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While I appreciate the comments on Eglot vs LSP, the number one package that hangs my system is Gnus. It's still my favourite e-mail client, but I'm cut off from coding for twenty seconds every time I check my e-mail.

Are we really ready to declare that Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen is a substandard Emacs Lisp coder?
I don't get how selling MBS on the market will lower housing prices, housing prices are a result of demand/supply + interest rate affordability, neither of which will be affected by selling MBS' that carry an older lower rate and don't pay out that much. I think it only results in Fed technically losing money.
> As far as I know most industries other than the software industry uses Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Illustrator etc and not any of these open source ones.

There are good arguments on both sides of this issue, but this one (which comes up repeatedly) is not among them. It's absurd to argue that elementary schools should design their curriculum exclusively to train students for the job market.
My kids' last school still sends Word docs out as email attachments. I raised with them the fact that this is not a portable document format, was regularly unreadable on my Mac, and discriminates against the poorer families. Turned out the head mistress' brother works for Microsoft so this didn't go down well.
"This Briefing looks at calls to extend the Gambling Act to loot boxes."
I was kind of hoping this was updated Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu. That was my favorite C++ book and at least I thought it didn't use the STL in Loki at all. It was the better templating design though heavily at the mercy of compilers at the time.
I expect that people will still write software because it needed and pays well. However, the jobs that people get paid to do could become rather different.

Consider what happens in a war. The people working on drones aren't just hobbyists, they're part of the war effort. Wars are not good for the environment, either.

So my guess is that, if it gets really bad, these jobs will focus more on short-term needs. Are people who are really focused on preparing for heat waves and drought and flooding going to give a hoot about being carbon neutral? An overloaded hospital is going to focus on the patients, not global environmental issues.
I wish there were a matchmaking system and ELO ratings. It's hard to find friends whose schedule match yours to play games and want to play the same games as you do.
I live in the land of Raspberry Pi but the local school wants iPads and windows laptops. What can you do? A lot of people just aren't interested in computers and if there's one little disadvantage they are happy enough to not have anything. The stupid educational websites they like don't all work perfectly with RPi so "bzzzt". Next.
Going to be that person but an article named "a decade of dotfiles" has nothing to do with dotfiles. The first sentence says "My first commit to my dotfiles repository was ten years ago" and then the entire rest of the article has nothing to do with "dotfiles" whatsoever.

And then nearly all of the comments are actually about the title, not about the article itself.
> What's expensive is infrastructure.

Seems to be the case:

> In 2011-2015 the Warsaw-Gdańsk-Gdynia route underwent a major upgrading costing $3 billion, partly funded by the European Investment Bank, including track replacement, realignment of curves and relocation of sections of track to allow speeds up to 200 km/h (124 mph), and modernization of stations.

Note it was an "upgrading" of existing tracks.
I Put Apache Superset to Mac App Store
I’m a heavy user and also a code contributor to Apache Superset. Running Superset on my MacBook is the only reason to have a Docker(still a VM inside?) installed which I think is too heavy.

Superset puts most heavy work onto the database side, I thought there might be some possibility to have a Superset.app to make it easier to use Superset on my MacBook.

Here is how I did that https://link.medium.com/7VbBoyRYpqb

And also the SuperChart in MacAppStore https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1620737264?pt=124743961&ct=redditds&mt=8
Kids are all going to catch those viruses eventually. Might as well get it over with.
An underrated use case for this would be for storage of sensitive information. Information stored on a non volatile device is difficult to erase (Format NVM/ATA Secure require power cycle, hard drives require time to actually wile). Even if the data is encrypted, it is vulnerable to xkcd's "rubber hose decryption".

With DRAM, the storage media itself is fairly volatile and power removal/memory content initialization should be much faster.
This was good advice in 1700's Kirkcaldy. Doesn't work so well in a globalized marketplace and with products where by the time a defect has manifested, the vendor is long gone.
Yes, that's why IT admins in public funded institutions need to be told the standard they are to follow, 80% of the "internet" runs on linux, and GUIs have filled pretty much all gaps, drivers aren't the nightmare it was 20y ago.

Open source even if causing problems that dont exist with commercial solutions is worth it overall. Plus, linux support licences do exist.
Intel CEO Expects Chip Shortage to Persist Through 2024
Depends on the machine. Waitrose in the UK have some that don't weigh stuff. You just scan some items, touch your card and go.
I walk past a big box gym and a specialty gym (climbing) regularly. The big box gym has had a lot less of the "return to normal" but the specialty gym is packed.

Part of it may be due to economic changes, people less likely to forgo their specialty workout/activity/hobby but would skip their routine cardio sessions, people who splurged on their own home equipment, or those who tried cardio outside in 2020 and stuck to it.

