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> You get updates every 6 months with a really nice upgrade experience. It is not rolling.

Also worth noting that these updates are optional. A given release has a ~13 months of support:

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We say maintained for approximately 13 months because the supported period for releases is dependent on the date the release under development goes final. As a result, Release X is supported until one month (4 weeks) after the release of Release X+2.

This translates into:

- Fedora 34 will be maintained until four weeks after the release of Fedora 36.
- Fedora 35 will be maintained until four weeks after the release of Fedora 37.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle#Mai...
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/

"Fedora Silverblue is an immutable desktop operating system. It aims to be extremely stable and reliable. It also aims to be an excellent platform for developers and for those using container-focused workflows."
I recommend going through st source: https://git.suckless.org/st/file/st.c.html

I may have fallen out of love to suckless.org, but the code is usually simple so one can at least learn from it.
I can proudly announce that I did pay cold hard cash for my browser software! $49.90 for a Netscape Navigator box back in 1996 :)
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As an introvert who had to push himself to become one of those "people-oriented idiots", the reality you have to recognize is that software is ultimately about people. It is not written in a vacuum to make computers happy, there's generally a human (or a bunch of them) at the other end who will be deriving value from it. Working competently to solve the wrong problem is not how successful software is written. And the chances of solving the right problem without talking to people are, frankly, slim.

There will not be a revolution that eschews the people aspects, the industry has evolved (yes, the opposite of devolved) beyond that. Walking around calling people idiots and being generally angry is not going to win you any trophies either.
That SPARCbook price was $21,000. Site doesn't say if that's inflation-adjusted for today's dollars, and internet being what it is today the top search links and Wikipedia reference links go back to this site as the source.

Still, you're advocating paying $20-40,000 for a laptop with the dual justification that "not expensive" is bad, and that 20+ years in the future someone can give a presentation on it to a usergroup interested in novelty value. That does not seem like a value for money proposition.
If I recall correctly, the exception is in Scotland, where the undergraduate programs tend to be more like America's: 4 years of study with emphasis on broad liberal arts education in secondary and higher education. I remember when applying for colleges in the U.S., our councilors noted that while it's virtually impossible for an American to apply as a full-time undergrad at English schools, particularly Oxbridge, due to incompatibilities in our educational systems, it's perfectly feasible to go from an American high school to a Scottish undergrad program (aside from the obvious travel and visa hurdles).
Maybe a better phrasing would then be "Motivation does not precede action".

It seems perfectly reasonable to me that you can try something as a hobby, and if after honest effort, you're not interested in it and you'd rather do something else, by all means do so.

But you're not actually interested in doing something until after you do it. You might be daydreaming about the idea of having done something because you saw someone else do it on TV or whatever, but until you've done it -- and tried to love it -- you can't really say you're interested in it.

For two reasons:

1. You haven't tried it, so you don't know if you actually like it

2. By sheer definition, if you aren't willing to try something, you're not interested in doing it.

If you'd rather eat pre-processed or pre-packaged food and save your time for pursuing your true passion of playing Tiddywinks or developing Javascript user interfaces, by all means do so.

Just be sure to take care of your heath and make sure your true passion isn't sitting in the basement trolling people on the internet.
APJ Abdul Kalam was also known as the 'Missile Man of India' for his contribution to the development of India's missile projects, Prithvi and Agni missiles. India became a nuclear power under Kalam who was the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister between 1992 and 1999
Was just thinking this. You can take one of these golden rulers and place it on nearly anything, roughly adjust it to size, and find a "match" somewhere in the image.
To be clear Mastodon is not claiming that T can't use their software. They very clearly state that he can absolutely use their Software so long as he abides by the license and provides attribution as well as any modifications to the source publicly so this is not in the category of a politically biased flip. It's common place license enforcement that just happens to be politically significant because the target is T.
Thanks for sharing the noteworthy changes.

I'm not a fan of Fedora, I had a bad experience(many bugs) in the past. Nevertheless, it's a good distro to check out the newest Gnome.
Let's say that I get paid basically the same whether my team performs adequately or whether it really excels.

In this case, why wouldn't I prefer friendly teammates? As long as we perform adequately, we're gonna get paid the same. Let the superstar assholes work on someone else's team!
100% in agreement with you. I liked the idea of Manjaro but the way they deployed Nvidia driver updates made it feel like absolute luck of the draw whether you'd have a login screen waiting for you after rebooting post-update. I've had more Nvidia driver issues on Manjaro in a year than I've had in the past decade+ on Ubuntu or any other distro.

