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> Telco providers not just in the US but across the Western world have shown time and time again that they cannot be trusted

This is true, although there's still a very large risk element here. The average person is not likely to be able to safely determine which VPN providers are trustworthy or not. They also aren't likely to understand their limitations, i.e. they don't grant you perfect anonymity, they don't grant you perfect immunity, they may or may not capture the traffic that you intended or thought.

In that case, is it really a good thing for VPN internet provider usage to be on the rise? All we're seemingly doing is handing people more guns to potentially shoot themselves in the foot with.

ISPs, for all of their transgressions, tend to be registered and regulated companies and that makes it much easier to at least find someone to target with legal action if needs be. The bar might be low but there are some standards to which they have to adhere to. Many VPN providers are nameless and faceless "organisations" with little-to-no regulation or responsibility. It's difficult to know if they take your privacy seriously, whether they are taking adequate precautions not to log, to not leak data or to adequately secure their systems.

Hell, it's entirely possible that your VPN provider is actually just an FBI honeypot on the lookout for people who are only actually using a VPN service because they have something to hide. How would you tell if they were?

I just don't really buy the argument that having different incentives means they are any less likely to be nefarious or negligent.
The change is important during product development, though. I think touch screens are a reaction to PMs at car companies wanting to make last-minute changes, and being told "no, we already spent 10 million dollars on the injection molds". Put it in software, then your lazy engineers just have to stay late for a month. And if they don't finish in time, hey, just fake it in Photoshop for the ads and update the UI later!
It's not just ownership, it's memory safety. I've worked in embedded development and I can't say I've never seen a segfault occur or worse, without an MMU, just random crashes and buggy behavior due to memory corruptions.
Did it really? It will always be hard to estimate, I read articles arguing either way.

But it seems, certainly, from the perspective of 1930s, WWII would mean for them attacking a coalition of Poland, France and UK, and attacking Russia and USA down the line (I understand this was always the plan). UK and France were the two dominant superpowers of the era, with US on the way up.

It's not, IMHO, incomparable to the current situation. Only a madman would attack the "West", be it NATO, EU, or its allies in Asia; the chances of victory are perhaps not negligible, but expected gain certainly very poor. But it seems there's something in human history to disregard such calculus and plough on regardless.
>China preparing to invade Taiwan,

China is planning to invade themselves? Sounds to me like you've been reading propaganda that's pushing to start a war. Why would China invade themselves?

>In the 2010's, many people told me 'WWIII will never happen, the world is too interdependent'.

Interdependence isn't a factor at all. The only reason WW3 hasn't happened yet is weapons of mass destruction. All major players have wmds, if they admit to it or not. Or they could assemble/build their wmd within days. I couldn't even tell you which is more important.

>At this point, to me, another global conflict with massive consequences seems inevitable. There is just enough desperation, social unrest, government corruption, and resource depletion to trigger survival instincts on the largest scale.

What seems likely to me is USA has a civil war incoming. They've been at war for decades and their war exhaustion is maxed out. Trillions spent in the middle east killing innocent brown people and back at home? Busted roads.

USA seems to need a civil war.
About moonlight, there is server software project to run Gamestream host for AMD/Nvidia/Intel GPUs and Multiplatform Linux/Windows/MacOs

https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine
> there can't be a good reason to change car controls

"UI revision 1.23: move the Passenger Seat Blender switch further away from the air conditioning controls"
Isn't that a drawback. Even easier to press the wrong button. Must be terrible when driving on a bumpy road and your hand is jumping around.
I totally understand the Frustration the author has here. But I'd rather have any working software version than 10 that don't work well at all and that has always been my pine64 experience. Great hardware, barely any documentation, important hardware and software features don't work at all or are locked behind a very old kernel version
Thanks for digging up the link - it was how I knew about it in the first place.
This is coming largely from Tesla-envy, and for them it made sense…

In 2016, They thought they were going to be pushing level 4 self-driving capability to their cars in 2021. As soon as a car has true self driving, a giant screen makes the most sense.

But now we are getting a bunch of cars which still require traditional steering and that’s obviously much worse.
There's still a huge market. I've done this for years with varying success. It's just a lot of work so might interfere with your full-time commitment to your PHD, and it's really all about marketing more than development. So be prepared for that. It's a lot of fun, tho. Any specific questions? Message me here or through gelform.com
Increase in production capacity triggers inflations of end product prices?
> There is one practical argument that can be made against mechanical switches and buttons, and that is they will eventually fail from long-term use.

Before a touch interface fails from long-term use? I highly doubt it. Plus, a switch is a very easy component to replace. Touch screens can be but aren't always.

