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I don't get it. Why are they incompetent?

From the article it only seems to be because they didn't include features that other Windows Managers have.

GNOME is not Windows WM or macOS WM. There might be things that you are not used to, when you come from one of those worlds, but that doesn't make them wrong.

It would be wrong if the feature was there in the past and removed it without guiding the users (via UX) to an alternative.

IMHO the author shouldn't complain about the design choices of GNOME by comparing it to other WMs. There isn't a reference WM that everyone needs to stick to (thankfully!), so a missing feature compared to macOS / Windows is not a wrong thing.
Yeah, I don't actually have the willpower to reduce the screaming in my body for food, even at a healthy/correct weight (which I am currently) I could just start eating and never stop.

With sauna or sunbathing in the morning and exercising in the heat late afternoon I give myself two separate blocks without the constant hunger, between the two appetite suppression periods and the psychological boost of not wanting to waste all my painful effort it makes eating less possible if not enjoyable.
Non-tech - Toastmasters - I think it is called 'Competent Toastmaster' it is the first set. Consists of doing 10 speeches. Significantly improve your ability to talk in public and to do presentations.
Not really. The poster is saying they used to believe X but was persuaded subsequently that ~X was more likely. This seems to indicate at least a recent pattern of avoiding confirmation bias.
(1) Stop using neonicotinoid pesticides. There are plenty of alternatives for protecting food crops from insect infestations, such as neem oil applied as a foliar spray or a soil soak in response to infestations. Neonictoninoides are based on the tobacco nicotine molecule structure, but are typically chlorinated and modified to make them more persistent and toxic to insects relative to animals. There's a good argument for banning the entire class due to their persistent ecological effects on beneficial native insect populations.

https://organic-center.org/research/neonicotinoid-pesticides...

(2) Have undisturbed habitat set aside for wild bee populations. This can be something as simple as maintaining undisturbed hedgerows on the sides of agricultural fields, but in general means maintaining a fair amount of undisturbed native habitat.

https://www.planetbee.org/planet-bee-blog//native-bee-series...
Is that true even if you compile AOSP from source? (not being sarcastic here, just never looked into this)
We can chalk that up to dang.

HN: one of the last remaining Great Good Places of the Internet, a lone tavern in an iconic gateway town to the now not-so-wild west.

Beyond the western borders of this little town, the tech gold rush has both expanded to epic proportions, affecting all the economies in the world, and also gone through enough booms and busts that the phrase "gold rush" seems somehow off.

As more and more young'uns join and jaded veterans return to throng the tavern alike, it often seems to be on the brink of either exploding with the largest gun fight in history, or jumping the shark.

And yet, against all odds, it retains its original magnetism - drawing throngs that grow in number and diversity while seers like [https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11](https://news.y... and [https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tptacek](https://new... continue to return - dispensing worldly wisdom worth its weight in gold from corner tables.

The secret is the man at the corner of the bar @dang, always around with a friendly smile and a towel on his shoulder. The only sheriff in the west who still doubles as the friendly bartender: always polite, always willing to break up a fight with kind words and clean up messes himself.

Yes a cold-hard look from him is all it takes to get most outlaws to back down, yes, his Colt-45 "moderator" edition is feared by all men, but the real secret to his success: his earnest passion (some call it an obsession) for the seemingly sisyphean task of sustaining good conflict - letting it simmer but keeping it all times below the boiling point based on "the code":

"Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups. It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it—the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both sides. It is the psychologist's job to make possible the acceptance of such an idea so that the richness of the varieties of experience, whether within the unit of the single personality or in the wider unit of the group, can come to expression."

May the last great tavern in the West and it's friendly bartender-sheriff live long and prosper.
Until Gnome folks break GTK again...
That's too generous. They were primarily designed for what was easy to implement and what _could_ be handled in assembly. Also, 8080 was an evolution of the 4040 (and that owed much to the 4004). Z80 had to be compatible with the 8080... I know less of 6502 but most of them were designed about what could be done, not what would be easy to program.
How old are you, Liam?
I like it a lot. In my personal computer, I have Fedora 36 with Gnome 42. The “Awesome Tiles” extension makes it great. I prefer it than the new Mac my employer gave me.
That's a pretty coarse-grained granularity.

How about: "As a Californian, I support withdrawing all aid, so the east coast can defend itself."
I am in the highest non-management engineering position at a job I enjoyed that pays well. I am not looking for “progression”, I am where I want to be, full stop.

This is the dream. I had been lead developer, in charge of people at a previous job and I hated every single minute of it. Managing people sucks. I am just over here actively avoiding the Peter Principle.
Shit article with hidden agenda: shake confidence in GNOME, which is free and is becoming the defacto GUI on Linux distributions that matter (and loved by millions).
They are incompetent, but it's not (totally) their fault.

