skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this a lot but I really don’t think it was/is that simplistic.

It’s added complexity and cost for something that rarely would benefit most consumers. Now, you can argue that the complexity and cost is a nonissue on modern setups and I would probably agree.

But Intel has long had desktop grade hardware with ECC support. The 440GX chipset supported ECC and I ran a Dell GX1 SFF with 768MB of ECC PC100 for yeeeears with a 450 MHz P3 and later upgraded to 1.4ghz tualatin-256 via a slotket adapter.

The 440HX /socket 7/ chipset supported ECC. And that’s a Pentium 1 chipset.

The 440BX/GX and 450NX supported ECC and that’s with desktop pentium 2 and 3 chips.

The 820/820E/840 supported ECC with desktop celeron and pentium2/3 chips

845/845e/850/850e/860 pentium4 chipsets support ECC

875/e7205/e7221/e7230 did with desktop pentium 4 and pentium d chips

925/925xe/955x/975x did with desktop pentium 4/pentium d/core 2

It’s more sparse now that they moved to the IMC, granted. But Intel has long had multiple chipsets per generation with ECC support for desktop grade hardware.
If you click through to the link, you'll see that the results add up to 150%. That should be a sign that something odd is going on with this survey result and we need to interpret it with caution.

The question was "What is the primary operating system in which you work." (Emphasis mine.) The question itself implies that we should only be able to pick one, and yet the results clearly indicate that more than one was allowed. Most likely, people were listing the OSes they use a lot. A great many of us developers use a commercial OS locally, but also interact with Linux servers or containers on a regular basis.

That said, there's no simple interpretation of that "40% use Linux" number that passes the smell test. It's implausibly high for the number of people who use it as their primary workstation OS, and it's implausibly low for the number of developers who regularly work in Linux. More likely, what this number represents is that different respondents interpreted the question, which appears to have been ambiguously framed, in different and incompatible ways, and so the result is statistically meaningless.
> tried to destroy our democracy

He is still trying; that fact hangs over these conversations like Damocles' sword.
It's a joke about people moving to Linux not because it's gotten any better but because Windows has been getting worse
bullshit. what about those killed by stopattack? there should at least be 3 distinct effects related to the medication: no effect, positive effect, negative effect. somehow the potential negative effect of the medication is gladly overlooked.
How do their exceptional investment insights fare after they leave Congress (and, for completeness, the Senate.)
Pick a T-series thinkpad with an AMD CPU/GPU combo and the latest fedora. Done.

Don't forget that MacOS ships with very Limited hardware, too.
> I’m astonished at the casual dismissal of the blatant lies of the previous Twitter regime, their clear election manipulation

Can you provide specific examples of these “blatant lies”? For example, Taibbi’s earlier dumps showed that the testimony to Congress was accurate.
Try Manjaro with KDE.

Manjaro's more stable than Ubuntu (somehow), and KDE is better than GNOME. :D
> . It was because they become too slow

Using POS software that is never optimized does not help, indeed.

> or weren't updated by the manufacturer.

That is a real problem, and there is no good solution - apart from having eventual Linux phones but we are a very long way from there.
Fedora Workstation
Sorry to be so frank, but IMHO you probably didn't choose the most reliable brands.

I had 3 high-end HTC smartphones and one Huawei, which all lasted at least 4 years of use. And the reason for retiring them was wanting better hardware, camera, etc., not really that they stopped working or became slow (there only was a "physical" reason in in the case of the Huawei: the screen broke in a fall and it was expensive to replace, otherwise it worked just fine).

I don't have experience with Motorola, but from friends/family who have or had Samsung, it tends to be just... not good. Even if the hardware survives, which it not always does, after 1-2 updates they tend to lag like hell. I don't really get why they are so successful while e.g. HTC's smartphone business basically went under.
Are you aware of the equally common objection to “I can tolerate anything except intolerance”: that if allowed to censor in the name of tolerance, our self-appointed guardians will simply call whatever they don’t like “intolerance” and censor it? (Or “stochastic terrorism”, or “micro-aggression”, or “online harms”, or “misinformation”, or “trolling”, or “sealioning”, or “toxicity”, etc). Certainly one must draw the line somewhere. But the speech debate doesn’t end at the Paradox of Tolerance, and at this point I assume anyone who brings it up in isolation is doing so in bad faith.
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Wow, with all those ads that page has hardly enough space left for the few chunks of the article... => it's funny to watch.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095107
You can do it with a hair drier and the suction cap that usually comes with the battery. Or you can take it to a store at any mall and they do it on the spot for you.

It's one of the easier things to fix. I could swap a phone battery easier than I could replace my door handle or repair clothing.
Not only optional thing. Metro/bus/tramway are nearly free for them. They also have reduced rate for utilities.
Granted it is not easy to live with 500€ a month, but you can get by.
“We don’t shadow ban”
Gnome Ubuntu is the "gateway distro for new users"? I would never ever Recommend that to new users.

