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While I have been cautious, avoiding bleeding-edge CPUs and dGPUs (and Nvidia), I haven't had a computer that didn't work with Linux in at least 15 years. I am always curious what hardware doesn't work that is essential enough to use Windows.
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I was working for Steve Kirsch at Infoseek during this time, and I remember, too, laughing at the people who thought this was the way people would shop. And all the hype about VRML at the Web conferences at this time!

I pointed out to some of the starry-eyed believers that people have been shopping happily from catalogs for 100+ years, and that would translate well to the web. No 3D required. And we were a _search_ company! You would think someone would have posited that _searching_ may be a better model than _browsing_ for some things.

Sure, the ability to spin something to get a 360 view (in a 2D browser) of something once you've seen it on a 2D page has some utility, but 4 orthogonal views handle that well enough too.

I can't imagine I'd ever don a pair of 3D glasses to buy another pair of Levis.
To be fair videos of other people's vision is almost always jittery and nauseating – no matter if it's a VR recording or a video of an action cam stuck to the forehead.

Your eyes are very good at removing all that jittering and the jankyness of your own head movements. Not so much when the movement comes from other heads...

(Of course I don't know if the product discussed is adding _additional_ jitter of some kind)
Uh, no a disadvantage from 50 years ago will absolutely show up 50 years later. Indeed, much of the reason Portugal remains behind can be traced back to further than that.

If you have a whole generation only recently retiring that wasn't educated because your state didn't fund schools, that is going to drag on your economy even to today.

Kinda just sounds like you don't know what you are talking about.
Right but where's the "creativity" of the solution that NFTs supposedly bring? Or is it just the same as Patreon (no creativity or uniqueness at all) but just more complex and potential downsides?
Most startups don't have a ton of data you can encrypt and chokehold them with. If hospitals don't have their medical records then people die. If your startup has to reimage all its laptops and redeploy its application code from github then it's a lost weekend.
I thought the AH was great in D3, certainly light years ahead of the trade experience in Path of Exile.
I like the LG A12IWK inverter wall-mounted air conditioner, although a split unit is also great. I learned that having competent air conditioning installation engineers, as well as having their service and solving any air conditioner problems, is essential. The air conditioner had a leak that was immediately corrected, and we were pleased to remain. What business to pick, what model of an air conditioner to buy, what to seek for on the Internet, each has its own set of advantages and disadvantages. You'll be able to tell which option is preferable for you. This air conditioner is safe if it has a ventilation option that draws [url=https://www.spartamech.co.uk/air-conditioning-service//url]a... from the street[/url].
FB were caught using 2FA phone numbers for 'evil' purposes.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/fixed-ftc-orders-faceb...
Can’t we just do that with a pgp signature verified by the public key of a politician?Blockchain seems like an unnecessary step.
I have most of my money invested with Vanguard, but I will say that they don't actually have the lowest fees in the industry.
Google doesn't own nearly as many IPs as Amazon, so they have to do better at IPv6. AWS is incentivized to keep the world IPv4 as long as possible.
I understand that HN hates cryptocurrencies for all the right (moral, environmental, ponzi etc) reasons but OP asked for a high risk, short (5 years is short) investment that yields. Crypto is that. So answering the question with; crypto is very high risk, can disappear any moment, is bad for the environment, has no fundamentals etc etc However, the past 10 years show it is pretty good for high yields in short periods. Is better than just downvoting everyone who mentions it to hell imho.
His novel Burmese Days is similarly based on his experiences of this time.
The actual content (eg pictures, videos and text) all look better on a retina screen. I don’t think people buy retina screens so that the UI elements look prettier.
What are "normies"?
The second option, unfortunately. Most people on art communities are pissed off at the whole NFT thing, it really doesn't help artists much. First, anyone can generate a NFT, so there's no guarantee that the artist is even involved with the token. Second, creating a NFT costs ethereum, so it's totally possible to spend money creating one that turns out to be worthless. Third, most of the 'art' associated with the valuable NFTs is procedurally generated crap, so it's fairly obvious that the buyers are mostly interested in speculation.
>All architects studied Art History and Aesthetics, so at least they have an informed opinion

More like a hive-mind indoctrination on the legacy of tired modernism and its contemporary varieties.

Seeing an old building as COBOL - something not to be inspired from and immitate and continue to build similarly, but to rewrite and replace with something entirely else - is an example of that.

Better to see a Le Corbusier building as Brainfuck:

++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++
..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
>if it somehow magically fixes criminals' problems

No claims of magic, but crypto is undeniably well-suited for and utilized by criminals.

>why have the US authorities traced crypto to the second individual

BTC alone did $45B in transaction volume over the last 24 hours. That's a pace of $16.4T over a year.