Switched to Fedora a week ago which I like a lot so far, but I still very much miss the AUR.
"You might not realize that some people hold very strong religious beliefs about marriage..."

Fuck 'em.
> I don't know of any climate activists arguing that private jets should be exempt from one.

While not activists, the EU, for one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27775620
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For me, they're not even fun to shoot the shit with. There's nothing like 1 year of built-up resentment at having to pick up their slack again and again only to be paid roughly the same and sharing half the credit with them.
It's in the GitHub description, too: "An open-source and fully-featured Digital Audio Workstation, made by musicians, for musicians"

Apparently, the authors drank their own cool-aid.
Mathematically that's wrong.
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I agree. However, as an extension author, I was happy to hear that the work I put into making it compatible with Android didn't go to waste after all. Still better than nothing.
SPARC rapidly became a performance loser to x86. And, at the time, Intel had no process advantage. None at all.

Intel Pentium II was almost exactly 100% as fast as UltraSPARC IIi, on the same process (350 nm), at about 1/20th the cost. That was the last competitive Sun SPARC product, after that they were all brutally slow. The less said about US III and US IV, the better.

By the time that Sun put itself on the auction block, their internal CPUs weren't even good enough for legacy customers. They were obliged to start re-selling Fujitsu SPARC products just to keep SPARC loyalists inside the tent.
Sure you can, just like the AGPL versions of mongodb. You just need to follow the terms of the license.
Keep in mind that 99.9% of human history is the awful people enslaving everyone else (who would then prove unworthy when they enslaved everyone when they came to power).

Maybe our very short history of treating people equally, offering grace to those who fall short, and working towards consensus, is worth salvaging. The old days of tribalism were more horrific than we can imagine.
What are the promising Egyptian tales?
I bet it's even an even bigger part of the pie if you exclude $10m+ homes. My hunch is that the middle and low end of the market is more attractive because they are easier to rent.
>You just mainly shouldn't be an asshole.

This sounds so obvious on paper, but in my own experience, things have definitely shifted to include more traits and lower intensity of those traits as "asshole traits". I have no doubt many critical people who do not sugarcoat things and do not spend time trying to curry favor, despite staying stoic and civil, are often seen as negative and told to "be more outgoing / positive / extroverted / etc." Not only does that go against just not going out of one's way to upset people, it also shows the boundaries of what is / isn't an "asshole" can change over time.
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"Maupin and her colleagues focused on a cohort of MBA students to conduct their study."

I don't know how much this group tells us.

When I was in business school most of the group projects were things I could do on my own if I had to. So compatibility was an absolute gating requirement, you didn't want anybody who could screw up the whole thing. And business school competence was mostly a matter of applying yourself, it wasn't as if there were wide differences in basic ability.

I would probably weight compatibility differently if I was truly dependent on their input, and if that input varied a lot among possible members.
I don't see how it creates a price floor. The profits from mining are tied to the price but not vice versa. If the price drops there's no mining-related mechanism to increase it and buyers and sellers have no reason to care or be affected by how profitable mining is or what the hashrate is.
My understanding (with the caveat that I worked for Mozilla a decade ago) is that Google pays Mozilla and Apple money for browser search placement because it directly makes them money in ad revenue. Someone put the numbers into a spreadsheet and said "yeah, it works."
I'm a pretty big fan of Tesla in general but this aspect has always left me baffled. I am a software engineer and work on a system that is not 1/1000000th as critical as a self driving system. If my system crashes or has a bug no one is at risk of injury or death. Yet I would never dream of releasing an update or feature to our clients to test or QA. Our clients are paying us to give them a system that is tested and works. Its like Tesla has somehow convinced everyone that is no longer the norm and being tester/QA is part of the deal.
Speaker for the Dead and the ensuing novels in the Ender's Game series managed to tell multi-stellar stories with sub-light travel and relativistic effects.

Also most of the Three-Body Problem trilogy, there is no FTL until the very end when they jump forward by aeons.
I don't disagree that there are other factors at play.

The last part about Prop 13 seems like a bit of a cheap shot. CA is anything but a natural market.

CA government set that poison pill to ensure it must listen to its constituents and remain as "natural" as possible. Now we find they can't enact meaningful reform around zoning, building requirements, parking, or making the city more welcoming to trades, etc.

Why should old taxpayers carry the water for ineffectual govt ?

