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> Who is this strawman entity who "wants Linux to be mainstream" ? Does anyone really care?

I think it's basic human desire for things to be relatable, but more than that there are those who experience the tyranny of 'modern' life - if you interface with the world, it is perhaps natural to want to do so simply, constantly switching contexts is not productive.

I suppose, I do really care, because every time I am forced to use a system which I don't really want to use, is another time I don't really like the world I live in, I am resentful, and ultimately I really want to not care at all about the device in question.

So, for a wide range of devices I interact with, I view them as trash, because I don't care about trash either, except to remove it from my home on a regular basis.

There are others like me, I know, and there are others in similar positions but not about linux I know as well, e.g. anyone who has ever read a good book and wishes the author were more well read, and simultaneously is affronted by the cheap dime novellas they encounter while e.g. browsing a department store.

"Furthermore, it's quite easy to understand why this hasn't happened, as doing that would cost huge amounts of money and there is no incentive structure that exists to raise it."

There isn't, yet. There are various companies which have sought to bring it there. To use the (perhaps bad) author metaphor, we haven't had our JK Rowling moment yet.

There have been pushes, e.g. Ubuntu, Redhat, but so far market forces have conspired against us, not necessarily because no one cares or no attempts have been made.
yes, if 95% of everything is crap and your goal is to have everything it follows you will have a lot of crap.
Exactly my thoughts. This whole story is wild. Putting over 10 years of effort into this is mind bending.

Some people really love to write. She must have gotten incredibly lost in her fictional world. I can only imagine it must have been the case here, and at some point it just happened to be that the medium she used was Wikipedia becuase that's where it all started for unrelated reasons.
"static duck typing" doesn't exist, and duck typing alone is dogma imagined by a python developer [1].

What you are really trying to say is structural typing.

[1]: https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/247391#History
The most underrated Rails helper: DOM_id
Even Energy Vault abandoned the moronic crane thing. It is very easy to show that it stores only a minuscule amount of energy, and does not operate at all anywhere there is wind.

Their hi-rise condo for blocks also stores only a tiny amount of energy, and is furthermore extremely expensive.

Likely they will pivot to something else as foolish, but might use their market cap to buy out something that works. Most likely they would then ruin that.

Anyplace where you mean to use gravity storage, and all the height you can muster is expensive stuff you have to build, will be a non-starter. Lots of other things can make a scheme impractical, but one is always enough.

Pumped hydro is practical because you need only a pipe between upper and lower reservoir, but mainly because in most current uses the lower and/or upper reservoir already existed, and often enough the turbines too.
This reminds me of a recent documentary about a billionaire transporting trees, often purchased from families in financial distress, to his private fantasy garden: Taming The Garden https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taming_the_Garden
Impeccable? You've made up your mind based solely on the accusation (which 2 of the 5 Commissioners voted against). I prefer waiting until the defense gets its say.
Isn't that the gamble of choosing a position where such a large proportion of your income is based on a volatile stock price?

If you want protection from the company on the downside would you accept the company setting a maximum on the upside?
> Stay and complain is just a longer way of saying you wont leave over this.

Nah, if you like your current work it's worth trying to get more by complaining. It doesn't mean leaving is off the table.
To be fair "look what you made me do" is actually often pretty close to the mark when it comes to geopolitical rationales.

For a start, it was an excuse for WWII ("we don't want to invade Czechoslovakia but we've been pushed to it by the iniquity of Versailles"). And then the nuclear arms race on both sides ("we're only building missiles because you are"). And Afghanistan/Iraq ("you left us no choice/this is for your own benefit").

When you're getting into a war it's usually a good idea for a leader to blame the other guy for the cost and damage.

It doesn't make it right, it's just that along with "nuh uh not touching you", "they started it" and "stop hitting yourself", it's a common pattern to see.
Well, the Fed has a clearly stated statutory mandate of "promoting maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate longterm interest rates".

Whether pursuing this mandate inconveniences the govt or not should not be a concern (at least in theory).
When was that time?

Because classic space had rayguns, and the pirate ships had working cannons.
Reminds of HSBC - look the othere way...

> In a sprawling, low-rise building abutting pasture land in New Castle, Delaware, HSBC’s anti-money laundering staff review customer transactions and so-called alerts generated when the bank’s monitoring systems spot a suspicious transaction.

> Former employees in the New Castle office describe a febrile boiler-room environment overseen by managers uninterested in investigating transactions with possible links to drug trafficking, terrorist financing, Iran and other countries under U.S. sanctions, and other illegal activities. Instead, they say, the single-minded focus was on clearing out the paperwork as fast as possible.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-compliance-delaware-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Stern#HSBC_Money_laund...
Meteor is meatier than a bare-bones JavaScript framework, but it could be leaner.