These two arrests, while encouraging, are nothing in comparison.
I do not quite understand what the SimulaVR will exactly be, and of the little I see I am skeptical (e.g. screen renderings in perspective through a presumably limited resolution display; VR instead of AR but input from a camera to make the environment somehow visible in case, etc.), but:

having spent many hours working (in some way) with an AR headset (Epson Moverio, 1280x720 Si-OLED displaying with transparent black an Android system), I can say the experience can be very rewarding - of course if you use the tool for what it can be good for -, but among the evident shortcomings is the lack of a good input method. If you were dictating through a microphone and had an excellent speech-to-text system, and if there existed a more precise and comfortable pointer than the touchpad (maybe gesticulating in the air - but would that be less straining than a mouse device?), it would probably be a greater revolution with many more usage cases.

But without an input system that rivals a keyboard, the main use to me is that of reading and of using software which I optimized for the use of the embedded dpad.
Creatives I've listened talk about NFTs have said that NFTs are a terrible deal for them. "Minting" an NFT of their work costs a not-insignificant amount of money and there is no guarantee that anyone will buy the damn thing.

For the Ellens and Kanyes of the world, it's great, because their work is already in-demand and can fetch a huge price on the NFT market. For the 90% of artists in the "long tail" of content production it's probably a net loss over more conventional funding means like Patreon, commissions, and Bandcamp. Even if these collect a higher portion of their income as fees, there's less up-front investment (and hence risk) for the artist.
You can install SystemD-enabled WSL instances with distrod[0], and they have future plans to allow dual-booted physical Linux distro on a separate disk to run as a WSL instance.

[0]: https://github.com/nullpo-head/wsl-distrod
Mostly because my Windows setup works for me and moving to Linux would be a large disruption for questionable benefit. Things about my Windows setup which (I think) are hard to recreate on Linux, ignoring the possibility of writing my own code/tool:

* AutoHotKey. Alt/Capslock + IJKL is a universal way to get arrowkeys - e.g. it works in Chrome/a note taking app/Terminal. I'm not against getting a QMK keyboard, but I'm not aware of any laptop keyboards which support QMK. Switching between the two will get real annoying real fast.

* 7+ Taskbar Tweaker. My taskbar hides window names for programs like Spotify/Outlook/Slack (programs which usually have 1 window), but shows window names for programs like Chrome/Terminal/VSCode (programs which usually have multiple windows).

* Logitech software. My mouse has buttons hooked up to F13-F20 (yeah, there's more past F12), which AutoHotKey listens for and does specific stuff depending on what program is currently in focus.

The above are relatively important for my computing happiness, and I'm not entirely sure what I'll gain from moving to Linux.

If you can can address any of these points, please LMK! My reasons not to move to Linux have been growing fewer and fewer, but I've yet to find reasons to move to Linux.

Edit: Actually now that I think about this... I can just setup the mouse on a Windows box and it should just keep sending F13 etc. to a Linux box. So now I only have 2 reasons keeping me on Windows: AutoHotKey and an easily customizable Taskbar. The latter reason will also likely prevent me from upgrading to Win11.
The deed is backed by an actual legal contract and enforced by the government.

An NFT transfers no legal authority or rights to the thing it points to. The only thing you own is the NFT which is some JSON and a URL. You don’t own what is at the URL.
If you're talking about mass-produced watches sure. But visit, say, Rexhep Rexhepi's or the Gronefeld brothers' workshops, and you would be hard pressed to come away without an appreciation for hand-finished mechanical movements that border on art.
Most people don't fly planes to go buy cigarettes. Are you sure you're ok? I'd suggest a snickers :)
> For example, in the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, the control group receives a meningitis and septicaemia vaccine as a placebo.

> The benefit of using an actual vaccine as the placebo control is that it will cause a similar reaction at the site of the injection as the COVID-19 vaccine, such as muscle pain and soreness. This prevents patients from knowing whether they are getting the placebo or the real treatment.

https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-vaccine-why-its-impo...
For one, NFTs for the most part have a perpetual royalty built in that's paid to the creator.
People are used to the suckiness that comes with Windows, to the point that they don't notice it as much. I often shook my head at my Linux setup at the time I switched too. But now when I go back to Windows, it's the same head shaking again, because I'm now used to an other system's idiosyncracies.
true but to be fair a classic digital signature would be enough, as well. blockchain is a bit of overkill for this purpose
Are people lying more since the rise of social media and smartphones?
Or it could be designed for interoperability like ODBC which was designed to be compatible with languages that have ISO standards: Ada, Fortran, C, COBOL, Pascal without tightly locking to either.
You wouldn't download an NFT. /s
I haven't tried it yet, but Ego [1] feels like an imperfect but good enough solution to run your dev environment.

