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I haven't willing used Redhat since they dropped desktop support, and spun out Fedora as a community supported replacement. I had just purchased a boxed copy with a book from best buy, and they let me return it even though it violates their policy against returning open software. I knew the manager that was working and explained open source to her, but I think she just let me slide cause she liked me. I used the money to buy a physical copy of Suse, which came with a bigger book. Suse was my main driver for a few years after that, but I switched to debian when Novell bought them and started causing trouble. I really liked Suse though, Yast was way ahead of it's time.

Sorry, that took a bit long to get to the point that these days I only use Redhat because it's the only linux distro available at my job. I know I'm not the only one who feels this way. Maybe IBM is just realizing no one gets joy from using RedHat anymore, so they might as well squeeze every bit of money out of it before it dies.
> They're dockless, you can end a ride anywhere

This is, for me and my wife, the entire point. We had a docked bikeshare system in Seattle and the docks were never where we needed one, particularly since Seattle's topology--a city known internationally for being incredibly flat and dry--meant that the docks on the bottom of a hill would be perpetually full and the ones at the top of the hill were always empty.

But these things are an absolute godsend for someone who can walk, but can't walk far, or who has the occasional struggle with hills. The bus or train can't go everywhere, but a scooter can get you between the spot where the bus let you off and the spot where you want to go. That's how my wife and I use them and they're amazing and, frankly, I hope they never go away.

> The companies running them all seem content to just proliferate scooters all over the street with no regard for expense or the non-scooting public

This is probably true, but I think a lot of people just don't see themselves as "the scooting public" except for the brief time they might be using one.

It's the same problem with cars, just downsized a great deal. We're incapable of building separated infrastructure, mostly due to cost, partially due to fear of loss from space given over to cars. We try these bandage workarounds, like scooters, but because we've half-assed everything except the infrastructure for cars (and because people's expectations are so high around the new idea), we wind up with a situation where everyone is frustrated because no one's needs feel met even though there are clearly uses for them.
Google up the Joel Spolsky 12 questions about software development from about a quarter century ago and the answer to most of the questions was mostly no.

No version control means merges were ... problematic at best, so you developed software without merges, branches, or pull requests, and surprisingly you can run a pre-2K economy pretty well off software written that way ... People tended to own a file at any given time and that meant we organized files along project tasks. We didn't have "no version control" we just didn't use version control tools because none had been invented, well, maybe RCS or CVS but nobody used that outside academia. We could still use backups and restores if we needed an old version. Also all filesystems had something.c, something.c.December.12, something.c.old, something.c.old.old.old, and something.c.bobs.copy. Often source code would entirely fit on one floppy disk so you'd just have a disk with a name and version written on it, and that was your "version control" if you had to review version 1.3 from the past. Also network directories with zip files named projectname-1995.03.12.tar.gz

One step builds were theoretically possible, "make install" was old stuff 30 years ago, but in practice, unit testing and distribution and approval processes made it simpler compared to now. Not every platform language and technology used makefiles, of course.

Everyone had quiet working conditions 30 years ago compared to "open office" so productivity was higher. Things are better now with full time remote.

Some of the old questions are kind of invalid, instead of the best IDE/compilers money can buy, all that stuff is generally free now.

Another eliminated question: As an industry "hallway usability testing" has been eliminated from the profession. There are too many middlemen "project manager" types who get a salary to keep programmers away from users. When someone's salary depends on preventing enduser input, you're not getting enduser input as a programmer. Maximizing enduser happiness is no longer the most profitable way to sell software, so goals are a lot different now.
>People really want Meta to fail because the "metaverse" is one of the dumbest pivots of an established company of all time

I believe people want Meta to fail because the spent the better part of last 5 years completely eviscerating their reputation and goodwill. While Facebook, at its prepandemic peak was hemorrhaging young users and becoming known as the platform for misinformation and arguments due to the chase for engagements at all costs, Zuckerberg was bust cosplaying as presidential candidate. People want Facebook to fail and I think that's a consequence of how terrible their reputation has become.
> This reminds me of predictive policing ML models that take race as a factor.

In statistical systems you often have to take in race as a factor to remove it as one. You can't debias a system if you can't determine the bias. There are many things that highly correlate with race: a notorious one being zip code (byproduct of red lining). But there's also a lot of non-obvious ones and considering historical data is used, the machine will find those correlations. So only with that data can you then analyze and tweak your model to remove the racial biases.
I disagree, especially if your goal is to reduce the payload size. Another point to consider is that not all programming languages deal well with JSON, adding support for it can be just as painful.
Also all the current allocation standards are for 2000::/3. If it turns out we have some unforeseen issue with the current policy of handing out blocks we can come up with something else for the five other /3's that are completely unused.
Interesting. There must be some internal inconsistencies across accounts (not surprising for something that's existed this long). So maybe they are slowly working through the changes as they hint.