They were never exposed to the powerful and highly configurable classic Unix window managers and desktops, only Windows, Mac, and iOS. Yes, these old desktops all had their warts and configuration was not always a straightforward affair but they packed a lot of functionally into a small package.

It's like asking an otherwise experienced programmer to write an IDE when all they ever used was notepad.exe and a command-line compiler.
Objectively? Yes. But the moment you involve the lab - even if the only "lab involvement" was some grunt laborer, who harvests guano for fertilizer from the exact same cave on the other 29 days of the month, to feed his family - a whole lot of people's emotions and imaginations go "BOOM!".
I don't think patches will get accepted, they have their vision and won't listen to anyone: however, just fork it like MATE and Cinnamon have. I use both, depending on my mood. There are even others...
I'd imagine financial certs would be the most useful (CFA in particular).

I’m similar to you - have a ton of certifications and I’m an insanely good test taker.

Several years ago I signed up for the Level 1 CFA exam in late August to take it on December 5th. So I had a little over 3 months to study for it.

My first inclination that I made a horrible mistake was when one of my portfolio manager coworkers said to me, “I got my bachelor’s in finance, got my master’s in economics, studied for that test for 6 months, failed it and gave up. It’s just too hard.”

350 hours of studying later, I was the only one from my company that passed Level 1 that year. 33% pass rate.

I’m in software engineering. It has provided no discernible career benefit even though I work at an investment bank.

I’m happy that I proved I could do it but the CFA program is not a certification to collect on a whim. It’s literally a 3+ year commitment and you will come close to killing yourself studying.
Yes, this doesn't really add up, it's not like a tweet that's gone viral will keep going around, it's safe to say that nearly all the clicks it generated were in the past.

It did however let them write this blog post and generate even more interest, but unfortunately they've failed to make sure their blog can handle traffic, another missed opportunity I suspect.
You can have a similarly bad experience with Linux on a laptop; all these issues (except for virtual keyboard related ones) also occur there:

- EFI is a bit difficult with distributions when Secure Boot is enabled. Ubuntu and Fedora support it, if you choose a different distribution you may have to tinker, as evidenced in the post;

- camera: Well, Microsoft was doing fancy stuff here; and most distributions just don't support anything but UVC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_video_device_class) style webcams. It's a pain point now, but may not be in a year or two. Also, depending on the lifestyle and the devices one uses, a non working camera may not be an issue at all;

- SSD: Yes, this may be painful, but... for me personal it works well enough. Networking does wonders ;-)

- Lap friendliness... I have had a Surface Pro 3 years ago, and with that device I would agree. With the Surface Go 2 it's way less of an issue. The device is just so much lighter. Works on the subway for me without fear or trouble so far.

Now on the "Why would anyone want this experience" point: I just love desktop Linux, and it's nice to have some full desktop Firefox or apps like rNote [1] on a small, portable device. It's nice to run the OS you know, be able to replicate the same experience on a small form factor device so that you can have it, when you need it, while also being able to use it as tablet - more and more touch friendly apps are available.[2] With GNOME Shell adapting to mobile [3], this experience is only going to get better.

[1]: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.flxzt.rnote

[2]: https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/

[3]: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022/05/30/towards-gnome-s...
That's a weirdly misleading title. Use "relaxes" instead of "raises".
Yeah, there's a lot of complication for sure, even in "real" cases of self-defense (e.g., if you talk a bunch of shit to someone, and they attack you, and then you shoot them, how self-defensy is that?) I would prefer not do weird metaphorical gymnastics in discussing abortion -- it's pretty straightforward what the relevant tradeoffs are. I wish the nation could just battle it out over those, facing the hard choices directly.
> Huge asterisk on this. Can you point to any moment when doing what you suggest would have been politicially viable? Especially considering the fervor with which GOP are racing to pass bans that don’t include exceptions for rape and incest

At multiple points in the last 50 years we have been in a place where our executive branch and congress has been controlled by the Democratic Party, and after presidential elections that were pretty solidly decided. At those points federal legislation could have been introduced that if crafted in a bi-partisan way—limited to first trimester, avoiding tax payer funding, limits on fetal tissue use, etc… the Democrats could have passed legislation with some basic bi-partisan support that could have provided access to abortion at a minimal level federally that would account for about 90% of the performed abortions out there. However, because the democrats either chose to die on that remaining 10% hill, or intentionally didn’t fight at all they lost the whole battle. People seem to believe that they were fighting all this time, in reality, they enabled yesterday to happen. I would argue, intentionally, because the only other explanation is that for 50 years the Democratic Party has been incompetent.

Roe never really struck a balance of anything, it was always weak and was always going to fall. It managed to simply pause the illegality question for a time, during which our congress could have and should have acted to affirm the rights.

