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Yes and if RMS doesn't like Apple Computers he doesn't have to use them. It's not his business if I decide Apple Computers are acceptable to me.
> You can't take passengers in a bike.

Mostly true, though plenty of bikes can haul 1-2 kids or 1 extra adult. There is a guy in my neighborhood I see take his kids to school every day in one of these.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20791435/radwagon-electric...

> You can't transport large or bulky items.

Cargo bikes or bike trailers are extremely nice in flat cities, and even in hilly cities, e-bikes make them feasible. I routinely haul 100lbs up hills in Seattle with a trailer behind an e-bike.

Here's an article by (admittedly a bit of a bike fanatic) about hauling patio sets, stoves, grills, etc.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2014/06/23/how-to-carry-majo...

> You can't safely store things

This is a good point and I think your observation about how it's overlooked is important. Going on multi-store trips in a bike is mildly annoying since you often have to take what you got from one store into the next store because you can't leave it on your bike.

> Cars are faster if you are going more than about a mile - even including parking.

This is highly dependent on the city you're in. In Seattle, bike is, by far, the fastest way for me to commute. My commute is 6 miles (West Seattle to Downtown). Biking, door-to-door, is 25 minutes. It's 35 minutes by bus or car. This is because a large chunk of the trip is on a dedicated use bike trail without stop lights or traffic.

> You can't ride a bike in bad weather

Amsterdam has pretty bad weather (it rains 50% of days of the year), yet somehow they have extremely high cycling rates. For me (in Seattle, also lots of rain), the game changer was getting a proper bike poncho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLM_mTUuHlc

I agree that a torrential downpour like what you might get in the midwest is not realistic to cycle in. But for light to medium rain, the poncho punches above its weight.

> snow is impossible

They make it work in Finland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

> If you live in a place with hills, bikes are just not practical.

Seattle and SF are both quite hilly, yet both have among the highest rates of cycle usage. This is a barrier for those starting from a low level of fitness, though. And even for otherwise fit people, it takes a few weeks for your legs to adjust to the new movement pattern.

E-bikes make hills trivial, though, which is why they are exploding in popularity (in Seattle at least).

> Bumps in the road, potholes, etc, are very dangerous in a bike.

Agreed. This is one of the reasons it's so important to have dedicated bike infrastructure. Road damage is proportional to the 4th power (!!) of a vehicle's weight. So cyclist infrastructure, once built, degrades extremely slowly compared to car infrastructure.
The idea of giving random parties immunity from civil action for maximizing interoperability is downright dystopian. The direct effect would be something akin to an open access version of Facebook's API preventing lawsuits over another data breach like Cambridge Analytica.

The entire article seems to border on ignoring the idea that we have data in silos that we want to be protected by more than just user permission to access that data. Especially when users can give those permissions to various parties who undergo changes of ownership.

Open access is not as straightforward in the current web as it was before big data. This article did nothing to reassure me that those who believe in access have any sort of realistic plan for data privacy. Facebook is not an actor I want to trust with data and as a result I put very little data on it. But I trust the random apps made through their API by borderline unknown developers far less. I don't think someone getting access to data I have set to either friends of friends or friends because they played a quiz game is something I want an endless expansion of.
So computer science is wrong and you are right?
In the case of the SVG editor I'd really like something that round-trips to and from SVG that looks nice in a text editor.

In a case like that it should "snap-to-grid" on the last decimal place of the number that's being edited, maybe the grid should even be displayed on the screen. That grid might be rotated or skewed because of coordinate transforms, and there ought to be some way to add another digit worth of fineness if not a factor of 2 or 5.
It's great to see the follow up piece! I enjoyed the read, and I think many others will too.
leettooth lol
I'm pretty sure 2.0 C cables are entirely legal by the standard.

Unlike charge-only cables...
The T series went to shit around the T480. They’re just crap now.
Why do so many people feel the need to make excuses for him? No, I don't think the onus is on him to personally fix all software he uses, but I do think making sure that his big "The state of the Free Software movement" talk should be a tiny bit more slick and tested than a rushed college freshmen tech demo from the early 90's which is about where I would put the whole thing I watched then mostly listened to...
I don't want to say tough cookies, but if OPs characterization isn't hyperbole("the lion's share of our operational costs are from needing to scale to handle the huge amount of bot traffic."), then it can be a situation where you have to choose between 1) cut off a huge chunk of bots, but upset a tiny percent of users, and improve the service for everyone else, or 2) simply not provide the service at all due to costs.
Big A Agile is what happened after management consultants got hold of little a agile and its manifesto.

Now people get certifications in scrum dogma and claim we have to follow the one true way. Now it's entirely about managing people instead of about satisfying customers. That's why a bunch of folks left years ago to work on development as craft.
It is extremely funny that people are able to come to conclusions like this from just 2 data points.

