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Was a post-mortem of the Munich project published anywhere?

Some people may remember the hype over the One Laptop Per Child Project, which had a noble mission that many people could get behind. In 2011 I heard from someone at MIT who criticized aspects of the program such as no real planning for support when the devices broke down in the field. Other issues came out years later, including unrealistic cost estimates and the crank:

If you remember the OLPC at all, you probably remember the hand crank. It was OLPC’s most striking technological innovation — and it was pure vaporware. Designers dropped the feature almost immediately after Negroponte’s announcement, because the winding process put stress on the laptop’s body and demanded energy that kids in very poor areas couldn’t spare. Every OLPC computer shipped with a standard power adapter.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop...
If only there were some means of establishing consensus via a distributed and publicly verifiable means.

DAO’s are the future of governance, they are proven working in the wild and should replace the archaic systems we allow others to manipulate in the name of “governance”.
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But it's The Holy Laptop of John The Analyst, tenderly preserved in a climate-controlled vault (i.e. near the office aircon unit) since 1996. Rumor has it that its coffee stains have achieved sentience, because it's not been cleaned since John was summarily fired for gross misconduct. Its battery has long been replaced with a mains cable going through a UPS unit bought secondhand on eBay (hey, it was the 90s). It is booted only once a year, on the third week of May, when the sun hits the window of the cubicle of Bob The Security Evangelist so hard, that he actually has to stand up and go to another room.
But then why not use a mailing list?
I doubt it. Nobody in the NFT space is ignorant of the fact that copies can be made, an NFT is simply ownership of the original. The more people want copies of something, the more valuable the original would probably be.
> How do we get distros that can be good daily drivers for the masses? How do we get people interested in crafting those?

Heh, you might not like the answer.

There might be a ton of alternatives somewhere out there, but there's only 1 real thing that seems to work with the information we have so far.

So, what's the answer to these questions:

> Q: How do we get distros that can be good daily drivers for the masses? How do we get people interested in crafting those?

<<A. You pay them.>>

Desktop environment polishing work is technically boring work and a thankless job. It's grunge work. Only a minority of experienced devs will do it willingly for a long time.
I usually export to pdf and present it like that (partly because I'm often presenting on Windows machines).
and making it illegal for parties to call for genocide would've helped his campaign, how? It doesn't necessarily harm his campaign as he could/did just dogwhistle instead, but it certainly wouldn't help it.

FWIW Hitler wasn't the example I was thinking of when using that example. He didn't AFAIK explicitly call for genocide but he did dehumanise Jewish people with propaganda.
What are the most popular CDNs used for this crap?
Also highly recommended, John McWhorter's podcast, Lexicon Valley. Not only English, but also dives into other languages and why they are so. Edit: add older episode archives at Slate,

https://www.booksmartstudios.org/s/lexicon-valley (current)

https://slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-valley (archive)
What "enterprise software" is needed at a public administration? Almost all of it is custom ordered, so Linux compatibility can be a part of the requirements.

Outlook is a dumpster fire, and there are perfectly fine alternatives. Very few people actually need the full might of Excel, and you can always RemoteApp it to them, and have the rest use Libre Office. Or heck, provide them with actual tooling better fit for their requirements than Excel.

And in any case, IMHO, "public money, public code". Nothing should be paid for with public money without it being publicly accessible afterwards ( excluding weaponry of course).
I haven't used OS X in awhile, but IM clients should just copy Adium. It is (was?) so simple and light and easy to use, it integrated perfectly with OS X's Contacts app, and it was also being easily themed and styled by users. Also its dock icon showed the last few people who had messaged you in the background, rather than just the count of how many messages you had missed.
Dukkha doesn't translate exactly into "suffering". It can also mean "unsatisfactory" or "unpleasant". I interpret it as life is inherently unfulfilling and you'll never be fully satisfied by it. Even if you win at everything.
With any ecosystem that has a packet manager. Try inserting a dependency backdoor into a C++ project where dependencies have to be managed manually (and consequently are few)
Kevin, we met in SF. you have a habit of being hard on yourself and giving others the benefit of a doubt.

I agree with others here - this was a toxic work culture.
None of this was your fault but your method of building back up your confidence seems useful.

Also anyone who fires someone with a pregnant wife is a repugnant human being.
> You need all of them. Everyone has their own swagger...

Love this. It's also interesting how when someone leaves a team, oftentimes teammates will step in a little to fill in the role the ex-teammate used to provide. It is kind of like a form a growth. I find myself thinking "What would ____ say about this?"
> These blog posts that suggest asking candidates to spend a few hours working on a take-home problem is unreasonable are getting to be out of touch.

On the contrary, it seems the growing sentiment regarding tech hiring is that the people involved in the process are out of touch.

