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Is this really a good fit for this site?

What does TDF have to do with technology, or this article? There is nothing here that has anything to do with anything that hacker news is about.
That's not what happens with actual good soil. It is what happens with high doses of nitrogen fertilizer (or NPK) on poor soil.
> I have never fallen for a scam in my entire life

Your username...
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I have (a secondary) Thinkpad T430s, which is going to be 9 years old later this year. Since it is i7, with 16 GB RAM and 500 GB SSD, it is still a better computer than a median laptop sold today.
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Sounds like a soil engineering problem!
Supermarket breeds of vegetables are optimized for good looks and long shelf life.

Farmer market vegetables are optimized for flavor, because this is what differentiates them from the supermarket vegetables.

This makes the contrast all the more stunning.
Perhaps my framing of the situation was a little simplistic. To provide more facts, let me point out that the question of which init system should be default in Debian was first asked[0] to the tech ctte in October of 2013, however it was already clear the previous month that the GNOME packagers were trying to make systemd the required init system[1] in Debian (which had GNOME as its default graphical environment already):

"Debian GNOME packagers are planning the same AFAIK; they rather just rely on systemd (as init system, not just some dependencies). In the end, the number of distributions not having systemd decreases."

That was written by Olav Vitters, of the GNOME Release Team, who later admitted[2] "Personally I’m totally biased and think the only realistic choice is systemd."

You could argue that any blame for this dependency therefore lies with the Debian packagers, rather than Red Hat employees, but actually, if you look into the history, there was already a push for making GNOME dependent on systemd three years earlier by none other than Lennart Poettering.[3]

Even at that time, Josselin Mouette, founder of the Debian GNOME team, obsequiously replied "I don’t have anything against requiring systemd, since it is definitely the best init system out there currently" and later acknowledged the influence Red Hat had over the direction of GNOME, saying "Red Hat being the company spending the most on GNOME, it is obvious that their employees work on making things work for their distribution" and "on the whole we don’t intend to diverge from the upstream design, on which a lot of good work has been done."[4]

So there was definitely pressure on Debian from GNOME to make systemd the default init, and pressure from Red Hat to make GNOME depend on systemd. Whether or not these decisions were all coordinated in advance in a smoke-filled room is beside the point, given that things worked out exactly the way such a conspiracy would have wanted.

[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=727708#5

[1] https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2013/09/25/gnome-and-logind...

[2] https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2014/02/03/my-thoughts-on-t...

[3] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-May/...

[4] https://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/01/27/people-behind-debian-j...
something similar in rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzja9fQWzdA
Thanks for posting that to show how f’ing nuts evil jews sadly are (and corrupt, delusional, etcetera].
“if we turn three circles and stand on our heads before killing semitic Palestinians, that is not murder because some nutso rabbi said so” is basically how some of that statement sounds.
> the only computer available did not have journalctl

This is exactly what I don't understand. This is a world where no other computer exists? I have bigger things to worry about (even if you scope the problem down to to "no other computer with journalctl installed exists on my network").

> Or if you're writing to network storage and would like to analyze the logs from your haiku box.

I don't have any Haiku boxes, but I do have Windows boxes. At my day job, where I'm a Linux sysadmin for a large finance company, my workstation is Windows, and I don't have admin on it. So even with conventional UNIX logs, a much more common case is - as I mentioned - that I'd want to read them from a computer that doesn't have gzip installed.

But we're fine with gzip logs, because the way I'd actually do this is to get a Linux computer running.

(Also, keep in mind that the filesystem itself is a binary format. If you're really worried about reading logs from Haiku, you wouldn't put /var/log on NFS because that sounds like a terrible idea, you'd log to a FAT filesystem. But nobody actually does that. Everyone's logs are on ext4 or XFS or btrfs or whatever, and nobody says those formats are a bad idea.)
"computer locked, you need to buy a new one to keep enjoying our stuff"
>This honestly doesn't really strike me as a major issue.

