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> "Change gives the illusion of progress". I asked him what he meant and he responded with something to the effect of "They have the habit of changing big things every 5-10 years on purpose to make it look like they are productive, and to justify their own roles, one guy will come in and 'cut costs', the new guy after him will 'invest'".

That's a very succinct way to put it. I think that observation also applies to consumer technology (e.g. regularly re-doing UIs to "improve" them when the changes are either in fact regressions or just different but not better). We've had it drilled in our heads throughout the modern era that new == better (e.g. the ubiquitous "new and improved!" marketing language), but that's not actually always true. Change for change's sake justifies itself through that misunderstanding.

In the recent past, we had a really high rate of genuine technological progress. But at some point we'll have picked most of low hanging fruit and will enter a period of slower progress, where faking progress will become more an more tempting for producers than the real thing.
They have directions for setting up xcloud on steam deck so I wonder if it’s just an optimization that got messed up. If Microsoft was trying to sabotage Linux there’s far easier ways.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/xbox-cloud-gaming-...
I don’t know that it was a mistake but it doesn’t seem implausible to me.
>Playing victim usually doesn't work.

Neither does gaslighting or dismissively waving off someone else's suffering, but golly gee do responses like yours seem to make up a disproportionate amount of programmer's attitudes toward end users nowadays.

Time was you didn't need to have a multi-billion dollar tech company behind you to write drivers or low level API's because you could actually get access to accurate datasheets, specs, etc.

Now good luck if you want to facecheck some weird little piece of hardware to learn without signing a million NDA's or being held hostage by signed firmware blobs.

That's a bit beside the main point though, as my gripes with Nvidia stem from their user hostile approach to their drivers rather than their that use the drivers.

So apologies, shouting at clouds.
awesomewm is a fork of dwm with a lua interpreter and a config loader bolted on. almost all of awesomewm's additional features are implemented in lua.

someone has already made dwl, a wayland (wlroots) port of dwm: https://github.com/djpohly/dwl

the dwl codebase is very similar to dwm. some dwm patches can even be applied directly. i currently use dwl, it's part of my custom pure-wayland desktop environment built from suckless ports.

i think the 'difficult' work has already been done.
REPLs are often difficult to reconcile with AoT compilation and static analysis, particularly in the context of things like type inference (at least, in a way that preserves semantics). It's on my mental todo list, but not a priority for me.
I would love to give you a "just do X" solution for it, but when I tried it roughly 5 minutes before writing my original comment, it worked without any issues (on a somewhat up-to-date Arch Linux). Everybody in the call could hear me, see my webcam and look at my screen share.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you to get it working, though.
> So if somebody accidentally commits customer data to the monorepo

First, you use that as a "teaching opportunity" to educate that someone about why doing so is Bad for Business. Secondly, you "shun" the artifact(s) in question. Since shunning burns holes in the project history (DAG and blockchain), we (in the fossil project) invariably advise against going so unless it's absolutely necessary (publishing custom data being an example of "necessary"). There's a major semantic difference between deleting content "just to cleanup the history" vs. "to eliminate legal liability."

> , just burn down the whole company and start over?

If you prefer that approach then have at it.
> Cruciate ligament treatment for dogs is a $1bn industry

Is that true? $1bn in what sense?

TIL dogs have cruciate ligaments.
It comes up in the news precisely because it's such an unusual occurrence. Lawfare by attrition is an extremely common tactic. Having more resources than your opponent can massively tilt the scales in your favor.
He has been considering this for how long time now?

It is probably too late now to have a positive effect on inflation before the midterms. However the negative backslash of admitting defeat in a trade war is sure to be there.
It's pretty much impossible to adequately represent the books as a movie, and even a series can't really do the books justice.

The new movie does a fairly decent job of translating the books to live action.

The biggest disappointment, for me, in all of the treatments (including the movie), is the way the Fremen are represented.

I'm a bit spoiled, as I grew up in Africa, and was familiar with tribes like the Touareg, so I know what real desert-dwellers look like. I'm pretty sure that Herbert wanted them to look like that. Hard to represent, with city-dweller, millionaire actors.

Bedouin tribespeople look like dry twigs. Not much soft or fat. It would take serious self-denial to adequately represent.

Willem Dafoe would probably be able to represent Stilgar (in my mind). He'd have to go on a diet, and get a tan, though.
Finding the right place to focus the camera is essential, to both focus on the plane you are looking for as to have it focused on a spot that will produce the desired brightness in the overall picture (how that works I don't know, just advice from an ex that went to photography school for some time)
Shiori is a simple bookmarks manager, free and open source
That’s an incredibly silly take. Our whole economy is based on specialization. FedEx will never be as good at running datacenter as Amazon or Google. There’s room in the system for the cloud operator to earn a profit while still offering the product at a lower cost than anyone else can achieve in-house.

