developers never dug any deep into open source and have no idea how it's done.
> Nature have open access publishing charges that seem outrageous, but they were justified by the editing services of full-time professionals

Nature might benefit from full-time professional editors, but that has become a rarity in some fields. Some of the major for-profit academic publishers in linguistics, for example, expect the unpaid editors or the authors to do all the editing, proofreading and even typesetting themselves, and just give the publisher a camera-ready PDF.

A lot of respected journals that are a few decades old were originally published by non-profit learned societies. For-profit publishers convinced them to hand over their journals by claiming that the publisher could provide quality. Then, they gradually stopped providing that added quality.
"All Your Base Belong To Us" was called a meme in 1998, so people already knew what a meme was.
> The temporary monopoly is awarded in return for publicly disclosing your invention.

Reading patents is perhaps one of the WORST and most inefficient ways to discover "new ideas". Even ignoring the turgid legal language, the actual central ideas of the patents are either so vague they're useless or they apply to utterly obsolete scenarios or they just poorly describe something that has already been in existence/usage before, during, and after the patent's existence.

We could do just fine WITHOUT the patent system. Maybe if instead of fretting about diligent Chinese copycats, the USA and its corporations actually built stuff instead of outsourcing everything, we would not need to worry so much about patent infringement.
Patents are a way to encourage sharing ideas.

You can always monopolize an unknown idea. Don't share it.
Is question 1 just asking for the student to sketch the derivative and integral curves of an arbitrary curve sketched by the teacher?

It seems a bit different to the other questions (but is question 1, so might be an "easy" starter.)
I can't because the nearest city to me with 5G is several hours away. The 4G at my house is super spotty. I've used it for Webex calls when my home internet went down and it will mostly handle that, but I would never want to rely on it for my primary connection.
http://electricspacecraft.org/uploads/3/5/4/1/35412744/new_e...
> There are a gazillion ways to develop open source.

Yet every large project behaves in a similar way, with only a few larger variations.
End of support for Firefox on Amazon devices
> One shouldn't be forced to share their ideas.

Patents were designed as a way of allowing people to share their ideas, while retaining the ability to profit from their ideas for a limited period.
Great idea, after all it's impossible to render sensitive data server side :)
With nix you can make anything into a script, there's some people using haskell for example.

I tend to use common lisp but I'm learning guile scheme and will probably move to that instead.
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Cats are domesticating us, we think we are domesticating them.
The pernicious side of network effects and prestige. Need some top down fix for this. Elsevier is benefiting from our tax funded research
> 'Cats are less social aware'

That seemed like speculation in the article ("what seems most likely").
No, I of course believe the zero proof you presented.
> The Chinese cloning threat is largely overrated unless your product is very simple and you have 0 branding

This is proven false by the amount of top-selling products that Amazon has ripped off, produced for less (sometimes by striking a deal with the original factory), and then labeled “Amazon Basics”
The number of technology layers one must understand and control to make GPU draw what VM wants is frankly insane. Hypervisor channels, GPU driver code, graphics server API, graphics toolkit libraries - all these have several variants. It seems close to impossible to get anything done in this space.

I just want to send drawing commands from a node over network to another node with a GPU. Like "draw a black rectangle 20,20,200,200 on main GPU on VM at 192.168.1.102".

How would I do that in the simplest possible way? Is there some network graphics command protocol?

Like X11, but simpler and faster, just the raw drawing commands.
> only the elderly are highly vulnerable to.

This seems to be a big part of your reasoning but I don't think this is true. Yes, risk does skew there. But there are large numbers of non-elderly people who have been severely affected.
Somewhat explained: because they were solitary hunters before domestication, unlike dogs who hunt in groups.
Can anyone compare Ink to Inform? I played with Inform many many years ago and have always wanted to return to it.
SPLC and Wikipedia are not authoritative. Your rambling comment devoid of sources, on the other hand, is academic material on the matter. It really makes you think to see so many accounts created a few minutes ago suddenly appearing to defend a neo-fascist movement.
March 25th is roughly the spring equinox. January 1st is roughly the shortest day of the year. Both seem like reasonable choices.
> Probably more than the world uses in an entire year, but I'm going to leave it as an exercise for the reader.

My back of the napkin estimate says about 7 orders of magnitude more, just to eliminate leap years.
Mask usage is still hugely important.

Masks need to be changed constantly.
> IMHO a screen which displays a common black and white website with so much contrast that it strains the eye is a 100% failed product which completely ignores reality.

