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Wind and solar face the problem that you can't just start generating power as needed when you're running low. It's good to have a hedge against that scenario which itself does not produce much carbon, because people die when power outages happen. It's just the safe bet to include nuclear power for now until we can be more certain of our ability to generate enough power to scale with growing populations.

Why would we risk not having the infrastructure to be flexible in case of uncertainties? Can we say for certain that weather patterns will not change in a way that affects wind and solar in the future? It just seems like we shouldn't just dive in head first without an alternative.
Your first sentence is absolutely wrong and your second sentence is absolutely absurd. If you want to have a real conversation, maybe keep out the latest thing you watched on Netflix as a source of your bias.

Global living conditions across multiple facets have DRAMATICALLY improved in the last 200 years. No, I am not talking about the last 10 or 20 years, I mean over many generations: https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit...
So we all know that the Linux desktop is lacking in a few ways, and we all know there are a few reasons for that, but I really do think the experience is getting better.

Having more people use it and more development has been great. Valve, System76, and a few others have been pouring resources into making the experience better, and it's working.

As much as people aren't going to like me saying this, Electron has been good for the Linux desktop. I'm with everyone that Electron applications can be pretty bloated, but I'd imagine that I'd get late and/or sub-par access to plenty of programs if they weren't written in Electron. The fact that discord is 95% as good as Windows on Linux, despite having a tiny fraction of users is great. If it was written in GTK, I'd imagine that would be a good bit lower.

The fact we have multiple DEs that are of relatively similar popularity is great for choice, but affects development. MacOS and Windows have the advantage of the complete control over GUIs, while Linux has quite a few layers with different options at each layer. Not saying it's bad, but it explains slower development (as well as being FOSS without MS or Apple level of cash behind them).

Linux isn't for everyone, but god damn is the Linux desktop getting better. I won't indulge on the year of the Linux desktop meme, because it might be a while, but I'm happy at the current momentum.
True, have gone to FOSDEM the last two times it was held and got a nasty cold the first time and a flu on the second time.
The prospective of spending 30 years in jail is a disincentive.
Legally speaking, I don't think they can compel self-incriminating testimony simply by giving you immunity. They can certainly encourage it by offering immunity in exchange, but that is not the same as compelling it.
in terms of performance, i would err on the side of reducing work for the database, assuming the middleware/rpc layer is written in a language that has a fast runtime. i suspect that using a smaller number of prepared queries at the cost of shipping more data around (especially if the number of rows per query is limited) would be more performant than custom queries. prepared queries avoid repetitive string parsing of the query language and give the db backend more opportunities to optimize. less entropy in the overall workload also can result in better utilization of caching. if there are a few common display filters, additional prepared queries could be added to optimize them. in practice, it's unlikely that there would be a lot of entropy in column selection.
Having the next great idea for a cat video app you haven’t quite built yet is very different than a medical device that doesn’t work. You don’t fake it to you make it in healthcare. People got hurt here and that’s $&?!ed up.
Depending on what you are after, you may be better off implementing the code yourself.

You will learn much more than by simply seeing the entire code already implemented.

If you however need a strong implementation of some algorithm to use in production, you may want to search a robust library implementing it instead.
Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
Say you wanted to host a personal page that can outlive you and be seen by the children of your grandchildren. Other than asking your progeny to keep paying the hosting bills, is there another way?
Which distro?

You might want to look into something less unstable.

I've had arch running unattended upgrades in a Cron for years.

Worst case I have to find my USB stick and do some debugging, not that an update has ever broken anything.

There is some minor maintenance I run maybe once every 6-12 months to clear caches or fix up any configs that need updating but I've never run into anything that prevents booting.
Using double quotes is a standard way of marking a use/mention distinction, but that the mention is a paraphrase and not a direct quote should be explicitly called out.
My understanding is that in the US this would be completely legal anyway.
It is and it isn't, there are circumstances where the best outcome is to be helpful and compliant, and other circumstances where you'll want to protect yourself from search.
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Still, Google owns everything in terms of search engines. You can't probably deny that, but it's a big prop to Brave for creating their unique search engine.
Yes, similar to my experience, if you want to run out, being close to the door is the only way to actually manage it.
I'm not sure the $2T cryptocurrency industry is a response to govt's handling of 2008. I think Satoshi cared very deeply about it: I'm not sure all of the $2T worth of participation in the current economy does, nor am I certain that the current crypto industry addresses many of the problems that existed in 2008.
Probably does. I'm also guilty of not having given Windows a chance recently.
You can tell from the video that this game shares a lot in common with stardew valley. I'm assuming he's reusing the engine and even some art assets for UI, etc. Curious to see whether the final product differs in look and feel enough for this to be a unique standalone, or whether it will feel more like a total conversion mod for stardew.
I always wonder who these people are who pick the OS first and applications second? If you need to run GarageBand, Visual Studio, or Returnal, Linux is not an option.
Until the minute I want to play a video game, or start using some non standard device with my PC. Then it turns into a 3 hour session like I'm back in college again.
I assume they mean make it illegal for corporations to pay the ransom. It's obviously unjust and ineffective to punish private individuals for paying ransoms, but that's not where the money is. OTOH, corporations have budgets and can be prosecuted if X millions dollars disappears out of it.
I don't get it, really.

