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The thinkpads. Their product lineup is super confusing. The r/thinkpad wiki is very helpful... https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/wiki/intro

Also look for promo codes there. Never buy a thinkpad at MSRP, you can usually get them heavily discounted through various promotions (but still add on first party warranty and on site support if you need).

Their hardware quality isn't always the best but their support is good. Last time my screen hinge broke (a early foldable tablet thinkpad) and someone came out the next day to my house in a rural area and fixed it on the spot while I watched.

They're proper business / dev machines with a legacy going back to the IBM days.

Dell Latitude line is a close imitator/competitor also worth considering.

Razer gets you a lot of power but with tradeoffs in heat management and noise. If you don't need a GPU there isn't a good reason to choose them IMO. They are like MacBook wannabes but tailored for gamers.

I'd personally stay away from consumer laptops if I were you.

If I had to pick one, it would be the ThinkPad X1 Carbon.
I use a Dell Precision 5530 daily with Ubuntu 20.04, works great with no problems. I believe Ubuntu is officially supported by Dell, and it does get the occasional firmware upgrade.
Very interesting. I will definitely check it out.
It’s an east coast west coast thing. Four hours is nothing in the west…the drive to the nearest Montana Costco or West Texas Walmart so to speak. Four hours of driving from Las Vegas just puts you in a more remote part of the desert.
>You don't have as much security concerns

For now. I feel that it's only a matter of time before the TSA gets involved, and that train ride that was hyped up as being quicker than a plane ride will suddenly no longer be as quick.
Archlinux. Didn't really need to consider drivers; things just worked out of the box mostly with exception of the GPU where I've installed the AMD driver via pacman (a one liner).
For the record these are some blatant & false FUD attempts.
Everyone knows that Trump defies all logic and reason so not sure what can be learned from that. Other examples are more illuminating.
First of all, apologist is not a dirty word. Per the Meriam-Webster dictionary the definition is "one who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something".

Secondly, extensions are not the answer, because extensions are inherently unstable. If you think the answer to supporting features is via extensions, then of _course_ GNOME doesn't have enough developers. Some featuers need to be in the core DE --- as 2-D workspaces was once a core feature. Ejecting features from the core feature set, and trying to implement them as extensions, is a receipe for P-A-I-N. It certainly isn't how KDE and XFCE handles 2-D workspaces; there it is implemented in C++ or C, and not in some Javascript extension language using unstable primitives that randomly change from GNOME version to GNOME version.

My Goal is to use a Linux Desktop Environment which meets my needs. And part of my needs is certain well-defined feature set which includes 2-D workspaces, and that they **NOT** be implented as an extension. Because extensions break. All. The. Damn. Time. I've been around since the very early days of GNOME, and GNOME had 2-D workspace support for years and years, and it was not a big deal. It was ejecting features from the core, and implementing them in unstable Javascript which is what caused the problems.

If GNOME simply said, F-U to certain classes of users, we don't think certain features deserve to exist, I'd probably respect them a bit more. I still wouldn't use GNOME, but at least they'd be honest. My complaint is trying to assert that extensions are an answer, and they're not, because it's really unfair to trick users into relying on something which is ultimately built on quicksand. Better to have a small feature set which you can support well, rather than a randomly fluctuating feature set which arbitrarily breaks across distro upgrades.
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If you've been in a management role and switched (back) to an IC role, what's your story? Why did you make the switch?
This will do nothing for artists in Quebec, except increase spending on IT by the govt.
It WAS a personal attack that you did.

And you're still doing it!

"was assuming you to be a reasonable and good person who had fallen prey to faulty reasoning and misinformation."

"feels like a case of projection"

You're saying in so many words I'm stupid and not in control of my thoughts.

You have NO citations for anything you have said except for survival rate and you're manipulating that survival rate number by using people who are already infected versus general population survival rate.

You're spending all of your time telling me I'm projecting and not enough time having an actual valid point.

Not a single hospital was overwhelmed in the United States and numerous other countries.

Almost every state in the country has seen through the faulty science that you're promoting...and eliminated most of not all Covid restrictions and we're not even at a 50% vaccination rate and fatality and infection rates are at record lows and not a single hospital has overflowed or will.

So what you're saying is straight up wrong.

That's Facebook science.
I am not sure that this really changes the situation. The fact that peopke do use guns in defensive situations do not meant that this is the best option. I would expect most of those situations to be armed robberies, and there an obvious alternative is just to give the attacker what they want. It is painful and traumatic, but likely less so than killing them, and likely more cost efficient.

There are places where attackers "shoot first and ask second" (I heard that Sao Paolo is like that), but even there carrying a gun is likely to put you in more danger than it helps.

