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And you simply increase the work for 3rd party developers to create multiple apps for multiple platforms.

Apple can achieve this because they’ve made extremely profitable ecosystems on both the desktop and mobile (although both appear to be heading towards a race to the bottom).

Linux has no such luxury. The vast majority of apps on Linux would simply never work on Mobile because no one would bother creating a mobile app for Linux, because of the chicken and egg problem created by the non existent market share for Linux phones.
LinkedIn feed has become unreadable due to what has been mentioned in the article. I keep muting such content, aiming to train the algorithm, but they keep appearing. And that leads to unfollowing people posting or liking that kind of content.
There is a lot more wheat to ship than could ever fit on rail cars.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61583492

"Ukrainian farmers have 20 million tonnes of grain they cannot get to international markets"

Let's say you could ship 10 ton (10,000 kg) per train car; that's still 2 million rail cars. The longest possible freight train would be 100 cars or so - so now we're down to 20,000 grain train runs needed for the export.

It's not possible, not enough rail capacity, not enough rail cars and engines or days in a year to do it.
I read this book as part of me GCSE English in the UK. It's the only book they had which I enjoyed and, like many others, it had a big impact on me.

It's up there with being taught about the evils of modern history: Nazi's, Chile, Yemen, Slavery, Thatcher, Rand, Holodomor, Leopald II, various Chinese genocide, European genocides in both Americas..

That should be a part of the education of everyone living in free and democratic societies.
If you follow the publication of big name writers, there is a tendency for their later works to get longer and longer, and, as you say, harder to read.

Examples include Robert Heinlein in Science Fiction, James Michener in general fiction, Herman Wouk in general fiction. For Wouk, his well known Caine Mutiny is a fairly long book, but it's tightly written. Later works not so much.
The addictive nature of those devices is exactly why I don't have one, I'll end up with even less time in my life and that's pretty much the only currency you never get more of. It's bad enough with just a desktop/laptop.

I just stuck to my Nokia 'dumbphone' while it still worked and after the last of the networks that it used went dark I switched to the N800, it's not perfect (technically a smartphone, it runs KaiOS), but it still has buttons and I refuse to go online with it (you can't do much on that silly screen anyway). In a pinch it will serve as a mobile hotspot.
> Choosing a Microsoft laptop to use Linux is asking for trouble :)

Not true anymore.

> I had two of them, and Microsoft had this awful idea of the connected standby, which caused standby/suspend problems (power-hungry standby, which is a very serious problem on a laptop).

When? Which models?

ACPI S01x when well done works better than ACPI S3, and Linux support for S01x is now getting quite good.

On a X1 nano, I've got less than 0.2%/h of power draw: so 10h of sleep consumes about 2% battery

On the X1 Fold, I was able to reduce that to about 0.5%/h after some workaround for Intel drivers bugs: cf https://csdvrx.github.io/ or just the graph https://csdvrx.github.io/X1_Fold_(20RL_20RK)_Optimization/pa...

It's still a work in progress, but I can't remember ACPI S3 consuming less that 5% overnight and resuming instantly.

> I don't remember having to do any tweak on desktop machine, except the time where I had a very modern Ryzen that was supported by very recent kernels only.

Laptops often need more tweaks than desktops.
This article was describing more and more about myself. In between the article I drifted off to another site without even realising. I am going to do my digital detox right away...after I browse through my youtube feed. I need help :(
Remember "Killer Bees"? People killed a lot of wild honeybee hives from fear they'd hybridize and introduce new genes into the domestic population.

There's a few people who will talk about the lack of diversity in domestic bee genetics. AFAIK they're not popular, everybody wants to blame anyone but regulators.
Seems presumptuous to immediately take for granted the funds to replace a laptop twice?

Maybe they just cant afford it and have been struggling by on the half working device until now.
> The average teacher salary according to the Ministry of Education is $99,000 (total comp).

What country are we talking about?
> we no longer have the anxiety that plagued any idea or project in the past.

_cough_ Patents _cough_.
We're talking about relevant certs, here.
Asus was once a big OEM that supplied Dell and others (https://www.supplychainindiajobs.com/what-is-the-story-of-as...). Its newer first-party brand (also Asus) is relatively new, applying what they learned from their OEM days. Their hardware is generally good, but their support suffers, especially when crossing cultural barriers (they're a Taiwanese company).

The support/return culture is very different in the US vs Taiwan, where they're from -- they don't do returns there, it's just generally not a thing. Asus products sold in the US will be subject to retailer returns, but if you ever have to get corporate support directly from Asus, my experience is that it's hard to communicate and they don't have the same desire to please as the Western companies (at least Dell wants to LOOK like it cares; Asus doesn't really play that game because it's not part of their culture... they instead just try to make the hardware a bit better). Lenovo is a Chinese company, but they inherited the support culture from IBM, who they bought their computers division from.

