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>spoiler: this argument is dead and nobody will ever go back to native apps again)

Not with that attitude it won't. Yeah. 90% of tech offerings only work based on monetization and hostage taking of consumer data. Normal people are starting to pick up on this. All the techbros looking to score that hot, sweet -aaS money are blind to it and desperately hoping their market dominance and spend can keep people from digging through the native computing stack.

Need end to end encrypted file transfer? VPN and NFS is your friend. Need chat? IRC, at your service. Also exposable through VPN, so you can limit the audience. Want Doc updates where your secrets and in progress stuff is guaranteed to not get pored over by some intern or Admin somewhere? See above. Want no bloody ads and not to be snooped on? Set that stuff up homey. I've got a young'un whose mind is blown away at the fact games used to even exist that didn't need n internet connection.

The desktop metaphor is fine. What isn't fine is the normal person's technical education/on ramping. The old approach was teach programs first, then the protocols and problem classes they solve. Now it seems to stop at just teaching programs, because there is so much out there that is doing the same exact thing, but different branding, there's never enough time to dig into what is going on under the covers.
The notification center or whatever it's called that's available in pretty much every modern OS would be a good location for such stuff. It's available, retrievable and not in the way when you don't want it.
> Smoking is magnitudes more addictive than alcohol.

No it is not magnitudes more addictive. Alcohol is extremely addictive, 1 in 12 Adults in the US has an alcohol problem [1] and withdrawal can literally kill you, unlike nicotine.

1. https://www.ncadd.org/about-addiction/alcohol
For documents longer than a page or two, I start with a mindmap. I used to start with an outline, but once I got the hang of mindmaps, I consider them essential software.

Amassing and organizing ideas is different than writing and benefits from a different tool. I find mindmapping fun.

I use freeplane https://www.freeplane.org.
My point is that you purchased the land but never signed a contract with the HOA. The deed was the agreement with the previous owner to legally transfer the land. The benefits and burdens run with the land.
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The color (and much more importantly the condition) of your house certainly does affect someone else.
So does Hydroxychloroquine and UV rays
This[1] rather lengthy article suggests that the issue there isn't the salt, but rather the interaction between the salt and the raw fish which causes carcinogenic compounds to form.

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK304384/
Literary criticism isn't it though, the reason people don't care is that those critics doesn't laud the books people like. If they dug up new Harry Potters to take the world by storm people would care, but as is there is little value in their work. If you think that Harry Potter isn't good then you are one of the bad gate keepers since that kind of book is what people wants to read.
If it wasn't obvious this was a joke, the following paragraph starts with:

"Jokes aside..."
Many stores closed. But Walgreens was one of the few stores that were allowed to remain open so that may have led to a bump in traffic, particularly as they sold masks, disinfectants, medicine, bottled water, toilet paper, and all that stuff that people during the pandemic wanted to buy.

But it's tough to say how much each factor contributed. We do know that Walgreens' parent company lost 1.7 Billion in the third quarter of 2020 but swung to a 300M profit in the 4th quarter and is doing well overall so far in 2021, so nationally they did take a hit but that ended 8 months ago.
>No political signage from one party.

Um, ya, if they are dumb enough to write that in the bylaws feel free take them both to state and federal court for civil rights violations.
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First of all $100,000 is significantly more than any Walgreens can reasonably produce. That is $70 per minute assuming 24hr/day operation. Most Walgreens have at most two registers open, and the average purchase, which takes more than a minute is probably lower than $30. Then they have operating expenses on top of that, and the margins are very slim, usually single digit. Remove $1000 per day and you might very well make it a loss.
It seems like int vs bigint is brushed off rather quickly here. bigint is twice the size of int, therefore indexing will be larger as well. Furthermore, all the FK storage and indexing will also be bloated by this choice. If you design a customer table with a bigint PK, and everything will point to customer (invoices, billing statements, etc), then that's not an insignificant amount of space. While most of us may want to have "billions served" like McDonald's, the reality is my company and your company will never have 2 billion customer accounts, even in the wildest of imaginations. If you ever did reach this point, it's "a good problem to have" and relatively easy to move from int -> bigint. Moving in the reverse direction is likely difficult or impossible.

It would be nice to see real benchmarking on millions of rows to compare the three, but my gut tells me you use int by default, bigint if you outgrow int, and UUID if you have plenty of money for hardware and need distribution capabilities a UUID would enable.
If you think it might be a car bomb, I would suggest not trying to destroy it without training. Best to call the police and let them deal with it.
Brad Carvey was the inspiration for Garth Algar. In Wayne's World 2, Garth can be seen wearing a Video Toaster T-shirt as tribute.
What the heck, z-index??
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold

Wikipedia recommends doing things, not talking.