For instance, in the past month I received this notice, unprompted, from amazon:

Greetings from Amazon Web Services,

In the past, you have used the same email address and password to sign in to Amazon.com and AWS. In response to customer feedback, AWS is updating your account to make your access to Amazon.com and AWS independent. You can continue using this email address and your current password to sign in to Amazon.com. However, the next time that you sign in to AWS, you will be prompted to create a new password and will have the option to register a new multi-factor authentication (MFA) device. MFA is a best practice that adds an extra layer of protection on top of your email and password.
But how do you deal with the increased risk of chemical fires?

It was a thing when I was picking careers that they barely hired firefighters because the changes in building codes meant... much fewer fires.

Out in the townships, some went volunteer, and at the ones where it was paid a lot of them cross trained as EMTs or whatever.

I don't think it registered over the years -- I never "just got a job" because everyone in the system -- from the Harvard doctor doing the surgery to the dad from cub scouts, who have known me since birth -- they wouldn't lift a finger to help me if I didn't show them the right card.

And they're going to misunderstand me, on purpose, for the rest of my life, if I try to change that?

I really don't like violence, but I have been bullied all my life, and some days I don't feel like stripping out the emo bullshit and leaving the LinkedIn friendly HN post and I hate these scooter companies that put very real risks out there when many people still don't even have a bank account let alone a smartphone to order up one of these... things.

If anyone has a suggestion on a good scooter model to permanently purchase and pair with a helmet, I think maybe someone should do a startup that rents out helmets instead of chemical fire factories to be thrown into the woods next to the cloud factory.

PS: Do not let Michael Chabon take you to a secondary location, even if it's Halloween.
> Students for Fair Admissions, accuse Harvard of discriminating against Asian American applicants in order to boost representation from other groups.

Why does this argument need to be framed entirely as discrimination against Asian Americans? Affirmative action clearly harms White people too. Are White people so incapable of advocating for themselves that they can only point out a policy is bad when it harms another minority group?
From the paper:

The micromobility ban was implemented in the city of Atlanta on 9 August 2019. We use high-resolution data from 25 June 2019 to 22 September 2019 from Uber Movement to measure changes in evening travel times between 7:00 p.m. and midnight

The data was very specific to evenings in certain areas.
That's the big problem I have with these fundraisings.

They are using the exact thing that make most of us hate advertising: deceiving claims, annoying banners, and revenue-driven A/B testing. The only thing they don't seem to do (yet) is personal data collection / targeting. When I see them I can't help but think "how did these got through my ad blocker?" [*]

They don't have to do that, they can afford not to use typical advertising tactics and still get enough money for continued operation.

*: The reason I think Wikimedia fundraisers don't appears in most block lists is that as a rule, self-promotion is not considered advertising. Same reason why you can see ads for the latest Microsoft products when you go to microsoft.com.
Sounds like a case of shooting the messenger. It's not his original idea.
>highest employment in more than 15 years

Sorry, but knowing the way many countries count unemployment, that doesn't mean shit. In my country, you're only part of the unemployment statistics if you receive unemployment benefits and only that. If you're taking a paid course by the unemployment office, like learning the local language so you can get a job later, or just not working without receiving unemployment benefits because you're not entitled to them, or if you're a refugee who can't work, or homeless, or some of the other dozens of cases where you still get money from the government but not working, you're not counted as part of the official unemployment statistics even though you don't have a job and you're not contributing to the local economy in any way. Knowing this, low unemployment numbers mean little to me, especially when housing and living costs are at an all time high while wages are stagnating.

> In the meantime inflation is actually very good for public finances and is healthily impacting the inflated asset prices which is nice

Excuse me but how is this high inflation good for public finances and inflated assets?

Where I live, I and most of the population, saw a massive increase in cost of living (that's why the people with shopping carts protesting in the article), with 30% to 100% increase in everyday prices like groceries and bills, while my salary increase by less than 4% (and I work in tech, others got even less), while rent and asset prices like real estate have proven to be inflation-proof, even beating inflation and rising above what inflation could erode from them.

So what personal advantage did I miss from this, as my bank account is not seeing it, and a lot of Europeans around me are having too much month left at the end of their salaries.
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Ever since the systemd thing, I can’t get it to work. :-(

Devuan is OK, though apt-get upgrade broke grub on one of my machines.

