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And selling hardware. Software aside, both POWER and s390x have a niche and are legitimately competitive in terms of performance (although cost is another matter).
Few years ago, I needed exactly that, and it didn't work.

I guess I'm not alone: https://www.google.com/search?q=zfs+autoexpand+not+working
In my experience it doesn't take very long on a new keyboard set or even a new layout entirely before one gets fairly up to speed. When I built my Lets Split v2 ortholinear, I put dvorak on it and getting up to speed was surprisingly fast.

The ergonomic reasons behind the lets split/ergodox make them quite worthwhile. I love my HHKB2 but a split keyboard in general feels much better for my posture.
> not only that

By this logic does it not mean that Google is a Russian/Soviet company? Sergey Brin was born and spent some years in Russia, also Google has staff in Russia(and China in this regard)
It's based on a false belief that the feel of these keyboards actually translates into a better experience and is less damaging on the hands/fingers.

There's no proof it's true. It never holds up in studies, and if it was really true these KBs would have stayed mainstream dominant.

It's a weird internet subculture, just like lots of other stuff. It's about having something fancy and/or unique and showing it to the world.
I would argue that, in this case, getting mad at Roku would be like getting mad at my ISP if they blocked Netflix because Netflix didn't pay them extra money. That's a world I hope we never come to (but the ISPs would love it.)
That's why Google and Samsung need to be sued in a similar fashion, too.
Timing also matters. For example, the mouse wasn't very interesting until GUIs became truly widespread.

Also routes to market. Xerox basically did not sell to consumers. Doing so would have involved a major business model shift.
Why is this a huge scam but paying 500k for a baseball card isn’t? To me, a baseball card is equally useless.
The issue here isn’t whether or not the meme is art, I genuinely don’t care about that, it’s whether or not the NFT represents ownership in a way that should convert to a currency value. Given that NFTs give you literally no ownership over the thing, it strikes me less as a tulip and more of a paper tulip being bid up to stratospheric prices.

> I don’t fault you though

Spare me the patronizing attitude, thanks.
I had a coworker blow my mind with the % operator
For what it's worth, I bought an nvidia shield pro and use that. Just like how Roku started, they just make hardware. There are a few subtle adverts are the nvidia remote play stuff (preinstalled applications) but I hardly notice them. They don't have any skin in the streaming space so I find that comforting.

My only slight worry is that it's running on Android TV, so there's always a chance google bans something.
I'd pay money to use real Firefox on my ipad and have access to a good ad blocker
Ripeness of ideas and problems is important; frequently it's hard to tell if they are ripe or not. Attack a problem a decade early and you might be GO, a decade later and you might be Apple.
Just because there's a property doesn't mean that it works. It floats around on the internet, because that's the experience people have.
You might consider the thing that I have, an Nvidia Shield. It appears to work fine and is a lot snappier to use than the Rokus or Fire TVs I've used (also $200ish).

After owning quite a few internet appliances through the years (Roku,Fire,Shield,internet radios,Kindles,etc.) I've noticed that they one thing you can always count on working is a desktop/laptop PC.

edit: I notice that people above have also mentioned the Shield. Sorry for the repeat.

I keep wondering how long youtube will be standable. You can see the ads sneaking in bit by bit over the last few months (5 seconds with cancel, 2 x 5 seconds with cancel, 2 x 6 seconds with cancel, 2 x 6 seconds without cancel on one thing I watch. The worst has been firing up somebody's music list and getting a 5-10 minute(!) ad between each song).

I really should be getting to work on a hoard of videos stored locally. The days of 'free' entertainment are coming to an end.
Covid has disrupted many things in the economy. That alone means some prices will go up. But it might be temporary.
Yeah, I find that the out-of-order execution issue is common with people who have a software development mindset, but for data analysis/science is basically the only sensible way to work. The "load data" command might be one line but takes 3 minutes to run, while a huge chunk of code that plots the data might take 1 second and I might want to tweak it 50 different ways before settling on something that I like/delivers insight. Producing a standalone script that develops the same insight you get from "playing" with the data is an afterthought in some cases.
When does a pandemic end in your definition, as the numbers seem back to baseline in Europe at least?
Can you move your apps,movies, contacts from iOS ?

