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>What is the argument FOR keeping DST?

Where I am at right now its DST and sun up is 7am and sundown is around 7pm. Without DST it would be 6am to 6pm. I think the average person gets more use of the sun from 6pm-7pm than they do at 6-7am. A decent chunk of the population is sleeping until 7am and virtually nobody is sleeping from 6-7pm.

That doesn't really support switching away from DST in the winter. So I'd rather stay on DST all the time. But if its between never DST and DST half the year, I pick half the year.
That's not censorship, either in theory or in practice.

"In theory" should be pretty obvious. "In practice" might require some explanation, because there seems to be a meme going around about trying to have another discussion with a person in a room where there are a bunch of people screaming at you to drown out your words. While that might be considered censorship in that exact scenario, that effect does not translate over into the internet - you simply block noisy sources on whatever platform you're on and keep reading the content that you're interested in. For instance, even though Matrix and Mastodon are federated, you can block users (and even entire servers) from either local visibility or even federation with your particular instance.

Similarly, nobody says that highly biased sites like the Verge, Vox, and the NYT are "censoring" opposing viewpoints because when you Google an issue all of the top results are from those sites with the same political bent - you can still craft Google queries that exclude those sites, one at a time.
I agree. This is incredibly stupid. The amount of food waste that will result will far outbalance the minor environmental impact of packaging. All that food requires lots of plastic in it's production cycle.
A counter point is that it was an extremely reckless move for Epic to risk the banning of their next-generation social network (which to my kids, it definitely is) from the largest mobile store. Epic thought they were forcing Apple's hand, but they lost in court on the points they really cared about the most. And they got confirmation that Apple was well within their rights to cancel the developer account.

I'm not sure the risk was worth it... especially since they didn't need to take that risk to file the lawsuit.

From the first moments, Epic has been running a PR campaign, which doesn't really help you in court.
>Honestly, I'd rather live on 1 degree warmer Earth with 1/100 of regulations/subsidies than the opposite.

What you're really saying, though, is that you'd rather everyone live (or die, as the case will be for a lot of people) on a 1 degree warmer Earth.

Make no mistake about it, you want other people to suffer and die as a result of climate change because you want don't want to be told what to do. Yay for individual liberty.
Good luck getting the cartels to finance your factories, and then getting business anywhere the US has pull.
I'm going to shamelessly steal that line. The part the stories usually leave out is how doggedly tired the parents are, all the time.
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Empty and decaying real-estate is a liability, not an asset.
Yes. Completely pointless and impossible to objectively measure for any meaningful signal from the implementation. Perfect for politicians.
It seems we're learning a lot about media lies over past four years.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/09/23/...

It's not the indictment of Sussman by itself that is interesting as much as the surrounding story the indictment reveals.
Ransomware attackers targeted this company. Then defenders discovered something
Norway is mostly wagons and hatches.
Lithium isn't that much of a problem, but cobalt might bring some fresh freedom to parts of Africa.
Webextensions support is /very/ close, we even have a pull request for basic support: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/pull/1762

now that we've figured out the framework/setup we just have to implement the APIs.
I've tried some, Sea of Thieves primarily.

SoT performs better on Linux for me but the online experience has a lot to be desired. Microphone doesn't work, anything Microsoft live is absent ... though playable.

I'd say that 9/10 games I try on Linux run at Windows performance if not better. YMMV
Implementing Infocom's Z-Machine on an FPGA
Get outta here with that slippery slope silliness
>It's a huge company. not every single project is intrinsically evil (eg, there are lots of FB employees that just work on open source projects). the ones that are might be parceled out in a way that makes their impact non-obvious.

It's not so much that they are evil, it is that FB is optimising for FB's profits, which may conflict with other things that other people value,

> I can't think of another large tech company with such a terrible public image

Uber is close, if not exceeding FB.

I also get the impression that people are a good deal more cynical and hostile towards Google and Apple now than they were 10 years ago (I know I am).
> "it's a huge company. not every single project is intrinsically evil (eg, there are lots of FB employees that just work on open source projects)."

Indeed. I would be very curious how many of the righteous in this thread are busy removing React from their web applications? Relay from their GraphQL API's? PyTorch from their data science projects? RocksDB from the endless number of infrastructure products that incorporate it?

How do you hold that developer responsible for human slavery due to his or her work, while you and your shop continue happily exploiting that work yourselves?
GUIX (and NixOS) are significantly different than other package managers. They get you declarative system configuration, immutable and reproducible builds.

