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You can get desktop which would be more powerful for even less, how is this particularly different?

The Windows laptop will likely be bulky, have a terrible touchpad and sound like a portable jet engine (as long as it’s Intel at least).
> With RxJS you should use it everywhere (observing state, observing component inputs, side effects etc). It's when you use it half-heartedly that you get problems with merging different programming paradigms

Yes, yes ,yes!
I have been working with angular professionally for five years and fell in love with rxjs.
If you manage to use it for everything, it really shines.
Your entire codebase becomes declarative and it works beautifully.
The only downside is that it takes some time to get it started up from the ground up, but once you do making changes and adding features becomes trivial.
Try making smallish pipes and comment their purpose. Break them modular pieces.
Your ISP doesn't care about what you're connecting to and accessing, at least not until they get a court order demanding that info.

They care a LOT about what you're serving to other people from their network though as there might be some legal issues directed back at them.
I've only gotten an Android-based smartphone this year (running GrapheneOS). Before that I used an Ubuntu smartphone for about five years. I had to switch to something that runs apps from one of the two divinely sanctioned app-stores, so this was the compromise that worked best.

The benefit of getting into a smartphone with access to all the apps this late is that I've seen the results of masses of people getting lost in their phones, and I've set up my phone in such a way as to refuse to participate in that. I use it as a portable camera, as navigation aid (not using anything Google provided) and directory service (looking up opening hours and such of points of interest) on holiday, and minimally, for apps like WhatsApp for people who I hold dear, but don't have the capacity to keep making exceptions for me (or my wife) for communication (think family group chats for the planning of family events).

It has almost no apps beyond a banking app, K9-mail, OsmAnd and OrganicMaps (for pre-downloaded maps on holiday), and WhatsApp with all notifications limited to a soundless icon on the lock screen.

For most things I do online, I use a desktop computer. For contact with a number of friends, email. I'm not tempted to browse mindlessly on my phone. I may read some news or look up some info when travelling, but I spend most of my travel time reading real books or just enjoying the scenery. Outside of holidays, the device is rarely in my hands. I put it in my bag when I go to the office and hardly look at it unless I expect a message. If something is really important, people will call (about the only thing that makes sound on that device).

The trick seems to be to not use it for consumption of stuff fed to you by an algorithm, and to only use it minimally for chat. And minimal notifications; certainly no audible ones.
Learn Enough and the Rails Tutorial have been acquired
I've only heard about Raft Consensus algorithm thrown around in a few GitHub repos/HN comments but never got a chance to really know it.

This webpage cleared some long-standing doubts about what distributed computing means, what a consensus algorithm is and what his Raft thing is.

Kudos to the developer. You got a newbie interested in the field!
I did exactly this a few times, too.

My Arch is from 2007 or so and had only a few hiccups. The last thing happened when MD5 was getting deprecated for /etc/passwd and the automatic migration to another hash algorithm was not working, which is obviously directly related to the age of the installation.

It is running on its third mainboard/CPU/GPU combo with maybe the fifth HDD/SSD.
Refrigeration is pointless if your hot source is 100C. And you'll still need a new cold source to dump the heat into (and now there's 30% more).

You could recondense the steam by dumping the heat into the atmosphere, but that's bigger and more expensive.

You could also store it in thermochemical batteries and save it for winter. The logistics of moving 1t of NaOH every few seconds sound difficult.

You might be able to export it via steam pipe and charge thermochemical batteries on site. That requires logistics that don't exist.
It's an artefact of where English gets the word "craft" from. In general in English the plural of uncountable things is the same as the singular. For example, the plural of sugar is sugar (sugars in English implies a group of different types of sugar). The word craft comes to English from Germanic (kraft). The meanings of these two words (English craft vs German kraft) diverged over time. In English the word has a meaning similar to that which is made or the manner in which it is made. Whereas in German it means the means by which something is made (i.e. power, in both the physics and non-physics sense). For example Kraftwerk in German means power station.

Since the "means by which" is uncountable (craft) then the plural should be the same as the singular; i.e. one craft, many craft. This also applies in English to older agglutinates like aircraft. Newer agglutinates (for example laptop) are far less likely to follow this rule; one laptop, many laptops.

English, due to its muddled heritage and well intentioned but half informed linguists over the years, is a very messy language.
Cue the ambulance-chasers bringing discrimination lawsuits on behalf of paraplegics alleging discrimination in the field of carrying boxes up and down stairs.
Scrapple.

Spam.

Iceberg lettuce.
I think we are.

I am also 40 something and in my teenage years, I bought into the idea that tech will change the world for the better. I was fascinated with the wisdom of the crowd, having read a pop account of the Sante Fe Institute and complexity theory at 13. I grew up on the idea of the climate crises, global warming, recycling, and solar. Apple fulfilled the vision of Xerox PARC and changed how we interacted with the world; Google was the big tech hero; Amazon proved ecommerce; Facebook … I never really got. There were already many ways people were connecting together into the “global village” on the internet.