Can someone kept in the dark by App Store rules even know that he is screwed by Apple?

If Apple is harmed by this can chose not to sell in EU.
I had to use a train to get to school, so lots of public transport use I guess. I only really became germaphobe in my 20s so it's not like a lead a sheltered childhood.
"he knew the Big Five was solid as science"

His discussion is neither critical nor credible.
> Most of the world is not speaking English (but it is using the metric system).

Okay then.

In most of the English-speaking world, and all of the English-speaking metric world, we use the word tonne.

> Is it because they so obviously stole the word from the French?

Perhaps the North Americans could start calling them Freedom Tonnes?
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My keyboard is one of Corsair Cherry MX Silent ones. I love it. I can program all day on it, and it's not loud at all. I don't know how people prefer loud keyboards
Force Apple to allow other billing systems?
They have to add a pass to their Wallet with the confirmation screen, which may be a bit confusing ("I'm not buying anything!"). But that's the only step.
IBM is about 25 times bigger than Red Hat.
Unraid is what you are looking for then
Good comment except this:

> 3. AMD64 is basically internally a RISC.

They decode some rarely used instructions into multiple micro-ops, but these micro-ops can be very complex still. Example:

vfmadd231ps ymm1, ymm2, ymmword ptr [rsi + 4*rcx + 96]

The above instruction computes quite a lot of stuff (first the read address, then 8-wide multiply+add), yet on most modern CPUs including AMD Zen 2 it decodes into a single micro-op.

More often the opposite happens, AMD64 instructions are merged into a single micro-op, this is called macro-op fusion.
>Sure why not

Are you trolling? or do not understand business?
How would you ensure the correspondence between anything and an NFT? You don't. That's why the parent called them worthless.
The most interesting self-control advice I got was to do the opposite. (And I tried it and similarly inspired things, with variations, on some stuff I need a bit of willpower).

Basically, if you want to stop doing something, force yourself to constantly do it – with a deadline. Can’t stop scrolling? Force yourself to only scroll social media for an hour. If you want to quit fast-food, force yourself to only eat fast-food every day for two weeks. If you want to stop doing something, force yourself to overdo it until you just can’t do it anymore. It works even to start doing things: if you struggle, e.g., to work on personal projects, (and you actually like them and sporadically do them), force yourself to not even touch anything like them for a few weeks, and you’ll be super eager. Forced vacations are also inspiring as hell.

Art students get a similar advice: “Every painter has a thousand bad paintings inside of them – get them out of yourself as soon as possible”. Whatever it is you crave and want to stop – just have at it, stuff yourself like a pig and you will look to make an actual change.
Just out of curiosity, which beans?
Since it says "A new way of self-discipline" on the side, I imagine it's marketed for self-bondage and no overrides might be fatal.
When I was around 14, some time in the 90s, I contacted a guy whose ad I had read in a paper magazine by calling him over the landline phone and I asked him to burn Slackware on CDs for me. I sent him something like ~$60 over the mail and a few weeks later I got a package with the CDs. He even printed the covers for them. Today I get mad when a web site says my free download will start in 10 seconds.
I feel reasonably confident that we will probably continue to see decent gains over the medium term of the next few decades, barring major wars. But what is always in the back of my mind is just how long can human civilization continue this incredible rate of exponential growth. If you assume that economic growth requires any amount of increase in energy consumption, then there are physical limits to how much growth can occur over the long term and we are rapidly approaching them[1]. Eventually growth will need to slow and it looks like this is already starting to happen [2]. Japan may be the endgame for most of us. Eventually there could be zero growth and then things become zero-sum which may encourage conflict.

