skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's just not true that if ZFS metadata is corrupted, then the entire pool is gone. ZFS is a transactional file system, so the pool will be put in a faulted state, and it gives you the option to roll back to before the faulty transaction.

It is true because ZFS on Linux crashes very quickly when metadata is corrupt. It can't roll back transactions because it'll crash almost instantly even looking at your pool, not to mention when scrubbing it.
The ^V your friend had entered in insert mode will escape the ^Z so your friend just typed the line

^Zkillall vim
That looks like a nice machine.

At school we were taught to use mechanical adding machines similar to this. Ours were made to sit flat on the desk, and had a crank-handle on the side. They were a lot scruffier than that Certa!

Within a year or two of those lessons, cheap electronic calculators became available.
> These can be quickly transported elsewhere to ensure they can setup elsewhere and prevent the tech from falling into China's hand.

Wouldn't it still take quite a long time to get a new fab to the point of being productive? These machines aren't exactly sitting in storage by the hundreds, and I imagine you'd also need to dial in all the processes pretty well to get good yields? (though I have no idea what that entails...)
The Sam Text Editor

http://sam.cat-v.org/
> If you don’t, you are asking for data loss, regardless of what filesystem you use.

Backups have a delay. A filesystem that fails catastrophically is significantly worse than the one that doesn't.
I think we’re used to tools using convention over configuration more and more, which is great, but as nix is trying to solve a different problem it is all about configuration, which makes it really hard to understand. Maybe it would help to have a GUI or a local webapp to sort of show the state of what you have and debug things… not sure.
Seriously, this fcuking, narcissist, egoistic, market-manipulating, fcking guy!..
The earliest Apple camera that I'm aware of was the external iSight webcam which had both an LED to tell you when it was on and an iris that physically blocked the lens by twisting the camera head:

https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2015/12/isight-02...

That was good privacy-first design.
> If you increase user friendliness of the app with a GUI or easily understood commands not only will more regular people start using it, but MORE developers will start using it too.

Making a GUI for generating Nix config is a complex task (and maybe not a better approach than providing a highly discoverable, user-frindly IDE experience, like DrRacket or something), so nothing like that is complete yet. But there are efforts along those lines that are still actively being worked on.

NixOS has also recently seen the addition of a graphical installer, for reasons like you describe. It's nice to see that kind of progress.
> It's still a really hard problem demanding culture, animal, and human tests, and those take time and money.

But is there a distinction between drug discovery and drug development? Because in my totally uninformed brain AlphaFold could contribute to the former, but not the latter, which seems to be the focus of this sentence.
I’ve had a camera cover since 2015, hasn’t damaged any of my macbook pros or macbook airs. Not gonna stop using one.
"We want Nix to ne ubiquitus"

And there it is. Every time I hear about Nix, the goal is to convince me to adopt it, as if it was some kind of religion. Every time the Nix folks are being too pushy about it.

Just stop pestering random project maintainers with Nix. If a project maintainer likes Nix, they'll add the Nix files. If they don't have Nix files, that doesn't mean they want to sign up for Nix advertising.
Could they mean a GUI for package management rather than OS installation?
To be fair, phones are pretty locked down. An iPhone is probably the most secure computer that is easily available to (and able to be kept secure by) ordinary consumers.
Lots of Crazy ideas. Rebuilding everything we currently called Tech. From Search Eninge, Social Network, Web, OS, Smartphone, PC etc. I guess these are more like dreams rather than Goals.

But I would love to start the push to rebuilding the Supply Chain across the world.

Hopefully I can quit my current job soon.
This actually happened with my friend's laptop. They were using a physical camera cover for a while and it was fine, but one day the laptop fell (not very hard) and the screen LCD cracked right down the middle (half the screen was green, very gruesome).
Not really - if they wanted they could come up with some bullshit marketing it as a "feature" - e.g. "Now with Cover to protect the high resolution retina lens of the camera" etc. I suspect they don't want to include a camera cover, (and would prefer to discourage the practice) so that they can use it to collect more data (lighting, environment etc) and to improve FaceID (hopefully only for those who have enabled it).
I don't think Eclipse is Open Source Visual Age for Java. Both came from IBM but...

When the IBM rep cam to our company explaining the change he explained what changed and 3 of the points were why I used VAJ and Eclipse did not have them (at the time 10 years later it nearly had them).

VAJ worked with an included JRE that allowed you to edit code as it ran.
VAJ included a GUI builder
VAJ was organised around code structure and not files e.g. you chose packages and classes and methods and not by files.

