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It's because general purpose PCs aren't as profitable as consoles. Companies want to make phones, tablets and computers into "app players" in order to extract maximum profits from app stores and subscription services.

There is no room for power users in that market, only passive consumers. Besides, power users might be motivated to circumvent their systems and do things that companies can't extract rent on.
If you just boil the water before use (and let it cool, obviously!), there's zero risk of infection. Distilled water is generally just the easiest and simplest way to do it safely.
> Italians are not racists

The biggest football team in Italy literally threw around a giant banana to mock a black player. And that's not like it's an isolated incident
Its as if we ALL have to pull together as Humans with our fellow Humans..

Perhaps it wont be an alien invasion that makes us realize this after all.. but a virus.

We must Help each other, or else... A decade or more of this...
The bags are also significantly cheaper. It's a good 10-20% price difference with a carton and that's why they're more popular in the former Soviet Union. Or at least that's why my parents only every bought the plastic bagged milk over cartons.

My only issue with them is that it's sometimes hard to tell that one of them is broken in the store. Putting it into a backpack can be a disaster.
people don’t just flip a coin and say “heads, i won’t cooperate”. they all have their own reasons for not cooperating. very few of those reasons are “i flat out don’t want this virus to be eradicated”. so address their concerns, and problem solved.

i’m not claiming it’ll be easy, and i don’t think it’s practical within the short span of a few years, but it’s not impossible.
You Are Immune Against Every Disease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmpuerlbJu0
From my experience, apps are not developed anymore with power user in mind.

There use to be a terminal app (DOS) at a company I worked at which only worked with shortcuts, the learning curve was pretty steep but after a while using it you could be pretty efficient.

Now they replaced it with a nice UI but you don't have shortcuts. Maybe there wasn't enough demand for it.

In programming we mostly use tools we also use at home or elsewhere, so the learning cost is worth it (if I learn VIM, I will be more efficient at every programming job in the future, not just this one)
Pessimism.

All surprises then are pleasant ones, not unpleasant surprises.
the box that says [object Object] at the top of the page doesn't inspire confidence.
The other scenario is that that text is the first iteration and gave a positive KPI, if there are enough complains related to the structure of the text and is linked to increase in refunds, the team in charge would A/B another iteration targeting refund rate as KPI (although that might be difficult to correlate)
Climb your own Status Everest
You Are Immune Against Every Disease. [video]
Bernard-Henri Lévy on the power of goodwill and courage
Given the alpha was human-made, then omicron could also be, like a form of repentance for the original lab leak.
GUIX and NixOS can similarly create an immutable root system + packages. System and app state is still stored in /var and /home/me, but the system and installed packages are unalterable.

There was a good blog post a few months ago on further hardening NixOS: https://christine.website/blog/paranoid-nixos-2021-07-18
The lack of sterilizing immunity. You can not expect your immune system to mount a permanent immediate defense against coronaviruses.

Once everybody has encountered SARS2 at least once, it may become as harmless as the other endemic coronaviruses. That is to say, not entirely harmless, but nothing to lose sleep over.

It will never go away. How we deal with that is up to us.
Nope these were confirmed cases.
>This is ridiculous nonsense written by, presumably, someone who isn't a professional software developer. Software developers often have to run several emulators

That reality is part of the problem the parent wrote about...
Of course knob cost more than a touchscreen. They are more expensive to produce, since you have more parts, more wiring, more steps to assemble it. Like it's more expensive to produce "analog" electronics than putting a microcontroller and do things in software.

The question is, what is better? To me touch interfaces in cars are very bad from a safety standpoint: they are impossible to use without looking at them, thus not looking at the road. Physical buttons are more practical, since you can just feel them, I don't need to look at my AC controls to change temperature, I just have to rotate som knobs or push some buttons that I know where they are located. Same thing with radio controls, I know where the buttons are and I can perfectly operate them without looking at the radio itself.

Beside that, but it's my opinion, touchscreen are more ugly to see, all modern car seems to have a big tablet, that not only is ugly but it reduces the field of view of the driver, or of the passengers. When I'm on a car trip I want to view outside the panorama, not an ugly 10" display to show me the radio station that I'm tuned to as it did the old 20 character display of my old radio.

I love the dashboards of older cars, with knobs, switches, dials, colored LEDs, an 8 segment displays. Now every car seems identical to another.

If we talk about more data presentation, yes more useless data presentation for sure. Useless information distracts you from driving, and thus makes car less safe. If you want then to extract whatever other data from the car... a cheap ODB-II interface that connects via bluetooh to your car is all you need. Of course to be used only when you are not driving.
It's a terrible idea to me! Like sure, I know the devs want to do the minimum of work, but that doesn't make it a good idea to take the easy way out.
I really enjoy doing things in canvas and processing.js, even though it's discontinued. It's a relatively rapid way to prototype things or build cool demos like you said. I got hooked around the same time a you, maybe a year earlier, when moderating over at Khan Academy in their CS area. So much fun.
The OnePlus 6/6T on postmarket are pretty close to daily driver ready

They're fast, stable, and if you can live without camera, cellular and fast charging, (which yes, I realize means it's more like a tiny tablet than a phone) everything works beautifully.

