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Older compositor like compiz and compton. I have only used Wayland with Gnome 3. Without compositor I experienced screen tearing. Less popular desktop environments and window managers usually only support X.

My subjective feeling is that the snappiness is better in Windows than Linux and MacOS. I think that the pure desktop experience (moving & resizing windows, graphics, font rendering, login/logout, shortcuts, etc) is still unbeatable on Windows. What has gone downhill for Windows is the changes due to mobile & tablet adaptions and the cloud integration (Microsoft account vs local account etc).

I needed to install more up to date graphic libraries thru a PPA to avoid artifacts and weird rendering for a Steam installed game (Crusader Kings 3). Lutris is great, but to my understanding you need to manually install dxvk to get the best performance (someone can correct me on that (and Wine 6 broke a lot of things)). Also make sure you are running the correct gfx kernel module or otherwise hack your grub file.

Yes, you can disable swap entirely and hope it doesn't affect stability. By default Ubuntu creates a 2GB swap file, but if you are on a 16GB machine (not an unusual setup for a desktop computer) that can fill up pretty quickly and Linux will go into a swapping frenzy. You can't even ssh into the machine, just hard reboot or hope it recovers this hour.

When this happens the first time, it is not obvious that it is the swap file that is at blame for what happened. I'm not sure if it even exist a GUI for chaining the swap file size in Gnome (Disks app maybe?). But if you manage to change the swap file size, you have to decide, can I turn it off and hope nothing breaks or should increase it to match whatever RAM or more. It is weird that a desktop operating system ships with a feature that doesn't work.
No major release has ever done this to me. I have a desktop PC which I first installed Windows 10 on in 2015, and where I initially turned off the stupid "standby after 20 minutes of inactivity" setting, whatever it's called, and not once have I ever need to repeat that action. On that computer or any other.
This will probably never happen. The killer feature of Windows is backwards compatibility. It can run apps that are 30 years old. A less than stellar developer experience isn't as big of a concern for Microsoft.

We have seen them attempt to ease some of the pain with COM and .NET, but under the hood the old APIs always live - many remaining bug compatible to keep existing apps working.
Your risk analysis is not scientifically valid. There is no reliable evidence that moderate sunlight exposure increases all-cause mortality.
Windows NT api is the better one. Simple examples: all io is async, kernel memory is paged.
Does anyone have any good pun SSIDs ending in _nomap?
Portability is not a problem, my employer provides me with a powerful laptop that I keep permanently. They are different tools that serve me in different situations.
I'm glad most HN people are defending her and not being total diks about how she got away with a bunch of money she didn't really work for.
I would have phrased it like this:

Middle class kids (and above) get good education handed to them on a silver platter while poor kids will have to fight tooth and nail to scrape their own education together.

It's not impossible but if you were that determined you could learn even better in a good school so the relative downside for poverty still persists. What you are setting yourself up for is not becoming poor. That's good but it is clearly not fair.
I looked through the website you linked, and I was greeted with pages and pages of stuff. Technical specifications, diagrams, and an introduction that has two sections going over microfilm. Yet I couldn't find the answer to the one question I actually had: "Why?"

What is the use case for this system? How will this actually benefit me? What problem is this solving?
Have the providers buy insurance to cover those rare 10x cases and add that insurance fee to the cost of the procedure.

The patient gets an "out the door" price and those most qualified (doctors and insurance companies) can argue about the actual cost.

Even if the costs ended up exactly the same, the patient would not be stressed by the "surprise" bills and out-of-network nonsense.
Well Judging by the blog a person working in ads recently published it's perfectly fine to throw up these dark patterns and misleading terms in the name of "free internet". And to top it off half of their half million salary is donated so any residing moral debt is taken care off like so.
still using mine.
Interestingly it used to be that someone would (for free and without solicitation) drop a book on my doorstep that contained a list of thousands of people's names along with their home address and telephone number. The last time I remember this happening was only 10 years ago. It's fascinating how our threat models regarding privacy have apparently changed so significantly.
I bought both of these last year and although the reMarkable 2 has a great story, the software significantly lets it down. The Boox Note Air isn’t quite as good (but it is negligible in my experience) of a “on-paper” writing experience but its software is significantly better if you want to do anything other than take hand-written notes.
Most of HN's userbase will offer the same asinine responses to questions like that:

"because western imperialism/protecting the interests of rich land owners is good",

"because the alternative is worse, just trust me bro", or

"because the local population doesn't know what's good for them and/or are/were brainwashed"
I guess this is similar to the Fallout 76 "physics is tied to framerate" snafu (where looking at the ground makes you go faster because the fps goes up...)

https://gamerant.com/fallout-76-speed-hack/
Unless the hackers control 50%+ of the mining?
At this point, Firefox should adopt Gemini to protect the open web.
Any chance to block this via my router for example?