VAJ was based on the VA Smalltalk environment.
But people are still using Apple products and seems fine with the totalitarian approach. Perhaps they care more about delivering values to the general customers, e.g. no physical cover for slightly smaller form factor? (if this is the constraint against having a physical cover)

Perhaps it's just me, I wonder why would people say that they love open-source while using devices with such a closed ecosystem, using various approaches to make it incompatible other things.
I would happily buy a smartphone with replaceable battery, which will be surely available in 2-3 years, but those are just not made anymore. Europe mandated all the phones have USB-C charging capability in two years. Maybe it's time to standardize batteries too?
Really similar to one I have already seen on Photoshop. My goal was comparing the pdfs without any Adobe, my editors do not have license for that.
Well Apple could enforce a single settings to drive all apps. The equivalent would be EU mandating by law a centralised privacy setting on browsers to state we only allow necessary cookies. That might come but some companies would have been kicking and screaming even more.
How is that even comparable? A Laptop's camera is always pointing at you or your room. A phone's camera is mostly in your pockets or pointing at the ceiling.
the camera covering never made sense to me and just seems like amateur hacker paranoia. if there truly is a "They" monitoring our every action in front of a computer, why are They more concerned about what we look like over what we're saying or doing on our computer?
Comments like this bug me.

If America had this kind of attitude during world war two it never would have supplied the world with the machines needed to win the war.

Not only is this easier than previous mobilization against existential threats but we have better technologies for communicating and computing than ever before.

If the logistical problem of coordinating underpaid illegal undocumented workers to shift between the walmart parking lot and home depot parking lot with surplus workers going and banging out a few McDonald's and Denny's restaurants is too much I gotta say we're fucked man.
Apple produces almost 100% of their processors at TSMC (Samsung was making some previous gen if I recall). If Taiwan falls, Apple falls.

The US economy will be in ruins, and nothing can stop a large scale military conflict.
Still, there are meta-analysis of studies with interesting conclusions.

One example: https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/advance-article-ab...
This simple thimg, as easy it is after someone points it out, extebded my old Pixel 2s lige by, so far, another year.
You can take advantage of hybrid user interface with Win-vind you know[0]

[0]https://github.com/pit-ray/win-vind
My goto for useful examples is tldr: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr.
They’re saying all brands use planned obsolescence to force consumers to buy lightbulbs (from any brand) more often, increasing sales for the whole industry, not one specific brand.

This is how the Phoebus Cartel worked for incandescent bulbs. Every brand was in on it, it wasn’t about improving market share for specific brands.
Not really. The "overdriving" (really just choosing a higher point on the current/output curve) is part of how they deliver that 600 lumen. If you put half as much electricity through those same LEDs they would in theory last longer. You could deliver 600 lumens for under 7w (but not as low as half) using a more expensive array of LEDs driven less hard and still get the longer lifetime, but it's not easy to be really sure whether the upfront cost and embedded energy would always be justified.
Some people learn by watching, some people by listening.

That's why we have different mediums for different people.

For example I can never learn visual things by listening. I learn much better by seeing or watching things.
Stopped reading halfway through... It's repetitive and with poor/no philosophical/metaphysical idea(s).

The article keeps the dichotomy you/your digital copy while, by definition, if you upload your mind your physical body will be either gone or "hibernating". No one expects to be interacting with his digital copy like in a mirror and even less make it some slave/assistant...
Somehow other laptop manufacturers starting with Lenovo have figured it out and are providing built-in physical lens covers.
The fact that I was responding to someone asking what a tight *C* loop is, nothing more.
https://www.publicschoolreview.com/blog/is-your-school-spyin...

There are plenty of other examples of cases where this specific brand of paranoia is reasonable
The proper wiki page - https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText_VS_other_editor... .

1- CudaText advantages over Sublime Text 3;
2- CudaText advantages over Visual Studio Code;
3- CudaText disadvantages compared to Sublime Text / VSCode.

Where did you get the broken link?
Can’t access this page on mobile, seems to go into an infinite refresh loop.
Azure Spending Limit
From what I know, guitars were originally designed to be played with the fingernails.

Notice on her closing stroke she simulates a right handed player's action of a guitar pick, which had become a more familiar and expected finale indicator during her lifetime.
That may be the case for geeks like us. We’re not Apple’s core customer though. For the vast majority of them, Apple does indeed know better. The iPhone is proof of that.

And now that most buttons are controlled by software anyway, where’s the difference to a “physical” button? Better to have a hard-wired camera light that you cannot bypass.

Apart from that, not having to choose often feels more liberating than restricting. You’re almost guaranteed to be overwhelmed by options and feel stupid afterwards, no matter what you chose, because there is always a better choice to be made. Ever detailed a new car? It’s paralyzing. Base models are simply base templates. Options creep in. If you allow several, intransparent dependencies appear, frustrate you and soon you expect everything to be completely modular.