If we are able to colonize other parts of the solar system and export industry off the planet that will allow for several more decades and probably centuries (millenia?) of growth. Hopefully civilization will survive conflict long enough to make this transition.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05244
[2] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/03/15/young-pe...
WW2 didn't make money worthless, COVID-19 didn't make money worthless. A limited nuclear war won't make money worthless. Climate change won't happen fast enough to make money worthless.
Pedantry: what you describe is just "comeuppance". To be schadenfreude, you have to be taking joy in it.

You can have schadenfreude without comeuppance, though that can verge into just plain sadism or gloating. Schadenfreude usually has a connotation that the misfortune is deserved.

So yes, Remain voters (and those who sympathize with them) may definitely be experiencing some schadenfreude watching the Tories hoist by their own petard.
Roku and Google (Chromecast) have always been subsidizing their hardware. Their business is: selling your data, showing you ads, and selling you subscriptions, it was a race to the bottom to get on as may TVs as possible. Which has turned into a really solid business for Roku. But it also means that Roku's business interests will conflict with what's best for their consumers, updating their devices to support AV1, fighting with streaming partners to collect more revenue, and selling their customer's data.

If you want to see what the real cost of these devices with margin would be, look at the comparatively ridiculously priced new AppleTVs.
I think the practice of not using a tool because people could potentially misuse it is misguided in this day and age. Linting and static code analysis are quite capable of enforcing good usage patterns.
Inheritance in the OOP sense can be simply implemented in most languages without OOP. In Javascript:

var o1 = { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 }
var o2 = { x: 1, y: 2, z: 3 }
o1 = Object.assign(o1, o2)
o1.z // 3

o1 has now inherited o2. I don't see much difference between this and classic untyped OOP.

Edit: copying functions over, not values, is what I’m getting at. Values used for simplicity of example
Yes. Because your desktop has a new private key and can’t access the other messages. This is the same if you log into a new device with iMessage.
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This brings back some great memories. I learned so much from the HOWTOs, and I think they played a big part in getting me my first proper tech job. I just had to sit and figure it out, and the process of persevering through the mistakes and dead ends ultimately gave me a level of confidence around computers and technology in general which has been incredibly useful in work and in life.
If this comment is any evidence, your English is good enough that I would be able to learn from what you write.
ducky keyboards are around the $90-$120 range mostly, depending on the model you get. I think they're a great option for a high quality but non-exotic keyboard
Correct- it should go to the workers.
This only follows under the assumption that a company only derives value from the labour of its employees, ie. “there is only labour”.

But there are many other kinds of assets - cash, brand, real estate, natural renewable resources etc.

One could have a zero labour company that is profitable.
It's not been a problem in a number of European countries.

https://oronu.wordpress.com/2021/01/29/mortality-statistics/
i've been thinking the same thing for a couple years now. lots of people keep harping on doomsday scenarios, but it seems too many people have too much invested in the market for it to fail
Ted Lasso is worth watching. Other than that, I didn’t use my year trial either.
Why does it matter "who came first"?
Insert Cory Doctorow rant about Youtube TV's DRM being more about controlling this kind of content access and app usage than it is about protecting against privacy.

Neither Youtube nor Roku should have the final say in whether or not I connect to my own Youtube TV account from a Roku device. In a worst-case scenario, a 3rd-party client could be created and distributed by either Roku or by Roku's users (see projects like NewPipe on Android). But with Youtube TV, building that app would require breaking DRM, which would kill the project if it ever got any bigger than being someone's side-hobby.
There business was never “selling hardware”. The business plan was always to sell hardware at break even and make money via advertising and continued monetization of customers.

The CEO admitted as much on a ReCode (?) podcast.

You can not profitable provide a “good product” by selling a bunch of $25 sticks.
It's an affordable linear daw. It works well and is stable.

Where did you even get the idea that it was for programmers?