1) Candidates aren’t ONLY doing YOUR take home. I know you think your test is super special, but a candidate will be doing half a dozen of these tests on top of resume updating and all the other tasks that come along with applying for a position.

2) The very act of testing in the first place is something that not many other professions do. Line cooks applying to Applebees aren’t asked to know molecular food theory and whiteboard a chemical reaction. Why should a SWE applying for a position maintaining a CRUD app be tested on graph theory?
Thanks for sharing the story, that's an interesting window into their personality. Do you think they were completely serious, some a long running joke or a bit of both?

Also if you wouldn't mind elaborating on surprising ways reaction diffusion equations can be used to solve problems I'd love to read it :)
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> I'm from Munich. As much as I would've liked that project to succeed (I really did), I can tell you that Limux - that was the project's name - was a brutal usability disaster. As in, almost meme-level bad. It's like the Berlin airport in software.

Bullshit

> The simple truth is that Microsoft's products were/are just far superior than what the Limux initiative shipped. The Linux transition caused massive productivity losses in the municipality's administration. It's easy to say that VBS macros are evil, but if you migrate away from them, you need to provide an alternative.

ah, because of that, departments nowadays cannot exchange word documents with universities, still after the said this would work then? bullshit. And Macros were replaced if the department and users cooperated and didn't wall the project off.

> Simple things like a good calendar, working printing functionality, LOTS of basic stuff - it just felt like the IT was a decade behind. Here on HN, Windows continually gets roasted by how bad its UX is compared to Mac OS. With Limux vs Windows, the difference was practically 10x as large as that.

lol, funny. the exchange solution still does not have all the features the old one (which was ugly) had. Bullshit.

I was there. You are just biased. And there are known bugs with Windows and with Office. And ask what? Nobody fixes them, users have to live with it. Back with LiMux and LibreOffice we fixed and repaired stuff.

You use network-manager with openconnect or 802.1x with hooks? or the KDE printing dialog? or libreoffice with the QT interface? you can thank the LiMux project for that.

i'll tell you a little secret: half a year ago there was still no replacement for printer administration which the limux team built, the administration is still done with the config-/deployment solution for limux there. (i do not know the current situation, but that's just ridiculous)

LiMux worked. Stop your shilling. Because NOBODY could tell us real technical problems we couldn't solve. One of us even fixed the borked intel graphics driver once.
Great point. This is probably an excellent thing for you to look for as you are interviewing with companies (and yes, you are also interviewing them). Ask your future peers and colleagues what they find fascinating about their work, and how they find meaning in what they do. You may be surprised by what you learn.
I'm not sure I understand your point. There is such a thing as "large" and "small" in physics, but they're relative to the scale you're considering. For example, if you're a million miles from the Earth, then from a gravitational perspective you may as well be infinitely far away (a ~ 10^-5 g). But if you were the same distance from the sun, gravity would be extremely relevant for you (a ~ 5 g).

Moreover, I find it unfathomable that the scale 1/g64 would be relevant anywhere in physics – I certainly can't think of any examples!
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> [6] Fortunately, the company agreed to provide COBRA which would cover our insurance costs for the delivery.

This is so crazy and why employer based insurance cannot be a safety net in the case you end up needing an expensive treatment while also losing your job.
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> Sure, and that should not take 50 years for a document that took a year to create

It's not a document, and many of the documents involved weren’t created by the government, and no government agency is funded for unlimited reserve capacity for doing public records releases just in case.

In 2020, FDA spent a little under $5.5 million (a little over $5 million net after fees collected) handling over 10k FOIA requests. [0] There's not a lot of resources to dedicate to any one request.

[0] https://www.hhs.gov/foia/reports/annual-reports/2020/index.h...
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> I'll restate: racism and sexism and homophobia are all examples of fascism that haven't hit wealthy white men yet.

lolwut

You can't call something you think is bad, and just make the conclusion its the same thing as something else you think is bad. And just make it self evident.
If they promise you to own that piece of media, and then later make it unavailable for you, then yeah, that's a scam. DRM, or things like DVD region locking are also quite scammy if you ask me.
I think it grows on you. There's a way to work with it and if you settle on that, it makes it easier than fighting against the prevailing tide. I find I spend a lot of time looking up opaque build errors but that is partly because the contributing authors aren't all that familiar with it, so their markdown is less than 'pure'
I fail to see how pushing for a strategy that, from a game theory point of view, was sound makes him a lunatic.

Plenty of people don't view the preservation of life as the be all end all and if that strategy had been followed and it had led to a world where only the United States had ever been allowed to develop nuclear weapons I see a very easy argument for it being the more long-term humane option.

Edit: who's more of a lunatic: the man who presses a button that kills a million people and saves a billion or the man that doesn't? I'd argue the latter.
Excellent article. For years I've suspected that when American 'leaders' look at the kind of power the Chinese government (or the Saudi government) has over its people, their main emotion is not revulsion but rather envy, and this seems rather bipartisan in nature, and is a sentiment found not just in the political sphere but also the corporate sphere.

