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In principle I would love to use Linux, as the developer experience isn’t great on Windows, and I would rather not be tied into expensive Apple computers.

However, I don’t want to learn about components of my operating system, that is below my pay grade.

I’m not trying to spread FUD, I’m speaking firsthand on some of the experiences my colleagues have had with their brand new $3000 business Thinkpads running all manner of Linux distributions.

I don’t doubt Linux is the right choice when you are creating a tightly integrated, walled off product like a Nintendo Switch.
Threats of regulations or hefty fines can definitely inconvenience the company’s owners, who have a stake in the company’s future.

And importantly, if the individuals using the platform are (hypothetically) being silenced by government agencies levelling threats against the company unless it complies, this could be seen as tantamount to censorship.
Try to write a pure POSIX applications on either iOS or Android.

https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/fall2016/atlidakis
If the device degrades to the point where it’s effectively useless for my primary use case, I’m not really saving money. Useful timeline needs to be accounted for when considering cost effectiveness.
At this point, the "gateway distro" for new users is running any of those in WSL. There is so much more buy-in if you can someone that they don't have to throw away their laptop and get one with this specific chip selection so that everything works. And if you can tell them that yes, of course, you can run your games at the same time, without fiddling, dual booting, or fear of getting banned for "cheats".
Show HN: Kweb 1.3.3 released, a server-side interface to the browser's DOM
No. I am using Linux on PC hardware and I miss Mac OS X. I have a lot tweaks and hacks that just don’t cut it. For example, the PC Home and End keys for text boxes are hard coded into X.
I'm torn in replying because I think you're basically right, but also a little bit gatekeep-y, but also agree that "gatekeep" is regularly leveraged by people with financial interest against those trying to encourage a healthier attitude towards "the hobby" than capitalism would otherwise want us to have...

Buying books you don't play is nothing new. When I was a kid, maybe you owned 10, knew 5, really played 2; if you were hardcore and had the cash, more like 50/20/5. The number of kids today buying but with zero played doesn't sit right with me; but this is also a definitional issue of what "in the community" means as much as it's some capitalist land grab. It is cool that you don't need to play to appreciate it now. It is also not cool how much kids today are pushed to perform anything they do for fun, and while part of me is like "just log off", I also don't pretend to understand the entire social milieu pressuring them to not do that. If I take anything from my youth spent on games, it's that being a kid is rough and adults really don't understand.

Regarding "edition wars" - nah, I think this is generational projection, and I say that as a veteran of a couple. Whatever drives wedges into the communities today will be just as arbitrary and silly-looking to anyone outside it as THAC0 vs. DC. (And that's fine.) Also, with simulationism on the outs, it's hard to imagine anyone under 25 caring too much. What's going to split them will rather probably be some issue in worldbuilding or narratology I'm too old to understand. (And that's fine too.)
Good, too many people are using Linux.
Not as personal transportation, though. Too expensive and wasteful.
Hackers. You'll find a few around here.
Thanks for showing true colors with the ad hom!
I assume the idea is for changes in the data to trigger changes in the UI? If you just keep the raw data on an object you still need an additional mechanism to synchronize the data on the screen.
What help is needed for Lisp community in order to make Lisp more popular?
I'm learning Lisp in order to do one big thing that I don't think would be possible without Lisp. But I want to abstract from my magnum opus and get an answer to another question. Suppose I have learned Lisp plus computer science very well (at least having the SICP book fully solved) - how can I help the Lisp community to make Lisp the most popular programming language using only Lisp?

The first thing that comes to my mind is to make emacs multi-threaded, but I'm a big fan of vim, so this task is not going to be mine. I'm also not sure if this task should be solved at the Lisp level and not at the C level.

The question is about writing Lisp code and nothing more, not about organizing hackathons or writing books or something not related to programming itself.
You can't go wrong following this advice. Please do.
In the North Slope oil fields in Alaska, they just keep the trucks running 24/7 in the winter time.
Also, wearing heavy jackets in a car is just damn uncomfortable.
Not my experience at all. Been running Ubuntu LTS for work for years and updates are just about bulletproof.
Github: https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/tree/master/Passw...
I hope Santa got you a dictionary for Christmas because you seem to be using a lot of words there a lot more confidently than you should be.
Proprietary batteries are useful for getting the best trade off of capacity, weight, cost, and form factor for a product. Standardized batteries will result in products that are worse in 1 or more of those categories.
The only thing sillier than technical analysis is using technical analysis on make-believe money. Looking for a pattern is human nature. Your “sample size” of 3 is by no means indicative of anything. “Historical precedence” - they teach you to never use these words when working in finance. Bitcoin going to $5k is absolutely in play this year when the scammy house of cards that is Tether finally collapses.
looks good for such a situation
i looked bad and shaved when I was arrested
Sorry I could not see your email
Why would would anyone ride a bicycle when the simpler unicycle exists. Is that the crux of your argument?
Yep. And as noted before, up on the Slope they just run the vehicles 24/7 in the winter time.
The result of the poll was never meant to change his plans, but I doubt that the fact that majority of people wanted him out didn’t sting his childish thin-skinned ego.

