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Correct, those "launcher" panels were not configurable by GUI. You had to edit config files. I spent considerable time figuring that out back in college. GUI configurability is definitely something I would expect in a modern desktop.
A000:0000 was the VGA graphics buffer. B800:0000 is the text mode buffer though. (Including the segment and offset since that works out to A0000 I believe.)
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I think it's rather clear that using "based" in this context is more common in certain communities than others.
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My proposition is that we have to deal with our scale if we don't want to be the bacterias that took over the petri dish and died because they made their environment toxic for themselves.

We have never had to care so far because we were not numerous. Now human activity is similar to geological forces like rain/volcanoes/etc and i think we should plan how we can exist on a stable cycle.

Mindless growth leads to us breaking our environment through our scale. Scale is exponential so after thousands of years we have a small window of 100 years where we grew so high in impact that we may break it all. It's a first for us, and i hope we can see further than the mold in the petri dish and make a concerted plan on how to live in a stable cycle without growing.

I'm advocating for planning a sustainable future. It's the first time in History we have to deal with this. People assume the future is like the past, and other incorrect things. They also live in cities, removed from physical realities. They only understand the collapse of species through some stats in a newspaper they forget the next day, and the energy/resources supply chains are unknown to them until there is a blackout and they lose internet for a few hours.

The future seems bleak in many ways for physical reasons. I don't think pretending we are not reaching planetary limits will help. I think it will make the fall harder. I would rather we concert and plan together what level of quality of life we want, and how we can stabilize our population, so we can cycle generations of human in a sustainable way.
That's not correct. The other poster was talking about a monopoly in the more general sense: If someone has exclusive control of a thing, they have a monopoly. It's absolutely correct to say that US copyright law grants a limited-time monopoly to creators.

You're talking about an entity that has a monopoly (generally in a market). Perhaps confusingly, monopoly is also the word we use to describe such an entity.
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I’m a little confused does this mean person is taking out his money
Lol at trying to explain these practices as some sort of Randian perfectly functioning market.
> In practice, exhausting NAND write endurance is usually not what causes SSDs to fail in the field.

+1. The part that fails on consumer SSDs is typically the controller.
Well, first of all, an unequal food supply chain has generated survival diets close to civilization, spreading new diseases to the entire world (hi Covid!, next door to bird flu).

Second, there are droughts popping up all around the world, our fisheries are collapsing but our supply chain might be absorbing the problems of it until suddenly it doesn't anymore.

That is my deep worry -- that we are seeing the start of a generalized system collapse.
I wasn't trying to divine an alternative present, just recollecting past grievances.

Though I don't know, if OpenLook had lived on, maybe some of it at least would have survived through the ages. Maybe not, though, because Windows was already there, and that pretty much displaced everything. I doubt OpenLook would have made a difference in that versus CDE.
I am from the northeast, and spent 20s in NYC.
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If that all sounds too good to be true, it's worth reading what other battery experts have to say about these claims. For example:

> The ninth research paper in Braga and Goodenough's "glass battery" work regrettably shows many of the hallmarks of pathological science. ... ad hoc theory, violations of the laws of thermodynamics, basic mistakes, disregard for established knowledge, absent or invalid chemical characterisation and, when all is said and done, devices that don't work the way they're said to.

http://lacey.se/2020/03/13/braga-goodenough-glass-battery-pa...
Do you have a source for your claim that '"ALL" seed oils are problematic'?

Personally, I only use seed oil (canola) to cook with. I'd definitely be interested to know if that's something I should stop doing.
What bullshit and lies are you referring to? If you don’t like his podcast don’t listen to it, others love it. If you only want approved mainstream views it’s strange to impose them on a podcast for someone who believes in aliens, you can watch mainstream news for that.
I doubt RL is involved. That would be soooo risky.