They are comparing this with (good ol') card skimmers, but with those you get BOTH the data on the card (magnetic stripe or chip/whatever, i.e. you can - in theory - clone the card at leisure) AND the PIN, with these attack you ONLY get the PIN (possibly 4 times out of 10), so you need to somehow rob the user "on the spot" either by dexterity or at - say - gunpoint to get the card, it would be easier to just go for the money the customer just got from the ATM, you will have 10/10 success.
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Is it 5 pounds and 2 inches thick? The fact is is that my M1 Macbook Air that was $1400 would cost at least $2000 from HP, Dell or Lenovo to even approach similar performance, and still have a worse screen, worse battery life, AND would still be slower. I have not seen a laptop chip from AMD or Intel in fanless, thin laptop like the Macbook Air that even gets close to the M1.
Rikers is a jail, not a prison. Jails are meant to hold people who have not yet completed their trial. Once you're convicted you get sent to prison.
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Quantum mechanics is a bit hard to explain, but it turns out to be quite a good model of our physical observations.

Monads are hard to explain, they are _not_ hard to use, and use with great effect. Option#{map, flatMap} changed how I approached programming, and did not require a full understanding of why they existed or what they were a part of.
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I've noticed more and more "glue" boards - even beyond the classic MDF or plywood - such as "Edge Glued" boards.

Lots of the Ikea "wood" furniture is made this way, some apparently from relatively small scraps.
Quietly, but surely Tesla revolutionized car sales when it started its online car sales back in 2012 as the company launched Model S. Then, Carvana was launched the same year and Vroom followed the same online used car sales model launching in 2013. So, how will car sales change in the US and the world? Will the car dealerships be obsolete this decade? It’s quite possible, let’s see how.
that whole the great reset and how life will be different after the pandemic was not serious, those of us who know that knew that back when it was said. maybe it sounds negative, but come on, the system did not change for those who were on the front lines. it was a pat on the back for the working man or woman who was risking their lives, and getting nothing in return.

a lot of people who have worked terrible jobs during the pandemic didn't have an opportunity to retrain and rethink about things, they were still working, the whole things are gonna change crowd were those who had the privilege to wait things out from the safety of their computers, they could order doordash or amazon groceries and drink their home made espresso while shopping for a cute new mask to show everyone how much they cared about being safe. the people who made the mask, worked in the food supply chain, delivered your groceries and doordash food kept their 60-70 hour a week job of hopelessness, had zero opportunity to shift away from that. while people were talking about how things are different now, many americans were dealing with the same, except they were now in an extremely dangerous situation (according to the experts) but, in many cases did not receive anything other than "thanks", and maybe a dollar or two more in tips, if they didn't forget anything.

what the pandemic has taught me is that we are not some civilized, future minded society, we are a bunch of naked apes with pitchforks who like to hoard for profit and fight over which candidate sweet talks better but offers zero solutions other than creating race/freedom/whatever division you can think of... culture war. do we have a chance to make things better? yes, when we stop looking at the world through a political lens, and start looking at it from a humanity lens.
Why would I want to optimize for working on planes, trains and in meetings? That's not a good work environment.

I run desktop computers and since I don't need to play video games on them, I just use the CPU graphics.

However, even when I did use a discrete GPU - every Linux distro I've used just prompts me to install the drivers and things just work.
And minutiae about court cases, legal precedent of the era.

Similar with Count of Monte Cristo as well, the details of the Mediterranean smuggling trade it goes into is simply amazing.
I went to linux around the time ME was on the shelf, not sure why I'd want to move to windows, I want something that just works.
This is a good article. This very thread has a ton of examples of what the author talks about.

I've used Linux as my main OS for years now and I love it, but I've stopped trying to evangelize it. Just use whatever OS you want, I'm happy on Linux.
I love Arch, and have always considered Debian + debian derivatives to be subpar because of packages + community issues. I need to go check out Debian rolling, never knew that existed. Could be a useful hybrid for coworkers who believe rolling releases break things often.
The US, if they really wanted to, could make it problematic enough for Russia that they might want to engage on this.