You're saying this from a position of privilege. There are a lot of people that don't enjoy the same financial security that you and I do that will be affected immensely by this. I know a few and this is not news in their favor.
Exactly. I think part of this is driven by changes in Microsoft's business model.

Previously every couple of years they'd come out with a new paid upgrade. But since they basically made Windows 10 a 'rolling distro', they've been losing a lot of income on this side.

As Windows 11 will be free for existing PCs but new PCs will have licensing included in the price (as they did with Windows 10), they have a strong incentive to have as many people as possible buy new PCs. Just as Apple does. After all, macOS mainly exists to sell Apple hardware, not the other way around.

It's no wonder their support model is changing, but I think it's sad they are dropping models so young. Windows used to be great at very long term support on hardware. Probably the best of the commercial OSes.
This really gets me - my Ryzen 5 1600X and my wife’s Ryzen 5 2600 are still extremely capable chips, even if they’re a couple of generations old at this point. It’s only been 3 years since I built my rig, and two since I built my wife’s. I can almost accept the i5-4570 my daughter inherited not being compatible - but hardware just over 3 years old not making the cut is unacceptable.
Does it need to be whole?
Nope.

There was a time I would go to hackathons with a Barnes and Noble Nook and a bluetooth mouse and keyboard and a little stand and log in to a cloud server through ssh or RDP.

You could do the same w/ any Android tablet or phone.

It was certainly more stylish than any mac or gaming laptop.
There was a Good Eats episode or perhaps I came across it somewhere else, but tomatoes undergo a change when refrigerated and lose flavor. Due to this tomatoes should never be refrigerated.

This always explains why store bought tomatoes taste tasteless, while home green ones have actual flavor.
They both sold themselves and their vision to investors. I guess that might seem pedantic but I don't think it is.
Yes, I think there is. Speculation is trading activity with the intent to profit from a change in price. Hedging -- in the sense I'm talking about -- is buying an asset to guard against a change in price or shortage. You can certainly see them as similar things, and in some sense they are, but I think there would be broad agreement that this sort of hedging does not deserve the same scorn that some have for speculators.

Even if the activity is exactly the same, most people tend to feel differently about an activity because of its motivation. The motivation to obtain large profits is held in much less respect than the motivation to guard against personal shortage. Also, corporate behaviors in general get a lower prior amount of esteem than individual and household level behaviors.

We can definitely talk about whether people ought to view these things differently, but there is little question as to whether they currently do.
Looks good. Reminds me of bokeh's datashader which rasterized the plot to get really fast speed-ups. Last time I used it the API was finally becoming something I could use for multiline subplots with synchronized x-axes (a must have when plotting time series).
Hey carbo. I’m trying to make progress in biochemistry and pathology in a timely manner so that I have more to offer in these threads. And sometime soon I’m going to have references to mechanistic justifications. It’s just a lot for one guy. Can you imagine if you were convinced that you had the formula for snake oil and then everybody dismissed you for promoting snake oil? It’s like a bad dream.
In theory this is useful, but the devil is in how this is determined; an algorithm will be gamed, and I doubt Google is putting humans into curating the quality or reliability of sources.

And of course, everything Google does with search lives in deep secrecy.
Why regulate when you can market? If I knew that a brand of zucchini had high mineral content and flavor, I'd buy it at a premium
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I can't say nice things about carnivore diets but Keto has worked out very well for me. You couldn't pay me to resume "normal" or "typical" carb consumption guidelines. Blood work for multiple factors, weight and many other metrics are all steadily going into their correct ranges for me now.

The entire "food pyramid" is irrelevant and, based on my experience, utterly wrong. When you're bored just dig into the science behind it. Its a mess. So is the whole "saturated fat is bad for your heart" thing. The science behind that is even worse.