I wonder if we'll see another bump in gym bankruptcies or closures, after the initial one from the pandemic.
Firearm deaths and vehicle deaths, particularly vehicles killing pedestrians, both are more likely to befall poor people, which is correlated with certain ethnic groups in the US. Though a well-designed city is nearly the safest you can be in terms of places to walk.
I need a term for this common conceptual error that I see folks in the software space make... One that I've made many times. It's like the inverse of smartest person in the room syndrome... It's the reasoning error where you believe that most people, or even the median person, is its competent at a skill you care passionately about as you are, because you've been doing it so long you forgotten how legitimately hard it is.

Most schools do not have the financial resources to hire a system administrator who can maintain an open-source architecture or the technical shops in house to maintain one themselves. From their point of view, the freedom and flexibility granted by an open source framework is a cost, not a benefit. It means there's no right answer to how to do it, so when they screw up (and they inevitably will screw up regardless of what infrastructure they use), they don't have a standard, closed source architecture to point to to shift blame.

From their point of view, closed source versus open source is irrelevant because the two are equivalently opaque to them.

Given all of that, there is probably meat on the bones for a company that chooses to use a fully open source stack to build solutions for schools, and the schools willing to invest in the resources to do the work in the house will be able to grow from that open source solution to when they maintain. But that does put the company who goes that road at the disadvantage of every customer being a potential competitor in the future...
> I'm sure there will be a lot of school sysadmins reading this

Hard to read when convulsing in the fetal position.
> They mostly prefer commercial software with paid support.

But there's commercial free software with paid support.
I've had enough bad Uber drivers to know that reliability isn't guaranteed.
Well, I give that 1000hPa doesn't roll as easy of the tongue as one bar at first, but I got used to it over the course of the last quarter century ;-}

Is there actually a common alternative to hectare (outside US) for land area?
It's very simple, a basic NixOS config like https://paste2.org/E5IUKfs9 built with

nix-build '<nixpkgs/nixos>' -A config.system.build.isoImage \
-I nixos-config=iso.nix

you can add anything else, for instance X config for interactive usage, perhaps with the same (nearly) EXWM used normally etc. Nix language is obscene but making iso is awesome easy, just a matter of download and build time.
This is probably true at the level of corporations, but not clearly the case at the level of countries. An interesting paper on the economics of geoengineering, if you’re curious: https://www.nber.org/papers/w18622
pretty much all of that should be part of any reasonable CS degree

was certainly part of mine, and mine was more theoretical than most

(I certainly remember peering through datasheets of various obscure TI chips during afternoon labs)
I worked for a time as a substitute teacher in a school system where the kids were given individual Chromebooks beginning in middle school. Many staff expressed concerns over the privacy implications of having a cloud-tied indenty from such a young age.

This was also a school who won an award for it's cyber security. More than once I found full student rosters with username/password printed out sitting on the teacher's desk.

I suppose this is a different rant than school's should use FOSS. I don't think schools should impose a digital footprint on their very young as students.

I have no children and no longer work in education.
Yes I think this is the key insight: if you have two technologies that will solve your problem, both reasonably popular and actively developed, the one that is ten years old is far more likely to still be actively developed in another ten years than one that is one year old.

You're using survivorship bias in your favour.
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How is it insanely extreme ? Except if we are lucky and there is a Deus ex machina that saves us (which by definition is unpredictable), this is the current trajectory
I was fully with you up until the final couple sentences. Anyone who's been in a gym knows it's not a sterile place. Again anecdotally people I have met specifically from going to the gym would go while mildly sick 100%. Justified with some variation of "just power through".

If you're healthy moderate exposure to pathogens can definitely boost your own immune system response. The impact of hosting those pathogens is one of the talking points COVID brought up that I think will be around for a long time.
In a way, most of my favorite pieces of software are not that. MediaMonkey 4, Ynab classic both stopped getting updates, DirectoryOpus has only been getting fixes and scripting additions for years. Yet they are my favorites and better (ynab, MM) than their successors.

The service part seems more like greed than something I want (in many cases, certainty not all)
> Nobody is using GIMP in the graphic design world.

This statement is false. In my company it is used all the time for any image manipulations, by both graphic designers and managers. Last time I've seen photoshop was maybe in 2007 or so.
https://sachachua.com/blog/category/blogging/
Agreed. The Great Filter theory has weak assumptions that a) all ”living” systems evolve in a similar way as the biological systems on earth, and b) that this evolution ”advances” somehow towards space expansion.

Our biological lenses make it seem like the complex system we call ”life” is the only similarly complex system that is possible in the entire universe.
Yes, but being able to use Gimp isn't going to help your career and being able to use Photoshop is.
dot files, configs and hosts are now managed in ansible.