But the thing is, most of the computers in the world are made from component parts produced by only a tiny handful of OEMs using reference designs, then put in different chasses and rebranded and whitelabeled. By the time it gets branded as any one particular company, mostly it's not the same people responsible for marketing or support as for the original integration engineering. i.e. it's not necessarily the case that any one "brand" actually has consistently good or bad hardware, it just depends on the sourcing for that one product line for any one production run, unless they are totally vertically integrated (and I don't think anyone is anymore, except maybe Samsung to a degree.)

So the support culture is more important than the actual hardware, IMO, and neither Asus nor Dell (consumer) excel in that regard.

But yes, you hit the nail on the head... unless you pay for business-class support (which is worth it, IMO), the only real support you'll get is from your retailer, not the manufacturer. Costco, Best Buy, and Amazon are all great for this. I get all my electronics from Best Buy these days because their return policy is great (60 days if you're part of their membership program, which also covers extended warranties and repairs) and it's so much easier to return things than at Costco (just because the lines are usually shorter, and you're dealing with tech people who understand what various components are... the average BB person at least knows more than the average Costco employee when it comes to tech).

Edit: I've had a lot of good luck with used laptops from Best Buy, which usually carry both a BB return policy (+ extended warranty if you're in their membership) and the original manufacturer's warranty, plus are much cheaper and also vetted/tested before resale.
You can't emulate someone showing up at your house barefoot to confront you about some anonymous AIM account you had nothing to do with and nearly pissing themselves when your dad yells from his chair next to the family bird "Should I go unlock the guns? Why does this fucking moron think he can come into our home uninvited because of the internet? Tell him to call the cops if he's so sure you did something on the computer and get the fuck out of here."

(I didn't have AOL, but AIM was a hell of a wild ride, especially if you made a mistake at 12 of using a portmanteau of your first and last name as your handle)
Ted Chiang wrote a short story inspired by Flowers for Algernon ("Understand") that explores what might happen if a guy just never stopped getting smarter: https://web.archive.org/web/20140527121332/http://www.infini...

I love Flowers for Algernon, but Understand is my favorite short story of all time.
And realistically.. they always take longer because your production database storage is fragmented from use
Interesting, why not blockchain, thought of it because suppose the website shuts down, people can still verify the files.
So they got complaints that copilot generated public code and then as aftermath they hashed all public snippets to bandaid their GPL offense?
I've spent $50k out of pocket so far this year on medical expenses that weren't covered by insurance. That doesn't even include other copay expenses. Had to cash out some 401ks early. Also, 44,000 Americans die every year due to lack of access to healthcare.
I would gladly wait for over a year in a heartbeat for a cheaper and more fair system.
When I developed the first native C++ compiler around 1987, I thought I'd better check with AT&T's lawyers if I could:

1. sell a C++ compiler

2. call it C++

Their lawyer was very nice, and said sure. He also laughed and said he appreciated that I was the only one who bothered to ask.
Title is: What is Box<str> and how is it different from String in Rust?
I think the whole point of LittleSnitch/OpenSnitch is the GUI. I feel like this is sort of a descendant of (or rather inspired by) a piece of software from long ago called "ZoneAlarm" for Windows. I mention this because I primarily used it before I could code or knew about the "system"; which, also happened to be when I was pirating a lot of software (high school). You should be able to accomplish most all of this, and more, from the command line already. `netstat` alone would probably get you most of the way there.
I learned about the book after several famous SF authors said that it contained their favourite last line.
The decline of insects has brought an unbalance that may make some species over-represented as a consequence.

But what you are seeing can also be a case of climate change moving the habitats of species around, and make them live where they did not live before (because also prevent them from living anymore where they had always been living).

Edit: thanks for the compliment :D

Just for the record, I'm an insects lover (also more generally a lover of Nature). And the situation is making me very, very sad.
Fighting crime by checking buildings, not suspects
> But, the youtuber would have no way to send them to a third random person.

Nothing in the Digicash blinded RSA signature scheme would prevent the tokens from being traded person-to-person any number of times before being presented back to the issuer. It requires some trust in the previous token holders, much like exchanging BTC by trading private keys in place of on-chain transactions, but it's perfectly doable given some other means of discouraging defection. And of course the blinding system itself ensures that the tokens being deposited can't be linked to any particular withdrawals.
There was many personally identifying information leaks when it initially launched. Which suggests that they snooped through OSS code and violated any licenses. Here are 2 answers to the main two things copilot sympathizers ask.

1. How do you know Co-pilot violated OSS licenses?

> The aforementioned PII and secrets emitted. And IIRC a support personnel said they even copied GPL licensed code. So there is nothing stopping them from copying MIT licensed ones. Which is still a violation without attribution. So no reason for the benefit of the doubt.