Articles are also graded, I don't know what article GP is talking about but I'd say anything below "good article" is fair game.
> Indeed. If I, say, allow drug addicts to camp out on my front lawn and defecate on it, I'm probably going to make the neighborhood as a whole less desirable to live in and hence reduce property values. The net effect of that is the same as literally taking money from you. Is that harm? Because it's really hard to draw a sharp line between that and the wrong color of shutters.

It's really easy - the former example is actually illegal in most places and the local LE will deal with you if someone complains. No HOA needed.
I can uninstall Microsoft Office from my work Mac but Intune will put it right back because it knows I simply need it to open work documents :)

We don't always have a choice.
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Neural DSP sounds pretty good to me, and they’re new.

Source: https://youtu.be/MhnkGMBn1tw
"The Buddhists think you don’t quit addictions, you become a new person who isn’t an addict." - this really resonates with me. Don't say "I should do better" - change who you are and what you want will change.
> You mention Kickstarter, but looking at the list of crowdfunded projects, most of the successful ones were quite a while ago

If you want to see Kickstarter projects that failed because of lack of advertisement, I suggest you to go Kickstarter itself[1]... you may have better luck than going on the List of highest-funded crowdfunding projects, which is mostly unrelated to Kickstarter.

You'll see that most of them doesn't require much money to works. The only reason they doesn't get that money is their lack of advertising. Sure they could buy ads, but you'll see that they all are pretty niche too, they can't just get the same advertising as a bus stop, that would be just too absurd and cost them 100x more than their current goal.

You can believe they just doesn't deserve to exist, that's fair, but that's not the point. The point is to show the importance of advertising and how niche project just couldn't reach their audience if you make it harder and harder to reach.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?raised=0&sort=...
"the Hoosiers"? I know what the word means, obvi, just seems an odd wording for a judicial finding.
Where is this social contract written? I don't see anything about welfare in the constitution.
I’ve thought about that, but for now I can manage with rsync. I’ll look at it again if I have to collaborate with non-technical people though.
I believe there are a whole slew of diet modifications that are believed to increase lifespan in humans >10%.

Doesn't make people eat that diet...
The board can’t just create new rules. Everyone has the opportunity to vote and the HOA is restricted by the bylaws.
I don't want to kick the hornet's nest, but isn't MSG avoidance just an example of nocebo? It's just a salt right and its connection to headaches has never actually been established, it's jut something people say.
I just have a special "sanitised" screen for screen sharing :)

Also helps because it's 1280x1024 so I'm not pushing the 4K pixels of my main screen over Teams.
I've never smoked (thanks mom for the negative example), but reading Atomic Habits made something about it and other habits clear to me: habits are part of your identity. The best/strongest way to start or end a habit is to convince yourself you are no longer that person. Not "I'm trying to exercise more." I am someone who exercises. Not "I'm trying to stop smoking." I am not a smoker.

This is really hard with smoking because there are so many cues that are tied to it. I recommend the book for some help, it has helped me be a much better version of myself.
For the local development scenario, I made an open source utility that uses the setuid bit to change the UID/GID of a particular user and any files that user owns inside of the container at runtime:

https://github.com/boxboat/fixuid
^TW .. By default it word wraps files, so editing source files with long lines gets a bit annoying, I know one can save the default options, but I've used this shortcut a lot of times that I know it by heart.
seems like you never used an Axe Fx
Related to this, a lot of the reason smokers around me smoke is to just go outside. It’s an excuse to hang out on the porch. You might think that such a societal excuse isn’t needed, but it’s a powerful force.
Just picking up on the Queen Bee point - there can be multiple queen bees created, and when they hatch the first thing they do is kill all unborn queens and then fight to the death any that also hatched.
In what discipline?
In Electrical Engineering a fuse circuit breaker or receptacle may be used thousands of times and in dozens of redesigns.
JFTR, few hours ago I googled "Qt+WordStar plugin" and found only two mentions of it (both seems like from you) - its curious that Google not show your GitLab repo is search results.[0,1]

> I need to build it, so I can compile my Wordstar-flavored editor plugin for QtCreator (maybe I'm giving away my age here).[0]

:)

[0] https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/qt-creator/2014-May/0...

[1] https://forum.qt.io/post/370764
The fact that you consider that the author's political opinions undermine the piece tells more about you than it tells about the article.

