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I was born in the late 80s. As I grew up, my parents worked on Windows Machines, and so did the teachers at my school. Macs were just these funny, cute and colorful machines, curiosities more than serious workstations. Even Linux I mostly used to have a system to tinker with. When the first OS X Macbooks and later the iPhone came, I developed the opinion that they're mostly over-expensive status symbols, and I hated Apple for forcing themselves into the education system, especially the arts. I would never stoop so low to support a company with such questionable drive and social impact.

This opinion has not necessarily changed as much as Windows has just descended into full blown subscription-trap-ridden spyware with more ads than your average website.

My next laptop will probably be a mac, and my desktop workstation will stay on win 10/linux as long as possible, a repeat of the XP era. I'm honestly tired of fighting the OS I want to work on at every step. (and yes that also includes fighting all the little problems you have trying to make linux usable: audio, bluetooth, x/wayland)
TFA describes a deletion scheme for open addressing in the first paragraph.
I think a big part of the puzzle is the fact that American children are taught from a very young age that they are extremely fortunate to be born in America, and by implicit extension, everybody else is unfortunate to not be born in America. These narratives often start with immigrants teaching their first generation American children this way, who in turn teach the same to their children. So well-meaning Americans earnestly believe they are doing everybody else a favor when endeavor to Americanize other cultures.

This of course is caught up in the American conflation of religion and patriotism. It is taught that America is god's preferred country, evidenced by American global hegemony proving god is on America's side. One day of the week American children might pray in church, but five days a week American children swear their allegiance to the flag in a group ritual run by government schools, very often with the "one nation, under god" clause taught to them by their teachers. The few children who resist this group ritual will often be mocked by their peers and chewed out by their teachers.
It's really sad that there is no where for us to go in the desktop OS space right now.

I, weirdly, daily drive all 3 OSes.

MacOS; Work issued laptop and longish-time user (about 6 years with it).

Windows; Desktop PC mostly for games. I've been using Windows since I could walk.

Fedora; Desktop PC, dual booted which I use for most everything else.

I cannot believe how much of a dumpster fire Windows has become. From the ads to the degradation of basic desktop functionality - it's become so arduous to deal with.

MacOS is better, but it still very annoying to deal with in a lot of ways. Apple are certainly set on degrading the user experience and in general neglect much needed feature additions.

Fedora is fantastic, but no matter how much I love it, Linux is janky.

I am looking at Linux and hoping that it saves the desktop OS experience - because it's very clear that both Microsoft and Apple are not interested.

MacOS ties me over until then - but I can't even game on my Apple Silicon MacBook Pro now, so when I travel I have to bring two computers with me...
My state (Washington) actively uses specific AM stations for traffic and weather alerts.
One can't talk in terms of true or untrue happiness. People seek status to access happiness. What happens all the time is this: after you achieve such a status, you lose access to happiness. Now you will seek other things to access happiness. Rinse and repeat.
Almost all of Starlink’s competitors are completely dependent on government money. The FCC spends billions a year cutting checks to rural ISPs to subsidize them. The FCC took Starlink’s subsidies away because the Biden admin hates Musk now. But I think Musk will still beat many of these clown companies anyway.
Not sure where they got that figure; I just spot-checked a few rural homes in reservations and got back the same 120 figure you did.

Fingers crossed something exists for you though.
I am guessing your are in an urban environment, if it is not too urban two miles is a great half year weekend project for laying fiber yourself.
I'd love to believe that, but having seen my parents own street overlooked by cable providers for two decades despite the fact that it's no longer rural and surrounded by tens of thousands of suburban households that have mowed down all the orange groves and cow pastures, they still do not have cable internet as an option in 2023.
> English is the most international language because of war, expansion and domination.

That's one perspective. Another is trade. Trade is what caused my parents to learn English in the 40's and the 50's because it made them more employable.
> Ibn Khaldun argues that each dynasty has within itself the seeds of its own downfall.