Better to have a small number of pre-defined, comprehensive packages.
Below 100W, last time I checked, it is easier to find good laptop chargers. Since I need a 135 W one for my laptop, thnings get trickier. Well, the 65W Lenovo from my work laptop managed to hold a charge barely when gaming. So I don't complain too much.
Exactly

That's why you counteract with something that is also "cheap" to do (one lawyer letter is expensive, having a template is cheaper. Sending to collections is cheaper)
I would first try to find out how much overhead doing that has compared to embedding a smaller language that was designed to be embedded, like Lua. I bet this would be thousands of times heavier both on disk and on memory usage.
That's not the point of a camera cover. It's not to protect against an APT (which is what I'm hoping you mean by a "they") but rather it is to serve as a last line of defense against an attacker that has compromised your system and hopes to use compromising photographs of yourself to get paid.

This isn't unreasonable. Attackers that have managed to compromise systems do use compromising photos as leverage. Literally it's called sextortion[0]. With the small price of a camera cover, you can be reasonably confident you're not a victim.

[0]: https://www.allure.com/story/online-predators-blackmail-sext...
or pointing at you on the toilet
Probably not what you're looking for, but I'll throw in Renaissance Man as another synonym.
Working part time in the reliability field, lower MTBFs make for good cost reductions. Planned obsolescence is just an added benefit I think.
> Apple's attitude has always been condescending. Forcing users to fit the product, instead of the other way around

It's funny because having actually worked at Apple this isn't the case at all.
They do a lot of product market research and PMs always read Radar, Feedback Reporter etc. Look at the recent pivots on keyboard, TouchBar, MagSafe, SD card etc.

It's more that people such as yourself are being condescending by assuming that your view of the world is the right one and everyone else is wrong.

In this case you assume that people (a) don't trust that Apple always shows the indicator light when the camera is on and (b) are willing to accept a thicker device for this feature.
Yeah that just seems like common sense. Dunno why people use those hard plastic covers that prevent the lid from closing properly and put all the pressure on one part of the LCD.
Honestly, I'm an information addict. I'm online far too much mainly reading news etc.

I think I've forgotten how I lived without a constant stream of information. I'm seriously tempted to get a dumb phone to remove temptation to browse when I have a few minutes to spare.

The stupid thing is for all my reading, I don't feel any wiser or even knowledgeable. At the same time I think I'm less able to engage in normal conversation.
I am listening to the audiobook "Stolen Focus" and it has some good points on internet addiction. Most importantly, it's useless to blame yourselves completely for the addictive behaviours. The tech industry is spending billions on experts to get you hooked. In a way, tech industry is like Purdue pharma. But the responsibility is still individual's.
Brick to wall cord depends on the country where your wall is located. Also, there's about two standards of power cord connection: trapeze like on desktop PC PSUs and three cylinders merged, so company can outsource power cords to a wholesale OEM.

But USB-C will solve your problem. I currently throwed away my laptop brick and just using a GAN power supply with two USB-C ports. It also charges my phone, and, eventually, other stuff like VR headset, joysticks and so on. I have two things micro-USB left: Kindle reader and JBL speaker. I hope next generation of those will be manufactured with USB-C charging ports.
Not sure what you could mean by “lost”, when BSD family operating systems are so widely adopted. I have more devices at home running such than I do Linux, not even counting Apple’s Mach hybrid. My internet traffic passes through more BSD-based than Linux-based devices as it crosses the globe, and my data resides on a variety of platforms that include both (and more besides).

These systems aren’t busy trumpeting their presence. Maybe the originators just don’t have fragile egos.
Interesting how you choose to criticise lack of empathy in others.
How much should they be paid? Presumably not as much as they would be outside the prison, given that the government pays for their accommodation, bills, food, medical, etc.
Thank you so much for making mynoise. I have used it for years, and keep recommending it to friends and family. Your work is much appreciated.
>Do I understand correctly the much of the worlds semiconductor fabrication is in Taiwan

Not straightly true. The worlds "leading edge" Semiconductor Fabs is located and dominated by TSMC. Yes. But Semiconductor as an industry includes many things not leading edge like small chips used in appliances as well big volume commodities like NAND and DRAM. Those are mostly in South Korea, Japan and then US. ( Along with Singapore and Germany in case anyone wants to nitpick. )

If TSMC get destroyed, it will likely set back the whole Semiconductor industry by 10 years. Simply rebuilding the Fabs capacity, leading edge or not would take 5 - 10 years with perfect project planning and execution. Not to mention no player in the industry has shown they are capable to providing similar quality, yield, services to TSMC with similar prices at an acceptable margin.
>OpenBSD still doesn't support Bluetooth

OpenBSD supported Bluetooth but they threw out the whole stack because of security concerns. I think it's the right decision for OpenBSD.
I can't say, either. I moved from the US to a country where police training takes 4 years and cops generally are, and are perceived as, a force for good. Everything is much more relaxed. My friend and I even had a drunken rager of an evening with a pair of off-duty cops and it was a lot of fun.