Is there an IP list anywhere?

And, do you know what data they send?
This is a truly impressive degree of projection. You are guilty of everything you accuse him of. You have no critical thinking ability, you are unable to argue your position at all, you make all sorts of wild accusations, and you are contributing to this not being "the smartest forum on the planet". I just looked at your profile and I see that you are Dutch, so this is really no surprise. Most arrogant people on the planet.
So why is it ethical to eat kangaroos, but not cows?
In many cases SSR is automatically better, including the ones you're talking about, because page rendering errors get thrown in an environment you have more control over, as well as faster devices rendering your already fast pages even faster. In my experience, enterprise work stations are clunky abominations, and if you can save someone some ram and battery why not? It also gives you a platform for building other kinds of non-gated apps that inherit the same benefits.

You might think you have control over the environment someone accesses the app in, but you don't, at least not entirely, and why not just make it as easy as possible to get their work done however they want?

Of course, this doesn't make your thing automatically better all around. That's a design and implementation problem. But you do potentially help everyone by starting at the bottom
I play lots of multiplayer games on Linux. Multiplayer is a crap excuse for requiring a rootkit and if I really needed that I would just put emunand on my switch and call it a day.
A pencil sharpener that creates a never-ending pencil (2015)
"Well, we barred them from doing it within our borders" is not a great example of a democracy in action. These firms were allowed to operate a criminal enterprise until 2017 on the voters' home soil. Just because it wasn't against the laws at that time doesn't absolve the political leadership of responsibility.
I wonder if you could’ve written a check for $350 (or any amount), marked as “paid in full,” and would have the same outcome. I bet either 1) no one actually looks at the checks or 2) $3,500 is not significant enough for them to fight for at all when a bunch of people are delinquent on $350,000 bills.
I, too, had a very bad cold in December 2019 and January 2020. With a lot of exhausting dry cough and no unusual bacteria cultivated from samples. Five weeks of utter misery.

But I had regular Covid-19 a year later and the disease felt completely different. Whatever was running around Central Europe back then must have been something else.
Millions of people were killed by communist regimes
just because you create slack channel for something.. or everything :D, doesn't mean that the reviewer will have more spare time to look at your PR. ;)
Sounds like a result of poor urban planning. My travels have taught me that these generally aren't all stuffy people desiring "yuppie slums"—it just happens that these are the only types of housing available near where the jobs are.
If amazon, google, and facbeook become the economy, then there is still much more room for upside. We saw this with Covid in which Amazon and Walmart became major suppliers and distributors of goods and services.
Yes of course because the world is really that simple.
The Rivera comment is off-base: the movement on his pitches was because of his particular skill in throwing a cutter, not anything against the rules.

I agree baseball selectively enforces rules. But I think the spitball has been enforced since the 1980s/Gaylord Perry era. And Joe West is a particularly egregious umpire, probably the worst in the game.
While I agree with the general point you and the op are making, I don’t think your specific assertion is correct. Covid attack rates have exhibited significant overdispersion; some people infect large numbers of other people, but most infect one or no other people. Given this, the fact that the people with these anecdotes didn’t infect anyone they know of is not evidence that they did not have covid (though again, I do think you’re correct that they didn’t have it).
I mean, there isn't any indication that they've changed course since 1993, so what's the issue?
Hopefully replaced with better consumer and worker protections.
This is true but it's also a tremendously annoying api to use.

I think there would be a future for a better system interface that has all upsides of the win32 api, and none of the downsides.
Note that there are other AP location databases in addition to Google's, such as Apple's or https://wigle.net/ , the latter being publicly searchable.
I have a $2 notebook from Muji sitting in my drawer but it's too nice to write in. It's $2!!

Japan is on a whole other level with writing and stationary. Go to a Tokyo Hands or Muji and you'll feel like the type of person that should be writing constantly. I can't imagine we would fetishize writing so much if computers didn't exist.
Very true, but I wasn't actually comparing myself to anyone, just offering an additional data point.
I don't care about poor people either. All I care about is a system that sets everyone up for success. I know it's possible and I know it would help poor people, but we aren't there yet.
Interesting concept. Would be great to have more technical details about how a model performs. Having a sense of the size, accuracy, platforms supported, and other simple benchmarks would be really helpful to evaluate a model before making a purchase.
Depends what you mean by domestic staff. With the at least somewhat common exception of au pairs if both halves of a couple work, people in the West don't typically have full-time dedicated staff because income disparities are mostly not that great until you get into the 1% or smaller slices of the population.