More recently, Hegel made the same point.
Overlapping the pandemic, I took care of my partially-disabled mom for about 2 years when her (ex)husband abandoned her without warning and moved out half of their home without any agreement. He was later on the run from the law for stealing a large sum of money from his dying nonagenarian mother.
I think you might be taking my comment as implying the jvm is better than beam but that isn’t the argument I’m making. Having a strong jvm option means you can cut through a ton of corporate red tape. I don’t need to convince some skeptical CTO if the jvm is reasonable. It’s makes choosing elixir for a project feel about as hard a change as using clojure or groovy.
I fell off one at 10km.h in my city going through a slow zone when it suddenly accelerated. I fell face first and broke my wrist. These things are lethal and it could have been a lot worse. Lesson learnt and I won’t go near one again - even with a helmet.
Bragging a bit?

> My kid will know what is a terminal before it touches iPad or iPhone.

Why? Why they should know terminal?

> there is no sane tech person who is not aware of this and is not using Linux

Whoa. Which Linux opensource phone your family use?
especially considering a backup camera and an accompanying display became a requirement in the states, AM radio would be nothing
Businesses and the commercial world have no obligation to anyone, much less to incompetent people.

It is the incompetent hacks who have failed themselves, by not being aware, and by not adapting and improving accordingly. The 'system' did not fail them.

The real world is not a college or school or university, where things are fed to you on your time. Employees must learn on their own time and other people's time. If they cannot keep up, then let's be real: they are incompetent.

By blaming the system, you take away the accountability and responsibility of incompetent people. If many better programmers were able to catch up, why can't they? We can't make excuses for incompetence.
Doubt it since there will probably always be lower latency and higher reliability on fiber connections.
No one. That's why the appeal is for choice not compulsion.
Phones (carplay / android auto) have replaced this. Google maps can show a much better picture of the current traffic conditions than a radio broadcast.
I hate to be the guy recommending youtube videos but if you want to understand how DDR5 multiplexing works and this article doesn't do it for you check out the amazing visualization "How does Computer Memory Work?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J7X7aZvMXQ . A lot of it is applicable to all DDR but it specifically covers DDR multiplexing starting around 9 minutes in. It is both detailed enough and clear thanks to the simplified visuals.
Practically all their weight is at the base. Your ankles or legs will be shattered if you’re hit by one.
I guess it depends on how many Super shortcuts you use, and for how many years you have been using them. In my case, both numbers are into double digits, so.
> “cleverly arranged sand with some wires glued to it.”

Let me guess — you’ve sat at a desk for your entire career?
"Hacker" news, ladies and gentlemen.
Cars are absolutely one factor but not the only factor.

Both Pedestrian fatalities and injuries are rising.[1] While cars are getting safer for passengers, manufacturers are not required or tested on improving pedestrian safety. You can see this in the rise of % of fatalities from car accidents that are pedestrians (less people dying in car crashes inside cars, more people dying by being hit by cars).

This is despite the numbers improving drastically in the 00s[2].

I don't think cars are the primary driver though; I think it's the 24/7 news cycle and the various iterations of the dangers to children drilled into people's psyches. Random guy at the park? Paedophile. Kid makes up a story? Satanic panic. Kid hides near a weather balloon? National news sensation. You're constantly surrounded by evil and danger and you must do what you can at all costs to protect your child -- that's the message the media pushes. The people who grew up (as I did) with the primary directive of "come home when the streetlights come on" just weren't being exposed to that stuff then but were later on in life.

I also think video games and the sheer amount of media we can consume are also big factors. People just don't want to go outside as much anymore, so outside spaces in newer suburban neighbourhoods tend to be awful. Houses are larger and more tightly packed, so kids have to go to the park. More tightly packed homes with smaller property sizes means more people (and more cars).

There's probably a bunch of other factors I'm not thinking of as well. The short answer to the thread's question is essentially just "things are different."

