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Tell HN: Helping with a slow Win10? Maybe OneDrive deleted local files
I just run into it yesterday and I was not really expecting it so I thought that it would share if anyone helps family or friends with their computer

- someone had horribly slow Windows (opening folder with photos has not completed after several minutes)
- no typical signs of a malware or other infestation otherwise
- OneDrive asking to be "upgraded" (which went straight to payment form)

Turns out that Windows was uploading local files to Microsoft servers (OneDrive). User was not aware about this, presumably it appeared in way similar how most people end with Microsoft account during installation.

In addition it turned that OneDrive deleted local files. User was definitely not aware about that.

So someone opening folder with photos - was downloading them from server. No idea who thought that it would be better than simply mirroring files. Opening folders was slow because user was waiting for download of GBs of data.

Attempts to change configuration were without any feedback or noticeable change. Linux would at give cryptic but searchable error.

Uninstalling OneDrive resulted in Windows stopping to pretend that local files are there.

At least message asking for OneDrive subscription, appearing every 30s, was also gone.

After that it was necessary to download files from OneDrive. Which failed in the middle of download twice and was rate limited to 250 KB/s by Microsoft server. Which makes idea "lets delete GBs of files locally and download them when user opens folder" even worse.

I guess that the entire idea was invented to push OneDrive subscriptions (many people will simply pay as popup demanded) but who though that deleting local files is a good idea?

Also, it is not just one person who did something weird, it happened to multiple. So I guess that it is one more thing to be aware while helping with horribly slow Windows and one more dark pattern to look out for.

BTW, it is really sad that "Linux PC becoming more usable than Windows PC" is driven recently mostly by Windows becoming worse.

Also, that is how "lets give family member external hard drive and help with backup making as a gift" turned out to be 1h of investigation and several of waiting rather than 5 minutes of copying.
True, but some of his entries are interesting.
No. Stop. Do not force other language abstractions and paradigms into a programming language.

Just because you created a Haskell-like bastard in Elixir will not help you "bring Haskell or Purescript into company via Elixir" (from Witchcraft empty site)
May his brain storm the records of Akasha...
I'm confused. Is the only way forward private automobiles? Did the creation of the Department of Transportation ban the creation of transit?

Americans choose automobiles because of zoning laws mandating massive setbacks and minimum parking requirements. There's nothing in the DoT or my state's DoT that mandates use of a car. It's all due to American city planning, which is driven by auto friendly city planning policy. So again, why is transit out of the question here?

Self-driving cars aren't an incremental improvement away. We have no idea how many more deaths are needed to mature the technology. So why are we bending over backwards for it when there are proven solutions to move people without casualty? If self driving can innovate without casualty, then be my guest.
Its possible that the VPN I am typically on changes my results from yours, as my VPN is quite specific to a research institution, and it is known how google curates results based on that information.
You ever travel and get to the point that you've seen enough art museums, and they're just not that different?
Well, that's outside of our control - unlike Starlink's junk.
Look at okws.org sometime. It gave okcupid a significant cost advantage over competitors by letting them run on a lot less hardware. I've never used it but have always admired it.
Brave talk seems browser based.
This! I've traveled and lived in several countries, and all the new experiences slow down time.

At the same time, I did enjoy the story and agree that getting to know your loved ones better is a good idea.

Btw, who watches TV in yhe evening? It is internet all the way since many years in our household.
TLDR: it's very doable, and I will be spending many months there again this year.

I spent several weeks of Nov/Dec 2021 in Phuket while I was between contracts. Things were just starting to open up and come back to life as restrictions were being lifted. Many places were still closed or had gone out of business, but there was no lack of dining, massage, bar, or outdoor activities.

Internet was reliable and fast with my 30 EUR 30-day unlimited data Thai SIM card (AIS brand if I remember correctly). Most hotels had decent wifi as well, but I often didn't even bother using it.

There are multiple visa options (which you can do a search for), and there's a subreddit just on this topic if you don't mind digging a bit. All options involve some expense and/or extra effort, but it's still a small cost considering the benefits of being there.

Lodging is easy and cheap (particularly with COVID 50% discounts which may be vanishing slowly). My advice if you're going to stay for more than 30 days is to get a hotel for 5 days, and then start asking around and just walking/driving around looking for flats or rooms to rent. Not everything is listed online. There are also a lot of Youtube bloggers who like to show off places they encounter.

One can live comfortably for $1500/mo or less, or frugally for $1000 or less. It's also possible to spend $5000+/mo if you want to live in luxury. Speaking fankly, luxury villas and "human entertainment" tend to be the big costs for some people. I can't speak to specifics since that's not my kind of scene (and honestly I didn't really see many other visitors who were acting like high roller party boys in Vegas).