"Macbooks seem to be the only viable option these days", because I had bad experiences with two non-Macbook computers.

To be fair; I don't think that the author came to that conclusion only from those 2 anecdotes. But still, that is the way the argument is presented. And it really looks absurd.
Perhaps it is a strange take, but LtU seemed a lot more relevant to programming in general earlier in the millenia when the programming language question was less settled. From what I remember the really hot discussions were around things like closures, generic programming, dynamic typing, etc. Lots of new and potentially relevant languages were emerging so there was just more tumult in general, and a lot more interest in language features amongst generalists.

Perhaps my biases though: maybe there was some other reason why LtU ended up getting a lot quieter.
For (2): Whatever you've one made available, is available. You lose control once you make it available. You can ask nicely not to do certain things with what you divulge, but you cannot enforce it.

So yes, as long as grandma has access to my pictures, it's fair use for her to collect them. Republishing them to a wider circle than originally posted is a different matter.

This is the reason I only post online such things which I can repeat under oath, or see posted on the busiest crossing.
I don't believe this.

I believe he built huge amounts of wealth because he's something like "genetically predisposed to"; he's not different from other billionaires, who I think have something like a mental defect that encourages them to rack up their score as high as possible.

It's just that he has more interesting hobbies (Space, EV, whatever) than the rest of them; but for any move he makes, first ask -- does this look like part of a play to just gain more money? And 9 times out of 10 the answer is yes.
No official document, not even the Constitution, can be a final authority on what a nation is. That's just the official definition.

Many scholars, politicians, and citizens, even excluding people outside of the Overton window, describe Spain as containing several nations. At the very least Catalonia, the Basque Country / Euskal Herria, and Galicia are widely (but not unanimously) considered to have the historic, cultural, social characteristics that would make them nations. The spanish constitution is a document of compromise, born of a very special time in history; whatever it says about what Spain is, we don't have to accept it.

(Biases disclaimer: I'm Spanish, specifically castilian; I don't support Catalonian independence, and I dislike all nationalisms; all nations are more like big balls of wibbly wobbly... nation-y wimey... stuff)

This piece of news doesn't yet show up on the spanish newspapers I trust; I'm really curious to see if it makes the news. I'll be extremely concern if, as I fear, if doesn't.
> Trying to do a good job and finding interest in what I do is at least in part a self-defense mechanism

This. Gamification, but for real prizes.
Mine still won't even wake from sleep, and will freeze all inputs if it sits even slightly unevenly.

The Framework is a beta product, at best. If you know that and are up for the challenge, go for it, but if you want something you're not going to have to fiddle with every time you want to do anything on it, pick something else.
It makes sense to have a tax authority to fill out their own tax forms. I don't think it makes any sense to have what amounts to a nationalized TurboTax that interprets tax laws outside of their own jurisdiction.

States' tax laws are not just federal taxes on a different form. They're independent tax systems with different legislation and different judiciary. Maybe in some states the tax code is simple enough that it can be filled entirely from information on your federal taxes, but this is often not the case.
This sounds suspiciously like writing an article coining a new virtue called “seriousness” and defining it as “doing all the things I agree with and none of the things I don’t agree with”
GitPod uses vscode, and vscode uses monaco. Monaco is very mobile unfriendly.
No it has a decent CLI half baked in with a number of weird ass exceptions that punch you in the face regularly.

Better to scrap it and run a proper Debian box inside a hyper-v VM I found.

Or do what I did and drop kick the steaming Dell turd out of a window and buy a mac.
So Twitter is a publisher? So Section 230 ought not apply to them?
I can get not how this might get lost if you are looking at it from outside the industry. Realistically, Planet should be in the business of selling pixels in mass. However, Planet has decided that isn't enough for them, they want more of the value add. This is built into their licencing/ ToS. However, their black box analytic solutions simply aren't good enough. They never have been and if they arent willing to give you a full chain of custody of every assumption a given algorithm uses, it never will be. Any solution that isn't completely translucent isn't good enough.

If they wanted to be crushing it, lower the cost/ barrier to entry on the pixels themselves. Get it out into peoples hands and use more open, easier to build on licenses. Let people actually use the data.

I've been on the other side of 5 failed attempts to work with Planet at large, medium, non-profit and startup scale projects, as early as 2016 and as late as 2021. They just don't get it. If your data isn't easy to use, I wont. If your license is going to prevent me from building what I need to from that data, I wont use it.
Look, when a job req goes out and it says "experience with Agile development methodologies" what it means is "experience doing Scrum with Jira". The Manifesto has sweet fuck all to do with what is meant when companies say Agile.
> First, Musk did acquire 9.1% of the company secretly, in the open market, paying prices in the high $30s to get a start on his takeover without paying a control premium. Crucially, he seems to have done some of this acquiring illegally: He was required by law to disclose his ownership stake, and probably his intention to take over the company, by March 24, but he waited until April 4 to make that disclosure, and claimed to be a passive investor when he finally did. This delay allowed him to buy an extra 13 million shares at lower prices, saving him (and costing shareholders) on the order of $140 million.