[1]: (PDF) https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

[2]: (PDF) https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
>wise mayor in the government who calls out "expensive business models".

funny considering the govt is the most expensive business model out there.
It's covered partially in the video, but essentially: bad regulations and emission regulatory loopholes.
It's a pity that France does this because it diminishes them and makes the French act in ways that make zero sense. Once I got called to France for an in person meeting regarding some work for a French company. They insisted on having the meeting in French. I ended up sitting in on a meeting that went absolutely nowhere until they finally switched to English after me pointing out that English isn't my first language either and that if they wanted to have the meeting in Dutch in stead it would be fine by me but I'm not going to have a meeting where I'm at a serious disadvantage in understanding and speaking.

One elderly gentleman left the meeting, it turned out that he didn't speak English and was the one that had insisted the meeting be in French and after that we got along just fine.
If I were to attribute negative motivations to it, it would probably be one more of resentment or jealousy. There are a lot of folks who are going to be growing older with no children. This often sounds great when you're young to "young", but decidedly less great as one ages. I've always wondered how society, at large, was going to deal with this.

The rise of these sort of things seems to correlate particularly well with the skyrocketing rate of single person households in the US, which increased more than 500% from 1960 to 2021 [1], even though the population in that time didn't even double.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/242022/number-of-single-...
Uhh, 35+ years before YC, which is less than 20 years old.

And the VC system arguably evolved from the system that funded whaling voyages, though I really think it dates back to the joint stock limited liability corporation.
For me the only reason to keep Windows as a personal computing machine is game if I don't count path dependencies. There used to be a good number of other reasons but most of them have gotten obsoleted thanks to other competitors. Meanwhile, it looks like they've introduced lots of new reasons not to use it. I feel grateful to my good old Skylake processor which prevented me from upgrading to Win 11.
Longtime devout linux user here.

I've recently switched from Gnome 40 to KDE Plasma, and I'm really enjoying being able to configure and break things again. It scratches the same itch that Windows used to, but better.

And, as OP points out, it doesn't spam you with social apps or fscked up newsreel
Frank obtains power, not security.
>there is no need for a personal bike.

Ah, are we extending the "no one needs an x" to personal bicycles now? What's next, shared spoons?
I disagree. I think the Desktop world right now is better than ever.

If you don't care, just use windows

If you want to be a creative type use a Mac

If you are a tinkerer just go straight to linux.

The thing is, even Linux has a great noob experience right now if you pick a starter distro (elementary, ubuntu, etc). And if you think "imnnot in any of these categories" then you are probably only going to be happy with the first two, so flip a coin or decide on budget.
It's a shame to see Windows Sandbox and also Docker touted as novel features. The operating system was supposed to be the original sandbox. Processes run on time slices of a virtual CPU using memory on a virtual address space and accessing a virtual file system. But there are many complicated APIs that are difficult to secure, and the VFS encourages persistent global state shared by all processes.
'ere ya go, mate:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0874HWG4Z
Certainly for a while. I am also in the Pacific Northwest (US side) and we too have these stations but the signs on the freeway flash lights when the stations are giving _emergency_ information -- think floods, rockslides, avalanches...
It's really all about the perspective.

I'm a Windows wizard of many a decades and fucking hate iPhones and iPads, but finally got around to buying a Macbook to try it thanks to the sheer hype surrounding the Apple M chips.

My understanding of Macs now is that I hate them but also respect them. What do I mean by this? Well, I have gripes, lots of them; but I'm a power user and here's the kicker: Macs are not intended for power users, I'm not my Macbook's intended customer.

No, Macs are clearly intended for the moms and pops, the common man who treats computers like any other tool or appliance around the house or workplace. Once I understood that and re-evaluated what I had in front of me, I could not deny that Macs are superior to Windows (and Linux) for their intended audience.