Get baseline medical tests done. Do your intervention and track the results. Get regular tests from a doctor. The difference can be significant.
>foxnews.com

No thanks; I'd like to think we can do better than that on HN.
This may just be a Russel Conjugation.

https://tomdehnel.com/what-is-russell-conjugation/
Not everywhere is USA. In most developed countries, lifespans were going up until start of Covid, even though our vegetables are watery too.

If I had to guess, I would say that life expectancy in USA would start climbing again if all the obese people managed to shave, say, 5 points off their BMI. Morbid and supermorbid obesity is horribly widespread there.

Of course, it is more likely that the rest of the world catches up than that the US slims down.
I don't understand you
Check if a farmer market is held near where you live. It may be seasonal, but it's still better than dull vegs around the year.
> It's fairly straightforward to provide a proof, given a definition of division by zero, that 1 = 0.

No, it is not. It's fairly straightforward to provide a proof, given the false[0] premise that x*y/y = x, that 1 = 0.

0: Hell, I don't even need division by zero for that one:

uint8_t x = 2;
x = x*128;
// x is now (uint8_t)(2<<7) == (uint8_t)256 == 0
x = x/128;
// x is now 0>>7 == 0
// x is now x*y/y is 2*y/y is 2
if(x == 2) printf("it's two\n");
printf("it's %i\n",(int)x);
I agree. You stated your case, you supported it, you're making good arguments. There's no problem.
Vitamin D deficiency is fairly common, it would make sense to check for it.
There is some research on preventing microarchitectural timing channels with information flow control as well. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3243734.3243743
> I'm sure they'll loosen the restriction of having TPM enabled. That seems to be the only limiting factor.

They've added restrictions since: 8th gen Intel Core or 2nd gen AMD Zen required.
What could possibly go wrong?

Will we see the dawn of a shadow industry of "reliable sourcing" providers?
My brother is an on again off again alcoholic (not suggesting this was the case for you) and if I had one wish it would be for him to become sober. It's remarkable how much alcohol can change a person.
Which farmers market? Not all farmers markets here are equal, so curious.
Wow, I think that interpretation says way more about the reader than the OP.
For anyone taking magnesium supplements that have found it helpful, did you ever get a blood test to look at your magnesium levels and did they say you were deficient based on the reference ranges?
Magnesium and other minerals don't disappear when consumed, it comes out again with sewage. Hence, soil depletion could be addressed by turning sewage into fertilizer.
> albeit in a buggy and incomplete fashion.

Really? I find that I can play most games just fine under Linux, except those that require annoying anti-cheat software (but then I wouldn't want to run that under windows either...).
I remember reading some blog posts from people switching to Linux because they disliked Windows 10 for various reasons (mostly privacy concerns and forced updates), but I think those were fairly tech savvy already.

Most people will just use whatever Microsoft releases, either because it comes preinstalled on their PC, because it's what they know, or because they need Windows because of some application or piece of hardware.

The year of Linux on the desktop will have to wait for a while, I'm afraid.

(On my desktop it's been year-of-the-Linux-desktop for the past 20 years, fortunately.)
But their backwards compabitility obsession is not seen as a drawback by everyone. In fact I personally think Apple is taking things too far.

The people that would complain about the backwards compatibility are probably not the same people that are complaining now. Those people would already be using their fancy UWP Metro apps :)

By the way they are dropping the live tiles in Windows 11! So tileOS would be a misnomer. I'm personally very happy about that, I always spent a while cleaning up the start menu of all that crap after every install. I never liked the idea of them but admittedly I'm a pretty traditional user (and a power user at that).

One thing I do really like in Windows 11 is the new pane system. I haven't yet tried it but it sounds like an interesting compromise between a traditional and a tiling window system. And the good thing about it is that it doesn't have to break any backwards compatibility (after all, neither do tiling WMs on Linux)
One of the ironies of this situation is that Windows 11 does well on the Core2Duos. At least the ones with 8 gigs / SSD, based on what I've seen people post online. I've seen people claim the 11 leak is performing better than 10, and 10 was running decently well on the C2D's.