Since around 2010, I have come to the conclusion that I was wrong about all of it. It isn’t so much that the tech invented after I was 35 was against the natural order of things so much as, revisiting the tech I grew up with and how we got here, and seeing its affects on people, particularly the Zoomers (Gen-Z), this is not the world I envisioned, and yet this is a consequence of the tech we wrought.

The biggest thing was that I was wrong about the wisdom of the crowd. What wisdom? It’s the tech amplification of mob mentality. Upvotes got coopted into commercial exploitation, and then eventually, distorted our political discourse. The tensions and divide had been building for a long time, but we built this feedback loop chained into perverse incentives. Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, and other Big Tech rode the waves of aggregating consumer demand.

Open Source got coopted to serve big commercial interest; Richard Stallman turned out to be right.

The smartphone certainly changed how we interacted with the world, and it synergized with a social media designed to enslave people’s attention, and divide people. “Wisdom” of the crowd now comes with us everywhere we go.

I won’t even get into solar and recycling.

I started getting what MacLuhan is saying, “the medium is the message”, and what he saw first with electrification of a society, or the change in culture with broadcast. Or what people were talking about with the telegraph back when it was invented.

The thing that crystallized all of this for me was when I encountered permaculture and realized, there is a very different way of approaching technology. Not necessarily anti-technology, low-tech, or no-tech, but rather, technology’s place to serve a way of life rather than the other way around, bound to three ethical principles: care for earth, care for people, fair share. Many technologies we see now and before, would fail that ethics check. And I think it is possible to develop and build technology differently.

The surveillance, the VR, all of that are the unthinking, mindless integration of technology and innovation. Every technology comes with both wonder and horror, and they are leverage for what is in our collective consciousness, both the good, and the bad.
I use Fedora as a VM for development on other systems. I just love the stable and smooth experience.
Amen to that. We had a high-level engineer who sincerely believed that Rails and Postgres were the right tools for Everything. Consequently he shipped a mission-critical query engine whose API is - you guessed it - just ActiveRecord!

It's great if your users are disciplined and experienced Rails engineers who understand how the system works, but we don't live in fantasy land and a year later, we are so very constrained by the unlimited DB access that we're rewriting it all and leaving ActiveRecord out of the equation.

I'll always maintain that Rails is the first tool I'd reach for in a new web startup, and the first one I'd discard after growing past ~20 engineers.
I used to have a script name ".ase" (meaning "as someone else") that I'd source when I was doing something for someone else, and had become root. I was very careful to make sure it just had safe aliases there.
Oobeya? What Does Oobeya Mean?
Why should cops look tough? I would rather a cop on a segway than sitting in a camaro.
Seems normal for a financial service.
I mean Microsoft does have a history of fucking the open source world. We can like their new approach without denying that, and understand people having their reserves.
As others are saying, you can store your TOTP code in a password manager, and if you lose you phone re-add it. You can also use something like oathtool do generate these one time passes at the command line.

I had a similar question and wrote up how I'm doing it here:

https://earthly.dev/blog/multi-factor-auth

Oathtool:

https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/oathtool.1.html
"Soon electric cars will not be a novelty"

We are years away from that happening. And someone is going to have to start producing a lot more batteries before it happens.

"Tesla's poor build quality, poor reliability, and poor repairability will start to be remarked upon."

Where numbers are you referencing here. Just because a few loud people on the internet complain about these things doesnt mean it endemic. Is it not more likely that most Tesla customers are extremely satisfied with their purchase and just dont post about it online?
A fully devoted Linux developer here that never touched Windows' ecosystem(.NET, Visual C++, win32 api, all those), any reason for me to jump on .NET? where does this runtime run(x86/windows, now linux, what about MacOS, and embedded systems), and what's the selling point(web framework in c++ like language? a better c++/java?)

https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/csharp/

it looks more like Java than c++ to me.

On a different note, I will state this again: I think microsoft will acquire Canonical one day.
I second Karpathy's version of cs231n (2016). He's an amazing lecturer.

A good alternative to Goodfellow is "Dive into Deep Learning" (https://d2l.ai), which is free and more up-to-date, interactive, and practical, IMO. Videos of a 2019 Berkeley course based on it are available too (https://courses.d2l.ai/berkeley-stat-157/).
Segway failed for one reason and one reason only: It was priced way outside of what people would accept for a scooter. Beyond the fact that they were simply too expensive for people to buy, it also gave them a reputation as a bougie display of wealth, which makes people hate them even more.

All of these pay as you go scooter services solved the cost problem and are everywhere now, in exactly the same niche that Dean Kamen envisioned, minus cities redesigning themselves around scooters of course.
You just proved parent's point.
> Just to clarify, you reasons against this are:

I will NOT let you put words into my mouth

> 1. It will make some people resentful.

