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> make it into an LTS

That's the root of all your issues.

LTS means they take packages form Unstable and release them on day X no matter the actual state, and than you don't get any updates or fixes for the next 2 years… That's how LTS "works".

I'm using KDE on Debian Testing. Since many years now. It's the most stable and bug free desktop by a large margin compared to any other Linux desktop or the two mayor commercial offerings.

Just don't use any Ubuntu or derivative. They deliver always broken KDE packages. That's a know issues since at least a decade.
The problem is compounded by (in the USA) middle class requiring 2 working parents increasingly in most places. We aren't built as humans to function like this.
I have, in the way of things melting (for example). I've seen a dream-like image of reality, a short fat man, riding away on a horse with a rainbow tail I have used LSD quite extensively as well - I cannot tell you how many times I've done it.

But most of the time, it isn't that obvious. My hands look a little bluish or reddish. My spouse looks shiny. I get little moving lines on a blank sheet of paper: Sometimes I draw the ones that I can get (I often make art while on LSD as well as sober: I have a pretty steady hand).

It is all a bit less than I've gotten with, say, mushrooms. Of course, I don't do heroic doses or anything and the more vivid hallucinations came with a stronger dose than I tend to have.
When did Burger King start selling domain names, and does NameSilo handle trademarks?
The list in the article, though, was carefully selected to presume competent people doing the decision-making. I totally believe many people use that star count for something... but an "enterprise"? someone investing non-trivial amount should of money? a specifically-"talented professional"? I just find that really difficult to believe. I've sold software to enterprise, I've worked with a number of venture capital funds, and I know a ton of actually-talented professionals... I dare say most of them consider GitHub's social features to be a joke.

The enterprises I deal with cared almost exclusively about stuff like license choices, support contract options, and "invoice billing" ;P. The vetting process I've dealt with at VCs was intense, having worked both sides of that situation; and I know multiple people who have worked data science jobs at such firms to try to better select investments. As for a "talented professional", I can pretty much guarantee they are going to look at your codebase, not the number of stars it has, while they evaluate any number of more reasonable things to judge an opportunity on (commute, pay, management style, etc.). A key property of competent deciders is that they aren't using trivial metrics.
What is with this constant, current obsession with trains?

The NAFTA zone has a huge highway system that can take you anywhere.
Funny how the ones who want it least are typically the ones who would benefit from it the most.
I think it's so interesting for people because so much of our concept of reality and how the world works is down to our experience. Then you encounter something contrary to that experience and it kind of forces you to realize, evem for just a minute that your understanding is largely a connecting of the dots of your own limited sampling of a much larger thing.

This video gives me a similar vibe.
https://youtu.be/Pp9Yax8UNoM
Watts per unit of fuel are cheap but only to the power companies who mark it up. We’re in the middle of Record gouging in energy and food and you think a power company won’t gouge you?

They still charge us for the electricity PLUS extra charges for a fund to eventually decommission the nuclear plant. It’s so expensive.
We expected you to illustrate a personal example in this post.
Most people I know with anxiety also: heavily abuse caffeine and sleep poorly.

Caffeine is an absolute killer that we don't talk about nearly enough when it comes to sleep.
Maybe I missed some opportunities but with my later experience and in my line of work I got pushed towards webapps and these days PowerBI. I can make those work but I feel that as a beginner with VB6 I could build forms faster than I can do now in a browser.

Also, I remember not being completely precise: I maintained a hacked together GUI build in Access VBA. It had its warts but its web-based replacement didn't blow it out of the water and took longer to develop.
Assuming those hallucinations are a thing to be patched out and not the core part of a system that works by essentially sampling a probability distribution for the most likely following word.
Sounds like an idea for a startup!
You are ... very much correct, those pictures are no fun at all.

I'm glad I drew my own version before googling those: https://i.imgur.com/YMXTnX0.png
his old blog http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/
Robinhood bends to pressure and permits shorting to replace Signature Bank puts
I'd be willing to buy a nice one, but it's probably one of the most annoying things to shop for. I don't know what I want, and mattress vendors all seem like crooks. The rise of the internet foam mattress startup has made it worse.
The latter. (although the former is also plausible)
Because macOS has been the most consistent in the past 20 years and it works out of the box and has exceptional integration with exceptional hardware. Plus enterprise support. (Being consistent doesn't make it good or bad on its own, just being consistent can be a bonus for some).

A lot of developers are not technical-savy either to deal with linux's hardware issues, dependency issues, etc. Many IT doesn't want to deal with linux for the same reasons.

It's also easier to fix if everyone has the same hardware and software. Many devs use brew/iterm2 for package mgmt and advanced terminal support.