First solution a decade ago was to have a git repo and dotfiles were linked directly into the working dir. This was nuts. The dots were changed immediately, when checking out other branches. And slight differences between hosts were not easily manageable. A branch per host was not a solution.

I learned from those mistakes and wrote an installer script for that repo which copied/rsynced files from repo into ~

Still, slight changes between hosts were not easily manageable and I was thinking about a templating mechanism... but then ansible became a thing which I happily adopted.

Might be too much for most users, but it helps me managing many machines.
Most bridge designing is reasonably staid (not as much as buildings, but not as neophilic as software by a huge margin). But some bridges get very unusual designs, either by necessity or aesthetic reasons, and the people that can design those command a high price premium for their work.
> > Photoshop. Illustrator. Why are these the first applications used for image editing and creation?

> Because they're bloody good (well, Photoshop is). And Gimp isn't.

Imagine you're teaching people carpentry. There is a really nice automatic screw gun that accepts a cartridge of screws all lined up automatically so each one loads in place after the last one. It is super easy to use and people can get straight to fastening beams together. But the device is very expensive, and they cannot be repaired if they break, and the screw cartridges require a monthly plan where they will send you screws even if you still have plenty from last month, with a chip to make sure the screws won't feed from last month.

Now compared to a boring battery operated drill, where the user has to gasp place each screw on the drill bit by hand, these fancy automatic screw feeding drills seem WAY BETTER! Surely the person can make better buildings with the fancy screw gun right? And we want them to make the best buildings possible right?

Well the boring drill has user serviceable parts. Everything can be removed and replaced if needed. There are no control chips to stop it working. You don't have to pay every month for anything. And placing each screw on the bit by hand is fine, it's what everyone did ten years ago and those buildings are all still standing. Heck you're standing in one of those buildings right now!

So maybe we should teach the students how to use tools that work without all this extra cost and nonsense. It's really a minor difference, since the point isn't to use the fanciest possible tool, but to teach them how to build buildings in a way that they can always take with them everywhere they go. And after they graduate school, they're not going to want to pay every month for one of those fancy drills!
> No amount of solar/wind farms will make sun shine in Europe at night

Wind farms don't need to make the sun shine at night, they just need to make the wind blow at night. So far they have managed to achieve that quite well.

More seriously, the amount of solar/wind farms you need is just enough to charge (home/car/grid) batteries during the day with the amount of energy that you will lack during the night. Fortunately energy requirements at night are lower than during the day, and the wind keeps blowing, so you might not even need batteries at all most nights, and could get away with just a 2x factor of wind farm over-construction.

> shine sufficiently in winter (when energy needs are the greatest)

Yes, this is the real problem. In the winter there are is greater demand and less supply; windless days become much more significant; and batteries can't store summer energy to be used in winter. For this, you do need more like 5x over-construction, perhaps combined with things like biofuels or atmospheric carbon capture using the excess energy during the summer.
Like imagine if Microsoft just stopped supporting all their products though.
Sure, but that doesn't mean it has to come first in a degree.

In any case, you've shifted the goal posts from:

> the sense that degrees have softened their content density is palpable.

Having low level content come later isn't "softened content density".
Documentation substantially longer than the implementation can mean the abstraction/interface is more complex than simply reimplementing for a specific use case would have been.

Sometimes you want a library anyway in these circumstances though, since the expertise required for the short implementation might be significant.
While I fully agree that the name is terrible (maybe we should start open sourcing product names?), the name is “Xournal++”, not “Xournalpp++”. The title here is wrong.
The glossed over Great Filter is space is fucking huge and physics is mean.

It takes a great effort to get a coherent radio signal to hit a system many light years away. Leaked radio emissions just don't reach very far. Even high powered radar is extremely narrow beams coming from a spinning planet orbiting a star that itself is flying through space. The odds that beam crosses some system specifically listening for it is extremely low and the odds of a reoccurrence is ridiculously low.

The dark forest just doesn't make sense. A sufficiently large telescope can get spectra from terrestrial planets. If you have some killer space fleet you'll send it off to any planet where you find short-lived industrial emissions (CFCs etc). There's no need to wait for radio emissions from a planet with biomarkers. It also presumes its practical to send a space fleet to go destroy anyone.

It's far more likely the odds of any two technological civilizations existing at the same "time" at detectable ranges is extremely low. Species also don't tend to take over galaxies because it requires unattainable amounts of power and resources much better used to live happily in their own little corner.
Out of curiosity, who is the provider?
yes. Texas and Florida have the highest gun deaths in the country.
MDMA for PTSD
Only being half serious of course ('taking the piss' being an accurate euphemism here), but if you think Scorpion Capital are wrong, you can always take the opposite position. You could even publish a better document rebutting their claims and calling them out.