Be aware that officially, working while in Thailand is not approved without the proper visa (which probably 99% of DNs don't have). Practically though, sitting on the balcony behind a computer (and getting paid to do so) for several hours a day is not high risk. Just don't flaunt it.
It isn't if you know your own risk is significantly worse than the average buyer. This is called adverse selection.
There didn't seem to be any data in the article analyzing how much bandwidth was being used under load. I'm not sure if for example compressing those images made it possible to now survive.
Sounds like an RDSB issue where the station is broadcasting an alternate frequency AF and the radio is switching to, because the field strength of that AF is stronger than the one you are coming from. There are three fixes:

* You enable "LOCAL" mode, this should ignore those AFs broadcasted by stations which would switch to another station broadcasting a different program (it's actually more complicated, for brevity simplified). Not all head units HU offer this setting.

* You disable the AF-feature of your HU.

* KQRS should stop broadcasting this AF
I don't undermine the stress of a software engineer (althouth 95% of them out there are doing quite simple and boring stuff on a daily basis, if you ask me).

But the nature of the medicine is incomparably harder and more complex than the nature of CS discipline (which is an artificial human-made construct, however sophisticated).

It only means that if someone puts less time/effort in studying more complicated thing, this someone is much worse in it than in less complicated matter.
I've helped maintain a g suite org, they're pretty rigorous about getting in touch when they're making changes. I know we had plenty of notice about the storage policy changes for example.
Does your opinion change if they weren't really audible except for at the ports? There's actually been a lot of research into making them quieter. It could end up quieter than street traffic, except for at the ports where they're taking off and landing.
I mean it ranks very well and the school itself has some very good research output. I need to reiterate, it's a 6 year degree and not 4 years. The workload is about the same for all medical schools in my country. I think the workload is similar to a CS degree at some good university but that's mostly speculation on my part.
I never thought of the Ukraine thing being about oil prices but that’s a really interesting idea. USA has done plenty of unsavory things for oil in the past too, maybe more towards lowering the prices, but the world revolves around oil
You're right, they should have found a way to shoe-horn in kubernetes.
How are you (or anyone) harmed by this junk in ways that the universe doesn't already harm you?
Probably a Chinese shill (wumao), just ignore them.
Very good article. The Earth chauvinism in trying to theorize about extraterrestrial life is blinding. There could be magnetohydrodynamic life in star plasmas for all we know. We need to explore WAY more before we try to reach any conclusions.
No, it's a format string vulnerability.
> Unwritten rules are everything in America

Show me where it says that.
Yeah, from a social network, it turned into disinformation and censorship network! About one year ago I made a post about the Bulgarian gypsies and actually pointed out the discrimination against them and offered a PC-compliant solutions to the problem and they removed my comment, the appeal didn't change their decision, and they've blocked me from posting for a week. Some words always get your comment deleted and you get blocked for at least 24 hours! Pretty much all my friends move to Telegram channels. It's not the same, but nobody enjoys being watched and censored! Well, the guy who probably makes out with his wife in VR and make this the norm so that he feels better of himself cannot get this basic truth, of course.
That's a strawman. You can make private automobile ownership much safer and more convenient by building transit. What you're implying is that "forcing everyone to use public transit" is bad, so we need to sacrifice a couple thousand people for self-driving cars? My argument is that we can put much more stringent safety requirements on automobile users. If self driving cars can meet those requirements, then be my guest. Why are you willing to bend over backwards, to the point of endangering others, just to avoid public transit or other proven safe technologies?
Why? What will thousand years of delayed seeding do? It's very dumb to smear our poop onto other planets before we thoroughly investigate them.
Spinal implants allow paralysed people to walk, swim and cycle again
Oh totally agree, I’m not trying to win a contest, there isnt enough time in life to live that many places and build relationships with people there.

4-6 weeks is when my new social activities with new people just start to snowball! Definitely not long enough.

I think its more than long enough to know what living in any particular neighborhood is like though.

One other thing is that you are able to notice other people that travel like that. The proverbial “jetsetters” even without the socialite connotations, nomadic. Many more in the last few years. Interesting crowd. There are people that like the same circuits of places so thats nice.
Smart. FUD then buy the dip.
$3.33/GB. Fairly middle of the road. No sperm required.

https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/
Beautiful post
Postgres deficiencies you describe can be solved with elbow grease

MySQL's cannot
You seem to have done some reading on this: what are your general thoughts on MMT? I’ve read into it some and on the surface it seems kind of far fetched, but I don’t really have the economics background to argue well one way or the other.
> I've got a brand new Kia. The FM radio comes on so fast, it's surprising. Every car I've ever had always has had some sort of warm up time or a splash screen on the infotainment system while it's booting up

They simply never power of the Head Units, even if they go dark. And I am not talking of the constant power feature head units head since forever but the CPU actually doing stuff. Most of the time the satellite data is held fresh to give you an immediate position fix if requested.

