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> I don't care who is to blame. It just is.

You already know the answer to this: if you don't like it, you should fix it! It's open source! In other words, the all too familiar blaming the victim.

It's silly, yes. Especially since there are at least 5 ways of making self-contained, one-file or single-directory distributions of software under Linux. Discord comes as a zip file that you need to unpack, then click on the "Discord" executable - and done. Joplin (my note-taking app choice) uses AppImage, where you download a single file and run it, done. It can be done. Yet, it's not done in the vast majority of cases.

You're not interested in reasons why it's not being widely adopted, so let me just talk to myself. Personally, I'd blame package managers. They are too good, too convenient, to the point that not using them is a real hassle. Those of us who remember the dependency hell won't give up package managers until death do us part. Yet, there are too many of them. Having 3 different pkg managers on a single system (deb, snap, flatpak) is sheer madness.

There's also obsession with dynamic linking combined with reluctance to bundle the required libraries with an app (because updates! we would need to actually track development and test new versions of libraries as they appear, who has time for that?!), and a few other problems. As a whole it's a societal problem that won't go away in the foreseeable future. It's also... not a bad problem to have. It guarantees a heavy push-back against app stores, at least.
We will be ruined.

But at least we got something something demoncrency to some random country 90% of us have not been able to identify on a map before the war. I mean.. come on, it is not some brown-people shithole like Syria, Iraq, Yemen that it was totally OK to bomb. This is the evil Russia who we are talking here about!

And we are the good guys.

Better to live poor in a recession than having some random corrupt country where people anyway dont care who robs them being part of Russia.

NOT MY WAR.
I Sell Onions on the Internet (2019)
Reality is often stranger than Fiction.

I put forth some plausible scenarios with sources whereas you have no data nor information to backup your simplistic viewpoint (except of course the assassin's say so). There is no nuance in any of your posts which is quite sad actually. As the saying goes; "It is the mark of an Educated Mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it". Perhaps you lack the needed Education. Here is a link to start with : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(international_relatio...
Calibre is awesome to use on desktop. But as someone who wants to sync his Calibre library with other devices (iphone + ipad), it gets really frustrating.
We could do that, but the amount of preventable suffering that decision would cause, to me, makes that a bad decision.

I'm sure an argument to stop research in lifesaving medicine is easy to rationalize if you're in a privileged position where you don't have to deal with your children dying from malaria or being born with HIV, your elder family members slowly disappearing to Alzheimer's, or your partner's body withering away to cancer
Full stack JS, everything is a double down to the SSD firmware!
Of course it is controversal. There are sucessful businesses like Uber, AirBnB, Amazon etc. that base their success on collecting profits and outsourcing social costs to others. They have a lot of customers among HN readers and quite some supporters.

They also get some criticism.
AWS is quietly getting better at open source
Wind installation and Wind gear are completely different things.

On the former, it's not a competition.

On the later, Chinese state massively subsidized the industry with the objective of wiping out foreign competition.

That said, few saw a war with Russia coming.

The Greens are the #1 culprit, for their social destruction of Nuclear over the last 50 years.

If we were to have expanded Nuclear at the pace of 1980 we'd be within striking distance of getting away from fossil fuels.

It might be too late now.

It's going to be a crappy winter and I have no faith that politicians will be able to do the big pie in the sky strategy things necessary.

A Nuclear rewnewal, alongside doubling down on renewables is in order on 'Marshall Project' scale.

The stakes are high now.
Solar/wind is highly overrated in Europe. Nuclear is really the only option in Europe that's climate change friendly. Incredible that there's been a push away from it.

Realistically, in this new world (since Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's coordination and complicity in it), there's zero reason for China or Russia or any of their allies to coordinate with the rest of the world to reduce greenhouse emissions, especially when their economies are so heavily dependent on greenhouse gas for their energy sources and GDP. Deglobalization is going ahead full-speed, and the forces based upon globalization were the only real way to rein in other countries' behaviors in a peaceful way.

So why should the US and EU cripple themselves? The world is in a state of war, and we need to start acting like it. Nuclear energy is a great solution that solves both climate change and energy demands, but it will take a long time for any country to get there.
Was in an uber once, driver told me he did 14 hour days and was very happy with the money he was making. From memory, 4k £ (UK) though maybe I misremember.