> The consensus seems to be that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission can’t do much about this, and while there is a shareholder lawsuit about it already, it’s not clear that that will accomplish much either. Sometimes companies will ask courts to “sterilize” an acquirer’s shares, preventing him from voting them, if he acquired them in violation of the disclosure rules, but those requests don’t have much success. Basically Musk seems to have broken the law to buy his shares, but no one can do much about it.

This just absolutely short-circuits my mind. How is it possible to say "Yeah, he robbed the bank in broad daylight, but there's nothing we can do about it."
Much of the usage of the term Agile now refers to Scrum which took Agile and made it into something digestible mb large corporations and business people and made it easily sellable and reproducible. It's a corruption of Agile. Even the term "sprint" makes me angry. We aren't sprinting! This isn't even a marathon! We are running forever and I want to run fast forever, not sprint and burn out after a short time.
If you're doing work for financial compensation such as wages or equity then legally you're either an employee or a contractor. Calling that relationship by some other label doesn't change reality.

It's totally possible to found a B Corporation with a charter that formally gives decision making rights to stakeholders other than shareholders. Many such corps exist and anyone could found one as a competitor to Twitter. However this structure makes it more difficult to attract capital from outside investors.

https://hbr.org/2016/06/why-companies-are-becoming-b-corpora...
In fairness, that third paragraph is pretty typical (horrifying) web UX these days, not something unique to Intuit or tax software. Let me open subsections in a new tab, FFS!
I switched to fastmail a couple of years ago from google and quite like it. I even switched some other people in my family too.
Low as it may be, it seems like an unreasonable risk, given the recent advancements in pilotless (and remotely piloted) aircraft.
Maybe I'm too cynical but I really don't think Elon is doing this for some high minded free speech principles.

> He's got the $40 billion to spare

He really doesn't though, which is part of why I think this is all a big joke. The vast majority of his fortune is tied up in his ownership of several companies. The Tesla shares are the most liquid, but he's already borrowing a lot against them.

Is he really going to sell a large portion of his SpaceX or Tesla ownership to fund a Twitter lark? I doubt it.

No institutional investor is going to commit billions of dollars to an investment that is explicitly not about making money. The only way he raises third party money for the purchase is if those investors understand that Elon is lying.

> Musk isn't worried about losing the money, which means he can act out of principles rather than fear.

Musk talks a lot about pursuing projects out of principle rather than for profit, while his actions have lead to becoming the richest person in the world. Color me jaded, but I don't think one becomes
the richest person in the world without trying really hard to make money. Disguising it as magnanimous behavior only helps.
What stops this on Mac?
For all the reflexive "born that way" rhetoric, the same people are terrified of this kind of thing. Tendencies, correlations ... I've often found that these sorts of people are comfortable only with three integers of correlation: One, zero, and negative one.
Ubuntu has run well on all laptops I have owned so far. I am amazed of high quality software that Linux distributions offer for free.

I am not going to use a closed source black box OS from Apple, with the possibility of remote surveillance of my device whenever the company or governments want.
What has been said so often on HN, AGILE started as a great tool that turned into a cult with no knowledge of why the things being used were being used. Its terminology and practices became mysticism and ritual, with common sense thrown to the wayside.

There are exceptions, but in far too many companies AGILE has become a religion that slows the workforce down with high priests who insist that their ritualistic practices be followed and their tithes be paid =[
This is typically because they have timed out engines, are due for major inspections, or require expensive mandatory modifications such as RVSM or hushkits. That said, I know someone who purchased an original Lear 24 in the low 6 figures that needed everything. He spent more than 1M, but less than 2M on overhauled and hushkitted engines, overhauling and refinishing the airframe, major avionics update including ADS-B and RVSM, and other upgrades, and now had a machine that can FAR outperform an Eclipse 550 at lower cost. https://www.newunitedgoderich.com/projects/bombardier-learje...
Maybe a single-user install of Nix Package Manager with a custom prefix in your home directory? Not sure if that breaks things or not
Sigh.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-...
I have anecdata that there were people who raised those exact concerns in those exact companies and were brushed off. If the companies were honestly surprised, it's because they purposely turned a deaf ear to the problem for the sake of greater revenue. But nothing really happened to those companies, so maybe it was ultimately a strategy that worked?
> I'll argue those people need a reality check based on how things work in every other profession.

Unfortunately, at least in my recent London experience, those people tend to be the ones having the yay/nay in hiring decisions.
Sounds like a genuinely very impressive setup.
Haha that second paragraph was great.