If you completely detach it from power you would notice that there is a startup time.
You can definitely expand and shrink a zpool based on mirrors. You can remove top-level vdevs, provided the pool is fine, and expand existing pools by adding new mirrors.
Aluminium has been out of reach for much of history.
that would be ridiculous and it’s a fair interpretation of the grandparent comment, but there’s actually a coherent theory of “mutational load”, which basically says that

1. almost all mutations are bad

2. mutations come together (like if you’re born near chernobyl you’ll have a ton of mutations all over the place, also maybe if your parents are older or if they’re smokers and things like that)

Mutations that make you less attractive could be completely different from mutations that make you less intelligent, but if mutations tend to come in packs then having a lot of mutations in sections of the genome related to attractiveness probably means you have lots of mutations in the sections related to intelligence.
Did they put pre-2000 Ericsson under Sony?
The docs push you in the docker direction, but they also have Laravel Valet which "is a development environment for macOS minimalists": https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/valet

A lot of Laravel devs use Valet instead of Docker.
Diet is now generally low-FODMAP, emphasis on reducing fructose, glucose, and sugar alcohols e.g. sorbitol, erythritol, to which I seem especially sensitive -- this may be atypical among IBS patients.
IBM has been doing massive investments into this space. There are still lots of problems and you can't completely replace things such as specialists.

>refill via e-prescription

No, no, no, absolutely not. This is a horrible idea. IMMEDIATELY, when you let robots prescribe medicine without any human interference, two things will happen:

>Immediate posts on drug forums saying things like "I found out if you give inputs X, Y, and Z, you get a giant prescription for Xanax, Ambien, and Adderall"

>Any small bug can be massively magnified into potentially prescribing the wrong medication to literally MILLIONS of patients

There has to be human involvement at some point in the process.
(Note from the link: that's the requirement to provide fuel for one starship launch every 26 months.)
I appreciate the honesty of the author

> Unfortunately, Elixir isn’t really built for writing code like this. Therefore, using Witchcraft can also result in:

> A certain amount of unnecessary ceremony

> Performance penalties

> Angry stares from people that read your code

The first point really bothers me. I hate writing boilerplate and I would use Haskell (which I don't know) if I really liked that kind of code (and types.)
I was rolling my eyes when I was reading %Algae.Either.Left and Right in the code examples. That's in part because I'm not familiar with those concepts (see point 3) and in part because it lowers the signal to noise ratio.

The second point could be important but generally is not or I'd be using Go, Rust, C++.

The third one does not apply if all the team agreed to use Witchcraft. If they didn't, you'd better stick to plain Elixir or deserve those looks.
A better question is why are hard drives still being assigned drive letters? Multiple "roots" in the file system hierarchy is just plain stupid. You need to special case your path navigation commands for for drive letters. (E.g. cd v/s cd /d). etc.
I was heavily involved with Bitcoin back when the spot price was in the single digits and the goto attack against it was "Only drug addicts and pedos use it!" My day to day involvement dropped off around the time that Wall Street started opening crypto trading desks and agitating for moating regulation - which was predictable but still sad to see... having written forex related software it was mind-blowing to see unregulated exchanges dumping full order book depth over websocket. So I've got a pretty long view on the whole thing, and it has always been my opinion that 99% of all the alt-coins were greed-fueled cash grabs targeting an even greedier and less-intelligent class of people who felt they "missed the boat" at $150, and then $300, $1k, etc. I was actually happy to ignore them for the longest time, until the Bcash airdrop started getting a lot of speculation with regard to the question of it being a taxable event or not. Anyway, a +10 year scam kinda stretches credulity... so no, the broader concept is not a scam. But that said, unless your employer is actually bringing something to the table besides a hard fork of the bitcoin reference source and fancy slide deck - you probably are involved in a destined-to-fail cash grab.
They literally lost 80% of the satellites in the last launch. Given that Elon was telling everyone to work over the holidays, this event reeks of gross incompetence.
>On the contrary, running cable to many of these places would be overwhelmingly environmentally damaging (in many cases you'd have to build a road through a forest or blast through a mountain)

How so? How do this people landed in this place without a road and electricity? Rural homes must have roads to reach the city to buy fuel and food. There are also wireless terrestrial ways to transmit internet too.
> I feel like the invisible degradation of responsiveness in TV and radio is an un-noticed contributor to their decline

In all fairness its partly because of the compression algorithms used like Forward Error Correction FEC and progressive frames vs. immediate frames which simply takes some time to construct an audible / visible representation of the digital data.
What seems most remarkable to me is that we've got a fair amount of anti-free-market vitriol in the replies around here but nobody feels a need to provide any argument or evidence.