Thats not the reason I am against racism, that is a consequence of racism. The resentment will lead to racism against the people who benefited from the racism. You can't break that cycle with more racism.

> 2. It will cause "doubt" among people who benefit.

It will lead to a lower self esteem, which leads to less likely to negotiate for high salaries, which leads to a wage gap between different races in the same profession.

There are MUCH better ways to get a "better" ratio, like expanding the pool of applicants of underrepresented groups. For example, through advertisments in areas where such people could be located. I have nothing against that.

What I have a problem with, is justifying racism in the name of fighting racism.

> In essence, your first argument is about further benefiting the people who are already in an advantaged position. And your second argument is blaming people who would benefit. Yikes. That is some twisted logic.

This, to me, reads like arguing in bad faith.
That always surprised me a bit, because part of the initial intent of react native was to be hybrid. Facebook had a lot of php developers that they wanted to enable to be able to write mobile screens. Not the core experiences, which you wanted dedicated mobile folks to write native for performance/transitions, but secondary things like the reporting flow.

But it probably takes a dedicated developer focused team to manage hybrid. And in terms of pure react native…I don’t know if react native is now able to feel as good as a native app, but even for a few years after Airbnb’s post react native would not have been up to the task of rendering all the little animations and transitions that Airbnb had in their mobile app.

(Though these days I would 100% write a new, less fancy mobile app in react native/expo - it’s constantly improved throughout the years)
Arch has installer since April 2021
https://archlinux.org/news/installation-medium-with-installe...
Interesting. Could this potentially kill the gram negative bacteria such as P. Gingivalis that causes destructive gum disease? Seems barbaric (and expensive!) that my dentist says the only treatment is to get my gums aggressively scraped every few months.
And do what exactly? I can take my family out to the movies or a museum, but that is a little expensive to do more than once a week or so. It also does not serve the same social function that time in the office did, namely socialization with peers instead of family.
Extremely unlikely vs will ever run on linux, pretty sure it's built using wpf which is window only. The tooling on linux is just fine, and VSCode and Jetbrains rider are your main options.
When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire
> Bodyweight exercises aren't nearly stressful enough to build strength in the lower body.

exaggerated disfunctional super strength is not the only goal in fitness. That guy has good legs, and likely much better endurance than those who are focused on weighted squats.
Max Headroom was a human powered simulation of such a future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom
One of the coolest lesser known features of Docker is time travel.
Is it possible to do 3 but stick to coding and not touch any dev ops work?

My nightmare is finding a role like that and realizing I’m just a dev ops guy.
Hmm the current Prime Minister of India is from a "lower" caste. The current president of India is from a "lower" caste. Curious how you come up with "the current national government openly supports discrimination on religious and caste based backgrounds".
Nice; I'll update to mention that. Thank you!
When you go to a website, there's a DNS lookup to find the IP address to use for it. By setting this you can tell your computer "instead of actually going to HackerNews, go to [website] instead"

https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-edit-your-hosts-file/
It does have a big downside - some departments like Highways England and Land Registry had their own, more sophisticated sites.

The new standardised GOV.UK sites are missing features and content.

There's a sense of dumbing down to fit the design standards.
Hard to even argue a devil's advocate position here.

On one hand you have a 20-year-old allocation that has been entirely unused with no reason to believe that will change soon, and on the other hand you have an "unlicensed" redesignation which doesn't even block the supposed original purpose from using it in the future (since, it is unlicensed spectrum after all).

The FCC were actually generous here. Instead of taking the whole wasted 75 megahertz, they only took 45 megahertz leaving 30 megahertz to continue to be wasted by this vaporware nonsense.

I'm glad the court basically said: "What is even your argument here?" And then threw out the case. If they don't want to lose the remaining 30 megahertz then I suggest they develop something of value.
I suspect you misunderstood. It's Open Source, at least the free version.

Or maybe I'm missing something?
LocalStack is open source: https://github.com/localstack/localstack

Looks like they're starting a Pro version that requires signup/payment.
> Facebook and TikTok, on the other hand, have infinite ambition and infinite appetite for engagement. They're well beyond the point where they need to employ manipulative dark patterns (and keep inventing new ones!) to keep those numbers up.

Mind elaborating here? I'm interested in your perspective regarding social media not employing newly discovered dark patterns (infinite video feeds, shorter content, targeted ads, personalized algorithms, etc)
I'd buy an 86/brz ev in a heartbeat if i had somewhere to charge it
My understanding is that non-Indians are simply outside the caste system entirely. So to the extent that there are Indians who view themselves as better than non-Indians, that's less caste discrimination and more good old fashioned racism.
Are you able to share what you referenced as google research? I would love to dig into that.
I don’t understand how this isn’t already illegal
Ask HN: Any dumb watch with only GPS-tracker?
I don't mind smart watches, but right now I'd be looking for a cheap, long battery life, dumb watch with only a GPS tracker. (I don't need heartrate monitoring, step counter or any other feature.)