I settled on manjaro. I kind of hate it, but at least it sort of works. In particular, I have it on a shared desktop, and “switch user” works.

It took 3-4 hours to get xscreensaver to work (poorly) with multiple sessions. There’s no way to save games in micropolis (open source simcity) because it is a flatpack. I frequently reboot because PulseAudio is still terrible.

Proton supposedly runs steam games on freebsd these days. Maybe that’s worth a spin.

I want Debian circa 2002 back. sigh
The emperor's new dress doesn't make him a woman.
This sounds interesting, but I'm not following. What does the U.S. budget deficit have to do with Chinese wages? Can you unpack a bit?
> During the Clinton administration the US was briefly even running budget surpluses.

Congress, not the president, controls the government's budget.
It's not a magic wand. It facilitates new decentralized systems, it doesn't somehow fix the old ones.

You're assuming a world where digital content is administrated and supported by a centralized organization. If they stop respecting the license, it becomes worthless, no one can argue otherwise and no one is trying to.

A world where digital content is administrated by anyone (including by the user themselves) and interops with other services (games, social apps, or otherwise) does not see the assets suffer or lose value when one such service shuts its doors. They can just be taken elsewhere. One game goes down, a fork goes up, etc.

Blockchain does absolutely nothing to fix what's broken with today's systems, it provides the infrastructure for the alternative.
You'd have to convince me that this doesn't fall under fair use given the lack of trademark use.
Done? What do you mean "done"? Consulting hours are much better on projects that cannot ever be finished!1
I don't see how the inability of your dad to repair his truck has anything to do with this reaction

" And then we wonder why some people hate EVs, love "rolling coal", and dispute climate change. If that happened to you, I could see very quickly why you'd join the haters club."

1.If this is a form of protest it's not working because when environmentists see a truck rolling coal they only want more regulation and enforcement. If it's a protest it's not clear because an alternative explanation could be that the people driving lifted trucks and rolling coal just want to be dicks/annoy people. It's like if I was angry at a bank so i littered at their branches

2. EVs have the same issues with right to repair so why would you hate them? Again similar issues as 1

3. Climate change is occurring and disputing it because you are upset about "limp mode" also doesn't make sense. Who is going to connect these two situations.
I share your feeling, but I don’t think it’s reasonable.

I’ve used both now and it’s just fine as a framework. Maybe it’s in the way they present themselves.
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Your comment works equally well for cars. Why not ban them until drivers follow the laws and stop driving drunk, parking illegally on sidewalks, hit pedestrians etc.?
As a cyclist, I'd happily take e-scooters in the bike lane if it meant a protected network of lanes that spanned my area (like Amsterdam and similar).

The current mix of bikes and scooters in the road, on the sidewalk, in the bike lanes (usually not protected) is a nightmare in busier areas.
The year that the US isn't the only game in town, there will be far more to worry about beyond just the national debt.
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if you're allowed to say, what sort of techniques from google are they underinvested in?
If they admit you in the first place, they pretty much do, which was indeed a pretty salient perk of the top-tier colleges among the Asian immigrant parent crowd, at least a decade or two back.

For a particular cohort of second-gens, you were going to an "elite" institution or you were going to state—the family finances weren't going to support sticker price without a near-full scholarship.
That actually happens - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_in_exile is the term of art - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_diplomatic_service_in_... is an example of basically exactly that with regards to Latvia.
Even if that is true, people don't point at such a top comment and say "here is an expert".
1) Yes, it's a slight case of hyperbole

2) The majority of the $165 in 1950 was the 1 week hospital stay (and 6 days of nursery care) instead of a 1 day hospital stay.

3) After accounting for the 1 week hospital stay, the biggest remaining cost was for anesthesia. Which is always expensive. Epidurals instead should have driven the costs way down.

4) So that would leave $45 if they left after a modern hospital stay with an epidural.

5) This was in NYC, so it should be higher than average.

6) After adjusting for inflation, that $165 is still more than the out of pocket costs for childbirth today
> It's not because we learned new things about the Constitution in the last 20 years.

Funnily enough, from the majority opinion of the "precedent" they may overturn: "The Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today."
Are you conflating budget surplus and trade surplus? China is definitely 100% not running a budget surplus.
Most places that employ rockstar frontend guys are like that. Management let them build their design systems and other cool stuff, but most of their backlog consists of new spaghetti on top of old spaghetti plus bug fixes. The cool stuff is used on greenfield projects.
seems risky to do anything that decreases twitter's reach. it may seem counter intuitive but there is a reason the blue check mark was free of charge in the first place. I am not sure advertisers want a smaller twitter user base, since the one that exists is quite heterogeneous and geographically distributed.
No, it is, at least for C# and the default/"official" code generator.