I'm not sure what it would take to get there in the US, but whatever obstacles are in the way to true reform are not only the fault of police, but are pretty deep-seated social issues.

Particularly, the US has a political legacy of expediency being successful and popularly supported, while adhering to principles is seen as pointy-headed pedantry. When it comes to the portrayal of law enforcement and criminal defense in popular tv shows and movies, more often than not, protagonists bend the rules to catch criminals who otherwise use procedural loopholes to evade justice. So, the people that adhere to principles are the villains, and the people who bend the rules are heroes. This social current manifests in real, actual political life when partisans promote or cherry-pick gossip and news that they themselves know are false, but if widely believed will harm their political opponents.

This trend hits US cops specifically in two ways. The first is that bending the rules is expected and sticking to principle is not rewarded. And that's not by "the leadership" but by you, you reading this - if you have ever thrilled to a hero bending the rules. The second is that even cops who do stick to principles can be savaged in the media with a presumption of guilt because everyone knows ACAB.

How do we fix all of that?
Perhaps, but some "known brands" like Vapcell just re-wrap something else (and they can change the underlying cell at any time, without you knowing where it actually came from). For example, the Vapcell G50 I purchased a year ago is actually ... a Sumsung SDI 50G. Whether that still holds today is unknown. Some people have had more recessed terminals, which would hint at Samsung 50E.

Why do they do this? Because many high quality manufacturers (Samsung, LG) don't approve their cells for usage in vaping devices. Some like Molicel are OK with it. I'm sure you have heard of Mooch :)
Decades ago I knew a piano player who got the gig at a nice atrium hotel piano bar.

It was called Beethoven's and you had to be good, even though you were going to be playing instrumentals somewhat in the background. He didn't read music or play classical but he could play anything he heard, was wickedly good at faking it and amazed them at stealthily playing pop tunes in classical style.

He would play from 4 to 8, five days a week.

They had a beautifully-tuned well-polished Steinway featured in a corner area of the bar that was overlooking the open-air dining room below. The piano was on a little riser and the back walls were smoothly mirrorized other than a small stainless audio jackplate right near the piano stool.

Every day he would come in wearing his tuxedo, sit down at the instrument, unplug the piped hotel Muzak from the jackplate, and plug himself into it instead.

He could be kind of bold when taking requests from the bar patrons, but down in the dining area it was always a nice background effect.

And of course when you used the elevators or the bathrooms, he was live for your listening pleasure.

All beautiful, all music, all the time.
The precedence rules are terrifying. I get it, but:

> 3/6*4 is 2 while 3 / 6*4 is 1/8 since the spacing turns the / into a division operator. Use parentheses or spaces to disambiguate: 3/(6*4) or 3 /6*4.

having to be up-front as a warning feels like a sign that your approach to precedence is fundamentally broken and you should require parentheses.
(Also the idea that 1/8 and 1 / 8 are different things feels bonkers to me in general, but maybe that's just taste.)
I think the article would be better if it started with a definition of terminally online. It doesn't have a strict definition that everyone agrees on.
The syntax looks more like haskell to me.
> Have you ever looked at what Docker puts in your iptables?

Some forwarding rules.

> I challenge you to understand what's happening with your networking after that.

They're incredibly simple forwarding rules, to make sure that only the containers that you specify can connect to the Internet, and all the others in a particular group can only connect to each other.

> If you want containers, lxc command line and a bit of configuration for a bridge interface is all you really need.

Yes, assuming you never need to maintain it, or run more than one project per server.
>Yeah, Android isn't a "real linux", but, part of the issue is that nothing is "real linux" (...) It's contrived; if Android can do the job of a desktop replacement (which, it can, there are desktop modes), then why isn't it a real linux?

When people say "Linux on the desktop" (assuming they are not being pedants, using it for anything with a Linux kernel that runs on a desktop class machine, e.g. that they'd include Windows if MS replaced the kernel with vmlinux) they don't go for etymological or technical compliance with the term.

They just mean (casually, not as in "real Linux" purity) a family of Linux-derived distros that might even include a company-made desktop environment (e.g. Mint) but do not include Android.

So, phrase-wise this is not as much about having some attributes checked (runs Linux kernel, check, has GNU userland, check, it runs on desktop machines, check), it's more about belonging to a club. Most people saying "Linux on the desktop" don't want to admit Android in that club.

Partly it goes back to the era of the original "Linux on the Desktop" dream 20+ years ago, where the term meant Linux distros taking over from Windows and Mac, and was associated with FOSS, freedom, bazaar style development, community, and so on, winning over proprietary OSes.