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From the Gitlab approved hardware list, today I learned that Dell has some 15.6in screen laptops that don't have a numeric keypad:

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/laptops/new-15-5560-wor...

Also supports ECC, nice!

I strongly dislike numeric keypads in general, and especially on a laptop. I want to be centered on the display, not shoved to the side. I only rarely use the numeric keypad.
Isn’t the glab cli offered on Windows? Wouldn’t you want them dogfooding that?
Well, I am one of them. Always wondered about that as well, I guess there is no modern community of “toltecs”.

Reach out to me if you want. i_ts_h(ertz) atgmail com

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A bit of a nit to clarify:

It seems your actual complaint is that if US Law Enforcement decides you are a target of interest, they would think to go to Amazon and Amazon's reputation is that they'd cooperate in handing over data, whereas the LE officers would neither bother to ask, nor expect cooperation from the Chinese companies.

The Chinese (or anyone) can certainly turn over their data to people who can arrest you, if they decide you are a target.
Like what police do regularly?

I sat in a jury for a DUI case. Their lead witness, a narcotics cop, lied blatantly on the stand in complete opposition to his deposition.

We jurors made up our minds 10 minutes in - not guilty. But this cop? He perjured himself. And not so much as a peep from the judge.
Looks super cool but I agree that the price point is high. Maybe not in the US/Canada, but I live in Mexico and it’s just not something that I can spend the money on even with a learning budget that usually only cover some % of the course.
This policy about which OS your laptop runs does not seem to preclude the use of Windows VMs (and presumably CI runners, though I bet we could see if that was the case ourselves) if it were needed. The open source nature of Gitlab also makes it easy for a developer to test things on an unprivileged personal device, I'd imagine.

If that was not enough, I believe the CI runner is written in the Go programming language, which has a surprisingly decent abstraction of OS functionality in it's standard library. Imperfect as it may be, I suspect that helps reduce the amount of effort needed to ensure individual platforms work properly.
https://archive.ph/F7GC2
I guess it's not used to spray the boat, but the water surface. I'm no expert on this matter, but I think it breaks surface tension somewhat.

I have seen people disturb the water in a pool before a high diver jumps, so I think this applies here aswell.
> Nix needs a new porcelain interface for it's CLIs.

It already has one with the 'nix' command, it just needs to be manually enabled under 'experimental-features', but once done there is basically no reason to ever touch any of the old commands.
This is a policy for personal workstations. Presumably, there is a different policy for QA/CI environments.
I think OP touches on it but even with a graphics tablet, there is no way I can create simple drawings and sketches on the computer compared to pen and paper. Even a simple box in powerpoint is:

1) Check if you are on the correct ribbon
2) Click the box icon (unless you have millions of shortcuts setup)
3) Drag and drop it
4) Maybe change the defaults which you don't like (colour, thickness etc)
5) If you are typing text in it, that rarely works out well without clicking other buttons

On paper: draw box and write text - simples.
>I haven't had problems with viruses, spyware and ransomware on Windows for years.

That's great and all, but I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. That there isn't a problem of malware/ransomware? Because there certainly is, and for most organizations the risk of malware/ransomware is much more significant than the fact that Windows gets some error reporting and usage statistics and such.
I bet when Neato found out about this they immediately almost moved production to a country with adequate labor protections and IP laws. Almost.
horrible execution most likely..... the lawn mowing robot has been a joke internally since 2011
> Gitlab ships various ci runner executables for all platforms. I use their Windows ci runner and it works well, but I wonder how they test it without running windows.

Maybe with a Windows VM.
They are riding on borrowed time, desperately trying to be viable companies. Not really an excuse though.
If I'm not mistaken they rolled this idea back real quick once it leaked and everyone got mad.
Tell that to the FE devs who add `overflow: scroll` everywhere and don't spot the problem...
The one piece of advice that most AWS re:Inforce presenters agreed on
I work there. (And have for the last 5 years.) Obviously I can't divulge anything confidential, but ask a more specific question and I'm happy to answer from my vantage.
It probably has to do with how much money you have as well
Where did they mention cost concerns? I’m reading this that it’s an IT/procurement hassle dealing with the Windows Pro upgrade licenses, on a platform they don’t feel is secure, not a cost issue.
The punitive damages are yet to be determined, and unlike the compensatory phase, for punitives the jury can take into account his net worth.
They are sufficient for pro licenses, though, which are what they mention as the required baseline.
I can accept google search doing some trickery where it goes: Okay, I found nothing, or the few things I found seemed irrelevant, however, if I replace one of your words with something similar, or e.g. I take this one word you wrote and stick a space in between (not arbitrarily, also based on 'I observe that this one word is usually typed as two words in all the pages I scanned) - then I do get results.