Even RBG felt it was the wrong case for abortion rights because it didn’t focus on women’s rights, but rather physician privacy. If the most arguably liberal justice in the last 50 years is warning you that Roe is bad and going to fall, you might want to believe them.

> Now there will be two Americas: safe haven America where women are free, and Gilead where women are forced to give birth to their rapists babies.

Actually there will be 50 Americas—-which is really no different today than it was yesterday.
You’d need to clarify what specifically is entailed by zoonotic origin (and what would count as not-zoonotic-origin) in order for your claim to be evaluated.
I bought dozens of domain typos for my company. I summarized the results in my blog post https://catonmat.net/domain-typos.
I wonder what tablet is used by GNOME developers.
Free and open source development is it's own thing. It's personal and the community is not that big. Criticism should be respectfully formulated and preferably constructive.

I don't champion GNOME maybe but their work on usability is very important to me in real terms, it's a movement for a better user interface instead of just repeating old and broken patterns (like Yes/No dialog boxes.)
the question was when does life start, not what constitutes being considered alive / a human being in general.

if you subsequently stop breathing, after your life has started, that's a different situation with different rules.
Dash to dock to make application switching pretty much instant, hiding the dock away in the overview only ever makes sense when you're screen real-estate constrained (12" laptop)

Tiling Assistant, this lets you define custom window snapping zones, its most helpful when you have a mix of landscape/portrait displays and you need more flexibility than the built-in behaviour offers.

DDterm, this one isn't essential, but its convenient to have a terminal shade ready to go. On my ThinkPads I'd bind this to the ThinkVantage key to quickly get a terminal up.

I used to muck around with themes and icon sets years ago, but Adwaita is pretty inoffensive these days, and dark mode is not an afterthought now.
I set my dad up with Ubuntu & Gnome. He needs the A11y functions a lot and has. I complaints. He loves it and gets work done. I can’t thank the gnome devs enough for their easily accessible software.
Phonetic number systems like this are commonly used by memory athletes, like the Major System[1]

The usable range can be expanded further using color, smell, taste, and so on.

https://artofmemory.com/wiki/Major_System/
Thank you for this. This is exactly how I felt but could not articulate.
Were you answering to my comment? Anyways, I don't believe that Gnome nowadays is an open project de facto -- AFAIK most of the contributors are Red Hat/IBM employees for whom it's a job.
Right now as we speak, our DBAs are applying patches to our SQL Servers. SQL Always On seems to solve the problem pretty well. Granted, this is a minor upgrade, but even so, we've not had any database downtime for any of the updates we've applied in the last year+ since we got this set up.
It's written in psuedo code. And what error.
Can confirm, plus there’s a 1 year requirement to work in the industry to get the certification after passing the test, and a continuing education requirement to maintain it. I studied accounting and passed the test, but immediately started working in tech so technically I’m not certified. The test was a beast and took about a year and a half to pass all 4 parts, and if you don’t pass all 4 within a window of time the old ones expire.
I'm thinking about getting into pen-testing and eventually getting an OSCP. Would you mind offering a few words about why you left the pen-testing field? Also, do you have a CEH or do you recommend bypassing it in favor of the OSCP?
While I don’t like the hostile tone, “if you don’t like it, fork it / submit a patch” is equally unproductive, especially when it’s about the high level, direction of a project.
For decentralised systems crypto-currencies seem to involve a lot of assets in centralised locations, sat ready to be taken in one go upon a successful attack…

I think many have missed one of their own key points.
You mean the old gnome (mate) or the new gnome? Because ya, the new gnome is dumb last time I checked. But mate is awesome.
So you'd rather use the example in the article that's 5x longer? Makes no sense.
Sounds like they should've spent $35,000 on more servers...
Archaeologist discovers 6k year-old island settlement off Croatian coast (2021)
If its made for mainstream popularity, then why has it become the most common default DE among distro when linux is still not mainstream? Even use for poweruser distros.
Free time. Uh-huh.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/4q2sq8/around_what_t...
There is no way to say if there would have been spillover, or it coming from nature. This feels a bit like the way people have said "every new variant is less dangerous." There are no guarantees on that one, there is equal possibility that COVID turns into something worse. COVID doesn't have to kill you, it just has to copy better.

If it turns out it was a lab leak, from using SCID mice or other human analogues, we might get new systems to prevent such a thing from happening again. Maybe researchers have to work in a diving bell system, who knows. We get to decide! We can create whatever we think we need. The system is not fixed. Look at animal research support systems like IACUC, created in the 80s, and now a useful fixture in biomedical research. In the lab, we lament IACUC sometimes, but they are a good check in the system. Why couldn't someone like IACUC raise the bar?

I agree with you that knowing it was a lab leak does not fix the past, and can increase the blame game near term. On the longer arc, it is important to know.
Practice writing every day at all times.