Further, how would you categorize Cardoso in the political spectrum? I mean, that is the one consensus about his administration, which encompassed privatization of state services, privatization of banks, outsourcing of workers and other state services, opening of the national market to foreign companies.
granted this org/source isn't the most credible, it still made for an interesting listen. https://wisetraditions.libsyn.com/105-salt-friend-or-foe-pri...
So, in Nix (and in NixOS) there is no /bin and there is no /usr/share.

So either A.res gets installed at /nix/store/abcdef-A-1.0/share/A.res and at /nix/store/xyw123-A-1.1/share/A.res, in case A.res is part of A, or, if it's considered a dependency, then it gets installed at /nix/store/jgh456-some-other-package-2.3/share/A.res which both A-1.0 and A-1.1 depend on.

Also, A-1.0 and A-1.1 may depend on exactly the same "some-other-package" or they may depend on different versions, which would be OK since the hash of some-other-package will be different for different versions (or different variations of the same version), so there would never be a conflict.

As other posters mentioned, there is something called a user profile (and a system profile for NixOS) which does contain symlinks to the final binaries that are supposed to be in $PATH for some user (or all users, in the case of the system profile).

But these are only symlinks to the top-level binaries. The binaries themselves (and all their dependencies, including data and other binaries) contain hardcoded paths, they don't get redirected through symlinks. So once the top-level symlink gets resolved by your shell, everything is hardcoded from then on, no package sees some half-between state of their data or their dependencies' data or binaries.

You could even have multiple versions of the same package running at the same time without any conflict, as long as their mutable data is stored in different directories. For example, you can have different versions of Firefox running at the same time, as long as they use different Firefox profiles (if you try to run the same Firefox profile with different versions of Firefox at the same time, the second Firefox will complain that it is already running, as it should -- this is not very different from trying to run the same program twice at the same time).

And also, these user profiles are themselves updated/modified atomically through a single symlink, so your effective $PATH is either the old one or the new one, but never anything in-between.

PS: to answer your question, yes, we do indeed make sure that binaries know to look for resources in the right place.

Rather than look for the files relative to their path, usually packages have a "./configure" script which allows someone to tell where to install resources such as data files, man pages, etc. Usually people install resources in /usr/share or /usr/local/share (or even $HOME/share in some cases). In Nix, we just tell the package to install their files in /nix/store/abcdef-A-1.0/share and binaries will usually know where to find these resources based on the path provided to ./configure (and if for some reason they don't, we do patch source files to make sure that they do).
have there been any legal cases where the overlay was not sufficient?
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The covenant is simply something you have agreed to with the purchase of the property. And yes, you agree not to sell to anyone who doesn't also agree to the covenant. Are you saying that after you have signed this contract you should be suddenly let out of it? That could create actual damage to other property owners (via lower property values) who only bought there because everyone has to abide by the covenant.
In my attic there is a dusty box with a multi effects unit from the 90's.

The reason I stopped using it is that it is not that the fuzz doesn't react to the guitars volume pot like a Fuzz Face or because the Tubescreamer was a TS9 not an 808. It was because having a single box with all of your effects in is a faff to tinker with. I like the dedicated hardware of my pedals, I like having the right number of knobs. I like being able to turn off the fuzz but keep the delay by stepping on the fuzz switch. I like being able to run the TS before or after the fuzz and to see it happen. I mentally am much more at home with little boxes for each stage, it is like a real world flow chart!
> How many people are actually effectively organizing their data in files?

Most people, in their jobs, every day.

Just as they did before the advent of computers, too.
Search on the desktop has been tried (and is being tried) today: Unity (of Ubuntu) and Gnome Shell (of Gnome 3) are mostly search-focused interfaces (interestingly, Unity worked much better for me at finding the right stuff, and it was based on Xapian vs the Gnome provided tracker based on Lucene IIRC).

On Ubuntu (recent versions have Gnome Shell, older versions had Unity), press the "Windows" key, and type away...

There's certainly a lot to complain about in both of those implementations (esp speed), but to get a feel for what such UX would look like, try them out.
Yes, just like when you bought the land you were under many other non-HOA restrictions, like you couldn't install a waste processing plant where your house is.

Many Americans idea of freedom is completely out of touch with the reality on how land contract law works.
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Yes this 100% :D

I have all the stuff I work on on my desktop. When that gets full, I move everything into a folder "Old Desktop" which I place on the desktop. Of course this isn't the first time I did that. So this folder contains a chain of many such "Old Desktop" folders :')

It leads to interesting discussions sometimes such as "why do you have a 200GB roaming profile???". Organisationally though I can find stuff back really easily. While I traverse the chain of "Old Desktop"s I see other documents from the same timeframe which brings me back really easily.