Does anyone know where to get a good Meteor hamburger menu?

It would be incredible if it weren't so meaty!
Well then, good thing this is a fucking discussion board and not a dissertation defense where I'm on the stand and you're the committee. You can toss your hat in the ring and explain your views as well, still waiting for you to add something to the discussion Socrates. Let's uncover another fact which is that you've said nothing substantive so far and the absence of my desire to explain things to a zero-effort internet poster doesn't therefore rationally conclude the evidence doesn't exist.
This looks to be a history presentation in a medium the creator is most proficient, not a glorification or trivialisation of war, as evidenced by the epilogue.
I love this. I wish it was in English. It sounds a lot better than the regular Wikipedia.
Or a cartoon drawing of a minotaur banging Tinkerbell.
One part of the article that resonates with me is the need for composable software that uses a more sophisticated mechanism than Unix pipes to connect components to provide an integrated experience. Over the past few years I've been interested in the idea of component-based software through IPC protocols and metaprogramming. This year I've been playing around with Plan 9, and I've found its ideas of component-based software through the 9p protocol interesting. I also got to spend some time using acme, which is one of the editors that comes with Plan 9. What makes acme interesting is that I can run external commands in the editor to perform various tasks, ranging from text manipulations to tasks such as compiling code. Each output shows up as its own window pane. One could create a sort of IDE using acme's ability to run external commands.

While acme can seamlessly support external commands, a limitation, however, is there is no metaprogramming facility for changing the functionality of the editor itself. This makes acme less powerful than Emacs, which has the Emacs Lisp subsystem for extending and modifying the behavior of the editor. For example, suppose I wanted to add syntax highlighting to acme. Doing so requires modifying acme's source code. However, if acme provided some type of metaprogramming interface to the editor, then I could write code adding syntax highlighting. Ideally, this metaprogramming interface should be language-agnostic and take advantage of the 9p protocol. This would make acme just as powerful as Emacs, and in fact would give acme an advantage since extending acme won't require a specific language.

Come to think of it, some of this metaprogramming capability may already be present in Plan 9 through the use of the /proc directory, thus obviating the need for application-specific metaprogramming mechanisms, though its offered at the binary level. I'll have to investigate this some more, though.

My thought is that sophisticated IPC protocols and support for application-level metaprogramming can provide the rich interoperability that the writer of the article wants for creating composable development environments.
There is not only a single war, but many. Personally the war I fight now, the one I imaging to be "winnable enough" is about personal data possession witch means for instance my mails on my iron under my availability instead of on someone else server, a personal domain name so I hopefully being able to transfer it from a vendor to another without changing my URLs etc. That's a thing I advertise to anyone: do your best to have local tools and data.

For instance do not leave photos on mobile, sync them at least etc.
Actually, intercontinental suborbital trajectories get even higher than the space station. The space station is only 400 km up.

Newer ICBMs are actually orbital, so they don't have to go so high and thus be visible over the horizon to radar. But they obviously deorbit after less than half an orbit. It also enables them to get to the target in much, much less time.
Aye, but it's still a valid concern in a technical sense. They're not great for things outside of certain bounds of LSB

With that said/considered, I don't think it's a big deal - anyone non-technical should be happy with whatever their distribution maintainers provide.

They won't be watching mailing lists hoping to grab the latest $thing :)
2020 was obviously a very unique election because of the mail-in voting. There are various data on that (and this is not partisan whatsoever) available here [1]. You had 40 million more absentee/mail-in ballots than in 2016, paired with what were many extremely bizarre statistical changes. To give just one example, in 2016 the percent of rejected ballots that were because a person had already voted in person was 1.3%, in 2018 it was 1.4%, in 2020 it was 13.5%!

I didn't vote for Trump and don't really have a horse in this race, but I also don't feel comfortable with mail in voting as a meaningful percent of all-votes. This is even more true as the entire country becomes more polarized and radicalized. This sort of mentality is going to motivate an increased number of people to try to cheat the system, and encourage "selective vigilance" from those involved in guaranteeing the integrity of the electoral process.

And perhaps the most important point is that in terms of how a democracy functions, whether elections are fair or not is a secondary concern to whether people think they are or not. The main benefit of a democracy for a society is stability. People looking to change their political future were able to set aside their pitchforks and pick up ballots. But when people don't think those ballots matter (even if they do), then we're back to square one.

[1] - https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2020:_Analysis_of_...
You’d probably want some traffic going out on your public IP because everything going via Tor is itself a suspicious activity and likely to draw attention.