I think the main problem with gun ownership is that there is a feedback loop: the more people own guns, the more likely it is to be held at gunpoint at some point, increasing the appeal of carrying a gun. It is hard to break, no question. But it is possible. Australia was similar to the US not so long ago, and they managed to change it.
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As a non-Canadian, the Quebecois seem to have a weird cultural narcissism. It's like there are all these little petty bureaucratic foistings of Quebec on the rest of Canada. Music that nobody wants to listen to, a language that nobody wants to learn, etc. Bizarre
One thing to note is that sprouts can harbor fairly nasty bacteria[1] though pressure cooking should help with that, some of those toxins are tougher than others.

1: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-sprouts-are-especially-go...
First sentence is:

> “Wokeism,” America’s new civil religion, draws on elements of neo-Marxism, critical race theory, social justice and identity politics.

Not sure we have anything like a “civil religion” around. Is that a university campus thing?
So, we give this our username and it matches us to browser id/cookies/IP/whatever and sells the set to marketeers ... or?
The fourth last paragraph reads:

(Culture Minister Nathalie) “Roy also announced an investment of $1.1 million as part of an initiative to promote local music produced during the pandemic.”
I can't work with you in the office if you're not in the office.
I don't think current cars can do that but I'm sure could be expanded to
> He believes the differences between men and women necessitates different social roles for men and women in the whole of society, and literally gave the example of women in the workplace.

He definitely talks about the differences between men and women. Nowhere does he say women shouldn't be in the workplace. That's an extremely conservative, even radically conservative view. Source?

> He argued that the structure of DNA is encoded into the human brain. You can say nature vs nurture, but saying that the human brain is literally encoded with what is necessary for scientific discovery.

Source? I'm just not sure what to make of it without context. The way you present it, it sounds crazy. But I could also interpret in several non crazy ways.

> Saying that you need an IQ over a certain number to do a job is also wayyyy over anything reasonable.

It's an over generalization. But it's also largely true. You won't be successful as a software engineer, a quant, a mathematician, a physicist, etc with lower than average iq. People in those industries skew way above the average for good reason.

> Nature vs nurture is a core determinant of conservatism. Being far in the scale of nature and hierarchy is only consistent with right-wing ideologies.

That's seems true. It's also interesting because there is an empirical answer to how much is nature vs nurture. Unlike political views which are largely value tradeoffs as opposed to right or wrong - up to a point anyway.
Political opinions aren't just allegiance to some guy you haven't met. That's party allegiance. True, core, political opinions are much more about allegiance to principals and ways of thinking. IMO that's much more important than allegiance to individuals.

If I witnessed a family member commit murder, what's ultimately my core political views are what would determine if I did or did not turn them in for it. And I probably would turn them in.
> Universities are not for profit, or they aren't supposed to be, so they should not be getting paid.

I don't know what country you're from, but in the US many colleges and universities are absolutely private, for-profit institutions.

You might have a personal, ethical disagreement with that, but it doesn't change the reality of the situation.

In fact, I'll bet most of the major, well-known institutions you can think of--MIT, Princeton, Brown, NYU, etc--are private, and for-profit.
Among friends the most popular options look to be Dell XPS 13 and on sale it can get close to that price point, and the Thinkpad T4xx models, which are good cheaper options refurbished.

System76 makes nice gear and I've heard good things about the Galaga Pro, but hardly any of their models are currently available.

I've been looking into this too. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on an older MacBook Pro and apart from the occasional kernel update sending CPU use through the roof, the experience has been good. But it looks like a less appealing option on the newer models with the touchbar sadly. I wish Apple would include regular hardware function keys as well as the touchbar. It would make the touchbar 10x more useful on macos also.
Stay away from the X1 Extreme lineup though. Mine is terrible and I would stay away from the entire segment.
I rebelled internally and hated much of my English courses. “There’s no way the author intended all that secondary meaning.” “I read that whole story and didn’t even find out if the Tiger was behind the door?!” “Who cares about the island kid’s glasses?!”

35 years later, the ability to write English has probably had at least the same amount of positive influence over my career as my ability to write C++ or Javascript. I should probably apologize to my high school English teachers.
Everything old is new again I suppose.
To clarify, HV1? There are 3 levels to HV
Avoiding drugs doesn't require you to give up on the system. You can avoid drugs and act to make the system better.
Ok, but where is he comparing his suffering to other people?

I didn't have a sense he's minimizing suffering of others on his webpage.
I got an Asus ZenBook UX305 that cost ca. €850 in 2016. 8GB RAM, Intel Core m3, 13-ish inch 1080p display.

It runs openSuse Tumbleweed, and I am very happy with it. Bluetooth is a tiny bit flaky sometimes, and the backlight for the keyboard doesn't work on Linux, but otherwise it works well. Battery life is not quite extremely good, but I've gotten six hours out of it, having done no special tuning to optimize for that.

The touch pad is a wee bit too large for my taste, I sometimes touch it by accident with my palm when typing, but it can be disabled/enabled easily and has not been a serious problem.

