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I disagree, I have Windows on my steam deck and it works just fine. It is the primary way I use mine (Windows 10 though, not 11) because of the issues I have mentioned here.

The only real issue I have is it being a small screen. But I just have any games I need on my desktop and its easy enough to tap an icon.
My sense of smell is as strong or stronger than ever. Though I did mostly lose it for a couple of weeks. The first week was pretty miserable, with my nose completely packed, the rest has been fine, overall not as painful as I thought it would be. For the first two weeks or so I lost the feeling in my upper lip and upper front teeth, this was alarming and no one mentioned it ahead of time but it cleared up. Just seems to take a long time to heal but it was worth it.
> The scientist should thank them for their time, refrain from patronizing them, and continue going about their day.

I'm pretty sure that's what I would do.
Agree, and I’m wondering - as a Steam Deck owner - when / how I can setup my own Linux / proton gaming desktop?
Nonsense.

You should do both aerobic and strength training.
"with liberty and justice for all" was written by a socialist minister in a youth magazine as part of a campaign to get columbus day recognized as a holiday in the 1890s. It was meant to be a universal pledge for anyone in any country, not specific to the US. It is not part of any jurisprudence or caselaw. So yes, technically its a toothless slogan.
Very much in the same boat here - 60 lbs down, still running.

Congrats!
If it turns out to be more dystopian than the reality of watching our loved ones fade and disappear while we ourselves grow weak and fade, we can always bring death back.

We can't bring the dead back, though.
What Does a Labor Shortage Mean?
I guess a lot of people now purely use phones and only use desktops for work, so perhaps it will never happen.
I needed something cross platform, as i use mix of android, windows, macos, and iOS devices.
Also i want ease of use, vault unlocking woth fingerprint methods.

Bitwarden clients really provide ease of use and I use it in combination with a Selfhosted bitwarden server called vaultwarden.
It reminds me about people's never-ending discrediting of and disbelief in mankind's unstoppable progress.

"We will never reach the depths of the oceans."

"We will never reach all surfaces on the Earth."

"We will never conquer the skies."

"We will never reach space."

"We will never colonize space, the Moon or Mars." (Yeah? Just wait...)

etc.
"Year of Linux on the Desktop" is very different from "Year of the Linux Desktop"

I completely agree Linux successfully runs on a desktop (x86 "PC"). I completely disagree Linux is better as a GUI OS (desktop OS) when compared to Mac and Windows.
Exactly, but it's hard to combine them. Ideally, you want to have at least 3 running and 3 weightlifting sessions per week to keep improving. For an average person, it's too much.
Which ISP? (am curious as an Australian)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34207659
Deck seems like a desktop to me. Has x86 hardware, all the same ports as the venerable Macbook Pro and a nice beefy GPU built-into the machine. If the Deck ships with KDE installed and accessible in the settings, I think it's safe to call it a desktop.
All decades have been rough decades, from modeline generation, to the switch to PulseAudio to Wayland. There is always a construction ground in desktop Linux. That's the sad story of the Linux desktop. It's really a hard problem to crack, it requires vast amounts of manpower, a lot of coordination between various parts of the ecosystem and it doesn't help that most hardware vendors are not cooperative. Go back ten or twenty years and you'll find exactly the same message as yours "it used to be bad, but most problems are solved now, really".

Desktop Linux will always be in a state where it is great for technical users who have the expertise and time to fix and work around things. Because once you've done so, it is infinitely malleable. It will always be a miserable experience for non-technical users or technical users who don't have the time to fix the issues. Linux on the desktop only really excels when one party polishes the experience to be great and makes all the bit work togerther. E.g. like Google did with Android and ChromeBooks or to some extend Red Hat with Fedora (which is the best and most consistent Linux desktop experience).

Outside the desktop, little software is as successful as Linux. It's the substrate of the modern tech world.
It is surprising.

Just as surprising to me was walking my dogs down my street a couple months ago, and hearing one of my neighbors loudly talking about software that is free from corporate and government interference, and that you can see the source code for such things. And it wasn’t the neighbor that was getting rid of his rack-mountable equipment in a garage sale because he is retiring. Most of the neighbors tinker with cars and off-road vehicles.
My alternative has been to shop other places. Best Buy and Walmart say thank you to Amazon. I am considering dropping Amazon Prime because it is of little value to me now.
Pascal wasn't ready for real-world use because it came from an academic setting and was initially designed to run P-code in a VM. It's successor, Modula-2, fixed all of Pascal's issues and added a lot of great functionality.
First of all it needs a Change of attitude, from expecting recommendations to venturing into the unknown by ourselves. There are tons of people's online who can do this.

Unfortunately, even the adventurous ones got sucked into the populatity contest of social media and wasted a lot of time repeating the same points that others make.
The NHS is the National Health Service of the UK.