Bidding algorithms can model the price of winning the auction, you can maximize profit without fancy RL
True but it does need the GPU. I had some issues with my dual-GPU (intel integrated + nVidia) MacBook Pro. Whenever I would start up the desktop it would fire up the external GPU.

But my point is that the effects are often so subtle they can't even be noticed. I'm not against them per se. I have most of them on now in KDE in fact but boosted up a bit which I think looks nicer.

But you're right, it's not a 'big load' like I said, a modern GPU can handle this with 2 fingers up its nose.
I was thinking 1q84 but certainly recent Murakami, I downloaded a scan of the golden bough last year (also meaning to dig into it) and I also reread 1q84 last year.
Wondering if this is a tipping point? One thing is for sure, zillow’s competitors will get super careful.
And this should bring some sanity go the market
Not really, this sort of thinking is something that came waaay later in the Linux desktop. One of X's advantages is that you can do exactly that and some other desktops like LXDE are basically made up by bringing together separate components.

(also the deskapps i mentioned aren't using GNUstep, they're either pure X or some other toolkit)
Hong Kong immigration staffers suspended from duty for using fake LeaveHomeSafe
Windows 11 Runs on a 15-Year Old Intel Pentium Computer
> A person can fairly easily drink alcohol or take adderall regularly without suffering physical withdrawals

though alcohol is notably one of the few common drugs (along with benzos) where withdrawal can actually kill you.
The stack also improves. Early versions of the JVM were very noticeably slower than C++, and the first CLR GC was so poor that my team at Microsoft had to resort to arrays of structs for keeping a service’s state. These days they’re great, and it’s hard to do better without putting a lot more effort into something like Rust.
Steam absolutely sells a whole bunch of porn. It may not be a majority, but it sells plenty.
And recommended content.

All content should only be surfaced via search, or lists that are the same for every user.

And autoplay next content should default to off.
The tech lead started out by complaining about...When he finished complaining...

My manager doesn't know anything about the code, my project, or the release project.

IOW, your team has no leadership and no management. Your team lead may be called that, but sounds like he doesn't lead at all. Your manager may be called that, but he doesn't manage either. This happens a lot when people are given responsibility without any authority (probably the case for you "team lead"), or authority over things they don't understand (probably the case for your "manager").

The bad news is that you're part of a disorganized mob. The good news is that there is a leadership vacuum that, if you play your cards right, you could fill. If you want. Of course, even if you succeed, it's possible no one will care about your accomplishments. And you will probably make enemies. It's possible you'll be rewarded but given your description, I view that as unlikely.

As a side note, suggesting to the team lead that he lead and do X, Y or Z may appear to him as if you want him to take on risks with little upside. He's probably thought about doing those things anyway but just decided it's not worth the trouble. It's not all that surprising that he doesn't want to rock the boat.
> Compare these two to Bheeshma and Karna, who spend their entire lives torn by conflicting loyalties.

Karna is a legend generated in recent times. In most editions of Mahabharata, he is willingly standing on the wrong side of justice willingly. He didn't even care for the well being of his supposedly friend Duryodhana. Here is a talk[0] and book[1] by Mahabharata researcher.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nge8qc7f_k&list=LL&index=35

[1] https://www.amazon.in/Mahabharata-Unravelled-Lesser-Known-We...
I have a Netgear Orbi mesh setup. It’s a router (Rbr750) and 2 satellites although I’m using them in access-point mode with a Fritzbox router (from my isp).

My apartment it small but I was sick of having spotty Wifi everywhere I’ve lived. Also the ADSL point was in the worst possible location and I can’t wire any Ethernet up so I wanted something decent. I could have done with only one satellite but my Synology NAS needs a wired connection (can’t use a WiFi dongle) so I bought a third specifically for that.

It’s been relatively pain free and reliable. I get 700/200mbps over WiFi on a good day (on non WiFi 6 devices). My ADSL is only 60MBps so it certainly handles that fine.

