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>Linux doesn't inspire anyone to create new end-user apps

I'm not really convinced there are more worthwhile apps on Windows / Mac, except for the usual big players. (office, photoshop, etc) I'm sure there are some edge cases here, but for normal users it's not clear this is an issue. Most just use a web browser. They might not even make much use of a file manager.

I'm not suggesting that the application situation is perfect on Linux, but it just seems to be bad everywhere. It seems like simple, single-purpose apps are disappearing, and are being replaced by a constantly-changing sea of noise. Is App "X" a good app? Maybe it was a few years ago but the developer tried to monetize it and ruined the app with ads / extraneous features / countless UI redesigns, etc.

It's gotten to the point where the static nature of Linux apps is a feature. Rhythmbox is far from a perfect music player, but one of the things it's got over it's major competitors is that it's lightweight and hasn't changed in years. I don't need to constantly re-learn something basic just because an application developer wanted to make his mark and shake up the UI or features of the application. It's flawed, but I can rely on it because it doesn't change very often.
Yes I don’t get the Year of Linux Desktop saying. I am born and bred Windows user, but I dual boot Ubuntu for some coding work and find it very pleasing to use. And a lot faster for bread and butter terminal stuff.
Redesigning Google's Teachable Machine
This is like when I scratched my new monitor right after buying it.

Except the monitor costs 10 billion dollars.
I have the same one and am now in year 4 of my first book. I started it because I have a hard time remembering what I've done and it's fun to be able to read the entries from the last years before you write a new entry.
He had points that makes sense, living in matrix sure beats Zion.

IIRC in the last matrix movie there were humans that picked matrix over zion (might be wrong, it was such a firgettable movie)
I agree with your overall point completely. But:

> Flatpak itself finally makes it much easier to deploy desktop applications

I don't really see how this is at all an improvement over just updating all your software via a a package manager. One command to update everything from a trusted source. What does flatpak do to improve upon this?
Whether someone gets a correct answer with a code challenge should only be a single factor in hiring. You should also look at how the attempt to solve the problem. Do they ask further questions? Do they talk it out?

There’s probably other factors I cannot think of too.
This is a gorgeous video on the Leech lattice by Fields medalist Richard Borcherds and animated by Lyam Boylan.

Apart from its intrinsic interest, this video demonstrates a very fruitful kind of collaboration between professional mathematicians and video editing experts/developers to create popularized math content.
I read all of Asimov before age 12. Good old multivac.
Wouldn't you start a car business with seatbelts and airbags from day one?
I think this is too pessimistic. One always gains some information, even from a single event. If you're catching the bus one and shows up literally the minute that you arrive at the bus stop, yes, you may have been very fortunate and in fact the bus runs only once per day, but you really ought to assign a lower probability to that possibility now, given your recent single new piece of information. There are ways to express this quantitatively too - but your own intuition ought to be enough of a guide here.
The answer to your first paragraph is "newsgroup" + tooling.
What sort of application are you building where you need a thousand instances of a spring application?

Like even hosted on a low powered hardware, Java services can easily deal with order of 100 requests/second. This is home turf, this is what Java is really good at. That 100rps may be lowballing it. So you're what, processing 100k+ API requests per second? I can't imagine that would translate toward any less than a billion users.

At that point you are either making good headway toward becoming a new letter in the FAANG acronym and ought to have the budget to run your own data center, or your attention is better put toward optimizing your comically inefficient application.
Redundant like a Klingon penis.

https://www.inverse.com/article/41443-star-trek-klingon-peni...
I have plenty of experience with HTML/JavaScript and PostgreSQL plus several other programming languages, since I'm programming for 20+ years, but low experience with Python and zero with Django. Would love to get that experience even if it means lower salary at beginning. Are you open to a such proposal?
The idea of deploying an app to a machine sitting next to me, and serving the few requests per second just from that, is highly appealing. The only thing I'd always want is offsite backups which are best done to the cloud. You've inspired me!
I prefer 42 to this madness
When you read the story you kind of want it to go somewhere emotionally and morally (and in other aspects as well) when you are approaching the end.
I would love to see a much bigger focus on performance per watt from the rest of the industry, all the way up to high end enthusiast desktop components — even in a nice airflow focused ATX case and with a big Noctua CPU cooler, the extra noise generated when pushing the machine can be really irritating, not to mention creeping power requirements make for replacing PSUs before it’d otherwise be necessary.