There might be licensing/taxation/legal reasons for the region lock, or maybe no one thought anyone outside the UK would care.
You're right, it should have specified it was done in Dreams. My initial reply was mostly meant that it didn't feel fair or in the spirit of HN to dress the author down as if he was just some 90s stereotypical sitcom mother calling everything a Nintendo.

I'm honestly surprised I was the only one that found that insulting not only to the intelligence of the author but also mothers and the larger group of women. I normally just lurk on HN, but that felt meaner than normal to me, haha.
The problem isn't that it doesn't work, it's that it doesn't work well enough (even as an experienced user, my desire to debug silly desktop environment issues while trying to get stuff done is very little to non existent) - there are many niggles as a daily driver, which are fine if your desire to use it outweighs the aversion to fixing stuff all the time, I can't imagine how a beginner would feel these days as it's so much more complicated and has so many more dependencies than days past.

Downvote edit: nerds aren't counted in adoption statistics, sorry
Garmin also have some great 5k programs if you own one of their devices.
This comment is packed with speculation, and lofty predictions based on speculation.

I grew up in a family of fast talkers, at least 2 generations - predating YouTube by decades. Nature or nurture? Who knows?! Family events are lively, and we've traded stories about when people occasionally ask us to slow down.

I find listening to slow speakers a little annoying because of the lower information density per unit time. What's more important: knowing how the story ends, or the subtle inflections and dramatic pauses?
Because we don’t know how to hold wealthy and powerful people accountable in this country.

See SBF, released on bail, immediately started stealing money from Alemeda and FTX wallets. Why the fuck does he have unsupervised access to a computer? Because we suck at this.
I switched to dvorak from querty. At the time, the only typing I did of any length was in chat on Diablo 1. I have never felt so impotent as when I was frantically trying to convey information in game during that early period. Trying to keep up with conversations in the channels was very frustrating.

I improved my wpm not by switching to dvorak, but by learning the new layout without looking at the keyboard while I type.
No way with today's technology, but who knows, we could have 100 years from now the technology to travel faster than light and colonize it next week.
Usually not. Typically in a bankruptcy the debtholders become the new shareholders and then replace existing management with ones more friendly to their interests.
> rebuilding custom drivers, dealing with upgrade breaking my system

If you compile custom drivers for your operating system, then maybe it breaking at some future upgrade shouldn't come as a great surprise? Presumably you know what you're doing and find these things fun and rewarding in their own right.
idk looks pretty desktop-y to me: https://youtu.be/PxLB5khCmGo?t=422
Not until the AI has some degree of agency. So long as it's a human selecting the AI, and pushing the "run" button (and deciding when) to push the button, that generation machinery is just a tool of the human. Pretty much by definition, to be totally generated, it's got to have the agency to determine what, when, and even if, it should generate.
I've been using self-signed certs on my websites for 20 years. Part of the problem is that the HTTP/3 implementations do not allow the use of self signed certs. CA based only.
Yep, after years of being a couch- and desk-potato, this got me out and running.
That, and having a young and energetic dog in the early stages of lock-down!

I've managed to stick to 5-10km every other day (though it's a challenge in the winter, admittedly), and did my first half marathon in 2:09 a couple of months ago.
> Two-strokes are simple but fiddly to get running over a wide range of power settings, Wankels are light and simple and don't vibrate but are incredibly fiddly to make.

eeeh, not exactly. Modern EFI and computer control would probably make two-strokes just fine but you're burning oil so it wouldn't pass any emission standards.

Wankel has... exactly the same problem, on top of maintenance issues, and fuel usage issues. They are not "fiddly to make", but fiddly to take care for, which means random don't-give-a-shit user might cause premature failure which also gets them bad reliability reputation.
Because the npm ecosystem pulls package dependencies automatically, deleting leftpad kicked a necessary brick out of the foundation of some hundred (thousand?) libraries, breaking all of them.

You could consider this a weakness in npm's design... Most package managers don't have the decentralization of authority that npm does. But if it is weakness in the design, it's a weakness that the leftpad author chose to exploit.
Well, you're running your own WM, though that is one of the advantages of the open source world it can also add a lot of overhead. These days I just try to stick to the out of the box experience because I got tired of fussing with everything. If I have workspaces via hotkeys, exposé, and focus on hover I'm good.

The whole xorg to wayland transition is definitely a drag, I have to use waynergy for input sharing until that's figured out. I haven't noticed any problems with external monitors, though it's mostly incidental for me since I use a desktop with synergy/barrier/waynergy (sigh) as the secondary display.