Says at the end of the video “Music - Kyo Ichinose” but I didn’t have much luck hunting down the actual track.
Maybe when System76 starts manufacturing their own systems I'll be interested. I don't want a rebranded Clevo.
I agree, the new title is way better. To whoever changed it: thanks!
But false stories of Russian collusion weren’t censored.
I do think it is important to play nice in politics. So if you have criticisms of RMS' stand on software, make them.

That's the issue. Stallman's technical contributions and early political contributions were both foundational and heroic. That does not negate the fact that for the better part of two decades he's been a constant embarrassment that continuously degrades the movement in the eyes of anyone who hasn't developed a tolerance for him. Evangelizing free software was comparatively easy in the days when peoples' reaction to his name was "Haha, that guy who ate stuff off his foot on stage? Wild." It's gotten considerably harder now that the reaction is "wait, the guy who wrote those pedophile emails and harasses women at conferences?"

I'm tired of trying to advocate for free software when just the name "Free Software Foundation" is a conversational liability.
A new group of people who will transition to the IOT devices which can be bought and quickly replaced with open source firmware like Tasmota. Then never give direct access to the cloud. Coordinate and control with OpenHab or Home Assistant as mentioned in the story, though not necessary.
You should try the app. it's great!
I have a first letter/common last name gmail address that I have had since gmail was invite only. No matter how well I manage spam, there are idiots around the country with my same last name that use my email address for every service they have. I have amassed countless bank statements, credit card logins, cable/tv bills, along with all the spam that comes with it. My gmail account is basically useless at this point.
Dell XPS is (or was) their high end gaming line. For features and quality you want the Dell Precision line.
Harden is right that such assertions are controversial, but they’re nothing new. The idea of a biological hierarchy of intelligence arose alongside the first theories of human evolution. It never goes away when discredited, just changes forms. In 1810, a year after the publication of the first modern evolutionary theory, two German doctors, Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Kaspar Spurzheim, inaugurated the science of phrenology by asserting that the parts of a person’s brain reflected, by their sizes, the degrees of the person’s mental powers, and that one could evaluate these by examining the shape of the skull.

Such research was not debunked/discredited. It became politically incorrect and largely stopped. There is a positive correlation, around .4, between head size, brain volume and IQ. Same for even the shape of the head corelating with IQ to some extent based on studies outside of the US.
Go count how many Windows desktop features were widely used on Linux first.
Sounds like Samsung dex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_DeX

> Then if I do want a laptop I could buy a chassis with a battery, keyboard, trackpad, screen, etc, etc to dock my device above in to.

https://nexdock.com/samsung-dex-laptop/

I've never used either (but I'd like to)
Do you know if there's a way to rate limit logged-in users differently than visitors of a site?
Dell XPS are absolute garbage. I had one and it had thermal problems galore and was clearly made of any old shit that was the lowest bidder frankensteined into whatever config they could ship. We had a few of the same spec and model and they had different RAM and SSDs in them.

The really annoying thing is that they tried so hard to replicate the MacBook packaging experience. This failed miserably when it wouldn’t come out of the box because the vacuum forming was wrong.

Shows how much QA goes into a product if they can’t actually not fuck up the box.
I had a similar experience. Mainly wanted to do stuff with R and LaTeX, and doing workarounds to view plots gets tired fast. Didn't help that my Mac Mini I was connecting to would often lose WiFi but not auto-reconnect (no wired option where I was living at the time). What's super depressing is my $80 Kindle Fire is a more capable device thanks to Termux+X11 server despite being multitudes slower as you can do everything on the device.
You can build your own processes around Agile principles. As long as you don't carve the processes in stone and revisit them you still can be Agile.
I can understand seeking to improve your lot over the next couple years.

But I encourage you to think instead about the next 20+ years.

What would make you a valuable contributor in that time frame? Much, much more education. Self-taught/experience along might have worked in 1980's-90's, but 2035 will demand deep training and initiative.

So don't just do your future self a favor; make a life-changing commitment.

If it seems not financially feasible, or you don't actually know what you want, just realize: (1) the longer you wait, the worse it gets (and the more confused you are); and (2) when you make that commitment, you'll start to put everything else into place. The commitment is the hardest part.

What might get you off the fence? Think of the coolest thing you want to see in the future, and work towards that.
What I find funny is that low level support at Google can't do anything at all to help you, unless it's a low level Google Ads rep. Then they ask for carte blanche access to make any and all changes to your Ads account to 'help you'.

It all comes down to which direction, and how much, the money is flowing with them.
I gave up on PCs because of all the crap-ware that always comes loaded on these machines. Yes, Apple more or less forces you to do things a specific way but that's better than spending 2 days uninstalling bloatware on a brand new machine and then still having to fight with "management engines" that slow down the laptop while also being impossible to remove.