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>GTK+ and Qt don't support Wayland given they ship with Wayland by default and these... just work.

That's not the impression I get watching #gtk on GIMPNet and the bug trackers. There's a lot left to do even if Wayland is enabled now.
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I haven’t used it for that purpose but I follow Alanah Pearce and she swears by it for helping her drop weight after she gained a bunch because of an injury. I’ve heard a few other anecdotes about the app she used helping others too called supernatural. Also the boxing ones too.
That's true. I own a bar, and PBR HC is our most expensive-cost drink in a can. It's roughly double a Guiness, which used to hold that title.
Your raise an interesting question about whether private firms are the right actors to invest in long-term infrastructure. Alternatives include governments (whether via policy or public infrastructure) and also longer-lived industry consortiums.

With that said, citing averages on companies can be pretty misleading. For example, family-owned businesses tend to last longer, with 1/3 reaching 60 years [0]. That naively suggests a mortality rate of ~1.8% per year, not that far from the risk of a 100y storm. There may be other categories of private firm that are more optimized for longevity, or it may be possible to structure them in order to make better infrastructure actors.

[0] https://hbr.org/2021/07/do-most-family-businesses-really-fai...
It's a samovar; wood- or charcoal-burning vessel (electric in more modern versions) for boiling water for tea and keeping a tea kettle warm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samovar
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Apple has the best consumer hardware design in the industry. If one of the big tech companies are going to crack the hardware issues (arguably the most important part), it’s going to probably be Apple. It’s a game of who can make the smallest form factor with the best performance without looking like shit. Pretty sure Apple is in the best position to win that. The software for all the other stuff you mentioned will follow the winner of the hardware.

But yeah, the article is pretty weak. People keep trying because AR/VR is going to be massive if the hardware is solved. Being the gateway to a person’s entire world (AR) or the next major media and productivity tools (VR) will make you one of the most powerful companies in the world.
For all of 15 seconds?
When he actively coached and encouraged Manning to steal top secret data from US government databases, and then released it wholesale without regard for its newsworthiness, he ceased being any definition of a journalist. Not sure what he is now, but the word choice I'd use for him is going to be heavily influenced by his later collaboration with Russian intelligence.
Like you said, one of the issues is we have a strong federal government that passes one-size-fits all laws for everybody (Hamiltonian model). Traditionally the country was governed by states, so each state had its own set of rules to live by (Jeffersonian model). We've moved from the Jeffersonian model to the Hamiltonian model starting around the 1900s and WWI. Both have their issues.

Of course a split up would negate the power of groups, meaning, each individual independent region would be weaker than the whole. This is what Lincoln was talking about during the Civil War about secession. We want to design a system so that we get the benefits of a large, powerful union but also the benefits of independently run states with none of the bad things that both can provide. Ideally each state would run itself in the way the citizens want, that also don't violate minority civil rights, while having a strong defense of a union of states.
It’s always been a race. Look at Windows phone to see what happens when you come late.
> out of sight, out of mind

This plus the "make your own schedule" organization that installs itself after the first weeks/months, and you can finally reach the peace of mind one, as an individual, needs to thrive.

That being said, I can understand the reluctance of the management, since they're basically losing control of both time and space of their teams. Which can be quite scary if you're not prepared.

But hey, managerial inertia should be fought if everyone else is happy.
It begs the question: if they host the social media account and VR account and can reliably identify / link them on their end, and the laws and terms allow them to do so, does it really matter if they’re different accounts?

It's still a win if you don't have a facebook account. For everyone else: I would assume that they will identify your accounts reliably.
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Creepy and interesting! Tell us more about the furnished room.
> I ended up choosing the Allwinner A33; it’s an older MPU that came out in 2014. Tablet manufacturers used it in their Android devices, and since Android uses Linux, we should get good mainline support.

Not quite. Mainlining ARM chips tend to be a demanding task, and the not-so-widespread A33 is still a work in progress
The most popular distros are Ubuntu and Red Hat/Fedora. Both use Wayland by default. Everybody else is part of the long tail.
> The (general) lack of prejudice where I live works wonderfully; the bigotry - almost always from outsiders who have no experience with the people they hate - is the only problem. If they all went away, we'd have one less problem.