14 hour days, eh? I didn't ask if he thought that was safe. Uber should never let that happen but clearly they were ok with it, or with carefully not looking.
It is not "right now". If nuclear was still an option, cheap electricity was an option, a lot of households would have electrical heating, heat pumps and etc. Now they all depends on gas for some time now because of these politics.
That's the thing, we are slowly figuring out how to produce all that shit for consumerists without wasting too much non-renewable resources (which is the same as fixing climate change)
What is definitively clear by now: They never did a proper "worst case" planning. They haven't thought through that case (no more Gas coming from Russia).

It is ok to take some risks. It is not acceptable to be without a plan once these risks materialise.
I have to be honest and say that I don't know a lot about watches. But when I see things like this, I really want to figure out how to make them.
Primal? Maybe it just wasn't for you but that's one of my favorites. There are so few stone-age games around and Primal was just great.
Those graphics look comparable to the NES, which as I said above had better graphics than the C64, but it seems that the MSX2 had a much slower CPU (a 3.58 MHz Z80), and possibly as a result it apparently didn't have a GUI environment comparable to the C64's GEOS. Also it only had 48K.
So Asia is one big thing?
There's no reason for any restrictions, if the healthcare system is not in danger of being overwhelmed.

Risk is a fact of life. And arguably your wish for everyone to wear masks and have compulsory vaccinations focuses disproportionately on one particular, small, risk, in comparisons to other much larger risks, such as travelling on public roads.

Road traffic accidents are a bigger killer of young people, and yet no-one is calling for the speed limit to be drastically reduced.

I think the preoccupation with COVID comes from particular human fear of viruses (invisible, lack of control), rather than an actual measured response assessing all the risks we deal with everyday living normally.
Shinzo Abe’s Death Highlights Fringe Japan Political Party That Criticized Him
For Windows, Google used to have something like that. Because it's Google, it has since been discontinued [1].

Mac's finder is close to what you have described, and works reasonably well for me.

On Unix, this sounds like something a grep one-liner (maybe with some document depacking/packing pipe for Office documents) would do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop
What use is market power when the big three have lawsuit power? Spotify operates on their mercy. The only reason they haven't destroyed it is that they own a sizable chunk of it. And let's be clear, Ek is fine with this arrangement.

Spotify could (and should) "rebalance the scales" with per-user licensing, rather than per-play licensing. That would reward the music that's actually keeping users subscribed, rather than makers of replaceable background music that plays 12/6 in some hair salon.

But last time there was a push for that, the (big three) labels stopped it. Now, the labels claim to be open to it but Spotify is resisting it - I think it may be the labels yanking the chain still.
Nope. They are the same in this regard. You don't own it. Not as obvious with most cars today but it is starting to become so with some new cars coming with software subscriptions. Though really if you think about what it takes to repair a car you already see that you don't own it. It takes tools that the manufacturer sells to interact with the software, and no specs/documents on how that works either. Black boxes all the way down.
The much simpler explanation is that Merkel is not an independent agent but the agent of her party, even if the was running it with an iron fist, she was beholden to the whims of the voter base. And the party advertised itself on a platform of "no change". So reliance on gas built up by Gas-Gerd Schröder was never built back but only strengthened as to not endanger status quo.
Great to know about that non JS thing
First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Official NASA Broadcast)
Some parts of the east bay are really friggin windy. I used to live on top of a hill near the carquinez strait and during windy season they'd easily exceed 60mph during a storm.

Like once every other year a bunch of fences would get demolished lol.
> x86-64 system with four gigabit ethernet ports

This is an annoyingly unfilled product space. I keep on wanting and the market keeps failing to provide something small, cheap, and with 2 gige ports. Heck, I don't even need x86_64, as long as there's a well supported Debian port.

Anyone have suggestions for even two gigabit ports and the lowest possible price?

Also, I'm curious if anyone has concrete examples of advantages of anything other than Debian for my router. I want to know if I'm missing out on cool features or some such :)
generics arent the same as the original drug. The level of testing required to get a generics approved is ridiculous (basically just a dissolution profile test) and does not give a full picture at all on how the efficacy and safety profile changes in the body.
Reverence. I don't say this as compelling advice, just a description of an alternative. Prayer and worship can instill a sense seriousness, reverence or solemnity (depending on the faith) that you can carry with you anywhere and takes the sting out of boring events.