KDE may be the best DE out there but it doesn't matter as long it is not available on typical commercial devices and works out of the box with 100% hardware integration support. Business has an impact on what hardware their employees can use and it is often macOS/Windows because it has the lower overall investment cost and much better integration support with their device management tools.

> It's more buggy than Windows, it has the same malware problem as Windows, it's spy- & adware as Windows, it's inflexible, it's completely dumbed down, and it's incompatible to anything (even it former self).

And Linux has been the most unstable OS for me with broken nvidia drivers, bricked installs and so on all from updating Linux a few times in the past 3 years. We can blame Nvidia for this but it doesn't matter to everyone else, it is still Linux's responsibility to ensure it doesn't happen.

I never had to reinstall MacOS on any of my devices in the past few decades. Windows, I did have to reinstall because of bad Windows updates.

macOS is nowhere as bad as Windows with its spyware/adware, it's there a bit but it's not that big of an issue.

> it's inflexible, it's completely dumbed down, and it's incompatible to anything (even it former self).

That's the best part of macOS and why businesses want it.

KDE itself was hard to use for casual users because it is too flexible and comes with defaults that are not tailored to them. (I said was, because last time I tried it was a year ago and it had some weird defaults).

If KDE could optimize their initial defaults for the incoming new users (which are growing up with iOS/Android devices first), then they might have a better chance.
By "workspaces" do you mean what KDE calls "Virtual Desktops"? AFAICT, no, they don't seem to be changeable per-monitor. Additionally, when I was poking around in the System Settings to see whether there was some option for that, I enabled "Show animation when switching" -- and then half of my monitor froze!!! :-D

So "less jank" is relative, ha ha...
Isn't this true for all laws?

If law without punishment was all that was required to make people comply, then there would be no prisons, capital punishment, fines, etc.
Which concepts specifically?

Rust can provide encapsulation namespacing as well
Late last year I listened to talk on nextjs and I was floored by its design. I still can’t get over that the JS community has embraced file system routing and server rendered stuff. I honestly think I’m taking crazy pills because I could have replaced “nextjs” with “PHP” in most places and it would still make sense.

I have been in software for about a decade and I think I’m experiencing my first complete cycle of “what’s new is old”.
Nuclear Fusion Startups: Who Will Win the Race? [video]
“ Shanghai Gold Exchange denies report on 'doped' gold bars from Australia”

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/shanghai-gold-exchange-denie...
Is this the one where I said "can it run doom?" Original tweet has gone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31672704
> I don’t understand why MS doesn’t get some sort of internal revolt.

From whom? They've got two customer bases:

- corporate clients, who get this stuff removed, either as part of the purchase or by their various sysadmins who get paid to secure the purchased laptops

- personal clients, who purchase desktops and laptops pre-loaded with Windows, and could no more opt out of using it than I could opt out of using electricity in my house.

edit: I don't read good, nevermind.
I ship a development environment to a fleet of ~100 engineer laptops based on Nix. If it didn't work, I'd be out of a job
I keep hearing people who are surprised and upset about this - wasn't this fact clear from the beginning?
Any advice in overcoming insomnia? I’ve tried everything I can think of. Melatonin, various vitamin supplements, exercise, dietary changes of a wide variety, nothing seems to help. Always waking up in the middle of the night and can’t get back to sleep.
The internet has gradually become the new tv. The less you use it the better for your mental health.
It helps to read TOS/EULA/etc. If you agree to something then you shouldn't be complaining about it.
> The early days of nuclear weapons were the wild west.

They certainly were! Once we had a working bomb, we first used it to blow up cities and people. After that, we decided that uninhabited islands and atolls were our real enemy, and bombed those instead of cities and people. Now we don’t even blow up the bombs anymore, we just pretend to blow them up on computers.
I agree with you so much. That's an aspect that stood out in The Expanse series. Holden was from Earth and was brought up with many "fathers and mothers" I'm assuming through a time where it was difficult to have children

Looking at today it feels we'd alleviate a ton of parental pressure if we had households like that and not depend on the traditional couple.
Your analogy is good but I disagree with your principle.

Companies need to make money (if you don't accept this premise, fair rough but we probably have no further meaningful discussion).

I'm OK if they offer me options. Here's a free / cheap option that's ad supported, here's a premium option that has no ads.

This is a good choice! It's a good choice for all! It's when we don't have that choice that things suck! And if we want free things with no ads, that option exists too! :-)
This annoyed the hell out of me as well. I thought, oh cool, some advice to improve my sleep.