Is there any out there? Plus points if it is hackable in any way, but not a hard requirement.

Edit: I am looking for a watch with independent GPS chip, not one that needs to be connected to a phone all the time.
Companies like to talk about how they're a family, but imagine the reaction if you tried to track your wife or your husband like this. It would correctly be seen as incredibly abusive- because it is.
> walking is among the most pleasant human activities

Yes. And waiting in a line can be much more tiring than just walking.
A Breakdown of How Developers Spend Their Time
jQuery has its own syntax?
A comic about Buckminster Fuller and fossil fuels
Yes these are "non-binding" commitments that are just marketing. Very deceptive but standard practice in aerospace. For example only a fraction of the Concordes that were committed in this way were actually purchased.

Until the plane is actually flying in the air you should just treat any announcements as misleading (they announced that their test airframe was ready, what, 3-4 years ago?).
At first I thought you were kidding. I had to look up this person had never watched NCIS and we do have some eerie resemblances. I served in the same time-frame as the fictional character and have some of the same background, though different branch. Suffered the same young tragedy except I had no other family at the time. Very similar training. That show has 19 seasons. Why was it so popular? I've only seen the meme from the dueling-hackers from that show. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
And yet you can use it completely for free without signup

Once upon a time I thought about trying to monetize, but meh. There’s bigger fish to fry
If only one in ten npm packages is useful, that's still 2x Debian's current current package count.

I just don't think there are enough people available and willing to what you want.

I would be happy to be proved wrong.
I'm less convinced by studies that use an unconventional control group. What I mean by unconventional is primarily the single set of 30 reps once a week, which is not representative of conventional wisdom in weight training (conventional wisdom would be 3-5 sets of 5-8 reps, with a rest of at least a minute between). Another factor is that they are doing maximal eccentric movements. This means lowering a weight slightly heavier than the subject is able to lift slowly. Does this make the study invalid? Not clear, but it makes it less clearly applicable.
But "people" isn't just a single thing, it's a distributed system of many interdependent but ultimately independent agents. If you only grind your own axe, yes many people will be indeed swept in, but a lot of other people will spend their parallel hours seeing others grind their own axe, which would include the axes of your opponents. There is an equilibrium where you reach all the people you would ever reach but your opponents still carves out their own niche out of other people's attention.

Whereas, if you pursue both pushing your agenda and suppressing your opponent's agenda, you will more truly make it zero-sum. Now even the parallel people who would never see/care about your own propaganda would also never see your opponent's propaganda, because you suppressed it at its source.
Nokia 105 as my daily driver. Also known as the 'terrorist phone' or 'old person phone'
Those short-box pickups and their drivers are terrible (and it is almost always a short-box truck with its micro 4-foot box?)

My dad was in the trades and so he owned a pickup (needed for its towing capacity). It was a "proper" pickup with an 8 foot box as well. He built kitchens and needed a large trailer to bring the cabinets to the customers house and install them. The 8 foot box allowed him to load 4x8's into the back without the trailer if needed.

I was forced to drive a pickup as well given I lived there and at the time it was the only car he had (later he got a compact car).

I don't have any issues with pickups, they are a valuable tool for many in the trades. when i drove his pickup i moved over, it was a very simple thing to do and was basic human decency.

The problem is the weekend-warrior types. I will never understand why they feel a need to do the things they do. Even buying these 4-foot box trucks makes little sense. I see them at Lowes/HomeDepot from time to time struggling to get 2x4x8's into the back while i can easily load 2x10x12's into my compact Hyundai Elantra and still close the trunk? like what did you get the truck for?

There was a time you were looked down upon for driving a pickup (blue collar worker) now they seem to be some sort of status symbol?
Weird title. The correct English would be "Why did Airbnb dump React Native?". All of the sub-headings have this strange construction as well. Is this 'correct' in some other country and I'm just not aware of it?

I was gonna say, it's also weird because the text of the article seems nearly-native quality.. but actually when I went back and looked more closely it's semi-broken English as well. I guess it's in big wordy paragraphs that you skim and don't notice the grammar of.
What I mean is that corporation routinely operate on many different branding to segment the market, they might use the same parts or intentionally produce a lower quality product to not disrupt their higher margin, higher quality line.

I see so much effort spend on that kind of marketing (lying) and so little spend on improving the product, reducing the cost, increasing longevity, etc.

It’s everywhere, oven, fridge, tools, cars, etc.

At some point the confidence in the brand crumble and we just buy the cheapest chinese thing with a funny name.

IE: brand used to mean something