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Oh the humanity.

Seriously, the outrage over this is ridiculous. This is nothing compared to what Apple, Microsoft, and Google do.

Ubuntu is a great distro and makes some reasonable tradeoffs on usability.

Debian is great but you have to be sure to grab the hidden installer with the needed firmware blobs to make it useful on a modern system.

Fedora, also great, but you have to muck around to get your media codecs installed, and ZFS is a pain to setup on it.

Arch, is well Arch, you use it because you like to fiddle with your system.
> Wikimedia makes the world a much better world place. They should have the funds to do whatever they want.

No doubt the world is better off with Wikipedia and Wikimedia, but the attitude that "they can do no wrong" is extremely dangerous. Any powerful organization, especially ones bringing in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars from the public, must be subjected to scrutiny and criticism. It is unhealthy not to do so.
Sorry, accidentally submitted before fixing typo. I've edited the post to be longer.
There is plenty of evidence, in the form of the hockey-sticking donation revenue for the organization, that whatever they're doing now works better than what they were doing in the past.

As I said, hacker ethos of biasing in favor of the scrappy underdog. It was fine to fundraise when they were small and their strategy was unproven, but as they grow and their strategy is demonstrated as effective, they lose our favor.

ETA: speaking of human psychology... It's an election cycle in the US. It's interesting that this story, the facts of which have been known since last year (according to a cursory search of news story dates) is suddenly again making the rounds right now. May be simple coincidence.
They can start running the ads again once they only have enough cash to keep wikipedia running for the next five years rather than 35 years then.
This reminds me of "Zaireeka" by the Flaming Lips, an album that was sold as four separate CDs and you would have to cobble together every boombox, stereo, and Walkman in your house to try and play them all at the same time. So, you would hit the "play" button on disc #1, frantically try to match your timing with disc #2, inevitably be a few seconds late on disc #3, etc. The end result was that the music never sounded the same twice, especially once you started experimenting with mixing and matching a few of the discs together instead of all four at once.
I mean in the west / europe, clearing old graveyards is pretty common after a while. I looked up the legislation, basically when you buy a grave plot, you pay for the rights for a minimum of 10 years. That is separated between above and underground rights; if the above ground rights have passed, the grave stone and other above ground items are removed; if the underground rights have passed and the site has been resold, any leftover remains (bone fragments at that point) will either be excavated and put into a mass grave, or buried a bit deeper 'below' the new grave.

But a more accurate comparison would be the elite, they get interred in family crypts or under church halls for hundreds of years (or indefinitely, maybe if there's a major religious or political revolution will they get removed, destroyed, or forgotten).

The modern-day cathedrals and mausoleums may end up being the pyramids of future generations. like, 4-5000 year future generations. I'm sure they'll survive the nuclear apocalypse.
That would be a good idea, and then have the names revealed in a future version like the way the paper itself can be updated. I don't think it is possible though. If it is, it certainly isn't used.
There is a bit of a balancing act going on. If bottles moved to glass, that would increase weight and CO2. If they moved to more cans, that’s still plastic due to the liners.
It's kind of sad of anglo-centric their pages are for some countries and historical events. I'm European, and even I can see some bias in there.
I’m sceptical about plastic recycling in general. We are slowly poisoning ourselves with micro plastics.

The best way to keep it out of the water system is to stop using it.

The second best way is to incinerate it and scrub the output gases. It’s even possible to route the CO2 to industrial greenhouses for things like tomatoes.

Anything to keep plastic out of the water cycle.
specifically on the subject of package mangers, need to praise fedora. compared to apt, dnf is a relevation
People might be reading too much into the 'demon' stuff: At least in Denmark, all medieval churches had devils painted on the ceiling. Could be the guy just thought it fit well in this Norwegian church too?
Thanks for the recommendations. Some of my fav ambient(ish) albums that might fit in that list:

- William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops

- Jon Hopkins - Music For Psychedelic Therapy

- Erland Cooper - Music for Growing Flowers
People create what they want to create. If it’s not what you wanted that’s your problem not theirs.
Forgivable for not knowing this if you're using an ad blocker, but archive.today has (commercial) ads on the site.
Unless they have experience in the language runtime handles them, and how they might differ across implementations, they are in for a surprise when debugging parallel code.
Your comment is the definition of an ad hominem argument: the author is a Bad Person so we should disregard anything he says.

Why don't you respond to the actual claims?
> The NGO world of which the Wikimedia Foundation is now part uncannily follows Marx’s prediction that the middle class would devise an infinite number of ways of enriching themselves, while ensuring the proletariat, the volunteers at the Wiki-face, don’t share the riches.
Yeah you can already do that. So what’s the problem?
Agreed. So let's take a look at why the columnist, Andrew Orlowski, has such a problem with Wikipedia. It's not hard to find out why - it's on Wikipedia [1]. With direct links to Orlowski's own work, of course, should anyone make unfounded accusations of bias.