On a somewhat related note, I’m also mildly annoyed that no case, cooling, and motherboard manufacturers have tried to copy the current Mac Pro’s design with dramatically larger heatsinks, about half as many fans as a typical PC (with the few it has not running as hard), and RAM on the backside of the motherboard where it can be swapped without messing with the CPU heatsink. Being able to build a generic PC version of a Mac Pro would be amazing, but unfortunately the ATX standard has accumulated cobwebs from lack of innovation.
Meta reportedly shelves plans for dual-camera smartwatch
They said parking it at L2 was akin to giving your car just enough speed at the bottom of a hill to exactly come to rest at the top of the hill. Given that mental model, I think L2 wouldn’t be a natural point for things to congregate. It’s not a gravity well, but a gravity “dimple”? Or local minimum? But it sounds like this is so new to us that humility is warranted and probably dangerous to neglect.

Edit-they did say they’ve done simulations and they did expect small collisions. It sounds like this was much larger than expected for this point in time, but not catastrophically so.

Edit2-also they’re not at L2 but in orbit around it. The lifetime of the craft is in part limited by how many course corrections it will take to stay in their orbit. That really makes me think this should be rarer.
So Cronenberg's latest movie "Crimes of the Future" is not SciFi anymore. This was fast.
yeah, but in real world when this kind of problem will need to be solved people will most probably sort O(NlogN), or use priority queue O(NlogK), or even will go with something like O(N*K), almost no one will go with O(N) algo and because usually N and K are rather small and this code will not be called too often time complexity may be ignored. Still any solution shorter than O(N) will be called inefficient. And in real world they will know N and K from this what kind of problem they are solving, and this will not be hidden in mist of abstraction with assumption that "candidate should ask".
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Bluetooth is so amazing!

I wonder what latency will be like.

Or how people will use it. Seems like hiding transmitters in public could become a geocaching-esque activity.
That system also makes a cameo in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon:

https://tentacle.net/~chrisr/bookshelf/Stephenson,%20Neal%20...

Can't vouch for what he wrote of course but he probably got a lot of the details right.
You can actually cross the whole galaxy in a lifetime if you get really close to light speed, but measuring time from the perspective of your ship... for everyone on Earth, due to time dilation, it would take you hundreds of thousands of years though :(.

Notice that if you could travel exactly at light speed, time would cease to exist and you could get anywhere in the universe instantly, as light itself experiences no time.
The Truman Show

I’ve always been fascinated by this movie.
How large of a magnet are we talking, and what were you doing with it? So I know what to be terrified of, for future reference.
> Also note that there really isnt any "galaxy hopping" speed. The speed of light is incredibly slow compared to space distances. Even travelling at light, you're not getting many places in a human life time.

Only from the perspective of an observer from earth though, no?
The phone codes must be terribly out of date and inaccurate those are so hard to maintain even with paid official data sources
Unlikely. As a general rule, viruses in antarctic waters are much safer for humans than those living at equator.
CodeWeavers also made the original Bottles. From a decade ago:

> The Manage Bottles
functionality lets you manage the Windows software you have under CrossOver, and displays information regarding the bottles they are placed in. You can think of a bottle as a selfcontained Windows environment. Bottles can come in several different flavors—Win98, Win2K, WinXP, etc.

https://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/marketing/Review...
Sorry could you be more explicit for thick people like me? What's the game, and what's the author trying to trick the reader into believing?
The CRTC is a revolving door for the telecom industry.
This is great, I would totally like to interview like this.

The best one I had was a task where you have to basically brute force an api endpoint that uses a semi known password (you have to generate all permutations of a string with alterate spellings ex "pA$Sw0rD" and one of them will match), if you succeed the endpoint returns a url & token to upload your zipped solution. So you end up with a console application that has: network requests, string manipulation, concurrency/parallelism/throttling if you want (I did it to impress, wasn't a junior role), file access (zip & attach & send async), some error handling, good console outputs/logging and comments.

When you go to the interview we basically discuss the code I uploaded with one of their senior developers, what compromises I made, how would I improve it and so on. I got the job back then but since moved on. But that was the best interview process I've seen in my career. No leetcode etc, just a basic application that test if you know how to do a bunch of different things, without it being a whole framework mess or a whole product in some cases. it took about two hours, so the balance between spending time on and getting judged for my skill was good; it felt fair & realistic.
Meta Halts Development of Apple Watch Rival with Two Cameras
Few people are as capable as Dick Proenneke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke).
The original machine has a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semiboloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters.
by this logic, all of the Americas should be returned to the descendants of the native peoples. I guess we’ll all just go home, all the Europeans back to Europe, Chinese back to China, Africans back to Africa. Quickly now, once we get back we’ll have to do the next round of figuring out how to return the stolen heritage looted by the Roman Empire and the Qin dynasty and the Rashidun Caliphate. We’ve got thousands of years of history to go through people! Look alive now!
Google Docs pretty much handles the multiple users working on the same document problem as well as I could imagine. Am I missing something here?
Surely they know how creepy this is.. right?
> Others, like 409 Conflict have such a narrow use-case that I’ve never seen it used in practice.