2. Humans copy code all the time. So why can't an AI? Or something along the lines of it...

The answer is 2 parted.

1. A human can only copy so much. Most of them are not in bad faith. And those who are in bad faith are not a humongous portion. An AI just scrapes the code in mass scale which is impossible for a human even with automation. It's also easier for it to learn from this training data compared to someone scrapping the data and maintaining a DB. This is such a common sense thing. None of the laws, policies or systems are made for AI in mind. So it is just a careless thing to say.

2. If are not adhering to OSS licenses then YOU ARE in violation. So if you are not called out or punished, DOESN'T MEAN you are right. Just means you are getting away with it.

This is just a PR exercise for MS. They already have the data and the product. A nobody has the balls to question them. The normalization of these bad behaviors with their good PR being "the guardians of the OSS" is literally taunting the entire OSS community.

This is where I hoped FSF, EFF, SFConservancy or any other group would step up. Nothing so far. Just yelling into the void hoping MS will suddenly do the right thing.
Compare Wilmar Shiras, "in Hiding" (1948) and David Palmer, "Emergence" (1981).
I know it, and it's the way to go after making backups. It's not that hard, but not trivial either. You have to install the old & new postgres versions alongside each other, shut the database down, etc. I've done it many times, it's not hard, but I wouldn't call it a "piece of cake". And it does require some downtime.

Anyway, my comment was simply responding to the parent's:

> Or you could just dump and load the database (maybe even pipe it from one to the next).
> This is just another symptom of the disease of the disproportional representation.

Hard disagree. Those issues have absolutely nothing to do with one another. Legislators have learned that the best way to guarantee re-election is to loudly wring your hands and ask "won't somebody do something" every election season. If they actually do their jobs, people might hold them accountable. It has zero to do with "disproportional representation".

> ...the senate refuses to pass laws the majority of Americans want.

This is by design. That's literally what a Senate is designed to do. Preventing the mob from ruling the country by popular decree.

> How can you interpret the Texas law... that make up a minority of Americans.

Because a majority of TEXANS support it: only 28% of the state thinks abortion should be legal in all or most cases [1]. You can't look at nationwide polls and make statements about local politics.

1: https://news.gallup.com/poll/355034/texas-aligned-red-states...
Maybe that’s the point of Gnome.

It provides a base DE for OSes to customize and provide a complete package for end users.
> I'm just describing what all programmers have done since the beginning of time
Haven't read it, but my reaction to the 2 minute video is "excrement" [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjHORRHXtyI
Is insisting folks join military alliances if they want to survive in a world where "second strikes only" seems to be the new normal for nuclear deterrence failing?

(I'm only being half sarcastic, since OTOH the Budapest agreement was pretty clear, but unless you wanna go full 1984 and have World War 1: Part Two, Electric Boogaloo with massive deaths by conventional weapons on both sides I don't have a good solution to issues like the current Ukraine crisis.)
I did some light searching, and it would seem that your examples don’t support your viewpoint. I didn’t look into all of them, but there is only 1 truly wild horse species, which was actually extinct in the wild at one point. The rest are feral horses. Canis familiaris is the descendent of an extinct species. Many (most?) wolves and other wild dog species that do not live well among humans are either currently or were until recently endangered.
Most of the world's grain is eaten by humans' food.

We're really really good at efficiently producing grain -- especially field corn (which is not super desirable as human food without significant processing), and we grow lots of animals of all sorts. Naturally, when we can, we feed those animals on field corn -- they don't complain, and it's the cheapest food we can produce for them.

In the US we also subsidize corn pretty heavily, which has biased us towards maximizing efficiency on this crop rather than on some other grain. It's unclear to me whether we would have become more efficient with some other grain (in terms of food calories out per unit of resources/land in) had we produced as durable of an economic incentive to do so -- but regardless, it would still be a grain of some sort that ended up being the caloric efficiency maximum product, and therefore what animal feed would end up being.
Apparently hopper cars can hold ~100 tons.

Still some tough arithmetic.
Yes, if I can get into a program that allows for nights and weekends study while still being rigorous. Still need the tech paycheck for now.
All I can say is, spend a great amount of time reading and watching videos about the wonderful state of New Jersey and its natural landmark the Nee Jersey Turnpike.
"that has no obvious victims"

Come back with that line when the absolute number (not to mention the pay) of developer jobs worldwide starts decreasing because of this. It will probably happen by the end of the next decade.
thanks, I'll be watching this. seems like I get myself in trouble every couple of months and have to zip up a directory, do a fresh checkout and overlay it. Seems sometimes something gets lost and it will refuse to push to origin on a branch that I've had checked out for a while. yet if I do a fresh checkout (and losing a bit of history as I like to commit locally a lot and squash just before I'm ready to push to git repo.
> It wasn’t the musician’s fault, but too much time had gone by before anyone noticed. The companies involved declined to pay him.