My bet is that he was hoping the poll were overwhelmingly for him staying so that he can then eventually announce how “he must reluctantly step down and that he knows how everyone is disappointed by this terrible turn of events”.
Funny you should mention that because I always have to fix Home and End on Mac with Karabiner-Elements so they don't go the beginning and end of the entire document which is totally useless.

That said, I agree with you.
Aaaaaand the fraudulent charges on my cc started. Coincidence, maybe but unlikely.
I sincerely hope LastPass burns to the ground and never recovers.
> I will fly like a bat out of hell out of my front door in my boxers to start the car and run back inside to get ready for another 30 minutes.

You might want to look into a remote starter accessory. I had it in my last vehicle to start the AC (I live in a warm climate).
Tip for vi users on Mac: get Karabiner-Elements and use the “complex modifier” that makes the Caps Lock key into ESC when you just press it, but Control when you use it with another key.
I should have qualified that with: if China is actually going to invade and we can’t stop them.

I don’t think you are going to convince the US leadership to go to war directly against a nuclear power for Taiwan. They won’t for Ukraine either. If Taiwan can resist like Ukraine they will supply Taiwan, but China is considerably stronger and more advanced than Russia. I don’t think that level of resistance is likely.

If I were Taiwanese I’d rather have the option of having a good place to go as an alternative to forceful subjugation by a totalitarian power.
Celebrity kernel hackers lobbing attacks at hardware makers in speeches is no way to run a compatibility matrix.
Anyone who thinks working from a beach is possible has never tried.

The screen isn't always readable.

And many people who sit nearby aren't working and maybe living and making memories.
If you give one million dollars to every person, a sandwich would cost one million dollars.

Because the farmers, truck drivers, slaughterhouse workers, butchers, truck drivers, would quit their job immediately upon receiving 1 million dollars.

It's a fallacy that giving money to people would solve poverty. It would simply force the system to recalibrate so that everyone asks for more money.
Mobx
More like you might say “I wish I had spent more time with my kids and less time at work” but you won't remember the anxiety of planning for the future. In hindsight you managed to saved enough for retirement but it didn't always looked that way when you were laid off for the second time in 4 years in the middle of an economic crisis. Your kids grew without life changing injuries but you didn't know that and you didn't have to battle a cancer.

So at the twilight of your life you might say that you wish you hadn't worked overtime for that startup or spent your weekends on side projects but at the time you were worried about paying your rent or a dead-end career path and you had to try to work harder because you had no way of knowing things would turn out fine. And maybe they turned out fine because of your efforts.

Hindsight is 20/20 and this is just as true for your future self judging your current self.
If I ask about this around the office, do you think anyone will have any idea what I'm talking about?

It might be obvious in your social circles, but that doesn't mean it's even remotely common enough to be assumed knowledge for someone trying out linux on the desktop for the first time.
Reading your comment felt like that hearing Anakin saying he knows what's best for the people better than they do.

As soon as you start assuming you know more than the people and that you have a right to censor the information they can access because it's bad for them, you become a tyrant.

Am I the only one who finds this rotten?

I want to read disinformation, tell me the sky is green I don't care, I can stitch stories together and arrive to a conclusion myself, false things (won't use that "(d/m)isinformation" media clickbait word) don't make sense, real things do, sure there are false things that do sound correct, but trust the people to make the difference, have your experts argue against falsehoods, let the people hear those arguments, if your expert's arguments disprove X or Y the people will not believe it, if the Russian experts disprove your arguments, then they're right and you're the one spreading falsehoods...
The people behind unstable diffusion have created a dedicated means to donate to the cause:

https://equilibriumai.com/index.html

It's already up to the original amount that they intended to raise on Kickstarter. I have a feeling that all this negativity is just going to amplify the Streisand effect.
General guidance when working as a cloud engineer
A helpful list of things to have in mind when working with anything tech related.
Funnily enough, this is the exact spec of laptops (except with Nvidia GPUs) that all of my colleagues who have had these problems use.
Mobx. Never looking back to any other React state management library
It was always MobX for me, I’ve built a few sites and React Native apps with it and found it extremely productive in exchange for some magic, but it could be seen as somewhat heavyweight compared to some more “modern” solutions. Jotai and Zustand are two that I want to investigate but not used them yet.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting

I would say that government agencies trying to stop me from seeing information that it doesn't like is something most good hackers would find interesting.
Philosophy and Recommendations Around the LastPass Breaches
Heating a 75kw battery up from -17F to 77F uses about 3kwh. So about 3-4%.