I think service life arguments are just poor effort. We well understand the appropriate average service life of a variety of switches. We don't understand the same for touchscreens, especially modern ones, as they haven't been around as long.
Give me a few hours and I guarantee you I can do just as much damage with a dam and I can with a nuclear reactor.
I don't think the author meant that the problem was Pine "standardizing" on a single distro, but standardizing on a distro which has done (comparatively, AFAIK) little in terms of active software and driver development. By diverting people to a distro which mostly siphons up the work done by others, they risk poisoning the well and driving away the developers actually writing device drivers and infrastructure.
Check the glove box first. Manual should be there ;)
Oh, I have no reputation to burn. My friends and family know me well enough :-)
> I must make the assumption that you’re young.

I am 39.

> "Russia won the war in the first 72 hours".

In which universe?

Russia is absolutely humiliated, their tanks are rusting in Ukrainian fields by hundreds, there are no new human reserves, morale on the front is all-time low, and Ukrainians are now bombing Crimean targets without any retaliation.

Which is a good thing, of course.
Agree strongly. For things like vehicle status or configuration, the touchscreens are far superior to the old method of strange things like holding down the "unlock" button on the driver door for ten seconds and then pressing lock twice to enable flashing headlights when remote locking the car, or messing with the fuse panel for the same purposes.

Configuration settings like "always try bluetooth first for audio and just wait for it to connect instead of falling back to FM radio" are too subtle to be done by switches, and seat adjustments seem like another easy one where better UI would make a big difference.

At the same time, I think if it could be done securely [1] then having an app-based configuration would be much better; like configuring a consumer router or similar. You just use an app or a browser on your phone to make all the necessary static settings for your car, and the car then needs very little interactive UI.

[1] Although most likely it cannot be done securely. Cars are too mission-critical to move very far down the security/usability tradeoff curve.
I ripped it out completely. My wireguard network was a "plan b" to get back into my servers, but I have another contingency plan now that I've removed manually managed WireGuard from the equation. Tailscale is just so damn convenient, it hurts lol.
Phytoremediation Using Willow in Industrial Contaminated Soil
I had no idea .ssh/config could do arbitrary command exec. Neat (and scary!) :)
Even supposing your premise is correct (and it's not: diversity is good), the question becomes if Manjaro is the right choice, and it is definitely not. Manjaro is a very poorly run Linux distribution with misaligned incentives, poor practices regarding stability and security, and a history of problems playing well with others -- and they don't even work on the software that still needs to be written to make Pine devices useful. This is not the right horse to back.
Our company (~70 people) has gone to a 3 days in the office Tuesday through Thursday and wfh Monday and Friday . Initially we did pick your 2 wfh days but then I realized what makes being in the office good is being together. So orienting the in office days to be the same for everyone means we have a few days in the middle that people can be together and collaborate and on the edges Monday and Friday remote. It works pretty good - we make some exceptions for people far from the office and of course we have fully remote but I like it it’s created a good balance….
what is the point of wrapping wireguard with ipsec? bet-hedging?
> I don't like copy/pasting passwords.

A nice feature that some local password managers like KeePass have is that you can auto type them, so the actual password doesn't end up in the clipboard.

Of course, personally I'm not a fan of the idea of the command being interpreted incorrectly or messing up window switching so that my password would be sent to the wrong application.
What is the advantage of uno over flutter?
You shouldn't use your smartphone while driving because you might cause an accident while you are looking away from the road and not using both hands to hold the sterring wheel.

But that's ok with touchscreens.
It absolutely is not. I do not want my 2 ton moving vehicle updated on a whim. My 2019 has a screen I can never really turn off that is bright at night, my 2008 has a slow laggy UI that an update will never fix. The 2000 Miata sitting in my garage has the best interface of them all. Push buttons and dials for climate control, two window switches in the middle tombstone area and that's really it outside the typical steering wheel controls for signals, lights and windshield wipers. It's amazingly simple and should continue working even when my newer cars are dead and gone.
> I have never heard of a piece of world changing art have the same negative externalities, or really any lasting negative externalities, as world changing tech.

My first guess is that this is because "the art experience" is far more transient at the individual level. With the introduction of, say, WhatsApp, there was a paradigm shift in how we're able to contact people around the world and it doesn't go away. Even the most provocative piece of art is only experienced in the moment and maybe, maybe, causes you to reflect on your perspectives for a little while afterwards.
Do not ship work in progress: An open letter
Nuclear weapons are deterrents, they have a very limited military use. Their only useful targets are cities (and sometimes other nuclear weapons), and they leave no prize. They can be used to end the war, but not to win the war.
The number will go up as more wind is deployed. It has to be maintained, serviced and replaced on a periodic basis.

But yes, we need both.
Which should kind of be a sign that for any important high-stakes task you should be using physical switches.