Im surprised it runs on a raspberry pi at all, but i seriously doubt that's a major consideration. Most people would think it's insane to run any major production off a pi.

It's not the same kind of workflow as reason or FL studio or bitwig or ableton. It's not meant to work that way.
Amazingly, HR even advertises that you shouldn't trust them in the name Human Resources.

I've thought about referring to my coworkers as "Resource <Last Name>" so many times...
Building a “Search by Audio” App
The law says that the fees paid for IP in this way have to be plausible. Franchising is a long-established business model and nobody would run a franchise if the franchise fee ate all the profit. So Starbucks' franchise fees are not plausible. Why doesn't HMRC challenge this? I've no idea.
And the Fed is starting to walk back their prediction that an interest rate rise before 2023 is unlikely.
Prediction: they'll be lost.

Why?

Because things that do not have intrinsic value tend to get lost at a very high rate and things that do have intrinsic value tend to get stolen, and then are lost.

If it happened to 99.99% of all the works of humanity from 1300 years ago, including some very precious ones it will almost definitely end the same way for these none-precious stones.

This is a study in provenance, especially because there isn't anything special about the stones other than being 'the ones', and I like the project as such but the cynic in me can't help but look around and fail to see even a single object from that long ago that didn't have a whole religious order dedicated to keeping it protected through centuries of upheaval and turmoil.

That said, I wish the stone keepers the best of luck and I do hope that it will work, but the value for me is in thinking about the project and its consequences, not so much in the execution.
Slackware was the first Linux I managed to successfully setup on my home PC back in 2000, dial-up modem driver including, and was quite happy with it, it taught me everything I know about Linux.

Things are 10x more complex now, it seems you need Docker or a browser to run most software, I miss the simplicity of just configure && make && make install.
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I should have mentioned that I was thinking of a long term scenario. 20-30 years. The covid real estate market is... interesting.
I wouldn't call some random person howling at the moon a fire alarm.

Never mind that online people have been predicting super inflation since at least 2009. I remember a Youtuber in 2009 that knew economics more than President Obama's advisors because Duck Tales did an episode on inflation.

But I guess by defining inflation as "stocks going up" the Duck Tales expert could have made it categorically impossible to be proven wrong since stocks tend to go up, further removing Duck Tales guy from the mainstream.
Oh yes, it's similar to a lot of other 'enthusiast' things, like high-end audio, cameras and guitars.

I got into keyboards because I wanted a lockdown project. I figured I could learn a little about electronics and firmware, learn how to solder, and even perhaps make something that would be useful at work. Keycaps can be a complete rip-off, and my keyboard is fitted with a mixture of caps that I've scrounged from various places.

And when we finally get back to the office, a super-noisy mechanical keyboard will help my project of being allowed to WFH as much as possible ;-)
This is actually how our autoscaling works. Since it works based on concurrent connections, it should be pretty good fore Liveview apps.

https://fly.io/docs/reference/scaling/#autoscaling
A couple of points:

I'm an American, with experience in the US

Illegal Discrimination is determined by the jurisdiction you are in. Belgium will have different laws than than the US

Laws typically PROTECT vulnerable populations. Young people might be correlated with poor and uninformed, and there by entitled to protections. Likewise, Seniors may also correlate with underemployed and mentally impaired, and there by entitled to protections.

Note also that there is an important difference between the two scenarios:

1) 2 IDENTICAL products, but one is FREE
2) 2 SIMILAR products, but one exchanges convenience for cost

In the first example (similar to your example), one is DEFINITELY better (the free one), and CAN be targeted to people- because it is DEFINITELY better