Apple fairly notoriously hosts iCloud in other company’s clouds, and they’re a computer hardware and software company! If you’re less sophisticated than Apple, it’s a no-brainer to go with clouds.
I think there is a cycle. We are now in the "happy" cycle. Entertaining movies, small problems, jokes, flashy effects just because it is cool, and the good guys win. I don't think it make inferior movies. Making a good joke is hard, and so is making the right jumpsuit, the right acrobatics and the right explosions at the right time.

Then, there is the "drama" cycle. No more jokes, this is serious business. People die, heroes are not so heroic, expect Pyrrhic victories if they win, actors get Oscars.

Personally, I like both, though I have my phases too.
Xfce is a pretty complete desktop experience, assuming you think Windows 7 was about where it peaked. You don't need to use the defaults.
Absolutely, companies outsourcing their data infrastructure to the big 3 will end up having "supply chain" and Intellectual Property issues with their data in the same way companies that outsourced too much of their supply chain top SE Asia / China did.

But by the time this becomes a problem the executive team will have cash out nice bonuses from the short term gains from cost savings...
I somewhat think of the example with Radiohead as being an exception though. While they aren't one of the top ten bands of the past 25 years in terms of popularity, they are probably one of the top ten in terms of critical acclaim. People would pay what they wanted to for Mozart. They wouldn't for Salieri.
There is also a Chrome and Firefox plug-in, but it's still in beta: https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori-web-ext
A few observations:

Seems very ML/Haskell inspired.

All tuples seem to require parenthesis.

Definitely not ergonomic on a qwertz layout (Altough, what language is?)

No current plans for an interactive/repl version it seems

No dependant types either.

Overall, pretty interesting. Definitely warrants a closer look.
> Typical Northern Protestant bigotry. As if Italians and Greeks don't have economics courses in college.

For your information I am Italian, I won’t reply to the rest of your fantasy, but I have to say that I’m very surprised that this CFA thing is popular also outside Italian economic conspiracy websites.

> They agreed under the condition that Germany's industrial appetites wouldn't be rapacious.

So you are saying that when Italy joined the euro, they asked the Germans to slow down research and development and to artificially reduce the productivity of its industry? Or does “rapacious” mean that the Germans send assassins to kill good Italian managers? Are you implying that Italians are inherently less productive than Germans?
"Smart Zones" in Windows Power Toys is not exactly a tiling window manager (it doesn't automatically tile, and you have to manually create and change layouts). But it does reduce the amount of pain when coming from a tiling window manager to Windows.
So is the language planned to be computationally complete or total?

I was not completely clear on your definition of totality. But I am all for not Turing-complete models of computation that still do useful things.
Note that this reasoning is limited to hydrocarbon burning ships. The economics of electricity (solar/battery) or hydrogen powered ships could be very different and would require huge revamps for port infrastructure anyway.
Just scrolled a quick ~10 miles, now to do 3 sets of 10 like-presses…
Hey, author here. I definitely didn't expect to see Tao on Hacker News. As is probably obvious, the language is extremely early in its life, and it's not practical to write anything but trivial examples in it yet. Please don't judge!
> I just wish the government would finally break them up so that AWS could keep it's profits and stop funding the rest of the unprofitable divisions.

I really don't get this sentiment. AWS was a loss making unit once much like any other innovative idea. Amazon funds 1000s of different ideas with the intention that few will work. If government would break up companies like this, there would be no interest in pursuing ideas by big companies and no funding for stuff which has any R and D cost.
I guess you can waste a lot of effort and money on meticulously substituting "batteries included" lock-in features of your cloud provider when the easy path would in fact have been much cheaper (substitute when needed, not prematurely), just as much as you can fall victim to lock-in traps that would have been super cheap and easy to avoid. I imagine that telling one from the other is a form of art in its own right.
There are cosmic rays of almost arbitrary energy, collisions like the ones at LHC are happening all the time in the universe. So surely these particles will have been created before somewhere else.
Obligatory:

http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
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> I think everyone that starts working with git is a bit hung up by its complexity at least for a year, if not more.

I had enough SVN merging issues so when git appeared I forced transition to git in a 3 month-period including writing Git-plugin for Hudson (Jenkins).
One would have to admit that Poland is still catching up, otherwise they would have to explain why the UK is doing so bad outside of the eurozone.
How much are you under on your first house?
I don't know why they call this a "hangover prevension pill"... manufacturer calls it a "pre-drinking" pill and it is said to break down alcohol.

So my interpretation is that it allows people to drink more. Sure it may mean that you get less hangover because you absorbed less alcohol but let's face it, that's not what's going to happen...
One has to be careful here. Sometimes physical violence is the only effective answer to stop bullying.

