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The benefits of Wayland are:
- Much better graphical stack (no more tearing, weird graphical glitches, fractional scaling support without blurring for Wayland native apps)
- Much improved security (on x11, any app has access to all your input, your clipboard and everything that is displayed, all the time), on Wayland an app only know about it's own buffer, its own clipboard and has input access when focused).

Not a plus or downside but interesting thing is that the ecosystem growing around Wayland is harmonizing the desktop environments (finally!)like pipewire now replacing pulse-audio, jack and alsa together or xdg-desktop portal allowing to use the file picker of your environment rather than the one from the library an app is built with (for example, kwrite on gnome would use the gnome file picker).

The downsides of Wayland are:
- A few apps are not playing nicely, like Zoom
- Nvidia support is finally getting better, but from what I can read it's not totally smooth yet.
- KDE is more stable on X11 than Wayland from what I read. but they are focusing on Wayland this year.
- It changed a LOT recently, more conservative distro based on LTS or releases that are a few major version behind like Debian will carry issues that have been fixed since.
- Some tools relying on x11 specific functionalities might not work, it can be necessary to spend a bit of time to find some alternatives.

The way I see it, if your distribution default to x11, stick with it. If it isn't, it's worth a try
> the joke being, of course, that it's ludicrous to think anyone ever tried to teach English to the greatest English writer of all time

This isn't the joke exactly. It's a joke about what could have happened should Shakespeare at age seven had a miserable english education like many current people's experience. His argument throughout the talk is not anti-school or anti-teacher, his contention is with the arrangement of these elements that produce what we think of today as the schooling system. He's not advocating for children not to have teachers.

> Isn't the logical conclusion the opposite? That Shakespeare's English teacher was the best English teacher there ever was

If it was down to the brilliance of the teacher then that teacher could just produced more Shakespeare's throughout their career.
> With PHP, it's literally one-line of code.

With Python and any of the Python frameworks, it's two lines. And one is most likely not explicitly bringing in HTTP request parsing, but just connecting all the plumbing.

> With PHP, it's literally one-line of code.

In that narrow domain, few things are simpler than Cold Fusion. If you go further, the Zope application server offers lots of nice ways to iterate over datasets that involve almost zero code.

> As every language more or less looks like C today

You seriously need to play more with other languages. I suggest you learn one or more of the "weird" ones, such as APL (avoid the ASCII notation, dig deep into the symbols), Erlang, or Lisp. It'll bring in a lot of perspective for you.
I agree kids should be read books that open their minds, that are written for the young mind.

For international audiences I would perhaps suggest books with a large number of translated languages as kids usually prefer to be read in a language they speak. One such "universal" book could be "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. For me it's magical at every age you read it.

At least in my native language (Finnish) Seuss is completely untranslated.

Hence in general, for this topic, "english books for adults" is maybe the safer categorization as I presume the intended audience is happy reading text in english, even though their kids don't speak english.
I think this is awesome but I also believe the US pays a price for that. Few systems based on solidarity, a weak federal state and the culture promotes people being responsible for themselves instead of relying on public infrastructure or authority.

It doesn't have to be this way if trust between groups improves such systems could appear. Ironically the ambitions to solve racism did create even more distrust as it seems, but the setback is hopefully temporary.

I don't think a country with strong social security could ever survive open immigration for too long. It would have to adapt and restrict social security because the societal consent has to be reestablished.

I am not from the US.
> If it can wait, wait. Ignore it. Go back to what you were doing.

You make it sound like this part is zero-cost, when it absolutely is not.

This comic expresses it more clearly than I could in words: https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt...
Putting Adrian Lamo between Mozart and Einstein is ridiculous.
I'm making it my mission to clean the web
I don't know PHP that well, but could the JS/CSS/Images be base64-encoded inside the PHP and decoded and streamed out on demand?
Proof of Stake is already working at scale. Ethereum has been running Proof of Stake in parallel to Proof of Work since December 2020, with plans to do away with Proof of Work in the upcoming eth 2.0 merge this year. Not to mention all the other chains running live on Proof of Stake (eg. Polygon, Harmony, Avalanche, Fantom, etc) with billions in TVL.
I used to think the good parts of crypto could be salvaged. I now don't. The people joining at this point are either naive or corrupt. I don't think people like Vitalik would join today because the entire scene has changed. There are no limit to the number of these coins. If the Bitcoin maximalists had won out, maybe there would be a different future where the world could standardize on a single protocol, but they didn't win out. So whether it's new coins, new NFTs, new this or that. It doesn't matter.