In the first example (similar to my credit card), neither is DEFINITELY better than the other - it is a little more complex! And we have a higher burden showing that it is OK to offer JUST one to a protected class.
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Like many too-big-to-fail outfits, Apple and Google's products are so ubiquitous in our life. Since they both never actually have a finished software product, it is difficult (if not impossible) to even evaluate it. We’re stuck waiting for their update, as the answer to any problem or question. They’re Bill and Teding us with their ability to manufacture reality
I do understand business. You understand that customers are free to move on if they don't like a business' practices right? There are business's today whose websites only work on certain browsers, so I don't know what you're going on about to begin with.
Not only this, but with the near zero interest rates and perceived impending hyperinflation, people are taking out massive margin loans to bet on assets. Archegos isn’t the only one, they just happened to get caught with a dumb position. When the interest rates kick up, we’ll likely see a dual effect here(stocks react, high rates mean it’s harder to service debt for speculators and actual companies) and a 2008-like scenario except our bad bet is on stocks instead of mortgages
It’s become a trope that the news written about topics we know is woeful and unreliable, yet we trust the news written about anything else.

Now I feel the same about HN. I know a decent amount about this topic - and the comments on this article are a dumpster fire so far.

Hot take after hot take from people who didn’t understand the article, but act as if they did.

Is the rest of HN like this, too?
This is called a martingale bet (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)). Doubling down on losses would be an example of a martingale bet.
FUD = fear , uncertainty and doubt.

>But long story short, I like things as they are and don't want them to change. If developers don't like that they can kick rocks. I'd rather have no apps and no App Store than to see things change, frankly.

Who would force you to change? you could buy the US iPhone version with the diamond handcuffs.

>Well, judging by all the requests I get to fix things on computers versus iPhones...

Then good job to Apple PR and fanboys, the stories about Apple malware and viruses were burried very deep.

>Yes you have to give the browser permission.

So why this model will not work if you sideload an app? Do you need genius to check the menus of the app so you feel secure?
I personally use a combination of Xbox and Chromecast, which is plugged into the hdmi-in for Xbox. Almost all of the popular services like netflix, prime, hbo, Twitch, Disney etc are available on the Xbox as native apps. For the odd ones which don't exist Chromecast works well. Xbox even has the Kodi app so you can point it to your FTP/WebDAV server and watch movies from there. I personally use a seedbox and stream from there on the Xbox Kodi app. As a bonus, Xbox is also going to get the full fledged chrome browser soon.
The latest Chromecast is an Android TV box with its own remote (in the stick form factor). Coming from Google, it's probably the highest quality Android TV box you'll find, and quite affordable. It does come with some Google "bells and whistles", but nothing I found intrusive, and they can be disabled.
No, .deb is safer. You can manually unpack it into a folder without running any scripts as root.
There's a lot of useful command-line tooling for KVM- and QEMU-based virt. Here's a small selection of them:

• virsh — This[1] is libvirt's shell interface; and gives you access to the rich set of libvirt APIs.

• virt-builder — Use this for rapidly building minimal or customized virtual machines; it's greatly flexible; check out its man page[2]. And here's[3] a quick example that connects both virt-builder and virsh together.

• virt-install — Use this if you don't like the default build of the template images from virt-builder; it lets you create "headless" servers via 'kickstart' and Linux OS trees from the command-line.

• guestfish and libguestfs suite[4] — This rich set of tools help you in a variety of use-cases: repairing your broken disk images, editing, cloning, debugging disk images, and more. It has saved my behind a lot of times.

• qemu-img[5] – This Swiss Army knife lets you powerfully manipulate disk images (QCOW2, raw, et al) offline. Example operations include: create images, backing chains, offline snapshots, disk image merging, ability to convert disk images from one format to another, and more.

[1] https://libvirt.org/manpages/virsh.html

[2] https://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html

[3] https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools/virt-builder/about...

[4] http://libguestfs.org/

[5] https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/qemu-img.html
Discussed at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26849131 (210 points/42 comments)
There's an app that wraps QEMU called UTM. It's open source but also you can pay $10 and get it on the app store.

I have had a lot of trouble with machines getting corrupted, not working at all, locking up, but I did get a Debian machine working that runs ARM Linux on my Macbook Air M1.

https://getutm.app/