> "It's the Khmer Rouge in diapers," observes one regular Register reader, which seems as good a description as any to us.

https://www.theregister.com/2004/09/07/khmer_rouge_in_daiper...

> "You think the BBC is biased? Check out Wokepedia"

https://archive.ph/20210527073503/https://www.telegraph.co.u...

In a rhetorical line consistent with the "Khmer Rouge in diapers" and "Wokepedia" snipes, the writing in this second piece is strikingly petty and polemical:

> If Karl Marx was alive today, perhaps he wouldn’t be touring Manchester slums with Engels, but peering in astonishment at the upstairs-downstairs world of Wikipedia. Instead of Das Kapital, he’d be writing Das Wiki.

It's revealing that Orlowski chooses to single out Wikipedia as a remarkable examplar of extreme wealth inequality, when many of the outlets he mentions in his very first sentence are headed by far wealthier individuals than Jimmy Wales:

> Who would you name as the most influential media company in the world? Some might offer Fox, Disney or the BBC. Or AT&T and Comcast, the largest media giants by revenue. In fact, the real answer may be hidden in plain view: Wikipedia.

Evidently, Orlowski is simply a right-wing journalist who dislikes the public having access to information with an ideological bent which is even sometimes different than he would like to see online, and therefore takes potshots at Wikipedia using standards he doesn't apply to other outlets.

Personally, when I want information on a topic that's received widespread attention, I almost always find Wikipedia an extraordinarily informative source, usually much more neutral in tone and much more fact-loaded than anything else found online. Even when the writing suggests a viewpoint I don't agree with. And yes, sometimes the viewpoint is to the political left of my personal viewpoint.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not a little "Khmer Rouge diaper baby" who is helplessly swayed to the evil communists by the slightest bias in Wikipedia's tone. I'm an adult who finds it to be one helpful source as I draw my own conclusions.

If such a viewpoint is unpalatable to Andrew Orlowski, perhaps he belongs on Conservapedia, the onetime self-styled "trustworthy" encyclopedia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Orlowski

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You can but it would drain the battery fast. You can use an old phone that stays plugged in, but my old abandoned phones were all abandoned for a reason, usually because some critical part of them doesn't work anymore.

Search for "fanless mini pc" on Amazon or whatever and you'll be surprised. There's a lot of cool devices available that are approximately the size of a phone, use very low power (under 15 W) like a phone, are under $200 brand-new, have wired ethernet built in, USB ports, HDMI ports, can run normal Linux, and unlike Raspberry Pi they are actually in stock.
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Kotlin is only booming on Android, due to Google force feeding it on the ecosystem.

Its existence hardly matters on the JVM world.
They'll just assume that the idiot species sending out statements of war have already been taken care of (probably by themselves).
Definitely don't donate to BLM, though. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/04/us/black-lives-matter-executi...
I am uncomfortable with the video stills at the end that do seem to be picking on black people. Maybe I am doing the Twitter user an injustice, but there were four other grant recipients they could have been picking on as well:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund#Grant_...

This said, I agree with the premise that the Wikimedia Foundation is partisan. Its General Counsel came from the Tides Foundation, which is as partisan as any of its equivalents on the right, and its Chief Advancement Officer, responsible for fundraising and strategic partnerships, had a long career in political philanthropy before joining Wikimedia:

https://sfgov.org/civilservice/sites/default/files/Documents...

https://www.sfweekly.com/news/greening-the-left/

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/COMMUNITY-Growing-ch...
https://www.youtube.com/c/VijeMiller/videos
> more full time editors and researchers

By "full-time" you mean paid?

Researchers can't contribute to Wikipedia at all, unless the "research" consists of a literature review.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research

And if there were full-time paid editors, I'd stop editing immediately, and instead contribute my efforts to the fork that would inevitably result.
I don't hate it, I just have zero reasons to switch and a switch would take significant effort.

I'm using bspwm, there is no bspwm alternative for Wayland I'm aware of. Sway might be the closest but not close enough. River might become an option one day, but is not there yet and would still require effort, and I have no incentive to expend effort on it as long as Xorg keeps working with the applications I need.

But for those reasons, seeing developer time going towards Wayland ports rather than other things is a nuisance. Just a nuisance - people can spend their time as they please -, but a nuisance all the same.
Market Participation and Moral Decision-Making: Evidence from Greenland
Why leave donor money on the table for the ExxonMobil Foundations of the world to pick up?
Or use bc:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/bc-command-linux-examples/amp/
Learning to write a basic cannon at the moment, and this seems really similar, but with tape loops, instead of offset or syncopated melodies, in his ambient style the melodies are mostly rests. Are they they same, or is a cannon necessarily different?
The "the government is lying about unemployment" narrative is foolish. The number presented in most media headlines is just one number that the government publishes. Right alongside U-3 they publish numbers using definitions that include more people. It'd be a pretty stupid conspiracy to lie and publish the "true" numbers right next to your lie.