Russian doesn't gain anything from having it's citizens attack US hospitals.
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What speech recognition system did you use on Linux? I'm interested in using speech recognition more after getting used to it on iOS devices (where it works amazingly well).
My only two reasons would be no Photoshop and fewer games, though it's definitely catching up on both.
Thank you. Some of the comments in this thread are so bizarre I have to wonder if it's down to US educational systems placing everything that's not Reaganomics into a basket marked "Communism BAD".
Well, have you observed that behavior first-hand? Did someone you know and trust observe it first-hand and tell you about it? Etc. We don't ask you to "prove" anything, but some more information instead of vague hints would be helpful.
You might like Nix or Guix. It's even easier to roll back bad changes there!
Oh, absolutely. A lot of VC firms are quite bad at due diligence. However, if you believe John Carreyrou, the big investors mostly weren't thinking along those lines, and some attempts to get investment from real VCs were stymied by the most basic due diligence (one pulled out when Theranos was unable to produce audited accounts, for instance).

Notably, one early investor said, in interviews, that he was comfortable investing because Holmes' grandfather was a businessman, and another relative was a famous doctor (presumably the theory was that she was thus _genetically_ good at medical tech businesses?!). These were, by and large, very much the opposite of sophisticated investors.
I've had to do similar in the past. I ended up enumerating all the columns, intersecting that set with the ones submitted by the user, and using the result in the SELECT clause of the query.

Not as easy as just dropping in the user's choices, but guarantees they have no control over the resulting query string.
Durable Objects[0] let you store data on the edge and provide a lot more than a key/value store. This is a primitive you could build arbitrary databases on top of.

The edge chat demo[1] is a working, scalable real-time chat service hosted entirely on the edge using Workers + Durable Objects, even featuring per-user cross-room rate limiting. As written, it can support millions of chat rooms and users, and it's about 500 lines of code.[2]

The benefit here is that it's much easier to build scalable distributed systems on Workers and Durable Objects than on other platforms. The fact that they run on the edge as close to end users as possible is just a bonus.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-durable-obje...

[1] https://edge-chat-demo.cloudflareworkers.com/

[2] https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-chat-demo/blob/master/...

(Disclosure: I'm the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers.)
Your crap is gold for someone.
the company will remind them to keep their mouth shut and do their stretch while being greatful for their service
I'm a heavy touchpad user and the sole reason I will not use Linux for the foreseeable future is because touchpad usage is absolutely terrible on Linux. Depending if you use the libinput or synaptics drivers it's either completely inconsistent between applications or all-around terrible.

I use Windows + WSL even though I practically never do anything Windows related.
I really like the Unix philosophy. And even if Linux it is not exactly Unix, it kind of shares the same philosophy.

I tried very much to like Linux and to use it on the desktop. In the last 20 years I've tried countless times to use it as a desktop. But it always failed. It always reqyired lots of time for configuration as opposed to "it just works". After some time, it always broke something, which required again time to fix. And it doesn't run all the software I want to run. And even if an alternative might exists to some of the software I need, it is always sub-par. It doesn't do what I need, it doesn't do it well and it will run poorly and/or has a poor user experience.

And I am not even convinced someone should relearn how to do things with another software just to give Linux a chance. Sure, if you are 14 and idealistic it might work. But after 30 your time will worth much more.

Software and drivers written some time ago won't work because there's no stable ABI.

The software landscape is very fragmented.

From my long experience with trying to use Linux on the desktop I can give a very long lecture of why it sucks from both user and technical perspectives alike.

On the other hand it is perfect as an server OS, and I make my daily living writing software that ultimately runs on Linux. But please do not force me to use it as a desktop because I've tried to like it but I couldn't.

I pretty much doubt that Linux will be a decent desktop OS unless some company will release an OS based on Linux, pretty much how Google did with Android on mobile.

For desktop community development simply doesn't cut it. Fragmentation, lack of direction and the reinventing of the wheel kills it.

To have a decent server OS you need a single architect and a dictator which will be the only one to take decisions. This is why macOS, primarily an amalgamation of BSD software with a Next skin succeeded.
True, but so much of banking has been moved to online and mobile so visits to an actual branch are almost always outlier situations.