It's a pump and dump. And once the marks get wise to one type of pump and dump, you change it around a bit and pump and dump something else. Real problems are not being solved by crypto.
> Append-only, cryptographically verified, distributed databases are a good idea

More often than not they are a bad idea.

Because often you are required e.g. by the courts or legislation to truly delete something.
>> Schumpeterian creative destruction is an ideal. But the process of innovation it describes is well documented in the study of entrepreneurship, venture capital, new firm formation and the industrial dynamic of new entrance

I'm not sure we disagree, at least not much.

What I meant is that descriptions/theories/models/takes^ such as these are an ideal, I agree. The extent to which this ideal describes what appears to be a dominant process in the part of the world we're describing varies.

What I'm (halfheartedly) arguing is that the Schumpeterian description currently, isn't so dominant. At least, it's not dominant enough to be the basis for understanding short selling... I don't believe. In fact, the share price of a company isn't necessarily very important to the operation of the company... in theory. Short selling is, also in theory, not necessarily all that impactful on share prices.

>>Banking and auto manufacturers share a history in being bailed out.

True, but again, this is markets in practice. The long term, perfect free market ideals are not something that generally exist in reality for a lot of reasons... both good and bad depending on your perspectives.

I don't think Schumpeter meant for his ideas to apply only in hypothetical markets. Creative destruction was as a powerful force, for example, in the early decades of auto manufacturing. Banking has always been somewhat perplexing to economists, who can't really agree on whether or not they should be considered "firms."

We might disagree about short sellers vs leveraged buyouts. I'm more skeptical of short selling and derivatives value add, more willing to entertain the idea that leveraged buyouts have a useful role. At least leveraged buyouts relate directly to financing business activities.

^Economists, atm, seem to like the term "story."
Market making is a business that avoids taking sides over long time horizons. In this business, they need to be hedged in some way almost all the time, so what you said makes no sense.
> In other words, blockchains don’t help at all. The game industry has walled gardens now because that’s what they want and people keep giving them billions of dollars, not because nobody has heard of databases and APIs.

I think that offering interoperability will be a benefit for new entrants. Existing players tend to not change their ways very easily.

But I think the potential for game microtransaction revenue can be even larger with robust NFT marketplaces, secondary markets and the potential for interoperability of metaverse assets. There is more money here down this path and thus I think it will happen.
Rational Male, you will not understand it anyway
The reason there are different passport restrictions, mostly, is wealth/income inequality. As countries become richer, their passports typically become stronger. The solution is to attack the root cause of the issue, which is that so much of the world is still so poor.
If you're building SPAs, it usually does yeah.

But I'm not sure how you went from "a bit of client-side scripting" and "Lightweight scripting" to "letters and images is unviewable without some modifiying logic" here in this thread? Sounds like you just want people to hear how much distaste you have for the dependence on JS for showing content?
Here's a good answer:

So having your own blockchain domain and even using it as a method of login is illegal and centralised now? [0] ENS is a good existing example and concept 'so-far' of a valid use case, even when I disagree with it being implemented on Ethereum.

As for payments, cryptocurrencies that have blockchains like Bitcoin should be dismissed in the long term. Regulated stablecoins seem better for that purpose these days.

[0] https://www.skiff.org/
As long as you play around in your own branch and never merge your changes, what's the risk? You can try and make changes purely for the purpose of getting to know the code.
BTW started out with OpenScad but, among other things, CadQuery allows me to do it all in one language and access to many useful libraries.
You're ignoring entirely the devastating economic impact of the treaty of Versailles and claiming it was all about free speech. Totally off the Mark ;)
I learnt something today. It does indeed appear to be a nearly universal standard. Thank you!
>In public transit, the expectation of adhering to a social contract is almost non-existent.

That's not the case in the UK or the rest of Europe. Of course there are occasional nut jobs out there but the fact that so many people use public transport controls that sort of behaviour.
That sounds like a database access problem.
Harassment sucks, whoever does it.

But I find it hard to believe that anonymous multi-million-dollar enterprises would be a net positive to society.
Your situation matches:

https://www.margithenderson.com/the-paradox-of-aging-the-hap...

Which matches my experience, so far, a couple decades after you.
The correct way of doing it. kudos
I try to look into it but every time I get really put off by the dated documentation and Pascal code, plus the need to use an IDE I am not familiar with.

Can I create a reactive, modern looking application using the IDEs I know and love with this?

If not, then no, it does not do everything things like Neutralinojs does, it's not even in the same category of tools, really.
my system administrator background says yes, sometimes wiping the whole project is the best idea

Imagine that you are developing a storage with an s3-compatible API for internal use. Maybe you should give up and install CEPH instead
To be frank actually OpenScad is a steaming pile.
> people can look for battered companies and severely profit from their accelerated demise

Gamestop is one of those companies where the demise has been severely delayed IMO; they could've seen the future years ago but chose to stay with their legacy business of selling games in physical stores. Online game stores do what they do but with much lower costs and a much better business model.