CA: "We refuse to make the changes needed to let more people in at a reasonable cost. We will instead take more money from one group, so that they leave and we can fleecce someone else ! "
the "actual" former president. Donald J. Trump
Or maybe the Bible and Gilgamesh comes from the need to pass on important lessons and facts to the next chunk of humans i.e. this is why it's important to learn how to make boats, sometimes climate changes and you need a backup plan, don't eat pork because God says so -- and also because if not properly cooked you'll get trichinosis (they didn't know this but throwing a label of pork = evil is good enough). If you read the bible at face value it has pretty basic rules of society.
You think grants to environmental justice communities, and a diverse workforce that "looks like America" sounds like compromise to conservatives?

Clinton's campaign did have promises of getting coal miners jobs in wind and solar, but if those industries can't completely replace what we have now, how can they possibly replace all the jobs?

When a coal mine turns into a nuclear power plant that is something that feels like is going to generate even more jobs than existed previously. Where renewables feel like less jobs. Those assumptions may be incorrect but that is how it is going to sound to the average voter.
Absolutely. I worked on a team where the lead engineer would be out of the office for weeks at at time, and then when he'd return he'd skim in-progress code and request radical revisions, only to criticize those decisions the next time he was in the office.

I was actively looking for a new job when he quit, and it was such a relief. My productivity (and happiness) went through the roof, and a couple months into the year my manager told me that I'd already accomplished everything he hoped I'd accomplish _for the year_.

By exchanging a some technical skill for a better work environment our whole team benefitted.
I have to hand it to the author that at least he stands by his convictions through a short position. And betting against miners is probably the cleanest short Bitcoin position you can get.

A lot of his arguments against Bitcoin are based on the idea that proof of work and mining in general are unnecessary and don't serve any purpose. He also talks about how mining fees are basically a tax. But the miners are securing the network. The larger the network grows in value (ie Bitcoin price), the more important the function of securing the network is. Proof of stake is talked about as a plug in alternative, but what that really means is that the people with the most money have the most amount of control over the protocol (sound familiar?). With proof of work on the other hand, anyone can start participating and its much more democratic than proof of stak.

> It’s all wealth redistribution, not value creation.

The argument that digital gold has no value outside of speculation usually comes from people in rich developed countries with a strong financial system. They can't imagine anyone lives in a country where it's illegal to hold certain currencies or assets. Where they see their wealth shrink double digit amount every year. Where they have to go through great lengths to spend their money as soon as they get it due to inflation. Bitcoin is obviously too volatile to be used in transactions or a safe store of value, but theres a lot of work to be done in expanding financialization to the developing world
Yup, folks have different experiences a lot of the time when it comes to distros. I'm not claiming Fedora is always more stable than Manjaro - just that it has been for me.
If you lack friendliness, trustworthiness, or competency; I'd prefer you work at a competitor's. All three are deal-breakers on my team.
I don't think that's fair. Some people might do pushups or sing or fold origami or shoot spitballs instead.
History is merely repeating itself - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711)#Co... - (back in 2005).

No bets on whether the Navy will start caring about seamounts, and providing subs with charts that accurately show those.
That is a limitation of ssh.

Using scp or sftp would limit the transfer speed to a value several times lower than rsync in any case.

On short distance 10 Gb/s Ethernet I did not see problems, but it does not surprise me that on long-distance links they appear.

In such cases, if full speed is desired, it is likely that ssh must be replaced with either IPsec or a tunnel over TLS.
Your project looks nice!

1. I noticed that the signup email comes from papyrus.dev instead of papyrus.so. Any reason in particular for using 2 domains for the service?

2. Do you plan to support adding third-party tracking JS for services like Google Analytics, Umami etc?

3. I also shared some feedback elsewhere in the thread, not sure if you saw it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083365
>Javascript never really had a chance to "take over the world" before Google released Chrome and the V8 engine.

Chrome was released at the end of 2008, JavaScript was thriving way before that. We had Gmail since 2004, jQuery since 2006. WebApps were the “sweet solution” considered for iPhone apps at first in 2007. Chrome exists because of the healthy ecosystem that Firefox and Safari provided, not the other way around.

>It's pretty close to just good old assembly.

Precisely, and it's yet to be proven that's the best solution for the Web. I love it from the computer science perpective, but historically that idea hasn't struck a chord.
As someone who has worked in both rails and JavaScript ecosystems, this is untrue.

Running on rails not only increases Dev expense but also the operational expense since you would need more servers to handle a similar load. (Correct me if this has changed with Ruby 3)
I'd like to refine the sentiment a little bit. In technical circles, trustworthiness is sufficient to get you some traction, but you'll have a glass ceiling unless the bosses like you. If you don't plan to climb very high in the org, this might seem like a reasonable deal to you, but remember that there are other times besides getting promoted when you need to spend social capital with the management team.

