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> Checking the box of ideals doesn't mean that open source software is off the hook in having to compete on features.

No one said that.

> Regular users do not give a rat's ass about source code being open

Open source or not, they should care about reliability, avoiding lock-in, abusive practices from monopolistic players, privacy...

> If these software applications were businesses, their exec teams would have been fired many times over for the atrocious churn.

If these applications were business, you'd also have to look at Cost of Customer Acquisition, at how much is being spent on marketing, you'd also have to see how much your developer team is being compensated, how much they are getting in shares, etc.

If the investment is zero, the ROI from FOSS will be by definition infinitely superior to closed solutions.

What I am trying to say is: TANSTAAFL. OP's seems to not care about his freedoms, so he is willing (like many others) to trade it away for the convenience brought by closed solutions. So it is no surprise that a FOSS project (which has no way to monetize the user to finance its development) will lag behind. This will only change when people start covering some of this difference and start supporting FOSS projects directly.
We did this for ADVrider.com. During COVID we were home and maybe too much time on our hands but we decided to do a one time print edition for our digital community.

We planned to print about 2,000 copies for our supporting members (paying) but figured hey if we’re going to do this maybe we can sell some copies.

Over 5,000 people paid for a copy, the demand for a niche like ours felt insane. Then we thought let’s put it in Barnes and noble. They said we’d sell 15% to 20% of the copies, it was 50%.

Now we do it 2x per year and it’s the easiest advertising we sell but we are still mainly subscriber driven. $49 per year it’s not inexpensive. But it’s super high quality.

A 20 year old forum .. goes print. Weird times.
I assume it drives engagement.
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Profit how? You're out a house, which will be rebuilt and insurance premiums?
It’s all about the prompts
Contrast with: https://markxu.com/strong-evidence which claims that much of the evidence you interact with is strong.
macOS 13 Ventura review
You probably aren't the target consumer then
(Big fan of graphviz, it was such a shame when AT&T pulled funding!)

Maybe helpful, more for visual graph data analysis than say arch diagramming: we build Graphistry specifically for interactively analyzing more data than these tools, eg, GPU client + GPU server, and being more batteries-included. The free Graphistry Hub site is similar to diagrams.net and GitHub for folks who aren't self-hosting GPUs.

We are still working towards OSS'ing the core renderer, but all our new graph neural networks + graph compute + graph layout layers are all already OSS-first (see PyGraphistry), and we are part of the apache arrow + rapids communities. If your kind of thing, we are very much hiring :)
If I do not have a choice to pay a lower price without fraud protection, then it makes no difference.

If the merchant charges extra for credit card purchases, then it becomes something to consider.
Awesome! Registered.

Will you record and put on YouTube async as well just in case family stuff pops up and I have to miss?
Both whatsapp and imessage are run by american companies, you can sure both of them are compromised and I wouldn't pass US state secrets via either of them.

For the normal person this matters less of course, intelligence services are not interested in your nudes.
Sometimes the problem is more that the grass looks greener on the other side. When you realize there are a bunch of day 2 problems for the "better" solution you didn't uncover beforehand, many will enter sunk cost territory
I don't know, what App store is doing during the install, but using it to manage Xcode has always been extremely irritating.

It's a lot easier to manually download Xcode from Apple's dev portal. The download speed always maxes out my internet connection, and installing is just a question of unpacking the archive, which doesn't make more than a few minutes..
The long-standing tradition of profiting on others misfortune.
I am curious what kind of work are you guys doing that you need a sudden upgrade? Some DS/ML Work?
> Load my brain with all the context of a problem.

It's easy to overlook this part of the article. The loading of the brain is essential for me. That part may actually look like work. It may involve discussions, meetings drawing sketches or prototyping code. Those things may actually look like work, but the purpose is not necessarily to produce the final product (unless it turns out to be trivial), but to build understanding.

If something really requires creativity, THIS is the time to pull in the oars, take some time off and allow the brain to process. It's important to avoid other activities that grab the attention too much. The best thing is to try to avoid screen time. Maybe go for walks, take naps, spend time with friends or family, etc.

Within 1-2 days, ideas are likely to pop up, often in the middle of the night. That's the time to get out of bed, do some quick sanity checks for the ideas (a sketch, a few google searches, etc), and ideally go back to bed if possible. The next morning, the first 4-16 hours may be as productive as a month or more of "normal work".

If more difficulties are encountered, this can be repeated after a day or work or so. Eventually, though, the creative parts of a task are likely to have been solved, meaning it makes sense to spend several days (or weeks) with a more regular schedule, whether I do the job myself or spend the time destilling it into something that can be scaled out to coworkers (the ones that prefer to have detailed specifications of what to do).