I predict in 10 years car manufacturers will bring back physical controls for some things (if not all).

One advantage physical controls have is that I can operate them sightless once I learn the layout. Most touchscreens I've seen in cars don't really have that feature because of the design of the system behind it (whole screens shift so returning to navigation isn't often simple, for example).
How does making alternatives harder to boot and pissing of maintainers of software components they rely on improve their quality long-term?
> Clicking a button is orders of magnitude faster than casting a spell.

It depends on how many buttons there are and how familiar the driver is with them. I like not having to remember/look for the positions of analog buttons on the dash.

> Voice controls fail more often than analog controls break.

I haven't had a voice control failure, but any system can be designed with varying degrees of reliability. CUIs have a lot to offer in the way of safety and convenience.
A large factor at big companies is layers of administration and middle management that are not necessary under WFH. Who do you think is producing studies saying WFH doesn't work?
That’s amazing.

The deck you had back at the start of June was an expensed scalped version? LMAO.
Well, Manjaro is in a path to make some money; they incorporated a few years back and made deals with developers of privative software like Vivaldi and Softmaker to make their software the default option. I can't blame them, everybody needs to bring food to the table, but after reading TFA I believe they're hurting the FLOSS ecosystem around them.
> Touch screens are just their 60+ year old fossils deciding "that's hip, that's what kids want!"

Do you have any evidence for this? Seems pretty outlandish to me.

> 1. It's cheaper to produce; 2. It looks more expensive, so the price goes up; 3. Testing audiences respond positively to shiny lights; 4. Fossils decided that this is what the young people want.

What does 4 even mean? If we took 1-3 as fact, then should businesses have disregarded them and instead made something more expensive to produce that looked cheaper and sold for less because people don't respond so positively?
Maturin – Build crates with Python as well as Rust binaries as Python packages
This is exactly right. And also a distro that is just refusing to disagree with pine64 when decisions are made that impact all distributions negatively
Adam Neumann’s Cult of ‘We’ Is Now the Cult of Web3
This is wrong. I did a Monte Carlo

The information they are missing is two male frogs croak twice as much

It's 50% the 2 frogs are male.

I throw out times no one croaks and times you hear more than one croak. I throw out times it's not two frogs.

I assume you can't hear/tell a female croak since it's only the male that's 'distinctive'.

What I don't find intuitive is I thought it would be a little less than 50% since two males are more likely to croak twice which voids the scenario.

But who cares, in practice you'll never be doing probabilities, life is to complex to do important things from formular, just Monte Carlo it, aka fuzzing for statisticians.
Read My Chest: This Hoodie Subtitles Everything I Say [video]
A similar thing happened to me and my partner in the US, in a fairly liberal part, so I'm not entirely surprised that it's happening in SEA. People wouldn't rent to us because we told them we cook at home and these white folks were like "but Indian food smells!"
> What was even more surprising, to me, is that Mercedes had this amazing nice center console unit to control things with your arm in a rested position. They removed that piece of brilliance!

Mazda also has this beautiful dial-joystick which we can operate in a rested position. It is so intuitive that I stopped using the touchscreen console itself.
On the other hand even when we operate using a dial and buttons we take our eyes for an instant to look at the screen to check the changes. Now imagine looking away at a touchscreen just to see what operation to perform etc. This is a major distraction.
Stop drinking, keep reading, look after your hearing: a neurologist’s tips
I've commented on touchscreens before[^1], but here's my latest anecdote: we finally got a replacement washing machine in the apartment (owner's choice, not ours). It's top loading and has a touchscreen and a spinny wheel for selecting the program. So it's a hodgepodge of physical, mechnical, electronic, and touch sensitive controls with a screen.

Except it's not a screen at all, the interface is entirely static and the function of each "button" is always the same; so really it's "touch sensitive buttons" with something masquerading as a screen. I don't understand why. They're annoying because they don't always register the touch, and sometimes over register so you go past the option (e.g. setting the timer or spin speed).

Then there's the start/pause/stop button, which is a mechanical switch/button that is also touch sensitive. It boggles the mind, we interact with this thing a couple of times a week - why does it need touch sensitive buttons rather than just being fully mechanical switches?

[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17448932
I’d love for them to do a study of how many reps give the best reps/growth ratio. Say 6 a day vs 15 a day. All together vs spaced out throughout the day.
How would you folks make sure your system is not compromised? That's my No. 1 concern about my system. Like OP, I'm using my arch for many years now, however I cannot tell whether it's running vanilla arch or not. Unlike NixOS I cannot verify the changes to the state of my system over time and I haven't kept a log of any software installed or any config changes. That's why I plan to replace it and keep a log of future changes.
I am jealous of people with larger touchscreens in their car.
Has anybody replicated this study? I admit my first gut reaction to the abstract was: There's no way in hell anybody could have pulled that kind of signal out of the noise, in the midst of systematic effects, and produced a believable result.
> Do I NEED Alexa to turn on the light? I can walk, I can do it myself.