EDIT: Cellular Data works, just not phone calls, so if you have a low latency/reliable 4G connection you could make VoIP work probably :)
While arguably shorter lines were easier to set and maintain by hand, both hand typesetting and Linotype machines could certainly produce lines of text longer than a typical newspaper column -- and they did: look at any book without columnar text produced during the same period!

I think you're right about it being a way to deal with a physical limitation, but not of the physical type -- rather, of the physical paper. If you divide the page vertically into two or three columns (for magazines) or six to nine (for broadsheets), you get an extremely flexible grid to use for fitting stories around one another and around photos and advertisements. Text could be a single column wide or two or even three columns across; headlines can run across just a column or two or across the whole page; you can always find somewhere to put that story that continues from page 1A.
Cod(e/ium) requires Ctrl+Shift+P to actively engage its command palette.

AutoCAD strikes me as a fundamentally different paradigm in that its command interface is "always active" so to speak, whereas menus/toolbars feel mostly like an optional overlay, at least to an experienced user.

Although AutoCAD is my preferred tool when drafting electrical architectures and wiring diagrams, the mouse as primary human interface is simply unavoidable in any sensible CAD, which makes constantly having to release the mouse to type the next command, or F3/F9 to toggle object/grid snaps (especially with shit modern keyboards without standard F-key separation e.g. MX Keys) admittedly annoying. I contrast this UX to SolidWorks which is overwhelmingly mouse+toolbar in a way that's comparatively trivial to navigate, or Altium which is driven by single hotkey sequencing that allows the other hand to stay fixed on mouse.
Not for single player games, no. Or for many indie titles.
Totally agree, and it's the macro version of what I realised after having a discussion with a co-worker who's begrudgingly getting the vaccine, but is against being 'forced' to do it.

I understand the negative reaction to any authority figure forcing something, and I react negatively, to the point of using technical workarounds, to Australia's metadata retention rules and other privacy-related political BS.

Living in a functioning society requires the sacrifice of some freedoms for the benefits that a society provides. People that can get the vaccine have a certain responsibility to get vaccinated on behalf of those members of that society that cannot get vaccinated for valid health reasons, or even for the sake of children currently below the vaccination age range. The vaccinated are forming a shield around the more vulnerable members of their society.

Freedom of personal choice versus 'doing your bit' to protect the weak, elderly, and vulnerable. And most of us have family and friends and co-workers and acquaintances that will fall into this vulnerable category that we'd probably rather they stay alive for a little longer.

I just don't hear it presented this way very much. There's a lot of publicity around the actions of the freedom flag-wavers without too much of the other side of that particular coin being explained.

Like the economics of uber-capitalism being an unhealthy extension of capitalism, this is an unhealthy uber-individualism outgrowth of individualism. It's far more prevalent than I thought it would be, probably because we've had it so good for so long - nearly 80 years since WWII ended.

Edited to add two explanatory things:

1. If COVID sticks around, or if there's a new "thing" in one, two, three, decades' time, we'll be getting into that 'vulnerable' category. When that happens, how will you feel about large groups of 'kids' (25 - 45 year olds) protesting getting vaccinated against a disease that may be very mild for them but fatal for you?

2. I personally know someone, of my age, with COVID-long. The symptoms are something like chronic fatigue syndrome. As a result they're essentially a non-productive member of society who used to be a productive member of society.
Maybe problem with safe area insets? Have been experimenting with SwiftUI DragGesture to replace UIKit's UITouch gestures. Have been getting false negatives and SpringBoard false positives on everything from iPod touch through iPhone Pro Max.
If any system needs 24/7 support and more than two nines of availability, that's simply not compatible with having a single person "owning the stack" and not documenting/disseminating the details. That's a bus factor of 1, and fails whenever you will get any actual time off offline (e.g. in a plane). So if the uptime of the system and 24/7 is actually important, I would consider that your manager is unacceptably negligent in allowing this to happen.

On the other hand, if 24/7/365 is more like a 'nice to have' option, then sure, such an arrangement will be more cost effective than more people in support; a 99% uptime SLA often can be maintained by one core person.
this is all starting to feel either like "The Cassandra Crossing" or "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"... Probably the later :(
There's absolutely no reason I can think of for doing that - instead of posting a price if USD or EUR and accepting paying in TRY. They'd have to exchange that Bitcoin for TRY anyway to pay their local staff, and they'd have to convert the balance to USD or EUR anyways. It's just extra lossy steps with huge volatility.
I use Windows as my main OS. In Windows 10, there is a feature called Unified Write Filter that essentially resets your computer after every reboot [1].