It has no builtin Ethernet, but a USB-to-Ethernet adapter was included.
Up until a few years ago, AirAsia had a similar program. Flight routes were designated in 1, 2, or 3 points, and for just about $280US you got about 30 points to use in 60 days. You had to plan in advance and be willing to fly at very off-peak times, but you could easily visit a dozen cities all over SE Asia and get a value worth double of what it cost. Really wish they would bring that back!
Shouldn't break by itself with Mars' tidal forces alone?
Ha. Another RIT grad here. I had the pleasure of growing up in Syracuse. Which is another dark and drab city. A shell of its former rust belt glory.

When I attended RIT I lived in downtown Rochester. I enjoyed it throughly. If you were stuck on campus it likely was a horrible time.
So does Futurama.
Apparently there is already the concept of rail train batteries: https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11524958/energy-storage-rail

You run the trains up the hill when energy is cheap or, for example, when the sun is out and solar works. Then when you need it, you run the trains down hill to generate electricity. Similar to pumped hydro where they do the same by pumping water up hill and then draining it downhill later. Super cool!
Prozac was created for use as an anti-psychotic but filed with the FDA for use as an anti-depressant. Because there are soooo many depressed people which means more money for the same drug. Wikipedia says it is the 23rd most prescribed drug in the US(wtf).
In principle. But we do have 3 billion neurons for that with ridiculous number of interconnections - even if an order of magnitude less connection would be enough, we are still far away from that amount of computations. And that is actually the easy part of the problem - mapping an image to a depth map. The hard part is interpreting it for which we have a complete inner universe built up, with context-dependent logic. FSD is simply a really hard problem that we are not even getting close to. We are at a fancy robot vacuum level.
I exited Java just as modules were kicking in so I’m not really familiar with jlink. But you still need to distribute that custom runtime and docker helps with that. I think docker is a great tool for dealing with Java’s complexities. A Java docker image is like a Go executable.

Re the export restrictions, although you are right in theory, it doesn’t seem to affect Go. There is no special build, the crypto is just built in. Java is unique in how it dealt with this, I never understood why it was so hard.

I agree with you re K8s. And I like the comparison to EARs. Both container systems are pretty poor substitutes for a binary you can just run in an OS.

Go seems to recognise this. It knows its place in the deployment hierarchy and that’s made my life so much easier. Go feels like it’s part of the Unix world, rather than apart from it, and Java was never like that. That’s why docker became so important in the Java world. It gave Java the isolation from the OS that it always craved :)
I would also argue that, in the long view, some level of scandal is a good thing.

It's simply inconceivable that any organization of that size, that wields that much power, wouldn't attract abuses of power. Which means that failing to ever find any would be suspicious in the extreme. And, for that matter, in an organization of that size and complexity you're also pretty much guaranteed to have some good old-fashioned fuck-ups. Life has a distressing tendency to just happen sometimes. I can't really come up with any plausible scenarios for how an organization like the FDA could consistently avoid public embarrassment that wouldn't involve far worse corruption than any of the scandals they've experienced in my lifetime.
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I read that story quite some time ago. The company was Sun Microsystems.

Edit: A link to that story: https://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html
I dislike that phrase. I've heard it a lot. Believing everyone is out to get you. Nobody is out to get you, because you're a nobody. There's no grand conspiracy to take down some internet shitposter.

People are out for themselves. And if someone is in your way, and takes some hit because you have the Chevy Suburban and they're on a Honda SuperCub, so be it. It's not that you hate their beautiful red and beige paintjob, it's that they were in the wrong lane at the wrong time when you decided to overtake whoever was in front of you. Colloquial pronouns, of course.
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If this technology improves enough we should eventually be able to mount the gerbil wheel inside of the Tesla.
Part of the problem is also that these courses are devoid of any real informational content. My experience with having been schooled in several countries is that kids -- including 17-year-old highschoolers -- tune in when the substance is there. I can assert with great confidence that the level of content in the average US curriculum is shamefully low. This is true in mathematics, to say nothing of "Life Skills".
I would worry that the government will waste extra money paying higher royalties than private parties would for the same song since they have to license some Quebec artists song. Makes more sense to me to fund new artists with the condition that the government gets to play those songs royalty free for whatever. Celine Dion has enough money.
You’re telling me I could fill a typical water tower in 1 hour with a 500 W pump running off a kitchen outlet?
This is literally the first advice I give when teaching people git. The first months of use, just run the two commands separate. Many mistakes are avoided that way.
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You probably made a mistake somewhere.

3.8Mg * G * 50m ~ 1700M Joules which is about 500kWh.
Right I know, my point is that if AMZN doubles two years in and GOOG doesn't, the AMZN worker is better off because their entire grant has doubled. The GOOG worker buying AMZN has only doubled half their grant, the unvested portion is in GOOG which hasn't moved.
For the average case, perhaps. But we are not doing too badly for the average case either.