This is not unlike physical exercise. A muscle doesn't get stronger from exercise, but rather from the rest that comes after the exercise. The resting alone provides no benefit, but too much exercise is equally bad. For those who need to do heavy lifting, it may be better to work fewer hours and let the body recover between each session.
The Inferno of the Nerds
Excellent idea! Will sign up! Hope for these offline events to come back to London and other eu places. Even the offline demo events I used to be in the jury of are still not back or just went out of business.
I like Bitwarden (https://github.com/bitwarden), it's a great app
Are you from the US? I do know banks have special rules for US Persons, but I have no idea what kind of impact those rules have on opening a bank account.
Do you want to get rid of windows or 'applications'?

One problem with current systems, and even more so with mobile, is that it is app-centric, and your data is locked into apps, rather than being something you can manipulate directly and independently.

I had a similar idea in the 90s/2000s which I called 'data-centric' (which now means something different, in gamedev).

The idea was that instead of a world of apps, which contained the data items you cared about (emails, documents, etc), or even files, that were tied to applications, you'd have more granular data items and collections of items, and ways to organise and present them. And then functions that operate on different types of data item, or collections thereof.

An 'application' would be just a collection of functions, and completely customizable by just adding new functions or removing ones you didn't like, at least at the UI level.

There have been a number of projects roughly related to this idea I think, but things like OLE don't count IMHO. That was less like 'object' embedding , and more 'entire app embedding', and in any case 'embedding' is not really the point. None of these projects have succeeded, even though I think the idea still has merit.

I can/could envisage many problems, eg data type classification/standards, incompatibility, standards bloat, etc, but the latest AI techniques might be a way to work through some of those issues.
I thought of that, but with push/text notifications and easy to browse back websites, it is not really costly in terms of time or effort.
I disagree that "it's all pretty simple and readable". The PAM configuration syntax is horrific, IMNSHO. It's a ruleset specification without explicit rule syntax, it has zero syntax checking and there are no validation/testing tools. The configuration files are line-based rather than having a separate scope for each rule; even ini-style headers would have been an improvement. The config syntax allows conditional rule evaluation by specifying how many of the following rules to skip (hello GOTO!). It even allows rule inheritance by using @include, but the including rule cannot modify/evaluate the results: if the rules you're inheriting have hard fails or hard accepts (such as root_ok), the rest of your own rules might not even get evaluated.

What does PAM actually do? It allows you to specify different authentication flows depending on the agent (authorizing application) and the intended action/flow. The resulting ruleset is effectively a determination tree, but there is no way to either input your ruleset as a tree structure, nor is there a way to get PAM to dump its abstract syntax tree for debugging.
I wonder how much it is faster than other versions > 3.7?
Despite being in Hong Kong I'm really excited to buy one if it is available in my region natively (so I don't have to pay in RMB which is very volatile recently). Most of you guys forgot that you can run WSL in ARM as well -- yes, the same WSLg is capable of running Android on Windows on ARM, natively and very much faithfully. This could mean a whole lot of things including a much-integrated testing and app development pipeline with a whooping 32G of LPDDR4X memory, that means it is finally possible to run a lot of dev software most likely such as java, dotnet and node stuff that can offer day-0 cross platform support. I'm thus very confused why Microsoft is marking Volterra to run AI workload despite the it should be richer on the other side
I think this a great idea, but how do you deal with people who are simply weird/jealous about money? For example, the responses here are a mix of 'cool, how can I do that' to 'you don't deserve that much'.

Every time I've seen people find out what others make there is a group that always first assumes they are getting hosed and are jealous. Even for numbers as small as .5% difference.

Personally, I'm not a jealous person so I don't understand the group I mentioned. But, the emotions/reactions I've seen are always in the back of my head when thinking about opening salaries.
There is no equivalent to NFIP for tornado or earth quake insurance. We leave that to private insurers (and sometimes the states have programs).

That is one of the biggest arguments against the NFIP. It’s a specific subsidy that benefits some areas more than others (it’s also a deeply regressive policy).
KeypassXC takes a slightly different approach. It uses named pipes to send the password from the application to the browser extension.

Though the browser is where I find myself using it 95% of the time, they also have an "auto type" feature that will go to the last window and type in your password for you (again, without passing through the clipboard).
> Really? The purpose seems pretty clear to me, and I only skimmed it. To reinforce the value the book has in understanding how research around death and dying was framed in the 1970's.

The article is not _just_ a historical perspective of what happened "More than 40 years ago", it clearly says: "This book will remain relevant for all these specific cautionary reasons, and many more. I hope that in another four decades “The Craft of Dying” is republished for that historical moment’s own happy death movements; . . . ."

People have died "forever" so I was actually curious about what new great perspectives this article/book would offer; it's called: "The Enduring Genius of ‘The Craft of Dying’" after all. _Personally_ I didn't find it illuminating. That's all.