In other words, not a blanket 'the results for this query suck, but if I just stick my fingers in my ears and completely ignore one your words I get much nicer results so why don't I show you those?' - but a more intelligent presumption.

With, of course, the option to force the search to show specifically what you exactly searched for with no such helpful alternatives applied.
He works exclusively on dead Apple products all day, every day. How does this not result in base rate neglect?
If it makes you feel any better, it's essentially impossible to convince a moon landing hoax believer they are wrong.
But priced itself out of the market at EUR 4900...
During a fire maybe?
Ask HN: What is the most number of files you have successfully indexed?
It wasn't that long ago that you had to combine hard drives in an array to get enough space for 100M+ moderately-sized files. Now you can buy single drives with 20TB+ capacity which is big enough for about 200M files where the average size is 100KB.

File systems were never designed for fast search, so there are a number of 'file indexers' that are used to speed up searching. MacOS's Spotlight, Windows Search and Linux's locate are just a few. Each crawls the file system and uses a kind of database to store file metadata for faster lookup. Updating the database can be a slow process when large numbers of files are indexed.

What is the largest number of files that you have successfully indexed using one of these systems? Has anyone tried it on a volume with over 100M files?
Employees aren't cheap.
There's no requirement to purchase an enterprise license. Large companies just do that to save money.
Yes, and they’re still more trustworthy than a Chinese company
There can be weird differences that show up on different operating systems, even with the same browser.

For example, we ran into a difference between Chrome on Linux vs Chrome on macOS where it turns out that on macOS, if you right-click on a link (to open a context menu) it selects the text of the link, while on Linux it does no such thing. Initially we'd tested on only one platform because we assumed they'd behave the same, and this difference resulted in buggy behavior on the untested platform.
Because after you drink distilled water, tap water and most bottled water smell and taste bad.
> Here we don't have museums - but we don't miss them because we know from experience our kids can only stand being in one for about 10 minutes before they start doing that will get us kicked out if we don't leave first. A good portion of your art not kid friendly.

As a kid, I loved going to the natural history museum and the science museum. There's plenty of museums that caters to kids and that are really great with kids (not sure in the US to be honest but at least that's true in Europe). Museums doesn't mean art only.

Likewise for theater plays, that's the kind of things that are only available in bigger cities but can be tons of fun with kids.
Cooperatives are an excellent model, too. I assumed the original poster was thinking about starting a for-profit business.
There are definitely differences between mac and windows (possibly linux) when it comes to font availability/rendering(maybe?)

I've seen more than once a mac design use some font in a light weight that comes across almost invisible on Windows. I'm the only windows guy at our shop and "everyone has access to windows VMs to test" (lol)

Outside of that, now that Edge is on Chromium most of our edge cases seem to be Safari these days (everyone uses chrome/firefox except a couple management using Safari).

Which all in all I guess is a testament to our lack of full browser testing :)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Due to Microsoft Windows' dominance in desktop operating systems, Windows is the platform most targetted by spyware, viruses, and ransomware.

Seriously? Microsoft is not sitting idle and let them create havoc.

>a remote employee would typically be making a purchase of a laptop pre-loaded with Windows Home Edition

How hard is it for them to mandate a Windows Pro edition?
Street Fighter: The Movie – What went wrong (2014)
Do American companies manufacture anything in China? Yes.
Do Chinese companies manufacture anything in USA? No.

So USA can only watch, while China can actually steal.
Thank you for your appreciation! I've touched upon the pricing topic briefly here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32345899. Would you mind reaching out to me with how your %-based learning budget works? It'll be a learning experience for me, and perhaps we can find ways to help you out.

sarup@codecrafters.io
Please educate me! I often hear 'billions' quoted in chip factory related deals. What is it about chip manufacturing that's costing so much, which requires such a scale of investment? Is it the R&D, or are the factories too sophisticated, or are there too many people involved, or something else?
you're not really allowed to use those licenses in many contexts. Might be ok for a startup; but at Ubisoft we had to maintain a fleet of KMS infrastructure.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/...
What if they're worried about the telemetry that would be going to their biggest direct competitor? Not a defense, just a curious thought.
Do you also expect that mobile devs do all their primary computing from their phone?
I mean, they use Rails, and Ruby/Rails are annoying to use on Windows. I imagine Windows is a massive headache not worth dealing with considering their stack...
Curiously, the other people who responded all think it'll be downhole. Anyways, this does make the device heat practical to handle, but now you have to figure out how you're going to get the vaporized rock out and shoot your microwave laser thing through 20km of rock vapors. And we're also presuming you can keep 20km of borehole exposed to atmospheric pressure with only this supposedly glass wall thing preventing formation fluids from flooding the borehole. If that cracks anywhere and floods it with high pressure hydrocarbons, maybe you could seal it up before all of your surface hardware gets blown up, but what do you do next? Oil wells have procedures for how to circulate heavier fluid back in to get the well back under control, but I have no idea how you fix a failed glass wall thing.
Did you ever use it?