Complete computer illiterate guy or gal come to ask me for advice on buying a computer? I'll tell them to go and buy a Mac. Macs Just Work(tm), and that virtue is invaluable for anyone who can't or doesn't want to mess around with their computers.

Something breaks in the Macbook? Just throw it away and buy a new one. The common man doesn't care for messing with the computer, it's an appliance and he has things that need doing, and Macs will satisfy that demand.

Yes, a Mac user has to subscribe to the One Apple Way(tm), it's a hard requirement of getting into the Apple ecosystem. But the common man doesn't care, he has more pressing matters on his mind.
I think with perhaps less scooters and a more formal parking system akin to bike rental lockstands, the escooters could've continued to work in Paris. Problem was the place was littered with them, often piled up like fallen dominos on pavements blocking the walking path.
They were really navigating a city that size.
Some links in the article indirectly refer to SDT (Self-Determination Theory), but I think it deserves more attention here. It's the very mature and well-studied theory on human motivation, and three main predictors for intrinsic motivation are: autonomy, competence and relatedness. Autonomy - the opposite of being controlled - is the major predictor and the one used build the spectrum of motivations: from intrinsic to four types of extrinsic and to amotivation.

Motivation is basically what makes us do stuff. Unsurprisingly, these three psychological needs (autonomy, competence, relatedness) are also linked and are good predictors of the wellbeing, fullfilment, vitality and, for the lack of the better word, happiness in life. I see this as "motivation to live" essentially.

Studying SDT opened my eyes to the modern views on parenting, sports coaching and some other fields. It just all started to make sense, and I would say that SDT is one of those theories that can change your worldview.
Is it that unthinkable that some part of the government is doing something that Biden doesn't know about?
DFRobot: Ready made ESP32 boards for education
Well, you CAN do all of those things - until a gov’t comes knocking anyway.

Paperwork isn’t required to launch a rocket, just to not get arrested later when they try to find who did it.
I live in Paris and my observation is that 14yo don't use the e-bikes (or the cheaper non-electric bikes) as much. It's probably just less fun and also one criticism is that they use it in pairs (well look at the photo in the article) which I guess is less ideal with bikes in a urban settings.

Twitter is all about how it's old people who went and voted (7% turnout). Well, their loss.

Personally I didn't have an opinion so I didn't vote :)
They haven’t had them for a while though.
I feel that this video inherits the spirit of Leonard Bernstein's lectures, particularly the Young People's Concert and the Norton Lectures at Harvard. Bernstein likened music to linguistics, calling each movement of a symphony "a musical sentence."[1] While Two Set Violin may have had facetious intentions, they have faithfully reenacted tensions within the music in their conversation.

[1] Check out the Norton Lectures especially, where Bernstein analyzes musical structure with references to Chomsky. The maestro was really well learned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fHi36dvTdE&list=PLKiz0UZowP...
The weight distribution in a scooter is all at the base. People have life changing foot and shin injuries from being impacted. People usually don’t cycle as quick consistently through cities, pressing a button on a scooter gets you to over 20km/h in moments.
I do full time RV. I basically do this. I have a 4G router and the starlink. I just switch to 4g during the rare times the Starlink is slow. It works great.
Here rental scooters are an absolute plague. Their riders routinely ignore both traffic laws and common sense and are a threat to both themselves and pedestrians. There's talk of some form of crackdown amongst the local city council members and I would be delighted to see them banned outright.
But they still need internet?
I don't think Starlink is commercially viable in the long run unless Starship starts flying regularly. With Starship operational, maintaining a constellation of tens of thousands of satellites should be 'easy'. But with only F9, they have to launch at an insane pace just to keep a few thousand satellites up there. They're presently at 3.5k satellites of their desired 42k.