I did settle for the t14s 1920x1200 400nit 100% RGB display (I've got a 5k display on my desktop). If you've got a higher res display on your Thinkpad that could make some difference. I'm not saying the Linux world is perfect, but it's pretty good or great in most categories, and in the category of "open" Mac and Windows are basically silent except for handouts.
No dynamic SQL necessary.

jsonb_populate_record(…) was made precisely for this kind of scenario. Combine with an INSERT…ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE statement and Bob's your uncle.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-json.html
Do they? Those are different behavior patterns. We have a lot of different behaviors as humans, we don't need to replace one with another
Fractional scaling does not work at all in GNOME. There is an experimental hack to enable it, but all your X11 applications will be blurry. Screen sharing and Bluetooth doesn't properly work half of the time when video conferencing.
That is definitely revisionism. I was there when it started happening. It started happening because of two things:

1. Unix vendors were tearing each other apart in the Unix Wars.

2. Linux was cheaper than Windows NT.

The second point is critical: many industries had Unix-based software and even the source code of said software, they just needed a platform to run it on. Linux on x86 servers was orders of magnitude cheaper than Solaris on SPARC, HP-UX on PA-RISC, or AIX on POWER. And for the existing SPARC/PA-RISC/POWER servers running these UNIX OSes, the investment wasn't entirely lost because they could put Linux on those too.

That is what made Linux on servers win. It wasn't better. It was cheaper.

We have spent most of the 2000s catching up to Solaris, AIX, and other server Unix systems. The 2010s was all about catching up to desktop Unix systems like IRIX, Solaris (again!), and NeXT.

Now? We're at the tail end of that effort. Who knows what's next. :)
It sounds like you are taking a stance based on countries you like.

Do you think it is unwise to blindly take a stance because someone else takes a stance? I mean it’s like following someone’s opinion without critical thinking right?

What is your opinion on sovereignty and occupation by force? How does that work with Russia and Ukraine and do you see any parallels with Israel and Palestine?
C is the biggest mistake in the software industry since the beginning of software. The people that worship C only do so because they haven't seen the better paths the software industry could have chosen.
It's not a binary. The position doesn't have to change from one to the other. It's that with more information from each side, both positions should evolve. That's where progress can be actualized. Echo chambers don't get results, they just echo.
Been using Linux daily on laptops for 20 years. I haven’t ‘tinkered’ with anything for over 10 years of that. I install Debian, get my keys on it and then just clone my tools from git and run install. It’ll set it up so I have (far more) battery life than windows, have all my tooling and software. I upgraded laptops for a very long time without issues. I do pick my hardware for Linux support and I don’t care about gaming. I have really no idea what you or others mean by this? What breaks? Do you have blog posts with details? What do you do differently than me?

I know some use cases are different than mine so I wouldn’t know them, but I always wonder when I see people complaining about things like battery life (I consistently have at least double or more for Linux than on Windows for the same workloads across laptops, both 32 (aka old) and 64 bit), missing or broken drivers (I don’t use gpus locally) etc.

My non tech acquaintances have issues with Windows all the time but they just ignore them. Seems when installing Linux people suddenly want perfection?
It's kind of weird to see entire chapters devoted to "planning for tenure."

The reality is that a significant fraction of PostDocs won't even get a tenure-track job. But keep on pimping the dream.
I think one way to slice people at work is: (1) those who work for money in order to pay for their lifestyle(hobbies, family, etc) and (2) Those who seek to define their identity through success in the workplace.

It appears that lately there is less of those who seek to define themselves through work, and care more about their life(and identity) outside of work. For such people, trying to incentivize them through money and career growth will likely not work.
https://github.com/vishpat/lisp-rs

Interpreter in Rust
The UK is the size of an average US state though, not really comparable.

Personally, it's mostly next day but not always.
The Steam Deck is a full PC that boots into a console UI. You can switch it into desktop mode which uses KDE - a very popular desktop environment.

You can dock the Stem Deck using a USB-C hub to connect to a monitor, keyboard and mouse. This is a use case that is supported by Valve and Valve sells a first party docking station to facilitate this.

There have been multiple people citing on the Steam Deck subreddit that they regularly use the Steam Deck in this way and a few even saying they use it as their daily driver.

It's a laptop in a handheld form factor. That is all.
AI Lionel Messi Speaks English
I've downloaded it in France a few months ago.
Given you eureka moment, besides what you didn't do (as you outlined), what did you do to increase your second language real world examples with feedback? Did you try immersion?
When civilization collapses to the point where we cannot manufacture new computers, megacorps like Microsoft and Apple simply cannot exist, and the Internet includes sneakernet links again (somebody is maintaining UUCP, right?), but malware still spreads ... Linux will still work and make progress.

I've been using Linux exclusively since 1994 and when I watch people trip over their Windows and Mac systems I don't regret it at all.
To improve what?

Trying to min/max everything in your life isn’t how this stuff works
You just aren’t wealthy powerful and or white enough.