Point 5: "feeling well rested after waking up at least five days a week"

But of course! I'll fix my sleep by ensuring I wake up well rested.
Important change to the GNU FTP archives (1993)
How we spend our free time matters: research suggests that having hobbies can enhance mental and physical wellbeing and offer greater life satisfaction. From team sports to crafts classes, they can also be a means to meaningfully connect with others.
Maybe not as cheap as you may think. I think github takes a small cut plus you may need to declare the donation as Income on your taxes.

Also if you get "smart" and donate on multiple cards, I would think it is a trivial task for github to determine is is a scam. The CC address would match you Address for the funds your receive.

Probably way too much work for this :)
I assume the title of this blog is a typo. Anyway, I'm not sure how interesting a blog post using an out-dated version of the technology, and telling us something we've known from day one is.
Voters got scared, politicians made feel good legislation that took away rights, and voters/politicians passed those laws to feel safer and make it seem like something was being done.
Most active Linux PCs were made by Windows PC manufacturers.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Here's a study that found both men and women can predict the IQ of men based on their facial appearance. However, neither men or women could predic the IQ of women.
FWIW, I am not baffled by that, as the vast majority of programmers are not "talented professionals" (which is the specific category of potential employee I was balling at, along with enterprises and venture capital firms). So like, you ask your question, they say "star count", and you don't have to really continue the interview.

(When I was in high school, I used to work for a pre-Internet company that helped people pre-filter interview candidates for ads posted in classified sections of newspapers and what they did was have questions like this that could be asked by people well before they reached your calendar for an interview.)
Interesting. Even though I read the paper many times, I didn't catch that. I guess I always skipped that part because I assume I already knew it.
I wonder if back in the day there were breathless articles with headlines like “software has bugs!!!”
Convincing people that sleep is a problem worth caring about is half the battle.

There are many resources available that get into the practical/tactical aspect of improving sleep. But if you don't believe sleep is a problem yet, you won't seek those out.

The Huberman Lab has put out a number of good resources for this [0] including a podcast episode speaking with Matt Walker, PhD, sleep researcher and author of Why we Sleep [1] (also a good read).

I've been a night owl for most of my life, and only more recently did I fully realize how connected this behavior was to traumatic situations growing up. When I started going down the rabbit hole on how to improve sleep, it was encouraging to find the emergence of a ton of practical non-pharmaceutical resources (I did try sleep aids for awhile, but couldn't deal with the side effects).

The hard part is that it does require willingness to implement real changes. They're not pleasant at first, but I went from an average 3AM-10AM sleep cycle to 10PM-6AM, and I've realized that all the things I told myself over the years about needing to be up all night were simply untrue.

I started this journey by setting a goal for myself to see/photograph a sunrise. I now regularly take pre-dawn walks and have seen more sunrises in the past few weeks than I had during the prior 30+ years of my life.

It's worth the effort.

- [0] https://hubermanlab.com/toolkit-for-sleep/

- [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep
The Novelist Whose Inventions Went Too Far
Lawsuit Against the Internet Archive
That’s a weird change. Publishing reviews alongside papers is good. Removing the “stamp of approval” from the whole process is weird. Imagine if every student who managed to enroll into a university would receive a diploma; and every course would only provide a review of a student instead of grades. That would just make everything much harder.

Yes, it may seem wrong to put things into black and white buckets; but many our decisions inevitably are binary and we have to make them no matter how hard it is.
Voters and citizens should blame themselves.
> PSR is intended for framework authors

That's my problem with it. It should be focused on what's good for developers. Not what makes it easier to overengineer the next flavour of the month.
Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Even if the main purpose of people powering on their desktop PCs is not reading the news, I'm sure many (if not most) will still go through the news before, during and/or after they do the main activity they set out to do.
200%.

On Pop OS, my middle age eyes also liked to enable the Gnome option "Large Text" in the Accessibility settings. I haven't found the equivalent on KDE yet. But it still looks great and super crisp, just a little bit small.
There are always other options. If the current state of releasing the water endangers no one because the radioactivity it low it's a total waste of resources to do anything else.
Automatically discovering API endpoints and generating schemas using ML
No, his friends account is flagged as a spammer now and gets less visibility.
The weird thing is going for Chrome, that is another bloated corporate mess.
> The fact this wasnt triaged as a security bug is unforgivable

Hyperbole like this is unhelpful. The reporter didn't think of it as a security bug, and the discussion in the bug itself is about API compatibility and documentation concerns.

Pretending in hindsight that we're all too smart to have ever missed this isn't helping software quality for anyone, and good postmortem analysis doesn't throw around words like "unforgivable".
Thirsty Textiles: An insight into how much water our clothes drink up
So one more thing that Rust fixes, got it.
They're not removing the stamp of approval:

> with a short editorial assessment of the work’s significance and rigour

However, not getting the stamp of approval will no longer lead to the work not being accessible to people.
Asking it to summarize fake news urls where you give it a made up title as part of the seo url is simplest way to see it hallucinate.