Declarative config = entire system config specified in a single config file - all config that is normally scattered across different /etc files and other locations now goes into a single config file (which instructs the system to write those /etc files on install, so /etc is still used but there’s a single source for configuring all of it). All packages and package config, boot loader, systemd/init system config, networking, etc configured in one file. And all config is declarative, not imperative - eg, you tell the system what you want in your build, and the system handles how. In NixOS this all just a big JSON file, and GUIX it’s a Scheme data structure.

Immutable builds = any time you make a configuration change, an entire new system is built with the change incorporated, and the system updated to point at the new build. Prior system builds are retained unchanged, and you can rollback to them any time if needed, if your new one is broken in some way not caught by compiler. Since current and prior builds are immutable, you can be sure that if a prior build worked reliably, it will continue to do so in case you need to rollback to it. In NixOS, builds are stored in /nix and soft-linked as needed to /bin, /usr/bin/, etc. Not sure about the equivalent on GUIX but that’s the idea.

Reproducible builds = you can take your system configuration file and use it to install an identical system build on other hardware. Everything will be the same except different hardware drivers for different hardware. Reinstalling the same configuration on the same system with no hardware changes will result in an identical system build with the same checksum.

One thing this does is make rapidly experimenting with different system configs much more possible. There’s no penalty to experimentation and failure, you can’t brick your system. If you do, just rollback to the prior working config, only takes a few seconds. You can iterate through many different config ideas, testing them all, and optimizing it to your needs.

I spent the past spring/summer migrating to NixOS. There’s a learning curve, but now that I’ve gotten through most of it, I could never go back to a normal linux. GUIX/NixOS is really the right way to architect an OS, so much farther out of the tarpit than anything else I’ve seen.
> How did you "power down" your nvidia card?

First I made sure X was working the way I wanted with Intel graphics. There are a handful of ways to do hybrid graphics on Linux, depending on what you want to be able to do, and how old your hardware is (including "I didn't even want this thing, just keep it powered off forever"). The Arch wiki has some pretty good guides [1] that are helpful even if you're using a different system.

bbswitch seems to work on my system, and the interface is really simple [2]. But there's also this page on acpi_call [3], which suggests that bbswitch is old and unmaintained and that newer systems do something different. From a quick scan, it looks like the Arch wiki also mentions this approach.

As far as drivers go, I know everyone likes to dump on Nvidia for their closed source mess, but on every system I've used with Nvidia hardware (desktops and laptops), I've found that the Nvidia drivers have universally been more reliable than nouveau, so that's what I use.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/hybrid_graphics (poke around in "Related Articles" too)

[2] https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch#turn-the-card-...

[3] https://github.com/geminis3/nvidia-gpu-off
Adjusting schedules is exactly what switching clocks around does. For example, you can't adjust school schedules and keep kids from walking to school in the dark without also changing work and daycare schedules, which means coffee shops have to change schedule, etc.
Remote working jobs are here to stay, and some employers are worried
Maybe the China government will make Jack Ma invest and rescue the company.
> There were approximately two million corpses, many of which displayed bores from bites and fret holes—signs that their contents had been consumed, he says.
That latter example is pure nonsense - it's the situation today, and that's not how we do it today.

Realistically, both ways you're using a table you looked up online. What's the advantage of one chart over the other?
I disagree - tales of the decaying infrastructure in China is greatly exaggerated (though, like the USA there is decaying and unrenovated housing). The majority of China lives in rural areas, until this is no longer the case, urban housing will always be a large asset in China due to their attempts to urbanize the entire country.
I don't worry about multi billions dollar company having to lobby a little more to update the default port format in 10 years. They are good at it.

I do worry about the invisible hand of the market not being a good balance for interoperability or sustainability.
If you just want a sensor that will give your computer raw data that you can then further process, a pretty simple approach is a Sensirion SPS30. Sparkfun has them [1].

You can hook it to a USB port via a serial/USB adaptor, such as this FTDI cable from Sparkfun [2].

The male pins on the cable from the SPS30 will plug right into the female sockets on the FTDI cable.

There's sample code provided that easily builds on Unix and Unix-like systems (you'll just need to change one line to tell it the device name of the serial port). That code will poll the sensor and give regular readings, and also (assuming you keep it running long enough) do the periodic cleaning cycle of the sensor.

The SPS30 also has an I2C interface, although it is not as capable as the UART interface (it only provides mass concentration data, not number concentration data).

Sparkfun also caries a similar sensor from Honeywell [3], but I don't see any links to sample code or drivers, and the datasheet they link to does not have a lot of detail on the protocol.

Note: Sparkfun has several FTDI cables. The one I've linked to has 5 V power, 3.3 V signals. They also have one that is 5 V power and signals. The SPS30 is 5 V power 3.3 V signals, but is 5 V tolerant on the signals so the 5 V power and signals FTDI cable should also work without frying the SPS30.