I’d rather set-it-and-forget-it so for that they’ve been good. Netgear do have some annoying subscription services (firewall?) but I don’t pay for that. Their interface and usability is so-so and the setup was frustrating but it’s been solid since then.

I spent a lot of time looking at options, and like you I noticed that nothing stood out. Every product had a compromise of some sort. Like I mentioned, I’d rather have something that I don’t have to think about too much rather than tinker with settings so I’m that regard I’m happy and would recommend checking them out.
> But not friendliness (unless it's a***-level unfriendliness) over competence.

This is the wrong way of looking at things. You shouldn't compromise on friendliness and you shouldn't compromise on competence. If you have to compromise, you compromise a little bit on both but not too much on either. An unfriendly teammate is very bad.
that's part of it though; it's not like engaging in business just makes you greedy (though obviously it does draw greedy/sociopathic people), it's that the mechanisms of capitalism specifically encourage you to be ruthless, either to maximise profits or stave off competition.
What timeline are we living in that this even has to be a thing?
5G is a new park of machines for the network operators. It's also a new park of machines for the consumers.

It's huge because we are so numerous.

Imagine you renew a boat fleet. Imagine the impact on the nearby forest. Going from no boats to having a fleet may be worth the damage. Going from a very good fleet to a slightly more advanced fleet may not be worth it.

Network infra and smartphones are the same. They require us to mine all their components and use energy to transform them.

4G seems to provide enough value to me. I don't like the tradeoff we get of "i can download 4K in the elevator now" (seems unnecessary to me) vs "we unleashed megatones of CO2, mined out large cobalt mines that will never form again in milleniaz to come, etc (seems critical to me)
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Well I would find 27" 1440p too high DPI too if I ran it at 100% scaling :) I run my 24" 4K at 200% scaling so it's effectively 1080p. Just super crisp which I like.

We have super-crisp screens on our phones these days, why not on the computer?
What if some servers were excluded?
Yes RH appears willing to take my money now for shares that I may or may not receive when the symbol goes live ~20.64
Big companies such as Auth0 are no shy about using "magic link" and don't care. It's an industry term, and not all registered trademarks are legit and unconditional, and all those trolls want is to lose "their" trademark, obviously!
I am surprised we don’t see economic arguments to rationalize the status quo of societal norms against cannabis and prostitution on hackernews.

Maximum employment and productivity are the highest economic policy goals.

Cannabis and recreational drugs reduce time, energy, and interest available towards employment.

Prostitution lowers the price of sex with women. One of the biggest motivators of employment and productivity among men is the high price of marriage, monogamous sex with women.
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There is too much information (and/or content) for this to be viable.

A hyperconsumer of information can handle somewhere in the range of 300--1,000 messages per day. The ultimate limit is simply time --- at 1,000 messages, and an 8-hour workday, you're dedicating 30 seconds per message, maximum. If you dedicate all your waking hours to that, you can double that. If you give up on sleep (I don't recommend this), triple.

There are hard limits.

30 seconds, or 60, or 90, is not enough time for a hard debunk.

And the alternative is simply to ... consume far fewer messages. Meaning that most of what flies by (much of it bogus) is ... unvetted. Dendritic information filters function by distributing the bullshit-filtering task across numerous nodes. In mass-media contexts of publishing or broadcast, that role was filled (with, very admittedly, problems) by reporters and editors. (See Noam Chomsky for what could possibly go worgn. It's still ... reasonably good, particularly with multiple press channels, say, those which include Noam Chomskys or George Seldes or I.F. Stoneses.)

In an environment with an overabundance of information what is required are fast, cheap, minimally-biased, no-regrets discarding mechanisms. Reputation and trust mechanisms afford much of this, which means that yes, the vast majority of people do trust others, either experts or collectively, at making useful partitions of the total information stream.

This is alway why known amplifiers or creators of bullshit <coff>joe<coff>rogan<coff> deserve to be dropped without any regrets.