People often underestimate how much constant mobbing can hurt. Ignore? It gets worse. Fight back verbally? Usually doesn't work, since verbal harassers are much more versed at insulting and hurting mentally. You just can't be so good as someone who practices insults and mockery day in day out.

What choice do you have? Move the battle to the playground where, even if you can't win, you at least may have a chance to cause some harm to the enemy.

Kick the bastard with the fist? In most of the cases it works[1]. If the bully is physically weaker, he won't bully your child again. If the bully is stronger, he kicks too, there's a fight, but still, next time bully will think about consequences of insulting again.

[1] of course, physical force only in a very limited way. Overuse of physical force to actually injure someone, or use weapons and tools, is of course not a way to go.

EDIT: Physical violence doesn't always work. Frequently is not even a good, let alone the best option. But still, there are situations when it can be an adequate response, and this option shouldn't be a priori dismissed.
> The checkout command is severely overloaded;

I've been using git since 2008. I just learned a few weeks ago that I had the opposite understanding of what --theirs and --ours does on git-checkout during a rebase operation. (briefly: --ours is the branch you are rebasing onto, --theirs is the changes from the branch with the changes you are repeatedly cherry-picking into the new branch. see this answer for more detail [0])

I shudder to think how much I've screwed things up over my career as a result...

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/34260242/2492058
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Why do you mean "modify"? As in rewriting history (commits before HEAD)?
Very cool! This might be a naive question. Are your arithmetic patterns equivalent to dependent types, like those found in Idris?
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You could get that off the coast of Borneo. Perhaps not the oil towns, but not too bad.

Kota Kinabalu is about $50k-$160k on a random search, and it's got one of the most international airports in the world. Something half an hour away should be both prettier and cheaper. Good seafood. Mt Kinabalu is a balance of epic and peaceful. It's a decent place to retire.
Ahmaud Arbery was the one who was murdered by three dudes while out jogging. "Petty criminal"?
Climate change: 'Sand battery' could solve green energy's big problem
"Even the FBI/NSA has them monitoring the files on your device."

Source?
Remember that these are completely disposable products. You set it off, enjoy the kaboom, and that’s it. So you don’t have to be, like, into the aesthetic to think “that might be fun to see”; it just has to be interesting enough to add to your pile of fireworks.

It’s more like watching Austin Powers, not wanting to be the character.
For now, just total (i.e: functions can't panic, throw exceptions, etc.). I'd like to explore termination analysis in the future though!
I agree, it should be a flag. Or it should be a warning in debug builds, and an error in release builds.

I'm not sure it's nuts to build the compiler to 'fix' this, though. Customizing and building a tool really isn't such a big deal when you think about it.
You’re just comparing between consoles. But Microsoft’s Xbox division has been eating up marketshare in PC gaming as well, having replaced Windows Live Games and similar projects. And they’ve bought up a lot of game studios as well.

This behavior is normal in the console market, but not common in the PC market at all.
> Nope. Fossil remembers what happened, not what "should have" happened.

So if someone new on the team accidentally commits "node_modules" it's there in the history forever? Doesn't sound like a great feature...

The choice to discard history gives freedom to developers
KDE Plasma (of course with kwin :D) is good enough for Linuxes (Kubuntu for me to be precise).

My own jury is still out on how well it works on FreeBSD - which I am more attentive over, but I seen kwin use a lot of CPU for periods of time, spinning up the fans after a resume. But that was before I lowered the scheduling threshold from the recommendation ... but otherwise, it works fine.

But I settled because I really just don't care enough to optimize this part of my computing workflow. I guess the hip thing to describe it now here on HN is to call it "boring" ... to me, it is quite boring. :) I recommended KDE to a co-worker when deciding to use Ubuntu to get a Windows-y feel. So far, he's been happy with it too.
But almost nobody actually uses git the way it was originally intended, eg. as decentralized version control? Instead there’s a canonical master repository (on GitHub) everyone pulls from/pushes to.
Can you extrapolate that on what the effect on society looks like in your assessment?
From starting up the session on the login manager to the final state of it there're various intermediate steps. Full desktop environments (GNOME and KDE) will load everything needed for you whereas when running a window manager alone you've to do it yourself. Those Nix options set up things (essentially abstracting what you'll have done manually) in some previous step (before starting the window manager).

>why does Ubuntu etc. make it dependent on the desktop session

Because what if you didn't want them? Non-Nix systems don't have this centralized configuration model therefore they cannot provide this flexibility. Therefore they just let each session to load what it needs.
I wouldn't associate those mainly with corporate networks. The prevalence of RFC1918 use is an artifact of IPv4 and address shortage. IPv6 usage is already at 40% today.