Going the other way, in general, a 3.3 V serial device can send to a 5 V serial device with no problem unless the cable is really long because the lowest voltage the 3.3 V will output for a high output is still above the lowest voltage the 5 V side accepts as a high. So the 3.3 V SPS30 signal should also work with the 5 V FTDI cable.

But I recommend the 5 V power 3.3 V signal cable in general. You can use it with both 3.3 V and 5 V signal systems with no problem. With the 5 V signal cable you have to be careful to not use it with 3.3 V systems unless they are 5 V tolerant. An example of a 3.3 V system that is not tolerant is Raspberry Pi.

[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/15103

[2] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9717

[3] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14959
> Most gas stations are unmanned and self service, and I assume they make money.

After living and driving in Sweden for seven years, I'm fairly certain this isn't true.
Yeah, while there is a definite chance for some form of crash in real estate in the US, I think an equally or more likely scenario is that incomes catch up with pricing via inflation rather than an out right pricing crash.
GUIX should work with AMD’s open source drivers, just not Nvidia’s blob drivers.
There is a gaseous plant hormone (ethylene) that's relevant here, but it certainly doesn't indicate wrapping everything in airtight containers.
I think it's reasonable for Apple to assume that if you kept the old charger, you also had the old cable for it which would also work with the new iPhone.
Yes, it is incredibly hard to build an extension system.

Why does nobody build on top of Firefox and Chromium? Probably because tracking upstream changes will be incredibly difficult. I imagine as soon as FF releases a month worth of patches, trying to integrate them and sift through them would take thousands of hours.
This confusion comes from people trying to fit Facebook/Google etc. (I'll just say Facebook from now on) into "old world" concepts. There seem to be two different views of what Facebook is: some see it as a public square, others see it as a publication. But these are both wrong.

Facebook clearly isn't a public square. It's a platform with a dictator/censor/moderator who controls what is and isn't allowed on the platform. It also seems to be much more susceptible to groupthink, misinformation and extreme viewpoints than a real public square.

But Facebook isn't a publication either. When arguing against free speech on Facebook, some people compare it to newspapers and you'll hear arguments like "the New York Times isn't obliged to publish your article". But that's not what's happening here. Facebook operates more of a blacklist than a whitelist. Nobody thinks of the NYT as explicitly rejecting all but a select few people's writings, but they do think of Facebook as explicitly allowing whatever thing currently offends them.

So what is it? What should it be? These are questions we have to answer for ourselves. Applying rules from constitutions written 400 years ago might not be wise. But moving public discourse on to privately owned platforms is probably not wise either. I think the only thing that's clear right now is something is wrong.
A keylogger in the initramfs seems like a pretty obvious weakness to try and exploit. From there the attacker eventually gets the password manager master password, as well as any disk encryption passwords.

We could soon get to signed grub being able to read and authenticate from as fs-verity /boot on which initrd resides. Ext4 and recently btrfs support fs-verity and its more flexible than dm-verity.
No binary distribution available for about 98% of the world's desktop computers and they only linux distro they make packages for that has anything approaching significant desktop share is Arch.

It's like they're purposefully being snobs making it only available for the most obscure operating system users, or something.
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The products in Denmark and Spain are already 'the same' with respect to chargers.

The standards don't vary across the region on this issue.

"If you think your usb-c chargers are better than other countries, you would like to force apple to move to USB-C chargers."

This is definitely not it. There is no secret cabal of 'cable margin corporations' pushing for this legislation to tilt the power in the EU.

This is just the EU legislators thinking about what is right in front of their faces and thinking of legislating about it.

There might be some opportunity there, but probably not.

If someone wanted to help, they could figure out how to recycle them properly,
Indeed, that is why we've been working really hard at it!

https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/pull/1762

we are incredibly close.
The upcoming steam release may help it be more accessible, you could retry then if you still have any interest.
In terms of population growth, India and Nigeria are currently predicted to have the worlds largest population by the end of this century. Both China and India would shrink in population. China by quite a lot.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/the-world-population-...
Obviously not all produce requires it but plastic allows fine control of humidity/moisture. The green onions I buy sealed in plastic last about 3 times longer than those I buy without packaging. Food lasting a long time matters a lot to me, and many others, right now because I try to reduce my shopping trips as much as possible due to the pandemic.
Well, how are you defining social media?

I feel like "user generated content conducted between specific users, tied to specific accounts, where users have one-to-one public conversations and those conversations are foregrounded as the site's content" is reasonable.

So, if that's my definition Wikis aren't social media and HN would be.