Isn't this what the legal system is for? If the situation were reversed, I can guarantee they'd sue him for the difference.
This is missing a conversation about https://lib.rs/crates/compact_str (and a few alternatives like it). TL;DR: String takes the space of three pointers, that is, 24 bytes on 64-bit archs. compact_str fits up to 24 byte strings in the same space and reverts to String for longer strings.

ADD: that is, avoids heap allocation for those, unlike both Box<str> and String.
Yeah, every extra unit contributes to increasing the supply of housing and therefore decreasing the cost, which at this point has reached crisis levels.
The biggest disruption in the history of American education
Yes. I grew up in a fairly small town. If you wanted to get anywhere you basically needed to drive. Even today there is little public transportation in that area and only between a few key places. Once I got my driver’s license I was expected to drive me and my younger sister to high school. But with responsibilities come privileges as I had use of a car for going out with friends, dating, getting to jobs, etc. For much of the geographic US it’s really the only practical form of transportation. That said my wife has managed to get by all her life without having a driver’s license so it can be done and employers never ask about it unless it’s actually needed for a job.
> Demonization

This is a dramatic overstatement. You’re disagreeing about neonics, I’m sorry if that’s hard not to take personally but it seems like something than could be discussed without the vitriol.
I ordered an ASUS motherboard off Amazon a few years ago and got not one, but FOUR defective units in a row. Took probably four months to finally get one that "worked" even though it still randomly bluescreens at boot sometimes.

I've been building custom PCs for ~15 years and never had a worse experience than dealing with ASUS customer support.
I watched a lot of videos made by technicians and did a lot of reading. It doesn't take too long to study enough to get the basic certification, but that is not the whole story. I have done lots of electronic prototyping and test system creation, copper plumbing, etc., so I felt comfortable with tools and electro-mechanical systems. If your entire career has been behind a keyboard, you have a lot more than an hour of studying ahead of you.
That sounds really alarming to have to be around (no pun intended). What part of the world is this in, I was hearing something about the pacific northwest experiencing invasive Japanese giant 'killer' hornets at some point in the past couple of years, I thought the course of action in that case was calling the wildlife authorities to try and stem the spread?
Related to the Surface Pro 2, I have Ubuntu 22.04 LTS running on an 8 GiB version (i5-4300 CPU), 256 GB SSD.

It's been reasonable for what I use it for, mainly SDR applications, such as CubicSDR and GNU Radio X11 apps, and multiple CLI apps like rtl_433. Audio is good, screen is fine, and WiFi works. It's nice to have a laptop if I want to use an antenna outside.

Don't even bother using the tiny trackpad on that model's type cover. Bluetooth works so I use that for an external mouse.

Bonus: I never even thought to try the built-in video cam, and after reading the article, I installed VLC and to my surprise the camera worked!
7-zip is on the not permitted list at my work. mostly due to the russian author but also due to the issues in the story.
Which would seem to be an excellent hook for a wilful copyright violation lawsuit. This is not an accident.
Creating a NixOS thin gaming client live USB
A zip file is not a good analogy to a language model as the zip can reproduce the original exactly with 100% recall, language models have very few episodes of verbatim reproduction and coverage is spotty. A zip file can only reproduce the original, but a language model can be asked to write custom, situated code. The language model still works if you block all the training data from appearing in its output.
This variant seems worse than the dataxis one.

It's already a weakness of this "theory" that it leaves only the reference for documentation that's intended to be complete and correct, while also recommending that the reference be organised as a list of the available operations.

But this divio variant goes so far as to say that, when writing the reference, "don't allow explanations of concepts".

I believe good documentation often needs rigorous definitions of the concepts involved, not just a list of functions or configuration items or whatever.

So either the reference should have space for those, or the explanation should be in a more rigorous style, not a "more relaxed" discussion.
If your code is e.g. MIT or GPL licensed then someone else could still upload a fork to another GitHub repo.

We might really need a new clause in the license.
I'm using Notepad, simple pure .txt where I easily drop random notes. I have a single .txt file on my desktop to keep all things and that gets updated almost daily. I'm not archiving "done" things, I just erase them and that's it.
These listicles always suck because by design they make huge assumptions about priorities. Including some simple weight sliders would make these way more useful, even if the methodology was a little shaky (it always is).
I would imagine they call the YouTube API directly now. The reason it didn't in the first place is it went from random idea to implemented in about 12 hours originally (h/t Akhawais!)
I'd say your experience is atypical. When I'm preparing to buy a new device that I expect to install Linux on, I look it up and make sure that everything will work (or the steps to take to ensure everything will work.) I buy the device, install Linux on first power-up, it installs fine, I never have any significant problems that I wasn't expecting.

Instead of constantly accusing people of being religious zealots (in order to associate them with irrationality), how about just doing an hour of research before making your next attempt?