> Your comment comes across as intentionally obtuse as an excuse to proselytize.
I just provided my personal view of the topic of death; spiritually and how I felt it in my own family. I often try to share my thoughts and faith; that is who I am and I try to be true to that.
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Not sure that literature really contradicts the original hypothesis. The abstract (can't download the full text without buying it) seems to be implying that they found there is motivation for working in groups and made work more fun (or rather, even just providing cues that make people feel like they are working in groups) but didn't really touch on innovation or collaboration as it relates to brainstorming/ideation.

I think it's important as the poster above you said, not just take the word research at face value. I'm sure that there may be studies that show collaboration can lead to good ideation and outcomes also, I just don't think this one is that.

Some notes from the abstract:

> ... examined cues that evoke a psychological state of working together ... which increased intrinsic motivation as people worked alone.

> Outcomes were diverse, e.g., task persistence, enjoyment and, 1–2 weeks later, choice.

> These cues also increased feelings of working together but not other processes.

> The results suggest that cues of working together can inspire intrinsic motivation, turning work into play. The discussion addresses the social–relational bases of motivation and implications for the self and application.
I will have to give that one a look. I currently just hide the dock and never access it.
Wasm3 is just an interpreter you can/have to bundle with your app.

There was supposed to be a way to use the webassembly interpreter from JSCore but i am afraid my iOS knowledge doesn't go that far.
That's generally true of most things in Wayland. It's poorly designed and then badly implemented, by multiple different compositors in different ways, leading to endless bug reports and broken software.
Both of those are definitely a design flaw if they are the root cause.
So all criminal prosecutions involving computers should require the state to prove that the computer is correct?
Drag-and-drop seems to have an excellent UX. The semantics are incredibly clear: Take this data from this app and put them into this container in that app. Any insecurities would be an accident of implementation rather than part of the core design like with copy-paste.

Or, how is drag-and-drop insecure by default, and what alternative do you propose?
This seems…wrong? Doesn’t YouTube Music pay $0.008 per stream? According to this calculator, it’s much less? Is there some kind of nonlinear payout schedule for YouTube Music?
> It’s absolutely possible they were all just terrible companies, but…

Let me first say I think it's a terrible idea to publish this information publicly. The hiring company holds all the cards already, you don't need to give them additional power by showing yours. Companies understand this very well. But I get this has been done more for ideological reasons rather than practical ones.

Regarding the possibility that all companies were bad, that's actually important information that could point to the candidate's difficulty in evaluating opportunities. If that's an important part of the job which you're hiring for, you absolutely are going to take that into consideration.
At what point does a nude become unsolicited though? I mean this is a dating site.

If I put my arm around someone or lean in for a kiss that could be unsolicited but shouldn't be illegal in the context of a date. Similarly dirty talking in a date is different to doing it in the office.

I suppose this could be dealt with through user preferences (don't show nudes/ doesn't appreciate nudes) but the line seems blurred in this situation. It isn't as if you're walking around town in a Mac.

I'm not saying it's ok, but it's not definitely, not ok. People are different, dating is already hard enough without worrying about if you're going to be arrested for trying to get to second base.
The plugins are community based, plugins are created on a need. It looks like most people don't want to mess up with multiple gcc/libc versions installations
When I was a kid my town was devastated by an F5 tornado (Andover ks). Wiped out. Within a year the city was rebuilt and expanded. It continued to expand for 20+ years. This is a normal phenomenon.
That article doesn't support what you're saying. It says that WhatsApp has access to metadata, which it hands over to law enforcement. This does not necessarily mean that they can read your messages.

It does say that 'WhatsApp can read some of your messages if the recipient reports them'. That 'if' is doing a lot of work in this sentence. It means that the recipient has to decrypt your message.

Although there are forms etc. within the app for doing this, it's essentially no different to taking screenshots.

There is no way to ensure 100% privacy if the other party you are communicating with does not keep data they have access to private.

I'm not a big Meta fan, but as far as I am aware, they can't normally read your messages. The fact that it's closed source just means that we can't verify that for ourselves.
Because all the natives pay using Debit cards, so it is only foreign visitors that have this problem, and stores in the really touristy parts do support credit cards.

I am pretty sure that contactless payments around here do all support credit cards btw as AFAIK that's how Apple Pay and Google Wallet work, but I haven't tried it much.
> Are you from the US?