There are two ways forward for Gamestop IMO but neither is very positive:

- They try to compete with the giants in the online gaming market, like Steam. I can't see them bootstrap their way into that, Steam and the others have too much network effect going on and GME has not shown any real talent in the online/tech domain.

- They try to revitalize their offline presence. I don't see this happening either. There has been a decades long trend of everything moving from off- to on-line and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

For anyone who agrees with the above assessment, the conclusion would be that the future for Gamestop is not very bright. Depending on the timescale you think it is going to play out, being short is an entirely valid position to be in. Personally, I think the sentimental memories of the ~25-~45 years old generation will keep it alive for a decade or so more.
I am not defending NFTs, just saying that you cannot blame technology for what it was used for.

Nuclear fission was the idea/tech, it was used to create A-bombs, and clean nuclear energy. Nuclear fission like smart contract is an idea, how its used it up to people.
Places where cars and motorcycles/scooters arrived at the same time have more people using motorcycles/scooters.

They're cheaper, more fuel efficient, and easier to park.
That’s the best part - YOU DON’T! Makes no difference to me bud. Seriously. I’m not asking you to trust “me”, I’m asking you to look at the cold hard facts, that’s all. And if you don’t want to, that’s cool too. I’ll still be fine, just FYI.
> This seems like you’re arguing against the weakest form of the argument rather than engaging with the specific criticisms offered by people who understand the technology at least as well as most proponents.

Does this meet your needs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30243820

I also discuss interoperability and how I suspect it will be realized here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30243851
Climbing ! It changed my life.

I was 26, doing a PhD, had unhealthy habits, and sat in front of the computer all day. Got introduced to indoor-climbing by a friend. And boy, did it change my life.

It thought me to appreciate nature, life, working hard towards something, dedicating your life to things that matter to you rather than spending all the time doing what matters to others, taking calculated risks and measuring the outcomes. What started as climbing indoors, continued as climbing on rock, starting trad climbing, then ice climbing, alpinism, big wall climbing.

Now I am 32, building a startup. I find it very hard to dedicate time for climbing. But, I try to spend 2/3 hours everyday training for climbing or climbing. Because I know it brings me joy and that it increases my overall productivity. Being fit makes you feel happy in general, happy about yourself.

Though, I tried many things in the while. I used to play the Piano (did a few trinity college exams), played acoustic guitar, bike packing/touring, competitive sailing. But I decided to dedicate my time to only a few things, as I only have a limited headspace. So that, I can enjoy the things I am doing and not just merely do them.

Having some daily habits help enlighten your day as well.

I meditate every morning.

I like cooking and look forward to eating a nice meal at the end of the day.

I read a bit everyday. I enjoy non-fiction, especially biographies and books on mountaineering.

So little time, so much to do!
That might be the number of card carrying members, the number of people who are cool with their general ideas but smart enough to not go around advertising it to everyone is far greater.
There are two counterpoints that mean that this is unlikely to be what happens:

Lego bricks are made to micron tolerances. When you add up tolerancing errors over 10 or 50 bricks in a row the differences can add up and things don't fit. This is a big part of how Lego saw off the cheap competition - they were generally not satisfying to build. This is achieved with very careful injection moulding, and the only rapid prototyping tool at that level of precision is 3D CNC.

There is more to the sets that pieces of plastic. Look at Warhammer - the figures are all plastic, they could easily be 3D printer, they might not look quite as good but they'd work just fine. Yet, Games Workshop sells set after set. Lego sets are also designed, come with instructions etc. There's more than just the components.
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Elixir is one such language for beginners.
Russia accelerates movement of military hardware towards Ukraine
Absolutely, Semver is a good idea as a way of organizing your software's versions. But basing your pacakge manager on the specification of Semver seems like a bad idea to me - though it is extremely popular in the industry currently (NPM, Cargo, go mod, and others support it).
Honest question I find myself asking these days about new places: are you generally safe flashing some wealth in Albania, as a single foreigner? Like for example nice car, camera, phone, mountain bike.. or best to keep a low profile?
Open Cascade (OCCT) – Open-Source Geometric Modeling Kernel
Then lets look at this one, from the same period:
https://brickset.com/sets/6834-1/Celestial-Sled

Weird ski bricks, seethrou chain saw, antenna, big arrowshaped structural piece, etc.