I have, extensively, and found the user experience excellent. Still miss it now I'm using github plus a bunch of other tools.
And both the browser and cli vary by platform... Quite a bit, in some cases.
Testing Time-Based Features with Feature Flags
There’s something telling about companies that put sales over common sense.
I may not leave a legacy but I'll know that a TODO app I wrote is in an arctic vault.
It looks like they only announced it yesterday... and yes have already rolled it back?

But for... "Now makes vague pledge to shove inactive repos into slow object storage."

Not sure what that means. If the project isn't still available at the web and git URL it always was, that's a problem for open source.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/05/gitlab_reverses_delet...

It's kind of shocking to me that they didn't realize how it would upset people, makes me think they are a bit disconnected.

OK, here's the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350180
> To approve the use of Windows, GitLab would have to purchase Windows Professional licenses
I've been a professional artist for twenty years. My preferred method of working is to place colors directly against each other without the safety net of hard, high-contrast outlines to save me from the muddy pit of samey values. I have to be aware of this problem pretty much every day of my working life.

I am curious how you think I could have said "dude you are making this so fucking hard on yourself by choosing to have next to no value contrast, here are some ways I regularly have to check that I'm not doing this by mistake, good luck figuring out how to get everything else so amazingly perfect that it overcomes this giant deliberate flaw" without sounding "arrogant".
I run docker desktop on my windows machine which I have setup for k8s and have gitlab running as a helm deployment. What's wrong with having windows but using WSL for dev work. That's how most of my flow works, I installed gitlab this way because I want to learn its cicd stuff without having to rely on the work instance or gitlab.com. I prefer selfhosting.
Find out what companies use you open source project
Companies use open source and this open sauced conversation is about just that. Knowing which companies use your code makes approaching for the most advantageous maintainers looking for funding.
That wasn't my experience. In college a roommate spilled a pint of beer on my ZenBook. They replaced the keyboard for me even though I was clear that it was an accident and not a product failure.

I've bought zenbooks ever since then, and they've been great.
>Anyone who thinks the FED will lower rates next year is delusional.

Literally nobody thinks that.
Free speech exists for a reason - to allow a society to introspect and for truth to be explored and expressed. When one monetizes lies and conspiracy theories, manufacturing false narratives as truth, speech ceases to offer a positive value to society and its freedom should be less protected.

The justice system is designed to find out the truth about disputed events or actions. Deliberately lying to it is a direct attack on its mission and should be considered a criminal offence.
I agree with this nitpick. Unfortunately, I think we are losing that battle, because more platforms are adopting the hidden scrollbar (anti-)pattern.

That, however, is bound to happen even if you have Windows workstations. It happened at a job where I was, in fact, running Windows, because the designer ran macOS and was oblivious to this issue. (Of course, I would fix it when spotted. But it still managed to make it out to prod at times.)
It's only a big deal if you're poor, though. It says so in the Constitution... /s
Just thinking today of a dark pattern that Twitter uses, amongst others.

"Would you like notifications to your desktop?"
"Yes"
"Not now"

For any web site designers who think this is acceptable, there will be a special purgatory for you. The opposite of Yes is "No". If you want a third option, "remind me later", great. Otherwise, piss off.
Opcache is integrated into PHP since 5.5. It's been stable for around two decades.

https://www.npopov.com/2021/10/13/How-opcache-works.html
Good luck making it work! :)
>Change is typically hard, in my understanding of life, and changing where a physical product company manufactures everything is horrifically difficult.

Yes, but if any company has the money and the power to make those changes happen, it's Apple.
TL;DR: his favourite feature (hard click on keyboard to move cursor) was not removed (just relegated to "hard click on spacebar")
Same for me

How i use windows (when i REALLY need it, it's rare nowadays):

- in a VM, behind a firewall, with a linux host

I maintain a minimal image, and i copy it whenever i use it, and i throw it once i finish using the VM

And you can even play your favorite games using that technique, KVM/GPU passthrough to the rescue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7SG7ccjn-g
> The ruling class

Who, exactly, are you referring to with nonspecific language like that?
A direct comparison with AUR is meaningless though. AUR is very unusual because it allows anyone to freely upload packages without going through review. So there are many duplicates and packaging quality varies wildly.
Testing for Windows on a non-Windows machine is far easier than testing for macOS on a non-macOS machine. Of course, having people use both is better. IIRC, Steve Klabnik uses Windows to ensure that Rust supports the platform well.
Why are you shocked? So far, up until this point, he's been able to escalate his behavior with absolutely no lasting consequence.

He probably honestly thought he could bluster his way through this. He probably still thinks he can scream his way out of it.