[1] https://github.com/intgr/ego
here are a few web3 projects i find interesting and believe have real value beyond money:

https://creators.mirror.xyz/

https://holly.mirror.xyz/

https://snapshot.org/

https://radicle.xyz/

https://proofofhumanity.id/

https://www.klimadao.finance/

https://www.partybid.app/

and with DeFi I have taken out loans and bought "real world" things, all with trustless/permissionless contracts. I value that and so do many others. If you dont thats ok, its opt-in.

We are having fun, making things, and building community. At some point the critics have to show us what alternatives and new things they've been building, what their attempts look like, what they are offering that is so much better...
At this point, all three platforms are their own unique dumpster fires. Everyone has carved out their little living spaces in the corners of their preferred dumpsters, and denigrating others because they prefer this dumpster instead of that dumpster isn't really interesting or productive.

The only winning move is not to play. Throw your computer in the trash, go for a hike, and never come back.
I see you're new and probably young. You're mistaking "lack of creativity" for realism.

Right-Click - Save image. Create an NFT, done. Work from an artist digitally is not unique and can be easily copied ( and even become more popular).

Creativity? Dogs, lost cowboy, punks, pigs, hungry aliens are the typical NFT's. That's not art, they mostly sell avatars.

ML models creating art => Not art and again the most technical knowledge person is getting paid.

Wash-trading has become the new normal. The people who pump and dump their own "art" see attraction and as usual, the average people are getting left behind with no piece of the pie. The most popular people ( not even artists) with the biggest following online win.

Nothing is legally backed. NTF's don't have copyright and you don't have a legal standing. BUT... You can cry on Twitter - https://twitter.com/RookieXBT/status/1421548360868286464?ref...

Mostly it's a technical person that steals artwork or just hires a digital designer for a couple of hours and then creates the NFT: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/20/22334527/nft-scams-artist...

That's realism.
How is this different from publishing the pgp signed sha for the digital file, which is an inherent property of the file?

For example, how Ububtu authenticates its Linux installers, https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-verify-ubuntu#1-overview
jq seems to have more focus on the generator and pipe abstractions. In jq you say "foo | map(bar)"; foo and map(bar) are both generators, and bar refers to each element of foo as ".". Here you say "for $x in foo return bar"; foo and bar are both JSON objects, and bar refers to each element of foo as "$x", so the iteration is more explicit.

Likewise, compare "sum($element.response_time)" with "map(.response_time) | add" in jq. Processing in JSONiq goes inside to outside while jq goes left to right.
In addition to all the common-sense advice (get diverse [probably index] funds, balance them appropriate to your situation, avoid high fees etc), here are some tools I use:

- etfdb, an outstanding repository of information about individual exchange-traded funds. https://etfdb.com/

- morningstar x-ray, a platform for evaluating the balance of an entire portfolio. Good for seeing where your exposure is given different hypotheticals. https://www.tdameritrade.com/education/tools-and-calculators...

- fossilfreefunds.org, an engine for evaluating the carbon exposure for funds. There's a staggering amount of oil/gas/coal currently on the books as value for companies that ultimately will need to stay in the ground. You and me likely aren't running in the circles capable of picking the winners in this carbon bubble, so I generally try to avoid my exposure (I don't want to left holding that bag). https://fossilfreefunds.org/
There was more artwork stolen last year than crypto. That's a single category of theft.

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/94627-19b-in-crypt...

https://www.infoplease.com/culture-entertainment/art-archite...

Here's another physical asset theft category that says 1/3 americans have experienced - something tells me you're also wrong about how many people have been stolen from as well.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/10/package-theft-how-amazon-goo...
Chat rather than ticket based support is great for people who are more timid, inexperienced, who don't have the knowledge to peice together a good question.
I applaud your effort.

Building is the first step, sustaining is the second.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Figure out how to sustain the site and info density will become less of an issue.
Sadly, that's yesterday news.

See here: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/249484

> ... a newly discovered ransomware variant exhibits the
ability to detect and compromise partitions (including
hidden partitions), a behavior not thought to have been
seen before in ransomware.

with a link to original source:

https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/newly-discover...

quote from that link:

> At the time of discovery, FortiGuard Labs researchers
believed the ransomware was seeking out partitions to find
possible hidden partitions setup by systems administrators
to hide backup files. But further analysis confirmed an
even more advanced technique. The DarkSide Ransomware
variant seeks out partitions on a multi-boot system to
find additional files to encrypt.
So what? Say you have an account X which holds funds from criminal operations (e.g. ransomware payments). If you cash it out directly there's no doubt you're a criminal. But if you use that money to pay yourself for an NFT, now you can possibly deny that you have any knowledge about source of X income.