It's the complete intertwinement of the corporate and political spheres that leads to totalitarian regimes who view their own people as the greatest threat to their continued grasp on power and so institute highly repressive mass surveillance system, mass incarceration of dissidents and so on.

However, there's another aspect to this, in which 'freedom' is not just legal in nature, but economic and physical as well. What does it mean to be 'free' in a company town where the only employers are Amazon and Walmart? What does it mean to be 'free' when energy sources you need for survival are controlled by someone else? The Chinese model seems to be 'we will ensure you have access to food and water and energy and in exchange your total loyalty to the state is required'.

The American model I'm afraid is becoming 'we will ensure you have access to food and water and energy and in exchange your total loyalty to your corporate employer is required.'
So much this. Congrats, you just learned what a corporate backstabbing feels like. (And a particularly nasty one. What they did to you? You escaped from a place run by sociopaths.)

Also, please let go of the thought that companies will be in any way kind to you. That you got COBRA? Your company is legally obligated to extend that option. They did, literally, the bare minimum they were forced to do by the law.
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If they do it through translation it'd be hilarious. When we get tech support queries in languages like Arabic we pass them through Google Translate and the result always makes me think of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grA5XmBRC6g
Hey glc, FYI the GitHub repo [0] with the OS Code from Coen is not available, the url is probably broken.

[0] https://github.com/monzo/coen
Taking the vaccine is right wing in russia.
True, but also seems like a pretty minor mistake? I feel that I've heard worse offenses from native English speakers. Maybe I feel exceptionally tolerant having lived a year in eastern Kentucky.

Also, "The movie will start when you sit down" is probably better form all 'round.
> crates.io matches the code on GitHub,

There is no tight coupling between GitHub and cargo/crates.io (sure it uses GitHub internally but that is an implementation detail).

But not only has it no tight coupling with GitHub it also doesn't require you to use git, you can use whatever version control you want and at worse you don't get support for "detect dirty repository".

Similar git tags are fundamentally unreliable as you can always "move" some to any arbitrary commit.

So IMHO the problem here is relying on code you didn't got from github which might not even use git to match a arbitrary tag on something on github which might not even be from the same author (but e.g. a mirror on GitHub from whatever VC the author uses).

But uploads to crates.io are immutable and are source code uploads, so you can just review them.

In general (independent of cargo) do review the code you use not some code you got form somewhere else which you hope/believe is the same.
There are some really cool things that can be done with NFTs (concert tickets, in game items that can be cross-game, etc). The most popular use right now is art. The really interesting thing is that NFT art is really close to real world art: both are ridiculously overpriced for something not very unique that is heavily driven by rich characters trying to hide their money. All art is dumb, not just NFTs. NFTs are just more liquid.
We prototyped with Bitcoin in 2016-2017.
The real scam is people wasting disk space to screenshot or download those horrors.
I fequently see the comment that forums are dead, and there is no one on them, so i want to ask--what type of forum is your experience with? i.e. what is the topic or field the forum is dedicated to? I ask because the 5 or 6 forums I frequent are very active. I just checked the online stats for one of the bigger ones and it currently has 1288 registered members online with 1491 guests (out of a total registered members of 405,506.) That one is big, so it requires a lot of subforums to keep the information orderly, but there are smaller ones that are still active too. The smallest I frequent (on a very esoteric topic for most) currently has 103 members online with 896 guests. I can keep up with most of the posts on that one, but 2/3rds are on topic that don't interest me, so the forum layout makes it easy to stick to just what interests me.

The reason for my question, is I wonder--topic dictates audience, are some audiences more microblogging friendly and so have jumped ship from forums, where the topics I'm interested in are more old-guy friendly so us luddites stick to the forums we've been on since 1999?
> Very few people actually need the full might of Excel

How's the groupware situation on Linux? Mail, calendars, adding shared meeting rooms, etc.
https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en-US

I don't see anything regarding multiple accounts.
Hello, author here, happy to answer questions and discuss! This is the first in more Guix articles coming from me, as I started when building my newest desktop [0]. Next will be more details on exactly how my system is set up, but you can find (somewhat out of date as we work on big updates in Guix) my dot files here [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28628344

[1] https://github.com/podiki/dot.me/tree/master/guix/.config
Yeah, I prepared for moving for a bunch of years before I moved. A bunch of years, as miserable as I was in Seattle, moving away from my safety net was scary. I'm much happier in Dallas, thats as much weather and how different people are here.
Would like to “fix” the issue with the first few numbers after 10. They make it much harder to teach a young child the concept of base ten counting. Would be much easier if we would replace “ten” by “teny” then “eleven” -> “teny-one” etc.
All of the chat protocols that I use are open actually, yet neither I nor you use a client that supports matrix, irc, xmpp, etc at the same time. Clients that supported multiple protocols died for a reason. These were "jack of all traded but madter of none", extremely buggy and lacking in features.
It's the same story every ~2 years since at least 10 years now... It's mostly a way to negotiate Microsoft prices down.
> Basically the EU is forcing me to create a Google account.