They key is to ensure only legal stuff goes out on your IP and the illegal stuff is anonymised. Which is easier said than done.
> Nazi Russia

Be honest, you came here just to write this.
considering that the video has a like two minutes long educational section without lego at the end and the fact that it is not much fun to watch this ... I would say: good job.
I thought about trying it, but doesn't look like it supports Chromecast.
I've been using TB for many years. It's not ideal, but when I've been looking to replace it - I returned to it every time. Much better UX than Outlook.

I don't need chats and other stuff though. Maybe better Exchange support (because the corporate world loves it, sigh).
(Ignorant) English people absolutely make jokes about the French being militarily incompetent and prone to surrender, in the face of significant evidence[0] - "France is the most successful military power in history".

Source: am English, am attempting to become decreasingly ignorant over time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_France

EDIT: Wait, crap, I forgot Brexit. I guess your statement remains _technically_ incorrect, since England is in (the continent of) Europe but not in the EU.
Heh. An old boss gave me what he considered a "PITA" (pain in the ass) project, which I quite enjoyed. A client had been printing cheques with an embedded bitmap in the PCL code for the CFO's signature, and then they got a new CFO.

My task was to figure out enough of the PCL to find the signature, and patch in a replacement for the new guy. I thought it was great fun, and certainly compared to bashing away on the Progress 4GL tool that was his hammer for all things.
Batteries do, and will, provide grid scale power for short periods. Beyond that, they cost more than other methods. New battery chemistries might bring costs down, but it is hard to compete with tankage for cost per stored kWh.
"A schematic diagram of the module. Component values are from curve-fitting to oscilloscope traces, so they're probably off by at least 10%."

As the modules are made of discrete components (as opposed to some thin film process) wouldn't it have been better to assume standard values, i.e.: 20k to either 18k or 22k, 4.9k to 4.7k, 155 to 150 ohms, etc. and work backwards from there?

Tooling up for such odd values would be a messy business, especially so for such a small quantity (and in that era when jigging up would have been a big effort).

Alternatively, standard components may have been used and a SOT (Select on Test) method employed to obtain those specific values (say as is done in 'film terms' matrices where exact values are of critical importance).

No doubt this could be determined by opening one of the modules and either measuring them directly or checking the color code bands on the resistors. It's very unlikely that a standard resistor made during that era would not have had the normal color coding and as far as I can recall Motorola never made resistors so it would have had to have purchased them from a manufacturer of same, Allen-Bradley (A-B), Sprague Electric, etc., so it's all the more reason the resistors would have been color-coded. (BTW, please correct me if Motorola did make resistors.)

I'm of the generation who remembers those events happening so I find it fascinating. I'd like to monitor how this project eventually unfolds.
Ah, I missed the important _would_ in your line. 100% agree on you.
If the stock is liquid when it vests, then this is not a good way to analyze your compensation. Like it or not, part of your pay is in stock and you have to deal with the increased risk associated with it. Valuing the stock at 0 is wrong. Valuing it the same as cash is wrong unless you have a very particular risk preference.
However, there is no way in hell the government would implement a privacy preserving manner, it is way too useful to have it linked to your identity. I’m such a future every opinion you have a comment made will be known by the government (+/- any third worries they wish to share it with). An authoritarian governments dream and a dystopian future for me.
Exactly, figuring out how to make an exe on Linux is a step backwards, not forward...

You need to then secure the source, handle security concerns, install AV, you might as well use windows or OSX which have extensive controls for these things already inplace...

It's convenient, but unwise.
Lots of people claim to do it on a fringe sub-reddit for internet points.

If you are doing it as a non-hourly contractor, more power to you. But advertising OE as common place really hinders the paradigm of remote work.
Nice, I like Thunderbird! Can't wait to use the import/export wizard. I always thought it a little strange to install add-ons for this functionality.

I'm also very curious to their Matrix support. I've heard about it, and maybe this move from Thunderbird makes it more accessible.

Also, a reminder to self: donate some money to the Thunderbird development team.
It is inconceivable to ask minimum wage Walmart employees to detect fraud, detect fake IDs, and conduct suspicious activity investigations. It costs much more money to conduct those checks than $1 or so that Walmart charges for its transfers. Walmart will simply stop providing those services, which were used primarily by disadvantaged populations and immigrants.
This is clearly art. Whether it is in bad taste or not is subjective, but art should not shy away from the horrors of humanity just as it should not shy away from the triumphs of humanity.

Personally I think it is excellent, and stuff like this will encourage the younger generation to ask "What was Verdun?". It has way more capacity for teaching/inspiring interest than me having been forced to sit in class and read about Verdun in a textbook.

IMO, those most willing to call for violence from behind the keyboard are those who least understand the real world consequences, those who have the least knowledge of the horrors that have come before. It's really important for people to know just how cruel and awful we can be to each other, and most importantly, how damn pointless it all was. Media like this can help bridge that gulf.
> When was that time?