I'm not surprised the one you linked is from 91. Noone is disputing that the complexity rose from the 80s. But the complexity we are seeing now is not a new thing. It started in the 90s.
As a minority from a lower-class immigrant background I am always amused (or perhaps, disgusted) when I am lectured by white people resting on generations of accumulated wealth about the hardships of the lower classes and the struggles that ethnic minorities face.

I am further disgusted when I am told I am wrong at the slightest point of disagreement.
Allowing myself a slightly off-topic question: For the people having old Thinkpads (X220 for example), where do you buy replacement batteries?

Are you buying many from different providers hoping to land one good in the pack? How can you have a kind of minimal confidence that it will not be a security hazard?
I subscribe to the theory that this is a money laundering scheme. Create a crypto with "art rules" for the value of every asset and now you've got things whose valuation is completely arbitrary and, oh look, some anonymous wallet wants to give me 2 million dollars for the blinking led asset! Yes, IRS, I got my money from this art auction!

Anyone falling for a "legitimate" reason these things exist is a fool.
This comment does a good job of citing why the 15-minute city concept feels kind of "off" to me.

It's ostensibly a good idea. I actually probably could live it, I'm 15 minutes walk from essentially everything I'd need.

But whenever I read 'marketing material' it always just sounds like some way to ensure that the proletarians exist less. Use less resources, basically just corral most people off into these little life simulators.

If you deleted long-distance transport like cars tomorrow I could still _do_ most of the things I need in order to subsist, but you would have immediately essentially just turned off the reason I get up in the morning.
Great idea, but the cost in space and weight is not insignificant. I really hope that future Frameworks package things a bit better, I would even forgoe the USB-C connector for a smaller proprietary connector (I feel disgusting saying that) as the modules are not meant to be used elsewhere. They could still use USB-C signalling under the hood.

Is there any movement for a smaller standardized connector? Even small phones could benefit.
To be honest, I think it would be a good idea to have people teach/test the citizenship test in high school. The content should mostly be covered under civics classes anyways. It always amazing to me just how many people are completely clueless on government structure, mechanics, rule of law, etc.
And don't forget the most important part - incompetent programmers. It is we, the programmers, who writes all that code that that ends up as steaming pile of garbage. We can't blame others on that one. We need to become better with the tools we have.

Thus it is naive to believe that by switching language you somehow magically will write better code but without doing any effort to improve yourself first.
Oh, I agree with you, I can't even read discussion on crypto online, it's 99.9% about which or coin will value the fastest. However, I will still keep an open mind. For example, Silvio Micali works on proof-of-stake and he says his stuff already works at scale. The guy won a Turing and a Gödel award. I'll keep an open mind.
Don't you love it when the once in a lifetime opportunity for generational wealth is also a great fundamental investment? In case the biggest short squeeze the market would have ever seen, with the potential to crash the US economy, somehow doesn't happen (damn hedgies!). With all of that that, it doesn't matter that physical sales of video games are dying and that the company is bleeding out money with a loss of $100 millions in Q3 2021 alone.
Out of curiosity, how's the quality of life there?

Being originally form Eastern Europe myself, devs earn and live like kings here, especially those freelancing for remote US companies, but socially you're mostly confined to these high-earning circles and gated communities where you're mostly insulated from the poverty, corruption and inequality surrounding you, along with a feeling that everyone from individuals to local businesses could be potentially unscrupulous ready to scam you of everything you've got, if your scam detector is not finely tuned and you don't know exactly how things work, as laws and regulations tend to be very loosely enforced.

Plus, complete lack of infrastructure, functional government and public institutions. Roads without potholes that don't ruin your car? Forget it. Public transport? Barely. Pedestrian sidewalks not full of illegally parked cars? Nope. Drivers disobeying the law and being a hazard to everyone? Check. Police doing something? Forget it. Public hospitals? Avoid if you can. People behaving like a-holes in public. Yes. Gangs of roma beggars and parking scammers? A given. General disregard for following laws and regulations? Check.

And that's in an EU country that, at least on paper, should be doing way better than Albania.
> Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but hear me out: the issue of social and physical comfort in public transit is probably at least as important as the issue of efficiency. In public transit, the expectation of adhering to a social contract is almost non-existent. Women deal with creepy gropers, everyone deals with the smell of urine, and of course there's the ubiquitous annoyance of music played over phone speakers (or worse, bluetooth).

My incredibly liberal (left of Bernie) economics professor used to say that you need to build public transit infrastructure for the middle class, not the poor. It increases ridership amongst those paying the lion's share of taxes and causes development along high utility economic corridors, spreading outward, trickling down. It stops the service from being stigmatized and increases ridership at all levels.
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