In fact I think this and similar missions are the true raison d'etre of Starship. Mars colonization isn't going to happen, it's a huge joke. Nobody will have Mars colony infrastructure ready to ship for decades at least, SpaceX is barely even pretending to invest in this. Mars colonization customers just don't exist and couldn't justify the money SpaceX is spending to develop Starship. Therefore, Starship exists to launch massive satellite constellations, particularly Starlink. And it wouldn't exist at all if SpaceX thought they could pull it off with just F9. F9 is a stopgap, to buy them time for Starship's development.
It makes sense if you think just a bit deeper: if Chrome was better in some regards (e.g. performance), and if Firefox removed things where it was better (e.g more customizations) to be more like Chrome, there is no reason not to use the better Chrome
Here's a definition of "declarative program" I would start from, (trying to come up with a better definition)

Declarative is when the interpretation or execution of a declaration in a program does not depend on the order in which you execute those declarations.

Say you have 10 pure functions. The program --its interpretation-- is the same no matter how those functions are ordered in your source-code . The functions can depend on each other but no matter the order in which you call them the results are the same.

But if those functions have side-effects, then the order in which you call them can have an effect on the end-result. It can cause an error if some initialization is not done before it is needed. That is not declarative programming then.
> Spanish has much more complexity

No it doesn't. It's not even close. Spanish has rules and generally follows those rules. English has rules and almost as many exceptions to those rules.
Yeah I've used the Starlink in both rain and snow and it's worked admirably through both. Occasionally you get a real dense, severe thunderstorm that affects it, but for most weather it works fine.
Most likely the kid will learn iPad before anything else. Or a mobile OS touch interface. You can't stop them from interacting with their friends, who will definitely have this. They won't have any interest in terminal interfaces until much later.
Haiti mostly makes rhum agricole which is made from sugar cane juice, as opposed to the rhum traditionnel which is made from molasses. I would describe rhum agricole as more fruity and rhum traditionnel as more heavy.

The major styles of rum are more or less history lessons in which European power colonized the country—England, France, or Spain. Former English and Spanish colonies produce rhum traditionnel, former French colonies produce rhum agricole.

Go to a liquor store in the US and you’ll see rums categorized as “light” and “dark” which is useless, because you are more interested in flavor than appearance. I think this has something to do with the kind of loose regulations defining rum in the US, compared to the much stricter definitions for different types of whiskey. (IMO the US legal definitions of whiskey are too strict, and the definitions of rum are too loose.)
OTOH my current Thinkpad T14 is the most beautiful laptop I’ve ever used. It’s sleek and definitely has “elegant neatness”.

I think most people who write these comments are just comparing a 2002 thinkpad to 2023 mac.
Then you'll get to enjoy all sorts of other fights with your OS.

(I, will, of course, be put in my place by everyone who is ready to chime in that if I just change <some immutable aspect of my expectations>, then <their OS of choice is going to be a perfect fit for me>.
This happened to me ;_;
The block device may not be physical one. Instead it could be software like NBD. So there is really no way of knowing unless you know what exactly you are writing into, which actually breaks the abstraction.
It's obviously not possible to have a constructive, non-ad-hom discussion here, so I am bowing out.

Have a good one.
A Pro license is 3 Euros though or even 'free' if you're unscrupulous. Should be no reason to stay on Home edition.
What do you mean? There was no M1 system in 2018. Only the Intel machine with cooling problems.

My MBP M1 Pro is usually compiling big chunks of software. (Granted, not as intense as rendering video but definitely more challenging than most games) three to four times as fast as my desktop i9, and after almost 2 years, I have yet to see it reach 40°C. It’s got some hefty fans that simply never have turned on yet, as far as I’m aware.
Yes, actually I do. Not often, but with increasing frequency.

My pet theory is that editors aren't as good as they used to be. Market pressure to publish faster and faster in a vain attempt to keep up with the internet means that fewer of them are given the time and support to get really skilled. Thus resulting in ham fisted edits that jar me out of reading flow, and thence to analysing why.

(This pressure operates the other way too. Many authors' works are pushed out the door when they should have had more editing. )