In fact more organised people are often surprised how quickly I manage to dig up ancient stuff for them. They tend to lose track of things over time, probably when they move to a new PC or file hoster or whatever. I've really become the "Do you still have that inventory from 2007?" guy at work. I see no reason to change it at all.
Go read House of Leaves and then see if you still have the same opinion. That is a story that can only be told in the form of a book.
If you can demonstrate a pattern of ignoring complaints about signage re: one party, and enforcement of signage for another, regardless of what is written in the bylaws, you probably have a solid case.
I used small CPU cores if pretty much all my FPGA projects.

For example, if I need an I2C controller for a one-time configuration of some external device, instead of adding a a hardware controller, I just bit-bang an I2C protocol on the IO pins. Once, that configuration is done, the CPU is then used for some other small task.

The use of small embedded CPUs in FPGAs (or in ASICs too) is very common. The capacity of FPGAs is always increasing, and iterating a bug fix in hardware can take hours or even days. With a soft core CPU, updating the embedded firmware can take minutes. For ASICs, you'd need a silicon spin, of course.
> Because it is not possible to forbid procreation to ones who cannot provide enough starting capital to their children.

Neither possible nor desirable, what on earth made you think I was suggesting such an absurd dystopian notion?

> But one can still consider that irresponsible.

No. Making children is our #1 biological imperative. In a sense, it's the only "objective" purpose we have on this land: generate descendants before we die. It's absurd to say poor people are to blame if they want to have children.

> Providing to children some basic capital resources that are necessary for living in society could be done by significant share of population.

Not sure what you're arguing for here.
It does.

Yet I've had friends harassed by "free speech advocates" for offering professional criticism of bigoted ideas. It becomes very clear that the people who have managed to plant a flag on "free speech" as a thing that needs defending are simply using it for other means.
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>It wasn't that the US had a nefarious plot to ensnare the border countries in a US-dominated alliance. They desperately wanted in

The US didn't admit them to NATO because of the volume of their begging. It admitted them because it let them put military bases right on the border of its geopolitical rival.

Similarly when Cuba begged the Soviet Union for nukes a year after a failed US invasion attempt, the Soviet Union didn't put them there just because it was felt sorry for them.

In both cases the countries were legitimately seeking protection from invasion though.

I'm not really sure if it's practical for Russia to try and make its neighbors "feel safe enough to quit NATO". In all likelihood any overtures would be treated as a sign of weakness. But, maybe you have ideas about practical steps Russia could take that would convince Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia to quit NATO. I'd be curious if you did.
> why should someone who no longer has ownership be allowed control of something they sold?

Because the law gives them that right, and you are not going to find any kind of majority that is going to change that.
I tried a cigarette like 8 years ago and I still feel the lure sometimes, very odd.
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The best thing about "web apps" like that is that they're available on desktops that aren't Windows. ;)
My experience of Hacker News comments is not positive. They tend to be very convincing but actually kinda bullshit (or just vacuous), which is arguably a lot worse than communities that are transparent.
The things you read online... Like I said in another comment, making children is our #1 biological imperative. In a sense the only "objective" purpose it can be said we have in life is generating descendants before we die. It's ridiculous to say that the poor and capital-deprived persons in this world should abstain from starting families. The very suggestion borders on eugenics.
Can you name some companies that have died from a week's worth of developer shortfalls?

Should probably restrict this to companies that had revenue and paid its employees.
Because that is how deed restrictions work.
I threw a static page for something like it a while back: https://onehumanrace.io

Folks pay u in charitable donations for your time.
One of TPB founders was on Darknet Diaries recently saying this about Sweden. I wonder if it is true.
If the revenue is $100k and the profit margin 1%, additional losses of 1% is killer.
What you say makes logical sense, but I share some of the OP's frustration, and it was particularly confusing when I started using a Mac, having come from the Windows world. Heck, if we're being really logical, why isn't opening stuff the exact opposite of closing stuff? If that were true, opening a file would do nothing if its application weren't already running — and I don't think anyone wants that.
I said shared ownership of buildings and structures, not of land. Wouldn't that eliminate that loophole?
Walgreens is not a grocery. Its official tagline is "Your go-to for Pharmacy, Health & Wellness and Photo products." In practice, it offers some foodstuffs that a Grocery might have like instant noodles, but does not market itself nor compete as a Grocery.

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

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