Yes. Most people seem to blame FATCA, but while it's a pain in the ass for me personally, no bank I've ever used has blinked at it. They just ask for my SSN and a declaration of tax residency and move on.
When you're dealing with one of the most popular languages in the world and the cost of getting it wrong and breaking things is astronomical, being risk adverse and starting small seems like the way to go.
Why are you so sure of that? I wouldn't be surprised if Apple would enable the same kind of policies on the Mac.
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I started working from home four years ago and I have less ability to step away from my desk now than I ever had working from the office. It got even worse in 2020 after most of the office started working from home. Not to mention that teams snitches on me if I am away from my computer for five minutes.
Where they usually are right? Or look down at the keyboard if it's a different layout? Or did you setup a keyboard layout that doesn't match the physical keyboard?
Are Sigma and Vis widely-usable (i.e. have C bindings), or only for browsers/JS enginers?
>jovial appearance

?? I had to watch approximately five minutes to get a very uncanny feeling and haven't watched anything since.
What about them? They do not seem comparable in scope to an explicit subsidy approved and funded by Congress before the loss even occurs.

No California homeowner is paying less for homeowner’s insurance because it is sold at below cost by the federal government. They may or may not get bailed out when a loss occurs, which is different from knowing that you will.
Let’s do a phone group call with 50 people, fun.
> the applications/toolkits did not get it right until 00's

They have still not gotten it right. I still sometimes experience the clipboard losing things on modern Ubuntu.
... The 2022/2023 winter in Europe and the balkans should help solidify that in your mind. Germany lost its pipeline to Russia where it was sourcing its natural gas because they did not want to produce it locally. This directly caused them to start competing on the international scene for its gas.

Where do you think this 'surplus' of gas is coming from? Its not 'spare capacity' that was sitting around... its coming from poorer countries that can't compete for the same gas due to the price Germany is now willing to pay.

Consider Bangladesh and the political unrest because of the rising fuel prices. [1]. For gods sake, they had a nationwide power blackout that lasted 7 hours. Why? Because the gas supplies were being usurped by Europe. [2].

> Now with Russia-Ukraine war squeezing supply, the richer European nations are getting dibs on whatever is up for grabs. With winter and a cap on Russian fuel imports approaching, European buyers will look to stock up on even more LNG.

Maybe we disagree - but I would say that widespread starvation and energy blackouts impacting the populations of developing countries directly related to ESG policies is pretty damn bad. The road to hell is paved with good intentions - look down.

[1] - https://www.voanews.com/a/inflation-unrest-challenge-banglad...

[2] - https://qz.com/power-hungry-europe-is-leaving-developing-cou...
It has decentralization today, but also no users today.

I would be happy with it but my contact list quite empty.

I'm not outright rejecting XMPP. I would like it very much to just use XMPP, but something needs to happen. It needs to be easy to use, friction-less, have all the fancy features and probably more to sell than Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Matrix at the same time, which is no small feat.

Core XMPP does not cut it. People expect more from a chat solution and won't adopt it as-is.

XMPP has had decentralization for a very long time, but almost no users (if speaking about actual, decentralized, chat; it's used in many other things). It had both decentralization and users for a short time with Google chat, and user with no decentralization with Google chat and Facebook chat for a longer time, but both things are dead now.

The network effect is the biggest issue to overcome for a chat system, not the actual tech, and XMPP has not solved it. Unfortunately, if you ask me.

Element/Matrix, in contrast, have the features and a beginning of adoption. it now needs polish, smoothing the rough edges, and adoption. And also adoption. And even more adoption. Including from people/entities providing homeservers. I tried to make people adopt it. I failed. Signal, however, has been a success so far. Element/Matrix is great and a success in my company, however.
The only memory safety that C# lacks in comparisaion with Rust is one special case, data races for in-process data.

For everything else regarding concurrent access to shared data out of process, they are on the same foot.

Ada didn't took off, because of several reasons, price of compilers, on UNIX it was an additional SKU on top of the respective developers SDK that already offered C and C++ in the box, 1980's mainstream hardware wasn't able to cope with it, most OS vendors outside UNIX decide to migrate from their toolchains into C and C++, so again additional money on top of the OS SDK.
Thanks for the inside scoop yaseer. And yeah, fingers crossed places like TechHub will thrive again.
7 was great. 8 was okay. 10 is great but I don't like the encroachment of ads. Why do I have an advertising ID now? Why do I have ads in my start menu and lock screen? 11 is even worse by the looks of it.

The decline definitely began at 8 and has accelerated recently.
You beat me to this comment... advise to my past self on an exciting pseudo-date.
I use pv directly to write files to devices using

pv <image.iso >/dev/sdb
So it turns out Aqua-man is buying houses after all[1].

For now at least.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLqXkYrdmjY&t=222s
C++20 modules and pre-compiler headers aren't the same thing in terms of technology.
Anyone can create AI imagery but right now it takes time, practice and judgement to create good AI images. And that's without editing the images to make them even better.

I guess your argument could be changed slightly to "Why buy stock photos when I can take a photo with my phone?"