Beautiful. This one goes into the collection of all time memorable HN comments.
This is the big point even if we have to have a meta account we are not at the whim of being suspended from using our headset because of something we said on a separate social media platform
When you can even find an article about Assange from these mainstream rags, buried under pages of coivd/climate/race-baiting "news", it is invariably in support of his continued incarceration and punishment.
Both work. ;-)
speaking of dicey chemistry, I'm sure you have already read the book, but to anyone else who hasn't: "Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants" by John Drury Clark (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/677285.Ignition_) made me realize two things: 1) I'm glad I didn't pursue a career in chemistry as I would doubtless have been drawn to things that are "interesting", 2) people who do "interesting" things in chemistry have the best stories.
> I am still writing Swift despite being retired but as part of my art generation work now.

I've been "retired" for four years, and work more, every day, than I ever did, as a grunt.

I write Swift 7 days a week. I really like the language.
It's a bold move, a big gamble. Isn't that what sets Silicon Valley apart from traditional companies?
Meta's current valuation cannot be justified by some small niche.

Love the Cable TV advertising example - Meta killed that.
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Nonsense, asynchronous / remote comm just optimizes for people who live online. They can respond faster leading to an initiative advantage which was previously restricted to “egoists”, as you put it.
Following Kenji Lopez-Alt, I’ve put it in Bolognese sauce where it does surreptitiously add a bit of umami and body.
Have taxpayers had to support this woman for 60 years?
I guess it depends on what you’re worried about so if it’s identification and targeted ads you’re probably right but I was just worried about losing access if I close or get banned or something from my Facebook account for whatever reason.
>He wasn't going to get a fair trial by any means whatsoever

You state your very arguable opinion as some kind of fact. It's not. It's your opinion. The US is a country with rule of law, and this would have been a very public trial with tons of people coming to his legal aid. Even Manning got a fair trial, for a crime that Assange coaxed and encouraged him to commit by the way.
You are now committing the other Origin of Life non sequitur that annoys the hell out of me: confusing the statement "the evidence does not require one to believe X" with the statement "the evidence requires on to believe not-X".

I'm not arguing that life must be rare. I'm not arguing that the smallest Darwinian replicator must have billions of atoms. I'm arguing against the PRESUMPTION that there must be a small replicator, and the inference (from that presumption) that life must be common. There is no evidence for such a small replicator (the RNA world work does not provide it). And understand that even if the smallest replicator were much smaller than this billions-of-atoms thing, it could still present a super-astronomical complexity gap.
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No one is a garbage human. You have a garbage opinion, though, if that's what you think of them.
And be sure that you're not using something that implicitly commits the transaction, such as TRUNCATE in Redshift.
History is cyclical, and the further you pull back the pendulum, the harder it will swing back...

Be warned, those perpetrating vile violations of human ethics with their groupthink and historical revisionism.

You will suffer the same fate as every attempt before them.

Finding balance is the answer, obviously.
Yeah, exactly.

Personally I think small states + active democracy is the way. Ultimately, freedom of movement plus observation of different modes of governance will force states to change or be abandoned.

The government should apply a thin layer of rules to be followed, and otherwise let states do their own thing. In theory that's what we're already doing, but it's a matter of opinion.
And class has nothing to do with race?
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I am misunderstanding then. I am also probably willfully assuming Facebook will continue to operate as they have been — trying to steer all users to their site, keep them engaged on their site.
Microsoft isn't in Silicon Valley - they're in Seattle
We Americans sometimes forget we are 3% off the world. FB is so huge, and the hand wringing by a small community in America might not be a big deal in the scheme of things.
Coincidentally I just got an el-cheapo one, that bar the quite obvious antennas and blinking leds is a "direct plugin" (as your typical air freshener), the thingy is sold everywhere with different brands but the origin should be this[0], the nice thing is that it has the plug that can be rotated 90 degrees so it is good for both horizontal and vertical sockets.

[0] http://www.pix-link.com/page50?product_id=144
Yes, but mind you I once locked up the database for my colleagues by not realising the consequences of implicit transactions in a DB client.

It was a long time ago, but I think it was with SQLPlus on Oracle - and presumably staging or something non-prod since it's not a particularly vivid memory!
In the early 2000s there were many games that allowed you to change up your control scheme and even UI elements. It seems as budgets got larger and games became mainstream those options have been ditched to focus on the wow-factor in games rather than making them accessible to more people.
The (discontinued) Aruba AP-65 WB did this. It was originally targeted at hospitality applications (hotels etc), where the stealth factor deters tampering:

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/29557041/aruba-ap65wb...

They did it as a 2-gang but you could surely do smaller.
you can add a royalty on NFTs, giving you a cut of them in perpetuity
Ah the pesky Russians. They always seem to appear whenever the US is embarrassed.
Defending the civil and human rights of mentally disabled and addicted people does not require that you permit them to defecate in public, take drugs in public, harangue and harass passersby, aggressively panhandle, and engage in theft.

