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> One of the things that drove mass SSD adoption was the experience was plainly better. Even the most illiterate user could see how fucking fast an SSD machine booted and how much more responsive they were.

> SSD to Optane? There's no practical difference.

No, that's false. That's true of NVMe in general but Optane specifically is really good at the low-queue-depth random-4k workloads that characterize consumer use-cases.

Optane actually is extremely fast at things like OS patches that normally take a few minutes even on NVMe flash let alone sata. They boot faster, applications launch faster, etc. Normally those things don't have lots of parallel threads running so queue depth is low and flash doesn't perform very well (as in, SATA and NVMe are nearly indistinguishable), but Optane really helps.

Is that worth paying 10x as much for? No, probably not, but that's the real problem, not the general lack of performance. Optane is actually noticeable specifically for being the first thing that actually provides a noticeable improvement above and beyond SATA SSDs for consumer use-cases. It's just also too expensive to be justifiable.
I use Linux as my main OS for some years now, but use Mac and Windows, mostly because I need to test my software on them, but I have to say:

I totally agree. Windows is the only practical desktop OS for most people.

Mac is not an OS you can use unless you buy the entire package, and then you have to live with many of its limitations. It absolutely sucks at multitasking (not that most average users care about this one, but anyone coming from windows will struggle).

Linux is absolute freedom, but that comes with the cost of having to do much more than install, plug and play. You need to be a computer geek, or you need someone else to fix things for you.

So as much as we are mad at Microsoft for deliberately damaging the experience of using what could be a joy to use, it's still the best at what it is.
Keep in mind I'm not throwing a blind eye to Windows 10/11's many problems, they are very real and I will absolutely criticize and even hate on Windows for them.

But when time comes for me to do things, the only thing that matters is: Can I? At least for me (remember: everyone's needs and desires are different), Windows almost always answers with a resounding "Yes!", and for that practical fact I will always be thankful for Windows.

Give credit where credit is due, as the saying goes.
If by aesthetic you mean personal, then I wouldn't say his "normcore" look was of any particular taste
A lot of people will tell you to not care about your job, but I think this is wrong: life is better lived (and happier!) with passion.

There is no shortcut: you have to really care about what your job is doing, the people you are helping, the core mission. I love helping my employer make more money.

If you can't align with your job (ex: there is no price I can see myself optimizing/sellings ads-to-eyeballs), find another.
Right. And 0.1% of them, 1000, will post here on HN how this can't possibly be a coincidence.
It does sound high too if that's any consolation! My electricity usage is 1.3 MWh per year, though heating is then a separate energy bill.
the article has no meat, so empty, that we prefer to focus in "The Wire" :)
Plausible deniability is what you mean. It is until it isn't (if it is scanned by something "smart" or purpose made).
I've developed a few test application in wails. It's great and stable as a single widow application! It doesn't have support for system tray nor multiple windows.

Also, having contributed I have to say the source code is very well organized and easy to understand!
my frustration is that we can never even come close to living up to our ideals as a society because our selfishness and greed constantly undermine the process of improvement. i used to subscribe to the term "progressivism" for this process, but even that's been undermined by tribalism and political propaganda.

i'm actually not too concerned about end of the world scenarios. we, like cockroaches, will find a way to survive as a species, even if it's very suboptimal. that may sounds cynical, but it's mostly an optimistic perspective about our resilience.

and i know climate change is all the rage these days, but i'm way more concerned about pollution (literally killing millions now and for the past century+), which is what the climate change narrative tries to divert our attention away from (because it wholly fulfills our need to do something about, and our attentive capacity for, "environmentalism"). it's the same playbook used by sugar against fat, but perverted back against itself. the fossil fuel and auto lobbies seems to think they can do something about CO₂ (probably token efforts), but not all the rest of the pollutants they spew, so they're reluctantly on the climate change bandwagon as a risk mitigation and diversion strategy.
> The labor market has been heavily weighted for the laborer lately

Is that remark missing some context?

Employers have posted record profits while making savage cuts. They've availed of massive subsidies without any oversight. The wealthiest have hoovered up damn near all of the productivity gains of the last 50 years, and are still doing it.

This while rent has skyrocketed and the cost of living has inflated hugely. We're now at the point where many fully employed people across the neoliberal world are homeless, and many others are barely surviving, while their employers are buying new luxury cars and yachts.