Do I NEED NETFLIX to watch TV ? I can watch other channels.

Do I NEED a TV for entertainment ? I can enjoy nature walks.

Do I NEED nature walks to be happy ? I can meditate in peace like a monk.

The words WANT and NEED are arbitrary, subjective and interchange-able.
It's always a question of how to separate concerns when using an ecosystem consisting of DB and an engine running some kind of algorithms on top of it.

The advantage of using the same system is a similar API for users, and the opportunity to use identical query language to run both matching queries and analyses like this one in cuGraph. For anyone using graph DBs, this might be relevant, while on the other side, achieving this in a few lines of Python seems like a good deal for typical analysts like you mentioned.
Interesting! Thank you...

I was trying to divide an area by a smaller area to get the number of widgets, and it insists on making that into a percentage. Is there a way to make it report a raw number instead of percentages when the two quantities are the same unit?
It definitely happens(I know from experience).

The thing is, it's actually really hard to judge quality of a design(takes a bachelor degree in Industrial Design and masters in related field and a few studies like the one in question to objectively evaluate a design). Most people like the new trendy one and unfortunately in cars that's a large touchscreen.

Don't think of car enthusiast, think people who like the car because of the shade of its color and feel of the leather - which is most people.
cough https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32487190
"The compute time I spent for the whole project came to about $1,000"

Any comparative costs not using aws? Seems expensive for what he did.
I went from Python to Rust to Go. Python I won’t spend long on, it’s problems are well documented. Rust, which I use wherever possible, just is not the right language for apis for me. Adding dependency injection through Boxed traits feels like you’re taking a performance hit just so you can test code. Also, I spent a couple hours on trying to get async traits to work with a mocking lib and gave up. Switched to Golang. It’s not without issues but for now I’m productive.
Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
I like big, chunky weights, and want big muscles. I enjoy having a bit of bulk, and that doesn't mix the best with bodyweight exercise. In my head, bodyweight exercise is best for maintaining a more lean physique.
I never thought I'd see some argue for the MacBook Wheel.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
Yup, common occurrence also here in Tokyo. If you are not Japanese you can expect quite a few rejections, as well as having to pay extra "guarantor" fees, and in general higher than average rent.

And, mind you, I'm probably among the lucky ones... if you're from other Asian countries you can probably expect even worse.
Sure everyone does.

Let's say renewable electricity generation capacity increases significantly (which needs to happen as we all know), then due to fluctuations around the year of solar irradiation alone there need to be weeks if not months worth of electricity storage (in whatever form).

Ammonia is exactly that, storage of energy that gets converted to electricity, to keep up with grid demand. Ammonia then _is_ your weeks/months worth of storage.
> but ask it to do something outside of that raining data or where the # of samples is low and it's "creativity" falls apart

That's actually the most interesting cases. And I strongly disagree that it falls apart

'The Edge of the Universe'

https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/wmu10p/the_edge...
Yes. If we also add

date >> notes.txt

it would be a great immutable ledger .
You are right I was thinking household (2 adults working).
This is among the strangest advertisements I've read. "Are you strongly against discrimination? Then rent from us!"
> (easy to do if you never, ever malloc)

Not an embedded systems developer so an honest question. What do you do instead of malloc? Have a large array on stack and manage memory within that manually?
Anecdote: i backed pine64's first-ever Kickstarter and got two of their A+ boards (i think they were called). They claimed high performance and full HD video. In the end i couldn't get a single Android game, no matter how primitive, to run at more than a couple of frames per second and Netflix was too jittery to watch. They've been on my poo-list ever since.

About 18 months ago i pulled them back out and ran XFCE on one of them. It crashed with the X11 error (i kid you not): "event arrived before it was sent (your hardware is too slow!)" (going from memory - it might have been phrased differently). i ended up giving them away to someone who wanted to use one for a pihole server, and i was glad to be rid of them. Utter garbage, they were.
Consider the extreme low quality visuals of SouthPark. They used their low quality imagery as joke enhancement for their presenting ideas far more sophisticated than the majority of animated media.
Sorry to burst your bubble but so far Ukrainian army did 0 wins and only suffers losses. They don't bomb Crimean targets, they do sabotages (or terroristic acts, depending on your side) which sometimes work. I will not carry on this conversation because this is US website and US fight for Ukraine, so it's pretty pointless, but you can't deny the big picture. I'll agree that Russia is not winning when Russia would lose any big city it captured. Like this mystical attack on Herson which is promised for months but not happening.