The question is: how much money you're willing to bet that they're wrong?
I was an IT manager in a school (not any more), and was asked by a parent why I wasn’t using Linux everywhere.

Our Microsoft licensing cost £1000 per year, and our MSP cost about £10,000 for remote support and a weekly onsite.

Using Linux, our licensing cost would have gone, and maybe we’d have gotten another year or two from desktop hardware, but our support costs would have increased massively - I couldn’t find a local msp who’d do desktop Linux support the same way we were getting. not to mention all the training for teachers, and the nightmare of finding replacements for things like smart notebook, custom assessment software, and windows only curriculum software.

Biggest headache would have been the teachers. Some of them found windows 10 too difficult to use, and pushing them onto Linux would have needed a full time techie on hand.

linux is better is not always the case.
From the literature I’ve read, that doesn’t seem right. If we cut all emissions to zero by 2050, total temperature rise would be more like 2C afaik.
> Can you imagine her telling other Russians to stay there, you are a pariah here

That's exactly the point. If life continues as normal for the Russian people then they'll never pressure their Government to stop the Ukraine invasion.

They don't get a pass just because they ran away to another country. As a Russian citizen they need to take responsibility for their Government, they don't get to pretend like nothing is happening while people are being slaughtered.
Yeah, Amazon is terrible about this. It claims that it must have had the user confirm the purchase, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t. I order from Amazon about once a year, and the last time I did, they ran the, “Would you also like to sign up for Prime while making this order?” scam on me. I hit the button and immediately realized what I had done. I hit the back button before the next page loaded, but it was too late. I already had an email saying I had signed up without confirming anything or agreeing to any terms of service. Luckily I only had to go through about 3-5 pages of “Are you really sure you want to cancel?” And “how about we just suspend the service but don’t cancel it,” before I was allowed to cancel it. This company is disgusting.
I agree with these examples, but to avoid taking the principle too far: EBIDTA was once a made up metric. Sometimes new views of a system do enrich our understanding.

Check the "John Malone and the Invention of EBITDA" section in this post for the story of how it was created: https://commoncog.com/blog/cash-flow-games/
Let's don't be too credulous about the polling performed by the bill's supporters. What would be the "pro right to repair" fraction if it were posed as a tradeoff between repairability and a slightly higher retail price?

In my personal opinion the "security lock" language of this bill is dangerously vague, and the benefits it offers in terms of third-party repair are worth almost nothing to me, so I opposed the bill.
I don't have experience with Office 365, but GSuite has been transformative. I never want to go back to mailing files around. Furthermore, while you'll always have power users who need Excel or Word for some reason, in general, GSuite for me has pretty much everything I need and it's far more streamlined. It's very rare that I want to do something--other than when I need to exchange Word files--that I can't do with Google (and even then I can usually work around it).
So like Sidewalk...
I guess nobody really wants to solve this problem. Number of responses on this thread shows truly how many people truly care about gun violence and mass shootings.

If not enough majority people care to fix this issue then it will be part of life and just need to learn to live with it. Just like being careful and defensive driver while driving on road.
The only compelling point was reducing hardware costs. Even then, it showed how out of touch this guy is.

Having a school system transition to raspberry pi’s sounds like a capped nightmare.
Good thank you, these are very helpful!
This person is totally out of touch with reality.

I do agree, however, that public entities should lean on open-source software where possible. It's our tax money that's paying for all those licenses. I see no point in govt agencies requiring windows licenses when most of the work can be done through the Office suite in a web browser.
>unreadable on my Mac

>discriminates against poorer families

I agree just funny.

I'd argue PDF is equally problematic as it is often designed for A4 paper format, and this not easily readable on mobile devices, which poorer families are more likely to have as main computing device.
> This whole conversation is pretty pointless

Couldn’t agree more. Knew I should have backed away after my first post in this tree, the only one I stand 100% behind out of context of the rest of the replies around it.
The Downside of Hustle Culture
New macOS has dropped Python, how did you solve that?
The best there is IMO: https://skimfeed.com/

High density, compact and loads fast.
> Plus, linux support licences do exist.

I would much rather RH, SUSE, Canonical, Zorin, Elementary, or any other FL/OSS company get those contracts than Microsoft or Apple.

Business runs on Windows because schools run on Windows.
This is incomplete information. Shares will be limited in what context? Employee option pool, this round, ect.

As far as I know, early-stage companies don't put an upper cap on the number of shares that can exist in the future. Is this some sort of crypto company?
On older arcs there is also a cost for casting int to float. Not like float to int but anyway.

The general advice when I worked with CG was to use deltas in iterations.