It's literally written in the article that the person you are responding to linked. I'd recommend reading it.
It’s a tax benefit, in a way. I live and work in Switzerland, here the tax is paid on vesting. So, if stocks are down when vested it’s beneficial for my tax bill. I don’t mind waiting a year or more for them to go up again.
Tmux, to the point where I don’t get how others live without it. It IS my workflow.
>This can give a tingeling feeling in your lips, that is best alleviated by eating chocolate or drinking chocolate milk.

HAVE YOU lately experienced a craving for chocolate milk? If you’re lucky, it’s just a symptom of lactose intolerance. If you’re less fortunate, there’s a serious glitch in the space-time continuum.
Wait! Last time I checked it it didn't work, and I regularly check the Github project and changelogs.
Maybe it's a change in geckoview.

In any case...finally! Thanks
And with all that genocide talk, Turkey is a NATO member and was(technically is?) an EU candidate. Moreover, rumors are, Finland and Sweden will submit to Turkish demands regarding Kurds. Turkey has also led a military campaign against Armenia together with their satellite just recently. Maybe it really doesn’t bother western liberal democracies whether genocide happened. And it’s only used as a tool.
This newer research by Bart Hendrickx sheds a new light on the decision. [1] [2] The actual decision to build it was made by engineers, not the party or the paranoid military, and was based on wrong assumptions, like the US military requirements that were already known to be dropped, not making it into the final Shuttle design.

[1] https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3873/1

[2] https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3876/1
It's been implemented in a fork, not in thunderbird.
In California it takes 10 days - if you’re lucky and they don’t extend it to 30+ because they don’t feel like coming into the office (aka Covid).
Thanks.

> cache associativity

This one is annoying. Nt accesses might help, though probably not for the in-place case. You mention padding; the paper I linked uses padding as well, to shorten cycle length for inplace+parallel. Although, I would guess that dimensions which are nice to the cache will be not-nice to the blocking, and vice versa

> Of course larger loops are possible as well. But most of the time it's really the base case that's important. The base case also handles two axes most of the time, but can incorporate all the 2D optimizations like blocking.

Unless I am misunderstanding--reversing the axes of an array of shape 1e6 1e3 2 2 will have an inner loop dealing with the two innermost axes, and some extra dispatch outside of that. Which is not ideal, obviously--the inner loop only deals with 4 elements.
Depending on what you do.

We need to process, millions of documents a day, and headless libre-office is a lot faster (an order of magnitude) than driving word. So far no other library does what we need (I mostly just administers the cluster that does this).

I know that's not what people mean when they compare "speed" of office suits, but some thing's libre office does are a lot faster than MS office.

Another place where libre office is better than excel is opening and manipulating huge CSV files, with millions of rows.
I realise that different people have different needs, but I suggest that for most of us it's ownership of your own email domain name(s) that matters, so
that if an email provider annoys you you can easily switch to another one. And that in turn means you can safely try small email providers, if you care about fighting against Google's hegemony.

For my own case, I hosted my own email for years and saw no benefit, apart from the benefit that I still get from owning my own domain name(s).
Yeah, that's why I still use Opera on mobile. All the other mobile browsers including Chrome and Firefox are broken for me since I have to slide sideways to read texts.

On desktop I use Firefox exclusively. I tried several time to use Firefox mobile but the sideways scrolling was really a pain.

I can't believe no one has implemented such a basic and important addon for readability. I search for something like that about once a year but find nothing. But it's probably just me. And phreack above.
She made a statement that she should learn a craft, but she already has one. She could definitely start writing a novel in her fictional world.
This sounds like: so there is some point where a feedback loop tends to lock it all up, but it's fixable with faster hardware.
Isn't this all the more reason to remember this battle? While the Lego re-enactment does have elements of action that could be misinterpreted as glorification of war, the 2 minutes educating the viewer on the actual history seems to indicate that this is a tribute to the lives lost and an education on the horror of war.

Similarly, a Lego Auschwitz would probably be a good way to explore history. Again, not to glorify it, but to educate people in engaging ways on how horrific human beings can be to each other.
I think it’s tastefully made, and doesn’t make light of the war at all. Lego can be a neutral medium to express ideas, like play dough or wooden figurines.
Yeah lack of it is a deal breaker. I guess it needs a few more years to get it out of the door.

They said it might be fixed before the bugs 20th anniversary, so less than one year to go, but I somehow doubt it.
For people who want this feature but do not want to turn on internal flags, or are using a different browser, there's an extension that does this job.

ClearURLs Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/clearurls/

ClearURLs Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearurls/lckanjgm...

The Firefox extension is also marked as a recommended extension, so presumably has gone through some policy scrutiny, if Mozilla docs are anything to go by: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-badges