Better yet send money from X through a bunch of privacy oriented tokens like monero, tumblers and mixing services, losing 20-50% in the process and consolidating the rest in account Y. Now you have plausibly clean money but you can't pay taxes yet as there's no paper trail for this income. Solution is easy, buy an NFT from yourself, declare it, pay taxes and buy a new yacht.
It means you're ignorant, indifferent, or confrontational about the social aspects of "proof" of ownership over the pixels.

This is one of those fantastic clarifications that both sides can agree upon.

The idea that you can privatize a record of deeds is indeed an interesting idea. IMHO, the best counterargument isn't right clicking; it is creating another registrar with the same assets and different "owners".
What you see as an up side "total control" I see as a downside "Required Control". Why do I need to specify how many VCPUs it gets and exactly how much ram it gets? I don't really care, I just want a little Linux environment to fool around with.
That doesn't really have any bearing on whether or not the National Review is a broadly racist newspaper.
If you are willing to take on a large risk put it in crypto. It may outperform the best fund by several orders of magnitude. Or it may go to zero (they say).
> 2. Game decide they want to integrate these "NFT clothes", so they download and integrate the .obj/.mat files for viewing, and hooks things up to the Gucci address/website

Game now has to implement X number of items at significant developer cost.

There's literally zero incentive for devs to do this.
That was in 1957. Almost every long-lived publication has taken positions in the past that would now be considered reprehensible.
The keys to your unique ship (possibly with randomly generated attributes) don't accrue in value the more its traded.

I see your point, but I don't think anyone getting into NFT gaming is going to care about the centralized nature of it. Save that talk for the currencies. Especially if the dev builds the game on top of a existing NFT engine that multiple games are built on, then they can't really "control" the market and are forced to focus on the creative and unique aspects of the generation of the NFT to the uniques in thier game and create some hype and artificial scarcity to bring in more players, rather then just spam everyone with the same ship that you can buy in game for 1,000,000 space sheckles. Even if the ship is unique in game asset, you can only trade it in game. What if I wanted to trade my ship for a uber character in some other world, and some other guy wants to get into the space game and has keys in the game I want to sell to me. Deals are made.
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Super speed, magnetic levitation and the vision behind the Hyperloop
> it takes a bit of reading to figure our virtual environments

The problem is that depending on what article you read or what tutorial you follow you'll learn different things.

I recently wanted to write something using flask. I followed 4 different tutorials and all 4 did things differently (and none of them mentioned Conda or Poetry). I had a similar experience writing a Telegram bot.
Good points - also people started using more TLDs and hostnames as the average page started loading different service endpoints directly in the client, and I got the impression that a fair number of places were slow to increase their DNS cache sizes.
I have long wanted to make a coffee-table book called Lonely Architectural Spaces, not because I enjoy them but because I'm fascinated by how big an impact they have on my mood and psyche.

Though it's a bad photograph, here's a recent car rental lobby I visited: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aboxwithrocksinit/test-buc...

I worry about people who have to work in places like that.
> Tell me I'm wrong.

Nintendo can do this all currently. NFTs, crypto, Blockchain all have nothing to do with it.

> I myself have invested in it's foundations for the long term

Ahhhhhhh there it is.

Normally its etiquette to start the post off with *Disclaimer: I have financially invested in foo, bar, baz which are companies that do the idea im promoting"
If the developer can insert items outside of the blockchain, then it isn’t a decentralized game. The developers are free to mint more copies of the same item as they wish, just like the US government is free to print as much cash as they wish. If they do, the markets will react and it will devalue the items drastically.
How do you stop them working in coercion when they are split? We've already seen FAANG band together when they want to be rid of something. I imagine they'll do similar if they're broken up.
NFTs are selling a much more personal connection with the artist. Buying merchandise or subscribing to patreon is much more impersonal. There is also a sense that you own something. You can show people your NFTs.

Masterworks is centralized. You rely on Masterworks for everything, whereas you can buy NFTs from a number of competing sources.
I'm an absolute nobody in the art world. I started minting my art in early 2020. This year i have made about 2.5x my tech salary from NFT sales and royalties. NFTS are an amazing deal for creators.

You are right that there's a barrier to entry as far as minting costs, but it's a small price to pay to find out if you have an audience.

Furthermore, there are now thriving NFT communities on chains like Tezos and Solana, where it costs pennies to mint.
I do not care what kind of man he was. I enjoyed and continue to enjoy his books tremendously.

Most people are disappointed when they meet their hero, whether that’s a musician, writer, athlete, etc.

That does not have to dilute the thing about which you admire them.