This is not a significant concern, frankly.
By censoring data, so did Twitter.
I'm quite happy with Bitwarden, too. I used to use 1password in the past. The UX similar with 1Password being a bit better (at least in the past).
That's moral choice I guess: you were simply making mistakes for the last 20 years, an the OP is blatantly lying. Also, you were simply giving people hope, and OP is actively sabotaging the development, by trying to make false impression that this garbage is already working fine. Which, as every actual Linux user knows, just isn't the case.

Obviously, that's Microsoft PR department post. Using praise as a weapon.

I've had to update Ubuntu (to the latest LTS! which is 8 months old already!) on a laptop (a Thinkpad, for God's sake!), and I'm still fighting a bunch of problems (not exclusively driver-related) that I didn't have on the same machine on older Ubuntu (or maybe I've already fixed some of them before and forgot about that… but some certainly are new!). I hate it, and I have no idea how non-technical people manage to use it for daily life and not as a troubleshooting exercise simulator (I've heard some of them do — not sure if that's true though).
I lost a couple percent per day when leaving my car parked in 10°F weather. It’s about the same as enabling sentry mode.

If the car is plugged in– even to a typical 120V wall plug– it’ll charge and warm the battery even in single digit temps.
The truth is much worse. This didnt only happen a twitter, its happening at every major online space including here.

The inability for hn commenters to speak forthright and integrity and principles shows the rot tgat exists here. Hn is largely controlled and nothing they dont want people to see is allowed. Accounts are shadow banned, ips are range banned, individuals here are tracked and not allowed Accounts or voices here. This comment not even allowed because of selective rules to ensure the truth is not seen. You cannot debate people here in good faith. HN is a moral cesspool.
>Celebrity kernel hackers

Wow... that is a take... Linus is a "Celebrity kernel hacker" really?
Emotions in general are hard to define, let alone pin to a particular chemical. If I were wearing my contrarian cap I would question the extrapolation from "happiness correlates" in humans to other animals.

Sadly, that's about all the time for in depth effort posting I have today. Maybe if I had more time I'd be happy...
Because iPhone’s aren’t expendable.

My iPhone6 still works. I’ve moved on for other reasons (more space, better camera) but the product still works better than most Androids. I even had Apple replace the battery!
> Git should be your only source of truth. Discard any local files or changes, what's not pushed into the repository, does not exist.

Completely agree with that.
Not sure how accurate this is, but you can take a look on wikipedia. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
No, you need a proper API for benchmarking. chrono only gives you one, for a single timestamp.

Benchmarking needs a separate timer_start and timer_end function.
One with cpuid,rdtsc and one with rdtscp,cpuid.
This isn't true asking for your post to be removed doesn't violate your rights. It would if requests were accompanied by legal threats. Twitter is the one removing content and with every right to do so.
During my trip in northern Siberia, while sipping my morning coffee, I saw a guy start up his lada niva by -40 the old fashioned way.
He opened the engine bay, put a rug on his engine, took a blowtorch and lit it under the engine. He heated the engine oil pan and gearbox for 10 min, and then started his engine with a battery he brought with him.
>>If I ask about this around the office

Depends, is this an office is Linux users? If so then i expect yes they would
It's really very hardware-dependent. You can have five machines and sleep and PM works just fine, but if you get unlucky you also can have five machines and three don't go to sleep and two have poor battery life. Sometimes this affects even devices marketed for Linux, like the framework.
Then explain why his latest head of trust and safety contradicted him. Her name is Ella Irwin. She's certainly familiar with the matter, and definitely not anonymous, and now you know her name. Musk is a bald faced liar, and you're willingly gullible to believe him, and dishonest to spread his lies and blame it on "fake news". Have any more false conspiracy theories you want to spread?

https://www.mediaite.com/online/twitter-removes-thereishelp-...

Twitter head of trust and safety Ella Irwin sent Reuters an email after the article was published. “We have been fixing and revamping our prompts,” she wrote. “They were just temporarily removed while we do that.”

“We know these prompts are useful in many cases and just want to make sure they are functioning properly and continue to be relevant,” Irwin added.

The two sources who told the Reuters reporters about Musk’s decision to disable the feature requested anonymity because they “feared retaliation,” the outlet reported. “One of them said millions of people had encountered #ThereIsHelp messages.”