Huh, I've often seen this used to prevent resources with unique names or ids from being created. i.e POST

/things

{
"name" : "myUniqueName"
}
The GPL is for software, which the GNU org deems non-copyrighteable AFAIK.
This reminds me of a documentary, "A Cow a Day", aired by BBC Radio Three a couple of years ago. The documentary was by the poet and radio producer Pejk Malinovski. Pejk follows a random street cow on the streets of Varanasi in India.

When I first heard about this documentary, I thought, what a ridiculous idea of following a stray cow for a day and making a documentary out of it! But when I listened to the audio documentary, it was one of the most engaging documentary I had listened to!
This being the most serious of the incidents.
When I overloaded my Intel Mac it did the same thing. MacOS is just not that great under pressure. Bluetooth regularly dropped out even with just one build running, when I started 2 at the same time (iOS+Android) there was always a chance for a reboot. (64GB ram+i9 cpu)

Had an M1 Mac Mini with 8GB ram for Lightroom+Chrome use, it did not cut it. 16" MBPro with 16GB ram is heaps better, but no developer experience on that machine.

I think buying as much memory as you can afford is a good advice for Mac buyers. 8GB is enough for Chrome + a few native apps, but would go for 16GB for anything more and now you can get 24GB with the M2, that is nice (like a 20GB machine + a 4GB GPU).
I read about the distributed actors and my first thought was "a semi standalone headset that needs to communicate with the phone and/or watch" could probably benefit from this.
The article starts with a lament over closed hardware, like Apple, which I expected. Yes, the open platform of “PC” is closing. However, we also have a rise in open hardware platforms like Raspberry Pi, which are powerful enough to run a desktop and a web browser, and which only costs tens of dollars! No, it can’t compete with Apple or Microsoft of Google, but it IS an open and free platform. Despite giving up and going all in on Apple, after 19 years of Linux on the desktop, I take comfort knowing it’s there.
Only that I have an extension installed. Presumably the libraries cached would be the same for all users. So assuming an install base of >10,000, I'm not particularly bothered about it.

I'm more interested in techniques for faster page loading.
Preparation. Anyone who has done public speaking knows that it's a lot of work to be a good speaker.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson says you have to be 10x more prepared than you need to be. He calls it his Batman utility belt. You anticipate every question you'll get and do your research.

One interviewer asked Neil whether it was worth the $3B mission to Saturn. He brought up that it's $3B over 12 years and that it's how much Americans spend on lip balm. He researched the reporters, anticipated 10 different questions, and prepared to answer a question on cost.

For example, a very common question to rehearse is "tell me about yourself" or "tell me about your biggest or latest major project." A big company might ask your experience with processes - CI/CD, how you work with a team, when you've let the team down. A smaller company might ask about what you think about their product.

Don't memorize a speech or answer though.

A more advanced trick I learned from public speaking class is to get a topic, draft bullet points in my head within 5 minutes, then speak from those points. An example I love is "Do you think a sewer system or waste disposal system is more essential to a city?"

If you answer immediately, you will "ummmm uhhh" a lot. Learn to take a breather and buy time.
I quite like the soundtrack, which the author also decides to take a piss on as a parting shot.

That said, yes, Christopher McCandless did indeed do something extremely stupid, just to try to prove something to himself. He was utterly underprepared. That was, partly, his own choice; he didn't want to rely too much on 'civilization' or 'society' where everything is hashed out beforehand.

The movie isn't really that bad, and Hollywood gave this story about a man looking to escape society an alluring sheen of glamour. If that inspires people to do stupid things, then certainly don't watch Jackass or any other movie where people do stupid things for stupid reasons.
Genuine question, how is it unmaintained? It was last updated 4 months ago:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...
https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes

Is it not still relevant as long as all sites don't choose to host their own dependencies, as recommended in the article you linked?
In case anyone is curious, the Washington gubernatorial election appears to be this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Washington_gubernatorial_...

The Wikipedia page, as well as the cited sources, are a fun read. The final decision by a judge in the case was that 1678 illegal votes were to be removed from the total number of votes cast. However, they were not apportioned to either candidate. The final margin of victory was 133 votes.
How about the time when one pay TV company (Sky, owned by News Corp at the time) was said to have hacked a rival and released the hack on the internet for pirates to use?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17522112
I would. I'd also refuse selling to blind persons.
> “At the hotel we had separate rooms, but in the middle of the night she came sobbing into mine, and we made it up very gently. You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.”