They did the work to make it even faster on older hardware, and now they're just going to throw it away? I could understand if the older machines didn't get the Android compatibility layer or if certain desktop animations were disabled, but seems odd to just block them entirely.
Perhaps in some segments. BigCo b2b not so much IMHO :/

I've had trouble getting big companies to buy startup product because a) nobody wants to be the first big name and b) they're worried you'll be out of business in 2 years and integration effort will have been for nothing.

Of course these are self-fulfilling prophesies unless you can get the "engine" running.

Also if your product overlaps with features or products of a large vendor who already has a relationship with your customer (this is common) you have to fight the incumbent - and they have home team advantage even if their product sucks.
Can you elaborate? Are you alluding to choosing between the lesser of two evils?

Personally, I think this can be managed by bringing back the idea of Cincinnati-style civic duty, rather than relying on a professional political class but that ship may be too far gone
I left my laptop, that ran Windows 7, running for a couple of hours, and came back to see a notification that says welcome to Windows 10.
This is a very weird article. The text itself seems focused on factual information, but it’s surrounded with opinionated statements which I assume leans towards the site operator’s politics.

Google has been making search results opinionated for years. At least as far back as discounting results that have a lot off link farm hits. I think the thing that is upsetting people is the idea that they don’t have control over the narrative like they once might have.
> what does this extra layer of protectionism add

It allows people to know the origin of a product, which is the intended purpose.

Your other examples have nothing to do with geographical origin, hamburger, sandwich or IPA have never been from Hamburg, Sandwich or India, so they are irrelevant.

IMO, calling Cognac a product that does not come from Cognac is straight up fraud, and some kind of notoriety theft.

If you produce something similar to Cognac in Innsmouth, why don't you just call it Innsmouth then?
Crimea is currently populated by 70% ethnic Russians, who have been the majority for at least 50 years, and the plurality for at least 120 years. The reason it became part of Ukraine is because the USSR transferred it there from Russia in 1954.

The only benefit to Europe and the US of complaining about the annexation is to put pressure on Russia. Nobody wants the ethnic cleansing that would occur if Russia actually retreated from Crimea (and any Russian politician, dictator or not, who allowed that to happen would lose their political career and maybe their life.) If it weren't for the horrifying virulence of Ukrainian nationalism, I'm sure a lot of the ethnically Russian residents would be glad to be separate from Russia.

Do you seriously think that if the residents of Crimea freely voted, they would vote for a Russian retreat?
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Not soon: however I like ML-style languages, it's JS / TS what has the mass market adoption now.

It's not even the language, it's not much harder to learn than TS. It's the smaller library ecosystem of Reason / OCaml.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_movement

Some people born in the early 90s are already retired.
I didn't read it that way. I took the audience to be more junior programmers to whom numeric library code can seem inscrutable and terrifying. In my experience "write it yourself first" is very liberating advice that every programmer should take to heart. I would also cut the author a little slack since he is a library author and the post is a kind of ad for his own numeric library. It could have been worded better though.
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You're bringing up politicians that have nothing to do with the problem. You are fighting the culture war and somehow ended up in civil war land.

The US has never been homogenous. There's a reason we are a collection of states with a federalized government. "E Pluribus Unum."

This magical nostalgia past you're talking about has never existed. Trade whatever you're currently reading in for a few history books.
And sadly the only wikipedia founder that stayed also wears a little round hat and has sadly had a HORRIBLY CORRUPT habit of using wikipedia against any that evil jews regard as threats to their evil agendas.
I’ve had FB bugging me off and on and I can’t get rid of them. If I were desperate and they were my only suitor I guess I would do what I had to, but I honestly have no desire to work for them.
Does not need to, but the whole variety is usually highest quality because the producer cannot hide the defects. Think about tea or tomatoes: the more you grind it down, the more you can mix in lower quality tiers. One exception I know of is porcini mushrooms: the most expensive are whole halfs, because you can actually see there's no worms in it.