Mint, popOS, and a few others for people coming from Windows would be the "gateway distro for new users"

gnome 3 is not for new users, back in the day, gnome 2.4 days maybe that was the case
OP here: Good for you and now we do the work of preventing relapse. I've been told by many people I respect that it's a daily practice so I don't "forget" that I can't drink like other people.
Why would they? Private companies don't need to brag.
Well, you did build your own rig, so some learning is expected, no?
If I'm honest, Linux is...exhausting. I'm technically proficient, but even the "user-friendly" Ubuntu is a pain to work with. Something as simple as changing the mouse scroll speed requires creating a bash script. Software updates rarely work. There are random crashes that take hours to fix. I'm about to give in the towel and get a Mac.

I can get it to work because the terminal doesn't scare me, but there's no way I can recommend it to anyone without a certain amount of technical skills.
"Wow," I thought, "this is going to be an interesting slice of 17th century history."
I recently found these videos about number theory

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8yHsr3EFj53L8sMbzIhhXSAO...

And I was surprised both by how effective the method of camera and pen and paper was and by the didactic quality of the lectures
No-code.

What’s old is new again.
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Meanwhile, my Linux partition is rock solid and I cannot for the life of me figure out random hangs and crashes on clean Windows installs.

It is an Nvidia GPU. Honestly, they’re rarely the problem in Linux. Not in practice anyway.

Any hardware diag I try passes. Drivers? Tried both manufacturer and Windows Update. Always ends the same.

The mouse driver BSODed the machine one time. That was a new one.

I’ll stick with a Linux distro for real work, thanks.
That doesn’t make our economy car-centric… a car-centric economy would mean most of the GDP in the EU originates from automobile production, which is just laughably untrue.
Ya their OTP story kinda sucks
Forget it, I'll just install windows.
Yeah, I think AI will lead to huge change starting next year when the next iterations on ChatGPT and whatnot are released and they jump from being good most of the time to being excellent almost all of the time. When that happens next year I think the large-scale changes will start as people realize what the future will be like.

*of course it will take at least a couple of decades for the large scale changes to take place but I think we're right on the edge of it starting
always more and more vertical space wasted

16:9 is the most popular aspect ratio on desktop, there is no valid reason to waste more vertical space

that's poor UX
You have constructed a theory of how government works from whole cloth having nothing whatsoever to do with reality. Limited government means what powers not explicitly granted to government belong to the people. This is to say government can only acquire new powers via legislation or amendment of the constitution it doesn't mean that they are for forbidden from acting beyond the most limited mandate you imagine. No law is therein broken because you feel it's out of scope because the limitation is your invention.
There are also laws against rape, murder, and jaywalking, yet they happen daily.
My 2018 car (gasoline, turbocharged, direct injection) has coolant and oil temp readouts. The increase in coolant temp from a cold start leads the oil temp by a few minutes (exact time is dependent on ambient temperature and load profile).

Once the oil temp starts to get above 150F it very quickly gets to the operating temp (220F), so I view that as the point that it's okay to go above 3000 RPM.

If there are oil heaters then they must be far away from the oil reservoir temperature sensor and only have a local effect. As you say, that sounds like a feature for very large engines. It's probably a good practice to be gentle to car engines with cold oil.
It just said "about nine o'clock", I guess no one has anything to write about 9:03
I have TSA Pre and I am glad I got it. But I tried CLEAR (they had some free trials early on) and tbh I don't see much point. Yes, you get to cut the line. I've never waited in Pre line more than 5-10 mins. Why would I pay for it? While $200/yr is not really a big deal I just don't see much point. Maybe if I were an executive important enough so 10 mins matter but not important enough to get their own private jet - I'd get it, but otherwise - no. That said, I don't see them making anything worse. Yes, it's kinda annoying that some company gets to earn money for solving a problem that shouldn't be a problem from the start, and with zero competition at that, but in a grand scheme of things it's not bothering me that much. Their plans about "12 times a day" look spooky though - what do they plan to do for me to need ID verification services that often?
Also the first fan could be yourself, if you kid yourself thinking you love it then you will suffer endless questions on why it isn’t taking off.
More like a cache for back end data but it covers a lot of the use cases for front end state management.

https://tanstack.com/query/v4
They can change it to whatever as long as it's fully consistent and doesn't have menus from Windows 95. At this point I don't even know if it's possible.
I still remember how I said the government is telling social media websites and most of faang to censor things like 2 years ago and got downvoted here, it was so obvious a child would see it but somehow most people here blocked that part of their brain so they don't get labeled as a "conspiracy theorist".