But I also feel like HN is just a flavor of Reddit, and I feel that most people understand Reddit to be "social media".

I could be worng about those feelings.
To answer the question, with a usb-c/micro usb cable? No, obviously not. With a Google/Samsung/Anker manufactured wall-wart? Yes! Android "chargers" aren't a thing that I'm aware of with USB-C, just with micro usb, which would be pointless, because the proposed law would make those redundant anyway.

When was the last charger sold with a built in cable? And honestly, why is carrying 2 cables such a hardship? I agree that USB-C would be more convenient, but the bluster that is made every time this "issue" comes up really is over the top. Look at it this way; the argument goes that having Lightning cables produces e-waste. Changing to USB-C will render existing Lighting cables useless, thereby producing significantly more e-waste! At this stage both arguments are redundant.

As to being labelled a 'troll'; the OP made a factually incorrect statement. I questioned, genuinely, other than the cable, what was proprietary about wall-warts and charging bricks currently made by Apple?
Great! I'm really happy it's out there, because it seems Laravel sucks all the air out of this bit of the market, when I much prefer Symfony.

I'd be happy to chat about it in more detail if you want to ping me. Contact details are on my profile page.
I also want money, but I don't lie about my grandma dying to get it from my friends.
Apple manufacture a lot of their phones etc in China. I wonder what proportion of Apple products have slave labour in them?
Epic is the customer here also and they want to be able to provide a convenient and cheaper way for their customers. Their asks are not only reasonable, they are consumer friendly.

Apple is just being a bully.
Being younger also doesn't guarantee that death isn't around the corner next week.

Smoking doesn't necessarily mean you'll live a shorter life either

Losing 70 pounds increased my chances
That's a good point, Earth would be a nice place to live if their home planet had comparable gravity. But conversely, Earth could also be very uncomfortable for them for a multitude of reasons. Like imagine if we discovered a planet full of life, but it had a dense very wet atmosphere that to us would be unbearable, but to the native species perfect.

Also imagine if humans do go out and colonize new planets, these people would go through rapid changes morphing into another subspecies each adapted to conditions of the planet they moved to.
Ah, ok - but - then, do employees actually have the mandate to change anything? I have seen a few articles that basically seem to indicate the only way that things change are because of whistleblowers or investigations. Doesn't sound very proactive.
Yes, but I don't see any indication whatsoever that GGP had actually examined contradictory comments from the same users - just a general complaint based on a vague feeling.
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Don't let this guy get to you. He's probably invested in Bitcoin, and wills ignorance of any information that isn't confidence inspiring.
Sure, my point was that this is not the case for Japanese, probably not for anyone. They are vastly more familiar with Latin characters and English words than you are with Japanese.

But yeah, programming will be slightly harder for them than for you or me.
Indeed, I wish there was an easier solution for macOS users, in the meantime you can try https://github.com/deddu/nyxt-docker
> I am afraid it might not work with nvidia or AMD GPUs,

You can still install non-free blobs on Guix, as described in the article.
It's there, but you need an enterprise license...
That might explain this issue being found on Tumblr…

Thanks for the link!
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Keylogging? Depending on the bar for sophistication, I'm told this could be done by a microphone at the other end of town, or by measuring the power consumption of your building from the grid... but there's probably something at the middle point between these paranoid risks and something simple anyone could place in your computer case / keyboard.
That type of vehicle is ideal for electrification. Electric motors have maximum torque at zero RPM. A lot of haul trucks are already electric, and just use diesel to generate electricity for the electric motor.

I don't understand your skepticism about mechanics being able to service electric vehicles though. Why the doubt?
if they have access to your device, they don't have to. They'll just snoop on whatever you use to enter your key.
I don't think blaming employees is the right thing here. These are hard problems to solve, and unless we have evidence that Facebook encourages, or does not try to ban content like this it's probably a strech to call them immoral.

We are just beginning to understand the ill effects of social media, and these companies themselves acknowledge it. Plenty of people at these companies are working to solve these problems.

What is indeed a wrongdoing of last decade of companies is the growth at all costs mindset which leads to weird engagement hacks (like LinkedIn sending you an email notification for a message but now showing the message content in email), which many times lead them to take decisions that are not at the best interest of consumer. I guess all ad supported VC businesses are bound to have this fate, though.
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I read a lot of philosophy in my 20s, but I think only Marcus Aurelius and Wittgenstein actual made me into a better, happier person.

My advisor at university, a philosophy professor, said the same thing about Wittgenstein. During the initial part of his graduate studies, philosophy left him empty, and depressed. Discovering, and focusing on, Wittgenstein, changed his life.
Same in the Arab world/Middle East.