> The role growth part is also relevant, as people with context don't want to come to you unless they have to, you slowly lose context on what's going on until you are in a basement with a stapler.

This is my first to promotions to lead in a nutshell.

People who had been there longer lost context because I categorize some/many fuck-ups as reasonable, and I was good at bailing people out if my advice was wrong. If you broke something, or just thought something was broken (ie, QA) I was least likely to bite your head off. If something I asked you to do exploded, I'd help you fix it.

Technically and emotionally trustworthy people hear about more 'dirt', and many serious architectural problems are hidden in that dirt. If you are technical you can parlay that information into bug fixes (including production outages) and technical initiatives. If you're getting stuff done and people generally seem to trust you (even if they don't like you), then that means they listen when you talk. Your boss would be stupid not to promote you.
U.S. has a 65% home ownership rate.

Not everyone can afford a Bentley or a condo in Manhattan. That is not some terrible injustice that needs to be fixed. Living within your means and buying a place where you can afford to live is also an alternate approach. Or you can moan about capitalism and how unfair life is.
Institutional Investors make up less than a percent of the single family home buying market.

It’s ridiculous to believe that they’ll monopolize housing and we’ll all be forced to rent.

I know that’s a very very stupid conspiracy theory though, mostly based on a single essay where somebody was postulating possible futures, and they considered a future where people preferred renting.
I know how it feels. I started that website out of frustration, and it kept growing as I learned new things.
I'm not particularly interested in a Microsoft-branded Chrome variant on Linux. But this is interesting as a stepping stone toward WebView2 on Linux, which will give Electron some serious competition: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645...
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Same reason most television is a cesspool: low-budget, over-the-top drama is cheap to produce and appeals to the lowest common denominator. If you want to watch good tv, you have to go find The Wire, and if you want to read good twitter, you have to do the same.
Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed
I had this thought too when seeing Adobe's announcement - I would have thought the lack of a good filesystem API would block them more than even porting GPU intensive workloads to the browser
I had to stop work recently due to illness, I might be able to start again in a few months, we’ll see. I’ve been spending my extra spare time (when able) making an experimental GUI for grokking time. I guess it’s in line with the ‘4,000 weeks’ philosophy mentioned elsewhere in these comments. More precisely, it’s a tool for creatively designing a full-screen, zoomable, interactive timeline (of, eg, your life so far, and maybe future plans). Unlike a traditional digital calendar, it shows time as a continuous line with multiple tracks in parallel (eg a track for places you’ve lived, a track for jobs you’ve worked…), and it’s geared towards introspection and exploration.

I don’t really know where it’s going, maybe it’s just me navel-gazing while I’m unwell, but it feels interesting as a UI. If anyone likes the sound of it and would like beta access when I’m ready to share it, let me know.
Someone who prevents work from being completed is not competent. The one-dimensional view of competence as being purely technical knowledge is not useful for measuring ability to complete projects and advance the goals of the business.
Ahhh that OpenWindows desktop brings me back. But I thought by 1997 when this was released, Sun had moved to Motif? Do I have that wrong?
New monetary policy is designed to prevent any kind of bust from happening. It is only boom from here on out. 2009 was the last chance to get on the train.
This site is for developers, isn't it? For me this is interesting, cause I could see myself contributing to a Rust project, I'm guessing there's more people who think that way.
"You'd obviously be able to uninstall this, too"

Likely so, or I'd never install it. The OSes I use do allow one to uninstall it: specifically Linux, heavily rooted, fully deGoogleized Android and and a highly-hacked Windows 7† (wouldn't be seen dead with any later version for the same reasons).

"Telemetry is optional."

Turning off telemetry is optional for only some of Firefox's telemetry. The first thing Firefox does when launched is to contact home irrespective of how normal user settings are set. And as we well know, most users will use the defaults and Mozilla is counting on this quirk of human nature.

If Mozilla's bona fides were actually genuine and not sleight of hand then it would default all and every bit of telemetry to off and allow the user to switch it on if he or she so desired. BTW, I don't buy the argument that only some of the phone-home data counts as telemetry; by definition, any data sent to Mozilla is telemetry.

"What browser are you using that is much more private and secure than Firefox, and allows you the same flexibility in controlling the level of privacy you actually want?"

Palemoon. Read my 'Edit' in another of your related posts. Please note: that edit was posted before I'd read this post of yours.

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† For starters, Internet Explorer code no longer exists, thus calls to IE by any program that wishes to bypass the new default browser will fail. This is only one of several thousand tweaks to Win 7 needed to make it user-friendly to yours truly.
it seems like it, whats scary is they can package it with office 365.