It's perverse, and you might want to be careful saying that laborers have it easy out there in the real world because there's quite a bit of resentment about it all.
How are they offering such low prices? Overprovisioning users?
Low latency drives modern infrastructure architecture
Animation Retargeting
> Gamecube and prior was roughly comparable to the competition

It gets forgotten about because it didn’t sell all that well and because the tiny little 1.8GB discs kept most of the multi-platform blockbusters off it, but the GameCube was significantly more powerful than the PS2 (though not as powerful as the Xbox).
If you don’t need edge compute (which you do if you have customers dispersed geographically) then what you say is true.

But if you do no amount of Kubernetes on the old school cloud providers is going to get you there. You will encounter the hard problems fly solves for.
I find it darkly amusing that the proposed solution for bad "leaders" is to increase the burden on the workers.
Oil plunges below $80 to eight-month low as recession fears mount
I do not know what is displaying on iphone, but I love seing a spectre (Fourier transform) on log scale while listening to music.
I wish more developers would work on this, making sure their product works straight out of the box. Lots of software requires setting up additional things like Redis, an SQL server, Docker, a proxy server, etc... All those things are in most cases unnecessary. I understand that for high load scenarios they are needed but for small time setups it's just overkill. Make it run with sane defaults and when the time comes to scale up, then those other things can be added.
It's funny how corruption gets defined and re-defined by so many competing interests.

Milton Friedman, for example, famously said that 'Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulation.'

This mentality, when applied to the food / medicine / drug trade, has some curious results. On one hand, it suggests we eliminate all criminal penalties for buying, selling and consuming all drugs, while on the other the normal criminal penalties for theft of drugs would apply. Note also that sellers could adulterate their product (no regulations, remember?) in any way they saw fit as long as it maximized their market efficiency (profit margins, basically), based on the belief that customers could shift to other producers if they didn't like the product.

The real result of criminalization of drugs, rather than regulation of drugs, is that a black market develops, characterized by violent conflicts between sellers over access to that market, control of production and supply, etc. This is why decriminalization makes a lot of sense, coupled with things like public health campaigns aimed at reducing usage, bans on advertising drugs and marketing drugs to children, etc.
This just in, dinosaurs unable to see incoming asteroid...film at 11.

But seriously folks, it's so obvious that the older generations are intimidated by technology and the changes it begets in new work culture. Us younger gens (I am a "Millennial" FWIW) KNOW that work done digitally is faster and more efficient. The backlash against remote work is a backlash against the digital revolution.

What's the saying, if a technology is created when you're young you can get a career in it, if it happens when you're old you lash out against it? Something like that.

The people who complain about remote work are telling on themselves, and they are admitting they don't want to adapt to the new realities.
You don't, really. You can (usually) change the DNS resolver your provided router uses to an internal IP, then statically assign that IP to your pi-hole. It's about 5 minutes in a GUI web panel, give or take the googling to find and navigate that GUI for your specific ISP-provided router.

That said a better router is usually worth it, I like my Netgear Nighthawk because I'm a bit lazy, someone else probably has a better suggestion.
Well, what Russia shows us is that there is a class of people who do not get to choose whether they fight in a war or not, as they're poor and without options. It also shows us that there are many who talk a fierce talk and then react with horror when they're conscripted.

People are cruel, ignorant and do not apply nearly enough of their capacity for empathy.
Goldman Sachs warns of more trouble for US stocks
IQ as a measurement of general intelligence has been repeatedly called into question and deligitimized with strong evidence by the fields of psychology and sociology for 30+ years for myriad reasons.

In fact, most of the continuing proponents for IQ testing take the stance of "We don't have anything better, so we will use it even if it's deeply flawed." This viewpoint is so prevalent that a majority of studies on the subject in the last 10-15 years are skewed towards evaluating alternative testing methods.

Here's a small sample of studies showing the different reasons IQ tests fail to measure intelligence:

1. [Fractionating Human Intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2012.06.022)

2. [Commentary on the pitfalls of IQ test standardization in multicultural settings](https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2016.1204011)

3. [What IQ tests really measure.](https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.101.2.171)

4. [The Evils of the Use of IQ Tests ... In First and Second Language Learners](https://www.jstor.org/stable/20205010)
No doubt they are having trouble recruiting, given the state of affairs; 51 former intel heads…lied directly to American citizens to a corrupt end. What kind of work environment does this lead to? Would you genuinely want to build something to support whatever their supposed ambitions are?
> No, mrkurt will not cave, I can guarantee you that.

I concur.

Fly is not your typical startup with dreams of becoming the next big corp monster.