People are leaning in to a kind of false compassion and habitual relationship. If you can tolerate the falseness of those types of relationships, just get into the habit of responding to whatever people say with a pre-canned response and giving blood into really boring events reflexively.

If you're joking around just to fill in the boredom and making white noise out of the grind, that's going to get on people's nerves. If you're laughing cause there's something joyous (or sorrowful) to laugh at, there's meaning behind that and you're more likely to find those moments accepted.
It seems to be a convention those days to use `#!/usr/bin/env sh`. At least it's a single entry point. Why can't we just write `#!sh` I never understood.

Another interesting snippet from your link:

"Furthermore, on systems that support executable scripts (the "#!" construct), it is recommended that applications using executable scripts install them using getconf PATH to determine the shell pathname and update the "#!" script appropriately as it is being installed (for example, with sed)."

So there could be systems which does not support shebang yet claiming to be POSIX?
I can sympathize with your point of view and it’s fair if people want to only care about their own back yard. But if we take that path and give up on Ukraine, the EU as a project is fucked. I won’t repeat what other commenters mentioned, but our (EU) energy strategy has been pretty bad. Hopefully we can turn things around.
Non paywalled article :

https://archive.ph/MfUTC
> More likely you are seeing that content because something indicates to the algorithm that you like such content. Very bluntly, you are most likely telling on yourself right now.

This is true for literally every giant app/site. Is it "telling" that everyone thinks Youtube is full of conspiracy theory videos? Or that Twitter is a cesspool of outrageous political commentary? Of course you can shield yourself from it somewhat, and maybe the biggest accounts are not cesspools at all (Cristiano Ronaldo or whatever). The point remains that the content is low-level and the algorithm encourages engagement by the lowest common denominator.
Nope, by default you should apply the 80/20 rule and tackle the big 20% of the costs that cause 80% of spending. Anything else is just pocket money.
The second video I linked is from 4 years ago and highlighted updated designs
Can Valve legally keep distributing a game a publisher has retired and killed? I would not think so.
Why is this at all surprising?

In any status-conscious society (read: any human society), given enough time, the people who make it to the top will invariably maximize opportunity afforded to their affinity group (i.e. offspring) at the expense of everyone else. This process manifests itself regardless of the role merit plays in the sorting algorithm. If the rules are relatively meritocratic (and relatively stable), and merit broadly defined is largely a heritable trait either via genetics or culture, it follows that given enough iterations, a structure will eventually emerge that exhibits strong nepotistic tendencies. The growing call for greater diversity and equity among high-status occupations is a reaction to this phenomenon.

Alternatively, many long-lasting power structures throughout history attempted to mitigate the phenomenon of hereditary nepotism via the policy of enforced celibacy among the elite class: eunuch advisors in many classical near-Eastern empires, Catholic clergymen, etc.
* use PodMan, docker, or?
Here's something that makes me angry:
We (as in Europe) were in a refugee crisis for a long time. And yet, many countries washed their hands clean of it - with the most demeaning and undignified rhetoric.

For instance, the majority of Polish citizens have not shown a single bit of decency towards refugees from Syria and Iraq - for decades. Almost no refugee was allowed in, and other were treated like subhumans.

Now there is a sudden sympathy for refugees - and we ALL know the true reason for it: They are white Christians.

If you'd listen to Syrians, they'd tell you the same horrible stories about war. But a good portion of Europe, especially the portion of Europe that suddenly has discovered its morality, did not listen.
The hypocrisy of it all makes me angry - and I am not particularly interested in treating this war as any more - or any less - horrible than the last one.
Guile Steel: a proposal for a systems Lisp
This apparently also happened two years ago?

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15673/dell-hpe-updates-for-40...
Too bad they never made a sequel to Tron: Legacy
This is the "You don't need to pay the whole price, pay only what you use" scam. Based on the fact that people don't know how much they need and when they need it. Like electricity being cheaper at night or at certain hours but being mainly used during the day (those people cannot afford electric cars, they have to wash during the day with a noisy washing machine and they have to cook during the day).
No, licenses-for-million-money did not exist outside of some markets.

Previously you'd get into taxi and then tell address. And refusing not-profitable-enough service was illegal. Now drivers see the route beforehand and can skip it.

A job should allow people to make a good wage and make a living out of it. It shouldn't be race-to-the-bottom for the profit of few by sacrificing quality of service.
Can we collectively agree that the reason why people are reporting very different experiences with cabs before uber, is because cab-rides in different locations were very different experiences?