Replying to an email? Do the short summary at the top, then write a paragraph or two about the reasons/details/etc - these are also great references.

Encounter an issue and solve it? Write up what it was and what fixed it on a wiki, blog post, even just an email to yourself.

Hacker news? Write comments that are detailed.
I think a better question might be: Is there anyone who really likes stock Gnome? So no extensions for a dock, etc.

I like Gnome but without extensions I find it borderline unusable on my desktop.
Swear free version at: https://dangitgit.com
It was a mild joke as planetary alignment does play a part in Vedic Astrology.

Astrology indeed had a high place in ancient India and significantly influenced the development of mathematics and astronomy. 5th/6th century mathematician Aryabhatta was also an astronomer as well as an astrologer. He even devised his own numerical encoding, which is far more compact than the Katyapadi system but not as amenable to writing numbers poetically.
Cisco certified network associate (CCNA). As a developer with roots in networking, being able to troubleshoot the network — even as little as understanding the 3-way TCP hand shake to identify whether even a socket has been established — helps you isolate fairly quickly whether it's your app, the server, or some intermediate device that's causing headaches.
Gnome works fine for me. I’m glad it was made. I was an i3 user for a long time. When I grew tired of configuring things like wifi, mounting USB drives automatically, and a dozen other little things, Gnome just worked.

What I think kind of sucks is this person is just talking shit because an open source project doesn’t do what they want it to do. Author, you are rude.
I'd like to put a huge "citation needed" on the claim that gnome designers have not been exposed to the classic window managers. Where did you get that information? How many of them is that confirmed for?
I love Gnome as well. I think partly because I only use three windowed programs on Linux - emacs, Firefox, console, and okay occasionally music. I really appreciate the nice eye candy and polish - especially for the music app
Agreed. It is more akin to a “live performance DAW” like Ableton Live, without the PC middleman.
The author certainly knows how to use the middle finger.
If you knew the GNOME project or any of its contributors over a long period of time, you'd know that this is absolute poppycock. If anything, the GNOME 2.0 approach was an allergic reaction to years of overcomplicated nerd software. Consider that, prior to 2.0, Enlightenment was once the official GNOME window manager.
Do you plan to go the paramedic route? I let my EMT lapse once I moved to CA; the scope of work was more restricted than East Coast, where many states rely on volunteer fire and EMT.
I mostly enjoy my work, and it's nice to feel productive, but the two things are not the same for me. I can be very productive knocking out task after task I don't enjoy, while I can spend a days enjoying the process of chasing down a solutions to a a very minor task with very minor impact.

I like the Zachtronics games not because I feel productive but because I enjoy the nature of the problems they present, and the fact that I can pursue them without any of the headaches or stress that may come with normal work.
I’m with you. Gnome feels like the least janky Linux DE to me.

Contrary to the author, I see a lot of the design decisions in Gnome as careful and deliberate. They want the OS to disappear in service of whatever app you have in front of you. And I think they succeed, mostly. But that’s a sensibility that’s not going to work for every user or every task.

At this point, Gnome is more opinionated than even macOS or Windows. It’s going to put off some.
The only things that have significantly bugged me are the lack of a background app area by default and how they hide path editing in the file browser behind Ctrl + L.
Agree but a cons of Windows tablet is that Kindle app sucks. It's not minor problem since tablet is primary for reading books for me.
Why would testimonial.com be less than 35k?
More like flat-shy.
Again and again I click these articles to see something about ML the programming language only to be disappointed by a machine learning topic. Overloading acronyms sucks.
The WIV was not set up in Wuhan to study bat-borne coronaviruses in the surrounding area. This is a widespread myth, one popularized by Maggie Koerth on Twitter.
Somehow it often removes commas for me.
No, it's not. It's more coding work in the short term, sure, but every feature that exists is one that has to be maintained. This is obvious in code written in a professional context, but people seem to think that open source is somehow exempt from this rule.

If the feature uses shared internal apis, then that code has to be refactored if you need to make changes to those apis. If you need to update versions of dependencies, then the feature needs to be updated too.

If there are bugs, at a minimum you have to do something with the bug reports for those features. Even ignoring the report has overhead in the form of extra bug reports that you never intend to fix. Marking them as "won't fix" means you have to figure out a solution for dealing with the backlash from the reporter.

Then you get to the PRs from people who want to improve the feature but don't know the project well enough to really be of help. You have to either reject the PRs outright or carefully walk them through how to make them acceptable.

The minimal-work way to keep a feature around is to ignore all PRs and all bug reports for that feature. Any other approach is extra overhead. But taking that approach is still in many ways worse than stripping the feature out entirely, because you're left with a feature that only sort of works some of the time, it makes your code more resistant to change than if it were gone, and you're building up a backlog of reports and PRs you never intend to fix.