> Unified Write Filter (UWF) is an optional Windows 10 feature that helps to protect your drives by intercepting and redirecting any writes to the drive (app installations, settings changes, saved data) to a virtual overlay. The virtual overlay is a temporary location that is usually cleared during a reboot or when a guest user logs off.

When I first got my laptop, I installed a fresh clean copy of Windows 10, installed all my commonly used applications, configured all my settings, and then enabled UWF. On every reboot, it goes back to this clean snapshot, no matter what I do - And reboots are quick too (~10 seconds).

I like this setup because I'm never worried about making changes to my computer to try them out (installing a new program, configuring obscure settings, etc). If I don't like it, I can get back to my fresh state with a simple reboot. I also like that the feature is built into the OS - there are similar third-party solutions such as "Reboot Restore RX" [2], but I don't trust these as much, and they're not as clean as UWF.

The only downside is when you _do_ want to persist changes to update you have to disable UWF, reboot, make your changes (such as Windows Update), enable UWF again, and reboot. But I seldom have to do this. I treat the OS as pretty stateless and keep all my personal files in a separate bitlocker-enabled partition that isn't subject to UWF.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/...
[2] https://horizondatasys.com/reboot-restore-rx-freeware/
>>Isn't having colors available an advantage?

I only ever used black pen. I am not talking about art or drawing. I used my paper notebooks to organize my thoughts, meetings, todo lists, etc. Some people use apps, and laptops, I used paper note books

Remarkable is good for this

>>My primary incentive for buying an Air 2 (I'm still on the fence) would be to use it as an e-book reader

I have no problems with the Remarkable 2 as a ebook reader either, but I do not buy or use DRM ebooks, I am mainly using it for Technical books I get off Humble Bundle, or stripped the drm from, or offical documentation. PDF works just fine for me, but I can see how some people hate it

For me the Subscription, and the inablity of the company to communicate with the community has soured me on the device, I likely would not buy one today for those reasons, but for the function I bought it for (note taking, and lite ebook reading) is works great for me

If I had to buy a device today to replace it I would look at the Supernote A5X
Vaccine Makers plan to address the new Covid-19 Omicron variant
I don't think it quite works like that - human reaction would affect the transmission of both the original 'bad' variant, and a hypothetical 'good' variant equally. It wouldn't induce a selection pressure favouring one over the other.

Furthermore, even with ICUs overflowing, a large segment of the population considers it 'just the flu' - and likely still would even if it became more virulent. After all, their assessment is based on ideology, party affiliation etc rather more than cold facts.
I have occasional but super painful sinus infections. One thing I don't get is, how does this sinus rinsing apparatus manage to clean out a sinus cavity which is topologically a dead end in the network of nasal air passages? Do you just have to squirt it extra vigorously to get enough turbulence to get fluid in and out? Kind of like the sight glass on a pool filter.
Yeah I’m surprised nobody mentioned emacs. The only thing missing is auto complete not just on command names but the descriptions also.
I still would do some sort of septoplasty, before that I couldn't breathe out my nose at all. Now I use nasal pillows for my cpap, so it was mostly worth it in the end.
I would rather that than the internet be sanitized and homogenized, yes.
Moderna COVID-19 vaccine : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderna_COVID-19_vaccine

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer–BioNTech_COVID-19_vacci...
From what I’ve heard, translated apps are nearly as fast as native. Even if not, the number of apps that need to be translated will only decrease with time.
I guess I have a hard time seeing how a dedicated full x64 core could possibly be a good use of transistors compared to the alternatives (more arm cores, more cache, fewer transistors/lower cost, lower power usage, etc).
Interesting idea. I like RTS, but I often suck in multilayer because I’m not very good at precisely timing macro or doing anything related to micro.
I'm not sure this is true. Mutation happens with approximately fixed probability with each copy made.

"peak viral load did not differ by vaccination status or variant type"[1]

[1]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
It doesn't have to be someone in government.
It could be a group of people acting strategically towards a particular goal, in a series of steps. Those steps would include paying funds for the following: Lobbying governmental officials across all three branches, Strategically networking & "giving gifts" (quid pro quo), Sponsoring scientific studies, Paying journalists to report certain things.

For example, Amazon Executives have a financial interests in reducing competition from independent retailers ("Mom & Pop shops"). A lockdown would certainly boost Amazon's position in that case. And Bezos does own the Washington Post.

By the way, have you heard of Operation Mockingbird [1]?

"Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes."