(There are of course numerous others. That happens to be a channel specifically recommended in TFA, a fact which seriously degrades TFA's own credibility --- trust is not perfectly commutative, but it has transitive aspects.)

Incidentally, an advantage of choosing specific sources or channels is that those themselves can be examined and rated on their own performance. What's most critical is that sources afford cheap, fast, minimally-biased, and no-regrets performance. If a channel is tedious, if it is biased (and here, "bias" is based not on ideology but ground truth to the extent that that can be determined), if it produces regrets (choices are continuously second-guessed), then it is a poor option. Decisions aren't based on an ideal, but against alternatives.

Sources should own up to their own failings. I had a discussion a couple of months back on what such practices should, and do, look like (with someone apparently incapable of grasping the concepts, but that's another occupational hazard):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28261042
There some accents that just sound better though. California, the south and definitely the British. West African English is pretty nice too. So is Jamaican patois.
Why not just change it to "login link" or some alternative branding instead?
Just switching from "Home" to "Latest" on Twitter is enough to make it tolerable for me (ok, it also helps to carefully prune the accounts you follow).
Considering the quality of the information and presentation in the corporate press is so terrible, in comparison Rogan does a stellar job.

I disagree with your characterization, too. He has on people from all angles, including e.g, Dr. Sanjay Gupta from CNN, and he gives them a fair shake.

And yes, considering how "rare" vaccine adverse reactions are supposed to be, knowing multiple people who've experienced significant adverse reactions is quite unusual. Worth talking about even.
> According to sources, developers of the fake LeaveHomeSafe app have received a letter from software development platform GitLab, which requested them to shelve the fake app in accordance to police order.

It was understood that police in the letter accused the fake app of forgery under the Crime Ordinance.

The fake app cannot be found on GitLab now. Yet the public can still access the app in web page format on other sites.

LeaveHomeSafe is an app developed by the Hong Kong government to "track COVID cases". Citizens are now required by law to scan the QR code in government offices and wet markets, and record where they have been. It's rumoured that later this requirement will extend to restaurants.

Failure to do so will get you fined, or arrested in the worst case.

In this case, GitLab has acted upon the Hong Kong Police's request to remove the app.
Another possible approach is "model, document and share"[1]:

> Imagine you’ve started a new job as an engineering manager, and the teams around you are too busy to use a planning process. You’ve mentioned to your peers a few times that you’ve seen Kanban work effectively, but folks tried it two years ago and are still upset whenever the word is mentioned: it just doesn’t work here.

> Your first reaction might be to confront this head on, but it takes a while to build credibility after starting a new job. Sure, you’ve been hired for your experience so they respect your judgement, but it’s a hard sell to convince someone that your personal experience should invalidate their personal experience.

[1] https://lethain.com/model-document-share/
I wonder who's to blame more, the person who came up with this idea, or the one tasked with executing it.
People don’t think statistically. He’s asking questions about covid and how anecdotes relate like normal people. You state he’s a conspiracy theorist but the result of him being cured of covid in a few days isn’t evidence enough for you that bis bro science isn’t wrong? You can argue theory all day but he lives the way he preaches, the reality of his actions isn’t enough?
>Having to form an opinion about every damn thing that matters is a) exhausting and b) hubris. It is not possible to be an expert on everything.

That's a cynical take, and it illuminates the importance of good education, so that "hubris" as you put it is minimized and right judgment is maximized.

Even more important when most children's education is more and more geared away from critical thinking, and instead towards the One True History.
Yeah but if you're just going to swap out half the components anyway then you might as well just use KDE or something and do the same thing. And in my experience, that's a great way to get a desktop that's really inconsistent and doesn't work half the time because some random component is using the wrong set of X atoms or the wrong X resources or the wrong Dbus interface or whatever, so I don't know if I would say that's an advantage...
Elements may have been forged on Earth, as well as in space
Laptops that have soldered RAM (including Apple) do not come with overclocked RAM though. I don't even know of any system with soldered RAM that would let you try pushing the speeds in practice, so this advantage is never leveraged.