What I'm sure most Googlers--and indeed many middle class people to greater or lesser degrees--use is a lot of shared services such as tradespeople, lawn care if they have a house, meal delivery, grocery delivery, car services, housekeepers, etc. You mostly don't need people full-time but many do consume people doing stuff for them that they could do themselves on a regular basis.
I have a Macbook Pro (though 15") and a PC, but also a ridiculously underpowered Chromebook with a crappy 11" 1366x768 screen. Lately I find myself when I'm on the run in the city to grab the Chromebook and ssh to my desktop (I've got Zerotier set up). This is my ultimate portable duo. It could be better, but it is lightweight, battery runs full day and I have all power I need. Then when I get back I have it even better with less latency.
Yes, diffs of entire documents. Our system works differently.
There is a book called Visual Thinking by Williemien Brand which goes over drawing basic things. I love it because the author did amazing research into how to draw things with the least effort. I use it to supplement my notes.

The beautiful part of the remarkable 2 is that you can erase and redraw. You can also copy and paste. When making diagrams, the arrows will look identical. Recently, they added zooming in.

I used to take notes on paper. I bought thick, quality paper. I used a nice Japanese made fountain pen. I loved taking notes that way. I still miss parts of it.

When I started, my writing was not very beautiful, but I used a couple of cheats that helped. I write in all caps and I write quite small so that there is some padding above and below my letters. I write slowly so as to have consistent lettering. Even if they are imperfect, they look consistent. The focus should be on letter spacing.

Before covid, people used to come up to my desk and say it was the most beautiful writing they have ever seen. It wasn't, but the techniques do work.

As far as the feel of the notebook. I let my kids play with it. They love it.
I'm sorry but I can't agree that these flags are unjust. You're posting unsubstantive comments and breaking the site guidelines in other ways also. Would you mind reading them and sticking to the rules? Note, for example, the second-last one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Autocracies don't posit themselves as a model of governance for the rest of the world.
Anything you’ve installed on the nova3 that you use?

Apart from Kindle, Firefox and safari books online reader?

I’ve found that 3rd party drawing apps don’t work well with the screen.
If Microsoft didn't care about developer experience, they wouldn't be working on WSL. And as someone who interned at msft several times, I can say for certain they cared about developers.
I bought one and work from home and it suits me really well.

I have never been more organised, I used to scribble notes on random bits of paper that would get lost - now o can refer back to meetings weeks ago.
Anecdotally, in my singular relevant experience I had some really long running builds that sometimes failed, because some tests (unrelated to my team) had a race condition or accessed unreliable services.

I did try to get it fixed, but it was my first year in this 300+ IT personnel project and it was an already long before me known piece of technological debt.

I automated retrying those 30+ minute builds depending on which error messages popped up. Sometimes it was that, sometimes it was also another team's module version bumped that day that broke it.

It was fine for months. I joined other enginneers on hour long compilation time breaks for daily java. I never mentioned any of this to nobody. I just had to look up the progress sometimes.

One day I mentioned the fact to my direct superior. I met her at the lunch place, and confirmed that I'm doing my best having an 1,5 hour lunch because I had a glance at the 40-ish minute mark and the local build had to be redownloaded and restarted, which I automated - do I promptly used my time to quiet my mind and have a better meal than usual.

A 1,5mo later me and my 2 colleagues were laid off, and reportedly replaced by a remote team from a remote country. I am extrapolating quite a bit, but I gathered my superior taken this as a signal that we're redundant, because she overestimated the level of automation that went into this. Maybe she understood that I automated away the debug process? I don't have a straightforward answer.

I really didn't think much of that exchange until the later surprising ending was relayed to me by her. My last month there we spent wondering what went wrong. This is my best guess.
That's a good one! We're proposing it as an outside, second verification source that people can run independently, not as a big blockchain that we control. I know the whole area is tenuous!
Ahh thank you! I am guessing you are outside of the USA. Our testing pipeline was basically a shit show until the end of March 2020 [1]. The first CDC kits (The only tests authorized) didn't start shipping out until the start of Feb, and they were later determined to be faulty!

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/18/tim...
https://github.blog/2020-12-17-commits-are-snapshots-not-dif...

(I don't necessarily agree with the article's messaging around "Haha you were only confused by git because you thought commits are diffs now that you know they're actually snapshots you have no more confusion", because, as the article itself admits, most of the commands like cherry-pick do work on dynamically-computed diffs anyway.)
The article concludes: "The return on implementation complexity of using jittered backoff is huge, and it should be considered a standard approach for remote clients." But if I am reading the graphs correctly, the "None" backoff algorithm was twice as fast as the jitter algorithms but didn't get any mention in the text. What am I missing?
My point is that even if you have to pay market rates for private healthcare insurance in the US (which are crazy high), the overall system in the US works better for many HN-types because while your expenses may be much higher, your income is disproportionately higher (as in 2-5x higher).