We kept running that propaganda about freedom and how authoritarian regimes are evil so much that I for one believed it and thought everyone shared the belief, then saw people ARGUING against free speech and other things I thought were solved problems in first world countries.

The US for example is a country that invaded another country for oil and sold it to its people as a war for freedom, and called Iraqis who fought back terrorists, and now calls Ukrainians who fight back heroes, oh and both the US and the UK made fun of us for not joining their invasion (France).

In my opinion, all types of ideas should be allowed to battle freely and trust that this will drive us forwards, we do it with marketing, everything is allowed to the point people don't even know if they're buying things because they want to or because they're controlled into doing it, just do it with ideas as well, let everyone present their case online and offline and let the opposition argue against it logically or emotionally or whatever, people know what's best for them it's the first principle of a democracy, as soon as you start saying well X-speech will make people do terrible things which are bad for them so we should ban it you stop being a democracy in my opinion.
>> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

>The exception clause is "unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon, but according to all the top comments on the twitter files threads, "this is nothing new".

You said you were flagging all of political content and then brought it back to Twitter files specifically to justify it not hitting the exception clause.

For me the Twitter files content themselves aren’t interesting, but the effect of the what seems like obviously non interesting content getting so many people up in arms just because a billionaire is claiming it’s bad is an interesting new phenomenon.

I understand this type of content might put you in a bad mood, but given that you weren’t flagging the content until you felt

> The response to the twitter files was the slap in the face I needed to finally understand that.

Kinda feels like you’re trying to engage in the same type of censorship that bothers you.
Playing numbers from developers survey, while even Steam places it at around 2%.
No FUD. On laptops I’ve repeatedly failed to get the correct battery life. I’ve also struggled with audio working correctly and reliably.

Sure, something might be misconfigured but the universe of misconfiguration for a Mac and Linux are substantially different because Linux is a much sharper tool.

Pointing the finger at the user is emblematic of the problems Linux has when people say it isn’t suitable for the desktop (and these days they mean laptop).

Linux empowers from micro controllers to data centers because there are domain experts being paid to keep the whole thing running AND NONE of those use cases are for interactive day to day customer use on a laptop (eg power saving, audio, video playback, video conferencing, etc) b with the exception of steam deck and switch that have a carefully tuned and tightly controlled OS distribution for a carefully chosen hw configuration. Windows is arguably the closest to the problems Linux faces but generally Windows does a much better job providing usable and stable APIs that vendors build against whereas Linux does not always do such a good job (+ vendors care about Windows whereas Linux is generally an afterthought except if it’s relevant to Android).
Well it has been known for decades the Nvida is openly hostile to Linux Desktop, and actively tries to prevent development of open source drivers,

Hell Linus has a famous speech where he literally flips of Nvida
Yeah, there's a huge problem in the community where every problem is the user's fault.

Like, using the most popular graphics card provider on Linux shouldn't be some outlandish idea that should be ridiculed.
The best thing you can do to make your engine last is change the oil regularly.
Also, on track record, Valve have been very quiet in general about the huge piles of money they have raked in over the last 20 years.
“The Year of Linux on the Desktop of Developers who bothered to register on stackoverflow“.
I don’t think that not rescinding an already made offer and “hiring indefinitely” are the same thing
I was reading an interview of Warren Buffet saying that integrity is an important value for a business to succeed. Why are we talking about hiring indefinitely? They made a contract and based on that I made some commitments. How does this case look like hiring forever?
Steam Deck + SteamOS is a catalyst in the making. You pretty much have to use Flatpak for application installation otherwise you risk your installs getting wiped out when Steam does a distro upgrade. You get a managed desktop experience with the setup. When you couple the Steam Deck with a good dock you have a great desktop computing experience.
In reality it's more like a sentiment of a certain hardware manufacturer towards the Linux community. The best the community can do is make it known.
we’re using ngrx.

Context: the app in a large enterprise Angular app (100+kLOC)
Linus Torvalds giving the finger to Nvidia should be required reading for all new Linux adventurers.
Ironic for me. 2019, 2021 and half of 2022 were the years that I went all in on Ubuntu for desktop. It was an overall awesome experience as a developer.... and then Zoom and Slack started crashing randomly or having weird bugs where I'd needed to restart the app or even the machine in order to get them working again.

2022 is the year I switched back to windows as my development experience with WSL2 + being able to use Zoom and Slack without them crashing or getting random bugs.

Even running Linux GUI apps works well on Windows. Run evince file.pdf from the wsl2 command line and evince opens.