Also for mushrooms dried is really good, but obviously the texture is a little bit different when you eat it.
>the arbitrary red line drawn between two CPU generations

I've seen people theorize that it's because of the availability of UMIP instructions
No it doesn’t. In case you haven’t noticed, headlines are not facts or analysis.

These are just opinion pieces, neither of which have any insight into what Apple cares about or does not care about.
I'm sure the Russians could say the same thing about the UK and Gibraltar, down to the support of the local population to being a UK territory.
Was an early adopter in 2019, right now not so much. No proper channel distributions, no hidpi support, UI clone/copy/paste of vscode - all things which actually makes user sad... After all going in the wrong direction, sorry.
Yes this. I've scraped my SSD for data after it blew up :)

The data wasn't that valuable otherwise I'd have had it backed up. The problem is it's my game PC. I don't want to constantly backup and sync all my game files as I can easily re-download them anyway and they take a ton of space. The savegames I do want backed up ideally but they're all over the filesystem. So, I recovered some that way. It was educational too, trying to scrape stuff off a broken NTFS image.

But I certainly don't need or want my desktop PC encrypted. I only use my Windows box for gaming and I don't want to waste performance on it.
Its grimly humorous that we need to upgrade hardware security because of ransomware - enabled by cryptocurrency.

But we can't do that - we have widespread shortages of new chip components because so much capacity is being dedicated to cryptomining!

Instead of tying ourselves in knots, why not just regulate and ban the base source of the problem (crypto exchange for fiat) instead?
Jon Gjengset here implements TCP in rust. It's long, but it is very good
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Definitely not a fan of this new wave of whatever you might call it... even-more-direct opinion management than the media already gives us, i guess. Whether it be Facebook partnering with the Atlantic Council, sites like Snopes, Google ranking down independent news or demonetizing peoples stuff, or this... seems like i'm only supposed to have CIA-approved opinions.
I was stupid,just switched and the new one is a lot better. How come the stock keyboard is so much worse?

Thanks for the tip! Which one do you use BTW?
> Is anyone suggesting Win11 won’t run on a 2016 Skylake?

Yes, Microsoft is suggesting exactly that: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/min...
> Is it really as political as that as in "the big bad republicans ate my pension"?

Which party / ideology is trying to get rid of the public Social Security in the US?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_debate_in_the_...

Do you think it's a coïncidence that wealth and income inequality in the US as exploded since 1980, the year that Reagan got elected? (Though the Democrats in Congress have been complicit.)

The American oligarchs have put on a concerted effort since the 1970s, and they've largely been succeeded. Good history of the subject published in 2020:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Geniuses:_The_Unmaking_of...
If you have the virus in you, there is always potential for illness, transmission, and mutation. Even if chances are reduced, not getting it in the first place is better; and all else equal, a vaccine that does a better job of stopping infection is better than one that does not. Since virus mutations are an unknown, "past performance does not guarantee future results" very much applies. So although I agree how sick people get is very important for a vaccine, and in the short term certainly the most important aspect, it is not the only important criterion to measure.

As to why the US CDC lifted the mask mandate while the WHO is recommending vaccinated people wear masks to try to stop the spread of the Delta variant, and there have been many documented cases of large parts of groups of vaccinated people getting the Delta variant as well as other variants - some of whom have gotten seriously ill - I have no comment.
Same information, minus the hit piece angle:

https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/24/22549157/google-unrelia...

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-reliable-sources-...

https://mashable.com/article/google-search-results-changing-...
That's true, but if you compare the resale value of PCs and MacBooks, you'll find that MacBooks(even with outdated OS) have higher resale value. Therefore, this is a bit of a tricky situtation for PCs since they can't be sold for much.