When I see the age gate asking me to log in, I close the tab. How will the EU stop me from doing that?
I should have linked to an internal page that redirected there so people didn't get a misleading 404, but the internal coen repo is only open to all Monzo employees not the public because it contains some HSM specific stuff :( sorry - the public coen (which we're a fork of) is open though here https://github.com/iana-org/coen
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/name-squatting-on-the-crates-i...

This a very old discussion if you keep digging through the links.
Sure, if I was foolish enough to do things with a key that could easily linked back to my real identity, and if the buyer was careful enough to check if my reprinted NFT was the "real" one.

Would it be accurate to say that, from another perspective, the counterfeit NFTs I issued would stay on the blockchain in perpetuity, with no on-chain indications (aside, of course, from timestamp and key) of their fraudulent nature, and that they could be resold over and over to defraud additional careless buyers? Is there some sort of registry of fake/fraudulent NFTs or is it all caveat emptor, hope you read the right blogs?
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What are DAOs?
Unfortunately, due to the auto shortage, the power dynamic between dealerships and buyers is inverted atm.
What ReadMe constraints did you run into? I don't work for them, I'm just a technical writer who has to use it from time to time and wants to be aware of footguns.
Write Congress. We cannot send a revenue share to anonymous addresses, due to FinCEN (anti-money-laundering) and OFAC (sanction list) regulations, some of which carry risk of criminal not civil charges.
The lack of namespacing in crates.io has always been a strange decision to me. I hope at some point they decide that it's worth it to introduce namespaces. The could use some an aliasing mechanism to avoid breaking any existing package references.
And what's worse, lot of functionaly that appears to exist turns out to be broken when you actually try to use it. Basic things like pivot tables, conditional formatting or automatic data import at regular intervals (from a file) are ridiculously broken in LO, and have been so for many years. Feels as if no-one's actually using it beyond a simple document viewer.
Why would you do any conversion at all if you are to provide a "true and accurate copy" of all evidence to the defense? It's supposed to be an identical copy so the defense has the exact same evidence that the all-powerful state that has the power to put you in prison for the rest of your life does. Why wouldn't you just drag the file over to the dropbox folder shared with the defense, like every other piece of evidence that had been distributed?

This isn't just a lawyer. This is an Assistant District Attorney, officially representing the government. They, all lawyers, are trained in handling evidence and know full well what their obligations and duties are. Even if it was somehow a "mistake," it's the type of mistake that trials are dismissed over, with prejudice, and rightly so, because it potentially biases every piece of evidence the prosecution handled.

Besides, using handbrake doesn't completely change the filename, and we're not talking about appending "(1)", "(2)" or "(copy)" like an OS would do for files with the same filename in the same directory.
The answer is anxiety. Even before COVID, there was a great + growing anxiety about the world. It was palpable.

I think that our anxiety is normal, it is biological, and it is inevitable. We are not that much more evolved than we were 20,000 years ago, but the things we worried about then are almost trivial now, and the ways in which we managed those anxieties are ineffective against the anxieties of the day. You can't run away from global warming, the surveillance state, or our increasingly rewarding but terrifying relationship with our world.

We need a new spirituality to combat this anxiety - it wont go away on its own. We need mnemonics that placate the animalistic parts of our brain that are appropriate for our times, and we need to be able to identify when our anxieties are being preyed on by others.
You may well have spoken to an attorney. Good for you if you have, it's what I was advising you to do.
I did some freelance technical writing a while back and the customer was using readme.io. It has its quirks but at the end of the day I ended up really liking it and will likely use it again for such projects.
One major competitor who's also a massive corporation and has an even more questionable approach to handling user data.

So while it might not be a pure "MS tax" anymore, in a way there still is a corporate monopoly tax.
Yeah, I get cranky at sloppy hit pieces. Your bias is showing, as Butterick was at least as cranky, and what's more important, wrong on material facts.
No proof of work, no competitive mining.
Yes. People will spend millions of dollars on this because belonging to a community is about the most meaningful experience we can have. People will dedicate themselves to that sense of being. See football clubs, churches, political parties, chess clubs…
We spend our lives on computers, digital artefacts and communities will come to be the most expensive items ever.

This has been coming a long time. I have about 3000 hours in guild wars 2, when I log in I’m always so happy I have my legendary longbow. If they’d have been nfts that would be amazing. I’d love for that metadata to travel with me across other digital worlds.