In London, the chance that calling a cab (or even the less regulated minicab services) would result in a no-show seemed remote. In San Francisco, it was a regular occurrence. In the rural UK, calling a cab would have been a rare, expensive event, and would require finding an unoccupied local driver among a very small subset.

I'm sure there is even a wider variety of taxi implementations worldwide.
Safari has its own, built-in implementation of that called Live Text since last year. Just try highlighting any text in the image and voila - it works.

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/preview/prvw625a5b2c/m...
This extension is a privacy nightmare. "By default, when you begin selecting text, it sends a secure HTTPS request containing the URL of the specific image... The server responds with a list of existing translations and OCR languages that have been done."

That is some pretty sensitive data to keep around. There seems to be some rudimentary thinking around privacy: "no user tokens, no website information, no cookies or analytics" Yet keeping an index of all the image requests from any IP would not pass muster by any GDPR lawyer I have met.

http://my-support-group/advice-for-disease.jpg
http://my-political-group/campaign-ideas.jpg
http://my-therapy-group/suicide-prevention.jpg

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
And this is why we need finished products that does not require Internet access, on physical media.
Some of us believe it's a mistake to give mere words that much power.
Scientists artificially select invasive squirrels who are suspicious of devices that look like a trap creating an out of control wave of super squirrels. Also, they better be certain this doesn't affect species like eagles and hawks that eat these things.
% of degree holders as a population vs % parents of people with degrees is misleading - trend for getting degrees as a % of population is increasing and parents with degrees is lagging by around 10-20 years (ie. it will be 10-20 years before all the people that have degrees now can have children old enough to attain a degree).

So even if this probability reduces to 4 times more as likely, the % of population with degrees keeps increasing you'll see the pattern article is describing.
Currently in 2020. Later the primary source becomes India. China actually did put an end to the shipping.
Currency conversion is nothing you have to sell yourself to Google for. Just bookmark a bank, a financial or an academic research site that seems trustworthy. I have used the same ones for over 20 years, probably found them using Altavista at the time...
It's not a news article. It's an editorial; an opinions piece, and clearly delineated as such.

Comments like this appear often in Hacker News when an editorial is posted. You should familiarize yourself with the different sort of features and sections in a newspaper.
I have been discussing this with friends in-loco, and they witness - especially bewilderingly to the many of us that strongly plan in terms of business continuity - that backup plans are culturally not a priority in current Germany.¹ Friends report that it is seen in daily live in firms and elsewhere. Quite a strange note.

¹Consistently, they apparently put backup plans for worst-case scenarios "there where they must" (there where they must only - where it is part of the scripted plan, there where it is consolidated practice), not as a general consideration.
While we're at it, why don't we split up and de-militarize Germany too? You wouldn't mind being under the Russian yoke again would you? Actually, better yet, why don't we go ahead and have Russia just directly annex the eastern part of Germany and send all the Germans living there to the far east. After all, if you're willing to dish out such terms to another sovereign nation, you should accept the same being done to yours.
Coming from Eastern Europe... Here the fear is that Western Europe will end up in bed with Putin and sell us off.

Here anti-Russian notion was written in genes in cruel ways for generations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...
Again, what does this have to do with being blind? Whether you can see or not, summaries are nice to have; and whether you can see or not, you still need to read the code in case the summary isn’t accurate, as it typically isn’t
It's so weird Windows never gets mentioned in the privacy discussion. Competing over what people do on the Web and phone apps them might have more economic impact than what MS collects, but MS has a more ingrained view of someone's electronic life via the OS. Deleting TikTok and installing an Adblocker is an order of magnitude easier than switching to Linux or Mac.
Engines are not crash structures in gasoline vehicles. It’s the frame rails that are designed to soften the impact. Having more empty space in front of the passengers actually makes it easier to dissipate energy over a longer period of distance/time before parts start to intrude on the passenger compartment.
Europe generates a lot of electricity from gas.
This is the price we pay for years of dependence on Russian gas. The US has long warned EU leaders (especially Germany) about this, but they refused to listen.
> cab-rides in different locations were very different experiences?

Sure. I'll agree with that.
the subtle unsaid reason is often that the publisher wants users to migrate to a different/newer iteration of the game.

They do this by killing the old version.
Program Management 101
According to this logic, the United States should never have liberated Nazi Germany.