They are just a bunch of talented people with a vision having fun making cool stuff.
Of course. Quality of education highly depends on your family's economic background -- the worst off you are, the lower your chances of leaving poverty are. We can cherry-pick the success stories for those who did escape the poverty trap but in aggregate it doesn't look so great.
Thanks for posting this. I'm going to give setting up Morgan a shot when I've got some free cycles.

I'd hesitantly accepted the risk of serving a devpi server over vsock and into my (personal) restricted VLAN. I did so because using a shared folder meant I'd need have cached the module and any dependencies from my internet-connected VLAN first.

Combined with debmirror[0], vscodeoffline[1], and some nightly snatcher shell scripts, I think I have most of my needs covered.

[0] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Debmirror

[1] https://github.com/LOLINTERNETZ/vscodeoffline
It's not exactly art, but similar to a vumeter, you get an artifical "dancer" on your screen: just like watching other people dance (in rhythm), it activates your visual metronome and gets you more engaged with music.

If the above sounds convincing, bear in mind that I am just thinking aloud, and I have no idea if any of the above translates to other people, let alone that this might be the reason music is ever visualized like this for playback.
Correct. This logic is used to ban charter schools in many areas of the country.

No point rehashing the same logic again.
A bizarre fast radio burst came from a binary system, astronomers say
Can you give an example of this? I haven't seen it mentioned before.
American culture has transformed over the centuries, but the most recent dominant form is hyperindividualist. Ayn Rand over Jesus Christ.

Just look at our most recent leaders -- a couple of highly corrupt guys with no serious religious conviction.
She reported it. All you have to do is google.
I'm a linux user. I use nixOS and Arch. I've also tried mint many times.

I'm trying to be as unbiased as possible. As good as linux is and as much improvements that have been made over the past decade or so, Windows and OSX still have the superior GUI. Just being honest about it.
That was actually just the entire message. To cherry-pick a few:

> I speak a language I did not invent or refine.

> I did not discover the mathematics I use.

> I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.

> I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.
Fifth Circuit Social Media Decision Stands on Firm Ground
No because there would be a bigger push to develop public infrastructure. Charters vs public schools, same logic.
Floyd's Improvement to Pop_heap
"Moxie" just seemed so hilariously stereotypical in the first place I could not help but think it was all BS. The name, his style, his online blogs.....maybe he just wants to craft a certain type of image but it seemed a little too perfectly matched to the type of person who would create a free, easy to use and super secure messenger.

Personally I really liked Wickr Messenger (no phone number required) but they were recently acquired by AWS :-(

edit:
Also looking up Wickr now it seems like they ended up specializing in providing secure messaging FOR the government (and even are the only ones to pass some NSA specific test) so maybe that was not the best choice.....
You'd prefer if they only supported build-packs/nix-packs? I can see the appeal from a simplicity standpoint but supporting containers expands the usecase significantly.
but for the economy, laws were added.
1200 W, even for a short period of time, is crazy for a desktop computer.

I have an i9-9900K and an RTX 3080. My computer is also plugged into a Kill-a-watt to measure its power usage.

I ran Prime95's CPU torture test using the max power option while also crypto-mining on the GPU. I peaked at 650 watts for a couple seconds until the CPU began thermal throttling.

If I can't hit 700 watts while trying to use as much energy as possible, I can't imagine what monster system would even touch 1000 watts, assuming we're still talking consumer-grade.
The unfortunate truth with any publicly-traded company is that the CEO's job depends on that growth.

The simplistic relationship is as follows:
- The share price is (theoretically) a reflection of the future earnings expectations of that company
- Slowing growth means lower share price/lower dividends
- Lower share price/lower dividends means reduced profits or losses for shareholders
- 80% of stock is likely owned by institutional investors that have automatic triggers for sale of stock based on certain performance thresholds (think pensions like CALPERS) which further incurs losses for shareholders in the event of sustained periods of lesser growth

So when the shareholders band together and demand growth, they will expect the CEO to deliver it or they will replace that CEO with someone who they think will deliver that growth, simply because the system is structured such that growth is expected/required with some minimal level of risk.

Personally, I think there are better systems we could come up with that would ensure better stability for employees and shareholders even in the face of temporary slowdowns in growth that are caused by structural economics, but any of them would likely lower shareholder returns by some small amount, and the institutional investment plans would balk at that. (That small amount would translate to billions of dollars in projected future equity and would likely make the institutions insolvent at some point in the future.)
You can build 80 ebike batteries for the same material cost as one electric car battery. If we focus purely on cars, we are seriously shooting ourselves in the foot compared to a diversified transport strategy. We still need electric cars, but I am saying we cannot view electric cars as the single one size fits all solution.