Also hosts are increasingly multihomed, devices are likely tohave 2-3 network interfaces, with v4/v6 addresses for each. VPNs are run in "split tunnel" mode where some traffic goes via VPN and some not, so both un-tunneled and tunneled traffic is allowed simultaneously, etc.
I'm currently negotiating on a lease, 2 years .. but you're right, I should probably project things out to at least 3 years, since it'll take some time to get momentum. Thanks for the tip!
He'd better be close to the sea-- there's this infamous coconut-only dieter who basically starved to death:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Engelhardt
For yourself and the author of the article, check the amount of fingernail growth during a week containing sprints versus a week or two without.

Warm up in a sustainable way then limited sprints at an unsustainable speed.
> Considering them trying to force users over to the Windows-exclusive Minecraft edition...

Oh, I need a link for that. definitely not a fan of their java changes, but I haven't heard about them trying to force users to use bedrock.
I don’t get the “stretched explanation”, there was plenty of material. To me the problem was that the action sequences lacked the emotional gravitas of the LOTR trilogy. It was like watching a video game.
1000% this. HN loves to talk about Dropbox. I spent most of my (short, praise God) career at Dropbox diagnosing a fleet of dodgy database servers we bought from HPE. Turns out they were full of little flecks of metal inside. Thousands of em, full of iron filings. You think that kind of thing happens when you are an AWS customer?

If you are sophisticated enough to engage an ODM, build your own facilities, and put hvac and electricians on 24-hour payroll, go on-prem. Otherwise, cloud all the way.
as well as two common vitamins (L-Cysteine and Vitamin B12

Is this why there was such a big push to reclassify NAC n-acetylcysteine as a drug vs. a supplement? People already take NAC for the same purpose.
There shouldn’t be different ways to handle the same problem. It should literally be 4 features and call it a day. Simplicity is a feature.
How much should you be earning as a Data Engineer?
So? People can't spell and typos are a common phenomena.
Dad of 4 (including a very recent-born (1 May)):

- you don't need as much stuff as you think - diapers, a handful of outfit changes, wipes, car seat, sleeper/bassinet/thingamabob

- if you're formula-feeding, buy more than you think you need, and plan to get no sleep (since you'll be co-feeding with your wife

- if you're breastfeeding, support your wife since she's gonne be TIRED all the dang time!

- spend as much time as you can with the kiddo! They'll never be 1wk, 1mo, etc old again; time doesn't reverse; work/hobbies/facebook/etc will be there tomorrow (or it didn't matter in the first place)

- take pictures that include mom! She's taking pictures of baby ... make sure you photo her!

- corollary to above - put your dang phone down! They're only this old once - and they expect (and need) absolutely-constant eye-contact while they're awake!

- change diapers - it's messy, icky, blecky, and yuck! Do it anyway!

- laugh, sing (even if you're woefully off-key), and tell stories to your new one! They don't know you're doing it "wrong"! Do it anyway!
No, he missed it. He was trying to get to Porto, he ended up catching another flight the next day to Lisbon, and took a train from there to Porto.
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> but I'm afraid that the EU is not that far behind the US on the path to corrosion, corruption, and ruin. What is happening in the US, I'm afraid, is coming for everyone.

If that's how you see the US, then I'm affraid our perceptions of reality just differ too much for us to be able to have a conversation. (My take on the US is that it's one of the strongest and most robust states in the world. Objectively, it's not doing great, but subjectively - the rest of the world is mostly an even greater mess, so the US comes on top).
I had various bugs when I used Material Shell, but I did like several things about it, and I should probably give it another try. The Pop! OS shell extension is another good choice for mixing tiling with GNOME.
> However, IIRC, the original coinage of the term was about disinformation and/or news organizations that consistently traded in misinformation or disinformation.

Correct. I recall it initially as a left-leaning term coined in response to the "alternative facts" incident.
Yes, it sounds like they are about to head down the same road as many large firms who sold all their real estate because short-term investors said it was a good idea.
the question for you making that statement is whether children usually understand that to be the point. Or whether there are more effective approaches without harmful misunderstandings
Interesting. I have given frank feedback in case a team member is just coasting for long time and not doing their share. In fact many places I worked people feel free to offer their feedback even without being asked.
Some of the worst managers I've met are non-tech and trusting. A red flag is someone who says "my team can do whatever you ask them to do," before consulting the team.
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To try and steelman this line - the CNCF (a major force behind k8s) has indeed been a game-changer for OSS. It has built a way for OSS projects created by large enterprises to move towards vendor-neutral community governance.

IMO the way Kubernetes is built and maintained serves as a model for sustainable, enterprise-grade open source.
As a k8s novice, it seems apparent to me that access to physical resources from pods requires more levels of access configuration than bare metal having access to the same physical resources.

For example NFS you need to make sure the underlying hardware the k8s is running on has the mount, and then that the pods within have that access.

Whatever host level config you need to do on the VM needs to be basically replicated within each of your container images for the pods you want to run, no?

Then you have the same update cycle except across N container images instead of 1 VM?