It’s unreliableness is exhausting since you are always doubting its output.
The title has a typo
> Technologies are not innocent until proven guilty

That depends entirely on the technology, and who is paying who. Fossil fuels have been proven guilty of numerous sins time and again and are still relentlessly defended as innocent. Leaded fuel in particular enjoyed an undeserved benefit of the doubt. Food additives are another category of chemical with very permissive regulation, provided they don't cause lab rats to immediately keel over.

Technology regulation is unprincipled at best and outright corrupt at worst, and even with the most pessimistic estimates nuclear power has the best safety record per watt of any power generation technology (and it's not close).
I'm surprised that Github stars are valuable enough to buy. Personally I never look at the star count because even if they were legit, they don't really tell me anything more useful than I get from looking at other things in the repo.

I tend to check the age difference between the earliest and latest commits because that lets me be sure it's not a project that someone spent a couple weeks coding up, dropped on github, and then forgot about. I'll also check the issues on there. I'm looking for more closed issues than open ones, but I'll also quickly scan over them to get a rough idea of how many are truly meaningful issues. I also get signals from the readme and docs. It's not a hard pass if there's issues with those, but it's certainly helpful to my opinion if they exist and are both clear and detailed.
it's going to be interesting to see if with all the sudden hype and income around llm people will manage to let them acquire a sense of "facts".

From the gpt4 paper it looks like they already managed to get some interesting improvements, but it's quite likely some fundamental mechanism remains to be added..
This was what I was going to say, my only contribution will be to add i was taught this mechanism was called ecologic magnification, but apparently in wikipedia it's refferred to as biological magnification[0], so, some term drift in 20 years perhaps

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagnification
Taylor Otwell lol.. He has some pretty dope cars in his garage and is doing well.

I follow him on GitHub, and pay for some of his products. I have been heavily influenced by his coding styles, and the tools he uses. His code just looks so tight and perfect. He writes his stuff so open ended and reusable that he basically writes a method once, and then reuses it across numerous projects.

Look at this tight code: https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/10.x/src/Illuminat...

I’d say that Adam Wathan is rapidly growing his influence as well, and is probably doing alright too.
The IA has basically existed because they did stuff that, for the most part, publishers/companies didn't care about or even secretly appreciated. Storing old web pages, magazines, millions of bits of other ephemera that would otherwise only have existed on musty library shelves if at all. And they would even take something down if some owner wanted some bit of history to disappear.

The idea that because COVID, in a world with the Internet along with also massive quantities of public domain works on Gutenberg and elsewhere, the IA just had to triple down on digital lending just makes no sense.
Currently working on a graphical UX where you can create and share flakes without writing Nix code at https://mynixos.com

The site makes it easy to browse indexed flakes and configure flakes via options and packages. Hopefully the structure provided by the UI can makes it easier to get started with Nix flakes :)
Exercising. More specifically aerobic exercising. High and low intensity both work, but you have to do enough to properly exhaust yourself, just 15 minutes of walking is not enough. And not doing anything too exciting or demanding 2-3 hours before going to sleep. Maybe you just haven't done enough or not consistently enough.
It is in some places. Apparently, the big ones are better.

https://foodly.tn/tips/do-rats-taste-good/
This whole category of blog post where people ask ChatGPT about themselves and then act surprised when it gives inaccurate responses is really uncompelling. The purpose of this technology is to grasp and synthesize information on general topics of use to everyone – science, engineering, literature, language/semantic competency, etc – not to have godlike knowledge of every person who ever existed. As a feature, the only person who would expect or want ChatGPT to dispense accurate information about some random blog poster is said blog poster.
There are similarities to PHP – and I think that's a great thing! I like to think of Next.js as the best parts of PHP / Rails with the powerful UI engine of React. Especially with the new App Router, where you can fetch code inside components like `await db.query()` and soon easily insert/update/delete from the same file as well.

https://beta.nextjs.org/docs/data-fetching/fundamentals
I hate to break it to you, but an equally likely outcome of the introduction of AGI would be to replace you instead, and give those users exactly what they asked for, even if it's not optimal (or improving it, but preserving the interface they are used to).
So is work done in a program like photoshop, and that is considered a creative work.
Simulations and games in economics education
This makes no sense.

You are under no obligation to upgrade your php version as soon as released without being able to plan for it. PHP 8.1.17 was released alongside 8.2.4 for exemple.