The docs (proto3) say this: “Also note that if a scalar message field is set to its default, the value will not be serialized on the wire.”
Affirmative action isn’t just for college admissions, and outside of college admissions, affirmative action programs generally do not involve decision preferences, but are limited largely to training programs, outreach efforts, and other funnel-shaping efforts.

So, the poll results are perfectly consistent with people understanding the question and either supporting AAP in general but not in college admissioms, or supporting it in general but not when it goes beyond funnel-shaping to include decision preferences. They are also consistent with them supporting it in college, and involving decision preferences, but only on ethnicity, gender, and other non-race factors, though that seems less likely.
> Are you doing code editing on eInk? Because if so, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Yes I do, and I have different devices of different generations in different sizes (ex: Xiaomi/Moaan Inkpalm and Inkpalm plus in the cellphone format, Boox and Fujitsu Quaderno in the A5 format, Sony and Boox in the A4 format....)

Right now, I'm preparing a first release of very basic Android tools that I use daily (mostly a good starting point for eink tweaking: a bash+vim configuration, cf https://github.com/csdvrx/bash-timestamping-sqlite for the bash part)

Next will be an optimized terminal to lower the latency by using the private eink APIs.

The basic principle is super simple: tolerate ghosting in an area with plenty of rewrites, but remove ghosting in static areas, using a invalidation matrix of the rows and columns of the screen in characters.

It will require some basic math, for ex: keep moving average of how many changes there were in the last 5 rolling seconds of any part of the matrix, do some basic minimization problem to define squares with most of the cells requiring redraws to use the eink fast refresh mode etc.

I never thought about a newsletter, but why not? It's a great idea to find other people with the same niche interest! What would you use to send it? Just BCC?

My email is my nickname at outlook dot com, give me your email and I'll add you to this newsletter!
Yeah but they’re not really for you. They’re for making it easy for Tiktok creators to cross-post their content.

IG, FB, and YT all realized that if they force creators to choose between making Tiktoks and posts/videos they’re going to make Tiktoks. The cost of making entirely separate content has to be worth the extra audience and you can change the calculus by making the cost really low.
Still working on this! Unlike self driving, which is conceptually solved, things like cooking and cleaning aren’t. There’s a very cool challenge remaining here.
> Any way, this is definitely a self-made crisis and not one "caused by covid".

1+ million dead, millions with long-term COVID19 symptoms (worse focus, bad breathing, missing smell), millions of Boomers also leaving the workplace due to population pyramid issues (typical boomers turned 65 this year: but many were retiring at 63 in 2020 as COVID19 became a thing).

When millions-upon-millions of people leave the US workforce, we will have supply issues.

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We're currently undergoing the largest decline in number-of-workers in nearly a century. And not because of economic issues, but because of COVID19 + a poorly timed (though predictable) mass retirement of the largest segment of the working population.

That's USA alone. Other countries all are undergoing similar issues (death rates + disability rates from COVID19. Baby Boomers may not exist in other countries though, but they do exist in many western countries like UK)
The metaverse is not bombing. It’s simply not tied to one platform.

Between TikTok, Roblox, Minecraft, call of duty (and other triple A multiplayer games), we’re already there.

Meta can’t win this one. Same way that no single game publisher can dominate video games.

Even the hardware, fine meta becomes the first “Nintendo”. So what? The PlayStations and Xbox’s will come. No one will let Meta have a monopoly.
> A more apt analogy might be OP wanting to help all the passengers off the sinking ship before jumping off themselves.

That's not an apt analogy. No one's going to die or even be harmed if Twitter crashes and burns tomorrow. Twitter is a frivolous discretionary product that exists only for its owners' profit, nothing more.

> OP just wants to help people, which I think is quite admirable.

Yes, but it's also not a good thing to be tricked into thinking you're helping people, when you're really being exploited.

If you're going to keep working on a sinking ship, you better have a pretty good reason to think you're actually helping people that doesn't amount to a regurgitation of a corporate mission statement or a foolish one-sided loyalty to an unloyal organization.
> Their engineering culture as a whole is a one trick pony.

what do you mean by this? what's their one trick?
There was also a long history of PDAs being commercial failures.

I'm not saying that Facebook will succeed there. But in the past VR was a failure because tech was just not ready. Is it ready now? Maybe. Will it fail? Maybe. But past failures will have nothing to do with future ones.
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