"According to author Deborah Davis, Operation Mockingbird recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network and influenced the operations of front groups. CIA support of front groups was exposed when a 1967 Ramparts magazine article reported that the National Student Association received funding from the CIA. In 1975, Church Committee Congressional investigations revealed Agency connections with journalists and civic groups."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
> for example it’s asynchronous

Ruby also lets you build programs like this as of 3.0, using Ractor#send / Ractor::receive https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/doc/ractor_md.html#labe...

It’s still pretty new so a lot of the Gem ecosystem hasn’t caught up yet (e.g. C extensions need to be explicitly opted-in as Ractor-safe), but I built a new “MIME::Types” library replacement with it recently and have enjoyed very few teething issues: https://github.com/okeeblow/DistorteD/blob/NEW%E2%80%85SENSA...
“private-room rentals” not the entire place.
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Silverblue is the most promising development in the Linux space. I used it for years before switching to a MacBook. Sadly too many Linux users are stuck in the mindset that you should audit the code of every app you run and that the user/root split is all that is needed for security.
> 1. horizontal task bar

That is what makes the most sense if you want to have as much information there as possible.
> emerge from a poorly-vaccinated population.

I don't really care much for the finger pointing, but for sake of setting the record straight .. aren't most of the omicron mutations in the spike protein? ie it evolved to evade vaccine based immunity
This is the last time I'll reply, your comments are admittedly going off the rails now.

> Can't see there any "copyright". Can't see there entitlement "to prohibit to anyone in having right to make a copy". Selling copy is something else. But who can prohibit making copy?

17 U.S.C.§106 - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106

You also take umbrage with the fact that "copy" is fairly ambiguous. You can find the legal definition of "copy" in 17 U.S.C§101: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/101. It's fairly cut and dry.
I can't wait for the new flat earth conspiracies this will bring about.
I recently watched Trent Reznor's clip from the 'I dream of Wires' documentary, where he blames the DX7 for the decline in synthesiser culture. His hatred of the DX7 is pretty well known at this point. He complained that after its release the market for synthesisers shifted to accomodate consumers' want for 'bell', and 'electric piano' sounds, rather than those of his preferred analog synthesisers.

Would you agree that having an affordable synthesiser capable of making credible piano, and percussive sounds really opened the world of synthesisers up to a more diverse range of musicians? The DX7 first hit shelves before I was born, so I can't speak from my own experience here. I think Reznor's opinion on the matter sounds pretty ignorant.
Good news: there will likely remain a steady stream of college systems with barely enough money to buy McDonalds. New people are being born all of the time. Some of them in developing countries, where they literally couldn't afford to pay for your product no matter how much they wanted to.

Piracy serves an important role for those people.
> So after the attack, there are two conflicting sets of signatures signed using the evil cabal's private keys; those on the fake chain, and those on the real chain. So anyone in possession of both of these sets of signatures can conclude that the validators in the cabal are "evil", and then they can see that once the cabal's support is removed from consideration, the real chain had more valid validator support (at the time of the fork, in the distant past).

I think this is where you get the problem - if you just have two sets of signatures, how do you tell which is legitimate and which one isn't? How do you conclude in which set the cabal was lying?

An eclipse attack is so named because it requires you to keep all the light out so they're kept in the dark. But here, since there's no internal mechanism to tell the two chains apart, you don't only need the accurate information, but also outside information about which one is accurate.
Biden mentioned that the US has donated more than all other countries combined in his statement two days ago. I would hope his statement was well fact checked.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
I think it's kind of funny how Google is using this as an example when their own Gmail app in iOS has the "Write a new email" action as a floating action button with a pencil and the word "Compose".
They need special livescribe dot pattern paper - any ol' paper won't work.
That's plausible, but it's not the whole picture. It may only partially explain some of the problem.

We have, in the wealthy west, millions of vaccine-hesistant and vaccine-denialist people.

I'm not just talking about poor or uneducated people, either.

I personally know wealthy, educated, analytical people who have bought into the fearmongering and propaganda. I was shocked to find how deeply skeptical they were. I was even more shocked to be linked to propaganda with hard-to-miss flaws, like the fact that the promoter is not talking on behalf of the AMA, but on behalf of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physic... ... and I'm not even in America.

I also know people who got a dose of vaccine, read propaganda, became skeptical and delayed their second dose for a long time.

It's not just the poor, the ignorant, or people we've betrayed. It's bigger than that. I don't think anyone fully understands it yet.

Watching the people around me has stirred in me many new questions.
> Indeed, my understanding is that no human virus has evolved to become less virulent. It is unclear why H1N1 disappeared a few years after it emerged as the Spanish flu, most likely it simply ran out of susceptible hosts. In particular, we have no evidence of a successor virus, evolved from H1N1, that was both less virulent and drove out H1N1 at that time.

Spanish flu is still around and did become less virulent over time - and it has descendants that comingled with other flus to create other pandemics: https://www.history.com/news/1918-flu-pandemic-never-ended