That makes me wonder. What if the girl was adult but power imbalance was the same. How many people would then notice it's not a romance but something horrible?
They might have been up to the bronze age by now
I've never pushed it enough for it to completely lock up, but I've had some weird bugs/crash happen to me. Like all webviews crashing at the same time (all electron apps + all browsers), with an impossibility to run anything (commands would hang, trying to open apps didn't do anything, etc). But what was uncanny was that the UI would happily run smoothly at 120hz, with all the menus still working and being responsive.

However I've had a lot of issues with WindowServer. I have an external 4k display connected to my mac (Macbook Pro 2021 14"), which I usually scale down to 3200x1800 HiDPI. And 2-3 days after a fresh boot, I'll start to have issues such as the WindowServer process jumping to around 140-180% CPU, and staying there until I reboot (or restart the process). I'll also randomly have my cursor start "glitching" and jump around in a 20px radius around the place I want to point; but only on my external screen.

My feeling is that it has something to do with the non-integer scaling I'm doing , and WindowServer entering at some point a state which introduces rounding errors (which would explain the glitching cursor) or something like that. Also, switching resolutions (or even refresh rate) of the external display will temporarily fix the cursor glitching issue.

But my biggest complain, by far, is that there is virtually zero way for me to troubleshoot/debug the problem. As far as I can tell, there is no way for a debugger to attach itself to the WindowServer process, no documentation on internal workings of the rendering pipeline, virtually no logs, etc. I've been trying to narrow down those issues for 6-8 months, and I've stilled not been able to track it down
This is clearly a new and exciting definition of the word “trivial” that I was previously unaware of.
>If Into the Wild portrayed McCandless as the pitiful, hapless doofus that he was - perhaps portrayed by Adam Sandler - then all would be fine.

Now that's the one Adam Sandler movie I'd actually enjoy watching, just for the long protracted death scene at the end.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/2...

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Adam-Sandlers-movies-so-bad
Harsh, but fair. I spent the summers of 2008 and 2009 in AK, and since the movie had just came out, it was often brought up. Basically every Alaskan thought he was an idiot.

He would have made it past the river if he had simply brought a map, because a bridge was literally just a couple miles south of where he got stranded.
How is not posting it publicly consenting to it being available publically?
>it kept happening for seniors and people with a lot of experience

Why would this be? Old brains not being as "flexible" to think up novel solutions?
Number one “HTTP is text based” was true, but with the advent of HTTP/2, it uses a binary protocol now
You forget the part where "quality" is a statistical factor. You can only assess the quality after you bought the product. And the producer wants to make a profit first.
Most steps to get a quality product are expensive (testing). That's why they want zero defects. Every failed part on production line is money lost.
But that's not a problem. These companies pay so much that they have too many candidates applying all the time, so missing good engineers is not a problem, but filtering out false positives is.

Though, I don't agree leetcode is a good interview practice.
Qualcomm wants to acquire a stake in Arm alongside consortium of rivals
Lots of the 2,500 don't seem very recognisable, possibly from another language?
I don't like doing this on a Mac because the windows seem to disappear when in background. Windows is incredibly good for well, multiple windows. It snaps to corners and halves, swaps contexts, handles multiple monitors well. A Mac is a better focused work machine, but sometimes I just forego the multi tasking.
Tangentially related, but calling Flying Tiger a Danish shop is only nominally true - the more apt name would be "everything from China under $5".
Scifi, mysteries, and non-fiction?
Part of me wonders to what degree the authors of this were in on the joke. Bill Donovan was known to prefer independent-minded and creative people as OSS agents, and while the advice here is genuinely useful I wouldn’t be surprised if the authors were also intentionally satirizing the sorts of corporate and government bureaucracy that they had likely chafed against throughout their lives.
>worry about the little guy who relies on having cheap energy available to get to work?

Surely the issue is relying on cheap energy then, not the fact that its no longer available. I've just checked US prices and they're about $1.30 a litre. compared to Europe that is cheap. but then we have more fuel efficient cars. If you want to talk about knock on inflationary pressures then I'd probably agree with you, but my fuel costs roughly twice what yours costs, and its still not causing a major dent in my finances, and most of my driving isn't for work.

>decide between buying vegetables for their kids that week instead of cheap junk food

Why do people claim that junk food is cheaper than veg?
A low carbon diet probably coincides quite nicely with a low cost diet, I know my major food costs are meat (and alcohol), veg is basically a rounding error.
Good question. I was not terribly excited by the M2 releases because of the 24GB RAM cap. I have a 2020 MBP with 64GB and I enjoy being able to run large ML jobs while my colleagues complain their machines are choking :)
It would happen yes if the children are left on their own at that. But shouldn't we expect the school to intervene? It's not like they don't notice or they cannot know. But if the school culture says bullying is acceptable because hey that's the lead athlete and he didn't kill anybody, then yes, bullying will happen inevitably.