I shouldn’t have to schedule something ahead of time which is the equivalent of cashing the average American paycheck. Cash might be a bit of a pain, but there are still plenty of common and good reasons why I might want 5k of my money without having to wait a few days for it.
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78% of Republicans is actually pretty dreadful. I would expect that number to be closer to the mid 90s for a party's former president. Can you imagine what the numbers would be for Obama?
Silverblue is far from ready for primetime. You'll have way less problems with fedora workstation.

I wanted to like silverbluez used it on the homelab as a host os for a while, went back to a normal server in the end, way less hassle.
As said in the thread it (currently) works if you do not setup internet until after the installation completes. If you set up internet before, you end up doong a full re-install.
Linux is not for everyone. Consult your Sys Admin before trying Linux.
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I think almost everything you say about Japan is wrong.

"99.9% of people accused of a crime ..." -- this is a reference to the fact that the Japanese criminal system's conviction rate is a startlingly high 99.9%. But what's going on here is that about 60% of criminal cases in Japan get suspended without going to court; prosecutors only proceed in cases where they are nearly certain of getting a conviction, so their 99.9% figure isn't comparable to (say) the US's 93% (that's a figure from 2012; I couldn't readily find anything more recent).

(It may also be true that that 99.9% is artificially high, that substantially fewer than 99.9% of accused criminals who go to trial in Japan are actually guilty despite prosecutors' attempts to proceed only when sure of conviction. But even if say 10% of those convictions are wrongful, that's a much smaller effect than the fact that 60% of cases are abandoned without going to trial.)

"... are forced to work in a gulag" -- so the claim here is that literally every person convicted of a crime in Japan then does forced labour. This is not true, for the simple reason that the great majority of people convicted of crimes in Japan (just like everywhere else) don't go to prison. Only about 15% do.

(It is true that most prison sentences in Japan are imprisonment-with-labour. I'm not sure whether it's all of them; I've seen explicit claims that it is and explicit claims that it isn't. I shall not try to adjudicate whether "in a gulag" is a reasonable description of the life of those prisoners. Incidentally, they are mostly paid for the work they do in prison.)

"Why? They implemented loads of socialist policies and blew up their debt."

The Japanese debt-to-annual-GDP ratio hovered around 50% or so until about 1993 and then started rising rapidly, reaching its present level (the figure I've seen is 225%, not 266%, but in any case it's rather high) around 2012. But they had a policy of prison labour before their debt was large; e.g., here's http://www.jca.apc.org/cpr/kaido.html someone complaining about it in 1997 (debt-to-annual-GDP ratio about 70%) using prison labour figures from 1994 (debt-to-annual-GDP ratio about 60%).

(I shall not try to adjudicate whether Japan's big increase in public debt is the result of "socialist policies".)

"The only thing holding Japan together is the government slaves."

About 50k people are in prison in Japan. The population of Japan is about 125M. That 0.04% of the population would have to be incredibly productive for their labour to be "the only thing holding Japan together".
Just Ubuntu though admittedly I use a lot more packages than average so there's more that can break across updates. Also a lot of things that have caused me problems over the years are getting more stable.
Interesting. Bamboo flooring usually has higher Janka rating then other wood used for flooring.
Get it printed on a physical monument made of metal/stone, put it on property you own, and engage a lawyer to set up the will and property covenants to require its ongoing existence and maintenance.

Our guesses about what the web looks like ten years in advance are likely to be wrong, let alone 500.
A user can have many permissions in his/her own namespace without compromising the other tenants. This sounds like it would allow any user with Ingress create/update access in any namespace to compromise secrets across all namespaces.
WSL performance is close to bare metal.

Telemetry is a problem, yes. Should be at least opt-in.

I believe that forced upgrades are a necessity if you have the end-user market penetration of Windows. It's a different thing for servers, and one could argue about the implementation details.

I don't see ads on Windows (and I'm on the 11 beta channel).
One thing that bothers me in this essay is that it relies a lot on intelligence being somewhat clear/measurable and agreed upon metric. But there isn't really a comprehensive definition of intelligence, let alone a comprehensive way to measure it (IQ for example to a large extent measures how good someone is at taking tests).

Coming up with new ideas can itself be a measure of intelligence!

That is not to say the spirit of the article is wrong - I've met plenty of people who came across as very smart and didn't really achieve as much in life (so far) as other people who didn't appear to be as smart or smarter. I think other large factors must include ambition, risk-aversion (or lack thereof), confidence and opportunity.
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This is the exact elitist mentality that the article writer is talking about. Not only are you saying everyone who can't figure it out is dumb, but you forget, there are actually people who probably can't understand it because its a different icon like very elderly people. My grandma would only use a browser if I set the icon to the little IE6 icon. lol