In fact, I would argue that creating an environment in which this is permitted does a disservice to not just the local community, but to these people as well.
There are twenty three keys on a steno machine. With only a hundred-word language the current machine would certainly work. But with so few words even the machine could be simplified.
It is class, but the wealthy know this is a good distraction.
UPDATE also supports ORDER BY and LIMIT, which is kind of odd when you first see it.
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> azide derivatives decomposing rapidly

I got some major "Things I Won't Work With" vibes reading that. Checked the archives and yep, that's a repeat offender right there.
Sure. I just think it would be more interesting to know why the authors of the study, who have probably invested much more time thinking about this than any of the commenters here, concluded that that explanation was not satisfactory.
Does sweat not affect the Oculus Quest?
Ahhh.... LambdaMOO! You're taking me back.

I'd say no. It doesn't include the spatial computing aspects. You can say it was a precursor to the metaverse, but by the earliest definitions (Snowcrash et al), the metaverse has to be a replacement for the reality around you which encompasses all your senses.
Ah yes, surely if we break the entire world again, this year will be the year of the Linux desktop.

The Linux desktop experience is a bit like watching an alcoholic. You try to explain that drinking is making them sick and they should stop, but they just get violent and drink even more.

I think the success of Windows should be proof enough that you can keep compatibility for very old APIs and that it's required for an OS that is to be a platform for other people to build software on, as opposed to a walled garden (Apple) where you sometimes let people build part of it.
The US has a good network of public run rest stops on the interstates. The bathrooms aren’t spotless but have always worked in a pinch. There’s one every few hundred miles.

Truckers prefer commercial truck stops but I usually see a few at the public ones when I stop there.
Man!

I had forgotten about the Borland/Inprise/Borland lunacy
Actually, Hydro One doesn't use local contractors all that much as it's heavily unionized. Even in discussions about permitting, hands are often tied as it is almost impossible to assign work previously done by union employees to external contractors or even those of us submitting permits.

For the last few years Hydro One has been trying to reform its internal processes for permits, and the folks in charge of that get huge amounts of push back internally, making the pace of change abysmally slow even though everyone knows they have a problem.

There is also the perverse incentives of operating a regulated utility. As they are usually the monopoly LDC in a given area, the amount profits they are permitted to generate are limited relative to their costs (somewhere around 10-15% iirc). This creates a perverse incentive to inflate costs as they are then permitted to generate larger profits. If they reduced costs and profits grew too large, they would be forced to lower rates, which is clearly a bad thing in the view of Hydro One management.
I believe Quest 2 has passed 5 million units.
A mathematician that has only used a type theory like Coq or Agda and never Haskell.
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I started a new job this year. The employer and our manager have made it clear, IF you feel safe coming into an office once the company declares it safe you can. If you are never comfortable ever again with coming in to the office, you won't have to. They have dedicated themselves to what works best for each employee, zero pressure. Nobody on my team is going in it's been decided.

I am way more productive at home. I have ADHD and the distraction of an office environment is too much and makes it hard for me to concentrate. My productivity has never been higher. I don't dread going to work, I get paid enough that I do not need to find a better place. And I have been a remote worker since 2011 and never, ever want to go back to work in an office.
> When one group believes in big government and the other believes in small government in contradictory and circumstantial ways, there's no reconciliation.

Well good news: both the left and the right believe in big government. The bad news is that they each want a different type of big government.
I'd argue that GPL-licensed works should remain "authorial", and that each commit generates a new derivative object and, thus, a new copyright. In that sense, the "old code" goes into the public domain in ~28 years, but the "tip of tree" remains firmly GPL'd.
Almost 20 years ago in Romania, I was complaining about the bad showers in my university dormitory, until I saw some homeless women use it and how much joy it brought them.

I'm sure it would be impossible today because of security, but it was common back then.
> does it really matter if they’re different accounts?

Yes. If you lose access to one, you can keep the other.
"Everybody should keep this firmly in mind – this was not something that they've been thinking about for a long period of time," he said. "This is something they've put together in desperation to try to divert attention from the inevitable pushback that the whistleblower has caused by providing evidence of irresponsible management and potential felonies committed by Facebook in pursuit of profit."