Both U-3 and U-6 are near historical lows. Even if you don't believe that U-3 is meaningful, you can compare the U-6 numbers now against other times in history and see that unemployment is indeed low right now.
Absolutely, it's a submission to state a position and in theory anyone can submit whatever position they wish for consideration.

The better question is whether it is wise, and in this particular cae I suspect it may well play to their favour - it's a rare latin nerd that fails to chuckle at a bad latin quip or three.

After all, it's not like they led with Pēdīcābo ego vōs et irrumābō from Catullus 16.
That doesn't help if references are given as First Author et al. or even as [number] and while I agree in principle it simply doesn't happen in practice.

But then it just weakens your statement to make it worse. And I'm not even sure if it makes a difference for what the article talks about. Because the reviewer needs to actively go looking. And at least to my understanding these effects are not due to people going out of their way to misjudge people, but rather that it's an effect of subconscious prejudices. And for the latter breaking the obvious connection is probably enough.
VS code can connect to a machine running SSH and you edit locally, but all the code, extensions, etc runs on the other machine. It is not just a matter of copying the files back and forth either, and the experience is super smooth. If you open a port on the remote computer with your program, it will even be forwarded.

I assume this is their answer to that.
Obviously Egyptians made everything. Who else, aliens?

At issue is how. We do not know. No one is working on it, or anyway publishing. Pretending there is no mystery, as is the habit lately, is not honest.
This is something I have always wondered. What are the psychological/mental effects on an employee upon the discovery of the real reason they were hired?
Probably because of the g in the subdomain, kind of makes it feel like "live g[oogle]"
When I was looking for remote contract work as a freelancer a few years ago, I had the problem that most of the offers I found online were through HR agencies. This was pretty frustrating because the people I talked to weren't part of the company who were looking for people and often didn't have any technical knowledge, so they were just checking resumes for matching keywords. They also wanted ~15% commission for life (!!), which felt like a big rip-off.

So I changed my strategy. I searched for companies I found interesting that were looking for permanent employees. And I approached them with my resume and a nice mail that I wanted to work as a freelancer, not an employee, and offered to meet - even if they weren't interested in freelancers. Simply to get to know each other.

In the weeks that followed, I had many meetings and found some very good companies to freelance for over the years.

Of course, this might not work for larger companies because the HR department doesn't have the power to decide whether to work with a freelancer or not. But I found it very satisfying to work with smaller companies, and it also resulted in some friendships/contacts that went beyond the collaboration.

(Note: As of today I no longer doing contract work because I started to work full time on my own projects)
The main difference between VS Code and the various JetBrains IDEs is that for VS Code, you have to find and install the relevant plugins for your use case yourself, whereas the various JetBrains IDEs tend to work out of the box (while still supporting plugins). That's usually the difference between most free/open source solutions and commercial software: you can do mostly the same with the open source alternative, you just have to invest more effort. As far as I'm concerned, as long as my company is paying the JetBrains IDE license, why should I go to extra lengths to set up VS Code?
The industrial prison complex and war on drugs affect the family structure by removing members of the family.
> If you’re a composer, you usually don’t want to build and operate the concert halls in which your music is to be performed.

This is an interesting comparison since the bigger the band, the more own/custom infrastructure they will bring with themselves. If they're big enough, they'll have everything both transported and installed exactly how they want. On the other hand, concert halls are shared so the infrastructure is more generic for all styles. And when you tour and play in small venues... you use what you get.

Pretty much the same thing applies here. Sure, you can say "just give me the database here" and not care more than that as a developer. Or even use a cookiecutter shared hosting service. But that only goes so far - the bigger the service, the more control / customisation you'll want. And that means this service will never really replace devops / sysadmins / whatever the company wants to use.
Put it on GitHub. Have nice code commenting. Structure. Contribute to open source projects that are popular. Link to GitHub.

Post on who is hiring.

Haven't tried any of these BB it have seen others mention that it works.
If you donate now, this will be seen as the ads being effective.

If you donate in March, when no ads are running, that will lead to the ads being seen as less effective.
> A job board which truly understands software developers

Great... but what is it about the site that it "truly understands software developers"?
Yeah. Fedora is my favorite. I like Debian and Arch, and am philosophically more aligned with community-driven projects like those. But Fedora hits the sweet spot, so I’m using it until IBM royally screws it up.
Not sure why accurately reporting his track record of attacking Wikimedia with a clear - and self admitted - right wing bias is a 'vague ad hominem'.
Facebook and Teams teaming up together is literally my nightmare.
> I donate to wikipedia.