But we do know how far DIMMs can go. Mainboard memory trace layouts have gotten ridiculously optimized. DDR4-5200 is a totally "normal" XMP spec now, there are even 5400 kits out there I think.
wow, that’s incredible. Doesn’t sound like real life.
People hate on the calorie these days because it's oversimplified and doesn't account for other important nutrition factors. But it's a single value and people can use it very easily. If we had an index or weighted calorie that had some scientific rationale, that could be really interesting to publish as nutrition facts on food labels.
Before places like Twitter existed to call out every racial infraction, officers just got away with them completely unnoticed.
Trust attributed via a trusted proxy is not an invalid strategy.

We don't have time to verify everything. Once you've rediscovered fire and are finishing up on reinventing the wheel, you come a point where you've got to delegate some tasks to others, perhaps trust them. And if you trust them, you probably impart some of the trust in their character to the opinion they utter. Nothing wrong in that.
So, in another post I said there is ALWAYS another layer... and here we are... all these curves are a new layer added between the days of character generator ROMs feeding a text screen, and our GUI present.

So beautifully demonstrated and explained. Thanks for posting this!
I didn't say this "make it so tenants can't defend themselves". My argument is that punitive policies against landlord are about the only tool being wielded

The only "punitive policy" that's being discussed is giving tenants free lawyers so they can defend themselves in court.
Resources are finite.
What would stop you from selling the property? You can't evict the renters, but you can absolutely sell.

> Just to be clear, I have no sympathy for the slumlords and rental corporations, I'm talking about regular folks that chose the rental market as more risk-adverse investors and maybe put all their savings into a single property that they fixed up and are maintaining themselves.

A core problem is that so many of us have never met one of these people. 100% of my landlords have either been large corporations or slumlords. So when people say "think of the small landlord trying to be nice" we wonder where that person is.
Well, perhaps carb-related metabolism changes and insulin is a valid mechanism that makes people eat more or less, if that's the case, I'd count it as a success as that offers practical ways to get results.
I took a $74, 35-hour train ride. Here are the 7 best and 7 worst parts
A Broker Price Opinion (BPO) is typically set by appraisal, comparable sales and comparable listings. Depending on how cookie cutter the neighborhood is, there are many different levels of "appraisal" from drive by photos to a deep inspection.
The effects of different foods will be different based on the individual. Observing how you feel during and after eating various things will tell you more about that thing than anyone else can.
This is not true, Google is no longer capable of changing anything internally, it's like a government in that respect, it can make a new process/program (that might on the surface make some things look better) but underneath the old system is still there.
If the current value of something is over a "fundamental ceiling" it means that it's already inflated. Why would an investor park their wealth in such an asset?
Yes, as i wrote in the part you quoted, back in the 80s and 90s this was a problem however nowadays the dithering is an aesthetic choice and not a CDE limitation.

You can even see in the screenshot the Firefox icon using true color output (it sadly doesn't use alpha blending though, so this might actually be a CDE or Motif limitation - it shouldn't be impossible to fix it as the X server can do alpha blending nowadays but it needs someone to figure out where the limitation is and implement it)
NREL Researchers Point Toward Energy Efficiency Instead of Long-Term Storage
"The great thing about a paper book is that nobody needs to know what you are reading and when."

... then proceeds to post an amazon link to a book
From that instagram page, apparently Rogan's words:

> Not only has Australia had the worst reaction to the pandemic with dystopian, police-state measures that are truly inconceivable to the rest of the civilized world

Ohh - is he where that insane-seeming take comes from, that I've read more than a few times in HN comments over the last few months?! They sure are projecting something, apart from intense anger/rage. I couldn't begin to understand it until I read that. Or where did he get it? (Sydney here.)