The one thing that doesn't integrate well is linux disk encryption utilities and windows. I wish I could use LUKS/cryptsetup but ended up giving up and using Bitlocker.
LED lights have so many shortcomings (weird color spectrum, often flicker, etc). You can do tons of research and find ones without those problems. But instead I’ve just stockpiled incandescent bulbs, particularly for the dimmable lights in my living room.
This is entirely NVIDIA's fault, not Linux's. AMD plays ball.
This is a grander version of what I do when I procrastinate: fret about the time I’ve wasted, beat myself up about what I wasted it on, and anxiously berate myself every minute that I don’t _just stop wasting time_. None of that ever works, and nothing feels better than forgiving myself for it, forgetting all of it, and just getting started. You don’t have any “then” left, but you do have “now” left.
aww, now i miss the uniqlock 24/7 video snippet "stream".

i'll have to check the github out to see what the longest string is, so i know how big of a display i'd need to hang something like this on the wall!
Yep, Previous years = 100%, so the question has changed somehow

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#technology-mo...

I guess you could use Windows at work and Linux at home (or viseversa).

I'd bet some people also say Linux becayse they have homeservers and other secondary uses besides their primary driver.
You clearly aren't familiar with the state of advancement in being able to develop an app in the last 40 years.

I have a rigorous academic background in computer science and you don't see me throwing a tantrum that your average layman today can fire up unity or RPG maker to create games without having a firm grasp of rigid body Newtonian physics, game loops, asset management, graphic drivers, and handrolled x86 assembly.
Linux != Unix
You will definitely get a ticket here if a cop sees you driving with windows iced or fogged up (which you should... it's a serious hazard to you, other drivers, and pedestrians).
Not facetious at all. I call it "visiting Paris."

A large number of people I grew up with "wanted to see the world." My younger self modeled a lot of my desired outcomes on people's externally stated desires.

As I got older, I started realizing something: a lot of what people said they wanted was attainable for them and their socioeconomic status if they made different trade offs. So I started poking and offering advice on how they could "visit Paris."

What I came to learn is that they wanted to be the kind of people that wanted to visit Paris. But they never would go to Paris. It was the idea they liked.

I have well off family members who talk about wishing their son lived closer. They have the means to visit him. They're retired and live near an airport with direct flights, 3.5 hours door to door. But they never go. That's their Paris.

I don't want to live in my hometown. I don't kid myself - I value raising my family here where I live more than the extra time with family. But, at the same time, when I go back I spend that time in a way maximally meaningful to me.

I try not to have "going to Paris" wishes. I sacrifice protecting my ego from my own decisions but it makes me reconcile my decisions with my desires before reaching the state of irreversible regret.
I recently went through the exercise of setting up two Ryzen PCs. One with an AMD GPU and one with an Nvidia GPU.

Surprisingly, the only issues I had with NVIDIA was that my window manager would not let me start it because I had an NVIDIA GPU. They make you pass a flag along the lines of “yes I am running NVIDIA with Wayland”.

The AMD GPU was a nightmare thanks to a long running bug. I eventually got it working, but it was unexpected. NVIDIA on Linux has improved a lot!
Then I am glad I missed it.

I spend my days fixing other people’s Linux problems, I don’t wish to fix my own on my own time.

I still love the OS, but only for Docker and Kubernetes. I’ll run a mature desktop OS with a plan over Linux, possibly Windows.
> a relatively fringe group of consumers actually want

Pretty big chance that we are falling victim to a paradox here. If the majority of users think "I can't buy a phone with a replaceable battery because all high-end phones from any manufacturer lacks them" the battery issue never get cited on polls on why a person bought a particular phone.
What frustrates me is that other Linux users will tell you with a straight face that you must be flat-out lying if you bring up sleep problems. Had three users tell me that on HN just about a day ago.
Almost all cultures lay emphasis on using positive words than saying negative words. Long ago there was a superstition that spoken words might become true. It is not completely superstition as words do have psychological effects on the listener or thinker. So when encouraged to talk in certain way, it encourages to think the same way.
Not banned. The car shape is probably the most inefficient form factor posssible for an electric vehicle, and economic and market forces will do their thing.
> Why is something that soany people so obviously want not being built? Why is there no "slightly more clunky and no glass on the back" 'caseless' option?

Let’s try this another way.

Pretend your a phone company, and pretend that 70% of people use cases. And pretend 50% of those are zealots about cases and are offended at even the suggestion that they might ever go caseless. I think it’s less than that, but whatever.

So you’ve got three choices!

1. Build totally different phones for case and caseless. Everything from development to tooling to distribution is totally separate.

2. Focus on one market or the other, but not both

3. Ship a phone that works great caseless, and cases that can be attached for people who want bulkier phones.

Now, even if you personally hate the idea of a caseless phone, I hope you can work through why it is more economically and environmentally efficient to make cases an add-on.

I’m sorry the market isn’t serving your needs. I’m less sympathetic with anyone who insists their particular niche is actually the silent majority that would obviously be the correct group for companies to center every product decision on.