A website which has so much contrast that it strains the eye on any spec-compliant monitor or a cheap 1990s CRT is a failed product. Reducing the quality of monitors to compensate for shitty websites can't be the solution.
The plot of an excellent Don Rosa story, "Crown of the Crusader Kings".

Although "excellent" and "Don Rosa story" are redundant :)
> Germany ironically allows very little competition on its rail network so buses have become quite popular as an alternative.

Nothing ironic about this. Rails is as natural an economy as they come. All networks are, but non-packet-based (cars, today's computer networks) ones all the more so.

(And comparing the faux-fluid dynamics and encapsulation overhead explains why computer network packets are mostly good, while cars are atrocious).
Some really basic apps are making mare than $1500 in Kin per week. Some larger ones more than $100k per week.
> There are books written about open source development

There are books written about different authors idealizations of how to do open source development. The fact that many people have written about different methodologies for approaching a particular challenge doesn’t make the challenge a methodology.

And, yes, I am aware that the very approach known as “the bazaar” (from the essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”) is sometimes referred to erroneously as “open source development”, which is a particularly glaring error since all of the examples of both “cathedral” and “bazaar” development were open source projects.
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Do you believe that "just applying TLA+ to the rendering code in Firefox" is a useful thing to recommend to people? TLA+ cannot scale to that size of a codebase without such dramatic simplifications that it's not going to catch any of these kinds of bugs. This is the entire reason why proving safe encapsulation of `unsafe` blocks is possible was so important, it lets you focus the proof engineering effort on a much tinier part of the program. Sure, it can't prove the kind of global invariants TLA+ aims for, but you can also actually apply it to a very large codebase like Firefox (and keep it in sync--another problem you need to deal with when using tools like TLA+).
There is no "scale" so to say. To create MS Windows which has lets say 50 mloc, versus MS Calc which has maybe 1/1000 lines of code compared to Windows you don't "just" write x1000 times more code and done. Writing one Windows is many orders of magnitude harder than writing a thousand Calc sized apps. That's why "scale" don't work, it's not scale, it's difficulty spike.
If you'll hire large enough corp, with several hundred expert programmers (no trainees , no juniors), and do what they think they want - don't interrupt them from flow, schedule almost no meetings, communicate strictly async via email, allow then self organize and self manage - I think that such a project will be an epic sized fail.
And yet it's a less appealing product than Postgres.

An explosion on the number of lines of code is one of the way development teams fail.
It would fit well for Kaczynski's mix of anarchism, anti-smart-tech-revolution and environmentalism, I believe.

He went after AI researchers back then, attacking their hardware would make sense. I mean, I'm probably just a few years and a few bad turns away from seeing AWS & co ("Surveillance Capitalism, Inc.") as a large harm to humanity that needs to be stopped, so I'd be surprised if nobody is thinking that today. The scale of data centers likely makes them super hard targets for the super majority of groups or individuals, which is why we don't see a lot of attacks on them (yet).

I don't have a problem with communists. I do believe that they're coming from a good place, but are fundamentally mistaken in their analysis which does lead some of them down some very dark paths. It just feels like believing in the geocentric model of the universe (or flat earth, I suppose that's more current), which sounds like lots of fun, but would turn weird if you start to realize the person you're talking to actually believes it and isn't joking.
Thanks for links. I had no idea. I tried flying an RC copter some time ago (piston engine) and getting it to hover was a nerve-wracking triumph. These folks and electric motors have taken it into another dimension.
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Not mentioned in the title: It's a 160mhz RISC-V chip
You're thinking of "ahogo". "Ahoyo" doesn't have a meaning but "hoyo" does and it means hole.
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> Why is it OK for huge companies like apple, IBM, Google... to use the patent system to keep out any competitors or newcomers

[citation needed]

Specifically, Oracle notwithstanding, big tech companies have used patent portfolios defensively. Take Google as one example. When has Google filed a patent infringement lawsuit against any company (other than as a countersuit after getting sued eg Sonos)?
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Agile is a fraudulent activity which exists only to provide job opportunities for mostly non-technical management in the form of pointless stand-ups and planning sessions. I have never seen it working in practice. Interestingly, it does not even work in theory, see e.g. the Agile manifesto full of dubious statements about "people over processes" and "maximizing the amount of work not done".
Your "social aware" is very different from they are not "social pack" animals like dogs.

The tldr isn't what you just made up. It's we don't know. It's literally summarized in the last paragraph:

> Despite their popularity, we still know relatively little about how cats think. Future research might show cats’ understanding of humans is even more limited than we currently realise. Alternatively, it might turn out that cats are better able to recognise human social dynamics in different contexts.