I’m not saying it to be rude to you I’m saying as a disgusted criticism of our failure to apply justice equally.
Subsidy is not the same as state control. The PLA straight up owns companies. In Russia, the government directly operates over 80% of railway capacity. The fact that the US government is one of the primary customers of, say, Lockheed Martin does not make it a state owned company in the same vein s the above. It's still got public stock, an elected board, and otherwise operates like any other enterprise.
This is some pretty atypical advice. But even if it is correct, a 5k isn’t exactly a marathon.
Chicken and egg issue.

The only way to make a desktop OS popular is by default mass installation on PCs.
Only aggressive anti-trust regulation can do that now.

Look at android/linux with the smart phones.
I don’t know why anyone would think otherwise, but a mediator will simply advise Twitter that they are required to pay the rent. There isn’t a negotiating tactic here that would actually work. A court would order them to pay and damage and costs and fees too.

Short of bankruptcy Twitter or any organization is required to perform their end of contracts.
The Diving Save – Rands in Repose
IIUC, an individually owned franchise of McDonald's or Subway is considered a "small business".

Many small businesses are completely family owned and operated and only employ 1 or 2 people (the family).

So this statistic that everyone spouts out that most people "work for" small businesses - I'm curious how accurate that statement actually is to what people think it means.
> I am more bullish on ETH personally because it has the best underlying economic model of any web3 asset.

It's amazing how, after wiring money to a few winners, venture capitalists who make such insane statements can be perceived as smart and worthy of respect. For context, here is the token market cap of ETH:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/

The author would like us to believe that the $146 billion dollar market cap for Ethereum is a low point from which the "asset" will "recover." Sorry, but, I don't see $146B worth of value or earnings potential, or whatever, being created by Ethereum. I've done the deep dive, set up my wallets, generated my own tokens, set up my .eth, the works -- after all of this, I came to the same conclusion as all of the naysayers: it's Magic Internet Money propelled by little more than hopes and dreams.
"I've dropped it each time because while yes, things do work, they tend to STOP working."

I've used Linux on the desktop since 1994. In all that time I recall one breaking update on Debian affecting the wireless network driver. I've used Ubuntu since 2006 and never had any issues like you describe. That is across multiple machine types from Dell, Lenovo and HP. The same is true for my wife who is non-technical and has no issues using Linux (Ubuntu).

As another case in addition to the multiple I mentioned already, I'd vouch for the majority of Android phones running fine without issues caused by new updates, I mention Android since there are people who use their phone exclusively for computing, and oddly.

Summary, use Ubuntu on the desktop, pick a decent manufacturer like Dell, HP or Lenovo (I prefer Dell and/or Alienware from Dell or Lenovo) and maybe pick one that sells with Linux or made for Linux to further enhance your success. I've heard System 76 makes good systems too.
Genetic evolution is probably already no longer part of humanity's future, regardless of death.

We have generic engineering, albeit limited. Direct genetic engineering will be driven by memetic evolution within a generation or two.
I'd expected them to at least produce FPGA prototype or something
I don't know about the specific case of Yugoslavia, but I'd be incredibly wary of drawing any broader conclusions, even if it were a factor in that specific case.

The US Civil War certainly had plenty of "jaw jaw jaw" before it, there was no "political correctness" at the time, and that didn't prevent it.

Similarly we've had something like three and a half decades of "political correctness" in the US without any civil war yet (Jan 6 notwithstanding). While you'd think that if political correctness really had such a strong effect, there would have been a second civil war by the late 1990's.

Not to mention that "jaw jaw jaw" can be the horrible hate speech that works to incite war.

If you look at history, the counterexamples seem incredibly more numerous. So hopefully we can feel less frightened by political correctness. :)
Yes, don't rent money unless you have a very good plan.
Landlords have very strong rights. They can get tenants evicted through legal means.
That’s a great one. I’ve been looking for something that links the physiology with knowledge work and life demands, but I haven’t found it yet.
Not sure what your point is, there is drug smuggling in pretty much any country in the world (except maybe North Korea), this can not be 100% stopped. By now it is common knowledge that western european ports are the drug hubs of the EU[1].

[1] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/main-cocaine-ro...

Disclaimer: I’m romanian.
Might it be fair to say that Leetcode as a proxy for much real world programming is like using heavy duty mental arithmetic to judge one's quality as a research mathematician?

I think doing some Leetcode type challenges are important at some point - they open a door in your brain around problem solving, but that door tends to stay open thus grinding those challenges to me offers diminishing returns - if people get more out of them and enjoy them that is great, but I think anyone who has had the thrill of solving hard problems to contribute to a high quality project with real application has a unenthusiastic feeling towards Leetcode type challenges and the hollow achievement from finishing them relative to real work.