The only person waving evidence around in this thread demonstrates that Texas has substantially lower electricity prices than the US average. And the article argues that there are edge cases where the market design could be improved. But I am well aware that the US has a range of regulatory strategies around power and I'm sure people have done detailed, exhaustive comparisons that are of high quality on the effects and outcomes of different regulatory approaches. Surely there are mountains of evidence that could be pointed to here.

Is it to much to ask that the opinions are supported by evidence? Electricity outcomes aren't that complex. The important variables are price, reliability, safety and pollution if you like.

Texas having a power crisis recently just isn't that big a deal for arguing about regulation vs deregulation on either side of the fence. Highly regulated systems also have crisises, regulators aren't perfect and nobody claims they are.
Isn't crypto plagued with the same problems? Sure fiat isn't perfect but it doesn't look like crypto is solving any of those problems, as exemplified here.
You're completely right! Typically you don't care about overflow though (and you should use unsigned ints to avoid undefined behavior).
Starting stopping the mic is expensive (CPU and time wise). I think it's for a more responsive experience, or they just don't care about starting/stopping sessions.

After all, anyone noticing (or caring) that mic on indicator is probably <1%, and I'm obviously talking about the general public, not HN community.
UK.gov to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok
Okay, I think this and the sibling have tipped it. Sounds like Haskell is where I will land and the best place to start branching out. Appreciate you!
Sometime ago I read an article (I don't remember the name or authors, sorry) that argued the problem with the old pre-deregulation vertically integrated utility model wasn't that the utilities were per se inefficient, but rather a form of regulatory capture. Namely the rate of return was fixed by regulation, so the only way to get more profits was by increasing capital investments. So that was what the utilities argued for to the regulators. Combined with the various Public Utility Commissions (PUC's, the bodies that handle the regulation) were more afraid of large-scale blackouts than high prices. So the result was a lot of excess capacity, which yes, increased reliability but also costs borne by the consumers.

When the industry was deregulated, yes customers got to enjoy lower prices, but that wasn't per se due to some supposed higher efficiency of private operators, but because the incentive to overinvest had disappeared and customers were reaping the rewards of previous investments.

Now, however, the chicken is coming home to roost, so to speak, as demand growth, retirements of old plants etc. have caught up with the previous excess capacity, so there is again a need for a cycle of investments. That will need to be paid for in one way or another.
Interestingly, an infinite amount of chances, since signals can wrap around a black hole an arbitrary amount of times - they are just incredibly weak and have to be viewed from the right position!
No it doesn't; if you replace the blind captain with a seeing one.
This as what I was thinking… the game presented no cost or limit to how many bets I could play, so I just chose a small number and mashed the bet button. Greatly reduced chance of bankruptcy, and I will eventually get to whatever target I want if I hit the bet button enough times.

Unless there is a cost to placing a bet, why take any risk at all?
Britian's Private School Problem (2019)
A lot of this makes sense when you realize that modern cars are designed by engineers who take a bus to work.
And occasionally we get a stark reminder that the "impossible" is actually possible but improbable.

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/why-economists-f...
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield wrote about the very same thing in discussing preparations for space flight. Kinda cool. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780316253017
I think press releases say "replace hardware" when often they mean "you have to bring the car in and we're going to flash new firmware".

Sometimes though, firmware can't be flashed by dealers (due to not booting), and then they'll swap the unit, and the old unit will be flashed and given to someone else.

Might be worth hiding an airtag taped to the circuit board!
Really exciting times for those in the illegal DDOS-attack industry. IoT firmware is either updated frequently, which makes it unreliable and bad, or it's updated never, which makes it insanely insecure.
Sensei, a Lightning Node for the Masses
What I've been seeing is companies denying on-shore resources the ability to work from home, letting their developers who think is important roll off to a new organization, and then hiring off-shore to back fill... whom all work remote. It's almost comical at this point when paired with the long list of reasons why on-shore must be in the office. Because nothing says in-person team work than sitting on zoom for 4 hours a day because your team is distributed.
The only number you know there is the 500k… everything else is just a guess.
You summarize a random number of clickbait news headers from the past 60 years. If this is your main source of information, I would seriously reconsider my behavior for collecting and reviewing relevancy and quality of information.
You would probably be at less risk if you continued rock climbing but eschewed driving (or riding in) a car.
Have fun in Thailand! I lived there two years, from 2019-2021. Not exactly the best time frame to experience the country, but it was awesome nonetheless. There is so much to do and see there, and the energy is intoxicating.