But if I were to judge a cat as a little furry human. I wouldn't find that much sympathy for someone that imprisoned me. I guess we have different understandings of how we define little furry humans to begin with.
Marketing/Advertising. The competitors have salespersons who use disinformation and misleading claims to close sales using typical pressure tactics. Tesla needs to inform the market more aggressively about the benefits vs. the other brands.

This is an extreme example of how Audi is marketing vs. Tesla. No mention that the eTron is more than 2x the cost of the Model 3. Or that there is a long range Model 3 with 325 mile range. Or any justification for comparing eTron, an SUV, to Model 3 instead of Model X.

https://www.audifrederick.com/compare/audi-e-tron-vs-tesla-m...
Why so negative? You don't _have_ to do all of that, but as a software engineer you are in the unique position in which you're able to do a bit of all of that _if you want to_. It's like saying: why should I do operations work when I'm a developer. But then DevOps became a thing and every developer was suddenly also an operations guy. Being able to pick up different roles is an extremely valuable skill, and you're limiting yourself if you're drawing an imaginary boundary between technical and non-technical things.
I would think it would be FDR. Sure, Reagan convinced the boomers his policies made them rich...
> The slope is in reality only slippery in one direction.

OK, how about:

- first they came after the white men but I did not speak up for I am not a white man,

- then they came after the heterosexual men but I did not speak up for I am not a heterosexual man,

- then they came after the asian men but I did not speak up for I am not an asian man,

- ... many identity categories elided ...

. they they came after me and there was nobody left to speak up for me...

For sure it is not those "right-wing extremists" who are doing those things I outlined and with that the slippery slope seems to apply to others as well?

Better not to bring up that whole slippery slope thing since it cuts all ways and as such does not add anything to the conversation.
I've seen a few cats that'll bring back toys you throw for them so you can throw it again.
Go might be a decent choice. It’s basically python, but with reasonable type and error handling.

It still has other python-style problems, like epic dependency graphs, with all the compatibility and bitrot nightmares those imply.
> It is a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig download

How big really? Can't be more then 200MB? Should be less then minute to download and install? If you have docker, can you go that route?

Also, if you account the fact that you have variants of many other popular tools included OTB is that really a downside ?

That is certainly different concern, you want fast and practical script programming and why would you care if it has first time latency of couple of minutes if you are set good forever after that ?
A point often missed when talking about SLDC in client work is the client is a major factor in the success of the project and is not always up to the task. I can see how agile could be used as a way to cope with a difficult customer.

The thing with a client/customer work is the clock is ticking at a constant rate and the budget is decreasing at a variable rate. I’d like to research done on methods that try to ensure the two run out at the same time. If you finish on time with budget remaining you’ve left money on the table. If you run out of budget before the deadline you’re in the red. The goal is to run out of budget the moment you reach the deadline.
Ahoyo does have a meaning. It's a conjugation of the (not commonly used) verb ahoyar https://dle.rae.es/ahoyar
You're right, I have myself used it in the past. I have added it and Tailwind under CSS Frameworks. Moved it along with JS Frontend from Design to Frameworks in Software Development, to keep the Design meta.
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You can edit them, there just text files.
Can we do away with this myth that patenting something will somehow put knowledge into the open. Has anyone here actually read a patent? They absolutely will not tell you how to do something. In particular I know for fact that, the things that are actually valuable are either never patented or specifically omitted from the patents so that no one can actually reproduce a method technology from a patent because some crucial steps are missing.
550km is the closest approach. Usually it will be at least sqrt(2) times that (ie at least a slant angle of 45 degrees), maybe 2 times that. Plus the latency from the Gateway to the actual server. And the Gateways can have even greater slant angle to the satellite than the mobile terminals.
This is OT but can you share a little bit more about what it's like living in East Idaho? I grew up in Boise and now live in Chicago but with the way things have been going lately I've been considering moving back, and there's a real appeal to living in a smaller town in the eastern part of the state (my dad was from Twin Falls). Internet access is always a bit of a concern though, which maybe Starlink ameliorates? Sorry to be so off-topic but you're the first person I've seen on HN from eastern Idaho!
Chrome is a product of one of the biggest corporations in the world and marketed and distributed as such.

Firefox was big between 2004-2010 if I recall. Chrome came out in 2008, and needed a couple of a years to really dominate mindshare. The growth of Android helped as well.