Also it is hard to imaging taking a car to the grocery store, shopping for ten minutes, and then waiting for a new car versus hiring the car to stay waiting.
LOL. This is classic “virtue signaling.” Your iPhone battery is not even a rounding error on your electricity consumption.
Watch that. Doesn't always work. Not everyone you will work with loves what you love or gives as much of a shit about it as you do. And it's painful watching them fuck it up day after day after day. Eventually you end up disliking it by proxy.

I'm also a weirdo. I intensely dislike what I do for a living but I'm good at it and the money is pretty excellent. And I hate it enough to want to do a quality job of it and automate as much of it as possible so I can do something more interesting with my time instead.
> On the surface level, they promise nearly infinite freedom, more than any platform or first-person shooter game: That you can go anywhere, talk to anyone, perform and action on any object, and solve problems in whatever way you want.

What? I never thought that was their promise.
Exactly!!!. Thats one of the example I had in mind.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6134649/Steve-Jobs-...
The big win is web applications that are read heavy and have geographically dispersed users.
> In any case, I am a strong believer in making a decision and following through with it (within reason), rather than stagnating forever in indecision and research. Some research yes, if necessary, but at some point you have to pick a direction and go.

I am the type that struggles with the indecisive behavior and had to pay serious opportunity cost because of this type of behavior. I struggle with indecisiveness even with seemingly small decisions such as picking a restaurant for dinner.

Any pointers on behavioral trainings to change that? In this context, even if I have (and I typically do) have also "gut feeling" about something, I struggle to follow through.
This has been my experience dealing with portability and C++ as well. In theory, very portable. In practice, "portable" as long as you don't care about the details of how features work and didn't use any undefined behaviors that just happened to work in the first architecture but are implemented totally differently in the new architecture (and C++, of course, embraces undefined behavior instead of keeping the developer out of it).

Things as simple as "believing you know the byte-width of a primitive data type" are dangerous.
And why do you think it's the vaccine and not the actual virus?
It's not a managed database, if things break at 3am, you have to fix it yourself. The buildpacks are an afterthought using third-parties. A real evergreen solution will track the official Heroku solution (since fly.io doesn't even bother to document their buildpacks) to the nearest day. The whole point of the P in PaaS is that somebody else does the DevOps. If I have to do so much DevOps, then there's no point in adopting Fly. I am getting the impression that users here only care about their shiny blogposts and content marketing, versus the actual experience as a business user.
I've had several recalls for spontaneous combustion of my ICE cars suggesting I don't park in the garage. At least one car had multiple fire risk recalls for starting fire while parked.

I guess ICE cars should never be parked in a garage.
> Which is not relevant to the discussion. The discussion is about apps that aren't updated. Android doesn't break those. Developers targeting previous releases is a wholly unrelated issue.

No, it is the discussion. If you rely on the OS and lean into new features, many updates will break your app, and in fact many devices on the same OS version will break it!

But there's a massive reluctance to rely on anything but the lowest common denominator of functionality in your apps, so there is outwardly an impression of backwards compatibility.

Seriously, you're talking about backwards compatibility when Android can barely do sideways compatibility, the mind boggles.

> And yet everyone does rely on android.R, because those color redefine issues are vanishingly rare.

Well I guess I'm referring to a certain level of experience... so just call it a code smell.

You get Lint warnings for not fully qualifying any use of it since it's usually not what you want.

Those of us who've needed to support enough apps realize it's really not that rare for random android.R overrides to exist in things like animations, and especially if you have a global footprint. So we just take 5 seconds to define ourpackage.R.color.black or ourpackage.R.anim.fade_in

> There's also entire CTS suites that verify oems don't modify theme.holo and theme.material. which is why everyone inherits from those, and don't have problems with it

No... they inherit from AppCompat wrappers on those because there are many subtle breaking changes between versions.

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You're clearly not making the logical connection conveyed here, and I don't think there's anything wrong with accepting that.

No one will completely understand or agree with everything they read, but clearly others are able to make the link, and I think I've gone out of my way enough explaining the link, but you're completely stuck at the first step convinced that someone who's dealt with backwards compatibility for a very long time doesn't know what it is, instead of opening your mind to comprehending the bigger picture.

So I'll leave it at that :)
This sounds really cool and makes me want to learn go so I can make some desktop apps...
My issue with those providers is that buying their services doesn't mean they're expanding their renewable sources to match the people signing up for them. Those sources exist and are being used already, it just gives them a bucket of billing that they can mark up.
Install SimpleWall, let it disable windows firewall, block all the things that reach to external IP addresses that you know you haven't installed yourself.