FWIW, I am a US person, resident in Germany.
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Please don't take HN threads into partisan flamewar hell.

Edit: I've banned your account for breaking the site guidelines. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27520854.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27504774.
Vercel being a profitable entity is what encourages them to continue supporting Next.js. It's a fine line. The product has to be built in a way for free users to easily pick it up without any immediate, tightly-coupled unavoidable lock-in. Safe to say, if you're depending on Next, you do want Vercel to win.
Is there any evidence that "non-neoliberal" countries do better re: governance?

Let me explain my situation, which I believe provides a significant counterpoint.

I live in a third-world country where government is constantly pushed into supporting more and more benefits, high salaries and job safety for an educated public servant class which has the connections and resources needed to pressure the government successfully.

Meanwhile the general populace - who lack the qualifications for the highest-paying government jobs and can only ever qualify for the lowest-tier ones (which are not good, but still better than going into the private sector - more on this going forward) - is constantly impoverished by the inflationary pressure created by the government's need to finance spending on the high-tier public servants.

The private sector is also extremely bad, as the government constantly passes anti-business laws in the name of fighting "neoliberalism". Of course, this does not at all hinder multinational corporations - supposedly the face of "neoliberalism" - as these can pay for the armies of lawyers needed to navigate the constantly-changing legal environment, and the ludicrous worker obligations created in the name of "protecting the working class".

Meanwhile, smaller businesses - mostly owned by the dwindling lower-middle class, as middle- and upper-middle class people either leave the country to find skilled work elsewhere, go into the high-paying government jobs or work for the multinational corps - die constantly, as they cannot deal with the legal insecurity and fees created by this environment.

Most poorer people actually do not have any legal worker's protections even though our law is EXTREMELY generous to workers on paper, because only mega-corps can afford to hire people within the law - most people work outside of legal parameters just to survive.

So you end up with an environment where most workers have immensely generous rights on paper, government is extremely powerful and constantly passes measures which are justified as protecting the country from "neoliberalism", which we are told is coming to make us enslaved to foreigners and impoverish us all from our "birthright".

Said "birthright" consists of very bloated public services which generally suck for most of the population and serve mostly to produce sinecures for rich, well-educated people. The private sector consists mostly of foreign mega-corps who are, paradoxically protected from competition by laws passed in order to prevent "neoliberalism" from ravaging the country.

The country is, as you can imagine, corrupt to its core and runs on shady deals between the people in power, the people running mega-corporations and the high-level public servants (these groups have significant overlap, as one might imagine).

Sorry for rambling on, but whenever I see people - ostensibly from the first world - talk about the evils of "neoliberalism", I wish they would look more at how trying to prevent the supposed evil of "neoliberalism" has ravaged the third world and raised oligarchies to power.
> Companies already support app versions that are years old

Some do, agile startups tend not to.

> Besides, no one is asking them to "deliver new functionality at a rapid pace"

And your proposed legislation would ensure that they cannot.

> It's fine for a product to be done. It's fine to stop. It's fine to go into maintenance mode.

It's not fine for this to be the law.
I have a weird itch on my a-- right now. It is the next pandemic.
There is actually a general-purpose way to do fillets in OpenSCAD, using a slightly Rube-Goldberg combination of booleans and minkowski sums. Unfortunately it is, again, far too slow to be usable in 3d at anything like an acceptable resolution. It works great in 2D however.

http://www.scorchworks.com/Blog/openscad-modules-for-automat...
It absolutely had everything to do with Trump. He was slated to be the clear winner until two events (COVID-19 and George Floyd) presented political opportunities. In an election year, everything becomes about the election. People wanted to attack Trump at every turn, even when he suggested reasonable measures like controlling travel, and equally they wanted to ensure all blame was directed at Trump rather than the Chinese government or state governments or elsewhere.

To address your claim more directly, there was never any justification to dismiss the lab leak theory, or claim it was debunked (as many news outlets did), or censor conversations about it online. This isn't about believing it is the only possibility, but that it is a likely possibility that deserves serious attention. The reason it was instead cloaked in dogmatic terms like "conspiracy theory" and shutdown outright, is purely because of politics. There was no "real evidence" to dismiss it as it was. And guess what - that dismissal also allowed the Chinese government to avoid a site visit for months, and even when the WHO visit happened, it was under the terms of the Chinese government with an untrustworthy outcome. Those who shutdown the lab leak theory and other such claims aren't interested in evidence. They're interested in political opportunism.
Yep, sibling is correct. I'd used LTSC for all my gaming until MSFS came out, then I had to switch to Windows 10. Looking forward to the next LTSC version so I can switch back, hope it has WSL2.