Ouch baby.
> the right to do exams in Braille

Because if someone has a perfect sight he is not allowed to do exams in Braille?
If you don't have the guts, then you end up with liquamen!
It's not up to me to show that, since I'm not claiming life is rare. It's up to the person making the strong statement that life is (not just could be) common to convince me that there is no sufficiently difficult step. All I need to do is plausibly argue there could be a difficult step. Pointing out the complexity of all known self contained systems capable of Darwinian evolution is sufficient for that.
The ex-architects of a dead UNIX, most likely busy with their macOS or Windows laptops in 2021.

Really curious what success story they are about to tell me.
Oracle is still in business?
Oh my. Too bad - I was kind of proud of the name.
Honda has already developed a prototype engine for a rocket
Firefox cares little for user experience, constantly alienating its user base over, and over again.

They are notorious for being the least user friendly of browsers, and that is surely saying a lot.

So taking this as any sort of trend, isn't prudent.
Snap - I was doing 4 hours each day (combination of car and train) and then add in the frequent train delays and after a year I was looking to move
Wasn't FANG / FAANG originally based on stock tickers? The acronym still includes Google, not Alphabet. If you go by the tickers nothing has to change. If you go by company names and include Tesla as the article suggests, another option is MANTAA.
This is how I bought BMX parts as a kid (1980s). I memorized my Dad's Visa card, used it over the phone, and paid him back with cash. He didn't mind, as I never stiffed him.
> The best way to fund that is to have everyone pay a nominal fee to use the facilities.

IIRC, pay toilets are not a thing in the US (they are not legal in much of the US). And I don't entirely know where I stand on it, personally[0]. On the one hand, allow everyone to charge for toilet usage and you might eventually see bathrooms becoming a profit-center for suffering retail establishments. On the other hand, retail/restaurants (especially in cities) disallow non-customer usage and it's similar in retail (if they're offered at all where its not required by law). I would have zero problem with "pay toilets" that are free standing, separated from retail/restaurants.

Frankly, I don't see any other way it would work in the US -- free public toilets provided by government/government-related entities (like subways/city buses) are universally terrible where I live (either non-existent, non-functional or so nasty as to be non-existent).
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I don't see VR getting to the point of being a mainstream product for gamers as it doesn't add a significant novelty that can be enjoyed easily. Like early radio was a hobby interest but once vacuum tube technology made audio amplification a reality more people (even those who weren't technically inclined) were able to enjoy radio programming and thus the audience exploded. VR needs to be as easy as closing your eyes and going to sleep to enjoy properly in my opinion. And that sort of interface is probably a century away at best.
That’s because AI is hyped up bullshit…
And the joke is way, way older than that.
Valve left the ship of VR, pain me to say it but Facebook is the future.
I thought this was going to be about Theo being forced out of NetBSD back in 1994 and then starting OpenBSD.

I was in college and ran Linux but my roommate ran NetBSD and was telling me all the mailing list drama.

It is still archived here under footnotes 11 and 12

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD#cite_note-glass-12
From the perspective of freedom of the press in the United States, the best way for Assange's case to help journalism and journalists exposing state secrets would be for him to be successfully extradited and to be acquitted at trial for his purported crimes.

The extradition circus is really just that. The problem is not extradition or venue, it is that under the US Constitution and the First Amendment he should be entirely shielded from any of this, and we need a court to declare that, otherwise the government can continue to use the cudgel of pretrial detention and heavy-handed plea bargaining to continue to punish individuals who expose government acts.
> They're already in the business of making complex web pages

I think Apple are famous for not having this core competency compared to its competitors?

> so why special case it?

Why do companies outsource anything? Why doesn't Apple employ its own janitors? Because it's not what makes them money and their engineers are astronomically expensive.
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>Phones are good enough, bringing a camera is a hassle

They more than just "good enough" ... heck - an "average" 4-6mp camera from 15 years is better than most people are taking pictures

Cameras are like firearms - the quality of the shot is almost exclusively related to the skill of the operator
I am speculating here - but it looks a whole lot like a move to head off anti trust
Boxing, Audio Trip, Pistol Whip and even Beat Saber are all nice
Not a Quest (I've used both and think it's the same answer), but with the HTC Vive the foam pads do a good job of not letting sweat get to your eyes.

In general, the facemasks are pretty tight around the eyes, and the sweat glands are on the forehead, so it doesn't affect operation.

Of course, it still gets gunky and you'll want to regularly clean the facemasks if you do any exercising in VR.

The Quest specifically has the face mask directly integrated to the spacer, so you have to remove the whole thing to clean it, but it's doable.
How many people I wonder had their internal dog tilt its head when reading this headline. I definitely had. And then again several times while reading the comments.

Was kind of like yawning trigger / thinking of lemon - salivating trigger kind of experience.