Let’s see how well does a Tesla react to exceptional cases where actual decision making is required, few data sample is available, etc. Statistics can be misleading with rare events.
I don’t know git well, but I often run into the problem being discussed.

If I pull from origin before making my changes, I don’t have to merge, obviously.

But correct me if I’m wrong: I think that if I don’t pull first, but my changes don’t conflict with any part of what was done by the previous commit(s) I missed, I’ll still have to merge if I touched a file they touched.

This is a common scenario for me. Correct some typos in comments for example, and I get forced to figure out how to merge using vim, which I don’t know how to use at all (being a nano user). I’m sure I could and should switch to at least using nano by default, but I don’t know how merging really works, either.

What I really want to do is undo my commit, pull, and redo my commit. Then I don’t have to figure out git merge.
But if the licence is that cheap, they're showing their hand, the difference between a protection scheme and IP protection here is incredibly murky. Even if you didn't aim to help others not be bullied around, going for a settlement seems the smarter option.
Kernel/OS/DE seems a logical order. Or is GNU the Philosophy first? (I thought it means the tools)
Git is immutable. The only thing that isn't is your working directory.
A number of people loosely connected with BBC Backstage (from inside the BBC at the time and outside of it) went to work for the UK Gov Digital Service under then-minister Francis Maude, which is where a lot of the Open Data stuff came from.

So from that point of view, the work at the BBC did lead to a greater opening from within the government.

I miss the BBC days fondly, very different to what I'm doing now but it was a great era.
The second document contains as a sub-part the Bhagavad Gita (Arjuna and Sri Krishna’s conversation).
According to leaks/rumours, the Touch Bar will be dropped in the next generation MacBook Pros, due this year.
TBF, this is a provincial thing and not federal so it only applies to Government of Quebec things and not the RoC.
Didn’t Microsoft backport telemetry into Windows 7? You’ve got several of the same privacy issues as Windows 10 without the security improvements.
I think is also a good way to apply some small amount of pressure towards preserve culture.

Policies like this do their small part to help prevent the whole world from turning into a United States pop music mono-culture.
I'd wonder what processor they used; mitigations for Spectre and friends could be a contributor.
This is interesting to see quantified but not surprising at all - this isn’t really any different than regenerative braking from coasting down a steep hill.
If your friends are Québec based musicians, they should get involved in Ecoute Mon Album - the program was started for those exact people.
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It's not the download speed that's the problem, it's the upload.

For one person, the FCC definition[1] of "broadband" speeds of 3MB/s up are barely sufficient. The are lots of places that barely break that. Now get both parents and the kid, there are plenty of folks who can't do it[2]. Sure, they could watch, but they'd have to have their video off. Better hope that some program doesn't try to download an update.

We're all a bunch of relatively well-paid nerds here on HN, so we have better-than-average internet speeds. I'm still betting there's a portion of us living in the 'burbs who would struggle streaming more than 2 video conferences.

1 https://www.engadget.com/senators-fcc-change-definition-high...

2 https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/united-states
Ah, I see. Perhaps it falls under the new “needs improvement” bucket while hv2 does not.
This. Year and half ago I bought myself X1 Carbon gen3 (model from 2017) and it had amazing 2K screen, fingerprint reader, 4G modem (even GPS works after flashing firmware). All works on Linux and cost me just $600. I recently gave it to my sis as gift, but it looked just like new when I bought it and still looks the same.

Of course Lenovo ruined Thinkpad for me a little, but still their x220i that I bought 10 years ago still running even after being tortured constatly and dropped so many times. So yeah best laptops for the price.
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That doesn’t make any sense, you can’t define other people’s goals. I’m sure 100% of the people who took issue with what Yang said are happy with the result of this effective activism.
I have seen the recommendation of X1, I can second that, with addition of x280.

The serviceability is great, Google “thinkpad x280 hardware service manual” gives excellent doc, from the vendor ! (In fairness the same true for most thinkpads I think).

I got a used X280 - very happy running Ubuntu on it. But the exact model I got had a bit bleak LCD screen and 8GB ram - via AliExpress I first upgraded the screen to bright IPS FHD screen (replacement part cost ~60 euro, half an hour and no tools needed to replace);

Then I got brave and got a 16GB RAM motherboard (vs the 8GB that it had). Was about 400 euro, and also relatively easy, though required a bit of gentle disassembly.

And then I wondered “rather than throwing away the old parts, how hard would it be to get all the missing bits and build yet another x280 laptop from scratch ?” - I grabbed the hardware manual and went shopping… I think the overall list turned out about 250-300 euro. Still awaiting for some bits, but based on my motherboard replacement experience the assembly shouldn’t be a big deal of a project.