Don't conflate wikipedia and wikimedia.

You may be glad wikipedia has a lot of money, but are you glad wikimedia does? Are you happy with the proportion of your wikimedia donation that goes to wikipedia?
i m not, but maybe you can look at https://www.reddit.com/r/algotrading
I tried multiple times to donate via bitcoin, but they wanted none of it.
Ask HN: How do you manage tasks and notes in personal/work life?
I always have this issue of managing my tasks and notes and currently looking for fixing my workflow. Here are some of the things I want to streamline:

* personal tasks -> currently asana

* personal notes (book summaries, articles) -> notion

* personal emails -> gets converted to asana task if should be handled later

* personal projects -> notion (as a todo item without proper project management, because I am a solo in this project)

* work tasks -> jira

* work notes -> confluence or google docs

* work emails -> usually I postpone it until take an action

* work projects -> this is mess for me at the moment, some tasks can be created publicly in jira board, but some are more of my thoughts for next actions, do not want to create ticket for them but I usually create todo item in my personal todo list (e.g. sync with Brian about his ask regarding design colors and so on)

Problem with notion, it is slow and I can't attach asana tasks to specific pages. Problem with asana, I can't rely on it as a knowledge management tool. Jira not for personal use, Google docs difficult to navigate.

I tried to manage my tasks with notion, but imitating todo app on top of notion databases are hard, no recurring events. No predefined templates with tasks (e.g. I want to create a project template which has recurring events to update stakeholders every 2 weeks)

Any way I can streamline these tools and replace with less tools?
No, "dog-whistle" has become the same thing as "conspiracy theorist" but for the charge of racism. It is fraught with overuse to the point of dilution and misuse.

In the same way that anyone that dared suggest that COVID could have been a lab leak before "authority" validated the possibility was marked as being a "conspiracy theorist", anyone that dare challenge the current trends in the arena of ESG, DEI, CRT, and anti-racism must clearly be a racist, and "dog-whistle" to their racist friends because no one could possibly object to these things for any other reason.

In this usage of the term dog-whistle it is likely a Left political cause, however that this not my opposition to the use. dog-whistle is often used in an effort to side-step having to confront the actual issue, and instead lay a charge upon the individual instead of the idea being presented. It is almost like saying "when did you stop beating your wife", any response to the charge will be seen as an admission of guilt.
You interjected the "or maybe aliens" yourself. Nobody else even hinted at it. You reveal that you never had any intention of engaging honestly.
> Now we’ve had the rug swapped from underneath us.

Some state authorities and companies like Microsoft are racist. You have to call them that even if there are people behind these programs that just mean well. But you cannot compromise on that accusation. If you do, you will lose that discussion. Simple politics and management 101 and this is just a dirty political game.

Yes, Microsoft is a racist company. Exposé 1 is that they hire people by skin color. It cannot be more direct than that. Again, you cannot compromise on that accusation. It is rational and formally correct. Most people are too nice to defend against this management pressure Microsoft tries to put forward.

Not that there are many young people that would want to work at MS these days. But again, Microsoft employs racist hiring schemes and the people in support behind this are real racists and this is always how real racial discrimination starts. Microsoft as a company is a fascist authoritarian organisation that collaborates with the state against citizens.

You might think that is a bit too much, but you have to start with this if your opponent in a discussion opens with accusations of systemic issues that require racial quotas. Otherwise you will lose. Just repeat it and the situation should again normalize and Microsoft hopefully has to pay the price for their little racist adventure.
Tracing Summit – Day 2
the outrage is precisely because of what apple, microsoft and google do. we must defend linux and it's philosophy because it could easily not exist.

as far as other distros go, if you're a beginner, Ubuntu and this prompt on apt notwithstanding, is still totally fine.

there are other decent Debian derivates: popos probably serves beginners better than Ubuntu.
What is a good resource to self-study numerical linear algebra?
It's a bold vision. So far the most profitable business model of social media platforms has been to sell advertisement to their users / audience and also experiment with selling subscriptions to access content. TikTok's vision seems to be create an additional revenue stream by (perhaps) enabling their platform to also support directly selling stuff. For those thinking that it is a stupid idea, note that Instagram (and to a lesser extent TikTok, Youtube and Facebook) is already a huge platform for retail fashion. Today's generation turn to these social media platform to search for dresses, shoes, accessories etc and to find where they are sold. (And retail fashion is a segment where the profit margins are very high). There's also already a huge existing market of teenagers and adults who shop a lot on AliExpress for daily wears and imitations of high end fashion items. I can see how TikTok could attract these kinds of users to their store easily, if properly executed and marketed. People who like to research products are also ideal targets - even Amazon supports product videos on their product pages for this reason. TikTok, being a video platform has a better advantage here as it can have more and better content that users may trust more than an a video on Amazon itself.