It's literally Jerry's move in Rick and Morty, "I just kept crawling and it kept working"
>Not that I need 64g,

Blasphemy!! I hope you got out of the way of the lightning bolt that surely came to strike you down for such preposterous speach! That's like saying "I don't need that 4TB SSD, 512GB is plenty"
I did. I never saw any reason to prefer it over Github, which has a nicer, faster interface. Really what I want is an open source Github.
Compiles/transpiles into code that runs on a "host" language execution environment (nodejs, JVM, CLR) instead of it's own VM implementation, or native code.
Remember when Yo was supposed to solve the notification fatigue?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)
While that's broadly true, it's clearly not the case here.
For many years, and in so many companies, the policy has been the opposite.

All company laptops must have windows, anything else needs to be vetted by the IT admin.

Now that the Edge browser works fine on Linux, there's really no need for all these licenses, and someone needs to start to break the unhealthy dependency every company has on Active Directory.
> 118 CHF (123 USD) to have ...

I see its time for the weekly reminder that one does not need to purchase standards directly from ISO.

What you do is you go buy the "regionalised" (a.k.a. "EN-ISO") version which, for all intents and purposes, is exactly the same document.

EN-ISO versions of ISO documents are available at far, far lower prices.

See for example the online shop at the Estonian Centre for Standards and Accreditation[1]. You don't have to live in Estonia or Europe to buy there.

[1] https://www.evs.ee/en/
Kinda. The problem is your threat model, no? If you think of US law enforcement as adversary, using Amazon products is a very bad idea.
Sadly (but correctly) nothing is public, no one ever sees any data, it's a service. Pure FNN (feedforward NN) models, if I recall correctly is also ~30 to 40%.

Since the server doesn't work for all types of data, and probably folks that are experts in ML would do their own hyperparameter tuning, and custom models, this leads to the bias on the type of datasets that are compete.

But this share have been consistent over many months of various unrelated datasets, I believe.
A couple years ago, they removed the VPN apps from the chinese app store, anything after that is nonsense marketing blabla for everyone not living in the US
The pi/2 argument is interesting.

Could you explain why a cycle is ambiguous in 3D? It seems like for any choice of coordinates, one cycle would always entail a return to an original point. But I'm probably misunderstanding.
404 page inspired by the Macintosh 1984 OS
Even a simple to-do list. Crossing an item off with pen on paper provides a much more satisfying feeling of accomplishment than deleting the task or striking through the text in an app.
This has worked well for me:

1. Sort reviews by recent; average MUCH lower than overall? Avoid.

2. Use Lustre.ai to suggest alternatives (site or browser plugin).

3. Read 1- and 2-star reviews; many re: misleading features/broken functions?
Avoid.

4. Check most helpful negative review.

5. Search reviews and questions for what you've learned in steps 3 and 4.

6. Ignore short to medium reviews explaining nothing and using glowing superlatives.
I could be wrong but my understanding is that technically lawyers are liable if they put someone on the stand they know is going to lie. I’m surprised that isn’t enforced more often.
> macOS is preinstalled on Apple computers and Linux is available free of charge. To approve the use of Windows, GitLab would have to purchase Windows Professional licenses, as Windows Home Edition does not satisfy GitLab's security guidelines.

They are in favour of Linux for it being free, implying that they do not want to pay for Windows.
Reading further on the page, the "Laptop Repair" part is interesting :

>If your laptop is broken and needs to be repaired you can take it into an Apple repair store. You should ensure that you have a recent backup before doing so, and that your laptop is not your only registered device for iCloud two-factor authentication.

>If the repair is not going to be too expensive (more than $1000 dollars USD), go ahead and repair and expense. If the repair is going to take longer than a day then you need to make sure you have a back up laptop to work on that is non-Windows.

It seems like you need to have TWO Apple devices, to be on the safe side...
I am in the same camp, my roomba is collecting dust (pun intended) in a corner. And they are so noisy and take so much time.

From furnitures that aren't compatible to kids leaving socks on the floor or the gf laptop charging cable or ... these things get stuck all the time. I bought back a regular vacuum cleaner and mop manually. It is not that big of a deal. Actually the floor is the easiest and fastest part when it comes to cleaning a house.
At least in my country, there is a smoking specific tax with proceeds that go to smoking related research and healthcare
Will we really be though?

Chips are getting put into everything now and will only continue to expand as they get cheaper. Amazon and others putting Alexa or equivalent into everything. Necessary or not. Coffee is done, pings a phone. Dishwasher, etc. Not to mention vehicles.

I wonder how long until my drill needlessly records how many holes it has drilled over it's lifetime. Or so that I can rent it and pay per hole drilled.

Make more and they will be used. As much as I will personally miss dumb equipment that just worked.
I mean if you don't want to fiddle with it I really don't get why you would choose Guix to test drive this way of managing your packages. It's the way less mature and less supported Nix.