The decision to disable the feature — even temporarily — was sharply criticized, especially because of the timing during the holiday season.
The FBI will continue to be a victim of "conspiracy theories" because the FBI refuses to properly investigate the claims of civilians victims of electromagnetic weaponry (Havana Syndrome, etc), so the true criminals behind that will keep propagating the lie that the government (FBI included) are responsible.
I don't think legitimacy is a meaningful concept in this context. I would use the chain with the greatest utility, which is determined by whether I like the rules, whether the rules are consistently and predictably enforced, and whether other people I want to interact with are using that chain. Whether the people who use the chain have more Ether or more computer power compared to the people who use a competing chain doesn't affect utility.

While I don't think it's meaningful to say that one chain is more legitimate than another, if I was forced to make such a deamination in this case, I would consider the chain where the rules are consistently and predictably enforced in a way that leads to predictable outcomes more legitimate than a chain where validators have colluded to arbitrarily subvert the enforcement of the rules.
My personal favorite is re-frame for ClojureScript. I have used it to build things like a LaTeX editor with live preview, electron app frontends, and web-apps. There are wrappers like Kee-frame that extend re-frame by linking the URLs query to the current state, making it possible for users to easily share URLs to different states of a single page app.

The cons are:

- A fair amount of work to make changes to the state side-effect free, but the documentation has a good tutorial on how to approach this.

- It's for ClojureScript, so it's a non-starter for organizations that will not consider anything outside of the mainstream.

I have also used Elm. If I recall correctly, Elm's state management paradigm was inspired by re-frame. I found writing JSON decoders in Elm to be demoralizing and tedious. Since the creator of the language was vehemently opposed to providing any real JSON support I decided to move to ClojureScript.
"In the 86 years that the pitch has been dripping, various glitches have prevented anyone from seeing a drop fall."

You'd think there would be a backup camera or two by now
“The Year of Linux on the Developer’s Desktop” is kind of moving the goalposts from the original idea, no?
That's because most mass shootings have no crime committed until the suspect opens fire.
Notes on Progress in Philosophy
> Who defines what is harmful or extremist in the government?

An additional related question: Are they even capable of undertaking this task? Our current government officials and bureaucrats don't understand enough about how the Internet works to effectively police it. And more fundamentally, can a government act quickly enough to outwit how quickly the Internet adapts to roadblocks? Governments need to have policies, procedures, go through chains of command, etc. A lot of Internet culture, on the other hand, is driven by random people doing random things. If a topic is forbidden, instead of policing that topic, the government then has to police the 50 ways to get around the block as well as guess which one will take root.

It's similar to trying to win a war against guerrilla insurgents. The high level of organization of a government to some degree works against them.
Perhaps some consider it off-topic for Hacker News.
Smoother surfaces, less friction, less wear, increased longevity.
- Zuck will spin out FB & Instagram and merge with Twitter : TwiGramFace
Currently listening to a series of lectures on medieval Britain, and very generally most working people were close to starvation - they couldn't even afford to keep farm animals as the cost to feed them was so high as the field practices at the time were so poor. So while stray dogs and cats may have attached themselves to households or villages, I seriously doubt many except the richer families would have been able to spare the food to feed them and treat them as real pets. And unlikely they would look like the clean attractive pets in the illustrations, if you've met many stray Street cats and dogs.

https://www.europenowjournal.org/2018/09/04/famine-and-deart...
I'm not sure if you understand my point and you're also undermining your own points almost as soon as you make them. I don't want to stop computers in their tracks. To this day in the interest of fairness we apply different rules even between humans in a lot of things. Suddenly bundling computers and humans under the same rules is a severely flawed idea.

> Ideas are created from our brain using our past experiences and knowledge

Humans experienced random things in life and some created art from it. Sometimes after hallucinogenic drugs they created art even from things that never existed. Then other humans created something new on top of the existing art. AI "experienced" already created art and was tasked to recombine pieces to create more art. Simply put, nobody gave an AI sounds of nature and had it come up with a symphony after some thousands of human years' equivalent of processing.

> Also, I'm not sure comparing artists to horse-drawn carriages is the best analogy to support your argument, considering horse-drawn carriages are almost nonexistent nowadays.

Not sure why this harms the analogy, it's meant to point out that "speed" makes a difference and changes the rules. Artists may also be nonexistent tomorrow. If AI is doing everything legitimately and creating art the same way as humans but faster and better, why would human artists continue to exist? And then what would you feed as training material to your AI? The dictionary definition of "love"? Sounds of nature? Art created by the previous AIs?

> When computers beat humans at chess, nobody changed the rules of chess to make computers perform worse.

Right, we just don't allow computers to play the game in official positions. Different rules, as it were.
Mozilla just fixed an 18-year-old Firefox bug
I think they just have no ideas of their own and cloning macOS is a reasonable default choice.